Poster by Jill Kroesen advertising the Monday readings at St. Mark’s Church Poetry Project, July 1975, featuring Kroesen, Pooh Kaye, Leonard Neufeld, Peter Gordon, Kathy Acker (as The Black Tarantula), Peter Seaton and Ed Friedman.

Kroesen was a friend of Acker, Neufeld, Gordon and Robert Ashley (she appears in the filmed version of Ashley’s Perfect Lives) in the early 70s. After briefly dating Gordon, who left her for Acker, Kroesen and Neufeld began seeing each other in 1974, were married February 22, 1975, and “were divorced about 6 months later,” according to Kroesen, who also remembers Acker’s constant presence at their home during their marriage.

In 1976 Kroesen wrote Acker the “Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Blues”:

And in May of the same year wrote her the “Prince Charming Blues”: