Ted Joans reads his poetry at the Bizarre coffee shop, New York City. Burt Glinn, 1959

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Ted Joans reads his poetry at the Bizarre coffee shop, New York City. Burt Glinn, 1959

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James Baldwin, Ted Joans and Archie Shepp at the house of Nidra Poller, Paris 1975
Photo © Marion Kalter
Laurent Goddet, Ted Joans, Anthony Braxton, and Dollar Brand in Coda jazz magazine (October 1975)
James Baldwin et Ted Joans par Marion Kalter, Paris, 1976.
To be published 15 May, 2025, Black Surrealist, the Legend of Ted Joans, by Steven Belletto, promises to be a biography drawn mostly from Joans' archives and interviews.
Meanwhile, Zürcher Gallery in New York is currently exhibiting a series of drawings by Ted Joans through Oct. 29.

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Ted Joans ("Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view") reading his poetry at the Bizarre coffee shop, 1959. The Bizarre Coffee Shop was located at 106 West 3rd Street. It later became the Bizarre Cafe, where Andy Warhol discovered the Velvet Underground.
Photo: Burt Glinn via Magnum Photos/All That's Interesting
Ted Joans, beat generation poet, painter, and musician in a voodoo trance in a Greenwich Village cafe, New York. 1960. Photo by Weegee.
(via Marc Campbell)
Ted Joans, Untitled Collage with Langston Hughes and Andre Breton; Collage, found images, pencil, pastel on paper, 14 x 17 inches