Publications

 Poetry

Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (with Jack Kerouac and Albert Saijo), Grey Fox Press, San Francisco, 1998

Ring of Bone Collected Poems 1950-1971, ed. Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press, San Francisco, 1996

Selected Poems, ed. Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press, Bolina, CA, 1976

The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings. Sand Dollar, Berkeley, 1970

Courses. Cranium, San Francisco, 1968

On Out. Oyez, Berkeley, 1965

Hermit Poems. Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1965

Wobbly Rock. Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1960

Broadsides

Springtime in the Rockies, Lichen. Cranium, San Francisco, 1971

Step Out Onto The Planet
One sheet of paper with printed poem whose first line is "Step Out Onto The Planet." One of three hundred copies printed for the Freeway Reading series in San Francisco in 1965, which included readings by Welch, Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder. Measures 9.5" by 12.25" tall.

Early Summer Hermit Song. San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, 1963

Prose

How I Read Gertrude Stein, ed. Eric Paul Shaffer, Grey Fox Press, San Francisco, 1996

I, Leo, An Unfinished Novel, ed. Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press, Bolina, CA, 1977

On Bread & Poetry: A Panel Discussion with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, & Philip Whalen.  Grey Fox Press, San Francisco, 1977.

How I Work as a Poet and Other Essays / Plays / Stories, ed. Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press, Bolina, CA, 1973

 

Correspondence

I Remain: The Letters of Lew Welch & The Correspondance of His Friends Volume One: 1949–1960,
ed. Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press, Bolina, CA, 1980

I Remain: The Letters of Lew Welch & The Correspondance of His Friends Volume Two: 1960–1971,
ed. Donald Allen, Grey Fox Press, Bolina, CA, 1980