Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley's noteworthy time in Chicago did not only influence the creators of the Yellow Press and Milk Quarterly. Berrigan's extensive teaching at Northeastern Illinois University and his outgoing personality drew young poets to him. He was constantly encouraging promising poets to create their own platforms and not wait for someone else to come along and publish them. This led to the development of a multitude of mimeograph magazines and presses within the 1960s and 70s. Many of these undertakings were started and backed with the help of Berrigan and Notley.

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Oink!, Out There, and Milk Quarterly were all started by young college students in Chicago. Each magazine used the technology of the mimeograph to showcase a wide variety of contributors and talent. The magazines were based off the revolutionary idea of collaboration that was rooted in the works of the New York School. Each magazine had an extensive list of contributors and featured many collaborations between poets. The magazines themselves were often home to a collage of different mediums, ranging from artwork to poetry to prose.

 

Oink! was founded by University of Illinois-Chicago graduate students Deal Faulwell, James Leonard, and Paul Hoover. The group grew as publications started rolling out, and their list of contributors skyrocketed. Many contributors overlapped with those who worked on Milk Quarterly and Out There. Peter Kostakis (a founder of Milk Quarterly) even had an entire set of works published in Oink! 15, known as The Ministry of Me. The magazine ran a total of nineteen issues and spanned between the years 1971 and 1985.¹

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Out There was published around the same time as Oink! and Milk Quarterly. Similar to the other mimeograph magazines at the time, Out There was created to give up and coming poets the opportunity to explore the art and become published. The magazine had a long list of contributors including Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Dick Gallup, Peter Kostakis, and Bob Rosenthal. It should be noted that all five of these contributors also appeared in and had major roles in the creation of Oink! and Milk Quarterly. Out There ran a total of fourteen issues and ran throughout the 1970s.²