(Berkeley 1945); Yvan Goll English Poems Fruit from Saturn, a response to Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945; also in Hemispheres Editions, New York 1946); Hubert Creekmore: Formula (Berkeley 1947); Albert Cossery: Men God Forgot (1948). From Guam Porter published the first book by James Erwin Schevill: The American Fantasies (Agana 1951). In the 1950s also appearing: poetry collections of Beat filmmaker Christopher Maclaine: The Crazy Bird (1951) and Word (1954); Gerd Stern: First Poems and Others (1952). Stern was a New Yorker friend Lamantia's, of his (first) wife. From the photographer Goldian (Gogo) Nesbit, the book Graffiti (1955) and two broadsides also appeared in 1955. Other authors of the series Bern Porter Broadsides were James Catnach, Kenneth Patchen, Mason Jordan Mason (Totem and Taboo) and Porter himself. From Schevill a poetry book The Right to Greet and Selected Poems (1959). From Kenneth Rexroth : A Bestiary for My Daughters Mary and Katherine (1955). As scientist Prior to World War II, Porter contributed to the development of the cathode ray tube. During World War II, Porter worked on the Manhattan Project. He worked in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on the part of the project devoted to the separation of the highly enriched uranium needed to construct atomic bombs. After bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Porter regretted his involvement with the project and became an outspoken pacifist. In the 1960s, Porter worked on NASA's Saturn V manned rocket program. References Further reading Bern Porter, I've Left (contains Porter's ideas about science and art) James Schevill, Where to Go, What to Do, When You Are Bern Porter: A Personal Biography (Tilbury House Publishing) Bern Porter at UbuWeb External links Lost and Found: The Work of Bern Porter from the Museum of Modern Art Library Listen to this page. Works by Bern Porter from Colby College Special Collections Exhibition page Colby College Digital Commons: Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters UBU Web Bern Porter page PennSound entry for Bern Porter Finding Aid for Porter Bern Mail Art Collection, Getty Research Institute Bern Porter Papers at The Ohio State's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library 1911 births 2004 deaths Colby College alumni Brown University alumni Artists from Maine People from Belfast, Maine American physicists Manhattan Project people