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Gerard Malanga Papers, 1944-1971

Title: Gerard Malanga Papers 1944-1971

Correspondence from the 1960s; essays, poems, playscripts, and transcripts of interviews by Malanga; 35 notebooks containing journal entries, draft poems, and ideas for various projects; worksheets for poems; manuscripts by contributors to Intransit; and memorabilia, including an address book and publicity for poetry readings.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

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Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

George Dillon Papers, 1862-1982

Title: George Dillon Papers 1862-1982

The papers of the American poet include correspondence (1862-1973), family as well as that related to his editorship of magazine; minutes of the Modern Poetry Association (1950-1962); family diaries, financial papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and manuscripts that include material on a translation of "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Baudelaire, produced in collaboration with Edna St. Vincent Millay, and other translations of French authors, including Giraudoux, Prévert, and Ronsard. Correspondents include Helen S. Arthur, Robert Ballou, Morris Bishop, Eugen Boissevain, Amy Bonner, Inez Boulton, Augustine Bowe, Jean Burden, Witter Bynner, Gladys Campbell, Margaret Carpenter, Hayden Carruth, John Ciardi, Jean Cocteau, Malcolm Cowley, James Daly, Peter DeVries, Benjamin Huebsch, Nicholas Joost, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Vachel Lindsay, Katinka Loeser, Jessica MacDonald, Archibald MacLeish, Marcia Lee Masters, Harry Meacham, Arthur Meeker, Paul Mellon, William Meredith, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bonner Mitchell, Adrienne Monnier, Harriet Monroe, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Neiman, John Nerber, Louise Townsend Nicholl, John F. Nims, Sterling North, Gil Orlovitz, Henry Rago, Jean Rivier, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Florence Stearns, Marion Strobel, Allen Tate, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Monroe Wheeler, and Morton Zabel. Poetry

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

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Modern Poetry Association. Papers, 1954-2002.

Title: Papers, 1954-2002.

Consists primarily of the correspondence, individual issue make-ups and proofs of Poetry (formerly called Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) published in Chicago, Illinois. The correspondence comprises the letters sent to Poetry and replies thereto by Henry Rago and by others who have been members of the editorial staff or the official Board: Wallace Fowlie, Donald Gallup, Hugh Kenner, J. Patrick Lannan, Helen Lothrop, Karl Jay Shapiro, Julie McLauchlin, Donald H. Merwin, Robert Mueller, John Frederick Nims, Ann Peyton, Maryanne Schaefer, Joseph Wiley, and Elizabeth (Van Valkenberg) Wright. Occasionally poems sent in by a writer have been retained in the correspondence. The Business and Financial series includes "Rate Books" wherein the amounts paid to the authors for their works are noted. The Writings series consists of the manuscripts of poems, galleys, page proofs, and author proofs of the monthly issues of Poetry for the years 1962-2002. Included is the printer's manuscript of the poems of seventeen poets, whose works appeared in the fiftieth anniversary issue of October-November, 1962: Conrad Aiken, John Berryman, Louise Bogan, John Ciardi, James Vincent Cunningham, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Stanley Kunitz, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Charles Franklyn Plomer, Kathleen Raine, Henry Rago, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Jay Shapiro, Stephen Spender, Vernon Watkins, and William Carlos Williams. Printed materials consist of a scrapbook of poetry clippings assembled by Daniel B. Rumpf of Topeka, Kansas.

ArchivalResource: ca 250,000 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663111921 View

Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964. Papers, 1920-1966.

Title: Papers, 1920-1966.

Consists primarily of correspondence, 1927-1966, notebooks, agreements, anthology material, poetry, and financial records of American poet and anthologist, Oscar Williams.

ArchivalResource: 11,232 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56837748 View

New Directions Publishing records

Title: New Directions Publishing records

Records of the New Directions Publishing Corporation largely from the Norfolk, Connecticut office of the founder, James Laughlin.

ArchivalResource: 344 linear feet (910 boxes and 4 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00077/catalog View

Rago, Henry, 1915-1969. Letters to Paul Engle. Chicago, IL. 1958.

Title: Letters to Paul Engle. Chicago, IL. 1958.

1) Thanking Engle for the manuscript; asking Engle to consider attending Poetry Day. 1958 Oct. 7. 2) Inviting Engle to stay with Pat Lannan the weekend of Poetry Day.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122415162 View

Gladys Campbell papers, 1914-1995

Title: Gladys Campbell papers 1914-1995

The Gladys Campbell Papers contain correspondence, writings, and other papers that document the work of the poet Gladys Campbell and other members of the University of Chicago Poetry Club, as well as her relationships with other poets. The papers also contain writings of George Dillon, Charles Bell, Janet Lewis, Maurice Lesemann, Naomi Clark, and Morton Zabel. The papers span the years 1914 to 1995.

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Ronald Johnson papers, 1954-1993

Title: Ronald Johnson papers 1954-1993

Ashland, Kansas native Ronald Johnson (1935-1998) was a poet and author of cookbooks. This collection of his papers reflects these activities, containing poetry, galley proofs of poetry books, recipes, and proofs for cookbooks. It also contains personal letters from friends that included poet Jonathan Williams and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft (29 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/2798634831 View

Jean Burden Papers, 1931-1992

Title: Jean Burden Papers 1931-1992

Papers of the American poet, author, poetry editor for magazine. Born 1914. Correspondence, manuscript and published articles, poems, and memoirs; and memorabilia, including photographs. Yankee

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

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Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections. [Charles Guenther collection (1920-)].

Title: [Charles Guenther collection (1920-)]. 1953-1979.

Consists of correspondence, papers, and photographs from the personal collection of Charles Guenther. Includes drafts of poems and papers relating to Guenther's careers as a poetry critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a poetry translator. Includes correspondence with and photographs of poets, including Conrad Aiken, e.e. cummings, Robert Silliman Hillyer, Marianne Moore, Henry Rago, and Richard Wilbur.

ArchivalResource: 1 Hollinger.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224557975 View

Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006. Papers, 1960-1969.

Title: Papers, 1960-1969.

The Carol Bergé Papers, 1960-1969, include drafts, notes, manuscripts, galleys, and page proofs of her works, both poetry and prose, in addition to correspondence, research materials, clippings, and contracts. Major titles present include: CIRCLES, AS IN THE EYE (1969), "An Informal Chronograph of Some New York Poets, 1960-1965," POEMS MADE OF SKIN (1968), and "The Vancouver Report" (1964). The bulk of the collection consists of Bergé's extensive correspondence with friends, writers, and editors. The remainder of the collection includes notes and press releases for the numerous benefits in which Bergé participated or organized; notebooks which include, besides addresses and daily schedules, notes and drafts for poems; and Bergé's collection of manuscripts by friends and colleagues. Significant poets represented here include: Paul Blackburn, Fielding Dawson, Ted Enslin, Allen Ginsberg, Anselm Hollo, Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, Margaret Randall, Ed Sanders, Gael Turnbull, and Diane Wakoski. In addition to Bergé's own work and life, the papers touch upon several subject areas: the poetry of the "Beats," the San Francisco poetry renaissance, the New York East Side scene (especially the Deux Megots poets), and early modern feminist trends in poetry. Significant correspondents include: Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Nelson Ball, Paul Blackburn, Jerry Bloedow, Kirby Congdon, Robert Creeley, David Cunliffe, C. Michael Curtis, Allen De Loach, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, George Hitchcock, David Ignatow, Lenore Kandel, Denise Levertov, Gordon Lish, Walter Lowenfels, David Ossman, Margaret Randall, Tom Raworth, Ed Sanders, M. Broccard Sewell, Diane Wakoski, and Louis Zukofsky.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.6 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122385650 View

Van Duyn, Mona. Papers, 1942-1985.

Title: Papers, 1942-1985.

Manuscripts and editorial matter for five of Van Duyn's books including To See, To Take (1970); numerous drafts of individual poems; and correspondence from and mss. by literary figures including James Dickey, R.P. Dickey, Paul Engle, Donald Hall, Charles O. Hartman, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Josephine Jacobsen, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, John Logan, Tom McAfee, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Josephine Miles, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Howard Nemerov, Linda Pastan, F.T. Prince, Henry Rago, John Crowe Ransom, James Schevill, W.D. Snodgrass, May Swenson, Lionel Trilling, Constance Urdang, Diane Wakoski, Austin Warren, Theodore Russell Weiss, Eudora Welty, Reed Whittemore, and Hilma Wolitzer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4745 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28421417 View

Rago mss. III, 1931-1974

Title: Rago mss. III, 1931-1974

Consists of the papers of Henry Rago, 1915-1969, poet and editor of . Poetry

ArchivalResource: 200 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA3815 View

Lang, V. R., 1924-1956. V. R. Lang additional papers, 1947-1956.

Title: V. R. Lang additional papers, 1947-1956.

Includes correspondence, drawings, holograph manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials about Lang. Correspondents include: John Ciardi, Gorham Bert Munson, New Directions Publishing Corp., Henry Rago, Karl Jay Shapiro, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612199157 View

Association of Literary Magazines of America. Records 1961-1964.

Title: Records 1961-1964.

Consists of the correspondence and papers of the Association of Literary Magazines of America.

ArchivalResource: 164 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709879870 View

Finkel, Donald. Papers, 1947-1983.

Title: Papers, 1947-1983.

Chiefly extensive research materials, journals, notes, and heavily revised literary mss.; together with large collection of editorial matter relating to Finkel's books and professional correspondence with editors and literary colleagues. Correspondents include Léonie Adams, Marvin Bell, Philip E. Booth, Daniel Curley, Nicholas Delbanco, James Dickey, Larry Eigner, Paul Engle, Edward Field, Douglas Flaherty, John Champlin Gardner, Albert Goldbarth, E.V. Griffith, Daniel Halpern, Michael Harper, Anthony Hecht, George Hitchcock, Daniel Hoffman, Richard Howard, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Donald Justice, Carolyn Kizer, Philip Levin, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Howard Nemerov, Robert M. Pack, Henry Rago, Gary Snyder, George Starbuck, Mark Strand, Brian Swann, Robert Sward, Constance Urdang, Mona Van Duyn, Theodore Weiss, John Hall Wheelock, and Miller Williams.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8792 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28419612 View

Larsson, Raymond Ellsworth, 1901-. Papers, 1942-1982.

Title: Papers, 1942-1982.

Manuscripts of poetry including "To Winter Winds" and "Hymn before Dawn." Notebooks and typescripts of poetry corrected and revised in the author's hand. Poetry concerns subjects such as saints, the Epiphany, the Holy Trinity, and nature. Also included are Christmas carols and hymns. Pencil sketches and drawings (some colored) on various themes including Shakespearean characters, Greek mythology, saints, the Stations of the Cross and other devotional subjects. Also two scrapbooks of mass cards, inspirational cards, and clippings regarding the Catholic Church and World War II. Correspondence with Paul Byrne, Elizabeth B. Patterson, Charles Norman, Norbert Engels, Ade Bethune, Henry Rago, Hiram Powers Dilworth, Thomas Maynard, John Ayscough, August Derleth, John Engels, Anton C. Masin, George Dangerfield, Dorothy Day, Victor A. Shaefer and Clifford Laube. Correspondence concerning Notre Dame exhibit "Raymond E.F. Larsson: A Forgotten American Poet" (June - Sept. 1983.) Cassette recording of Masin's interview with Professor Norbert Engles (Green Bay, Wis. on Oct. 25, 1982) regarding Larsson. Manuscripts of Larsson's books include: O City, Cities!; Wherefore Peace; Seventy Poems; Weep and Prepare; Saints at Prayer; and Break the Bow. Manuscripts of other authors' books include Litany of Loreto by Hiram Powers Dilworth, Collected Poems by Theodore Maynard, Oboe by John Ayscough, and The Edge of Night by August Derleth.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25420074 View

Poetry mss., 1954-2002

Title: Poetry mss., 1954-2002

Consists primarily of the correspondence, individual issue make-ups and proofs of Poetry (formerly called Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) published in Chicago, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 250,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA3754 View

Enslin, Theodore. Theodore Enslin Papers, ca. 1955-1975.

Title: Theodore Enslin Papers, ca. 1955-1975.

The Theodore Enslin papers are a collection of correspondence and manuscripts written to and by Theoldore Enslin from 1957 to 1975. Collection highlights include letters written by Paul Blackburn, Robert Bly, Carol Bergé, Hayden Carruth, Cid Corman, Diane DiPrima, Clayton Eshleman, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Denise Levertov, Henry Rago, Gary Snyder, and Theodore Russell Weiss.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear feet (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58785150 View