Compare Constellations

Archive for New Poetry. Curator's Correspondence and Subject Files, 1974 - 1989

Title: Archive for New Poetry. Curator's Correspondence and Subject Files, 1974 - 1989

Records created primarily by Michael Davidson, curator of the Archive for New Poetry (ANP), a collection housed in the Mandeville Special Collections Library. The records include correspondence with many prominent figures in contemporary American writing, and files on ANP projects such as the New Writing Series, Documents for New Poetry, the San Francisco Renaissance Conference (1982), and the ANP NEWSLETTER. Also included are photographs of poets and materials relating to a 1984 public television presentation "Rasgado en dos/Ripped in two," sponsored by UCSD and the California Council for the Humanities.The collection is arranged in four series: 1) GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 2) POETS' FILES, 3) ANP PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS, and 4) PHOTOGRAPHS.

ArchivalResource: 3.00 linear feet; (8 archives boxes)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4t1nb406 View

Davidson, Michael, 1944-. Correspondence with Singing Horse Press, 1981.

Title: Correspondence with Singing Horse Press, 1981.

Comprises 6 items to Gil Ott.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (37 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122594665 View

Archive for New Poetry (University of California, San Diego). Curator. Correspondence and subject files, 1974-1985.

Title: Correspondence and subject files, 1974-1985.

Consists of incoming correspondence, files on poetry readings, and materials relating to publications and projects. The correspondence relates principally to ANP activities, including acquisitions, funding, poetry readings, and reference inquiries. Poets' files contain publicity information and correspondence relating to poets considered or invited for participation in the poetry reading series (first the UCSD New poetry series, later the New writing series). Major poets include Wanda Coleman, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Clayton Eshleman, Denise Levertov, Jackson Mac Low, Carl Rakosi, Kenneth Rexroth, Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Significant publications and projects include Documents for new poetry, the poetry video project Rasgado en dos/Ripped in two (1984), and the San Francisco Renaissance conference held at UCSD (1982).

ArchivalResource: 3 cu. ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22613787 View

Davidson, Michael, 1944-. Page Mothers Conference, 1999 March 5-6 [sound recording].

Title: Page Mothers Conference, 1999 March 5-6 [sound recording].

Audio- and videorecordings of a conference devoted to innovative writing by American women authors. Panel 1: "A Little History" (Tapes 1 and 2), presentations by Michael Davidson, Harryette Mullen, Patricia Deinstfrey, and Kathleen Fraser. Panel 2: "Poetics and Such" (Tapes 3 and 4), presentations by Myung Mi Kim, Brenda Hillman, Martha Ronk, Lyn Hejinian, and Carla Harryman. Panel 3: "How to Survive the Canon" (Tapes 4 and 5), presentations by Mary Margaret Sloan, Maureen Owen, Lynn Keller, Cristanne Miller, and Libby Rifkin. Panel 4: "Mrs. Poetry: On the Work of Bernadette Mayer" (Tape 6), presentations by Stephen Cope, Lee Ann Brown, Leslie Scalapino, and Juliana Spahr. Panel 5: "Guess What's Next" (Tapes 7 and 8), presentations by Laura Moriarty, Dodie Bellamy, Renee Gladman, Pamela Lu, and Marjorie Perloff. Poetry reading by Maureen Owen and Bernadette Mayer (Tapes 9 and 10). The recordings contain ample discussion between conference participants and members of the audience.

ArchivalResource: 10 sound cassettes (ca. 15 hrs.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, stereo.7 videocassettes (ca. 15 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41216064 View

Ron Silliman Papers, 1965-1988

Title: Ron Silliman Papers, 1965-1988

Papers of Ron Silliman, American writer and editor. Silliman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life and is associated with the Language school of contemporary writers. He edited the anthology In The American Tree, published in 1986. The papers include extensive correspondence with many prominent contemporary writers, including Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Michael Davidson, Lyn Hejinian, Douglas Messerli, John Taggart, and Hanna Weiner. Also included are drafts of Silliman's published works, notebooks, and materials relating to In the American Tree. The collection is divided into five series: 1) ORIGINAL FINDING AID, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) IN THE AMERICAN TREE and 5) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.

ArchivalResource: 10.60 linear feet; (26 archives boxes)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf696nb4f8 View

Wieners, John, 1934-2002. Poetry manuscripts and photograph, [196-?]-1985.

Title: Poetry manuscripts and photograph, [196-?]-1985.

ArchivalResource: 7 items ([7] leaves) ; 28 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18433598 View

John Taggart Papers, 1965-1974

Title: John Taggart Papers 1965-1974

Papers of the American publisher, poet, editor of . Correspondence and/or manuscripts relating to by Paul Blackburn, George F. Butterick, Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guest, Toby Olson, Steven Osterlund, Gary Snyder, Robert Vas Dias, Jonathan Williams, and others. Maps Maps

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/t/taggart_j.htm View

Davidson, Michael, 1944-. [Poetry reading, April 28, 1999 [sound recording] / Michael Davidson ; introduction by Rae Armantrout].

Title: [Poetry reading, April 28, 1999 [sound recording] / Michael Davidson ; introduction by Rae Armantrout]. [1999]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette (60 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41336783 View

Howe, Fanny. Fanny Howe papers, 1980-1990.

Title: Fanny Howe papers, 1980-1990.

Correspondence, family history, literary manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122644722 View

Sun & Moon Press Archive, 1976-2002

Title: Sun & Moon Press Archive, 1976-2002

Archives of the Sun & Moon Press, Douglas Messerli's "alternative" publishing venture, dedicated to experimental poetry, fiction and drama, begun in 1976 in College Park, Maryland, and later located in Los Angeles. The collection documents the publishing history of the press throughout most of its 28 years of operation and maps the literary careers and, in some cases, the personal lives of numerous American and international literary figures and artists. The bulk of the materials documents Sun & Moon's publishing activities from 1991-2002. The collection is a compilation of literary correspondence, both to and from Messerli, of Press production materials (manuscripts, typescripts, publishing proofs), and of various documents related to Sun & Moon's business activities (financial records, trade catalogues, and advertising materials). Biographical materials for various writers and artists, interviews, designs, collages, broadsides and postcards are scattered throughout the collection as well. Materials feature, for instance: proofs of work by David Antin, Susan and Fanny Howe, and Gertrude Stein; Sara Garden Armstrong's battery-driven art book designs and collages done by Lou Horvath and Nick Piombino; interviews with Michael Palmer, Allan Kaprow and Linda Montano (interviewed by Moira Roth); materials from the artist Claudia Delmonte, architect Allan Greenberg, sculptor Lawrence McCabe, country western songwriter Chuck Rosenberg, who studied with the well known writer John Ashbery, to mention just a few. Also included are production materials for the anthology FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CENTURY: A NEW AMERICAN POETRY 1960-1990 and THE GERTRUDE STEIN AWARDS IN INNOVATIVE NORTH AMERICAN POETRY: 1993. Throughout the 1990s the press published several titles whose authors were selected as annual winners by the National Poetry Series and published the collection: 50: A CELEBRATION OF SUN & MOON CLASSICS (1995). Messerli's Green Integer succeeds Sun & Moon Press (after its closure in 2004) as the current venue for both celebrated and emerging poets and writers.

ArchivalResource: 108.20 linear feet; (165 archives boxes, 42 records cartons boxes, and 2 oversize folders)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1779n7hs View

Page Mothers Conference Tapes, 1999

Title: Page Mothers Conference Tapes, 1999

Video- and audiotapes of a conference on innovative writing by American women. Organized by Fanny Howe and Rae Armantrout, the conference took place on March 5-6, 1999 at UCSD. The audiotapes include the entire conference proceedings, including poetry readings by Maureen Owen and Bernadette Mayer and ample audience discussion. The videotapes are lacking Mary Margaret Sloan's presentation, as well as the poetry readings by Owen and Mayer and portions of the audience discussion.

ArchivalResource: 0.40 linear feet; (7 VHS-C videotapes and 11 audiocassettes in one shoe box.)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt509nb0hf View

Joris, Pierre. [Poetry reading, April 19, 1998 [sound recording] / Pierre Joris ... et al.].

Title: [Poetry reading, April 19, 1998 [sound recording] / Pierre Joris ... et al.]. [1998]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39043477 View

John Taggart Papers, 1962-2002

Title: John Taggart Papers, 1962-2002

Papers of John Taggart, a contemporary American poet known for his formal and prosodic innovations. In addition to his long career as a professor at Shippensburg State University, Taggart has been involved in supporting literary communities and has written about key artistic and literary figures, in addition to producing his own creative work. The collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of Taggart's published and unpublished poetry, juvenilia from the 1960s and 70s, and fiction. The collection also contains many of his personal journals, notebooks, and loose notecards, as well as ongoing correspondence with writers, artists, and editors such as Theodore Enslin and Susan Howe. Taggart's work on translations of Sappho, Aeschylus, and Francis Ponge is also included. His nonfiction work consists mostly of essays, both published and unpublished, devoted to the work of individual writers and artists, such as George Oppen and Edward Hopper, as well as collective movements such as the Objectivist poets. Of note are included drafts of his articles "Walk Out: Rereading George Oppen" (CHICAGO REVIEW, 1998) and "George Oppen: One Line" (FLASHPOINT, 2002). The collection represents Taggart's ongoing poetic contributions, such as the collections DODEKA, CROSSES, WHEN THE SAINTS, and, most recently, PASTORELLES, as well as his lengthy continued correspondence with literary figures. Also of note are miscellaneous materials such as three-dimensional paper constructions as well as course materials related to his long tenure as a professor.

ArchivalResource: 22.00 linear feet; (56 archives boxes, 1 records carton and 2 oversize folders)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2r29n9vh View

Ellingham, Lewis. Poet, be like God, 1983-1987.

Title: Poet, be like God, 1983-1987.

The collection is comprised of research materials generated or collected by Lewis Ellingham between the years 1983-1987 when Ellingham engaged in a large unpublished study of the Jack Spicer circle titled POET, BE LIKE GOD. The collection includes audio-recordings and transcripts of interviews with Robin Blaser, Ebbe Borregaard, Richard Duerden, Robert Duncan, Josephine Miles, and other members and associates of the Spicer circle; research files assembled and given to Ellingham by Robert Duncan and Russell Fitzgerald; a small file of correspondence between Ellingham and others concerning Ellingham's project; and an early typescript of the first six chapters of POET, BE LIKE GOD and another, later typescript of the complete work. Donald Allen, Robin Blaser, Ebbe Borregaard, Lori Chamberlain, Robert Creeley, Michael Davidson, and Denise Levertov are some of the correspondents represented in the collection. (Research papers and correspondence in the collection are photocopies prepared by Ellingham of originals held at the State University of New York at Buffalo.).

ArchivalResource: 3.6 lin. ft. (8 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31759306 View

Howe, Fanny. Papers, 1980-1990

Title: Howe, Fanny. Papers, 1980-1990

Correspondence, family history, literary manuscripts of Fanny Howe

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0g5000gc View

Hall, Joan Joffe. Joan Joffe Hall papers, 1955-[ongoing].

Title: Joan Joffe Hall papers, 1955-[ongoing].

Poetry notebooks, journals, mss. of writings, clippings of book reviews, offprints of articles, and correspondence including letters from Wendell Berry, Michael Davidson, Jerzy Kosinski, Bobbie Ann Mason, Anaïs Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, and other literary figures.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28413222 View

Rodefer, Stephen. Stephen Rodefer papers, 1955-1994.

Title: Stephen Rodefer papers, 1955-1994.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540967 View

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005. A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5.

Title: A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5.

ArchivalResource: 3 cassette tapes and 1 flyer (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754864090 View

Silliman, Ronald, 1946-. Ron Silliman papers, 1965-1988.

Title: Ron Silliman papers, 1965-1988.

Incoming correspondence, drafts of published works, notebooks, and editorial materials.

ArchivalResource: 10.6 cubic ft. (26 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20533668 View