Doug Lang papers

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Doug Lang papers

1948-2023 (bulk 1972-2010)

https://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2019-020

Papers document the life and career of Washington, DC-based Welsh poet Doug Lang through correspondence, creative writing notebooks, handmade artwork, ephemera such as fliers and posters, manuscripts and typescripts including annotated drafts, and photographs. Materials highlight the poetry and art scenes of Washington, DC in the late twentieth-century.

18.75 Linear Feet, 20 containers

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676802

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Lang, Doug, 1941-2022

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Doug Lang was born as William Douglas Allen in Swansea, Wales on April 11, 1941 to parents William I. and Anne (Lang) Allen. Lang and his sister Synde (alternatively known as Sindy and Daphne) adopted their mother's maiden name when their father left early in their childhood. Before moving to the United States, Lang attended Coleg Harlech, a college in Wales, and married fellow poet Andrea Wyatt in London in 1972. Lang settled in Washington, DC in 1973 and ran an influential poetry reading se...