Aram Saroyan Papers. undated, 1950-1977.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017

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American poet and editor of Art & Literature. From the description of The Tennis Court Oath galley proof, 1961. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122685058 The letters cover a span starting two days after Ashbery and Gregg graduated from Deerfield Academy, and continue through the following summers and during a period of time when Gregg was drafted into the Army and served in postwar Eur...

Avedon, Richard, 1923-2004

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Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance....

Dorn, Ed

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Jack Hogan

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Matthau, Carol

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Owen, Maureen, 1943-

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Maureen Owen, poet, publisher, and editor, was born in 1943 in Graceville, Minnesota. Owen began publishing and editing Telephone Books and Telephone magazine in 1969. During the 1970s, she worked as coordinator and director (1976-1980) of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City. From the description of Maureen Owen collection of Greenwich Village poetry, 1975-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702179195 American poet, editor and publisher, M...

Magda Cregg

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Middleton, F.

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Kherdian, David

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Essayist, poet, and author David Kherdian (1931-) was the founder and co-editor of the literary magazine Nascent . His work on poetry includes Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (1965). Kherdian is also the author of a number of childrens' books, including The Road from Home : the Story of an Armenian Girl (1979), a Newbery Honor Book (1980) that tells of the childhood of his mother, who grew up in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population. ...

Philip Whalen

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Hitzig, Karen

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Saroyan, William, 1908-1981

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Frances Ring was Editor at WESTWAYS in Los Angeles. From the description of Letters (and manuscripts and photos) to Frances Ring, 1970-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863419 Goldie Weisberg was a fellow writer whose work Saroyan had discovered in a literary magzine. Saroyan initiated the correspondence, which focuses on their respective reading, writing, and work lives. From the description of Correspondence with Goldie Weisberg, 1930-1938. (Unknown). Wor...

Hausman, Gerald.

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Gerald Hausman was born 13 October 1945 in Baltimore, MD, the son of Sidney (an engineer) and Dorothy (Little) Hausman. He attended New Mexico Highlands University (B.A., 1968). His career has included Poetry teacher (Lenox, MA, 1969-1972), editor of the Bookstore Press (1972-1977), vice-president of Sunstone Press (Santa Fe, NM, 1979-1983); English teacher at the Santa Fe Preparatory School (1983-1987). He has also been the Poet-in-residence in public schools (1970-1976) and at Central Connecti...

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998

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American artist, poet, writer, publisher, composer, and educator. From the description of Dick Higgins papers, ca. 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993). (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 146003268 Artist, poet, publisher, and composer; New York and Barrytown, NY. Member of the artists' group, Fluxus. Died Oct. 25, 1998. From the description of Dick Higgins papers, 1958-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79005545 D. October 25, 1998. Fro...

Oppenheimer, Joel

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Poet and journalist, of New York, N.Y., and later Henniker, N.H.; b. Joel Lester Oppenheimer, 1930; d. 1988. From the description of Papers, ca. 1953-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86123194 From the description of Joel Oppenheimer papers, 1925-1988. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28419831 Joel Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1930 to Jewish parents. He failed out of Cornell University after one year (in 1948) and spe...

Saroyan, Aram.

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Aram Saroyan was born 25 September 1943, the son of playwright William Saroyan and Carol (Marcus) Saroyan, later Carol Matthau . He attended high school at the Trinity School in New York City. He attended college at the University of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University, but never completed a college degree. In the late 1960s Saroyan experimented with marijuana and began to develop a career as a poet. Director Mike Nichols wanted to cast Saroyan in the lead of his movie The Grad...

Raworth, Tom

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Tom Raworth was born and grew up in London. During the 1970s he travelled and worked in the United States and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King's College, Cambridge, in which city he still lives. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, in several countries. His graphic work has been shown in France, Italy, and the USA, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians, painters, and other po...

Plymell, Charles

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The American writer Charles Plymell was born in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1935. During the 1960s he lived in San Francisco and was associated with the Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1966, Plymell married Pamela Beach, a relative of Sylvia Beach, the owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris and original publisher of Ulysses. In 1970 he received an M.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University. Plymell has been editor and publisher of Cherry Valley Editi...

Gary Snyder

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Allen, Donald, 1912-2004

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Editor and publisher. From the description of Papers, 1957-1971. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415680 American editor and publisher, born in Iowa in 1912. Allen was an editor at Grove Press for sixteen years, where his most important work was the anthology The New American Poetry. He founded the Four Seasons Foundation and Grey Fox Press. Allen also was the translator of works of Eugène Ionesco. Allen has had a significant impact on the development of p...

Kostelanetz, Richard

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Malanga, Gerard

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American author, poet, periodical editor of the first two issues of Inter/view, and of Intransit: the Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga monster issue (1968). From the guide to the Gerard Malanga Papers, 1944-1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, and filmmaker. He was born in New York in 1943, and studied at the School of Industrial Art and Wagner College. He was Andy Warhol's chief assistant from...

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Balakian, Nona.

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Bockris, Victor

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Donald Allen

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Davies, Alan

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Hearst, William, III

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Brann, Helen

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Brownstein, Michael, 1943-....

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Michael Brownstein (1943-), poet and novelist. Anne Waldman (1945-), poet, performance artist, teacher, and co-founder of the Jack Kerouc School of Disembodied Poetics. From the description of Michael Brownstein papers relating to Anne Waldman, 1968-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702186077 ...

Berkson, Bill.

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David Meltzer

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Plimpton, George

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Leonard, John

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Epithet: trade union official British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000270.0x000279 ...

Joanne Kryger

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Lyons, Sylvia

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Whalen, Philip

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Biography Philip Whalen (1923-2002) graduated from Reed College in 1951 on the GI Bill after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II. It was at Reed that Whalen met and became friends with poets Gary Snyder and Lew Welch. Several years later, Whalen was one of the poets who read with Snyder and others at the historic Six Gallery reading in San Francisco on October 13, 1955. Allen Ginsberg first performed his poem, Howl, at the Six Galle...

Snyder, Gary

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Biography Biographical Narrative Masa Uehara, daughter of Tokusei and Mitsu, was raised in Japan. She and Gary Snyder were introduced in 1966 at a dinner party hosted by Hisao Kanaseki, one of her university professors and a friend of Snyder's. At the time of their introduction Uehara had recently graduated from Kobe University and was planning to pursue graduate studies at Ochanomizu Women's Universit...

SCHJELDAHL, PETER

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McClanahan, Grant

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Koch, Kenneth

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Britton, Burt

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Wylie, Andrew

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Sklena, Vincent

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Lew Welch

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Moss, Howard

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Lapate, Phillip

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McKuen, Rod

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William Anthony

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Leary, Timothy

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Waldman, Anne, 1945-

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Poet, performer, editor, publisher, and teacher; director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project (New York); co-founder, with Allen Ginsberg, of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University. From the description of Anne Waldman papers, 1945-<2002> (bulk 1958-1998). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68914842 American poet associated with the New York School of Poetry. From the description of 100 memories, 1970. (University of Calif...