Camp Waldport records 1943-1945

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Camp Waldport records 1943-1945

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Camp Waldport, or Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp No. 56, was a conscientious objector camp in Oregon during WWII, and was home to the Fine Arts Group. Among Camp Waldport's interns were several poets and artists who are considered to have contributed to the Beat Movement and the "San Francisco Renaissance" of the 1950s and 60s, including Adrian Wilson, Kermit Sheets, painter Morris Graves, and poets William Everson and Glen Coffield. The camp's press, the Untide Press, published volumes of poetry by Glen Coffield, William Everson, Kenneth Patchen, Bill Shank, and Jacob Sloan. , a periodical published out of the nearby Cascade Locks CPS camp, published and supported the work of the Fine Arts Group at Waldport, along with the writing of Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Henry Miller, and others. Included in the Camp Waldport collection are records and publication of the Untide Press, a camp project that published volumes of poetry by Glen Coffield, William Everson, Kenneth Patchen, Bill Shank, and Jacob Sloan. Also included are copies of (a Camp Waldport newsletter) and (a fine arts publication of the camp at Cascade Locks); letters; Brethren Public Service Committee bulletins and memos; copies of various publications from other C.P.S. Camps, such as the ones at Cascade Locks and Elkton; and miscellany. The Illiterati The Tide The Illiterati

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Coffield, Glen, 1917-1981

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American poet. From the description of Writings of Glen Coffield [ca.1944-1948]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122453449 Glenn Stemmons Coffield was born in Prescott, Arizona on June 5, 1917. He started writing poetry while a sophomore in high school. He attended Central Missouri State Teachers College in Warrensburg, Missouri where he became president of the English Club and edited the college literary magazine. In 1940 he received his B.S. degre...

Sheets, Kermit

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Wilson, Adrian

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Biographical Information Adrian Wilson was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 1, 1923 to Dutch immigrants, Adrian P., a horticulturist at the University, and Christine Wilson. When Adrian was seven years old, Adrian P. Wilson moved the family to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he worked at Smith College. Adrian graduated high school in 1941 and went onto study at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. However, his studies were cut sho...

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972

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Patchen and MacLeish, were both American poets. From the description of [Letter, 19]51 Mar. 12, Old Lyme, Conn. [to] Archibald MacLeish / Kenneth Patchen. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 314411191 American poet, novelist, artist. From the description of Letter to Julien Cornell, 1951 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49380977 American poet. From the description of Prospectus for "The Dark Kingdom", 1942. (Universit...

Brethren Service Committee

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Graves, Morris, 1910-

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Everson, William, 1912-1994

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American poet, printer, and activist. Everson was a conscientious objector during the later years of World War II, and was associated with Kenneth Rexroth and his circle in San Francisco in the late 1940s. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1949, joined the Catholic Workers Movement, and eventually entered the Dominican Religious Order in 1950, taking the name Brother Antoninus. Everson was associated with the San Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s. He left the Dominican order in 1971. ...

Untide Press

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Began in 1943 at the Civilian Public Service camp for conscientious objectors in Waldport, Oregon; William Everson was a founder and director of the camp's Fine Arts Group, from which many contributors were drawn. Ten monographs were published by the press: the first, Ten War Elegies by Everson was published in April 1943; moved to Pasadena, California in 1946 or 1947, after the camp was demobilized. From the description of Collection, 1943-1955. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection...

Civilian Public Service. Camp #56 (Waldport, Or.)

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Camp Waldport, Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp No. 56, was one of three conscientious objector camps in Oregon during World War II. It was established in 1942 and administered by The Civilian Public Service of the Mennonite Central Committee. The main focus of the Camp Waldport interns was the reforestation of Blodgett Peak Burn, a forest that had been heavily logged during World War I and that had suffered devastating wildfires after the war. Camp Waldport was home to the Fine Arts Group, wh...

Civilian Public Service

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Sloan, Jacob

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