Lewis Turco collection 1962-2004

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Lewis Turco collection 1962-2004

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Correspondences, bibliography, biographical materials, journal, and select press materials, publications, and personal belongings of Lewis Turco, literary figure, English instructor and founder of the Poetry Center at Fenn College [Cleveland State University].

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Lewis Turco was born in Buffalo, New York on May 2, 1934. He received his BA from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his MA from the University of Iowa in 1962. His first full-time position as an instructor of English was at Fenn College (later Cleveland State University). After starting a successful program in contemporary poetry with a visit to the campus from W.D. Snodgrass on October 13, 1961, he founded the Cleveland Poetry Center in 1962, of which he was the director until 1964. He ...