Joel Weishaus Papers 1937-2005 1960-2005

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...

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...

Mountain, Marian

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Weishaus, Joel.

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Joel Weishaus was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 11, 1939. He attended local schools and graduated from the prestigious Erasmus Hall High School. At age twenty, Weishaus was a junior executive (motion picture accounts) on Madison Avenue. During this time, he gave much thought to a future career in the arts. In 1960, he spent several months in Los Angeles reflecting on his career. Deciding that the West Coast was not appropriate for him at the time, he returned to New York to pur...

Bly, Robert

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For details of Robert Bly's biography, see: Robert Bly papers (Mss 81) . From the guide to the Robert Bly Men's Movement series, 1980-1990s, 2001, 2003-2004, 2006, 2009, undated, 1980-1990s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]) From the guide to the Robert Bly Plays manuscripts series, 1950s-1990s, undated, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]) Fr...

Witherup, William

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William Witherup is a self described "working class" Seattle poet and author. Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1935, Witherup grew up in Richland, Washington. His father was employed at the Hanford nuclear facility. Witherup lived in the San Francisco Bay area from his late teen's until 1989, when he moved to Seattle. He is the author of several collected volumes of poetry and also served as a contributing editor to anthology Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age . From the ...