John Taggart papers, 1974-1975.

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John Taggart papers, 1974-1975.

Letters to Taggart from Philip Booth, William Bronk, Cid Corman, George P. Elliott, Theodore Enslin, Ronald Johnson, George and Mary Oppen, Simon Perchik, and James Weil; and letter from Taggart to Tom Cunniff. Includes information relating to Taggart's activities as editor (1967-1974) of Maps, a poetry magazine published in Goshen, Ind.

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Perchik, Simon

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Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990

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Poet, artist, and spouse of Pulitzer Prize winning poet George Oppen. She is perhaps best known for MEANING A LIFE (1978), an account of George's and her marriage. She died in 1990. From the description of Original art, ca. 1920-1990. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32105332 A writer, artist, and wife of Pulitzer Prize winning poet George Oppen. Mary Oppen was born in 1908 in Kalispell, Montana, and was raised in rural Oreg...

Taggart, John, 1942-....

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Poet, editor, and professor of English at Shippensburg State College; b. John Paul Taggart. From the description of John Taggart papers, 1974-1975. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28420710 American poet born in 1942 in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Received M.A. in English literature from the Univ. of Chicago in 1966 and Ph. D. in Humanities from Syracuse Univ. in 1974. Professor of literature and writing at Shippensburg State Univ. since 1972. ...

Bronk, William

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American poet; born in 1918 in Fort Edward, N.Y. and was the author of more than 15 books of poems and essays and a winner of the American Book Award in 1982. William Bronk died on 22 Feb 1999. From the guide to the William Bronk Papers, 1908-1999., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Poet and 1982 winner of the American Book Award. From the description of William Bronk papers, 1939-1995 1961-1986. (Manchester City Library)....

Booth, Philip, 1925-2007

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Booth was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1947. From the description of Papers, [1946- (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 122569851 ...

Elliott, George P., 1918-1980

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American novelist and college professor; d. 1980. From the description of Papers, 1957-1979. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419442 American author. From the description of Papers. 1957-1979. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905669 ...

Cunniff, Tom

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Enslin, Theodore

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Theodore Enslin was born in Chester, PA on March 25, 1925. He studied musical composition privately with Nadia Boulanger and Francis Judd Cooke. He has two children, Deirdre and Jonathan Morton, from his first marriage with Mildred Marie Stout in 1945. He divorced in 1961 and married Alison Jane Jose in 1969; they have a son, Jacob Hezekiah. Theodore Enslin has written many books of poetry, including "Forms" (1971-1973), "The Poems" (1970), "Views" (1973), "Synthesis" (1975) "Etudes" (1972) and ...

Corman, Cid

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American poet and editor of the small magazine Origin. From the description of Letters : Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Mr. & Mrs. Kirgo, 1951 May 8-July 9. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32415686 Highly prolific poet, translator, and prose writer, Cid Corman was born in Boston in 1924. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Tufts University in 1941, graduating in 1945. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Universit...

Oppen, George

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James Weil is a poet, former editor of Elizabeth magazine, and publisher of Elizabeth Press, which promoted work by second and third generation objectivist poets such as William Bronk, Cid Corman, John Taggart and Ted Enslin. George Oppen is one of the original objectivist poets and recipient of the Pulitizer prize for his work Of being numerous. Oppen's work often appeared in Elizabeth, and he was a mentor and friend to Taggart, Enslin and other poets published by Weil. From the des...

Weil, James L.

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Proprietor of Elizabeth Press, a small literary press in New Rochelle, N.Y. From the description of James L. Weil papers, 1963-1980. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28409154 James L. Weil was born 15 June 1929, in New York, New York, the son of Morris (a financier) and Charlotte (Ullman) Weil. He attended the University of Chicago (A.B., 1950) and Oxford University (certificate, 1954). He has been employed by the Dialight Corporation (manufacturer of electro...

Shippensburg State College

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Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998

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Ronald Johnson was born in Ashland, Kansas on November 25, 1935 to A.T. Johnson and Helen Mayse (1910-1993). When he was a child, his family moved to Topeka, Kansas. He spent some time at the University of Kansas before performing two years of national service in the Army, in Georgia, Arizona, and California. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1960 at Columbia College. In 1964, Johnson published his first collection of poetry, A Line of Poetry, A Row of Tree, with Jarg...