Dragon Gate Press records, 1907-1998 (bulk 1980-1987).

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Dragon Gate Press records, 1907-1998 (bulk 1980-1987).

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The Dragon Gate Press records are comprised of administrative records and production files from the Washington State publishing house, as well as personal and family papers relating to its founder, Gwen Head. Administrative files for Dragon Gate, Inc. include correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and manuscript queries, as well as royalty information. Book production files include manuscripts, galleys, paste-ups, page proofs, and cover design layout documents. The Iowa Writers' Workshop files contain class notes and other materials related to Head's teaching. Head's personal papers include documents relating to her family, as well as a manuscript by Head and one by her daughter Tandy Schwartzman. This series also contains a photograph album owned by her father Harry Gwen Head. The Poets for Peace series documents the work of this group of writers, which Head formed with David Romtvedt, to protest the arrival of the Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines at the Naval base in Bangor, Washington.

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Carlile, Henry

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Triem, Eve, 1902-1992

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Eve Triem was born in New York City on November 2, 1902. Triem grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She married Paul Ellsworth Triem, a writer, in 1924 and they moved to Dubuque, Iowa in 1936. They moved to San Francisco in 1956, where they resided until moving to Seattle in 1960. They had two children, Yvonne and Peter. Paul Triem died in 1976. Eve Triem began writing poetry in earnest in 1936. While in Dubuque, Triem studied G...

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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The Iowa Writers' Workshop, or Program in Creative Writing, in the University of Iowa Dept. of English, grew out of earlier informal literary interest and the university's acceptance of creative work in the arts. The name Writers' Workshop was first used in the 1939 university catalog. Successive directors have been Wilbur L. Schramm, Paul Engle, George Starbuck, John Leggett, and Frank Conroy. From the description of Records of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1965-[ongoing]. (University...

Head, Gwen, 1940-

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Dragon gate

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Founded in 1979 by poet, Gwen Head, Dragon Gate, Inc. was a small press specializing in poetry and short stories, based in Port Townsend, Washington. Before ceasing operations in 1987, the publishing house produced some twenty volumes. Notable authors whose works were issued by Dragon Gate include Henry Carlile, whose "Running Lights" (1981) was the first work to be published by the press, and Eve Triem, whose "New as a Wave" (1984) was awarded a Western States Book Award. From the d...

Head family.

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