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This series consists of kari edwards’ writing at many stages and forms. Included are notebooks, largely focusing on Joan of Arc, manuscripts of published poems and longer works, notes, and collaborative projects.

The series contains both paper and born-digital materials. The born-digital materials are largely manuscripts accompanied by drafts, cover art, reviews, proofs, correspondence and other work related to hir published and unpublished writings.

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Series II consists of paper materials used and created by Prevallet while researching the life and work of Helen Adam. They include copies of Adam’s writing with notes by Prevallet, notebooks and individual pages with information and ideas, documents with Helen Adam’s family history, clippings, and transcriptions of interviews and Adam’s handwritten poetry.

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This series includes academic records, official documentation of edwards’ name change, ephemera from readings and publications, photographs of friends, landscapes, and artwork, clippings of reviews and profiles, broadsides, personal copies of hir publications used for performances of hir work, chapbooks collected from an exchange program. The series also includes digital materials related to edwards’ career as a musician as well as family records.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of Boone’s handwritten and typed manuscripts, including poems, talks, essays, stories and novels. He worked in a number of genres and included here with the published and unpublished works are notes and revisions, essays, reviews, and manifestos. The material in subseries B focuses on writings and research notes related to his dissertation on Frank O’Hara. Subseries C includes manuscripts of translations, different iterations and evolving titles for the works. Subseries...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of Boone’s handwritten and typed manuscripts, including poems, talks, essays, stories and novels. He worked in a number of genres and included here with the published and unpublished works are notes and revisions, essays, reviews, and manifestos. The material in subseries B focuses on writings and research notes related to his dissertation on Frank O’Hara. Subseries C includes manuscripts of translations, different iterations and evolving titles for the works. Subseries...

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During her time researching the life and work of Helen Adam, Prevallet interviewed numerous people with personal and professional connections to Adam or the literary movements she was a part of. Series III contains written correspondence between Prevallet and these figures.

In some noted instances, the title of the folder corresponds to the subject of the correspondence or copies of correspondence between the person and Helen Adam.

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Correspondence regarding administration of the University Libraries, the creation and maintenance of the Poetry Collection of Lockwood Library at the University of Buffalo; professional papers including his research and publications; personal records, including biographical material, social correspondence and clippings; records of the Fenton Lecture series, 1935-1941; and records of the Buffalo Film Society, 1935-1938.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, ephemera, photographs, and mail art sent to Boone between 1970 and 2014. Subseries A and B are largely related to correspondence with contemporaries and publishers, discussing topics such as writing, traveling, politics, AIDS and gay rights activism, as well as family correspondence related to updates about each other’s lives. Subseries C relates to Boone’s correspondence regarding submissions and his editing of a supplement to...

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The series contains manuscripts and writings by Boone’s contemporaries in San Francisco and around the United States. In some instances, the manuscripts contain his notes.

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This series includes academic records, official documentation of edwards’ name change, ephemera from readings and publications, photographs of friends, landscapes, and artwork, clippings of reviews and profiles, broadsides, personal copies of hir publications used for performances of hir work, chapbooks collected from an exchange program. The series also includes digital materials related to edwards’ career as a musician as well as family records.

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Series V, Teaching, consists of items related to Williams’s career as an English professor at Xavier University and professional endeavors related to his teachings.

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Series IV consists of items from Williams’s time as a student at Wayne State University. Included here are reference letters written for Williams by others including Ed Hirsch, Colette Inez, Charles Baxter and others, course notes referencing specific works and authors he was studying throughout his education, as well as notes, ideas, proposals and drafts of his dissertation, The Poetics of Open and Closed Forms.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, ephemera, photographs, and mail art sent to Boone between 1970 and 2014. Subseries A and B are largely related to correspondence with contemporaries and publishers, discussing topics such as writing, traveling, politics, AIDS and gay rights activism, as well as family correspondence related to updates about each other’s lives. Subseries C relates to Boone’s correspondence regarding submissions and his editing of a supplement to...

Abstract Helen Adam (1909-1993) was a poet and visual artist of the San Francisco Renaissance. Born in Scotland, she garnered acclaim at a young age for her collection of poems titled The Elfin Peddlar. After attending Edinburgh University for two years Helen and her sister and frequent collaborator Pat Adam worked as journalists in London before moving to the United States with their mother in 1939. The family made their way to San Francisco, at the beginning of...

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Series II consists of paper materials used and created by Prevallet while researching the life and work of Helen Adam. They include copies of Adam’s writing with notes by Prevallet, notebooks and individual pages with information and ideas, documents with Helen Adam’s family history, clippings, and transcriptions of interviews and Adam’s handwritten poetry.

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Series IV, consists of audiovisual materials that aided in Prevallet’s research or were created by Prevallet during the course of her research. Contained in this series are recordings of interviews Prevallet conducted as well as archival interviews with Adam's contemporaries, recordings of performances and readings of Helen Adam's work, and original works inspired by Helen Adam.

This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, ephemera, photographs, and mail art sent to Boone between 1970 and 2014. Subseries A and B are largely related to correspondence with contemporaries and publishers, discussing topics such as writing, traveling, politics, AIDS and gay rights activism, as well as family correspondence related to updates about each other’s lives. Subseries C relates to Boone’s correspondence regarding submissions and his editing of a supplement to...

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Series IV, consists of audiovisual materials that aided in Prevallet’s research or were created by Prevallet during the course of her research. Contained in this series are recordings of interviews Prevallet conducted as well as archival interviews with Adam's contemporaries, recordings of performances and readings of Helen Adam's work, and original works inspired by Helen Adam.

This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.

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Series V, Teaching, consists of items related to Williams’s career as an English professor at Xavier University and professional endeavors related to his teachings.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is comprised of materials created by James Holley, Boone’s partner from the early 1990s until his death in 2009. Included are personal papers, including address books, resumes, his birth certificate, and last will and testament. The manuscripts subseries shows the breadth of Holley’s work, including poems, a manuscript of a novel titled Little Preacher Man, and song lyrics. His correspondence makes up a small part of the series, the bulk of the...

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Series II consists of paper materials used and created by Prevallet while researching the life and work of Helen Adam. They include copies of Adam’s writing with notes by Prevallet, notebooks and individual pages with information and ideas, documents with Helen Adam’s family history, clippings, and transcriptions of interviews and Adam’s handwritten poetry.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, ephemera, photographs, and mail art sent to Boone between 1970 and 2014. Subseries A and B are largely related to correspondence with contemporaries and publishers, discussing topics such as writing, traveling, politics, AIDS and gay rights activism, as well as family correspondence related to updates about each other’s lives. Subseries C relates to Boone’s correspondence regarding submissions and his editing of a supplement to...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, and ephemera sent to Tyrone Williams between circa 1977-2020. The correspondence is both personal and professional, including letters from family, friends, contemporary poets and students. Included are correspondence relating to residencies, publications and publisher-sponsored events, as well as reading invitations and agreements at institutions within Cincinnati, OH and around the country, including the Djerassi Institute, The St....

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, and ephemera sent to Tyrone Williams between circa 1977-2020. The correspondence is both personal and professional, including letters from family, friends, contemporary poets and students. Included are correspondence relating to residencies, publications and publisher-sponsored events, as well as reading invitations and agreements at institutions within Cincinnati, OH and around the country, including the Djerassi Institute, The St....

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Series IV, consists of audiovisual materials that aided in Prevallet’s research or were created by Prevallet during the course of her research. Contained in this series are recordings of interviews Prevallet conducted as well as archival interviews with Adam's contemporaries, recordings of performances and readings of Helen Adam's work, and original works inspired by Helen Adam.

This series is subdivided into subseries based on format.

Abstract The Alcheringa Collection spans the entire history of the magazine, including approximately 100 manuscript items representing a broad range of the poetry, articles, and reviews that were published; approximately 200 letters and 46 postcards from internationally known poets, anthropologists and folklorists including Michael Corr, Robert Creeley, Ted Enslin, Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, Nathaniel Tarn, and Dennis Tedlock; approximately 1,219 items of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, ephemera, photographs, and mail art sent to Boone between 1970 and 2014. Subseries A and B are largely related to correspondence with contemporaries and publishers, discussing topics such as writing, traveling, politics, AIDS and gay rights activism, as well as family correspondence related to updates about each other’s lives. Subseries C relates to Boone’s correspondence regarding submissions and his editing of a supplement to...

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During her time researching the life and work of Helen Adam, Prevallet interviewed numerous people with personal and professional connections to Adam or the literary movements she was a part of. Series III contains written correspondence between Prevallet and these figures.

In some noted instances, the title of the folder corresponds to the subject of the correspondence or copies of correspondence between the person and Helen Adam.

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This collection contains material from Alpha Beat, an independent press publishing Beat generation and Beat-inspired work. Included are manuscripts, advertisements, reviews, and production material for monographic and periodical publications.