Aaron Rosen papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: PCMS-0115

Staff Only

The Aaron Rosen papers contains notebooks, correspondence with poets, poetry drafts, works shared with Aaron Rosen by other poets, articles, and chapbooks.

Accruals received in 2021 include nine notebooks, correspondence between Rosen and Jan Gorden, postcards from Carol Cook, Ann Colley, and Irving Massey, and annotated first editions of Taps for Space and Reluctant Mirrors.

Dates

circa 1962-2018

Creator

Rosen, Aaron, 1926- (Person)

Terms of Access and Use

The Aaron Rosen papers are open to researchers.

Copyright

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and [University Archives or Poetry Collection] before requesting photocopies and/or publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Once permission is obtained, most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.

Extent

1.5 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Overview

Collection of materials from Aaron Rosen, English professor and Provost of Arts and Letters at the University at Buffalo. The collection includes notebooks, photographs, chapbooks, and correspondence.

Biographical Note

Aaron Rosen was born in Utica, New York in 1926. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught for many years at SUNY Buffalo as a professor of English where he also served as Provost of Arts and Letters. Rosen's work has appeared in numerous journals including Choice, Epoch, Hambone, Kenyon Review, and Partisan Review. His collections of poetry published by The Sheep Meadow Press include Traces, Taps for Space, Reluctant Mirrors, Proximities, and Prowling Sequiturs. Aaron Rosen passed away in 2018.

Arrangement

The collection was processed at the collection-level, the materials are arranged by genre (i.e correspondence, drafts, shared works, and notes).

Acquisition Information

The Aaron Rosen papers were gifted to the poetry collection by Antoinette Peters in 30 August 2019 as accession 2019-pcms-016.

2021 Accruals donated by Antoinette Peters on December 23, 2021.