Robert Kelly Collection

Collection

Identifier: PCMS-0023

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The Robert Kelly Collection contains an extensive collection of Kelly’s autographed and typed manuscripts and notebooks (approximately 58,000 pages); over 4,000 letters to Kelly from such writers as Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Ted Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, and Diane Wakoski; and copies of many of Kelly’s letters to others.

Dates

1949-1989

Creator

Kelly, Robert, 1935- (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English.

Terms of Access

The Robert Kelly Collection, 1949-1989, is open for research.

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 the 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.

Biographical Note

Robert Kelly (1935 – ) is a writer, editor, and teacher who has published over fifty books of poetry and fiction. Kelly edited the literary magazines Chelsea Review, Trobar, and Matter, and has served as a contributing editor for Caterpillar, Sulfur, Alcheringa, Conjunctions, and Poetry International. He is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature and Co-director of the Writing Program in Fiction and Poetry at Bard College, where he has taught since 1961.