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Alcheringa collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0002
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...
Dates: 1970-1980

Athanor collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0003
Abstract

The Athanor collection contains all of the papers relating to the publishing history of the magazine including manuscript submissions, editor's correspondence, and business documents.

Dates: 1960-1977; Majority of material found within 1971-1975

Michael Benedikt papers

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0111
Abstract

Collection of materials relating to the personal life, photography, and writings of Michael Benedikt. Michael Benedikt was a writer and editor who was also active in documenting "Happenings" in the 1960's and 1970's The collection includes poetry drafts, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other related materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1947-2008; circa 1939-2012

Bruce Boone papers

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0126
Abstract

Bruce Boone is a poet, writer, translator, and activist living and working in San Francisco, CA. The Bruce Boone papers span the years 1940-2014 and contain Boone’s manuscripts, correspondence, personal records, writings by contemporaries, and original artwork. The collection contains paper, analog, and born-digital records.

Dates: 1940 - 2014

Contemporary Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0001
Abstract

The Contemporary Manuscripts Collection contains a total of thousands of pages of manuscripts and/or correspondence from hundreds of poets and writers such as Lascelles Abercrombie, W. H. Auden, David Gascoyne, Elizabeth Jennings, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Merton, Charlotte Mew, Ezra Pound, Alastair Reid, Peter Russell, Winfield Townley Scott, Genevieve Taggard, Ruthven Todd, Henry Treece, and Louis Zukofsky.

Dates: circa 1880-2009

Carl Dennis papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PCMS-0128
Abstract

Carl Dennis is a poet and educator based in Buffalo, NY. The Carl Dennis papers contain his manuscripts, correspondence, and 2001 Pulitzer Prize. The materials span 1980-2019, when Dennis donated the material to the Poetry Collection. The collection contains both paper and born-digital items.

Dates: 1980-2019

Robert Duncan collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0110
Abstract

The Robert Duncan collection comprises over 100 linear feet of manuscript material, correspondence, artwork, ephemera, audio visual material, and printed material related to Robert Duncan’s (1919-1988) life and work, including a significant amount of material related to his partner, Jess (1923-2004), a visual artist who often collaborated with Duncan.

Dates: circa 1900-1996; Majority of material found within 1940-1986

Earth's Daughters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0057
Abstract

Earth's Daughters Collection, 1969-2015, contains materials related to the production of the magazine. The bulk of the material is submissions by poets. Other material includes correspondence, editorial business, financial records, grant applications, distribution records, production material, submission records, subscription records, art and ephemera.

Dates: 1969-2015

Amelia Etlinger collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0060
Abstract The Amelia Etlinger collection, 1971-2014, is primarily a collection of over 100 art objects, mail art, and concrete poetry sent to Ellen Marie Helinka [Bissert], Mike Belt, Mirella Bentivoglio, and the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection in the 1970s and 1980s. Additional material includes correspondence between mailart recipients and Etlinger, and correspondence between recipients pertaining to Etlinger; exhibition catalogs, announcements, interviews, newspaper clippings, and...
Dates: 1971-2014; Majority of material found within 1976-1986

First Intensity Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0041
Abstract

The First Intensity Collection contains the editorial correspondence for Lee Chapman's literary magazine from 1992 to 2007. Correspondence contains poetry submissions, page proofs, reviews, and articles from poets featured in First Intensity.

Dates: 1992-2010

Frontier Press Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0016
Abstract The Frontier Press Collection includes publications, manuscripts, galleys, proofs, designs, artwork, and correspondence relating to Harvey Brown's Niagara Frontier Review and Frontier Press. Notable items include letters and manuscripts from Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, John Wieners, and Stan Brakhage, plus Scrapbook, an unpublished assemblage of photographs and text once proposed as a Frontier Press publication; and...
Dates: 1964-1972

Happiness Holding Tank

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0004
Abstract

The Happiness Holding Tank Collection documents the life of the magazine (1970-1979) and contains manuscripts, business records, correspondence, and photographs.

Dates: 1970-1979

Anselm Hollo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0052
Abstract Poet and translator Anselm Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1934. He moved to the United States in 1967 and taught at various universities, including University at Buffalo, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Colorado, and the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he lived until his death in 2013. Hollo was influenced by the Beat poets and was the author of more than forty books of poetry. His translations include works by Finnish poets Paavo Haavikko and Pentti...
Dates: 1968-1975, undated

Kayak collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0006
Abstract

The Kayak collection contains manuscript submissions and correspondence sent to George Hitchcock during the life of the magazine (1964-1984).

Dates: 1964-1984

Martha King Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0083
Abstract The Martha King Collection contains the editorial and business records for Giants Play Well In The Drizzle, including production material, correspondence, and financial records; materials related to the additional publication projects Northern Lights Poetry Chaplets Series, SpotS, and The Bubba Mesia; and personal records for Martha King including manuscripts, correspondence, and poetry...
Dates: 1976 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1983 - 1995

Kiosk Collection

 File
Identifier: PCMS-0065
Abstract

The Kiosk Collection contains materials from Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose, published by Poetics students at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, including editorial correspondence and submissions.

Dates: 2002-05-02 - 2003-04-08

Stuart R. Lavin Four Zoas collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0072
Abstract

Materials related to Stuart R. Lavin and the journal The Four Zoas. Stuart Lavin is a poet who has published poetry anthologies since 1967 and was the editor for The Four Zoas journal. The collection includes correspondence, poetry drafts, newspaper articles, photos, and other related materials.

Dates: circa 1945-1994; Majority of material found within 1967-1994

The League to Support Poetry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0010
Abstract The League to Support Poetry Collection contains Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald's written account of the League's history; her selected correspondence with such poets and critics; manuscripts by Alice Mears, Henry McLaughlin, Starr Nelson, and Eve Triem; complete sets of The Poetry Bulletin and The New Quarterly of Poetry; recordings of several radio broadcasts; a few of the mimeographed brochures that circulated...
Dates: 1936-1949

Mark Pawlak collection on Denise Levertov

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0058
Abstract Poet, essayist, editor, translator, and teacher Denise Levertov was an important voice in the American avant-garde and was particularly involved in anti-war and anti-nuclear activism, co-initiating Writers and Artists Protest against the War in Vietnam. She served as poetry editor of the Nation (1961-1962) and Mother Jones (1976-1978) and taught at a number of universities, including City College (CUNY); University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tufts...
Dates: 1970-1993

Jerome Mazzaro papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PCMS-0131
Abstract The Jerome Mazzaro papers, 1953-circa 2023, measure 8.34 linear feet and contain Mazzaro's personal and business correspondence, manuscripts by himself and others, research materials, and a small amount of clippings, photographs, and ephemera. Jerome Mazzaro (1934-2023) was an American poet, editor, critic, translator, and professor who primarily taught at the University at Buffalo from 1965 to 1996. He published widely as a poet and critic, and also edited several periodicals, including...
Dates: 1953-circa 2023

Kristin Prevallet Helen Adam research papers

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0119
Abstract

The Kristin Prevallet Helen Adam research papers document the processing of the Helen Adam collection and Prevallet’s research for A Helen Adam Reader and other related projects, ca. 1993-2007.

Dates: 1955-2007; Majority of material found within 1993 - 2007

Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0051
Abstract Victor E. Reichert (1897-1990) was rabbi of the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1938 to 1962 and shared a long friendship with the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In 1946 Reichert invited Frost to present a sermon, and in 1960 he was instrumental in awarding Frost an honorary Doctorate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Their relationship is documented in Andrew Marks's The Rabbi and the Poet (1994). Victor Reichert was an avid Frost collector, and...
Dates: 1928-2014

Smelt Money Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0059
Abstract

Smelt Money: A Poetics Newsletter from the Kaw Valley Bottoms, 1996-1999, was a thirteen issue poetry publication consisting of a single sheet folded twice, edited by Jim McCrary. The collection contains correspondence and production material for all thirteen issues; an item level register; and a floppy disk containing email correspondence, the index, and print files for issues 8-13.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1996-02 - 1999-07

Jayne Lyn Stahl collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PCMS-0073
Abstract

The Jayne Lyn Stahl collection contains materials related to the plays, writings and poetry of Jayne Lyn Stahl. Jayne Lyn Stahl was a freelance poet, playwright, freelance essayist, and member of the PEN American Center. The collection includes draft poems, screenplays, letters, and other related materials.

Dates: 1965-2012

Ruthven Todd collection

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0055
Abstract

The Ruthven Todd collection consists of papers produced between 1938 and 1986. The collection contains handwritten and typed manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork.

Dates: 1938-1986

Tyrone Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: PCMS-0122
Abstract

Tyrone Williams is a poet, literary critic, and educator based in Cincinnati, OH. The Tyrone Williams papers contain Mr. Williams’s manuscripts, academic files, personal and professional correspondence, files related to his career as an English professor at Xavier University, and personal copies of manuscripts by his contemporaries. The collection contains both paper and born-digital items.

Dates: 1969-2021