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American poetry -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Alcheringa collection

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Michael Benedikt papers

Black Mountain College II records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 34-11-755
Scope and Contents

This collection contains course descriptions and catalogs, meeting minutes, memos, photos, budgets, programs, mission statements, activity descriptions, rechartering files, posters, clippings, reports, proposals, correspondence and other files pertaining to Black Mountain College II. Also included are 46 audio cassettes containing recordings of music, poetry, and speakers who visited the college such as Robert Duncan, and Seamus Heaney.

Dates: circa 1970-1988
Found in: University Archives / Black Mountain College II records

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Bruce Boone papers

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Contemporary Manuscripts Collection

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Robert Duncan collection

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Earth's Daughters Collection

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Amelia Etlinger Collection

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / First Intensity Collection

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
Found in: The Poetry Collection / Anselm Hollo Collection