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Edward Dorn letters and poems

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0823
Abstract

Three letters and four poems written by American poet Edward Dorn.

Dates: 1959-1968

Larry Eigner letters and poems

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0824
Abstract

One typed card, one typed letter, and fifteen typed poems written by American poet Larry Eigner.

Dates: 1960-1978; Majority of material found within 1973-1976

En Passant archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0414
Abstract

The En Passant Archive, spanning the dates 1970 – 1983, is the archive of the little poetry magazine En Passant, edited by James Costello in Wilmington, Delaware. The 1.3 linear feet of material in the collection consists of letters from contributors, administrative correspondence, little magazines, including twelve issues of En Passant, and the manuscripts of most of the thirteen issues of the magazine published between 1975 and 1983.

Dates: 1970-1983

Carl Haverlin papers relating to Carl Sandburg

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0144
Abstract

This collection consists of the Carl Sandburg files kept by BMI president and radio pioneer Carl Haverlin (1899-1985) spanning the years 1909-1964. During Haverlin's years at BMI he developed a close working relationship and friendship with Carl Sandburg.

Dates: 1909-1964; Majority of material found within 1947-1963

Pentagram Press archives

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0452
Abstract

The Pentagram Press was founded in 1974 by the Milwaukee-based poet Michael Tarachow as a publishing outlet for poetry and other new literature. The Pentagram Press archive, spanning the dates 1972-1999, documents the operations and output of the small fine press run by Michael Tarachow in Milwaukee and Markesan, in Wisconsin, and Minneapolis.

Dates: 1972-1999

Charles Plymell manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0457
Abstract

This collection of American writer Charles Plymell's manuscripts contains manuscripts for poems, fiction, and essays written by Plymell during the 1970s, as well as a small number of manuscripts of the work of other poets.

Dates: 1970-1979

David Louis Posner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0614
Abstract

The David Louis Posner Papers span the dates 1923-1957, and consist of one linear foot of photographs, school records, letters, essays, invoices, rare book catalogs, ephemera, and poetry, prose, and play scripts. Though small and clearly incomplete as a record of Posner’s life, the collection provides good biographical and literary content for study of this American poet.

Dates: 1923-1957

William Pryor letter to Cid Corman with prospectus for Tangent 4 and poetry manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F1034
Abstract

This collection consists of a letter from English poet William Pryor to Cid Corman, a prospectus for Pryor's chapbook Away, and a ten-page original typescript by Pryor entitled "The First Nine Pages of UNEARTH."

Dates: 1979 September 8

Muriel Rukeyser letters to David Posner

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0833
Abstract

This small collection of letters and miscellaneous items from American poet Muriel Rukeyser to David Posner reflects their shared interests in poetry and spans the dates of 1942 to 1944.

Dates: 1942-1944

Salmon Publishing, Ltd. records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0438
Abstract

The records of Salmon Publishing cover the activity of Salmon Publishing Ltd. of Clare, Ireland, from its inception in 1982 through 1997. Founded and directed by the American-Irish poet, Jessie Lendennie, Salmon Publishing is noted particularly for its promotion of the work of new women poets.

Dates: 1982-2000

W. D. Snodgrass letters and manuscripts to Jerome Mazzaro

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0273
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and literary manuscripts exchanged between twentieth century American poet and scholar W. D. Snodgrass and twentieth century American writer and scholar Jerome Mazzaro.

Dates: 1961-1977

Walt Whitman letter to Thomas Donaldson

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0277
Abstract

This collection consists of an 1889 holograph letter, with envelope, from Walt Whitman to Thomas Donaldson.

Dates: 1889 June 9

John Wieners papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0138
Abstract

Spanning the dates 1961-1968, the papers of American Beat poet John Wieners provide a chronologically and thematically fragmented, yet detailed, glimpse of his life. This small collection includes sixteen letters to Diane Di Prima, Alan Marlowe, and Ed Sanders; the manuscript of a play, two journals, and fourteen leaves of poetry.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1961-1968

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Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 1
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Costello, James, 1937- 1
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