Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 8 of 8

Amiri Baraka papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0699
Abstract

Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), known early in his career as LeRoi Jones, was a widely published African American writer who produced poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. Much of Baraka’s work addressed the subjects of Black liberation and white racism. The Amiri Baraka papers comprise the author’s writings, sketchbooks, and artwork, as well as correspondence and ephemera related to his involvement in theatrical and film productions.

Dates: circa 1965-2006

Collection of poems by Imamu Amiri Baraka

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0707
Abstract

Two typescripts and one autographed manuscript of poems written by Imamu Amiri Baraka, titled I Love Music, Am/Trak, and The Last Revolution.

Dates: 1977

Paul Laurence Dunbar letters to Reginald Wright Kauffman

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0948
Abstract

In 1905, African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) responded to an inquiry from Reginald Kauffman (1877-1959), an associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, who was soliciting Dunbar for poems or stories.

Dates: 1905

Tambourines to glory : playscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0705
Abstract

Mimeographed typescript of the playscript, Tambourines to Glory, wriitten by Langston Hughes. The title page identifies the playscript as: "Revised version. September 1962."

Dates: 1962 September

Photograph of Ted Joans with Arthur and Kit Knight and letter from Joans to Arthur Knight

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0764
Abstract One black and white photograph of Ted Joans with Arthur and Kit Knight, on which Joans has pasted a balloon stemming from his mouth, in which he asks Knight to publish his autobiography and includes a note by Joans on the verso written in pencil, "A fortuitous encounter (but friendly due to this publishers encyclical books at Loeb Center of N.Y.U.)." Also includes a handwritten letter in black ink from Joans written on the back of an announcement for a reading by him held at Books...
Dates: undated

For Clarence Major : poem

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0913
Abstract

American novelist and poet Gayl Jones wrote this poem, "For Clarence Major," after meeting Major at Connecticut College in 1970.

Dates: 1970, 2006

Small memoriam for myself and The abomunist manifesto : poems

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0754
Abstract

Typescript poem, Small Memoriam For Myself, written and signed by Bob Kaufman. The typescript bears the note "for Beatitude" and is dated 1962. Also present is a photoduplicated flyer of Kaufman's The Abomunist Manisfesto on the verso of a "Republicans for Pat Brown" campaign letter.

Dates: 1962

Walter Lowenfels letters to Allen De Loach

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0870
Abstract

In this collection of nineteen letters, American poet Walter Lowenfels wrote to his editor Allen De Loach, praising him for recent editorial work on Lowenfels's autobiography and discussing his writing and the work of other poets, particularly Walt Whitman and "poets of old age."

Dates: 1965-1970; Majority of material found within 1968-1970

Filtered By

  • Subject: Poets X
  • Subject: African American poets--20th century X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
African American poets--20th century 5
Correspondence 4
Poems 4
African American poets--20th century--Correspondence 3
Poets 3
∨ more  
Names
Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-2014 2
Bullins, Ed 1
Communist Party of the United States of America 1
De Loach, Allen 1
De Loach, Allen--Correspondence 1