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Amiri Baraka papers
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.
Collection of poems by Imamu Amiri Baraka
Two typescripts and one autographed manuscript of poems written by Imamu Amiri Baraka, titled I Love Music, Am/Trak, and The Last Revolution.
Paul Laurence Dunbar letters to Reginald Wright Kauffman
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.
Tambourines to glory : playscript
Mimeographed typescript of the playscript, Tambourines to Glory, wriitten by Langston Hughes. The title page identifies the playscript as: "Revised version. September 1962."
Photograph of Ted Joans with Arthur and Kit Knight and letter from Joans to Arthur Knight
For Clarence Major : poem
American novelist and poet Gayl Jones wrote this poem, "For Clarence Major," after meeting Major at Connecticut College in 1970.
Small memoriam for myself and The abomunist manifesto : poems
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.
Walter Lowenfels letters to Allen De Loach
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."