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.

The Summer Brenner papers offers a comprehensive view of an American poet and novelist's life across four decades beginning in the 1960s. The collection includes extensive personal correspondence and journals, literary manuscripts and drafts documenting all stages of the writing and publishing process, and Brenner's work from magazine contributions, book publications, and community projects.

This collection contains .7 linear feet of personal letters and postcards from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press to his former employer and longtime friend, proprietor of Corinth Books Ted Wilentz. Other materials include press catalogs, newsletters, financial records, clippings, periodicals, poems, and other printed ephemera related to the Unicorn Press.

Between 1972 and 1994, American author and artist Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) sent a variety of materials to his grandmother, Marcella Simpson, including letters, articles, journals, manuscripts, and ephemera. The collection provides insight into Dawson's literary career and his development as a creative wring teacher in correctional facilities.

The Edward Field papers consist of twenty-one linear feet of the personal and literary papers which document the life and writing career of American writer and poet Edward Field (b. 1924) from 1943–1994.

The Edward Field letters to Ilse-Margret Vogel comprise seventeen items roughly spanning the dates between 1992 and 2000, documenting the literary friendship between American poet, novelist, and editor Field and German author and illustrator Vogel. Material includes correspondence with a variety of enclosures, including manuscripts, clippings, notes, and advertisements.

Four typed letters sent from various correspondents, including W. D. Snodgrass, to Dennis Jackson spanning from 1984 to 2001.

American poet John Giorno (born 1936) wrote nine letters to poet and editor William Levy (born 1939), many in poetic form, that discussed his poetic work, travels, and drug experiences. Also included is an advertisement for one of Giorno's 1965 poetry readings in Toronto in conjunction with the release of Les Levine's film adaptation of Giorno's The American Book of the Dead(1964).

The papers of the American writer of the political left Meridel Le Sueur consist of typescripts of Le Sueur’s poems and stories, sixty-three letters to her friend writer and journalist Doris Kirkpatrick (1902-1984), letters written to Le Sueur by others, photos and other images, news clippings and a periodical.

Helen Ann Raiber (1926-1971) was a writer born and raised in Pennsylvania. Throughout her life, she wrote letters to writers and other artists whose work she admired. The Helen Ann Raiber papers consist of an album of letters she received from authors and artists, a journal with a story she wrote as a child, and a scrapbook containing her published poems and articles.

American Beat scholar Jennie Skerl (born 1944) met American author and composer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) on a visit to Tangier, Morocco, in 1985. This small collection comprises correspondence with Bowles and others, as well as Skerl's research materials related to Paul Bowles and his literary circle in Tangier.

William G. Thompson as President of the Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc., represented more than 150 writers, poets, and performers by booking lectures and readings at educational institutions, literary gatherings, and community events.

The Louis Untermeyer papers consist of five linear feet of manuscript material abandoned by Untermeyer when he sold his Adirondack home, Stony Water, around 1970. Dating from 1902 through 1972, with the bulk of the papers dating 1912–1935, the collection is composed of correspondence, proofs, lists, scrapbooks, notes, photographs, programs, announcements, lectures, anthologies, poems, reviews, essays, and a bookplate.

Black-and-white photograph portrait of poet, novelist, playwright, and educator Owen Dodsen taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York on June 18, 1942.

The Lewis Warsh collection is a small collection of materials relating to publishing projects by American poet, novelist, and editor Lewis Warsh and by American authors Steve Carey, Ted Berrigan, and Tom Savage produced by Warsh's Angel Hair Books and United Artists Books. The collection spans the dates between 1968 and 2001 and consists of material at various stages of the publication process, including mock-ups, advanced uncorrected proofs, uncorrected galley proofs, and cover art.

American poet Lewis Warsh (born 1944) compiled this collection of promotional ephemera primarily documenting what is known as the second generation of the New York School. The collection also includes material relating to Warsh's own readings and performances, writing, and publishing ventures.

This holograph poetry notebook was kept by twentieth-century American poet and activist John Wieners (1934-2002), who was associated with the Beat movement and the Black Mountain School. The notebook contains several unpublished poems as well as prose writings and lists kept between 1962 and 1965.

This notebook was kept by twentieth-century American poet and activist John Wieners (1934-2002), who was associated with the Beat movement and the Black Mountain School of poets. Kept primarily between May and June 1962, the volume contains several unpublished poems, prose writings, a clipping, and a collage.

Gustave Percival Wiksell (1863-1940) was a Boston dentist who also served as president of the Walt Whitman Fellowship from 1903 until 1919. The Gustave Percival Wiksell miscellaneous material related to Bliss Carman, F. B. Sanborn, and R. W. Trine contains letters, photographs, and clippings that were originally laid in books that were part of Wiksell's collection.

The Tennessee Williams collection, spanning the dates 1939-2013, consists of an extensive collection of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera related to American playwright Tennessee Williams.

Eight autograph letters, one written and signed by William Carlos Williams to Charlotte Wilson commenting positively on a poem she wrote, five letters from Williams's wife, Florence, to Wilson, and two letters from Kay Boyle to Wilson, dated from December 3, 1957 to November 1, 1961.

The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises 9 linear feet of material related to 36 prominent literary figures, previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson, the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop, in New York City (1962-1988).