Press releases
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Harold Brayman papers
Donald Callender papers
Collection of uncorrected poetry proofs
Delaware Miscellany collection
The Delaware Miscellany collection includes three large, green buckram-bound volumes compiled by William Ditto Lewis, which contain various documents pertaining to the history of Delaware and the surrounding region, and the University of Delaware.
Delaware Theatre Company records
The Delaware Theatre Company (DTC) is the largest professional theater in Delaware. The organizations's records, as well as the professional papers of Artistic Director, Cleveland Morris, are included.
Rita Katz Farrell collection related to dance
Reference and research files that Rita Katz Farrell compiled during her career as a critic, freelance writer, and teacher.
Gloria Frym publicity materials and typescripts
The Gloria Frym publicity materials and typescripts comprise seven poetry typescripts by award-winning American poet, lecturer, and writer Gloria Frym (1947-), as well as publicity material relating to her receipt of the San Francisco State University Poetry Center's 1982 Book Award for Back to Forth. These items were originally laid into American poet Tom Clark's (1941-) copy of Back to Forth, which was inscribed to him by Frym.
Richard Hoffman - John Guare collection
Peter Owen publishing records
Peter Owen publishing records is the publisher’s archive (1950s-1995) of an independent British firm renowned for its international list of major authors and avant garde works. The bulk of the collection consists of the production files of selected works, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s, including edited typescripts, proofs, and other materials documenting the process of turning an author’s manuscript into a finished book.
Salmon Poetry Ltd. records supplement
The Salmon Poetry Ltd. records supplement contains administrative files and the press's publishing files for books produced between 2000 and 2011. Founded and directed by the American-Irish poet, Jessie Lendennie, Salmon Poetry Ltd. is noted particularly for its publication of poetry and its promotion of women writers. This supplement complements the core archival records of Salmon Publishing, Ltd., which was acquired by the University of Delaware Library in 1998.
C.P. Snow letters to Arthur Mizener
Consists of seventeen letters written by British novelist C.P. Snow to American author Arthur Mizener between 1956 and 1961, as well as three letters written by Snow's wife, British author Pamela Johnson Hansford to Rosemary Mizener, and a press release.
Lewis Warsh collection of twentieth-century poetry ephemera
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.
Week of the angry arts against the war in Vietnam ephemera collection
Week of the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam ephemera collection consists of posters, schedules, correspondence, newspapers proofs, press releases, information sheets, and other ephemera related to the events held during the Week of the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam in 1967.