Found 4 collections related to American poetry

Contains miscellaneous writings and correspondence between Tisdale and the Manuscripts Division of the New York Public Library. Also includes photocopies of original manuscripts for "All seasons around the son: a telescopic view of the first centuries," and "Allow for the skeleton (dry though it may be) - and the rest revives: a 2000-year survey.". less

A professor of history, Kenneth W. Porter conducted research on African-American frontiersmen and cowboys, Black Seminoles, and American folklore and folk history. This collection consists primarily of his manuscripts and research materials pertaining to African-American and Native American studies. Porter's interests in socialism, poetry and literature, folklore, and general American and European history are also documented. Aspects of his personal life are represented in the papers as well. less

Poetry magazine edited and published by Greg Masters, Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Fourteen issues appeared between 1977-1985; a fifteenth was begun, but was never completed. Prominent contributors included Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman. Records consist of manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished poems, original cover artwork and negatives, mock-ups and final copies of each issue of the magazine, correspondence from readers and contributors, invoices, grant proposals, and business receipts. less

Mary Nash (1884-1976) was an American stage and film actress most famous for playing Katharine Hepburn's mother in The Philadelphia Story (1940). Her sister Florence Nash (1888-1950) was an American actress, comedienne, and writer. The Mary and Florence Nash papers contain correspondence, photographs, writings, scripts and other production files, scrapbooks, scores, and personal ephemera. less