Found 7 collections related to Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence

The W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman letters to Irving and Anne Weiss, dating from the 1940s to 2000, consist primarily of handwritten and typed letters and poems, as well as photographs exchanged between the couples from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also contains some posthumous newspaper clippings, dating from the 1970s to 2000, about Auden and Kallman's relationship. less

Philip Levine (1928-2015) was an American poet who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his work The Simple Truth (1994). He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2012. Rick Campbell (1952-) is an American poet and former director of the poetry publishing firm Anhinga Press. The collection comprises nine items written by Philip Levine to Rick Campbell: three computer-generated typed letters signed and two autograph letters signed, dated 2001 May 24 to 2011 April 11; three autograph postcards signed, dated or postmarked 2000 to 2005; and an undated autograph letter signed, written on two unstamped postcards; also, a four-page document capturing email exchanges between Levine and Campbell, 2014 May 27 to 2015 February 7, regarding the publication of a poem by Levine in the journal Kestrel. A re-typed printout of the letter dated 2011 April 11, returned from an unidentified recipient with a note thanking Campbell for it, is included. The collection charts the epistolary friendship of the two poets, originating in Anhinga Press's publication of work by winners of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, sponsored by California State University at Fresno. Levine's letters and postcards discuss the Prize and thank Campbell for sending him Anhinga Press imprints and volumes of Campbell's own poetry. Levine makes positive remarks about their work and that of other poets, while sharing brief reminiscences of his time in Iowa, Florida and California less

Tomislav Sabljak (born 1934 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian writer, translator, and retired university professor, associated with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Zagreb. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and a telegram received by Tomislav Sabljak at Zagreb in Yugoslavia, later Croatia, from English poets W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Americans Mark Schorer, author, and Karl Shapiro, poet, dated 1963-1972, and 1995. The correspondence, conveying a sense of literary fellowship, chiefly concerns the translation of the writers' works into Croatian, and their publication. Travel plans are also discussed. Auden and Spender answer questions about meanings held in their poems, with Spender explaining two terms with small pen drawings (1966 January 6). Present are thirteen autograph and typed letters signed by W. H. Auden, and a telegram, 1964-1972, including the typed text of his poem "August 1968" (1969 February 14); eight autograph and typed letters signed by Stephen Spender, 1964-1967, 1995; two typed letters signed by T. S. Eliot, 1963 August 27 (aerogramme) and 1964 May 7, thanking Sabljak for articles he sent; and a typed letter signed by Ted Hughes, 1968 December 3, enclosing typescripts of three poems for translation: "Carrion Tiresias Examines the Sacrifice," "A Kill," and "Notes for a Little Play." Two postcards from Mark Schorer in Italy, 1964, concern his intention to visit Zagreb, and a typed letter signed by Karl Shapiro from Nebraska, 1966 February 23, expresses his thanks. The writers mention Auden and Spender, respectively. Also present is an undated autograph letter signed by Natasha Spender, postmarked 1995 August 31, advising of her husband's death less

Lewis Warsh was an American poet, visual artist, professor, prose writer, editor, and publisher. He is most prominently known as a member of the second generation of the New York School poets. The Lewis Warsh papers, dating from 1957 to 2022, cover his personal and professional life, represented through correspondence, his notebooks and journals, drafts of his work, the work of other writers, and material related to events. The collection encompasses the whole of Warsh's career and is particularly strong in detailing his personal relationships and relationships with other writers. less

Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) was an American poet who started seriously writing poetry in her forties. The Amy Clampitt papers include drafts of her work in various stages of completion, related correspondence, and material from her times as writer-in-residence at various institutions. The collection also has extensive personal materials, such as correspondence, family papers, photographs, and material from Clampitt's education. less

The Allen Ginsberg interview file and correspondence with Jan Castro contains correspondence, an interview transcript, notes, press, and an audio recording collected by Castro in preparation for her interview of Ginsberg, published in 1982 in her literary magazine River Styx. less