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Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Biographical

Box 1

Folder 1: Curriculum vitae, 1974-1992

Folder 2: Departmental death notice, January 17th, 1995

Folder 3: Departmental supporting materials

Folder 4: Photographs

Folder 5: Daily notebooks

Including poetry notes, thoughts, memoranda, journal entries, to-do lists; 13 small notepads

Folder 6: Biographical notes,, ca. 1982

Folder 7: "John" notebooks (see also Correspondence, and Novels, Orchid Tango; regarding personal relationship), 1987-1988

Folder 8: Diary, 1993

Folder 9: Living Will Materials, 1986, 1993

Folder 10: Musical materials, including diary materials, 1980-1982

Folder 11: Medical documents, 1986-87

Folder 12: Financial materials, 1980-94

Folder 13: Income tax Returns

Item 1

Folder 1: 1984

Folder 2: 1985

Folder 3: 1992

Series 2: Coursework completed

Box 1

Folder 1: Bachelor of Arts (Duquesne University, 1961)

Box 1

Folder 1: Aesthetics, 1960

Folder 2: American Literature, winter, 1958-1959

Folder 3: General college assignments, 1957-1958

Folder 4: Literature assignments, 1959-1961

Folder 5: Contemporary Philosophy, 1961

Folder 6: Early English Poetry, 1961

Folder 7: English coursework, 1958-1960

Folder 8: Old English, ca. 1958

Folder 9: Twentieth-Century Literature, 1960

Folder 2: Master of Arts (University of Pennsylvania 1962)

Box 1

Folder 1: American Literary History and Criticism, spring 1962

Folder 2: Elizabethan Poetry and Prose, fall 1961

Folder 3: Middle English Literature, fall 1961

Folder 4: Modern British Poetry, spring 1962

Folder 5: Restoration Literature, fall 1961

Folder 6: Tristam Shandy, spring 1962

Folder 3: Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania1968)

Box 1

Folder 1: American Drama 1890-present, fall 1966

Folder 2: American Literary History and Criticism, spring 1966

Folder 3: American Literary History of the Twentieth Century, 1966

Folder 4: American Literature Before 1810--papers presented for publication, 1966, 1971

Folder 5: American Literature 1810-1860, fall 1966

Folder 6: American Literature Since 1915, fall 1964

Folder 7: American Literature to 1810, spring 1966

Folder 8: American Literature to 1910, 1966

Folder 9: Arthurian Romance, summer 1966

Folder 10: British Literature Before 1922, summer 1966

Folder 11: British Literature 1922-Present, spring 1966

Folder 12: Independent Study with Theodore Hornburger, 1966

Folder 13: Faulkner Seminar

Folder 14: Major American Authors, summer 1966

Folder 15: Modern English, fall 1966

Folder 16: Ph.D. dissertation materials--Robert Frost

Box 1

Folder 1: "Epistemelogical Dualism in the Poetry of Robert Frost" (dissertation), 1967-1968

Folder 2: Exam Questions, 1966

Box 2

Folder 1: Notes, 1966

Folder 2: Saturday Review, 1963

Folder 3: "The Theme of Knowledge in the Poetry of Robert Frost" (chapter outline), 1967

Box 2

Folder 1: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, 1963

Box 2

Folder 1: Syllabi

Box 2

Folder 1: Other coursework

Box 2

Folder 1: Astronomy notebook

Folder 2: Kathleen Spivak's Poetry Workshop (Note: no Kyle materials--see Works/Kathy's Poetry Workshop for Kyle contributions), 1976-1978

Series 3: Courses Taught

Box 2

Folder 1: UIUC

Box 2

Folder 1: American and British Poetry After 1940 (ENGL 242),, ca. 1972- 1989

Box 2

Folder 1: Course materials [syllabi, assignments and exams] (2 folders), 1972-1989

Folder 2: Notes (3 folders), 1972-1986

Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1980

Folder 4: Audio tape, "Arizona Movies"

Folder 5: Student final exams (eight audio tapes), 1982

Folder 2: American and British Poetry Before 1940 (ENGL 241), ca. 1985-1990

Box 2

Folder 1: Course materials, 1985

Folder 2: "The Beginning of Modernity" course materials, 1990

Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1985

Folder 3: American Literature from WWII to the Present (ENGL 351), ca. 1973-1982

Box 2

Folder 1: Course materials, 1973-1982

Folder 2: Notes (2 folders)

Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1982

Folder 4: The American Novel (ENGL 249; formerly ENGL 288), ca. 1970-90

Box 2

Folder 1: Course materials, 1972-1990

Folder 2: Computer instruction materials, 1984

Folder 3: Notes (5 folders)

Folder 4: Student Evaluations, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1992

Folder 5: Student Papers, 1986, 1990

Folder 6: ENGL 288

Box 2

Folder 1: Course materials, 1968-1971

Folder 2: Notes, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald

Folder 3: Notes, other

Folder 4: Student evaluations, 1968-72

Folder 5: Astronomy and Poetry (HUMN 295--see also Projects and Grants/Astronomy and Poetry), 1979

Box 2

Folder 1: Copy of booklet and test poems

Folder 2: Course packet materials and syllabus

Folder 3: Lecture notes and overheads

Folder 4: Notes and reprints

Folder 5: Official correspondence

Folder 6: Student evaluations

Folder 7: Student final papers

Box 3

Folder 1: The Beginnings of Modern Poetry (ENGL 272), ca. 1971

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 2: Notes, 1971

Folder 2: British and American Poetry After 1920 (ENGL 273), ca. 1970-1971

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1970-1971

Folder 2: Notes, 1971

Folder 3: Computer Rhetoric (ENGL 108--see also "projects, CMU conference"), 1984-1985

Box 3

Folder 1: Materials (4 folders; notes, lessons, original proposal), 1984

Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1984

Folder 3: Student themes, 1984

Folder 4: Student work, ca. 1984-85

Folder 4: Contemporary American Women Novelists (ENGL 281), ca. 1978-1989

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1978-1989

Folder 2: Notes

Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1978, 1989

Folder 5: Contemporary American Women's Poetry/Fiction (ENGL 362), 1975

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 2: Notes

Folder 3: Student Evaluations, 1974-75

Folder 6: Contemporary American Women's Poetry (ENGL 280), 1988

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 7: Contemporary American Women Writers (ENGL 280), 1993

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1983, 1988

Folder 8: Honors Seminars

Box 3

Folder 1: 1971

Folder 2: ENGL 298, 1980

Folder 3: ENGL 291, honors orals

Folder 9: Images of Science in Contemporary American Literature (LAS 295), 1989

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1989

Folder 10: Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 101), ca. 1985-1992

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1985, 1990, 1992

Folder 11: Major Authors (ENGL 355)

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials and notes (2 folders), 1979

Folder 2: Notes: Frost

Folder 3: Student work, 1979

Folder 12: Masterpieces of American Literature (ENGL 116), ca. 1983-1985

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1983-1984

Folder 2: Final and review, 1985

Folder 3: Notes

Box 3

Folder 1: Hawthorne

Folder 2: Emerson, nature, Thoreau, Cooper

Folder 4: Student Evaluations, 1983-84

Folder 5: TA-taught portion course materials, 1983-1985

Folder 6: Transparencies, 1985

Folder 7: T.S. Eliot

Folder 13: Masterpieces of English Literature (ENGL 115), 1981

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1981

Folder 14: Poetry, Prose and Drama (ENGL 201--team taught), ca. 1973

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 2: Notes, 1973

Folder 3: Student evaluations, 1973

Folder 15: The Renaissance of Contemporary American Poetry (ENGL 362), 1974

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1974

Folder 2: Notes, 1974

Folder 16: Rhetoric: Writing on the Computer (ENGL 302), 1985

Box 3

Folder 1: Computer materials

Folder 2: Course materials

Folder 17: The Rise of Realism in Modern American Literature (ENGL 256)

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1985-1990

Folder 2: Notes

Folder 18: Short Course: The Writer and the Computer, 1982-1983

Folder 19: Short Story (ENGL 246), ca. 1978-1987

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials and notes, 1978-1987

Folder 20: Survey of American Literature I (ENGL 255), ca. 1985-1987

Box 3

Folder 1: Benjamin Franklin materials

Folder 2: Columbus materials

Folder 3: Course materials, 1985-1987

Folder 4: Course materials and student work (2 folders), 1985-1986

Folder 21: Survey of American Literature (ENGL 256), ca. 1969-1993

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Box 3

Folder 1: 1969

Folder 2: 1993

Folder 2: Course materials and student work, 1990

Folder 3: Student evaluations, ca. 1989-90

Folder 22: Topics Courses (ENGL 361)

Box 3

Folder 1: Contemporary American Women Poets, ca. 1981-1986

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials (2 folders), 1981-1983, 1986

Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1983

Folder 2: Extramural class in Hinsdale, IL: The Search for Self in Contemporary American Fiction, 1985

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 3: The Literature of AIDS, 1992

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 2: Notes

Folder 3: Reprint materials

Folder 4: Student evaluations

Folder 5: Student work

Folder 4: Male and Female in Contemporary American Women's Literature, 1988

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials

Folder 5: Surrealism and Contemporary American Poetry, 1987

Box 3

Folder 1: Course materials, 1987

Folder 2: Student evaluations, 1987

Folder 6: W.S. Merwyn and His Contemporaries, 1988

Box 3

Folder 1: Course Materials

Folder 2: Notes

Folder 3: Student evaluations

Folder 7: Women in the Literary Imagination (ENGL 280), ca. 1983

Folder 8: Course materials, 1983

Folder 9: Student evaluations, 1983

Box 4

Folder 1: Lecture materials (lecture notes on given authors and/or topics not associated with clearly identifiable classes)

Box 4

Folder 1: Richard Brautigan

Folder 2: "The Breaking of the Circle" (main events in the history of poetry)

Folder 3: Stephen Crane

Folder 4: William Faulkner (2 folders)

Folder 5: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Folder 6: Ernest Hemingway

Folder 7: "In Dubious Battle" (John Steinbeck)

Folder 8: Henry James

Folder 9: Mothers/fathers notes

Folder 10: Joyce Carol Oates

Folder 11: Sylvia Plath

Folder 12: Richard Powers

Folder 13: Thomas Pynchon

Folder 14: Kurt Vonnegut

Folder 15: Walt Whitman

Folder 16: "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Sarah Gilman)

Folder 2: Other and unidentified courses

Box 4

Folder 1: Confessional Novel

Folder 2: Eng. 248, student evaluations

Folder 3: Introduction to the Contemporary Novel

Folder 4: Novel Archaeology (Anthro 150), 1990

Folder 5: Poetry notes

Folder 6: Unidentified Women's Studies course, student evaluations

Folder 7: Syllabi

Box 4

Folder 1: Courses taught elsewhere

Box 4

Folder 1: English Composition (University of Pennsylvania), 1966-1968

Folder 2: American Literature (University of Penn. or Duquesne), 1965

Series 4: Works, Creative

Box 4

Folder 1: Poetry

Box 4

Folder 1: Collected (either foldered together, or gathered by Kyle as a collection to be published as such)

Box 4

Folder 1: Aspen writers' workshop, 1979

Contains statement of Kyle's philosophy of poetry writing

Folder 2: Handwritten poems

Poems not foldered individually by Kyle, including "Moratorium" (on Vietnam), "Things I Wanted To Tell You" (break-up), "Horoscope," 1969, "A Psychedelic Horoscope" (solstice), "An Edict from the Midwest," "Hangover," "To My John" (break-up), "The Birthday Animal," "Soundlessness" (break-up), "Reflections on Ed," "The Mummery," 1967, "The Countess Answers Count Dracula," "Roaches at 4 AM," "Mercury Delivers the Flowers," "Searching"; and untitled poems identified by subject or first line: poetry, "two year-old on a leash," artichokes, "hell is a state of mind," break-up (2 poems), solstice, lovers' quarrel, "apartment into a field," "freedom to become attached," "I can't sleep for pain," and "the puppy is dreaming"

Folder 3: Typewritten poems

Poems not foldered individually by Kyle, including "Sometimes I Can Visit Your Place," I Used to Think the Sense of Smell Came Last," "Easter, 1969", "Taking the Temperature of Venus," and an untitled poem with the first line "I could love you too"

Folder 4: Black Hole poems

Folder 5: The Buenos Aires poems, ca. 1972

Box 4

Folder 1: Version 2, 1972

Folder 6: Cambridge workshop worksheets

Folder 7: "Collected Images" (several hand-written poems)

Folder 8: The Deya Poems ( see also Persephone Poems)

Box 4

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: Worksheets

Folder 9: "Finished poems"

Including "Some Images after Playing Baroque Music...," "Strawberries," "The Story of Adele H.," and others

Folder 10: "The Garage Sale"

Folder 11: "Incomplete" (Kathy's Workshop and others)

Folder 12: "Kathy's workshop poetry," 1976-1978

Poems completed and revised during Kathleen Spivak's Poetry Workshop (see also Courses Taken/Other) including "Tuning the Harpsichord," "Strawberries," "Making Friends with the Girl Who Broke Up My Household," Magic Flute," "Just Before Finals," "Tuning the Harpsichord to the Sun," "My Place," "Untitled," "From a Widow's Watch at Cape Cod," and "Secrets"

Folder 13: "Lakeland Poems" (2 folders), 1987

Folder 14: MIT reading, poems

Folder 15: "New Poems, May 1987,", 1987

Drafts of poems contained above, including "First Love," "Liking It for the First Time, "Poem to My New Lover," "Sleeping Together," "T�©," "This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes," and "Wheels"

Box 5

Folder 1: "On the Edge of the Rainforest," 1977

Box 5

Folder 1: "Early" version

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 3: Worksheets

Folder 2: "The Persephone Poems" (with comments by readers), ca. 1976

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: Version 3

Folder 3: Brunnenburg revisions, 1977

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 1

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 4: "Poem Sonata" worksheets

Folder 5: "Post-Persephone Poems," 1976

Folder 6: "Record of Poems Sent Out," ca. 1977-1978

Includes correspondence with publishers, lists of publishers, and revised copies of numerous poems

Folder 7: "Scholastica Rough Drafts" and "Song for October"

Folder 8: "Six Windows in the Red Light District" (2 copies), ca. 1980

Box 5

Folder 1: Worksheets (2 folders)

Folder 9: "Some Interesting Poems that I Am Rejecting Anyway"

Folder 10: "Some Poems of Light and Lasers", 1977

Folder 11: "Tuning the Harpsichord"

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: "Baroque Summer Academy: Vienna1977" (portion of above)

Folder 3: Worksheets

Folder 12: "Twelve Days of Christmas" (and other poems; 2 copies)

Box 5

Folder 1: Worksheets

Folder 13: Unidentified collection, with reviewer's comments (Larry Lieberman?)

Box 5

Folder 1: Number 2 (with logbook)

Folder 14: "Unpublished Poems"

Includes "Taking Down the Christmas Tree," "Swimming in the IMPE Pool," "For My Students at the Spring Equinox," and others

Folder 15: Untitled collection (contest submission?), ca. 1982

Folder 16: "Windmills at Kinderdyck" (2 copies)

Folder 17: "Wintering in Majorca" (2 copies)

Box 5

Folder 1: Version 2

Folder 2: Version 3

Folder 3: Version 4

Folder 18: Worksheets, summer 1977

Folder 19: "Yale Writing," 1977

Includes "Farmers' Almanac," "Waking from Sickness in Late March," "Driving in April," and others

Folder 20: YMHA Poetry Center submissions (3 copies with revisions; written under name 'Carol Petterson')

Box 6

Folder 1: Individual Poems (poems individually foldered by Kyle; each folder generally contained multiple versions of each poem with revisions)

Box 6

Folder 1: "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"

Folder 2: "Askance"

Folder 3: "Asking My Dreams Why My Loves Are Always Temporary"

Folder 4: "A Blackhole Has No Hair"

Folder 5: "Blackhole in Illinois Farmyard" (also list of poetry publishers)

Folder 6: "Bonita"

Folder 7: "Bon Voyage" (from English Language Journal 4.2, 1973, p. 99)

Folder 8: "A Boston Tea Party"

Folder 9: "Buenos Aires" (from Mundus Artium 8.2 1974)

Folder 10: "Burning the Woodstoves in May"

Folder 11: "Celtic New Year" (long form poem 1975)

Folder 12: "Chamber Music on Valentine's Day"

Folder 13: "Changing the Color of the Blackhole"

Folder 14: "The Cicadas"

Folder 15: "Cicadas in November"

Folder 16: "The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis"

Folder 17: "Crossing Liberty Bridge at Rush Hour"

Folder 18: "The Darkening of Deya (Persephone Says Goodbye to Patella)"

Folder 19: "Digging at the Shrine of Demeter"

Folder 20: "Dreaming a Blackhole"

Folder 21: "Driving Home from Duluth"

Folder 22: "Driving to Duluth"

Folder 23: "Driving to Pennsylvania for the Holidays" (from River Styx no. 7 1980)

Folder 24: "Dutch Christmas Moving towards the Solstice"

Folder 25: "Einstein's Birthday"

Folder 26: "The Elegant Jungle" (from English Language Journal 3.4 1977, p. 245)

Folder 27: "Evita"

Folder 28: "Five Windows in the Red Light District" (5 parts; from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 29: "The Flowering of Deya"

Folder 30: "The Flute Lesson," 1980

Folder 31: "For a Chosen Woman of Macchu Picchu"

Folder 32: "For a Lucid Astrophysicist" (from Odessa Poetry Review, Summer 1988)

Folder 33: "For an English Harpsichordist Visiting Illinois"

Folder 34: "For My Lover Explaining Physics"

Folder 35: "For My Students Watching the Solar Eclipse"

Folder 36: "Gathering Rosebuds in Norway"

Folder 37: "Getting Ready to Put My Dog to Sleep" (see also Poetry Collections/"New Poems, May 1987"--"T�©"), 1989

Folder 38: "Gregorian Chant"

Folder 39: "Hallmarks"

Folder 40: "The Hanged Man"

Folder 41: "Heredity"

Folder 42: "Herb Garden"

Folder 43: "Iguassu Falls"

Folder 44: "Learning to Read Figured Bass"

Folder 45: "Light Scattering"

Folder 46: "Living in a Laser"

Folder 47: "Living in a Haunted House"

Folder 48: "Living in a Museum" (from River Styx no. 51 979)

Folder 49: "Meeting Martin Borman in South America" (see also Correspondence/Personal)

Folder 50: "The Moon and the Olive Tree" (from Mundus Artium 8.1, 1975; translations of Charpan poems)

Folder 51: "Persephone at the Spring Equinox" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 52: "Persephone Decides to Rise by Herself" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 53: "Persephone Discovers Sappho's Poetry in an Egyptian Tomb" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 54: "Persephone Hears the Guatamalan Earthquake" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 55: "Persephone Hears the Poetry Reading Underground"

Folder 56: "Persephone Receives Snaphots of Deya"

Folder 57: "Persephone Throws the I-Ching"

Folder 58: "Persephone Tries to Rise"

Folder 59: "Persephone Waters the Plants"

Folder 60: "A Pilgrim at Plymouth Plantation"

Folder 61: "Poem Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord" (4 parts; from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 62: "Reach for the Stars"

Folder 63: "Recoleta Cemetary" (from English Language Journal 3.3 1972)

Folder 64: River Styx no. 5 1979, pp. 23-32 (contains "The Persephone Poems" and others)

Folder 65: "Sleeping with You for the First Time"

Folder 66: "The Spanish Connection"

Folder 67: Spoon River Quarterly 1988 Anthology, pp. 54-74 (contains poems and short interview)

Folder 68: Spoon River Quarterly 13.2 1988, pp. 23-45 (contains poems and short interview)

Folder 69: "Sunday Dinner in Argentina"

Folder 70: "The Swimming Lesson" (2 folders; also contains "Garage Sale"; from The Denny Poems 1982)

Folder 71: Tarot poems. Including "Page of Cups," "Five of Pentacles," and "Three of Pentacles"

Folder 72: "The Thunderbolt" (from Southern Poetry Review, Spring 1986)

Folder 73: "Throwing the Tarot"

Folder 74: "Ticket to Ride"

Folder 75: "Tuning the Harpsichord" (see also Collected Poems; from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 76: "The Turning of Fall without You"

Folder 77: "The TV Special on Julian Barnes"

Folder 78: "Uncle Henry Sees the Suicide"

Folder 79: "The Valentine"

Folder 80: "The Viking Postscript"

Folder 81: "Visiting My Mother in Late Summer" (from Spoon River Quarterly, Spring 1988)

Folder 82: "Visitors' Day at the Convent"

Folder 83: "Windmills at Kinderdyck" (see also collected poems; from The Denny Poems1985-86)

Box 6

Folder 1: Revisions

Folder 84: "The Winter of '82"

Folder 85: "Wintering in Mallorca"

Folder 86: "The Year of the Rat: 1972, Buenos Aires" (from River Styx no. 5 1979)

Folder 87: "You Ask If I Would Like a Picture of the Twelfth Century Moorish Stone Terraces in Majorca"

Folder 88: "Your Voice by Long Distance"

Folder 2: Other poetry materials

Box 6

Folder 1: Cassette tapes of Kyle reading her work

Includes "The Persephone Poems," "The Twelve Days of Christmas," "The Deya Poems," and others

Folder 2: Early Poetry (from U.Penn classwork?)

Folder 3: Notebooks

Box 6

Folder 1: Number 1, ca. 1979

Folder 2: Number 2, ca. 1981

Folder 4: Reviews of Kyle poems by Jane Shore, 1980

Box 7

Folder 1: Novels and Novellas

Box 7

Folder 1: The African Violet Queen, 1988

Box 7

Folder 1: Draft A

Folder 2: Draft B

Box 8

Folder 1: Notes

Folder 2: Publishing correspondence, 1990-1991

Folder 3: Reviewer notes, 1988-1993

Box 8

Folder 1: Chamber Music

Box 8

Folder 1: "Draft #1"

Folder 2: "Draft #2"

Folder 3: Unknown draft

Folder 2: The Missing Link

Box 8

Folder 1: Draft

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 3: Outline and notes

Folder 4: Revisions

Folder 3: The Monk: A Novella (with reviewer's comments--Robert Graves),, ca. 1986

Folder 4: The Monk: A Play for Television

Folder 5: Orchid Tango, 1988

Box 8

Folder 1: Version 2, 1988

Folder 2: A Tango of Purple Rain (revision of Orchid Tango)

Folder 3: Notes

Folder 4: Tango Indigo, book 1

Box 9

Folder 1: Play Melancholy, Baby

Box 9

Folder 1: 1988

Folder 2: Version 2 (with editor's notes), 1990

Folder 3: Version 3, 1990

Folder 4: "First draft"

Folder 5: "Serial killer version", 1991

Folder 2: Summer in Mallorca

Box 9

Folder 1: Partial Ms.; with reviewer's comments; photo of 1987 dig

Folder 2: Full Ms.

Folder 3: Trio Sonata: A Novella

Box 9

Folder 1: "draft #3"

Folder 2: Version 2

Folder 3: Version 3

Folder 4: Notes

Box 9

Folder 1: Short Stories

Box 9

Folder 1: "Chlorox"

Folder 2: Fragments

Folder 3: "Kory Leaves Her Old Man: A Fable"

Folder 4: "Night Class"

Folder 5: "The Red Velvet Pants Suit", 1970

Folder 6: "Santa Maria Goretti"

Folder 7: "Short Story" (classroom lover)

Folder 8: "A Triptych for Santa Lucia" (with notes and fragments; also contains some poetry)

Folder 9: "Una Sola" ("drafts #1, #2")

Folder 10: Untitled ("chapter 1: Our Lady of Morgantina"; related to Summer in Mallorca?)

Folder 11: Untitled screen play or stage play notes

Folder 12: "Winter Solstice" notes (regarding mother's death in 1993?)

Series 5: Works, Scholarly

Box 9

Folder 1: Book length

Box 9

Folder 1: American Women Poets: From Kitchens to Quasars (see also Domestic Imagery...; full Ms.?), ca. 1979-1983

Box 9

Folder 1: Version 2 (partial Ms.)

Folder 2: Version 3 (2 folders; full Ms.?; with 2 fragments)

Folder 3: Version 4 (partial Ms.)

Folder 4: Notes

Folder 5: Reviewers and publishers correspondence, 1979-1983

Folder 2: Apollo and the New World: A Study of the Renaissance of Contemporary American Poetry 1950-1973

Box 9

Folder 1: Version 1( full Ms.) Includes Part I: "Poetry of the Moonshot," Part II: "The Poets of Projective Verse," and Part III: "The Subjective Metaphor", ca. 1975

Folder 2: Version 2 (minor revisions)

Box 10

Folder 1: Handwritten drafts

Box 10

Folder 1: Preface and introduction

Folder 2: Part I

Folder 3: Part II, ii: "The Meso-American Cultural Past" and Charles Olson's "The Kingfishers"

Folder 4: Part II, v: "Edward Dorn: Again, the Cultural Past"

Folder 2: Notes and fragments

Box 10

Folder 1: Part I: "The Poetry of the Moonshot"

Folder 2: Part II, ii: "The Meso-American Cultural Past"

Folder 3: Part II, v: "Edward Dorn"

Folder 4: Early Outlines

Folder 3: Reviewers' comments and recommendations, 1972-1973

Box 10

Folder 1: Astronomy and Contemporary American Poetry (later revision of Apollo and the New World?), ca. 1989

Folder 2: Domestic Imagery: Wifery and Witchery in the Poetry of Contemporary American Women Poets

Box 10

Folder 1: Version 1 ( full Ms.), 1974

Folder 2: Version 2 (condensed typesetting)

Box 10

Folder 1: Ms. for Chapter IV (Adrienne Rich)

Folder 2: Handwritten Ms., 1974

Folder 3: Notes and fragments

Folder 4: Reviewers' comments

Box 10

Folder 1: Article length

Box 10

Folder 1: "Alliterative Verse in Early, Middle, and Fourteenth Century English" (probably classwork from unidentified class), 1961

Folder 2: "The Classroom After Apollo: The Metaphors of Science in Contemporary American Poetry", 1978

Box 10

Folder 1: Research materials

Folder 2: Reviewers' comments

Folder 3: "A Coffee with Borges" (from Linea Plural: Revista de Arte Y Literatura), 1987

Folder 4: "Emerson's 'Uriel' as a Source for Frost" (from Emerson Society Quarterly, Winter 1970, p. 58), 1970

Box 11

Folder 1: "Every Step an Arrival: Six Variations and the Musical Structure of Denise Levertov's Poetry" (from Centennial Review, 8.3 1973, pp. 281-296), 1973

Box 11

Folder 1: Correspondence regarding, 1972-1973

Folder 2: "Images of Women in Space" (unpub'd)

Folder 3: "The Interactive Self: Reading and Writing Novels on the Personal Computer" (see also Projects, CMU Conference), 1985

Folder 4: "The Meso-American Cultural Past and Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers'" (see also Works/Scholarly/Book Length from Alcheringa 1.2, 1975, pp. 68-77), 1975

Box 11

Folder 1: Drafts with reviewers' comments

Folder 2: Notes and proposal, 1971-1973

Folder 5: "Moonshot" articles on: Mailer, Updike, "Mr. Sammler's Planet," Apollo moonshot (see also Apollo and the New World)

Box 11

Folder 1: Notes

Folder 6: " More Trouble With the Obvious" (review of volume of poetry by Michael Van Walleghen), 1983

Folder 7: "The New Mythos" (book review; from Women's Studies International Quarterly, 5.5 1982, pp. 511-512), 1982

Folder 8: "A Note on Laurence Sterne and the Cannon-bullet of John Locke" (from Philological Quarterly1.4, 1971, pp. 672-674), 1971

Box 11

Folder 1: Early notes

Folder 9: Peoria Speech (women and domestic imagery)

Folder 10: "Poems of the New World: Robert Bly as a Poet of Discovery" (2 folders; unpub'd), 1987

Folder 11: "The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell" (book review; from Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 73.2 1974, pp. 270-272), 1974

Folder 12: "Point of View in 'Returned to Say' and the Wilderness of William Stafford" (from Western American Literature, 7.3 1972, pp. 191-201), 1972

Folder 13: "Dawn Powell" (Biographical entry, Dictionary of American Biography), 1980

Folder 14: "A Riddle for the New Year: Affirmation in the Poetry W.S. Merwyn" (from Modern Poetry Studies, 4.3 1973, pp. 288-303), 1973

Box 11

Folder 1: Notes

Folder 15: "Robert Creeley: A Black Mountain Poet of Projective Verse" (see also Apollo and the New World), ca. 1972

Folder 16: "Sandra Hochman: The Vaudeville Queen" (unpub'd)

Folder 17: "That Poet Freneau: A Study of the Imagistic Success of The Pictures of Columbus" (from Early American Literature, 9.1 1974, pp. 62-70), 1974

Folder 18: "The Underworld Setting of James Wright" (with reviewer's comments; unpub'd), ca. 1980

Folder 19: "The Unity of Anatomy: The Structure of Barth's Lost in the Funhouse (from Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 8.3 1972, pp. 31-43),, 1972

Box 11

Folder 1: Revisions and notes, ca. 1970

Folder 2: Publisher correspondence, 1971

Series 6: Projects and Grants

(Note: also contains materials relating to fellowships and awards received by Kyle; where feasible, materials for each project are arranged chronologically)

Box 11

Folder 1: Astronomy and Poetry, 1978-1979

Kyle applied for and was granted an NEH grant in 1978 to create and implement an interdisciplinary course studying the relationship between astronomical imagery and contemporary American poetry; see also Courses Taught.

Box 11

Folder 1: NEH policy manual, 1977-1978

Folder 2: Original grant materials, 1979

Folder 3: Course materials, 1979

Folder 4: Notes, 1979

Folder 5: News clippings, ca. 1972-1978

Folder 6: Reprinted scientific articles, 1979

Folder 7: Reports and Evaluations, 1979

Folder 8: Final correspondence with NEH, 1980

Folder 2: Astrophysical Imagery in Contemporary American Poetry, 1987

Kyle requested sabbatical leave in 1987 to work further on astronomy and poetry book, and also to work on her AIDS novel.

Box 11

Folder 1: Proposal with notes and other materials, 1987

Folder 2: Application and proposal for LAS faculty study in a second discipline, 1987-1989

Folder 3: Poetry reprints

Folder 3: Black Holes and the Human Imagination, 1979-1980

Kyle received a UIUC interdisciplinary research grant to develop a colloquium with visiting astrophysics professor Jacobus Petterson on relationship between astronomy and poetry.

Box 11

Folder 1: Grant materials and proposal, 1979

Folder 2: Notes, 1979

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1979-1980

Folder 4: Colloquium lecture notes, 1980

Folder 5: Cassette-tape copies of colloquium, 1980

Folder 4: Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1987

Box 11

Folder 1: Publicity, 1987

Folder 5: Christopher Kite Visit (English Harpsichordist), ca. 1981

Box 12

Folder 1: CMU (Carnegie-Mellon University) Conference on Computer Use in the Humanities, 1985

Box 12

Folder 1: Notes and submitted paper, 1984-1985

Folder 2: Conference materials

Folder 2: College Bowl materials

Folder 3: Fulbright Lectureship, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1972

Kyle was awarded a fulbright for a visiting lectureship in Buenos Aires, and also worked extensively on her poetry while in residence there.

Box 12

Folder 1: Precorrespondence, 1970-1971

Folder 2: Application, 1971

Folder 3: Class materials, 1972

Folder 4: Reprinted articles and clippings, 1972

Folder 5: Notes for novel, 1972

Folder 6: Personal correspondence, 1972

Including photos, postcards, letters and aerograms from and to Kyle

Folder 4: Heekin Group Foundation Novel-In-Progress Semi-Finalist, 1993

Box 12

Folder 1: Correspondence

Folder 5: Institute of International Education Fellowship, 1964

Kyle was awarded an IIEF fellowship in 1964 to attend the Shakespeare Quartercentenary at Stratford-on-Avon.

Box 12

Folder 1: Journal, 1964

Folder 2: Final Report, 1964

Folder 6: IAFA (International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts) Conference, 1991

Box 12

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1991

Relates to reading by Kyle on the subject of plagues throughout history, including AIDS

Folder 7: "Larkin notes" (unidentified project)

Folder 8: LAS Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1986

Folder 9: Literature and Archaeology Project, 1970-1971

Kyle received a fellowship from UIUC to work in Mexico City on a project addressing the "Mesoamerican Cultural Past" in the summers of 1970 and 1971; see also Works, Scholarly/Apollo and the New World.

Box 12

Folder 1: Notes, 1970

Folder 10: MacDowell Colony, DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Writing Award, 1989

Box 12

Folder 1: Official correspondence, 1989

Folder 2: Novel notes for African Violet Queen. See also Correspondence/Personal, "John1987-1988"

Folder 11: Mallorca Expedition, 1975

Kyle spent the summer of 1975 on an archaeological dig of a Deyan shrine in Mallorca.

Box 12

Folder 1: Materials, 1975

Folder 12: National Humanities Institute, 1976

Kyle was selected for an NEH residence at Yale with Maynard Mack to develop interdisciplinary courses; the work done at this seminar developed into Kyle's "astronomy and poetry" courses.

Box 12

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1973-1977

Folder 2: Notes, 1975-1977

Folder 3: Materials, 1975-1977

Folder 13: NEMLA Convention, Guest Lecturer, 1987

Box 12

Folder 1: Lecture notes: "The American Woman Abroad"

Folder 14: Poetry Contest Submissions, 1981

Folder 15: The Scarlet Letter A: Teaching the Literature of AIDS, 1994

Kyle applied for a grant from NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) to devise and implement a course focusing on AIDS literature; initial prospectus was accepted, status of full proposal is not addressed herein; see also Courses Taught/"The Literature of AIDS."

Box 12

Folder 1: Correspondence with NCTE, 1993-1994

Folder 2: Full Proposal, 1994

Folder 16: Undergraduate Instructional Award

Box 12

Folder 1: Application, 1979

Folder 17: "American Women in Change" proposal and notes (interdisciplinary women's studies course), 1979

Box 12

Folder 1: Application, 1983

Folder 18: The Vertical Frontier: Poetry for Physicists/Physics for Poets

Folder 19: Unidentified project, possibly related to other astronomy projects.

Folder 20: Notes (3 folders)

Folder one includes Kyle's "Humanist Manifesto"

Series 7: Correspondence

Box 12

Folder 1: Official (university correspondence)

Box 12

Folder 1: University of Pennsylvania, regarding dissertation and orals, 1966

Folder 2: UIUC English,

Box 12

Folder 1: General, 1980-93

Folder 2: Regarding complaint of Victoria Stagg Elliot (student), 1992

Folder 3: UIUC

Box 12

Folder 1: General, 1986, 1989

Folder 2: Teaching awards, 1985-86

(Includes correspondence from W.S. Merwin and Maynard Mack)

Folder 3: Faculty reports, 1984

Folder 2: Personal (letters sent and received by Kyle; names are as given in letters)

Box 12

Folder 1: Anonymous (love letter), 1970

Folder 2: General

Folder 3: Ed (astrophysicist), 1990

Folder 4: John, 1968

Folder 5: John(see also Works, Creative/MacDowell Colony novel notes), 1987-1988

Folder 6: Mother

Folder 7: Dr. Schwenck, 1970

(regarding medical conditions)

Folder 8: Hugh Trevor-Roper, 1973

(regarding meeting Martin Borman in Argentina; see Poetry/Individual Poems)

Folder 9: William, 1985

Folder 10: Postcards, cards and notes

Box 13

Folder 1: Writers (correspondence to and from other writers)

Box 13

Folder 1: Carol Burnes, ca. 1986

Folder 2: Raymond Carver, 1985

Folder 3: Sarah Getty, 1981

Folder 4: Maxine Kumin, 1985

Folder 5: Archibald MacLeish, 1973

Folder 6: W.S. Merwyn (photocopies from the Merwyn Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections library, UIUC), 1973-1981

Folder 7: Betty Nelson, 1989

Folder 8: Adrienne Rich, 1975, 1980, 1984

Folder 9: Sarah Schulman, 1988-89

Folder 10: Michael Van Walleghen, 1983

Folder 11: Nancy Willard, 1975

Folder 12: James Wright, 1974-75

(includes photographs of and typescript poems by Wright)

Folder 2: Professional (regarding jobs, papers written and committee work)

Box 13

Folder 1: General, 1977, 1980-89

Folder 2: Job-hunting, 1985-1986

Folder 3: Lewis Leary (regarding Freneau paper), 1978

Folder 4: Visiting artists (see also correspondence with writers), 1973, 1980-85

Folder 3: Publishing (corr. with publishers, publishing houses, and agent Barbara S. Kouts)

Box 13

Folder 1: General (corr. includes Michael Korda, editor at Simon & Schuster), 1977-1991

Folder 2: Regarding The African Violet Queen, 1989-1993

Folder 4: Students

Box 13

Folder 1: General, 1981-1989

Folder 2: Brian Daldorph (regarding Merwyn), 1986

Folder 3: Brian Galford, 1981

Folder 4: Requests for letters of recommendation

Series 8: Committee Work

Box 13

Folder 1: Area Committee III, 1993

Folder 2: Joint-Initiative, Beckman Institute and the Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, 1992

Folder 3: The University and Planet Earth, 1992-1993

Series 9: News Clippings, articles, and publications

Box 13

Folder 1: News Clippings and Articles on Kyle, 1978-79

Folder 2: UIUC Awards Banquet Programs, 1986

Folder 3: News Clippings and flyer on visiting artists at UIUC

Folder 4: News Clippings and Articles on other writers, ca. 1984

Folder 5: Pamphlets, brochures, programs, 1957-1962

Folder 6: Overture, 1961

Folder 7: Reprints and editions of other writers

Box 13

Folder 1: Maya Angelou

Folder 2: Ronald Bieniek (astrophysicist)

Folder 3: Robert Bly

Folder 4: Carol Burnes, Roots and Wings, 1986

Folder 5: Raymond Carver

Folder 6: Mark Costello

Folder 7: Constance DeMuzio Kehoe (dissertation), The Tradition of the Irish Poet in the Work of William Bulter Yeats, 1966

Folder 8: Micheal Hays, The Survivor's Almanac, 1974

Folder 9: Samuel Hazo, The First and Only Sailing, 1982

Folder 10: Denise Levertov

Folder 11: W.S. Merwin

Folder 12: Sylvia Plath

Folder 13: Students' Theses

Folder 14: Michael Van Walleghen

Folder 15: Linda Wagner

Folder 16: Diane Wakoski

Folder 17: William Carlos Williams

Folder 18: Poems, collections

Folder 19: Poems, individual