Laurence Lieberman Papers, 1956-2020 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Laurence Lieberman Papers, 1956-2020

Predominant Dates:1962-2016

ID: 01/01/MSS00116

Primary Creator: Lieberman, Laurence (1935-)

Extent: 27.0 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement:

The Lieberman Papers are arranged in eight series.

Series 1: Correspondence. Sub-series 1: Incoming. Sub-series 2: Outgoing.

Series 2: Manuscripts. Sub-series 1: Notebooks, notepads, and loose notes and gatherings. Sub-series 2: Poetry. Sub-series 3: Criticism and prose.

Series 3: Reviews, criticism, and publicity of Lieberman's works. Sub-series 1: Biographical source material. Sub-series 2: Reviews. Sub-series 3: Criticism. Sub-series 4: Publicity. Sub-series 5: Cartoons and artwork.

Series 4: Readings and business and personal records. Sub-series 1: Readings. Sub-series 2: Business and personal records.

Series 5: Ephemera and clippings. Sub-series 1: Ephemera. Sub-series 2: Clippings.

Series 6: Photographs.

Series 7: Oversized material.

Series 8: Publications, and works by other writers. Sub-series 1: Offprints. Sub-series 2: Periodical publications. Sub-series 3: Books of poetry and criticism. Sub-series 4: Anthologies and collections. Sub-series 5: Works by other writers.

Date Acquired: 07/24/2015

Subjects: American poetry - 20th century

Forms of Material: Manuscript notebooks

Languages: English

The American poet and critic Laurence Lieberman has been active since 1959. A professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1968-2006), Lieberman was also the Poetry Editor at the University of Illinois Press (1971-2009).

The Lieberman Papers have been gifted to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, beginning in 2013, and proceeding through six accessions. They document a multi-faceted career that includes an extensive publishing history of both original poetry and criticism.

Laurence James Lieberman was born February 16, 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, to Nathan and Anita (Cohen) Lieberman. His parents were partners in a variety store with his mother's siblings and spouses.

Lieberman's artistic leanings awoke under the tutelage of his cousin Marilyn Klemist Wineman, who introduced him to local authors and artists and taught him piano for seven years. He excelled at Detroit's Central High and was All-City and Captain of the golf team.

A double-major in English and pre-med at the University of Michigan, a summer 1955 course with the fiction writer Robert Hough inspired Lieberman to sudden bursts of both novelistic and critical writing. These efforts earned him the University's prestigious Summer Hopwood Awards of $50 for the essay, "Four Great Stylists," and $25 for a fictional work, "A Stitch of Life: Three Stories and a Novelette." Noted "New" critic Professor Austin Warren happened to be living upstairs from Lieberman at the time. Shown Lieberman's productions, Warren was unenthusiastic about his housemate's stories, but told him he heard a poet's voice in them and invited the undergraduate to enroll in his Spring 1956 Graduate Seminar.

In 1956 Lieberman married Bernice Braun, a classmate in a lecture course on Henry James that Warren also taught. About this time, Lieberman also made friends with poet Donald Hall who, along with Robert Pack and Louis Simpson, would soon publish the influential anthology New Poets of England and America (1957).

Graduating in 1956, Lieberman enrolled that fall in the University's Medical School but could not resist the siren song of the arts. Freed from the lab, he threw his lot in with poetry and switched to the University's MA program for Spring 1957. Earning his MA in 1958, he won a "Major" Hopwood Award ($500) for poetry in a contest judged by the poet Marianne Moore.

Unhappy with negotiations towards entry into Michigan's Ph.D. program, Lieberman applied to Stanford and the University of California. Rejected by Yvor Winters at Stanford, Lieberman was accepted into Berkeley, obtained a Teaching Fellowship under Professor Thomas F. Parkinson, and found an influential mentor in the poet Josephine Miles.

With time, however, Lieberman grew more interested in teaching creative writing than pursuing scholarly projects and also felt the need to earn a living to support his family. Confidence in this creative path-making was bolstered by a burgeoning poetry career, with poems published in May 1959 in The Nation and The Saturday Review. On a leave of absence from Berkeley, in 1960 Lieberman took a teaching position at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and never returned to a Ph.D. program.

Lieberman taught four years at Orange Coast College and found a growing audience for his poems through venues like The Paris Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry. He won his first Fellowship to Yaddo in summer 1963.

At Orange Coast, he advised the students who ran the college magazine but had his job threatened when the anti-Semitic Orange County branch of the John Birch Society attacked the political content the students included in the magazine, as well as the political content of Lieberman's poetry. A debate between the antagonists sponsored by the Santa Ana Register, however, deflated the Birch Society's specious arguments and the college's founding President, Basil H. Peterson, safeguarded Lieberman and the students.

In early 1964 Lieberman became the poetry editor at Orange County Illustrated, which also agreed to publish substantial excerpts from his lengthy sonnet series called "Orange County Plague: Scenes." As editor, Lieberman claimed he "published the work of every poet of promise I had discovered in my four years as teacher in Southern California." ¹

In 1964, Antioch College's Judson Jerome, who had selected Lieberman's poems and early critical review pieces on works by Roethke, Levertov, Ammons, and Dickey for The Antioch Review, recruited Lieberman to the new College of the Virgin Islands as the College's first English Department hire and head of its Humanities program. Lieberman had also been tempted by a position at Reed College, but the spirit of the adventure led him and his wife to enthusiastically accept relocation to the Caribbean. After a summer as a Creative Writing Fellow at the Huntington Hartford Foundation, the family moved to St. Thomas.

Beyond his teaching and administrative duties at CVI, Lieberman embraced the exciting novelty of the underwater world and became a skin diving and spear fishing aficionado. These encounters with a strange, new world were a perfect fit for the form and shaping of his narrative-like poetry of lived experience:

When I wrote "The Coral Reef" it was the language I had always wanted to write in but finally discovered a situation below the real world, the coral reef, and that made it seem as if the subject required a different language. However, I was being sneaky, because it was the other way around. The language chose the subject, rather than the subject choosing the language. I found a subject that allowed itself to be that kind of an effloration. ²

"The Coral Reef" was published in the Winter 1966-67 issue of The Yale Review and would become the title of the penultimate fourth section of Lieberman's first collection of poetry The Unblinding, published by Macmillan in 1968. His poem "Tarpon," which had appeared in The Hudson Review, was awarded $500 by the National Endowment for the Arts and anthologized in the prestigious collection overseen by George Plimpton and Peter Ardery, the American Literary Anthology Vol. 1 (1968). Concurrently, well-received critical pieces in The Hudson Review, Poetry, Yale Review, and The Carleton Miscellany led to another Fellowship at Yaddo in the summer of 1967 where Lieberman composed the book-length appreciation, The Achievement of James Dickey, published by Scott, Foresman in 1968.

Cognizant of his new-found marketability, and wanting to be closer to family on the mainland, Lieberman explored a stateside return. After showcasing his talents with a reading in Urbana in the spring, Lieberman joined the University of Illinois English faculty (with tenure) in the fall of 1968.

At Illinois, Lieberman's career expanded and accelerated. Promoted to Professor of English and Creative Writing in 1970, he earned another fellowship to Yaddo that summer. In 1971 he became the first Poetry Editor at the University of Illinois Press and initiated the highly-regarded Illinois Poetry Series. In 1979 he added the National Poetry Series to its portfolio. Under his watch, the University of Illinois Press would publish 140 poetry titles.

In 1971, Lieberman won an appointment as an Associate Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University's Center for Advanced Study. The fellowship for 1971-72 supported a year of readings, study, and travelling to Hawaii and Japan. These experiences would form the basis of poems that would populate his books God's Measurements (1980) and Eros at the World Kite Pageant (1983). Working with Toshikazu Nijkura, his translation of Ryuichi Tamura's "The Beacon Light of Oshima" was published in the journal Modern Poetry Studies in 1974.

Lieberman's critical work also grew in reach and stature. Job work in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and The Yale Review led to a regular poetry reviewership role in the latter publication from 1971 through 1975. These influential essays, on such figures as James Dickey, John Ashbery, John Berryman, W. S. Merwin, Theodore Roethke, and James Wright, were collected into his first book of criticism, Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77. He also authored critical assessments on over twenty poets in standard reference sources such as Ungar's Modern American Literature, and Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism. Referencing Lieberman's highly influential essay on John Ashbery's poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," Robert Boyers of The Times Literary Supplement posited that "Lieberman may be the best poetry reviewer regularly at work in America." ³

Lieberman's second collection of poems, The Osprey Suicides (1973), was widely praised. Critics noted the intensity of the poet's unique engagement with the underwater world and Lieberman's attention to poetic form. Writing in The Hudson Review, Vernon Young likened Lieberman's compositions to music, and urged readers to "take my program notes on trust, common reader, but if, usually, you "dip into" a book of poems, break the habit for Lieberman: read this "collection" as if listening to a concerto-from beginning to end." ⁴

The long poem (approximately 280 lines) the book took its title from represented a breakthrough for Lieberman. Long, as well, in gestation (Howard Moss at The New Yorker had rejected earlier versions in 1970 before its publication November 17, 1972), Lieberman considers it his first "expanded poem," or a poem whose form matched his expectations regarding his narrative interpretations:

But that experience of plunging into a totally new form, one that somehow seemed to bespeak something in my other life--the spirit world, my subconscious, what have you--once I'd had that adventure, I would never settle for anything less in writing the long poem. And that's how it all got started. ⁵

Lieberman's combination of subject, agency, and expansional form is the signature of his unique voice in American poetry. In a review of his New and Selected Poems (1993), the critic G. E. Murray put it this way:

Typical also of Lieberman's work by this point in his career is the striking range of carefully measured verse-narrative structures that enable the poet to present monologues driven by lyrical force and lyrical precision, ultimately revealed as--what--short stories! ⁶

After leaving St. Thomas in 1968, Lieberman regularly returned to the Caribbean and in 1980 decided that he would particularly focus on visiting the home islands of all the students he had taught at the College of the Virgin Islands. These visits would furnish him with much of the raw material informing the poetry for the rest of his career.

Acquaintance with the poet Derrick Walcott led to an introduction to Walcott's boyhood friend, the St. Lucian painter and muralist Dunstan St. Omer. The subject (and creator of artistic subjects) for many of the poems in The Mural of Wakeful Sleep (1985), Lieberman would re-visit his friend in 1993 and begin to compose a massive, sixteen-part poem "The Pope in St. Lucia," inspired by the St. Omer's fourteen-part mural project to commemorate John Paul II's 1985 visit to the island.

Lieberman's migratory reunions with the Caribbean led to other fortunate encounters with artists. This ekphrastic turn reached its apotheosis in his Hour of the Mango Black Moon (2004), a book of poems inspired by the work of the artists Stanley Greaves, Ras Akyem, and Ras Ishi, and featuring eighteen full-color reproductions alongside the poetry. Peepal Tree, its UK-based publisher, arranged a reading tour in Britain, and Lieberman presented a lecture on Greaves' work in May 2004 at the University of Warwick's Centre for Caribbean Studies.

Lieberman's other books of poetry include The Creole Mephistopheles (1990), the Cummington Press production The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds (1995), Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue (1996), Compass of the Dying (1998), The Regatta in the Skies: Selected Long Poems (1999), Flight from the Mother Stone (2000), Carib's Leap (2005), and Divemaster: Swimming with the Immortals (2014). Further books of criticism include Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets (1995), and Clairvoyant with Hunger: Essays on James Dickey, James Wright, W. S. Merwin, and Others (2016).

From 1968 through 1994, Lieberman gave over 140 readings and workshops in venues across the country and in the Caribbean and served as poet-in-residence at Colorado College in July 1985. Nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize (1991-93), he won the American Poetry Review's Jerome J. Shestack Prize in 1985 for The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, had an award poem published in The Best American Poetry 1991, and received a William Carlos Williams Citation from the Poetry Society of America. He would judge the Hopwood awards in 1977, The MacGuffin's "Poet Hunt" competition in 2006, and serve on the Illinois Governor's selection committee for the Illinois Poet Laureate search in 2003. Grants and Fellowships to support his work came from the Illinois Arts Council (1980, 1982, 1990-91, and 2000), the University of Illinois Humanities Research Board (1985), the Center for Advanced Study (1990), an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (1986-87), and an Arnold O. Beckman Humanities Research Board Grant (1993).

From 1970 into the nineties, Lieberman was Chair of the English Department's Poetry Readings Committee. In such capacity, he helped bring such notable poets as John Berryman, James Dickey, Mark Strand, William S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Michael S. Harper, Charles Wright, and James Wright to campus for readings and workshops.

Lieberman was a contributing editor to The James Dickey Newsletter and Fifth Wednesday Journal, as well as a founding and advisory editor to the review journal The Caribbean Writer. He was also a manuscript reviewer for the Ohio State University Press (1979) and Purdue University Press (1986).

From 2009 through 2016, Lieberman authored a column of criticism in The American Poetry Review. The column featured close readings of poems from such poets as Hart Crane, James Wright, James Dickey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stanley Moss, and W. S. Merwin.

Notable former students at Illinois include the MacArthur Fellowship and National Book Award winning novelist Richard Powers, and poets and critics David Jeddie Smith and Peter Serchuck.

Lieberman was invited to read in the University's Rare Book library by University Librarian Hugh Atkinson in 1984. Subsequent readings took place in 2013 to celebrate the acquisition of Lieberman's papers by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and in 2015 to mark the publication of his latest book of poems, Divemaster: Swimming with the Immortals. He was also a presenter for the library's celebratory event, "Full of Pepper and Light: Welcoming the Gwendolyn Brooks Papers to the University of Illinois," in April, 2014.

¹ Laurence Lieberman. "Career as a Writer" [ca. 1967-68], p. 2, Laurence Lieberman Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

² Walsh, William. "Below the Real World: An Interview with Laurence Lieberman," Kenyon Review, 40, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 2018): https://kenyonreview.org/journal/septoct-2018/selections/william-walsh-laurence-lieberman/.

³ Boyers, Robert. "A Quest Without an Object," Reviews of Houseboat Days, by John Ashbery, and, Unassigned Frequencies, by Laurence Lieberman, in The Times Literary Supplement, no. 3987 (Sept. 1, 1978): 962.

⁴ Young, Vernon. "Fool, Thou Poet," Review of The Osprey Suicides, [and eleven other books of poetry] by Laurence Lieberman, in The Hudson Review, 26, no. 4 (Win. 1973-74): 729-732.

⁵ Ballowe, James. "The Most Essential Elements of All: an Interview with Laurence Lieberman," Fifth Wednesday Journal, no. 12 (Spr. 2013): 18.

⁶ Murray, G. E. "Observation and Engagement," Review of New and Selected Poems, by Laurence Lieberman, in Sewanee Review, 104, no. 1 (Wint. 1996): xiv.

American poetry - 20th century

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alternate Extent Statement: 31 linear feet of manuscripts and correspondence, as well as over 800 books, serials, and offprints.

Access Restrictions: The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions:

This collection is the physical property of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, may reside with the materials' creator(s) or their heirs.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library's reproduction and publication policies are available here. The library welcomes requests for reproductions made from works in our collections, though restrictions may apply to certain materials. Please contact the library with any questions.

Acquisition Source: Laurence and Bernice Lieberman

Acquisition Method: Almost all materials acquired via donations arriving in July 2015, March, 2016, September, 2017, December 2018, August 2020, March 2021, and September 2021.

Related Materials: The first donation of July 2015 consisted of approximately 125 volumes of works of poetry from Lieberman's personal library. These volumes were cataloged and incorporated into the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's "Modern Poetry Collection." For more information please see https://archon.library.illinois.edu/rbml/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=1196&q=modern+poetry+.

Preferred Citation: Laurence Lieberman Papers. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Correspondence

Sub-series 1: Incoming

Box 1

Folder 0001: Agenda Editions (London), 1973

Note: includes TS of Lieberman's "Notes on Rhythm." 2 items.

Folder 0002: Ai, 1999

1 item.

Folder 0003: American Poetry Review, 1966-2017

Stephen Berg, Elizabeth Scanlon, David Bonanno. 26 items.

Folder 0004: Ammons, A. R. (Archie), 1967-1978

13 items.

Folder 0005: Antioch Review, 1977

1 item.

Folder 005a: Arnett, Lisa M., N.d.

1 item.

Folder 005b: Arnold, 1981

1 item.

Folder 005c: Asekoff, L. S., 1999

1 item.

Folder 0006: Ashbery, John, 1977

2 items.

Folder 0007: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1967-1997

Peter Davison. 5 items.

Folder 0008: Audience Magazine, 1971

Geoffrey Ward. 1 item.

Folder 0009: Baker, David, 1985

1 item.

Folder 009a: Baker, Judith, 1998

1 item.

Folder 0010: Ballowe, James, 2003-2005

3 items.

Folder 010a: Barnstone, Aliki, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0011: Barrows, Herbert, 1958(?)-1968(?)

10 items.

Folder 0012: Beegle, Robert Louis, 1967

Includes: Robert Louis Beegle to Howard Moss. 2 items.

Folder 0013: Bellingham Review, 1998

Suzanne Paola. 1 item.

Folder 0014: Berg, Millie, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0015: Berg, Stephen, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0016: Berglund, Martha, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0017: Bergman, David, 1996

1 item.

Folder 0018: Berryman, John, 1969

1 item.

Folder 0019: Boulevard, 2002-2005

Richard Burgin. 2 items.

Folder 0020: Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1968

1 item.

Folder 0021: Bugeja, Michael, 1997

1 item.

Folder 0022: Caribbean Writer, 1996-2014

Alscees Lewis-Brown, Erika J. Waters, Marvin Williams. 4 items.

Folder 0023: Carruth, Hayden, 2007

2 items.

Folder 0024: Chariton Review, 1990-2003

James "Jim" Barnes. 3 items.

Folder 0025: Chelsea House Publishers, 1968-1988

Anthony Guyda, University of Illinois Press, Yale Review. 3 items.

Folder 0026: Choice, 1980

Hans Juergensen. 1 item.

Folder 0027: Clark, Dee, 2002-2009

10 items.

Folder 0028: Colorado Review, 1997-2002

Donald Revell, Center for Literary Publishing, Stephanie G'Schwind. 2 items.

Folder 028a: Cooke, Richard, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0029: Cotter, James F., 2003

1 item.

Folder 0030: Cowley, Malcolm, 1962-1970

14 items.

Folder 0031: Dawes, Kwame, 2007

4 item.

Folder 0032: Denison University, 1996

Keith Boone. 1 item.

Folder 0033: Denver Quarterly, 1995-(?)

Bin Ramke. 5 items.

Folder 0034: Dickey, James, 1965-1979, 1997

Matthew J. Bruccoli. 20 items.

Folder 0035: Dixon, Alan J., 1986

1 item.

Folder 0036: Donovan, Laurence, 1992-2000

4 items.

Folder 0037: Duncan, Harry, 1992-1994

Cummington Press. 2 items.

Folder 0038: Eberhart, Richard, 1979-(?)

Includes: holograph poem, "To Laurence Lieberman." 3 items.

Folder 0039: Far Point, 1968

Myron Turner. 1 item.

Folder 0040: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968

Michael di Capua. 1 item.

Folder 0041: Five Points, 2007-2011

Megan Sexton. 5 items.

Folder 0042: Gale Research, 1997

Kim Smilay. 2 items.

Folder 0043: Georgia Review, 1993-1996

Stephen Corey. 3 items.

Folder 0044: Gettysburg Review, N.d.

Peter Stitt. 1 item.

Folder 044a: Goodison, Lorna, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0045: Grand Street, 1995

Deborah Treisman. 1 item.

Folder 045a: Greaves, Stanley, 2005

2 items.

Folder 0046: Gregor, Debora, 1995

1 item.

Folder 0047: Guenther, Charles, 1986

2 items.

Folder 0048: Guggenheim Foundation, 1976-1983

Grace Schulman, Stephen L. Schlesinger. 2 items.

Folder 0049: Hall, Donald, 1965(?)-1967(?)

5 items.

Folder 0050: Hall, James Baker, 1988

1 item.

Folder 0051: Hanson, Pauline "Polly", 1971(?)-2000

Yaddo. 7 items.

Folder 051a: Harcourt Brace, 1993

Pat Strachan. 1 item.

Folder 0052: Harper, Michael S., 1971-2003

7 items.

Folder 0053: HarperCollins, 1997

Robert Jones. 1 item.

Folder 0054: Harper's Bazaar, 1965

Alice S. Morris. 1 item.

Folder 0055: Hennessy, John, 2004

2 items.

Folder 0056: Hopwood Room, University of Michigan, 2006

Michael Barrett. 1 item.

Folder 0057: Hudson Review, 1965-1999

Frederick Morgan, Paula Deitz, Irene Skolnick, Ron Koury. 31 items.

Folder 0058: Illini Union Bookstore, 1998

Yoline Chandler. 1 item.

Folder 0059: Illinois Arts Council, 1980-1982

Clark Mitze, Carl J. Petrick. 2 items.

Folder 0060: Illinois Review, 1993

James "Jim" Elledge. 1 item.

Folder 0061: Immaculate Conception Church, 2005

Alice Doering. 3 items.

Folder 0062: International Biographical Centre, 2003

Nicholas S. Law. 1 item.

Folder 0063: Jeopardy, 1967

Theodore "Ted" Shields. 2 items.

Folder 0064: Jones, Fred, 2016

1 item.

Folder 0065: Joseph, Raymond, 1969

1 item.

Folder 0066: The Journal, 1994

Ohio State University, Stephen Spoerl. 2 items.

Folder 0067: The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 1995

Maurice A. Lee. 1 item.

Folder 0068: Kenyon Review, 1983-2018

David "Dave" Baker, Philip Church, Kirsten Reach. 15 items.

Folder 0069: Laurel Review, 1998

William Trowbridge. 1 item.

Folder 0070: Lea, Sydney, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0071: Leary, Paris, 1965

2 items.

Folder 0072: Lee, Maurice, 1997

1 item.

Folder 0073: Lewis, Elgo, 2000

2 items.

Folder 0074: Lieberman, Anita, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 074a: Lieberman, David, 2004

5 items.

Folder 074b: Lieberman, Isaac Allen, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0075: Lott, Rick, 1998

1 item.

Folder 0076: Macarthur Foundation, 2001

Daniel J. Socolow. 1 item.

Folder 0077: The MacGuffin, 2006

Steven A. Dolgin. 1 item.

Folder 0078: Macmillan (1), 1967-1987

Arthur Gregor, Atlantic Monthly--Edward Weeks, Saturday Review--John Ciardi, Maura Raphael, Bonnie Doherty, Scribners, Alexia Dorszynski, Lindly Boegehold, Wendi Bukowitz, Roger DeGaris. 17 items.

Folder 0079: Macmillan (2), 1982-1992

Bonnie Doherty, Maura Raphael. 31 items.

Folder 0080: Many Mountains Moving, 2001

Heather Grimshaw. 2 items.

Folder 080a: Mauch, James, 1998-1999

2 items.

Folder 0081: Maxwell, Margo, 1996

1 item.

Folder 082a: McCord, Kim, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0082: McClarin, Ashley, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0083: McFee, Michael, 1986

1 item.

Folder 0084: Memphis State Review, 1984

1 item.

Folder 0085: Menes, Orlando Ricardo, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0086: Michaels, Leonard, 1960s(?)-1970s(?)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Michael di Capua. 18 items.

Folder 0087: Michelson, Richard, 2003

8 items.

Folder 0088: Michigan Quarterly Review, 1984-2003

Laurence Goldstein. 5 items.

Folder 0089: Miles, Josephine, 1965-1968

6 items.

Folder 0090: Miller, Wayne, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0091: Mills, Ralph, 1969-1974

6 items.

Folder 0092: Missouri Review, N.d.

Jeff Galbraith. 1 item.

Folder 0093: Modern Occasions, 1970

Philip Rahv. 1 item.

Folder 0094: Monitor Book Company, 1984

Alan F. Pater. 1 item.

Folder 094a: Moss, Stanley, 2015

Email printout with poems. 1 item.

Folder 0095: The Nation, 1983-1993

Grace Schulman. 4 items.

Folder 0096: National Endowment for the Arts, 1986

F. S. M. Hodsoll. 1 item.

Folder 0097: National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, 1967

Roger L. Stevens. 1 item.

Folder 097a: National Poetry Series, 1994

Amanda Ford. 1 item.

Folder 0098: New American Writing, 1994

Paul Hoover. 1 item.

Folder 098a: New Directions, 1993

Peter Glassgold. 1 item.

Folder 0099: New England Review, 1980

1 item.

Folder 0100: The New Republic, 1964-1998

Robert Evett, Mark Strand, Adam Kirsch, Melanie Rehak. 10 items.

Folder 0101: The New Yorker, 1962-1991

Howard Moss, Milton Greenstein, Robert Gottlieb, Alice Quinn, Paul Muldoon. 38 items.

Folder 101a: Niikura, Toshikazu, 1974

1 item.

Folder 0102: W. W. Norton, 1995

Jill Bialosky, David Breskin. 1 item.

Folder 0103: Ohio Review, 1998

Wayne Dodd. 1 item.

Folder 0104: Paris Review, N.d.

Richard Howard. 3 items.

Folder 0105: Parnassus : Poetry in Review, 1994-1997

Herbert Leibowitz. 2 items.

Folder 105a: Partisan Press, N.d.

Ryan G. Van Cleave, Virgil Suarez. 3 items.

Folder 0106: Partisan Review, 1978-1997

John Ashbery, Rosanna Warren, Jane Uscilka, Don Shore, Jaquelyn Pope, Maria McFadden, William Phillips. 11 items.

Folder 0107: Peepal Tree Press, 2004

Hannah Bannister. 2 items.

Folder 0108: Pequod, 1995

Dan Bullen, Mark Rudman. 2 items.

Folder 0109: Perera, Victor, 1967-1970

3 items.

Folder 0110: Perloff, Marjorie, N.d.

3 items.

Folder 0111: Petty, Audrey, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0112: Poetry : A Magazine of Verse, 1963-1993

Henry Rago, Daryl Hine, Helen Lathrop, Don Share. 21 items.

Folder 0113: Poetry Daily, 2007

Diane Boller. 1 item.

Folder 0114: Poetry Society of America, 1996-2002

Eve Grubin, Elise Paschen. 2 items.

Folder 0115: Poulin, Al, N.d.

2 items.

Folder 0116: Prairie Schooner, 1995-1997

Hilda Raz. 3 items.

Folder 0117: Principia College, 2005

Dinah Ryan. 1 item.

Folder 0118: Probe, Marilyn, 2005

2 items.

Folder 118a: Pushcart Press, 1999-2002

Bill Henderson, Len Roberts, Jim Barnes. 4 items.

Folder 0119: Quarterly Review of Literature, 1959-1978

Ted Weiss. 18 items.

Folder 0120: Quarterly West, 1982-1983

David Baker, Edward Byrne. 2 items.

Folder 0121: Rains, Ruth, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0122: Random House, 1980

Cheryl Merser. 1 item.

Folder 0123: Reed College, 1964

Donald MacRae. 1 item.

Folder 123a: Regier, Willis, N.d.

2 items.

Folder 0124: Reiter, Thomas, 2000-2010

8 items.

Folder 0125: Revell, Donald, 1978-2012

9 items.

Folder 125a: Reyes, Rodney, 2006

1 item.

Folder 0126: Roberts, Len, 2001-2007

41 items.

Folder 0127: Roth Publishing, 1998-2003

Harvey Roth. 7 items.

Folder 0128: Ryuichi, Tamura, N.d.

Marianne Sarcor, Audience Magazine. 12 items.

Folder 0129: Salinger, Steven, 2003

1 item.

Folder 0130: Salzman, Eva, 2004

Marla Osterbur. 1 item.

Folder 0131: Samuels, Charles Thomas, 1966-1973

19 items.

Folder 0132: Sarabande Books, 1998-2003

Kristin Herbert, Sarah Gorham. 4 items.

Folder 0133: Saturday Review, 1968-1970

John Ciardi. 3 items.

Folder 0134: Savage, Darius, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0135: Schulman, Grace, 1959-2012

The Nation, M. L. Rosenthal. 13 items.

Folder 0136: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1967-1977

Amanda Baker, William J. Martz. 7 items.

Folder 136a: Scott, Lindsey, 2002

1 item.

Folder 0137: Seven Stories Press, 2003

Tom McCarthy. 1 item.

Folder 0138: Sewanee Review, 1978-2008

George Core. 11 items.

Folder 0139: Shenandoah, 1998-2002

Rodney T. Smith, Lynn L. Leach. 3 items.

Folder 0140: Sherry, Kevin, 2009

1 item.

Folder 140a: Shuman, Robert Baird, 1994

1 item.

Folder 0141: Simon, Paul, 1986

3 items.

Folder 0142: Simpson, Louis, 1960-1968

5 items.

Folder 0143: Smith, David Jeddie, 1968-2015

Richard Wentworth. 35 items.

Box 2

Folder 0144: South Carolina Review, 1984

Robert W. Hill. 1 item.

Folder 0145: Southern Review, 1991-2014

David Jeddie Smith, Steven B. Yates, James Olney, Jessica Faust. 13 items.

Folder 0146: Southwest Review, 1997-2014

Jennifer Cranfill, Willard Spiegelman. 5 items.

Folder 0147: St. John, Bruce, 1974

1 item.

Folder 0148: Stafford, William, 1966-1974

W. R. Moses. 7 items.

Folder 0149: Stein, Kevin, 1996-2012

3 items.

Folder 149a: Sterling, Phillip, 2002

1 item.

Folder 0150: Stevens, Holly, 1968-1979

2 items.

Folder 0151: Stillinger, Jack, 1968-2011

41 items.

Folder 0152: Stix, Judith Saul, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0153: Strand, Mark, 1992

1 item.

Folder 153a: Suarez, Ernest, 1994

1 item.

Folder 0154: Sward, Robert, 1966-1969

10 items.

Folder 0155: Swiss, Thomas, 1986

2 items.

Folder 0156: Tar River Poetry, 1984-1988

Peter Makuck. 4 items.

Folder 0157: Texas Review Press, 1995

Paul Ruffin. 3 items.

Folder 157a: Thomas, Linda Kay, 2002

1 item.

Folder 0158: Thomson Gale, 2005

Russel Whitaker. 1 item.

Folder 0159: Thompson, Christian, 2014-2015

2 items.

Folder 0160: Tikkun, 1995

Michael Lerner. 1 item.

Folder 0161: TriQuarterly, 1994

Reginald Gibbons. 2 items.

Folder 0162: [Unidentified], 1969-1994

"John," "Holly," "Alane," and "Ted." 4 items.

Folder 0163: University of Arkansas Press, 1996-2005

Meagan Bonnell, Jami Coker, Caroyn Brt, Brian King. 19 items.

Folder 0164: University of California (Berkeley), 1962

Travis L. Summersgill, University of Hawaii. 2 items.

Folder 0165: University of Georgia Press, 1997-2005

Karen K. Orchard, Andrew Berzanskis. Note: contains diskettes. 35 items.

Folder 0166: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of English, 1968

A. Lynn Altenbrand. 3 items.

Folder 0167: University of Illinois Press, 1977-2005

Richard Wentworth, Willis G. Regier, Harriet P. Stoukanes. 17 items.

Folder 0168: University of Missouri Press, 1994-2004

Beverly Jarrett. 12 items.

Folder 0169: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994

Ed Ochester. 1 item.

Folder 0170: Valparaiso Poetry Review, 2001-2005

Edward Byrne. 4 items.

Folder 0171: Viereck, Peter, 1986

1 item.

Folder 0172: Virginia Quarterly Review, N.d.

Gregory Orr. 1 item.

Folder 0173: Vogelsang, Arthur, 1983

2 items.

Folder 0174: Wagoner, David, 1977-1988

Poetry Northwest, University of Illinois Press, Richard Wentworth. 8 items.

Folder 0175: Waldbauer, Gilbert, 2003

1 item.

Folder 0176: Walker, Jeanne Murray, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0177: Walmsley, Anne, 2004

2 items.

Folder 0178: Warren, Austin, 1959

1 item.

Folder 0179: Walsh, William, 2009-2016

3 items.

Folder 179a: Watts, Emily, 1999-2000

2 items.

Folder 0180: Weiss, Ted, 1970-1995

Quarterly Review of Literature. 6 items.

Folder 0181: Wentworth, Richard, 1976-1995

2 items.

Folder 0182: Williams, Miller, 1967-1995

9 items.

Folder 0183: Winters, Yvor, 1963

4 items.

Folder 183a: Wise, Kelly, 1984

1 item. (see: Photographs)

Folder 0184: Wouk, Herman, 1967

2 items.

Folder 0185: Wrigley, Robert, 1994

1 item.

Folder 185a: Wright, Annie, 2014

4 items.

Folder 185b: The Writer's Voice, 1999

Liebler, M. L.

Folder 0186: Yale Review, 1966-1979

John E. Palmer, Holly Stevens. 35 items.

Folder 0187: [empty envelopes], 1996-1997

Associated Writing Programs, Atlantic Monthly. 2 items.

Sub-series 2: Outgoing

Box 3

Folder 0001: American Poetry Review, 2006

Stephen Berg. 1 item.

Folder 0002: Ausable Press, 2004

Chase Twichell. 3 items.

Folder 0003: Baker, David, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0004: Ballowe, James, 2006(?)

1 item.

Folder 0005: Barr, Tina, 2002-2005

2 items.

Folder 0006: Baruch College, 1997

Lois S. Cronholm, Grace Schulman. 1 item.

Folder 0007: Bellingham Review, 2002

Bruce Beasley. 1 item.

Folder 0008: Berg, Stephen, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0009: Best American Poetry, 1991

David Lehman. 2 items.

Folder 0010: BOA Editions, 2003-2005

Thom Ward. 2 items.

Folder 0011: Bottoms, David, 2004

1 item.

Folder 011a: Boulevard, 2005

Richard Burgin. 1 item.

Folder 0012: Brighton Press, 2001

Bill Kelly. 1 item.

Folder 0013: Bugeja, Michael, 1996

1 item.

Folder 0014: Caribbean Writer, 2001-2004

Erika Waters, Marvin E. Williams. 2 items.

Folder 0015: Clark, Dee, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0016: Colorado Review, 2004-2006

Donald Revell, Stephanie G'Schwind. 3 items.

Folder 0017: Columbia University, 1998

Philip Graham. 1 item.

Folder 017a: Contemporary Poets, 1999

Mariko Fujinaka, Thomas Riggs. 3 items.

Folder 0018: Cotter, James Finn, 2004

3 items.

Folder 0019: Cummins, James, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0020: Dawes, Kwame, 2007

2 items.

Folder 0021: De Oliver, Miguel, 2003

1 item.

Folder 0022: Denver Quarterly, 2003

Bin Ramke. 1 item.

Folder 0023: Dickey, James, 1967

1 item.

Folder 023a: Galvin, Brendan, 1996

1 item.

Folder 0024: Georgia Review, 2006

T. R. Hummer. 1 item.

Folder 0025: Georgia State University, 1993-1996

Ahmed T. Abdelal, David Bottoms. 2 items.

Folder 0026: Gettysburg Review, 2001

Peter Stitt. 1 item.

Folder 0027: Gibbons, Reginald, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0028: Gonzalez, Riboberto, 2000

1 item.

Folder 0029: Goodison, Lorna, 2004

1 item.

Folder 029a: Greaves, Stanley, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0030: Greiner, Donald J., 1997

1 item.

Folder 0031: Guggenheim Foundation, 1986-(?)

Thomas Swiss, David Jeddie Smith. 3 items.

Folder 0032: Harkins-Pierre, Patricia, 2004-2006

2 items.

Folder 0033: Harrington, Janice, 2014

1 item.

Folder 0034: Hart, Henry, 1998

1 item.

Folder 0035: Hennessy, John, 2004

2 items.

Folder 0036: Hopwood Newsletter, 2005

Andrea Beauchamp. 2 items.

Folder 0037: Hudson Review, 2001-2015

Paula Deitz, Frederick Morgan, Ron Koury. 5 items.

Folder 0038: Independent Publishers Group, 2004

David Gephart. 1 item.

Folder 0039: Kenyon Review, 1999

Thomas Bigelow. 2 items.

Folder 0040: Koritta, Steven, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0041: Lea, Sydney, N.d.

2 items.

Folder 0042: Lieberman, Bernice (Binnie), N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0043: Louisiana State University, 1996

William E. Davis, David Jeddie Smith. 1 item.

Folder 0044: MacArthur Fellows Program, 1984

Paul Shullenberger, Mark Strand. 1 item.

Folder 0045: The MacGuffin, 2004-2006

Steven Dolgin. 2 items.

Folder 045a: Macmillan, 1980

3 items.

Folder 0046: Makuck, Peter, 2004-2006

Tar River Poetry. 2 items.

Folder 0047: Margie Review, 2004-2005

Robert Nazarene, Steven A. Dolgin. 5 items.

Folder 0048: McClarin, Ashley, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0049: Meek, Sandra, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0050: Menes, Orlando Ricardo, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0051: Michaelson, Richard, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0052: Michigan Quarterly Review, 2003-2006

Laurence Goldstein. 3 items.

Folder 0053: Michigan Society of Fellows, N.d.

Peter Serchuk. 1 item.

Folder 0054: Moss, Stanley, 2014-2015

5 items.

Folder 0055: Nelson, Cary, N.d.

Ruth Stone. 1 item.

Folder 0056: The New Yorker, 2003-2015

Alice Quinn, Paul Muldoon. 2 items.

Folder 0057: Orchises Press, 2005

Roger Lathbury. 1 item.

Folder 0058: Parnassus, 2004

Herbert Leibowitz. 1 item.

Folder 0059: Partisan Review, 1997-2002

William Phillips, Rosanna Warren. 2 items.

Folder 059a: Peepal Tree Press, 2005

Jeremy Poynting, Hannah Bannister. 19 items.

Folder 0060: Pequod, 2002

Mark Rudman. 1 item.

Folder 0061: Poetry : A Magazine of Verse, 2003-2013

Christian Wiman. 5 items.

Folder 0062: Poetry Daily, 2004-2006

Don Selby. 2 items.

Folder 0063: Poetry London, 2003-2004

Pascale Petit, Scott Verner. 2 items.

Folder 0064: Poets and Writers, Inc., 2004

1 item.

Folder 0065: Revell, Donald, 2004-2012

2 items.

Folder 0066: Rhodes Scholarship, N.d.

Richard Powers. 1 item.

Folder 0067: Roth Publishing, 2005

Harvey Roth. 1 item.

Folder 0068: Ryan, Dinah, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0069: Sarabande Books, 2003

Sarah Gorham. 2 items.

Folder 0070: Savory, Elaine, 2003

1 item.

Folder 0071: Schulman, Grace, 2005-2006

2 items.

Folder 0072: Scribners, 1989

"Lilla." 1 item.

Folder 0073: Sendry, Joseph M., 2004

Catholic University of America, Ernest Suarez. 1 item.

Folder 0074: Seven Stories Press, 2003-2004

Tom McCarthy. 3 items.

Folder 0075: Sewanee Review, 2005

George Core. 2 items.

Folder 0076: Sheep Meadow Press, 2004

Stanley Moss. 1 item.

Folder 0077: Shenandoah, 2003-2006

Rodney T. Smith, Lynn Leech. 4 items.

Folder 0078: Smith, David Jeddie, 1975-2006

5 items.

Folder 0079: Smith, Rodney T., 2002-2004

2 items.

Folder 0080: South Carolina Review, 2006

Wayne Chapman. 1 item.

Folder 0081: Southern Review, 2003-2006

John Easterly, Bret Lott. 2 items.

Folder 0082: Southwest Review, 2002

Willard Spiegelman. 1 item.

Folder 0083: St. Louis Poetry Center, 2005

Loy Ledbetter. 1 item.

Folder 0084: St. Louis University, 1999

John Pauly, Richard Burgin. 2 items.

Folder 0085: Stein, Kevin, 1997-2006

3 items.

Folder 0086: Stillinger, Jack, 2007

1 item.

Folder 086a: Strand, Mark, 2000

1 item.

Folder 0087: Suarez, Virgil, 2004

2 items.

Folder 0088: Thomson Gale, 2006

Russel Whitaker. 1 item.

Folder 0089: TriQuarterly, 2002-2004

Susan Hahn. 2 items.

Folder 0090: University of Arkansas Press, 1996-2001

Elizabeth Motherwell, Lawrence Malley, Steve Yates. 18 items.

Folder 0091: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Alan Thomas. 1 item.

Folder 0092: University of Georgia Press, 1997-2005

Karen K. Orchard, Kelly Caudle, Andrew Berzanskis. 4 items.

Folder 0093: University of Houston, 1986

E. Cullen, Peter Stitt. 1 item.

Folder 0094: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of English, 1967 or 1968

1 item.

Folder 0095: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign George A. Miller Committee, 1979

Daniel Alpert. 1 item.

Folder 0096: University of Illinois Press, 1975-1993

Richard Wentworth, Christie Schuetz, Stephanie Smith, Willis Regier. 6 items.

Folder 0097: University of Illinois Press (Business Correspondence), 1970-1996

Val Gray, Paulette Jones, Richard Wentworth. 3 items.

Folder 0098: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, 1996

Edward E. Sullivan, Paul Friedman. 1 item.

Folder 0099: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Board, N.d.

Michael Van Walleghen. 1 item.

Folder 099a: University of Michigan. Avery Hopwood Contest, 1977

4 items.

Folder 0100: University of Missouri Press, 1995

Karen Caplinger. 2 items.

Folder 0101: University of South Carolina, 1998

Carol McGinnis Kay, Kwame Dawes. 1 item.

Folder 0102: Valente, Judith, 2005

1 item.

Folder 0103: Valparaiso Poetry Review, 2004-2006

Edward Byrne. 3 items.

Folder 0104: Van Winkel, Nance, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0105: Wagoner, David, N.d.

1 item.

Folder 0106: Walker, Jeanne Murray, 2004

1 item.

Folder 0107: [Addresses and phone numbers], N.d.

Black, 6.5 x 3.75 in. "At a Glance" appointment book, 1991, stuffed with entries and inserts. Forty-four loose slips with addresses and phone numbers. 45 items.