University of Arizona Poetry Center Records Collection Number: UAPC.01
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University of Arizona Poetry Center Records Collection Number: UAPC.01 Descriptive Summary Creator: University of Arizona Poetry Center Collection Name: University of Arizona Poetry Center Records Dates: 1960- Physical Description: 105 linear feet Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, administrative records, board meeting minutes, printed materials, audiovisual recordings, and scrapbooks related to the unique history of the Poetry Center and its prominent role in Southern Arizona’s literary arts landscape. “Author files” contain records and correspondence pertaining to poets such as Robert Frost, Kenneth Koch, and Allen Ginsberg. Collection Number: UAPC.01 Repository: University of Arizona Poetry Center 1508 E. Helen St. Tucson, AZ 85721 Phone: 520-626-3765 Fax: 520-621-5566 URL: http://poetry.arizona.edu Historical Note The University of Arizona Poetry Center began in 1960 as a small house and a collection of some 500 volumes of poetry, donated to the University of Arizona by poet and novelist Ruth Stephan. It has grown to house one of the most extensive collections of contemporary poetry in the United States. Since 1962, the Poetry Center has sponsored one of the nation’s earliest, longest-running, and most prestigious reading series, the Visiting Poets and Writers Reading Series, which continues to the present day. The Poetry Center also has a long history of community programming including classes and workshops, lectures, contests, youth programming, writers in residence, and poetry workshops in Arizona penitentiaries. Its leadership has included noted authors such as Richard Shelton, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and LaVerne Harrell Clark. University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 1 of 71 Scope and Content Note This collection contains correspondence, administrative records, board meeting minutes, printed materials, audiovisual recordings, and scrapbooks related to the unique history of the Poetry Center and its prominent role in Southern Arizona’s literary arts landscape. Information contained within the records offers a comprehensive look at Southern Arizona’s literary arts activities and communities from 1960 to the present day. As the Poetry Center is still an active organization, the collection will continue to grow. The collection is notable in preserving the original audiovisual recordings of poets and writers reading their work for the Poetry Center’s Visiting Poets and Writers Reading Series. The first recording, of poet Robert Creeley, dates to Dec. 4, 1963. These recordings are being digitized and made freely available online, with permission from the poets and/or their estates, at the Poetry Center’s digital audio video library, voca (http://voca.arizona.edu). Since 2007, all new recordings are born digital, although physical copies are retained in the library’s holdings. The collection also includes A-Z “author files” consisting of records and correspondence pertaining to hundreds of poets and writers who visited the Center. Author files typically contain clippings, photos, financial records, and correspondence related to an author’s visit. Often the correspondence is rich, reflecting the Center’s longstanding tradition of friendship and hospitality to poets. Several files, including Robert Frost’s, contain manuscripts or typescripts of poems. Of note, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Lee Udall is represented in the author files with materials including typescripts and manuscripts of Udall’s own poems. Organization The collection is organized into five series: Series I: Subseries I: Poetry Center Records and Correspondence Series I: Subseries II: Author Files Series II: Subseries I: Newsletters Series II: Subseries II: Reading Series Brochures Series II: Subseries III: Miscellaneous Printed Materials Series II: Subseries IV: Posters Series III: Scrapbooks Series IV: Photographs Series V: Subseries I: Readings/Audiocassettes Series V: Subseries II: Readings/Reel-to-Reel Tapes Series V: Subseries III: Readings/CDs and DVDs Series V: Subseries IV: Readings/DVCs University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 2 of 71 Restrictions Restrictions Poetry Center donor lists and gift/donation letters are restricted from the public. Copyright It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legatees, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Access Terms American poetry—20th century American poetry—21st century Clark, LaVerne Harrell Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- Shelton, Richard Stephan, Ruth, 1910-1974 University of Arizona Poetry Center Administrative Information Credit Line University of Arizona Poetry Center Records (UAPC.01). University of Arizona Poetry Center. University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 3 of 71 Container List Series I: Subseries I: Poetry Center Records and Correspondence (32 Boxes) Annual Reports 1962-2010 Box Folder Title Dates I.I.1 1 Annual Reports 1962 2 Annual Reports 1962-1963 3 Annual Reports 1963-1964 4 Annual Reports 1964-1965 5 Annual Reports 1965-1966 6 Annual Reports 1966-1967 7 Annual Reports 1967-1968 8 Annual Reports 1968-1969 9 Annual Reports 1969-1970 10 Annual Reports 1970-1971 11 Annual Reports 1971-1972 12 Annual Reports 1974-1975 13 Annual Reports 1975-1976 14 Annual Reports 1976-1977 15 Annual Reports 1977-1978 16 Annual Reports 1978-1979 17 Annual Reports 1979-1980 18 Annual Reports 1994-1995, 1999-2005 19 Annual Reports 2007-2012 University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 4 of 71 Poetry Center Board Meeting Minutes Box Folder Title Dates I.I.2 1 Board Meeting Minutes 1962-1964 2 Board Meeting Minutes 1964-1965 3 Board Meeting Minutes 1965-1966 4 Board Meeting Minutes 1966-1967 5 Board Meeting Minutes 1967-1968 6 Board Meeting Minutes 1968-1969 7 Board Meeting Minutes 1969-1970 8 Board Meeting Minutes 1970-1971 9 Board Meeting Agenda 1970-1971 I.I.3 1 Board Meeting Agenda 1971-1972 2 Board Meeting Minutes 1971-1972 3 Board Meeting Agenda 1972-1973 4 Board Meeting Minutes 1972-1973 5 Board Meeting Agenda 1973-1974 6 Board Meeting Minutes 1973-1974 7 Board Meeting Agenda 1974-1975 8 Board Meeting Minutes 1974-1975 9 Board Meeting Agenda 1975-1976 10 Board Meeting Minutes 1975-1976 11 Board Meeting Agenda 1976-1977 12 Board Meeting Agendas 1982-1990 Poetry Center Calendar 1970-1977 Box Folder Title Dates I.I.4 1 Poetry Center Calendar 1970-1972 2 Poetry Center Calendar 1973 3 Poetry Center Calendar 1973-1974 4 Poetry Center Calendar 1974 5 Poetry Center Calendar 1975 6 Poetry Center Calendar 1976-1977 University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 5 of 71 Poetry Center Director Files: Ruth Stephan Box Folder Title Dates I.I.5 1 Ruth Stephan Correspondence 1960-1962 2 Ruth Stephan Correspondence 1963-1964 3 Ruth Stephan Correspondence 1965-1969 4 Ruth Stephan Correspondence 1970-1971 5 Ruth Stephan Correspondence 1972-1973 6 Ruth Stephan Correspondence 1974 7 “Notes on Establishing and Maintaining a Poetry Collection” Files Poetry Center Director Files: LaVerne H. Clark Box Folder Title Dates I.I.6 1 LaVerne H. Clark Executive Secretary 1961-1967 Correspondence 2 LaVerne H. Clark Academy of American 1961-1963 Poets Correspondence 3 LaVerne H. Clark Academy of American 1967-1969 Poets Correspondence 4 LaVerne H. Clark Academy of American 1970-1974 Poets Correspondence 5 LaVerne H. Clark Academy of American 1975-1976 Poets Correspondence Poetry Center Director Files: Richard Shelton Box Folder Title Dates I.I.7 1 Richard Shelton University of Texas at 1964-1971 Austin Correspondence 2 Richard Shelton Author File 1969-1989 3 Richard Shelton Tribute April 22, 2006 4 Richard Shelton Misc. Documents University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 6 of 71 Poetry Center Director Files: Richard Shelton (continued) Box Folder Title Dates I.I.8 1 Spoken Anthology of American Literature Richard Shelton/Ruth Stephan Misc. Documents 2 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1963 Kay, Arthur Correspondence with Udall, Stewart 3 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1963 Richard Shelton Correspondence with Ellis, Norma Millay 4 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1963-1964 Richard Shelton Correspondence with Ruth Stephan 5 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1963-1964 Richard Shelton Correspondence with Eliot, T. S. 6 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1964 Richard Shelton Correspondence with Wilder, Thornton 7 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1964 Richard Shelton Correspondence with Lewis, Edith 8 Spoken Anthology of American Literature 1968 Richard Shelton Correspondence with Kray, Elizabeth I.I.9 1 Richard Shelton Book Sleeves 2 Richard Shelton Publicity Materials I.I.10 1 Richard Shelton Ephemera I.I.11 1 Copies of Musical Interludes for Spoken Dec. 1964 Anthology of American Literature (by Joseph D. La Rosa) University of Arizona Poetry Center Records UAPC.01 Page 7 of 71 Poetry Center Director Files: Lois Shelton Box Folder Title Dates I.I.12 1 Lois Shelton Correspondence 1973 2 Lois Shelton Correspondence 1974 3 Lois Shelton Correspondence with 1974 Ruppert, Jim (University of New Mexico) 4 Lois Shelton Correspondence 1975 5 Lois Shelton Correspondence 1976 I.I.13 1 Lois Shelton Correspondence 1977 2 Lois Shelton