Browse Items (1587 total)

A 1979 interview regarding the creative process of Dickey's poetry text, "The Zodiac," and the ways his epic poem acts both as "an homage" and its own original entity

Short clip from "The Image Maker," a play by James Merrill. Merrill's theatrical production was performed by both live actors and marionette puppets. In this pivotal monologue, one of the play's puppets, Miguel, challenges his creator, The Image…

Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett (1906- ) has been an active participant in the staging of his plays in numerous productions. Exhibited here are Beckett's own copoes of Warten auf Godot [Waiting for Godot] (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1960) and Fin de…

Gathering of Poets at White House, New York Times, January 4, 1980. Photo of Rosalynn Carter, Amy Carter, Stanley Kunitz, John Ciardi, Jonathan Williams, and May Swenson at the gathering.

Bollingen Prize in Poetry Announced, Yale University News Release. The news releases states that the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library has been awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov. The prize is awarded every 2 years for…

Advertisement for "Poetry - A Living Art" presented by Donald Finkel as NEA Poet-in-Residence, sponsored by the Y Poetry Center.

Advertisement for "Poetry - A Living Art" presented by Donald Finkel as NEA Poet-in-Residence, sponsored by the Y Poetry Center.

Photograph of Constance Urdang looking directly at the camera while sitting. Photograph by Sara Wykes.

Photocopy of "Gravity and Incantation" by James Wright from the Minnesota Review, Spring 1962. Wright reviews The Jacob's Ladder by Denise Levertov and The Looking Glass by Isabella Gardner.

James Wright to Isabella Gardner, April 8, 1969. Wright includes his poem "Prospero's Tale" within the letter. Wright says that the poem was inspired by what Gardner said to him on the phone the week before. He gives her his permission to do whatever…