The Contemporary Manuscripts Collection contains a total of thousands of pages of manuscripts and/or correspondence from hundreds of poets and writers such as Lascelles Abercrombie, W. H. Auden, David Gascoyne, Elizabeth Jennings, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Merton, Charlotte Mew, Ezra Pound, Alastair Reid, Peter Russell, Winfield Townley Scott, Genevieve Taggard, Ruthven Todd, Henry Treece, and Louis Zukofsky.

Correspondence regarding administration of the University Libraries, the creation and maintenance of the Poetry Collection of Lockwood Library at the University of Buffalo; professional papers including his research and publications; personal records, including biographical material, social correspondence and clippings; records of the Fenton Lecture series, 1935-1941; and records of the Buffalo Film Society, 1935-1938.

Helen Adam (1909-1993) was a poet and visual artist of the San Francisco Renaissance. Born in Scotland, she garnered acclaim at a young age for her collection of poems titled The Elfin Peddlar. After attending Edinburgh University for two years Helen and her sister and frequent collaborator Pat Adam worked as journalists in London before moving to the United States with their mother in 1939. The family made their way to San Francisco, at the beginning of what would become the San Francisco Renaissance. Here her artistic career flourished, and she published a number of poetic and visual works. Following the success of her play San Francisco's Burning, the sisters moved to New York City where they remained for the rest of their lives. The material in the Helen Adam Collection contains over 100 collages, 119 scrapbooks, manuscripts for several books of poetry and individual poems as well as production material from Adam's dramatic work such as San Francisco's Burning and Daydream of Darkness. Also included are personal documents, artwork, and ephemera.

The Ruthven Todd collection consists of papers produced between 1938 and 1986. The collection contains handwritten and typed manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork.

Collection of materials relating to the personal life, photography, and writings of Michael Benedikt. Michael Benedikt was a writer and editor who was also active in documenting "Happenings" in the 1960's and 1970's The collection includes poetry drafts, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other related materials.

Collection contains editorial and business records for Lost and Found Times magazine, 1975-2005, including manuscript submissions, correspondence, mail art, and production material for all 54 issues. The collection also contains personal poetry business records for John M. Bennett, including correspondence, manuscripts, electronic mail, and journals. The bulk of the collection is mail art.

Born in Rhode Island, Berrigan earned his BA and MA from the University of Tulsa after serving in the army during the Korean War. Although he lived for short times in Chicago, Buffalo, Iowa City, and England, he spent most of his time in New York, where he edited and published C Magazine and C Press Books and taught at St. Mark's Poetry Project. Before that, Berrigan was writer-in-residence/visiting poet at the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he met the Alice Notley, whom he married in 1972. He also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Yale University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Essex in England, Northeastern Illinois University, and the Naropa Institute. In 1979 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the author of more than 20 books. These 10 notebooks represent nearly 20 years of writing, but mainly cover his early work from 1959-1963.

Anne Blonstein (1958-2011) was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, and studied plant genetics at Cambridge University. In 1983 Blonstein was appointed to a post-doctoral fellowship at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, where she remained for the rest of her life. She began publishing poetry in 1987, and in 1991 she left her career in science to pursue writing full time, working as a freelance translator and editor. The Anne Blonstein collection, 1975-2011, consists of manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, and correspondence documenting the creation and publication of her work, as well as correspondence with friends.

Bruce Boone is a poet, writer, translator, and activist living and working in San Francisco, CA. The Bruce Boone papers span the years 1940-2014 and contain Boone's manuscripts, correspondence, personal records, writings by contemporaries, and original artwork. The collection contains paper, analog, and born-digital records.

The Slipstream Collection contains the editorial papers relating to the history of the magazine and press, including manuscript submissions for both the magazine and chapbook awards, the editors' correspondence with various authors, and some production materials.

The Gabrielle Bouliane collection includes materials related to the life and career of Gabrielle Bouliane as well as slam poetry events. Gabrielle Bouliane was a performance poet who performed at several National Poetry Slams and founded the Nickel City Slam. The collection materials includes ephemera and articles related to slam poetry events as well as notes and other written materials by Gabrielle Bouliane.

Poet, filmmaker, and playwright James Richard Broughton (1913-1999) grew up in San Francisco and was educated at Stanford University. Alongside poets Kenneth Rexroth and Robert Duncan, he was a member of the San Francisco Renaissance movement. Hamilton and Mary Tyler befriended many writers, and were long time friends of Robert Duncan. This small file contains two letters to the Tylers (1962), two TMsS, and an inscribed broadside.

The First Intensity Collection contains the editorial correspondence for Lee Chapman's literary magazine from 1992 to 2007. Correspondence contains poetry submissions, page proofs, reviews, and articles from poets featured in First Intensity.

This collection contains material from Alpha Beat, an independent press publishing Beat generation and Beat-inspired work. Included are manuscripts, advertisements, reviews, and production material for monographic and periodical publications.

Norma Cole is a poet, translator, visual artist, and educator. Born in Toronto, Canada, she learned French at an early age and received her B.A. in Modern Languages and Literature and M.A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. She has translated a number of French writers into English, and has published over 30 books and chapbooks of her own poetry, some of which incorporates her visual work. Cole has lived in San Francisco since the early 1970s and has held adjunct and visiting professorships and residencies at a number of institutions, including the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, the Naropa Institute, the University of California, Berkeley, St. Mary's College, Temple University, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. The Norma Cole Collection, 1987-2014, contains journals, notebooks, photographic material, and ephemera related to her poetry and visual art, as well as a significant amount of material related to her teaching, primarily at University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University.

This collection consists of letters between Thomas Connolly and various writers, some of which are personal and/or relate to his research interests, but most of which document the hiring of writers as faculty for summer sessions at the University at Buffalo.

This collection contains material related to the magazine Fire Exit (1967-1975), edited and published by William Corbett for four numbered issues and related broadsides, including correspondence and submissions from 1955-1992; production material for issues 1-4; and William Corbett's personal manuscripts, notebooks, and ephemera.

Collection consists of letters from poet and publisher Cid Corman to John Martone and includes two typed manuscripts by Corman, Pith Water and No Telling.

Kenneth Cox (1916–2005) was a British literary critic and essayist. In particular, Cox admired and wrote extensively about Ezra Pound and Lorine Niedecker, with whom he had a warm friendship. His essays and reviews appeared regularly in Agenda and the Australian magazine Scripsi, as well as in Cambridge Quarterly, PN Review, and Montemora, and his only full-length book, Collected Studies in the Use of English (Agenda Editions), was published in 2001. He also translated from multiple languages, including Italian, Scottish Gaelic, and French, as well as wrote essays in French. The Kenneth Cox Collection, 1965-2005, consists of manuscript material and correspondence, primarily Cox's notes, research, and drafts. It was organized by Cox with Jenny Penberthy, from whom the Poetry Collection acquired the files.

Rachel Guido de Vries is a poet and fiction writer who has known Diane di Prima since meeting her at Syracuse, NY, in the mid-1980s. This collection consists of correspondence from Diane di Prima, Lyn Lifshin, and Marge Piercy to Rachel Guido De Vries, as well as a draft of di Prima's work, Loba.

Alfred Dorn was an American poet, critic, and professor. Born in 1929 in Flushing, New York, Dorn attended New York University for his undergraduate and doctoral degrees, where he studied English Renaissance poetry. He lived and worked in New York City for the remainder of his life, teaching at Queensborough Community College and the City University of New York, participating in many poetry readings and conferences, and serving as a prominent member of many literary organizations including the Poetry Society of America and the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets. The Alfred Dorn Collection contains literary manuscripts, professional papers, correspondence, and personal documents and photographs.

Earth's Daughters Collection, 1969-2015, contains materials related to the production of the magazine. The bulk of the material is submissions by poets. Other material includes correspondence, editorial business, financial records, grant applications, distribution records, production material, submission records, subscription records, art and ephemera.

The kari edwards papers comprises approximately 4.6 gigabytes of digital content (approximately 3300 files) and 9.88 linear feet of paper materials and art objects. The bulk of the digital files can be described as born digital; content originating in a computer environment. These files consist of drafts of edwards' published works of poetry, drafts of unpublished works, images of cover art for works, reviews of edwards' poetry, syllabi and letters to publishers. The collection also contains a significant number of digital images, including born digital images and other images that are digital surrogates of print photographs. The bulk of the digital images were taken during travel to various parts of India including Auroville, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mamallapuram, and Varanasi between 2004 and 2006. The physical records include notebooks, manuscripts, ephemera, clippings, official documents, unique publications, photographs, artworks on paper and canvas.

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K.S. Ernst has been writing poetry and making artwork since the 1960s. Her pieces span visual poetry, digital art, and fine art, incorporating sculpture, multimedia, works on paper, artists' books, painting, fiber arts, and digital works. She has also participated in artist residencies, lectures, and performances with the Be Blank Consort, and runs Press Me Close, which publishes books, postcards, and T-shirts of visual poetry. The K.S. Ernst Collection (1965-2016) contains original dimensional work of visual poetry, works on paper, prints of digital work, and prints of images of work, as well as catalogs of her work. Included in the descriptions of pieces are the catalog numbers that reference Ernst's very detailed catalogs of her work.

The Amelia Etlinger Collection, 1971-2014, is primarily a collection of over 100 art objects, mail art, and concrete poetry sent to Ellen Marie Helinka [Bissert], Mike Belt, Mirella Bentivoglio, and the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection in the 1970s and 1980s. Additional material includes correspondence between mailart recipients and Etlinger, and correspondence between recipients pertaining to Etlinger; exhibition catalogs, announcements, interviews, newspaper clippings, and photographs; and art criticism in the form of articles, exhibition reviews, descriptions, and a DVD of artist and collector Paula Claire opening and describing her personal collection of Etlinger works.

The League to Support Poetry Collection contains Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald's written account of the League's history; her selected correspondence with such poets and critics; manuscripts by Alice Mears, Henry McLaughlin, Starr Nelson, and Eve Triem; complete sets of and ; recordings of several radio broadcasts; a few of the mimeographed brochures that circulated among League members in 1939-1940 and 1940-1941; and other miscellaneous items.

The Buckle Collection contains the records for both of Frank's literary magazines. The materials include editorial correspondence (1977 to 1982) along with a few miscellaneous manuscripts and business records. The documents include books and magazines inscribed to Frank; general correspondence with various editors, columnists, critics, directors, actors, and Israeli and American poets; and editorial correspondence.

Victor E. Reichert (1897-1990) was rabbi of the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1938 to 1962 and shared a long friendship with the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In 1946 Reichert invited Frost to present a sermon, and in 1960 he was instrumental in awarding Frost an honorary Doctorate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Their relationship is documented in Andrew Marks's The Rabbi and the Poet (1994). Victor Reichert was an avid Frost collector, and his collection passed to his son Dr. Jonathan Reichert, Professor Emeritus from the UB Department of Physics, who donated it to the Poetry Collection. The Reichert Frost Collection features many signed and inscribed publications by Frost, a Frost manuscript, letters, photographs, audio recordings, and ephemera, as well as many Frost-related items from other critics.

Collection contains editorial and business records for the five issues of Boss magazine (1966-1979), BossCards, Boss postcards, and books published by Boss Books. Material includes production material, correspondence, interviews, newspaper clippings, photographs, film stills, negatives, manuscripts, original artwork, and business financial records.

Panna Grady O'Connor was a patron of writers, primarily poets. Throughout the early to mid-1960s she befriended various writers in New York. After brief relationships with John Wieners and Charles Olson, Panna met Philip O'Connor, with whom she maintained a relationship for over 30 years, until his death in 1998. Shortly after meeting, they moved to France, where Panna still resides. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Panna was known for her parties and her generosity toward poets. The Panna Grady Collection, 1950-2015 (bulk 1960-1970), consists chiefly of correspondence, including letters from William Burroughs, Diane Di Prima, Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Michael Hamburger, Herbert Huncke, Charles Olson, and John Wieners. The collection also contains a number of photographs of Panna with John Wieners and with Charles Olson; a script for a play by Jack Micheline and an annotated manuscript of Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima; an annotated and inscribed broadside, "Hart Crane, Harry Crosby, I See You Going Over the Edge," by John Wieners; and books inscribed to Panna. Panna donated Philip O'Connor's archives to Leed University, but some materials related to his work are included, such as letters from Stephen Spender and a bibliography of O'Connor's work. This collection documents through correspondence Panna's connection to and financial support of writers in New York and London primarily in the 1960s. The letters also reveal the relationships among writers, including collaborations and interactions with each other. Within the series on Correspondence is a file on Parties, which details the elaborate parties given by Panna at her Dakota Building apartment through guest lists, invitations, and responses.

The Some Collection contains manuscripts by poets such as Allen Ginsberg, David Ignatow, Bill Knott, Phillip Lopate, Audre Lorde, Gerard Malanga, Marge Piercy, Charles Simic, James Tate, and John Yau; business records, financial information, mailing lists, artwork, and page layouts; and the editors' correspondence.

Opened in 2006, the Hallwalls Collection contains the Hallwalls Video Collection Preservation Project, featuring recorded performances as well as thousands of items of publications, photographs, artist files, grant applications, business records, calendars, publicity materials, and other ephemera and realia documenting the history of the Contemporary Arts Center.

The Hand and Flower Press collection contains manuscripts by Thomas Blackburn, Tom Boggs, Charles Causley, Arthur Constance, Thomas Fassam, Erica Marx, Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Nott, Juanita Peirse, Rosey E. Pool, and many others; page proofs for the anthologies Black and Unknown Bards and Beyond the Blues; business records including sales and royalty statements, contracts, receipts, ledgers, news clippings, and various documents relating to the production of Beyond the Blues; correspondence; miscellaneous photographs and some original copies of the artwork published in Hand and Flower books.

Greg Haymes (1951-2019) was a writer, musician and visual artist. Born in Buffalo and raised in Tonawanda, NY, he moved to Albany to attend the State University of New York at Albany, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Theatre, with an English minor, emphasizing poetry, in 1972. He remained in the Albany area and worked as a journalist, music critic, and artist until his death. Between 1974 and 1978, Haymes mailed nearly 500 copies of a letter along with return postcards, asking recipients to "describe the sky." The collection comprises 225 original postcards mailed to Haymes as part of the Skymail project, along with 2 notebooks documenting the project.

The Score Collection contains concrete and assemblage poetry, mail art, editorials, criticism, correspondence, and production matter for issues 1-12 of Score magazine. Also included is editorial and production material for broadsides and other publications.

Doug Holder is a poet, teacher, and founder of Ibbetson Street Press. This collection includes correspondence, articles, ephemera, and recorded interviews.

Poet and translator Anselm Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1934. He moved to the United States in 1967 and taught at various universities, including University at Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Colorado, and the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he lived until his death in 2013. Hollo was influenced by the Beat poets and was the author of more than forty books of poetry. His translations include works by Finnish poets Paavo Haavikko and Pentti Saarikoski and Slovene poet Tomaž Šalamun, and this collection includes manuscript material for these translations. Also included is correspondence both personal and business-related, including letters from publishers. The materials in this collection were purchased from a book dealer who had purchased them from Hollo's first wife, Josephine Clare.

The Alan Horvath Collection is mainly composed of correspondence saved from the mid-1970s until Horvath's death in 2010. The collection also contains a small selection of publications, ephemera, and business records relating to three of Alan Horvath's presses: Falling Down Press, Mostly Broken Scabs Press, and Kirpan Press. Additionally, there are selected manuscripts of Horvath's own poetry, writing from high school and college courses, recordings of poetry readings, a piece of artwork, and other personal documents and effects.

The Harry Jacobus collection includes 400 prints of digital art by Jacobus, some of which are manipulations of his paintings and drawings; photographs from San Francisco and travels in Europe and Mexico; a file on the King Ubu Gallery, including photocopied exhibition fliers; correspondence from Jess and other friends and associates; and a digital recording of Robert Duncan's "Foust Foutu" performed at The Six Gallery.

Lisa Jarnot is an American poet, scholar, and teacher. She was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1967, and studied at the University at Buffalo, later earning her MFA from Brown University. She has published multiple collections of poetry as well as the definitive biography, Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus (University of California Press). She has also edited magazines and taught at the Naropa Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College, as well as many independent workshops. The Lisa Jarnot Collection, 1984-2016, represents a broad and comprehensive look at Lisa Jarnot's work as a writer and teacher and includes manuscripts, correspondence, syllabi, and research and drafts for the Robert Duncan biography.

Collection of scrapbooks, poetry, and photographs documenting local items of interest and people of Buffalo and Western New York gathered by James Nichol Johnston for his anthology, The Poets and Poetry of Buffalo. Also includes scrapbooks from Johnston's mother, Jane Nichol Johnston.

Please see the collection website at https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/ Covering the entire span of his artistic life, the University at Buffalo James Joyce Collection is the largest Joyce collection in the world and contains his private library; records documenting the writing of (1922), (1939), (1916), and (1918) as well as the publication of ; correspondence (most significantly between Sylvia Beach and Joyce); portraits and photographs of the Joyce; and personal artifacts. The collection also includes notebooks, sketchbooks, and letters by Joyce's daughter Lucia Joyce.

The Robert Kelly Collection contains an extensive collection of Kelly's autographed and typed manuscripts and notebooks (approximately 58,000 pages); over 4,000 letters to Kelly from such writers as Cid Corman, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Ted Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, and Diane Wakoski; and copies of many of Kelly's letters to others.

The Raymond Ellsworth Larsson Collection contains approximately 800 of the poet's individual manuscript items; 2 notebooks from 1947; letters to Charles D. Abbott and Eugene Magner; miscellaneous clippings; and approximately 3,314 drawings.

The James Laughlin Collection contains typescripts and autograph manuscripts, many with corrections, for approximately 835 poems; and 39 letters from Laughlin to individuals such as Charles D. Abbott, Peter Russell, and Robert Bertholf.

Poet, essayist, editor, translator, and teacher Denise Levertov was an important voice in the American avant-garde and was particularly involved in anti-war and anti-nuclear activism, co-initiating Writers and Artists Protest against the War in Vietnam. She served as poetry editor of the Nation (1961-1962) and Mother Jones (1976-1978) and taught at a number of universities, including City College (CUNY); University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tufts University; Brandeis University; and Stanford University. Poet, editor, and teacher Mark Pawlak was born in Buffalo in 1948. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1960s, where he studied poetry with Denise Levertov. Pawlak and Levertov exchanged correspondence until her death. This collection consists primarily of Levertov's correspondence to Pawlak, spanning years 1970-1993, and also includes materials from Pawlak's time as Levertov's student at MIT.

The Helen Luster Collection contains manuscripts for her nine published books and unpublished manuscripts; correspondence between poets, scientists, science fiction writers, and parapsychologists; material related to her personal and professional relationship with Allen Ginsberg including manuscripts documenting their correspondence and a long poem; notes and documentation of her professional work including founder and president of Los Angeles Poetry Center, readings, and parapsychology involvement; research files on various inspiration for her books and writing; psychic dream journals and paranormal event documentation; photographs; journals, notes, poetry, and coursework from various institutions from New York to San Francisco with the majority being from Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. Elizabeth Chandler (Betty Luster), Helen's sister, and Donna Allan have small files of creative work and estate records near the end of the collection.