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Kentucky Poetry Project Collection

Box Listing

Box 1

  1. Adams, Leonie — The Wood
  2. Aiken, Conrad — Three Voices at the Meridian
  3. Antoninus, O.P. — Missa Defunctorum
  4. Barker, Eric — Childhood
  5. Barnstone, Willis — I Seek
  6. Beloof, Robert Lawrence — Son
  7. Berrigan, Daniel — The Spirit that Speaks in Us
  8. Bevington, Helen — A Change of Sky
  9. Booth, Philip — A Refusal of Still Perfections
  10. Brooks, Gwendolyn — from A Street in Bronzeville
  11. Carrier, Constance — Lisa
  12. Carruth, Hayden — The Wild Swans at Norfolk
  13. Ciardi, John — Gulls Land and Cease to Be, An article from the Saturday Review on Robert Frost
  14. Clemens, Cyril — Picture of A.E. Houseman, Autograph of C.C.
  15. Coblentz, Stanton A. — As Years Go By
  16. Conquest, Robert — Byron's Sex Life, Generalities
  17. Coxe, Louis — Barred Owl
  18. Cunningham, J.V. — When Shall I Be Without Report
  19. Davenport, Mariana B. — Suspended Moment
  20. Dehn, Paul — Kaminos Rhodes
  21. Derleth, August — English Violets, Sugar Bush by Moonlight
  22. Deutsch, Babette — Lizard at Pompeii
  23. Dickey, James — At Darien Bridge
  24. Dugan, Alan — Variation on a Theme by Stevens
  25. Dyment, Clifford — The Raven
  26. Engle, Paul — You Can't Be Wise
  27. Feldman, Irving — The Prophet
  28. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence — Fragment of a Poem 8/62
  29. Fitzell, Lincoln — O'Clock
  30. De Forde, Miriam Allen — Coronation
  31. Francis, Robert — Museum Vases, Old Man's Confession of Faith
  32. Frost, Robert — photocopy of Extrication
  33. Gershwin, Ira — Love is Sweeping the Country
  34. Gibbs, Barbara — New Green Chapel
  35. Gidlow, Elsa — Christmas on Druid Heights
  36. Ginsberg, Louis — Autumn Leaf, Attic
  37. Gransden, K.W. — An Interview
  38. Greene, Paul — The Seekers
  39. Guest, Barbara — Piazzas
  40. Gullans, Charles — Epigram: Third Generation
  41. Gunn, Thom — Flying Above California
  42. Hamburger, Michael — Emblem
  43. Hendry, James Findlay — Love's Winter, Hero and Leander
  44. Hesketh, Phoebe — Heron, The Fox
  45. Hine, Daryl — Plain Fore
  46. Hoffman, Daniel Gerald — In that High House
  47. Honig, Edwin — The Marriage
  48. Hope, A.D. — The Lamp and the Jar
  49. Howes, Barbara — Troy Weight Taken, The Critic
  50. Hughes, Langston — Small Memory
  51. Hugo, Richard — The Gold Man on the Beckler
  52. Ignatow, David — Sunday at the State Hospital
  53. Johnson, Geoffrey — Partition, At One
  54. Justice, Donald — Three Dreams of Water
  55. Kinnell, Galway — Flower Herding on Mount Monadrock
  56. Knight, G. Wilson — Dawn, In Tewkesbury Abbey, On the Limitation of Democracy
  57. Kumin, Maxine — Morning Swim
  58. Layton, Irving — On the Assasination of President Kennedy
  59. Lee, Laurie — Letter
  60. Lehmann, John — In the Museum, Sunnir: Amalfi
  61. Levi, Peter — Letter
  62. Lindsay, Jack — William Blake After Two Centuries of Life
  63. Logan, John — On Reading Camus in March
  64. Lowenfels, Walter — From a Letter to the President
  65. McAuley, James P. — St. John's Park, New Town
  66. Madge, Charles H. — Travel Poem
  67. Mannes, Marya — Death of an Astronaut or Requescat in Orbitum
  68. Mayo, E.L. — Wagon Train, Joy of Man's Desiring
  69. Meacham, Harry M. — Mobile, Photo of Ezra Pound
  70. Merchant, Jane — American Lament
  71. Merriam, Eve — Some Uses for Poetry, Inside a Poem, The Words and Music of My Mother
  72. Merrill, James — Sundown and Starlight
  73. Middleton, Christopher — Song about Liebknecht in Brixton
  74. Mills, Clark — The Green Gown
  75. Moore, Marianne — O to Be a Dragon
  76. Morgan, Edwin — The Death of Marilyn Monroe
  77. Moss, Howard — The Pruned Tree
  78. Nash, Ogden — A Man Can Complain Can't He (A Lament)
  79. Nemerov, Howard — One of the Predecessors of Perseus
  80. Nicholson, Norman C. — Five Minutes
  81. Nims, John Frederick — The Boathouse
  82. Nitchie, George W. — Expressway
  83. O'Conor, Norreys Jephson — Meditation
  84. Pack, Robert — The Farm Dream: Expecting a Child
  85. Pennant, Edmund — Elegy for Clown
  86. Pinto, Vivian de Sola — Dawn in Flanders, In a Green Grocer's
  87. Pitter, Ruth — The Ermine

Box 2

  1. Plimpton, Harriet — To Migrating Duck and Mole, Tryplych ( from Out of the North)
  2. Press, John — Design
  3. Pudney, John — For Johnny
  4. Rawlings, Margaret — To a Friend
  5. Read, Herbert — Any Crucifixium
  6. Redgrove, Peter — The Young Forester Protests, Mother, Spring
  7. Reid, Alastair — Outlook Uncertain
  8. Roseliep, Raymond — A is for Apollo
  9. Sackville-West, V. (Hon.) — This is the Only Way to Keep a Diary
  10. Sansom, Clive — The Woman of Samaria ( from The Witnesses)
  11. Sarton, May — The Beautiful Pauses, Song ( from the Law of Silence)
  12. Saul, George Brandon — Little and Lonely Under the Evening Star, Mens Disconsolate
  13. Schevill, James — Out of Old Records
  14. Sergeant, Howard — The Sea-Dwellers
  15. Sexton, Anne — I Remember
  16. Silkin, Jon — Something as been Teased from me
  17. Simpson, Louis — The Inner Part
  18. Singh, Dr. Karan (His Highness Maharajah) — In Memoriam, Poem in Dogri
  19. Smith, Iain Crichton — The Bore
  20. Snodgrass, W.D. — The Men's Room in the College Chapel
  21. Sobiloff, Hyman J. — My Mother's Table
  22. Spingarn, Lawrence P. — Walrich, The Picnic at Aghia Marina
  23. Stafford, William — Ozymandias's Brother, During the Evening News
  24. Stallworthy, Jon — Here Comes Sir George
  25. Stanford, Derek — Peter
  26. Stephens, Alan — A Clear Night Sky
  27. Stevenson, Lionel — The Meridian of Greenwich
  28. Summers, Hal — Train Halt
  29. Swartz, Robert Teale — Letter
  30. Tagliabue, John:
    The Young President Generously Calls Our Democratic Inner Light to the Air's Bright Parliament, March 1964
    Good Friday, 1964
    Sometimes
    In the little Monastery
    A Delicate Hint of Spring
    Can You Detect the Guardian Angel
    The Gift
    Business is More Glorious When You Know Your Story
    The Racket That Radiance Makes
    High Burst
    Ability Shining in Graceful Motion
    If
    NOH Actors Quietly and Strongly Stomping Away on the Old Plantation
    Weather Can Talk Whether You Think So or Not
    Seasons-Reasons
    A Fireman
    Keep Going Said the Evening
    If All that Went
    Dragon
    To be Read
    A Blade of Grass
    The First Word

Box 3

  1. Tate, Allen — The Meaning of Life
  2. Tate, Isabella Gardner — Letter from Slough Pond
  3. Thompson, Dorothy M. — Request, Meeting
  4. Tomlinson, Charles — In Longfellow's Library
  5. Tonks, Rosemary — Love Territory
  6. Tremayne, Sydney — Space Travel
  7. Tusiani, Joseph:
    Manuscript of Machiavelli's Lust and Liberty
    Of Liquids and Solids
    Now in the Calm of the Year
    Aesopiana
    Simple Operation
    After the Storm
    The Enamel Door
    Minima Theologica
    Apollo and Daphne
    For Lack of Wing
    Evening Song for a Grammarian
    A Trip to Washington
  8. Untermeyer, Jean Starr — The Anguish
  9. Untermeyer, Louis — Coal Fire
  10. Van Doren, Mark — All Seasons, Once in Kentucky
  11. Wagoner, David — The Night of the Sad Women
  12. Wain, John B. — Sonnet
  13. Wheelock, John Hall — Evening Star
  14. Whistler, Laurence — The Haunting
  15. Whittemore, Reed — What was It Like
  16. Wilbur, Richard — Two Voices in a Meadow
  17. Wilder, Amos N. — Ripe is the Harvest translation of a poem by Fr. Holderlin
  18. Wright, Judith — Gum-Trees Stripping
  19. Original List of over 600 poets asked to participate in the project
  20. Original letter of Lawrence Thompson to ask for poetry manuscripts, March 17, 1964

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