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Bruce Curley papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 1352
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
1.4 linear_foot (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Bruce Curley papers, 1979-2012, Ms. Coll. 1352, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1979-2012 (inclusive)
Creator:
Curley, Bruce
Form:
Publications (documents), Poetry, and Poems
Abstract:
Bruce Curley (b. 1955) is an American poet and technical writer. This collection contains literary journals featuring Bruce Curley's poems, as well as a manuscript and an audio recording of Curley reading his work.

Bruce Curley (b. 1955) is an American poet and technical writer. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. His poems have been published in literary journals such as The Arden, Lynx Eye, and Mad Poets Review, and have been collected in anthologies such as Under a Gull's Wing: poems and photographs of the Jersey Shore (1996) and Poems from Farmer's Valley: an anthology celebrating rural life (1997). He lives in Mount Airy, MD.

This collection contains literary journals featuring Bruce Curley's poems, as well as a manuscript published by Down the Shore Press ("On What the Future of Civilization Depends"), an audio recording of Curley reading his work ("The Electric Life"), and one journal (Lungfish) which does not feature Curley's poems.

This collection is arranged alphabetically by title.

Gifts of Bruce Curley, 1996, 2009, and 2019

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Occupation

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Sam Allingham
Finding Aid Date
2018 May 2
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Anthology Magazine, "The Last Rose," page 2, 1997 July-August.
Box 1 Folder 1
Apocalypse 2, "Tomato Madness," page 2, 1996 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 1
American Man, Vol. 2, No. 2, "Returning Home in Fall," page 20, 1981 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 2
Arden, Volume 1, Number 1, "I am the Serbian Sniper," page 64, 1993 Fall/Winter.
Box 1 Folder 3
Arden, Volume 1, Number 2, "Albert Einstein's Light," page 55 (typescript included), 1994 Spring/Summer.
Box 1 Folder 3
Au Courant, Volume 11, "ACP, Poetry, and Technical Writing," page 6, 2000 Summer/Autumn.
Box 1 Folder 4
Baltimore Review, Volume II, Number I, "Timing It Right," page 113, 1998 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 4
Bardsong, Volume 2, Issue 2, "Republican," page 15, 2005 Midwinter.
Box 1 Folder 4
Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, edited by Marguerite M. Striar, " The Broken Silence," page 240, 1998.
Box 1 Folder 5
Electric Life (audio recording on CD), 2001.
Box 1 Folder 24
Poetry (audio recording on CD), 2001.
Box 1 Folder 24
Endless Mountains Review, volume 8, Number 2, "The Clown and the Elephant Trainer, " page 6, 1995.
Box 1 Folder 6
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVI, Number 3, "The Second Transition," pages 9-10, 1979.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVII, Number 2, "The Comedians Choice," page 17, 1980 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVII, Number 3, "The Time and Distance," page 10, 1980 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVII, Number 4, "Gray Will Bordering on Black," page 5, 1980 December.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, "Moments Stolen in Between," page 10, 1981 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVIII, Number 3, "The World Will End Tonight," page 7, 1981 Autumn.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXVIII, Number 4, "Children Stoning a Dog," page 3 and "Words Never Die," page 20, 1981 Christmas.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXIX, Number 2, "Your Eyes," page 20, 1982 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XXXIX, Number 4, "To Serve Acme Ideal Love Christmas Morning," page 22, 1982/1983 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 7
Federal Poet, Volume XL, Number 3, "Your Eyes," page 2, 1983 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 8
Federal Poet, Volume XL, Number 4, "ISMS," page 13, 1983/1984 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 8
Federal Poet, Volume XLI, Number 1, "The Blind Can See," page 7, 1984 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 8
Federal Poet, Volume XLI, Number 4, "Walking on Pine Needles," page 4, 1984/1985 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 8
Federal Poet, Volume XLII, Number 3, "Bonds Too Precious to Break," page 20, 1985 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 8
Feile-Festa, "Girl at the Deli," page 14, 2009 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 9
Feile-Festa, "Screaming Like a Banshee," page 46, 2010 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 9
Frederick County Poetry Contest Winners, "The Clown and the Elephant Trainer, " page 7, 1994.
Box 1 Folder 9
Home Planet News, Volume 1, Number 1, "Reflections on New Surroundings," page 23, 1979.
Box 1 Folder 10
Home Planet News, Volume 1, Number 2, "After Leaving Rita at the Airport," page 15, 1980.
Box 1 Folder 10
Home Planet News, Volume 2, Number 2, "The Act," page 5, 1980.
Box 1 Folder 10
Insomnia and Poetry, "Into the Swale", 1995 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 10
Journal of Civil Defense, Volumes 41, 45-51, articles on civil defense redux; private sector and local government MOUS; active shooters and bomb threats; surviving a house fire; ISIS use of social media; chemical, biological radiological, nuclear, explosives (CBRNe); disaster recovery plans; data situational awareness; hackers; and children and civil defense, 2008-2016.
Box 1 Folder 11-12
KYE zine, Issue No. 4, "Meeting", 1996.
Box 1 Folder 13
KYE zine, Issue No. 5, "My Poetry Hangs in a Donut Shop", 1996.
Box 1 Folder 13
Laughing Unicorn, Volume 11, Number 1, "Gray Will Bordering On Black", 1980.
Box 1 Folder 13
Lungfull!, Issue 19, 2012.
Box 1 Folder 14
Lynx Eye, Volume III, Number 1, " At the Diner," page 79, 1996 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 15
Lynx Eye, Volume III, Number 4, " The Need for Saturday Poetry," page 12, 1996 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 15
Lynx Eye, Volume IX, Number 3, " At the Diner II," page 56, 1997 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 15
Lynx Eye, Volume VI, Number 4, " The Kind of Woman to Marry," page 28, 1999 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 15
Lynx Eye, Volume IX, Number 2, " To Stretch a Potato," page 40, 2002 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 16
Lynx Eye, Volume XII, Number 1-2, " Homeland Security Parable," page 5, 2005 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 16
Mad Poet's Review, Number 7, "Poetry in Wood," page 15, 1993 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 17
Mad Poet's Review, Number 8, "The Comedians Choice," page 16, 1993 Fall.
Box 1 Folder 17
Mad Poet's Review, Number 11, "Lost," page 23, 1996.
Box 1 Folder 17
Mad Poet's Review, Number 12, "Timing it Right," page 5, 1997.
Box 1 Folder 17
Main Street Rag, Volume 3, Number 4, "Cream Donut," page13, 1998 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 18
Neovictorian/Cochlea, Volume 1, Number 1, "Binary Star Dance," page13, 1996 Spring-Summer.
Box 1 Folder 18
"On What the Future of Civilization Depends" (collection of poems), typescript, undated.
Box 1 Folder 19
Pannus Index, Volume 1, Number 1, "Poem to the Scholars of these Poems," page12, 1996 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 20
Pannus Index, Volume 1, Number 3, "Seamus Heaney's Greatest Poem," "Lie Down, Red Hugh, Lie Down," "Giving Speech to the Silent," "Jack and Red Hugh O'Donnell," and "Sometimes I Get It," pages 50-62, 1997.
Box 1 Folder 20
Pannus Index, Volume 2, Number 2, "The Fruit of the Orchard," and "The Last Rose," pages 15-17, 1999.
Box 1 Folder 20
Poems from Farmers Valley, "The Fruit of the Orchard," page 80, 1997.
Box 1 Folder 21
Potomac Review, Volume 2, Number 3, "The Sleep of the Angels," page 33, 1995 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 22
Potomac Review, Volume 3, Number 3, "Mid-Night Milk Run," page 69, 1996 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 22
Potomac Review, Volume 3, Number 1, "Coffee Money," and "Coyote's Lament," pages 40-41, 1996 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 22
Potomac Review, Volume 4, Number 3, "The Splendid Routine," page 69, 1997 Summer.
Box 1 Folder 22
Potomac Review, Volume VII, Number 1, "The Electric Life," page 60, 1999-2000 Winter.
Box 1 Folder 22
Pudding 30, "Dreaming of Maytag," page 36, 1996.
Box 1 Folder 23
RACS (Rent-A-Chicken Speaks, "Poetry in Wood," page 14, 1995 Spring.
Box 1 Folder 23
Red Booth Review, "Roy Orbison Lament," page 23, 2001.
Box 1 Folder 23
Spring, Number 1, "Moments Stolen In Between", 1979.
Box 1 Folder 23
My Double Life: Musings on Sarah Bernhardt, by Eric Finzi, "With No Apologies," inside cover, 2007.
Box 1 Folder 23
Rain Dog Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, "Coyote's Lament," page 30, 1997 Winter.
Box 2 Folder 1
Robin's Nest, Volume 1, Issue 3, " World Events", 1996 March.
Box 2 Folder 2
Rockford Review, Volume XIII, Number 3, "Michelangelo and the Pope," page 13, 1994 Summer.
Box 2 Folder 3
Rockford Review, Volume XV, Number 1, "Everybody Should Have An Aunt Pat," page 7, 1996 Winter.
Box 2 Folder 3
Texts--Sound Texts, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, "Factory Mishaps," page 372, 1980.
Box 2 Folder 4
Town Talk, articles about Curley, 1992-1993.
Box 2 Folder 5
Under a Gull's Wing: Poems and Photographs of the Jersey Shore, edited by Rich Youmans and Frank Finale, "On What the Future of Civilization Depends," page 169, 1996.
Box 2 Folder 6
Voices Israel, Volume 23, "The Swale," page 68, 1995.
Box 2 Folder 7
Weavings 2000, edited by Michael S. Glaser, "The Kind of Woman to Marry," page 161, 2000.
Box 2 Folder 8
Whelks Walk Review, Volume 1, Number 2, "The Irish Brigade Memorial," page 64, 1998.
Box 2 Folder 8
WordWrights, Number 16, "Viking Demons," "Screaming Like a Banshee," "Permanently Bent Back," and "Girl at the Deli," page 16, 1999 Summer.
Box 2 Folder 9
WordWrights, Number 19, "Downed Wires Along the Tracks," "Domestic Bliss for a Manic Depressive," "Elegy for Bobby Sands, May 5, 1981," and "The Wonder of Poetry," page 53, 2000.
Box 2 Folder 9
WordWrights, Numbers 23 and 24, "My Hip Uncle Thor," "The Smoker and the Blue Jay," "Technology's Potential," and "Consider Lithium," page 63, 2001.
Box 2 Folder 9

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