Subject: Poets, American--21st century - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 46 linear foot (46 boxes) and 9 oversize box
Abstract:: British-born poet and collagist John Digby (born 1938) immigrated to the United States in 1978 and lives on Long Island with his wife Joan Digby, whose creative work is also represented in this collection. The John Digby papers supplement reflects Digby's prolific artistic and literary career, Joan Digby's creative and professional work, and their collaboration as editors and contributors to their imprint, The Feral Press, between 2002-2016. The Digbys published nearly 100 authors and artists during this time, featuring poetry (including translations into English), fiction, and essays from both emerging and established writers.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .3 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: The Bernard McKenna Richard Blanco papers comprises .3 linear feet of typescripts, printed emails, programs, notes, and photographs pertaining to the literary output of Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco (born 1968). The collection was compiled by University of Delaware English professor Bernard McKenna in the course of his longtime friendship with Blanco.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.16 linear foot (4 boxes), 1 oversize box, and 1 oversize folder
Abstract:: Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), known early in his career as LeRoi Jones, was a widely published African American writer who produced poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. Much of Baraka's work addressed the subjects of Black liberation and white racism. The Amiri Baraka papers comprise the author's writings, sketchbooks, and artwork, as well as correspondence and ephemera related to his involvement in theatrical and film productions.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 4.66 linear foot (6 boxes)
Abstract:: Fleda Brown (born 1944) is an American poet, scholar, and educator, and was poet laureate for the state of Delaware from 2001-2007. The Fleda Brown papers, spanning circa 1950-2014 (bulk 1963-2014), comprise early works, poem drafts and notes, journals, correspondence, and materials related to Brown's professional life as a poet and professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 2.83 linear foot (4 boxes) and 1 oversize folder
Abstract:: Larry Kearney (born 1943) is an American poet and author who has published numerous poetry collections, prose, and nonfiction works. Kearney is associated with a circle of San Francisco poets and writers he befriended in the 1960s that included Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, and Richard Brautigan. The Larry Kearney papers comprise the author's typescript and manuscript drafts of poems, playscripts, prose, and autobiographical works, both published and unpublished. The collection also includes letters and postcards to Kearney and a small amount of his personal items and ephemera.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.33 linear foot
Abstract:: This collection consists of correspondence between American poets Anne Harding Woodworth and W.D. Snodgrass dating from July 1999 to January 2009. Woodworth and Snodgrass discussed the writing, revision, and publication of their poetry as well as Woodworth's analytical essay on Snodgrass's The Fuehrer Bunker.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.4 linear foot (1 box) and 1 oversize folder
Abstract:: This collection of American and English poetry readings fliers, posters, and cards comprises promotional ephemera documenting live poetry events in America and England. The collection contains posters, fliers, postcards, calendars, newsletters, programs and other printed and hand-drawn ephemera documenting the activities of poets, live performance venues, and literary networks largely associated with the California and New York experimental poetry scenes.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 8 linear foot (8 boxes) and 2 oversize box
Abstract:: Brian C. Felder (1945-2021) was an American poet who had over 400 poems published in small press literary journals, magazines, and anthologies between 1969 and 2021. From 1969 to 1971, he was co-editor of The Bummer, a Milwaukee-based literary magazine. The Brian C. Felder small press poetry archive contains issues of periodicals in which Felder's poems were published between 1969 and 2021, correspondence concerning his accepted submissions, logs and indices of his submission history, and material related to small press publishers in the early 1970s.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

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