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Series I: Correspondence, circa 1962-2014

This series includes letters to and from James Sherry and Roof and Segue Books. Files are arranged roughly by year or date range in folders; some folders contain related drafts and partial manuscripts; some letters are undated. Other correspondence is found throughout the collection with related material. Correspondents of note include Michael Anderson, Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, David Bromige, Nicole Brossard, Lee Ann Brown, Abigail Child, Clark Coolidge, Alan Davies, Dubravka Djuric, Ken Edwards, Larry Eigner, Benjamin Friedlander, Norman Fischer, Peter Ganick, Bob Grenier, Barbara Guest, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Erica Hunt, Susan Howe, Peter Inman, Joel Kuszai, Michael Lally, Hank Lazer, Jackson Mac Low, Tom Mandel, Bernadette Mayer, Steve McCaffery, Douglas Messerli, Eileen Myles, Gil Ott, Bob Perelman, Nick Piombino, Joan Retallack, Kit Robinson, Tom Savage, Leslie Scalapino, Lee Sherry, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ron Silliman, Fiona Templeton, Diane Ward, Anne Waldman, Rosmarie Waldrop, Barrett Watten, Hannah Weiner, and Zhang Ziqing.

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Box 1 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1962-1963

Contains personal letters from school friends and Daniel Sherry.

Box 1 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1976

Contains personal and professional letters from Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Lee Sherry.

Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1977

Contains personal and professional letters from Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Clark Coolidge, Barbara Guest, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Steve McCaffery, Douglas Messerli, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Tom Savage, Ron Silliman, Anne Waldman, and Barrett Watten.

Box 1 Folder 4 Correspondence, Circa 1970-1978

Personal correspondence from Daniel Sherry; includes a landlord's report of lease.

Box 1 Folder 5-6 Correspondence, 1978, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Larry Eigner, Norman Fischer, Bob Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Dick Higgins, P. Inman, Michael Lally, Douglas Messerli, Jackson Mac Low, Steve McCaffery, Eileen Myles, Kit Robinson, and Ron Silliman; contains printed materials on copyright laws.

Box 1 Folder 7 Correspondence, 1979

Contains personal and professional letters from Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Norman Fischer, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Bob Grenier, Michael Lally, Tom Mandel, Douglas Messerli, Steve McCaffery, Gil Ott, Tom Savage, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ron Silliman, Diane Ward, Barrett Watten; correspondence from President Carter's White House Director, Arnie Miller, November 9.

Box 1 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1980

Contains personal and professional letters from Tom Beckett, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Abigail Child, Ken Edwards, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Steve McCaffery, Douglas Messerli, Gil Ott, Joan Retallack, Leslie Scalapino, Lee Sherry, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten.

Box 1 Folder 9-10 Correspondence, 1981, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Bruce Andrews, Tom Beckett, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Abigail Child, Françoise de Laroque, Ken Edwards, Lyn Hejinian, Erica Hunt, Douglas Messerli, Gil Ott, Kit Robinson, Leslie Scalapino, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten.

Box 1 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1982

Contains personal and professional letters from Michael Davidson, Françoise de Laroque, Lyn Hejinian, Gil Ott, Marshall Reiss, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ron Silliman, and Barry Watten.

Box 1 Folder 12 Correspondence, 1983-1984

Contains personal and professional letters from Bruce Andrews, Rae Armantrout, Tom Beckett, Charles Bernstein, Abigail Child, Alan Davies, Françoise de Laroque, Peter Ganick, Lyn Hejinian, Douglas Messerli, Kit Robinson, Tom Savage, Lee Sherry, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten.

Box 1 Folder 13 Correspondence, Circa 1981-1985

Contains personal and professional letters from Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Françoise de Laroque, Peter Ganick, Lyn Hejinian, and Tom Savage.

Box 1 Folder 14 Correspondence, 1985

Contains personal and professional letters from Tom Beckett, Alan Davies, Peter Ganick, Bob Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, P. Inman, David Lee, Steve McCaffery, Eileen Myles, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten.

Box 1 Folder 15 Postcards, 1975-1986

Box 1 Folder 16-17 Correspondence, 1986, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Tom Beckett, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ken Edwards, Jack Foley, Peter Ganick, Bob Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Hank Lazer, David Lee, Jackson Mac Low, Steve McCaffery, Douglas Messerli, Gil Ott, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten.


Box 2 Folder 1-2 Correspondence, 1987, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Bruce Andrews, Alan Davies, Ken Edwards, Larry Eigner, Norman Fischer, Benjamin Friedlander, Peter Ganick, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Jeanne Lance, Hank Lazer, David Lee, Steve McCaffery, Gil Ott, Joan Retallack, Kit Robinson, Lee Sherry, Diane Ward, Tazewell Wilson.

Box 2 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1988

Contains personal and professional letters from Bruce Andrews, Abigail Child, Ken Edwards, Norman Fischer, Jeanne Lance, Hank Lazer, Jackson Mac Low, Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Lee Sherry, Rosmarie Waldrop, Diane Ward, and Tazewell Wilson.

Box 2 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1989

Contains personal and professional letters from Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Jeanne Lance, and Barrett Watten.

Box 2 Folder 5-6 Correspondence, 1990, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Nicole Brossard, Ray DiPalma, Dubravka Djuric, Larry Eigner, Benjamin Friedlander, Lyn Hejinian, Joel Kuszai, Jeanne Lance, Hank Lazer, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Leslie Scalapino, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Wendy Walker.

Box 2 Folder 7-8 Correspondence, 1991, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Michael Anderson, Charles Bernstein, David Bromige, Nicole Brossard, Lee Ann Brown, Abigail Child, Ray DiPalma, Dubravka Djuric, Benjamin Friedlander, Peter Ganick, Lyn Hejinian, Joel Kuszai, Hank Lazer, Tom Mandel, Bernadette Mayer, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Wendy Walker.

Box 2 Folder 9-10 Correspondence, 1992, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Michael Anderson, Martine Bellen, Charles Bernstein, Dubravka Djuric, Ken Edwards, Bob Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Joel Kuszai, Hank Lazer, Tom Mandel, Douglas Messerli, Joan Retallack, Spencer Selby, Leslie Scalapino, Wendy Walker, and Diane Ward.

Box 2 Folder 11-12 Correspondence, 1993, 2 folders

Contains personal and professional letters from Tom Beckett, Charles Bernstein, Michael Davidson, Larry Eigner, Norman Fischer, Lyn Hejinian, Joel Kuszai, Hank Lazer, Andy Levy, Steve McCaffery, Daniel Sherry, Wendy Walker, Diane Ward, Hannah Weiner, Tazewell Wilson, and Zhang Ziqing.

Box 2 Folder 13 Correspondence, 1994-1997

Contains personal and professional letters from Manuel Brito, Michael Davidson, Dubravka Djuric, Ken Edwards, Larry Eigner, Joel Kuszai, Hank Lazer, Steve McCaffery, Douglas Messerli, Jena Osman, Kit Robinson, Juliana Spahr, Anne Tardos, Jeff Twitchell, Rosmarie Waldrop, Dianne Ward, and Zhang Ziqing; contains a portrait of James Sherry.

Box 2 Folder 14 Correspondence, 1994-2000

Contains personal and professional correspondence and related material from Peter Ganick, Nick Piombino, Fiona Templeton, Zhang Ziqing, and others.

Box 2 Folder 15 Correspondence, 2000-2002, 2010

Box 2 Folder 16 Undated Correspondence, circa 1980s-1990s

Contains personal and professional letters from Abigail Child and Leslie Scalapino.

Box 2 Folder 17 Miscellaneous Correspondence and Related Material, 1977, 1981, 1985, 2001-2005, 2012-2014

Contains manuscript corrections for an essay by James Sherry titled "The Poetic Argument," notes, and correspondence relating to the Segue reading series, the French Publisher's Agency, and other publishers and foundations for the arts; a letter from Michael Coffey to Robert Creeley; forms from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding an approved petition for a nonimmigrant worker.

Box 2 Folder 18 Miscellaneous Correspondence and Related Material, 1998-2008

Contains personal and professional correspondence from Cliff Fyman, Lyn Hejinian, Bernadette Mayer, Connie Robins, Lee Sherry, Fiona Templeton, and Bob Quatrone.

Box 2 Folder 19 Miscellaneous Glossy Postcards, Circa 1980-1985, 2012


Box 19 Folder 7 Rheingold, Howard -- Correspondence and Related Material, Circa 1971

Includes experimental written pornography.


Box 2 Folder 20 Zhang Ziqing/张子清 -- Correspondence and Related Material, 1992-1994

Correspondence with Charles Bernstein, and Zhang Ziqing; contains an interview with Marjorie Perloff.