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Series VII: Photographs, 1990-2015
Series VIII: Juvenilia and Other Childhood Materials, 1960-1977
Series IX: Audio and Digital Materials, 1994-2017

Lucie Brock-Broido Papers, 1965-2017, bulk 1981-2013

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Series I: Writing and Related Book Production, 1970-2017

This series contains all material related to the completion of Brock-Broido's four volumes of poetry; A Hunger, The Master Letters, Trouble in Mind, and Stay, Illusion, each corresponding subseries follows the earliest drafts of poems included in each book to the final proofs produced by Knopf. Each subseries also includes the contract, editorial correspondence, publicity, and reviews.

Creative prose by Brock-Broido is located in this series, including materials related to her introduction to Thomas James' Letter to A Stranger.

Works written before the publication of Brock-Broido's first book are organized here in the subseries "Early Work."

Any personal writing, such as diary entries and journaling, can be found in personal and biographical materials.

Subseries I.1: A Hunger, 1983-1989


Box 1 Folder 1 Process Notes, undated

Manuscript Drafts, 1983-1988

Box 1 Folder 2-3 Early Drafts, 1983-1985, 2 folders

Early handwritten notebooks.

Box 1 Folder 4-5 Draft 1, 1986, 2 folders

Box 1 Folder 6 Draft 2, 1986

Box 1 Folder 7-10 Draft 3, March 1987, 4 folders

Box 1 Folder 11 Draft 4, 1987

Box 1 Folder 12 Draft 5, January, 1988

Box 1 Folder 13 Draft 6, April, 1988

Box 1 Folder 14-15 Draft 7, April, 1988, 2 folders

Box 1 Folder 16 Draft 8, April, 1988

Box 1 Folder 17 Draft 9, May, 1988

Box 1 Folder 18 Front and Back Matter Drafts, 1988

Box 1 Folder 19-23 Proofs, 1988, 5 folders

Box 1 Folder 24 Covers, 1988

Box 1 Folder 25-30 Assorted Poem Drafts labeled "Originals", 1981-1987, 6 folders

Box 1 Folder 31 A Hunger: Selected Poems, 1988

Correspondence, 1983-1989


Box 2 Folder 1-2 Early, 1983-1987, 2 folders

Includes correspondence with Alice Quinn, the manuscript's original editor at Knopf.

Box 2 Folder 3-5 Harry Ford, 1987-1989, 3 folders

Box 2 Folder 6 Post Publication, 1988-1989

Box 2 Folder 7 Knopf Distrubution List, 1988

Box 2 Folder 8 Publicity, 1988

Box 2 Folder 9 Reviews, 1988-1989

Box 2 Folder 10 Domestic Mysticism Exchange, 1988

Drafts of essays with commentary between Brock-Broido, Bonnie Costello, and Alicia Ostriker regarding Costello's essay "Domestic Mysticism" and contemporary poetry by women.

Box 2 Folder 11 "Elective Mutes", 1987

Reproduction of single poem published in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly (1987).

Box 2 Folder 12 Contract, 1987

Box 2 Folder 13 A Hunger Annotated Copy, 1988

Brock-Broidio's copy with notes.

Subseries I.2: The Master Letters, 1988-1996

Box 2 Folder 14 Process Notes, 1993-1995

Manuscript Drafts

Box 2 Folder 15-18 Early Drafts, 1988-1994, 4 folders

Box 2 Folder 19 Draft 1, February, 1993

Box 2 Folder 20 Draft 2, 1993

Box 2 Folder 21 Draft 3, 1993

Box 2 Folder 22-24 Draft 4, 1993, 3 folders

Box 2 Folder 25-27 Draft 5, January, 1994, 3 folders


Box 3 Folder 1 Draft 6, January, 1994

Box 3 Folder 2-4 Draft 7, March, 1994, 3 folders

Box 3 Folder 5-19 Draft 8, April, 1994, 15 folders

Multiple manuscripts drafts sent between Brock-Broido, Helen Vendler, and Harry Ford.

Box 3 Folder 20 Draft 9, May, 1994

Box 3 Folder 21 Draft 10, January, 1995

Box 3 Folder 22 Draft 11, March, 1995

Box 3 Folder 23 Draft 12, 1995

Box 3 Folder 24 Draft 13, 1995

Box 3 Folder 25 Draft 14, March, 1995

Box 3 Folder 26 Front and Back Matter Drafts, July, 1995

Box 3 Folder 27-28 Draft 15, 1995, 2 folders

Box 3 Folder 29-30 Draft 16, 1995, 2 folders

Box 3 Folder 31-32 Draft 17, August, 1995, 2 folders

Box 3 Folder 33-35 Draft 18, September, 1995, 3 folders

Box 3 Folder 36 Draft 19, 1994-1995

Floppy disks labeled "Master Letters" with revisions from May 1994-April 1995.

Box 3 Folder 37-38 Proofs, 1995, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 1-2 Covers, 1995, 2 folders

Poem Drafts

Box 4 Folder 3-17 Assorted Poem Drafts, 1988-1993, 15 folders

Multiple drafts of individual poems found in box labeled "The Master Letters." Original order preserved.

Box 4 Folder 18 "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"

Multiple drafts of individual poem.

Box 4 Folder 19 "Housekeeping"

Multiple drafts of individual poem.

Box 4 Folder 20 "Am Moor"

Multiple drafts of individual poem.

Box 4 Folder 21 Annotated Poems, 1995

Folder with drafts of poems from The Master Letters and A Hunger and a note addressed to Harry Ford. Labeled "For Harry, 20 January 1995." Oder preserved.

Box 4 Folder 22 Knopf Production, 1995

Box 4 Folder 23 Emily Dickinson's "Master Letters" Reproduction and Rights, 1995

Correspondence, 1992-1996

Box 4 Folder 24 Harry Ford, 1992-1996

Box 4 Folder 25 Editorial, 1991-1995

Box 4 Folder 26 Post Publication, 1996-1997

Box 4 Folder 27 Publicity, 1995

Box 4 Folder 28 Reviews, 1995-1996

Box 4 Folder 29 Interviews, 1995-1998

Box 4 Folder 30 "Agni Document Series with Tom Sleigh", 1996

Box 4 Folder 31 Contract, 1995

Subseries I.3: Trouble in Mind, 1988-2004

Box 4 Folder 32 Process Material, undated

Manuscript Drafts, 1997-2003

Early Drafts, 1997-2002

One volume in Box #4 and three leather-bound volumes stored separately in Boxes 25, 26, and 27.

Box 4 Folder 33 Early Drafts, 1997 November 22 - 2000 January 18, 1 Volumes


Box 25 Early Drafts, 1999 October 20 - December 16, 1 Volumes


Box 26 Early Drafts, 1999 December 24 - 2000 November 9, 1 Volumes


Box 27 Early Drafts, 2000 November 14 - 2002 October 16, 1 Volumes


Box 4 Folder 34 Draft 1, 2003

Box 4 Folder 35-37 Draft 2, May, 2003, 3 folders

Box 4 Folder 38-39 Draft 3, September, 2003, 2 folders

Box 4 Folder 40-41 Draft 4, October, 2003, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 1-2 Draft 5, 2003, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 3-4 Draft 6, November, 2003, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 5 Draft 7, 2003

Floppy disks labeled "L: IMPT TIM/everything except sm. changes from 1st and 2nd pass"

Box 5 Folder 6 Front and Back Matter Drafts, 2003

Box 5 Folder 7 Proofs, 2003

Box 5 Folder 8 Covers, 2003

Poem Drafts, 1988-2000

Box 5 Folder 9-13 "Drafts of Trouble in Mind", 1988-1997, 5 folders

Multiple manuscript and individual poem drafts found in box labeled "Drafts of Trouble in Mind." Order preserved.

Box 5 Folder 14-20 Assorted Poem Drafts, 1988-1997, 7 folders

Individual poem drafts found together in one box. Order preserved.

Box 5 Folder 21 Annotated Poems

Box 5 Folder 22 "Self Deliverance by Lion"

Multiple drafts of individual poem.

Correspondence, 2000-2005

Box 5 Folder 23 Deborah Garrison, 2000-2002

Box 5 Folder 24 Post Publication, 2004-2007

Box 5 Folder 25 Publicity, 2004

Box 5 Folder 26 Reviews, 2004-2005

Box 5 Folder 27 Contract, 2002

Subseries I.4: Stay, Illusion, 2007-2015

Box 5 Folder 28 Process Material, undated

Manuscript Drafts, 2007-2013

Early Drafts, 2007-2012

Four leather-bound notebooks, plus one additional notebook with what appears to be related material in the 2012 entries.


Box 28 Early Drafts, 2007 October 7 - 2008 January 1, 1 Volumes


Box 29 Early Drafts, 2008 October 25 - 2009 October 31, 1 Volumes


Box 30 Early Drafts, 2009 November 1 - 2011 October 28, 1 Volumes


Box 31 Early Drafts, 2011 October 31 - 2012 December 31, 1 Volumes


Box 32 Early Drafts, 2012 October 27 - 2017 January 22, 1 Volumes

This notebook includes several entries for 2012 that appear related to Stay, Illusion.


Box 5 Folder 29 Draft 1, 2011

Box 5 Folder 30 Draft 2, September, 2011

Box 5 Folder 31-32 Draft 3, May, 2012, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 33-34 Draft 4, September, 2012, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 35-36 Draft 5, October, 2012, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 37-38 Draft 6, November, 2012, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 39-41 Draft 7, December, 2012, 3 folders

Box 5 Folder 42 Draft 8, January, 2013

Box 5 Folder 43-44 Draft 9, February, 2013, 2 folders

Box 5 Folder 45-47 Draft 10, February, 2013, 3 folders


Box 6 Folder 1 Draft 11, March, 2013

Box 6 Folder 2-4 Draft 12, May, 2013, 3 folders

Box 6 Folder 5-8 Draft 13, May, 2013, 4 folders

Box 6 Folder 9-11 Draft 14, July, 2013, 3 folders

Box 6 Folder 12-13 Draft 15, July, 2013, 2 folders

Box 6 Folder 14 Front and Back Matter Drafts, 2013

Box 6 Folder 15-19 Formatting Drafts, 2013, 5 folders

Box 6 Folder 20 Covers, 2013

Box 6 Folder 21-33 Assorted Poem Drafts, undated, 13 folders

Loose poem drafts found in multiple folders labeled "Stay, Illusion drafts." Original order preserved.

Correspondence, 2008-2015

Box 6 Folder 34 Deborah Garrison, 2008-2013

Box 6 Folder 35 Editorial, 2012(?)

Box 6 Folder 36 Post Publication, 2013

Box 6 Folder 37 Publicity, 2013

Box 6 Folder 38 Reviews, 2013-2015

Box 6 Folder 39 Interviews, 2013

Box 6 Folder 40 Contract, 2012

Subseries I.5: Soul Keeping Company, 2007-2011

This subseries contains material related to Soul Keeping Company (2010), a book of poetry selected from Brock-Broido's first three collections, published by Carcanet Press in the United Kingdom.

Box 6 Folder 41-42 Draft, 2010, 2 folders

Box 6 Folder 43 Table of Contents Drafts, 2007

Box 6 Folder 44 Correspondence, 2005-2011

Box 6 Folder 45 Author's Questionnaire, 2009

Box 6 Folder 46 Covers, 2005-2011

Subseries I.6: Prose, 1989-2017

This subseries includes reproductions of Brock-Broido's published prose writing, one unpublished prose draft, and material related to Brock-Broido's introduction to Thomas James' Letters to A Stranger (Graywolf, 2008).

Box 6 Folder 47 "Myself a Kangaoo Among the Beauties", 2002

Lyric essay published in American Women Poets in the 21st Century (2002) anthology.

Box 6 Folder 48 Writing on Max Ritvo, 2015-2017

Introduction to Ritvo's work published in Boston Review (2015).Essay and eulogy for Max Ritvo published in The New Yorker (2017).

Box 6 Folder 49 Personal Essay, 1989

Unpublished personal narrative.


Box 7 Folder 1 Letters to A Stranger Introduction, 1993-2010, Includes mini cassettes

The contract with Graywolf, Brock-Broido's copy of the first edition of the book, and correspondence with James' family regarding the reissue are located here, though the collection does not include any drafts of the introduction.

Subseries I.7: Early Work, 1971-1985

The bulk of this subseries contains work completed as part of creative writing assignments at Johns Hopkins University. This subseries also includes manuscripts completed in the early 1980s, handwritten drafts of poems in notebooks, and some academic essays written in college.

Box 7 Folder 2-10 Notebooks, 1971-1982, 9 folders

Box 7 Folder 11-12 Assorted Typescript Poems, undated, 2 folders

Undated drafts of indivdiual poems, written approximately 1970-1976.

Box 7 Folder 13-15 Undergraduate Prose Assignments, 1976-1977, 3 folders

Johns Hopkins Creative Writing Manuscripts, 1976-1979

Box 7 Folder 16 Three Fictions, 1976-1977, 1 folders


Box 8 Folder 1-7 Three Fictions, 1976-1977, 7 folders

Box 8 Folder 8-9 Similar Edible Fruits: In Full Fig, 1976-1977, 2 folders

Box 8 Folder 10-13 Pornography, 1978, 3 folders

Brock-Broido's Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Box 8 Folder 14-17 Ladies & The Gentleman Muse, 1979, 4 folders

Brock-Broido's Graduate Thesis

Johns Hopkins Academic Essays, 1978-1979

Box 8 Folder 18-19 "The Language of Light: Poet as Luminary", 1978, 2 folders

Box 8 Folder 20 "Yeats and the Physics of Souls: The Poet as Metaphysician", 1979

Box 8 Folder 21 "Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Language: The Genetic Traits", 1979

Box 8 Folder 22 William Carlos Williams Essay, 1979

1980s Manuscripts, 1980-1984

Box 8 Folder 23-26 Ilfracombe, 1980, 4 folders

Box 8 Folder 27-30 And All of England on The Floor, 1981-1983, 4 folders


Box 9 Folder 1-2 Trouble Child, 1983, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 3-4 After The Grand Perhaps, 1984, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 5-13 "Stillborn Poems", 1970s-1980s, 9 folders

Unpublished and uncollected poems, which Brock-Broido stored in a box labeled "Stillborn Poems." Original order preserved.

Box 9 Folder 14-15 Poem Drafts, 1980s, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 16-17 Poems in Magazines, 1980s, 2 folders

Reproductions of individual poems published in literary magazines throughout the 1980s.

Subseries I.8: Later Notebooks, 2012 October 27 - 2017 January 22

This subseries includes two leather-bound notebooks that include entries dating from after the publication of Stay, Illusion in 2013. These notebooks are likely related to later material that has not yet been received by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and they will likely receive further processing when that material is received by the Library.


Box 32 Notebook, 2012 October 27 - 2017 January 22, 1 Volumes


Box 33 Notebook, 2016 October 31 - November 24 (Thanksgiving), 1 Volumes

Series II: Teaching Material, 1982-2017

Brock-Broido was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard from 1988-1993 and directed the poetry concentration at Columbia School of the Arts from 1993-2018. The bulk of this series contains annotated reproductions of literary texts referenced in poetry seminars at these two universities. These seminars were conceptualized at Harvard and continued to evolve throughout Brock-Broido's nearly thirty years of teaching.

Drafts of Brock-Broido's master teaching "Anthology" are also located in this series.

Thesis evaluations, course rosters, recommendation letters, and assignments which include individual students' names have been restricted.

Applications for teaching jobs, adjunct appointments, contracts, and other administrative documents related to teaching employment are located in professional materials.

Subseries II.1: Early Teaching Material, 1982-1987

This subseries contains notes, course planning, and syllabi used in Brock-Broido's pre-Harvard adjunct teaching positions.


Box 9 Folder 18-21 Course Planning, 1982-1987, 4 folders

Two full notebooks and some loose notes containing course planning, readings with marginilia, parts of a syllabi, and general planning for pre-Harvard adjunct positions.

Subseries II.2: Harvard University, 1987-1994

Brock-Broido's application, interview process, and acceptance of the Briggs-Copeland Lectureship is located here, as well as further departmental correspondence at Harvard. This subseries also includes Brock-Broido's original folders used for Harvard courses, which contain annotated reproductions of literary texts, notes, and assignments.

Box 9 Folder 22-23 Department Correspondence and Memos, 1987-1993, 2 folders

Includes Briggs-Copeland appointment correspondence, standard department memos, salary and expense reports.

Box 9 Folder 24 Course Descriptions, 1988-1993

Course Material, 1988-1993

Box 9 Folder 25 Handwritten Notes, 1990

Box 9 Folder 26-27 Prose Poems, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 28-29 Instructions / Q&A Poems, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 30-31 Letter Poems, 2 folders

Box 9 Folder 32 Self Portrait

Box 9 Folder 33 Redemptive in The Horrific

Box 9 Folder 34 Found Poems

Box 9 Folder 35-41 Pageantry, 7 folders


Box 10 Folder 1 HV's Summer Seminar ED

Box 10 Folder 2 Emily Dickinson Facsimiles

Box 10 Folder 3 George Trakl

Box 10 Folder 4-10 Radical Heat, 7 folders

Box 10 Folder 11 The Rejectionist


Box 24 Folder 1 "Three Things Assignment", 1992

Restricted until 2067


Box 10 Folder 12-14 Assorted, 3 folders

Miscellanous notes and literary texts found in unlabeled folders among harvard teaching material.


Box 24 Folder 2-3 Thesis Commentary, 1990-1992, 2 folders

Restricted until 2072

Box 24 Folder 4-5 Recommendation Letters, 1989-1994, 2 folders

Restricted until 2074

Subseries II.3: Columbia University, 1992-2017

This subseries contains departmental records and correspondence, course material, course descriptions, and teaching evaluations from students.


Box 10 Folder 15-16 Department Correspondence, 1992-2017, 2 folders

Includes position appointment process, salary notices, vision for poetry program, requests to the dean as poetry director.

Course Material, 1993-2017

Box 10 Folder 17-23 Pageantry: Fist Books as Architecture, 7 folders

Box 10 Folder 24 Plath & Rich

Box 10 Folder 25-26 The Two Ariels: Remaking of The Sylvia Plath Canon, 2 folders

Box 10 Folder 27-28 Assorted, 2 folders

Box 10 Folder 29-30 Course Descriptions, 1994-2008, 2 folders

Box 10 Folder 31 Course Evaluations, 2012-2014

Box 10 Folder 32 William Brock Broido Poetry Thesis Fellowship Flyer, 2005

Promotional material for "William Brock- Broido Poetry Thesis Fellowship"


Box 24 Folder 6 Thesis Commentary, 2001

Restricted until 2081

Box 24 Folder 7-8 Recommendation Letters, 1992-2011, 2 folders

Restricted until 2091

Subseries II.4: Anthologies

Brock-Broido taught an expansive survey of poetics for which she designed an "Anthology" that incorporated imagery, notations, commentary, and hundreds of poems organized into conceptual subcategories. Three different versions of the anthology, revised over several years, are contained in this subseries. The most recent titled, "Inevitably More, and More Trouble in Mind." The order of each anthology has been preserved.


Box 10 Folder 33-37 Anthology I, 5 folders


Box 11 Folder 1-5 Anthology II, 5 folders

Box 11 Folder 6-11 Anthology III, 6 folders

Subseries II.5: Course Rosters, 1994-2008

Restricted until 2068.

This subseries contains multiple course rosters, which Brock-Broidio annotated and designed with stamps and drawings. Because these rosters contain students' personal information, they have been restricted until 2068.


Box 24 Folder 9 Course rosters, 1994-2008

Series III: Correspondence, 1976-2016

This series contains both correspondence organized by the correspondent's name and miscellaneous outgoing and received correspondence found throughout the collection. Editorial correspondence directly related to revising Brock-Broido's books is located in the writing series.

Subseries III:1: Alphabetical, 1970s-2010s


Box 11 Folder 12 Costello, Bonnie, 1989-1992

Box 11 Folder 13 Engel, Monroe, 1988-1989

Box 11 Folder 14-16 Faulkner, Donald, 2001-2004, 3 folders

Box 11 Folder 17 Ford, Harry and Kathleen, 1990-1995

Box 11 Folder 18 Heaney, Seamus, 1988-2000

Box 11 Folder 19 Howard, Richard, 1978-1990

Box 11 Folder 20-21 Kunitz, Stanley, 1982-1990, 2 folders

Box 11 Folder 22-23 Lincoln, Kenneth, 1992, 2 folders

Box 11 Folder 24 Macdonald, Cynthia, 1980-1991

Box 11 Folder 25 Quinn, Alice, 1986-1993

Box 11 Folder 26 Simic, Charles, 1980-2001

Box 11 Folder 27-32 Smith, Bruce, 1986-2001, 6 folders


Box 12 Folder 1-4 Vendler, Helen, 1988-2015, 4 folders

Box 12 Folder 5 White, Edmund, 1982-1986

Box 12 Folder 6 Wright, Charles, 1984-1995

Box 12 Folder 7 Wright, Franz, 2011-2013

Subseries III.2: Assorted, 1976-2016

This subseries contains miscellaneous outgoing and recieved letters and postcards from friends, family, colleagues, students, and some fan mail from readers. Material has been loosely arranged by decade.

Box 12 Folder 8 "Important Letters", 1976-1980

Envelope labeled "L: IMPT LETTERS do not never dispose of."

Box 12 Folder 9-11 Letters and Pamphlets, 1980s, 3 folders

Assorted letters and notes stored between informative pamphlets. Original order preserved.

Box 12 Folder 12-20 Miscellanous, 1976-2016, 9 folders

Miscellanous letters as filed. Arranged to loosely progress by decade.

Box 12 Folder 21 William Condolences, 2006

Series IV: Professional Materials, 1981-2017

This series contains materials related to Brock-Broido's participation in various "poetry gigs," or contracted work, which financially supplemented her career. Documents arranged in this series cover the administrative components of Brock-Broido's professional engagements, including invoices for readings and teaching jobs, publishing administration, royalties, and applications, acceptances, and rejections for monetary awards.

Subseries IV.1: Readings and Speaking Engagements, 1984-2006, Includes CDs.

This subseries includes invitations, invoices, and promotional material related to Brock-Broido's poetry readings, guest lectures, and classroom appearances from the 1980s to 2010s.

Box 12 Folder 22-26 Readings and Speaking Engagements, 5 folders

Subseries IV.2: Publishing, 1981-2017

The bulk of this subseries contains Brock-Broido's documentation throughout the 1980s and 90s of submissions to, and subsequent acceptances and rejections from literary magazines and publishers. This subseries also includes Brock-Broido's royalties from Alfred A. Knopf for her poetry collections, invitations and invoices for writing included in anthologies, and documents regarding reissues of her books.

Box 12 Folder 27-29 Magazine Publication, 1981-1995, 3 folders

Submissions, acceptances, rejections, contracts, and editorial exchange related to poems published in magazines, loosely organized alphabetically by magazine title. Order preserved.


Box 13 Folder 1-6 Magazine Publication, 1981-1995, 6 folders

Box 13 Folder 7 Later Magazine Publication, 2001-2012

Miscellanous magazine publication submissions and editorial correspondence found in separate folders.

Box 13 Folder 8 Manuscript Submissions, 1982-1986

Submission of early manuscripts to publishing venues.

Box 13 Folder 9 Anthologies, 1989-2000

Includes solicitations, submissions, and invoices for poems included in various anthologies.

Box 13 Folder 10-12 Knopf Royalties, 1989-2017, 3 folders

Box 13 Folder 13 Paperback Reprints of Brock-Broido's Poetry Collections, 2005

Correspondence with publisher regarding paperback reprint of first three books.

Subseries IV.3: Teaching Employment, 1981-2011

This subseries includes Brock-Broido's search for teaching employment from 1981-1994, contracts for adjunct teaching positions, and material related to Brock-Broido's teaching roles outside of academia.

Box 13 Folder 14-17 Teaching Job Search , 1981-1994, 4 folders

Cover letters, resumes, applications, and correspondence with potential employers for teaching gigs from 1981 to 1994. Order preserved.

Box 13 Folder 18 Princeton Appointment, 1992-1994

Application, correspondence, and appoitnment for Lecturer in Creative Writing position at Princeton University.

Box 13 Folder 19 Assorted Teaching Appointments, 1997-2011

Box 13 Folder 20 Summer Workshops, 1992-1996

Box 13 Folder 21 Iowa-- 2002, 2002

Application, offer, and decline for position at the University of Iowa. Order preserved.

Subseries IV.4: Grants and Fellowships, 1982-1998

Applications, acceptances, rejections, and reports related to various creative fellowships and grants are located here.

Box 13 Folder 22-23 Bunting Application, 1982-1987, 2 folders

Box 13 Folder 24 NEA Applications, 1983-1984

Box 13 Folder 25 PEN/Revson Fellowship Nomination, 1989-1990

Box 13 Folder 26 Minton Fellowship Proposal, 1990

Box 13 Folder 27 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996-1998

Box 13 Folder 28 George A and Eliza Gardner Foundation Application, 1997

Box 13 Folder 29-32 Assorted Fellowship Applications, 1983-1995, 4 folders

Subseries IV.5: Honors and Awards, 1988-2015

This subseries contains copies of Brock-Broidos awards and honors, correspondence with award committees, and submissions to awards and contests.

Box 13 Folder 33 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1988-1991

Box 13 Folder 34 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, 1991

Box 13 Folder 35 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, 1991

Box 13 Folder 36 Witter Byner Poetry Prize, 1996

Box 13 Folder 37 Massachusetts Book Award, 2005


Box 14 Folder 1 National Book Award, 2013

Box 14 Folder 2 Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2013

Box 14 Folder 3 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2015

Box 14 Folder 4 Assorted Contest Submissions, 1985-1993

Subseries IV.6: Miscellanous, 1982-2006

This subseries contains a variety of documents Brock-Broido used for professional applications, including resumés, press clippings, and recommendation letters written for Brock-Broido by other writers, such as Stanley Kunitz, Charles Simic, and Cynthia Macdonald. Also included in this subseries are recommendations, introductions, and blurbs written by Brock-Broido for other writers. There is one folder containing miscellaneous professional material, which Brock-Broido organized and labeled "Poetry Gigs 1999-2006." Recommendations written by Brock-Broido for others have been restricted.

Box 14 Folder 5 Poetry Gigs 1999-2006, 1999-2006

Invoices from teaching gigs, publications, readings, and other engagements arranged in one envelope. Order preserved.

Box 14 Folder 6 Blurbs and Introductions

Box 14 Folder 7 Contest Judge, 1997-2004

Box 14 Folder 8 Commissioned Poetry, 1992

Box 14 Folder 9 Resumes

Box 14 Folder 10 Press, 1991-2001

Box 14 Folder 11 Recommendations Written for Brock-Broido, 1982-2010

Contains a floppy disk.


Box 24 Folder 10-11 Recommendations for Others, 1989-2011, 2 folders

Restricted until 2087

Professional recommendations written by Brock-Broido.

Series V: Personal and Biographical Materials, 1976-2017

This series contains material related to Brock-Broidio's personal and private life, including handwritten notes, medical records, documents regarding her cats, eulogies, daily planners, address books, and home renovation material.

Subseries V.1: Handwritten Notes, 1992-2012


Box 14 Folder 12 "Lucie's", undated

Folder labeled "Lucie's" with handwritten notes and photographs. Order preserved.

Box 14 Folder 13-14 Trip to Ireland Notes, 1992

Handwritten notes and ephemera related to trip to Ireland.

Box 14 Folder 15 Notebook, 1994

Box 14 Folder 16 Annotated Poems, 1999

Box 14 Folder 17 Hand-drawn Map, undated

Handdrawn map with written directions to home in Cambridge.

Box 14 Folder 18-20 Annotated Astrological Chart, 1983, 3 folders

Includes Brock-Broido's multiple annotated zodiac charts, handmade astrological booklet with tarot cards, photographs, and notes. Contains "Birthday Poem" found among astrological material. Order of each folder preserved.

Box 14 Folder 21-25 Assorted Notes, 1999, 4 folders

Assorted notes written on loose sheets of papers, contains some Bruce Smith correspondence written on letters and envelopes. Order preserved. Majority of notes regarding relationship to the poet Bruce Smith, some letters from Smith included with handwritten commentary

Subseries V.2: Records, 1976-2017

This subseries contains some medical and legal records.

Box 14 Folder 26-27 Medical, General, 2000-2017, 2 folders

Box 14 Folder 28 Medical, Pyschiatric, 1976-2010

Box 14 Folder 29 Name Change Documents, 1982-2006

Contains legal documents finalizing Brock-Broido's first name change from "Lucie" to"Lucia," birth certificate, updated ID and passports.

Box 14 Folder 30 Subletter Document, 2009

Document written by Brock-Broido detailing a dispute with a subletter.

Subseries V.3: Cat Documents, 1992-2017

Brock-Broidio had a close bond with her cats and kept many of their veterinary documents, which are annotated, as well as photographs, condolence letters, and assorted notes describing their wellbeing.

Box 14 Folder 31 William Ernest Winkler, 2005-2006

Includes two folders related to Brock-Broido's long term cat, William, which contain condolesnces, photographs, and visit with a psychic after William's death in 2005. Order preserved.

Assorted, 1992-2017, 4 folders

Photographs, veterinary visits, and notes found throughout the archive that document Brock-Broido's cats lives, William and later cats.

Subseries V.4: Eulogies, 1988-2007

Box 14 Folder 36 Virginia Greenwald (mother), 1988-1999

Material related to Brock-Broido's mother, including a death certificate, living will, written eulogy, and some correspondence. Order preserved.

Box 14 Folder 37 Liam Rector, 2007

Includes euglogy and funeral program for poet Liam Rector.

Subseries V.5: Planners and Address Books, chronological, 1989-1998

This subseries contains multiple planners and address books which detail Brock-Broido's daily schedule and routine with some notes related to writing, publishing, and teaching.


Box 15 Folder 1-10 Planners and Address Books, chronological, 11 folders

Subseries V.6: Documentation of Home Renovation, 1991-2013

Brock-Broido accumulated a significant amount of material related to decorating and designing her home, which has been arranged in this subseries. One oversized tapestry catalog with extensive notes is stored separately in a flatbox.

Box 15 Folder 11-18 Documentation of Home Renovation, 8 folders


Box 16 Folder 1-5 Documentation of Home Renovation, 5 folders


Box 23 Folder 23 Documentation of Home Renovation

Series VI: Printed Materials, 1980-2017

This series contains Brock-Broido's accumulated print material, such as clippings, magazines, reproductions of literary texts, assorted ephemera, and a select number of print objects with significant personal value. The series also contains Brock-Broido's annotated books, as well as books inscribed to Brock-Broido by colleagues and friends. Published copies of Brock-Broido's own books are also located here.

Subseries VI.1: Sources, 1980-2017

This subseries holds all print material found throughout the collection that does not specifically correlate to research for Brock-Broido's books. This includes marked magazine and newspaper clippings, printed web and encyclopedic entries, some unhoused writing by others, as well as content specific folders, such as "Angels & Lists & Things."


Box 16 Folder 6-14 Clippings, 1980-2017, 9 folders

Assorted newspaper clippings, magazines, related print materials, some drafts of poems, and some correspondence found in container labeled "clippings." Magazine pages are preserved to original open page. Order preserved.

Box 16 Folder 15-18 Resources, 2012-2015, 4 folders

Assorted printed literary texts, encyclopedic lists, and poems. Dates uknown. Some web pages are dated 2012, 2015.

Box 16 Folder 19 Cartooning, 1990

Box 16 Folder 20 Angels & Lists & Things, 1990

Box 16 Folder 21 The Lily Venders & George Stanley & Racism, 2015

Box 16 Folder 22 Mount Auburn Cemetery Information, 2017

Casket and burial information mount auburn cemetry .

Subseries VI.2: Ephemera, 1995-2001

Contains Susan Barron's "Labrynth of Time brochure," Brooklyn Museum postcard and brochure, Fountains Abbey brochure, 92nd St. Y pamphlet, wine bottle label, and Harvard commencement program.

Box 16 Folder 23 Ephemera

Subseries VI.3: Franz Wright's Copy of Stay, Illusion, 2014

Copy of Brock-Broido's Stay, Illusion with writing and drawings by Franz Wright on the inner pages. Labeled "one of Lucie's most treasured objects."

Box 16 Folder 24 Franz Wright's Copy of Stay, Illusion

Subseries VI.4: Annotated Manuscript by Bruce Smith, undated

Complete typescript manuscript by poet Brucie Smith with commentary and notes addressed to Brock-Broido.

Box 16 Folder 25 Annotated Manuscript by Bruce Smith

Subseries VI.5: Brock-Broido's Copy of The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson, 1990

Contains The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by R.W. Franklin, Amherst College Press, 1986 with Brock-Broido's extensive annotations and notes.

Box 16 Folder 26 Brock-Broido's Copy of The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson

Subseries VI.6: Magazines Owned by Brock-Broido, 1999-2004

This subseries contains three complete magazines found throughout the collection. One copy of New York Magazine (2003), American Poet (1999) (Harry Ford memorial issue), and The Threepenny Review (2004). Complete issues of major publications, such as The New Yorker, The Nation, Boston Review, The New Republic, Harvard Review, and Poetry Magazine which featured Brock-Broido's work or reviews of her work were discarded. Copies of reviews of Brock-Broido's books can be found in the writing series.

Box 16 Folder 27 Magazines Owned by Brock-Broido, 1999-2004

Subseries VI.7: Books Owned by Brock-Broido, 1975-2017

This subseries contains complete editions of books owned by Brock Broidio, divided into two subcategories: annotated and inscribed.

Annotated Books, 1975-2017


Box 18 Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. Houghton Mifflin, 1961.

Box 18 Albert, Rafael. Concerning The Angels. City Lights Books, 1995.

Box 18 Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. New Directions, 1961.

Box 18 Bender, Robert M., Squier, Charles L. The Sonnet: An Anthology. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

Box 18 Beum, Robert, Shapiro, Karl. A Prosody Handbook. Harper & Row, 1965.

Box 18 Blake, William. The Portable Blake. Edited by Alfred Kazin. The Viking Press, 1974.

Box 18 Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1975.

Box 18 Bly, Robert. Leap Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations. Beacon Press, 1975.

Box 18 Cacciatore, Vera. A Room in Rome. The Keats-Shelley Memorial Foundation, 1973.

Box 18 Calvino, Italo. The Baron in The Trees. Random House, 1959.

Box 18 Char, Rene. Selected Poems. Edited by Mary Ann Caws and Tina Jolas. New Directions, 1992.

Box 18 Clements, A.L. John Donne's Poetry. W.W. Norton & Company, 1966.

Box 18 Culler, Jonathan. Ferdinand de Saussure. Penguin Books, 1976.

Box 18 Eliot, T.S. Selected Poems. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.

Box 18 Emblem, D.L., Hall, Donald: A Writer's Reader. Fourth Edition. Little, Brown & Company, 1976.

Box 18 Follain, Jean, Jacob, Max, and Ponge, Francis. Dreaming The Mirage: Three French Prose Poets. White Pine Press, 2003.

Box 18 Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: The Roots and Religion of Folklore. Avenel Books, 1981.

Box 18 Friedrich, Otto. Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations. Vintage Books, 1989.

Box 18 Genet, Jean. Our Lady of the Flowers. Grove Press, 1963.

Box 18 Graziano, Frank. Georg, Trakl: A Profile. Lobridge-Rhodes, 1983.

Box 18 Hall, Calvin S. A Primer of Freudian Psychology. The World Publishing Company, 1954.


Box 19 Heidegger. An Introduction to Metaphysics. Yale University Press, 1959.

Box 19 Hughes, Langston. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1994.

Box 19 Hugo, Richard. The Triggering Town. W & W Norton, 1979.

Box 19 Joyce, James. Ulysses. Vintage Books, 1961.

Box 19 Koch, Kenneth. Rose, where did you get that red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children. Vintage Books, 1974.

Box 19 Lorca, Frederico García.Three Tragedies. Translated by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O'Connell. New Directions, 1955.

Box 19 Mallon, Thomas. A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries. Penguin Books, 1986.

Box 19 Nabokov, Vladimir. Speak, Memory. Capricorn Books, 1970.

Box 19 Nabokov, Vladimir. The Annotated Lolita. Edited by Alfred Appel, Jr. McGraw-Hill, 1970.

Box 19 Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner. Vintage Books, 1967.

Box 19 Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Vintage Books, 1974.

Box 19 Peden, William. Twenty-Nine Stories. Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

Box 19 Rilke, Rainer Maria, Duino Elegies. Translated by J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender. The Norton Library, 1963.

Box 19 Roussel, Raymond. How I Wrote Certain of My Books. Exact Change, 1995.

Box 19 Sebald, W.G. After Nature. Modern Library, 2003.

Box 19 Sebald, W.G. Austerlitz. Modern Library, 2001.

Box 19 Sebald, W.G. On The Natural History of Destruction, Modern Library, 2004.

Box 19 Sebald, W.G. The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald. Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Seven Stories Press, 2007.


Box 20 Strindberg, August. Miss Julie. Avon Books, 1965.

Box 20 Trakl, Georg. Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition. Translated by Alexander Stillmark. Northwestern University Press, 2005.

Box 20 Vendler, Helen. Part of Nature, Part of Us. Harvard University Press, 1980.

Box 20 Vendler, Helen. Wallace Stevens: Words Chose Out of Desire. University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Box 20 West, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust. New Directions, 1969.

Box 20 Wilheln, Hellmut. Eight Lectures on the I Ching. Translated by Cary F. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1960.

Box 20 Williams, William Carlos. The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New Directions, 1967.

Box 20 Wordsworth, William. The Prelude. Edited by M.H. Adrams and Stephen Gill. W.W. Norton & Company, 1979.

Inscribed Books

Box 20 Bang, Mary Jo. Elegy. Graywolf, 2007.

Box 20 Bang, Mary Jo. Louise in Love. Grove Press, 2001.

Box 20 Bidart, Frank. Desire. Farrar, Straus, and Gioux, 1997.

Box 20 Bidart, Frank. Star Dust. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

Box 20 Black, Sophie Cabot. The Misunderstanding of Nature. Graywolf, 1994.

Two copies-- one signed to Brock-Broido and one signed to Ginger (Virginia Greenwald).

Box 20 Cole, Henri. Middle Earth. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Box 20 Digges, Deborah. Trapeze. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Box 20 Heaney, Seamus. The Midnight Verdict. Gallery Books, 1993.

Box 20 Howe, Marie. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time.

Box 20 Metzger, Elizabeth. The Spirit Papers. University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

Box 20 Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Unknown Rilke. Translated by Franz Wright. The FIELD Translation Series, 1983.

Box 20 Sarzotti, Jo. Mother Desert. Graywolf, 2012.

Box 20 Smith, Bruce. The Other Lover. The University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Box 20 Vendler, Helen. Coming of Age as A Poet. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Box 20 Vendler, Helen. Seamus Heaney. Harvard University Press, 1998

Box 20 Vender, Helen. The Given and The Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition. Harvard University Press, 1995.

Box 20 Wright, C.D. One Big Self. Copper Canyon Press, 2007.

Box 20 Wright, Charles. A Short History of the Shadow. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.


Box 21 Wright, Franz. F/poems. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Box 21 Wright, Franz. Kore. Black Pages, 2011.

Box 21 Wright, Franz. The Afterlife. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Box 21 Wright, Franz. The Toy Throne. Tungsten Press, 2014.

Box 21 Wright, Franz. Wheeling Motel. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Box 21 Roget's International Thesaurus. Third Edition. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1962.

Copy of "Runagate Runagate" by Robert E. Hayden inside.

Box 21 Artitsts' Books

Box 21 Eastman, Johnson. Painting America. Rizzoli International Publications, 1999.


Box 23 Scott, Judith. Bound & Unbound. Brooklyn Museum, 2014

Oversized. Housed in flatbox.

Subseries VI.8: Copies of Brock-Broido's Books, Chronolgical, 1988-2013


Box 21 Brock-Broido, Lucie. A Hunger. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, 1988

Box 21 Brock-Broido, Lucie. The Master Letters. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, 1995

Two copies, one with an alternate cover.

Box 21 Brock-Broido, Lucie. Trouble in Mind. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, 2004

Two copies, hardback and paperback.

Box 21 James, Thomas. Letters to a Stranger. Introduction by Lucie Brock-Broido. Graywolf, 2008., 2008

Two copies with some notes inside.

Box 21 Brock-Broido, Lucie. Soul Keeping Company. Carcanet Press, 2010., 2010

Selected poems from Brock-Broido's first three poetry collections.

Box 21 Brock-Broido, Lucie. Stay, Illusion. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013., 2013

Two copies, one original and one with national book award finalist sticker.

Series VII: Photographs, 1990-2015

The bulk of this series is made up of professional headshots taken from approximately 1990 to 2015. The series also contains a small amount of assorted photographs, the majority of which were taken in Brock-Broido's youth. All other photographs found throughout the collection have been kept in their original location near letters, clippings, etc.


Box 17 Folder 1-2 Professional Headshots, 1990-2015, 2 folders

Box 17 Folder 3 Assorted, 1965-2010

Mostly photographs from youth, one later photo of Brock-Broido taken approximately 2010.

Series VIII: Juvenilia and Other Childhood Materials, 1960-1977

Materials in this series arrived in a shared box labeled "childhood," and have been arranged together to reflect the items Brock-Broido preserved from her youth. The series includes a handmade scrapbook, some school materials, some adolescent writings, a prayer book, photographs, some adolescent correspondence, and the only material in the collection directly related to Brock-Broido's father, David Broido.


Box 22 Scrapbook, Fragile

Scrapbook made in Brock-Broido's youth, which includes photos, drawings, and clippings.


Box 17 Folder 4-7 Personal Notebooks and Writing, 1974-1976, 4 folders

Notebooks from high school creative writing class, college notebook, fall 1977 college class notes, with a combination of diary entries, class notes, and poems. Some loose sheets of paper with writing.

Box 17 Folder 8-10 School Materials, circa 1965-1977, 3 folders

New Basic Readers language compotence book from elementary school, high school report card and exam book, college class notebook titled "biosocial aspect of human sexuality"

Box 17 Folder 11-12 Material Related to Brock-Broido's father, David Broido, 1962-1969

Includes comic books found in envelope labeled "daddy," some photographs, correspondence, and eulogy.


Box 23 Folder 1 Handmade Prayer Book

Box 23 Folder 2 Drawing of Brock-Broido

Drawing of Brock-Broido signed by Brian Huff, created approximately early 1970s.

Letters and Postcards


Box 17 Folder 13 Chautaugua Institution Correspondence, 1970

Letters received while Brock-Broido was at the Chautaugua Institution in Chautaugua, New York. Includes some photographs.

Box 17 Folder 14-15 "Important Letters-1971-1974", 1971-1974, 2 folders

Assorted received letters from peers. Some handwritten notes and poems.

Box 17 Folder 16 Assorted Letters, 1970-1973


Box 23 Folder 3 High School Photographs, circa 1971

Two photographs stored together, estimated early 1970s.


Box 17 Folder 17 Wallet Insert, 1974

Brock-Broido's wallet insert from 1974, still intact, which photos, business cards, appointment notices, and a small poem/letter written by a friend. Order preserved.

Series IX: Audio and Digital Materials, 1994-2017

Two audiocassettes, one labeled "No. June 1994 No." and the other labeled "Summer."

Box 17 Folder 18 Audio Materials

Digital materials

The contents of 3 USB drives and 2 memory sticks were transferred to preservation storage. Contact RBML for access.