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.
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
Box 24 Folder 10-11
Recommendations for Others, 1989-2011, 2 folders
Professional recommendations written by Brock-Broido.