Rochelle Owens papers, 1900-2022

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Series I: Cataloged correspondence



Box 1 Jane Alexander


Box 1 David Antin


Box 1 John Ashbery


Box 1 Eric Bentley


Box 1 Robert Brustein


Box 1 Charles Bukowski


Box 1 Andrei Codrescu


Box 1 Kirby Congdon


Box 1 E. E. Cummings


Box 1 Edward Dorn


Box 1 Kenward Elmslie


Box 1 Clayton Eshleman


Box 1 Geraldine Fitzgerald


Box 1 Charles Henri Ford


Box 1 John Giorno


Box 1 Lita Hornick


Box 1 Richard Kostelanetz


Box 1 Harry Levin


Box 1 David Meltzer


Box 1 Margaret Randall


Box 1 Kenneth Rexroth


Box 1 Ed Sanders

Series II: Arranged correspondence


Box 1 A - D



Box 2 E – N



Box 3 O - Z and unidentified



Box 15 Correspondence (scholars, critics, editors, etc.), 2014-2016



Box 16 Folder 1 Correspondence (mostly emails), 2015-2017


Box 16 Folder 2 Birthday cards (2) from Vita Paladino


Box 16 Folder 3 Letter re. "How Much Paint Does the Painting Need"


Box 16 Folder 4 Postcards (2)

Series III: Writings and Drawings by Rochelle Owens

(Manuscripts, documents, photographs, & printed materials)


A:



Box 4 Atelier. See: Discourse on Life & Death. [poems]; & See: Mesh Recto. [poems]


B:


Box 4 Beclch. [play]



Box 16 Folder 6 List of Owen's writings and some French translations of her poems



Box 4 Black Chalk


Box 4 _____. See also: Audio tape cassettes


C:


Box 4 Chucky's Hunch. [play]


Box 4 _____. See also: The Graphic-Porno Man; a Novel.


Box 4 The Cocoanut Folk-Singer. [radio play]


Box 4 Constructs. [poems]


D:


Box 4 Dear Anyone. [musical play]


Box 4 Discourse on Life & Death. [poems]


Box 4 Diverse Poems


E:



Box 5 Earplay. (radio script)[Sweet Potatoes] See: Who Do You Want, Peire Vidal?


Box 5 Elga's Incantation and Early Works 1955-1965. [poems]


Box 5 Emma Instigated Me. [play]


F:



Box 6 Francesca. [musical play] See: O. K. Certaldo


Box 6 French Light. [poems]



Box 16 Folder 6 French translations of her poems


Box 16 Folder 7 French translations of her poems



Box 6 Futz. [play]


Box 6 _____. See also: Oversize. Photographs


G:



Box 7 Giggling Sushi. [play]


Box 7 The Girl on the Garage Wall. [story] See: Elga's Incantation


Box 7 The Graphic-Porno Man; a Novel.


Box 7 Guerre ˆ Trois. [play] See: Three Front. [play]


H:


Box 7 He Wants Shih. [play]



Box 15 "Hermaphropoetics" Drifting Geometries. [long poem], February 2016


Box 15 "Hermaphropoetics" Drifting Geometries. [long poem]. Notes, workings, drafts, May 2015



Box 7 Homo; a play in Two Acts


Box 7 How Much Paint Does the Painting Need. [video]


Box 7 _____. See also: Audio tape cassettes


I:



Box 8 I Am Deebler Woman. [play]


Box 8 _____. See also: I Am the Babe


Box 8 I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter. [poems]


Box 8 Innovators in the American Theatre. [essay]


Box 8 Istanboul. [play]


Box 8 _____. See also: Audio tape cassettes



Box 16 Folder 8 Italian translations of her poems (on-line)


J:



Box 8 The Japanese Tourist. [play] See: Who Do You Want, Peire Vidal? [play]


Box 8 The Joe Cronicles: Part 2. [poems]


Box 8 The Joe Chronicles: Part 4: Sacre Coeur. [poems]


Box 8 The Joe 82 Creation Poems.


K:



Box 9 The Karl Marx Play.


Box 9 _____. See also: Oversize. Record album


Box 9 Keep the Wigwam Small. [novel] See: The Graphic-Porno Man; a Novel


Box 9 Kontraption. [play]


L:



Box 16 Folder 9 Le Cerveau Primaire



Box 9 Lost tending to Icchen Yicchen. {poem]


Box 9 Luca. [poems]


Box 9 _____. See also: Discourse on Life & Death. [poems] & Mesh Recto


M:



Box 10 Melted Bridges. [novel] See: The Graphic-Porno Man; a Novel.


Box 10 Mesh Recto. [poems]


Box 10 _____. See also: Luca. [poems]


Box 10 Mountain Rites. (A Radio drama).


N:


Box 10 Not Be Essence That Cannot Be. [poem] See: Elga's Incantations



Box 16 Folder 5 Notes on Poems Read at Penns Village, 20 May 2013


O:



Box 10 The Obscenities of Reva Cigarnik. [story] See: Elga's Incantations


Box 10 O. K. Certaldo [musical play]


Box 10 Oklahoma Too; Rabbits and Nuggets. [video]



Box 16 Folder 10 Out of Ur. Introduction


P:



Box 10 The Passersby. [novel] by Liliane Atlan, trans. from the French by R. Owens


Box 10 Paysanne. See: Discourse on Life & Death. [poems]; & See: Mesh Recto. [poems]


Box 10 The Pink as a Melon Poet (a Radio Play). See: The Cocoanut Folk-Singer.


Box 10 Playwrighting ... [Workshops for writing a one-act play]


Box 10 Poems Diverse.



Box 16 Folder 12 Printed poems on cards


Q:



Box 11 The Queen of Greece. [play]


Box 11 _____. See also: I Am the Babe


R:


Box 11 [Reviews of other authors by Rochelle Owens]


S:


Box 11 Sacre Coeur Invention Poems. See: The Joe Chronicles: Part 4


Box 11 ____. See: Audio tape cassettes


Box 11 Selected Poems.


Box 11 Sex-y Money. [novel] See: The Graphic-Porno Man; a Novel.


Box 11 Shemuel. [poems]



General Mss Box 67 Owens, Rochelle Manuscript Poem "Solitary Workwoman"



Box 16 Folder 11 Statement on her poems for arts festival



Box 11 The String Game. [play]


Box 11 Sweet Potatoes. A Comedy. [play]


Box 11 _____. See also: Who Do You Want, Peire Vidal? [play]


T:



Box 12 The Tale of the Cocoanut Girl. See: The Cocoanut Folk Singer. [radio play]


Box 12 Three Front. [play]


Box 12 _____. See also: Audio tape cassettes


W:


Box 12 W.C. Fields in French Light. [poems]


Box 12 Who Do You Want, Peire Vidal? [play]


Box 12 _____. See also: Futz. [play]


Box 12 The Widow and the Colonel. (A Radio Play)


Box 12 Miscellaneous manuscripts



Box 15 Small notebook of notes and workings, 2014-2016



Box 16 Folder 13 Ads and publicity


Drawings:



Box 14 Drawings by Rochelle Owens



Box 15 Drawings by Rochelle Owens, Summer/Fall 2015, Winter 2016 (In an ornate Oberon slipcase)

Series IV: General File



Box 13 Audio Tape Cassettes:


Box 13 Black Chalk - ca., 1992


Box 13 How Much Paint Does the Painting Need, 8/86


Box 13 Istanboul [play] - 9/87 Omaha Magic Theatre, 9/87


Box 13 O.K. Certaldo [musical play] - ca., 1976


Box 13 14e Festival Franco-Anglais de PoŽsie


Box 13 Poetry reading


Box 13 Poetry reading - 2/86 Oklahoma State University, 2/86


Box 13 Sacre CÏur Poems - ca., 1976


Box 13 Three Front [play] - 11/88 Omaha Magic Theatre (4 cassettes), 11/88


Box 13 _____. Nouveau Repertoire Dramatique Guerre ˆ Trois -, 7/91


Box 13 The Writers Mind [radio program] - 9/84 John Brandenburg/George Economou, 9/84


Box 13 _____ - 2/85 John Brandenburg, 2/85


Box 13 _____ - 9/85 Poems only, 9/85



Box 14 Biographical materials


Box 14 Miscellany


Box 14 Photographs


Box 14 _____. See also: Oversize. Photographs



Box 16 Folder 14 Photographs (5)


Box 16 Folder 15 Royalty statements, 2016



Box 14 Printed miscellany



Box 15 The Café Review, Winter 2016


Box 15 Great Writers Occupy Golden Handcuffs Review, 2015


Box 15 Milk: A poetry magazine, Nos. 3 & 4, Spring 2015

Series V: Oversize materials



Flat Box 273 Futz. [play] Photograph


Flat Box 273 The Karl Marx Play. Record album


Flat Box 273 Rochelle Owens Photographs

Series VI: Printed materials



Box 16 Hermaphropoetics: Drifting Geometries. By Rochelle Owens, 2017


Box 16 The Café Review., 2014


Box 16 Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee!. Translations and Transformations edited by Lou Rowan, 2017


Box 16 Journal of Beat Studies.. Edited by Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace, 2016

Additions to the Papers, 2018-2022


2018:

Accession: 2018.2019.M018



Box 17 Folder 1 Notes; Workings; Drafts; Poems; Correspondence; Critics and Scholars, 2017-2018


Box 17 Folder 2 "Solarpoetics". Mss, 2017


Box 17 Folder 3 "How Much Paint Does The Painting Need". CD, 1992


Box 17 Folder 4 "Black Chalk". CD, 28 minutes, color, 1994


Box 17 Folder 5 "Oklahoma Too". CD, 1987


Box 17 Hermaphropoetics: Drifting Geometries , 2017


Box 17 TSQ, Volume 5 No. 1, February 2018


Box 17 Golden Handcuffs Review, No. 25


2019:



Box 18 Folder 1 Hermaphropoetics: Drifting Geometries , 2015-2016

(Published by Singing House Press, 2017)


Box 18 Folder 2 Elgh's Incantation , 1960

(sections published in Journals and Magazines and "New and Selected Poems, 1961-1996")


Box 18 Folder 3 Correspondence (some drawings included with email) , 2017-2019


Box 18 Folder 4 Lucs: Discourse On Life And Death Six poems


Box 18 Folder 5 "Discourse on Life and Death - began in 1988" Ms.


Box 18 Folder 6 Notebook of notes, ideas, poetic workings


Box 18 Folder 7 Poem Cards


Box 18 Folder 8 Land Art (2 postcards)


Box 18 Folder 9 Letter to chere femme (in French), 13 June 2019


Box 18 Folder 10 Letters to Rochelle Owens, 2019


Drawings:


Box 18 Folder 11 Drawing: "When I cancelled - I looked sad and frustrated"


Box 18 Folder 12 Drawing: "Crying Woman", bulk 14 May 2019


Box 18 Folder 13 Drawing" "The Feminisation of France?"


Box 18 Folder 14 Poetry Event Announcement (The Kelly Writers House, 17 October 2013)


Box 18 Folder 15 Calendar Sheet for May 2019 (heavily annotated)

(George Economou died on 3 May 2019)


Box 18 Folder 16 Miscellaneous: "Splendid Examples" by Rochelle Owens; "He Wants Shih!" program for play; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bulletin for members (annotated by Rochelle Owens in May of 2019)


Box 18 Folder 17 Photographs


Printed:


Box 18 Golden Handcuffs Review. Numbers 25 and 26


Box 18 The Cafe Review. Volume 25, Summer 2014


2020:



Box 19 Folder 1 "Woman of Light" by George Economou. Signed watercolor , 1988


Box 19 Folder 2 "Self Portrait" by Rochelle Owens. Signed oil painting, 1973


Box 19 Folder 3 Rochelle Owens: "Everlasting Duration," in memory of George (From the magazine Ergon - Greek/American Arts and Letters, 28 October 2020



Box 20 Folder 1 "Patterns of Animus: A New Poem by Rochelle Owens" in Poems and Poetics , 2020


Box 20 Folder 2 Copies of new poems included in "The Aardvark Venus" and "Patterns of Animus", 2020


Box 20 Folder 3 Poetry reading events, notes, workings & correspondence, October 2019-2020


Box 20 Folder 4 Events, Correspondence, and Miscellaneous Items, January 2020 - January 2021


Box 20 Folder 5 Poems, Drafts, Notes, etc., 2019-2020


Box 20 Folder 6 Agreements, 1994-2005


Box 20 Folder 7 Royalty statements, 2005-2015



Box 21 "Rochelle Owens at home" Norman, OK 1984 (card, with photograph)


Box 21 Self portratits (2) of Rochelle Owens: "The Optimist and Tornado Lover: and "The Swimmer", 1983


Printed Material:


Box 21 The Aardvark Venus: New and Selected Poems 1961-2020 by Rochelle Owens. Texture Press: Norman, OK, 2020


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume 1, Number 8, Winter-Spring 2007


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume 1, Number 19, Fall-Winter 2014-15


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume II, Number 28


Box 21 Golden Handcuffs Review. Volume II, Number 29


Box 21 Great Writers Occupy. Golden Handcuffs Review , 2015


2022:


Patterns of Animus:



Box 24 Folder 1 Patterns of Animus by Rochelle Owens. Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2022, 151 pages

Inscribed by the author to The Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The author's copy.

Gift of Rochelle Owens, August 2022



Box 23 Folder 1 Poem: "Patterns of Animus Part 4 Carnal/Spiritual" (published on-line)



Box 22 Folder 4 "Patterns of Animus" drafts, 2021-2022



Box 24 Folder 4 "Patterns of Animus" Print out, 64 pages


Box 24 Folder 5 "Patterns of Animus" Print out, annotated, 34 pages


Box 24 Folder 2 "Patterns of Animus" Latest Proof corrections, 27 June 2022, 2 pages


Box 24 Folder 3 "Patterns of Animus" Final version, June/July 2022, 30 pages


Correspondence:



Box 22 Folder 1 Correspondence with the RBML, 1998


Box 22 Folder 3 Correspondence, 2021-April 2022



Box 24 Folder 6 Three emails (from Robert Heide, Susan, Margaret Harrington Tamulonis), May 2022



Box 22 Folder 2 Essays, Reviews, Scholarly Research on Rochelle Owens, 1970s-1984


Box 22 Folder 5 Poem drafts, etc.; notes on "Solar Poetics"; Lyrics: The Karl Marx Play (Steno Book), 2012


Box 22 Folder 6 R. Owens Wikipedia entry; Program for French Heritage Society; Reviews; Penn's Village Panel, 2013


Box 22 Folder 7 Poem cards, Photographs, Souvenir, Notes, Image of Rochelle's mother (Molly Adler Bass)



Box 23 Folder 1 Copyright Certificates, 1973-1999


Box 23 Folder 2 Reviews by Rochelle Owens on Maria Sabina; Toby Olson; Muriel Rukeyser; Susan Smith Nash


Box 23 Folder 2 Backwoods Broadsides "Luca-Discourse on Life and Death"


Box 23 Folder 2 Margins Symposium on Rochelle Owens, 1975


Box 23 Folder 2 Miscellaneous articles



Box 24 Folder 7 Three poem cards and one photograph card

Photograph by George Economou of Land Art created by Rochelle Owens; "Oklahoma Too" by Rochelle Owens, 1985; "How Much Paint Does The Painting Need" by Rochelle Owens, 1985; "How Much Paint Does The Painting Need" by Rochelle Owens, 1988

Archived website

Owens's archived website is here:https://rochelleowens.net/