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J.K. Osborne Photograph Collection, 1923-1982
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Osborne, J. K., 1941-
- Title
- J.K. Osborne Photograph Collection
- Dates
- 1923-1982 (inclusive)19231982
- Quantity
- 36 photographs (3 folders)
- Collection Number
- PH1578
- Summary
- Photographs of J.K. Osborne and his friends and acquaintances
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual materials curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Poet J. K. Osborne, known to friends and family as Ken, was born in 1941. He graduated from the University of Washington with an M.A. in literature, and has been published in various anthologies and literary magazines. He has also published collections of poetry and co-founded the poetry magazine "Madrona" in 1972.
In 1968, Osborne, a contientious objector, was sentenced to four years in prison. He ultimately spent eighteen months at McNeil Island Penitentiary. Osborne published his memoir of his time in prison, called "I Refuse," in 1971.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs of the poet J.K. Osborne, of friends such as Paul and Eve Triem, Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, and of the 1970 Writers' Conference in Colorado, which was attended by Isaac Beshevis Singer, Mitchell Goodman, Denise Levertov, Richard Hugo, and Herbert Gold.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
J.K. OsborneReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Folder | item | ||
1 | 1 | August 1959 | |
1 | 2 |
Osborne with megaphone announcing at homecoming
ceremonies Written on verso: Dick Murdy.
|
October 9, 1959 |
1 | 3 | Between 1960 and 1970? | |
1 | 4 | October 31, 1968 | |
1 | 5 |
Osborne seated at desk looking at papers Written on verso: The only picture of me in prison.
|
Between 1968-1969 |
1 | 6 | 1972 | |
1 | 7 |
Portrait of Osborne James R. Teed, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (Photographer)
|
Autumn 1972 |
1 | 8 | 1973 | |
1 | 9 |
Madrona editors Vassilis
Zambaras and J.K. Osborne in Seattle, WA Vassilis Zambaras was born in Greece in 1944, then moved to the
small town of Raymond, WA at four years old. He attended the University of
Washington but dropped out after a year. He spent 1963-1964 travelling in
Europe and in Greece, settling in Munich until getting drafted into the US
Army. After his discharge, he completed his sophomore year at Grays Harbor
College in Aberdeen, WA, then transferred to UW where he received an MA in
English. In 1970, he co-founded the poetry magazine Madrona with J.K. Osborne, and also worked for the
Seattle Housing Authority before returning to Greece in 1972. His poems have
been published in various literary magazines in the US and abroad. Many of his
poems were included in the anthology How The Net Is
Gripped: A Selection of Contemporary American Poetry, Stride, UK, 1992,
and he has two collections of poetry, Sentences,
Querencia Books, 1976, and Aural, Singing Horse
Press, 1984.
|
Between 1972-1973 |
1 | 10 |
Portrait of Osborne at S Morgan Street, Seattle,
WA Robin Tarbott (Photographer)
|
May 1974 |
1 | 11 |
Osborne shaking hands and receiving an award or
certificate from Washington Governor Dan Evans at a ceremony Written on photo: To J.K. Osborne with my congratulations Dan
Evans.
|
Between 1970 and 1977? |
1 | 12 | 1977 |
Friends and Acquaintances of J.K. OsborneReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Folder | item | ||
2 | 13 |
Daniel and Phillip Berrigan Written on verso: To Ken, a soul-brother of the Bros. Berrigan
from your friend, Dick Carbray
Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an
American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright,
poet, and author. Philip Francis Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002)
was an American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest. Together, they were
nominated in 1998 for the Nobel Peace Prize by 1976 laureate Mairead
Maguire.Seattle educator Richard Carbray was one of the leaders of the
Catholic ecumenical peace movement during the Vietnam War.
|
1968 |
2 | 14 |
David Dwyer and Kathleen Norris smoking at a table in a
house, Lemmon, South Dakota Poet David Dwyer moved from New York City to Lemmon, South
Dakota with his wife, writer Kathleen Norris, when she inherited her maternal
grandparents’ farm. Dwyer’s first collection of poetry, Ariana Olisvos: Her Last Works and Days, won the Juniper
Prize. Dwyer also published numerous poems in anthologies and literary
magazines. David Dwyer died in 2003 at the age of 57 after a lengthy illness.
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York
Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace,
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, and Acedia &
Me. She is a Benedictine oblate of Assumption Abbey.
|
1976 |
2 | 15 |
Nanija Kirsfelds, Seattle, WA Written on verso: To Kenneth Osborne "Leaving it all behind."
Love, Nanija Kirsfelds "April is the cruelest month..."
Nanija Kiršfelds (September 13, 1915-April 17, 1973) had a
Masters in Library Science from the University of Rutgers and worked as a
Slavic language specialist at the University of Princeton Library, in part due
to her Latvian heritage. She was married to Reverend Ansis Kiršfelds.
|
July 30, 1972 |
2 | 16 |
John Levy on porch holding rose in his mouth John Levy (b. 1951) works as a public defender in Tucson,
Arizona. A contributing editor to the very first series of
Shearsman in 1981-2, his publications include
Oblivion, Tyrants, Crumbs.
|
Between 1970 and 1980? |
2 | 17 | 1974 | |
2 | 18-21 |
Eve Triem Eve Triem (November 2, 1902-December 26, 1992) was a poet. Her
work mainly concerned her marriage but also included translations of classical
Greek poems. She married Paul Ellsworth Triem in 1924 and they moved to
Dubuque, Iowa in 1936. They moved to San Francisco in 1956, where they resided
until moving to Seattle in 1960. Triem's work appeared in many literary
periodicals and anthologies, and she gave many readings and lectures. In 1984,
she won a Western States Book award for lifetime achievement. Her published
collections of poems are: Parade of Doves, E.P.
Dutton, 1946; Poems by Eve Triem, Alan Swallow,
1965; The Process, Querencia, 1976;
Dark to Glow, Querencia, 1979;
Midsummer Rites, Seal Press, 1982;
New as a Wave: A Retrospective, 1937-1983, Dragon
Gate, 1984; and Nobody Dies in the Summer: Selected
Poems, Broken Moon Press, 1993.
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between 1970 and 1975? |
2 | 22-23 |
Portraits of Eve Triem Mary Randlett (Photographer)
|
1975 |
2 | 24 |
Paul Triem standing outdoors Written on verso: California aged 42.
Paul Triem (March 4, 1882-April 14, 1976) was a writer and
newspaper editor specializing in westerns and detective stories. He married
poet Eve Triem in 1924.
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1923 |
2 | 25 |
Paul Triem sitting in folding chair with a cat in his
lap Written on verso: 1936= Dubuque, Iowa Paul Triem and [Scipio
Africanus, my black cat] No, Yvonne's gray cat.
|
1936 |
2 | 26 |
Paul Triem seated in an armchair Written on verso: No, children, dear, this is not an exhibit out
of the monkey house. It is Pop Triem, wearing his regular disgruntled
expression. They can make me stay here - for a time. but they can't make me
like it.
|
1942 |
2 | 27 | Between 1970 and 1976? | |
2 | 28 | June 1972 | |
2 | 29 |
Woman standing outdoors Written on verso: To Ken w. love, D?
|
August 1971 |
1970 Writers' Conference, Boulder, ColoradoReturn to Top
1970 Writers' Conference was held in Boulder, Colorado in The Rocky Mountains; Denise Levertov, Mitchell Goodman, Herbert Gold, and Isaac Bashevis Singer attended this conference, which was comprised of two weeks of writing workshops. This was also where J.K. Osborne met Vassilis Zambaras and John Levy, which led to the creation of the Madrona poetry magazine.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Folder | item | ||
3 | 30 | June 1970 | |
3 | 31 |
Mitchell Goodman and Denise Levertov Goodman Mitchell Goodman (December 10, 1923 – February 1, 1997) was an
American writer, teacher, and activist. He is best known for his role in the
Vietnam draft resistance movement, which led to the high-profile 1968 federal
prosecution of the "Boston Five." Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 –
20 December 1997) was an English-born poet, essayist and political activist who
wrote matter-of-fact verse on both personal and political themes. She's known
for such works as The Sorrow Dance and
The Freeing of the Dust. They married in 1948, and
divorced in 1975.
|
June 1970 |
3 | 32 |
Richard Hugo Richard Hugo was born in 1923 in Seattle, Washington and raised
by his grandparents in White Center, Washington. He served in the Army Air
Corps in World War II. After the war, he attended the University of Washington
where he earned his B.A. in 1948 and his M.A in 1952; at UW he studied under
Theodore Roethke, who influenced Hugo's work and lifestyle. His first book of
poetry, A Run of Jacks, was published in 1961,
followed by Death of Kapowsin Tavern, in 1965. He
later published The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
(1973), What Thou Lovest Well Remains American
(1975), 31 Letters and 13 Dreams (1977),
White Center (1980) and The
Right Madness on Skye (1980). He was offered a position teaching
creative writing at the University of Montana, where he would become head of
the creative writing program. He also taught at the University of Washington
and the University of Iowa. By the end of his life Hugo had accumulated many
prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation
creative writing grant, and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize. Richard Hugo
died of leukemia in 1982.
|
June 1970 |
3 | 33 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer and wife Alma Wassermann née
Haimann in Colorado Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a
Polish-American writer. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary
movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1978, and was also awarded two U.S. National Book
Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day
Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in
Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other
Stories (1974). In 1938, he met Alma Wassermann née Haimann (1907–1996),
a German-Jewish refugee from Munich, and they married in 1940.
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June 1970 |
3 | 34 | June 1970 | |
3 | 35 | 1970? | |
3 | 36 | 1970 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Berrigan, Daniel--Photographs
- Berrigan, Philip--Photographs
- Osborne, J. K. 1941---Archives
- Osborne, J. K. 1941---Friends and associates--Photographs
- Osborne, J. K. 1941---Photographs
- Triem, Paul Ellsworth 1882-1976--Photographs
Corporate Names
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Photographs