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The Paulann Petersen Collection, 1989-2013
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Petersen, Paulann
- Title
- The Paulann Petersen Collection
- Dates
- 1989-2013 (inclusive)19892013
- Quantity
- 8 boxes, (3 cubic feet)
- Collection Number
- OLPb147PET
- Summary
- The collection includes poetry drafts and publications by the Oregon poet, Paulann Petersen.
- Repository
-
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu - Access Restrictions
-
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Paulann Petersen is a teacher and poet who served as the State of Oregon's Poet Laureate, 2010-2013. Petersen was a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January Stafford Birthday Events.
Petersen is the author of a number of books of poetry including: The Wild Awake (Confluence Press); Blood-Silk (Quiet Lion Press); A Bride of Narrow Escape (Cloudbank Books), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; and Kindle (Mountains and Rivers Press); The Voluptuary (Lost Horse Press); and Understory (Lost Horse Press).
Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Poetry; The New Republic; Prairie Schooner; Poetry Northwest; Willow Springs; Notre Dame Review; Bellingham Review; and Wilderness Magazine. Credits in Oregon publications include Calyx; The Grove Review; Basalt; Burnside Review; Oregon English Journal; Windfall; VoiceCatcher; and Hubbub. Anthology credits include Long Journey, Contemporary Northwest Poets; A Fierce Brightness; Portland Lights; Deer Drink the Moon; Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass; From Here We Speak, An Anthology of Oregon Poetry; O Poetry! Oh Poesia! Poems of Oregon and Peru; and Florilegia. POETRY IN MOTION, which places poems on the Tri-met busses and lightrail cars in the Portland area, has featured her poems.
Paulann has given readings in hundreds of spots ranging from Powell’s City of Books to Osmania University in India, from Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls to The Museum Hotel in Central Turkey, from Fishtrap House in Enterprise to the tiny Agness Library on the Rogue River, from the Corvallis Library to Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Includes poem drafts, correspondence, and publications.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
The Paulann Petersen Collection (OLPb147PET), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in a single series with groupings by book title.
Location of Collection
Special CollectionsAcquisition Information
Donated to Lewis & Clark College by Paulann Petersen.
Future Additions
This collection will be supplemented periodically with new material from the author.
Processing Note
Processed in 2013.
Separated Materials
Books by Paulann Petersen are housed with the Special Collections Rare Books and catagued in the Watzek Library online catalog. Broadsides with poems by Paulann Petersen are housed with Special Collections poetry broadsides.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
The Wild Awake , ca. 1996Return to Top
Container(s): Box 1
Drafts for poems published in the book The Wild Awake (2002). File titles are equivalent to the published poem titles except in a handful of cases which are explained in the notes for the folder entry.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
1.1 | A Reading from the Erotic Compass of the
World |
undated |
1.2 | Not an Angel |
undated |
1.3 | Timepiece |
undated |
1.4 | Cloth |
undated |
1.5 | Promise |
undated |
1.6 | Merman |
undated |
1.7 | Oriental Lilies |
undated |
1.8 | Graveyard Narcissus |
undated |
1.9 | Small Acts of Devotion |
undated |
1.10 | Mirror of These Eyes |
undated |
1.11 | A Bride of the World |
undated |
1.12 | Speaking of Dreams |
undated |
1.13 | Feral |
undated |
1.14 | In Dreams |
undated |
1.15 | What You Didn't Know About
Money |
undated |
1.16 | The Day I Became a Woman
Early drafts titled "The Day Jesus Became a Woman"
|
undated |
1.17 | Then She Is the Garden |
undated |
1.18 | Second Skin |
undated |
1.19 | To Dream a Lover Away |
undated |
1.20 | Perfume |
undated |
1.21 | Snow Red |
undated |
1.22 | A Natural History |
undated |
1.23 | Room |
undated |
1.24 | Lullaby |
undated |
1.25 | A Little Primer on Sleep |
undated |
1.26 | Haven |
undated |
1.27 | Calling |
undated |
1.28 | Where the Animal Goes When I Am
Awake |
undated |
1.29 | For the Love of Sleep |
undated |
1.30 | Words Rise from Nowhere Else |
undated |
1.31 | Fabrication |
undated |
1.32 | Coat of Fur |
undated |
1.33 | A Woman Remembers Water |
undated |
1.34 | Where, Then Who You Are |
undated |
1.35 | In Her Palm, Perfection |
undated |
1.36 | Resolution |
undated |
1.37 | Pity |
undated |
1.38 | Work |
undated |
1.39 | Making Do |
undated |
1.40 | The New Cosmology |
undated |
1.41 | Psychopomp |
undated |
1.42 | Handwriting |
undated |
1.43 | Translation |
undated |
1.44 | Who Shadows the Sun |
undated |
1.45 | The Same Worlds Within You As
Without |
undated |
1.46 | When I Walk |
undated |
1.47 | Appetite |
undated |
Blood Silk , ca. 2003Return to Top
Container(s): Box 2
Drafts for poems published in the book Blood Silk (2003). File titles are equivalent to the published poem titles except in a handful of cases which are explained in the notes for the folder entry.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
2.1 | [no title]
early drafts titled "In Hospitality"; appears in Blood
Silk without a title
|
undated |
2.2 | In the Narrow Margins |
undated |
2.3 | Turkish for Hello |
undated |
2.4 | A Calling |
undated |
2.5 | The Nectar |
undated |
2.6 | A Center of Gold |
undated |
2.7 | Bouquet |
undated |
2.8 | The Four Seasons, Istanbul |
undated |
2.9 | Illumination |
undated |
2.10 | Ecumenical |
undated |
2.11 | Regeneration |
undated |
2.12 | In This Land, Exotic |
undated |
2.13 | Two Places I've Seen Mullein
Grow |
undated |
2.14 | Moonrise, Adiyaman |
undated |
2.15 | Offering |
undated |
2.16 | Customary |
undated |
2.17 | For a Second Time on Today's Bus
Ride |
undated |
2.18 | Regular Issue |
undated |
2.19 | The World, Rushing |
undated |
2.20 | Grooming |
undated |
2.21 | Gleaner |
undated |
2.22 | Breakfast at the Caravansaray's
Edge |
undated |
2.23 | Night Shift |
undated |
2.24 | In a Kurdish Village |
undated |
2.25 | First Sight, Cappadocia |
undated |
2.26 | Itinerary |
undated |
2.27 | In Early Spring, Outside the Greatest
Ottoman Architect's Masterpiece Mosque, Ken, in His Limited but
Beautiful Turkish, Fends the Peddlers Off |
undated |
2.28 | The Proselytizer |
undated |
2.29 | Memento |
undated |
2.30 | Aftermath |
undated |
2.31 | To You, Aysegul |
undated |
2.32 | At the Postal Worker's Flat,
Nevsehir |
undated |
2.33 | Place Setting |
undated |
2.34 | After Dinner, Drinking Cay on Ermine's
Small Balcony |
undated |
2.35 | What Remains in the Byzantine
Cave-Church |
undated |
2.36 | Daybreak Ballooning,
Cappadocia |
undated |
2.37 | Speaking of Men, of Women, of
Love |
undated |
2.38 | Black Cave, Red Star |
undated |
2.39 | To Unbury a Poet |
undated |
2.40 | Here, In This Sky, Lay Me Down |
undated |
Kindle , ca. 2008Return to Top
Container(s): Box 3
Drafts, correspondence with the publisher (Mountains and Rivers Press), and proofs for the book, Kindle (2008). The eventual book included material for two different collections, Kindle and Seed. The two were consolidated into a single book titled Kindle.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
3.1 | Kindle
Typed draft submitted to Ce Rosenow.
|
May 15, 2005 |
3.2 | Seed
Typed draft submitted to Ce Rosenow.
|
May 16, 2005 |
3.3 | Seed and Kindle contents pages |
2005-2008 |
3.4 | Kindle submissions
Correspondence with Ce Rosenow and poem submissions.
|
November 10, 2005 |
3.5 | Kindle poem submissions (after November
10, 2005)
Poems and correspondence.
|
2005-2008 |
3.6 | Kindle draft
Assembled from page proofs for Kindle and Seed.
|
Fall 2006 |
3.7 | Kindle page proofs |
March 27, 2008 |
3.8 | Kindle journal submissions
Documentation of periodicals in which poems collected for Kindle were
previously published.
|
undated |
3.9 | reviews of
Kindle
|
undated |
3.10 | Correspondence about
Kindle
|
2010-2011 |
3.11 | Correspondence with publisher, Ce
Rosenow |
2005-2011 |
Kindle , ca. 2008Return to Top
Container(s): Box 4
Drafts for poems published in the book Kindle (2008).
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
4.1 | Grounded |
undated |
4.2 | Calendar |
undated |
4.3 | As Fall Days Continue Their Onward
Count |
undated |
4.4 | Time-Travel |
undated |
4.5 | Suture |
undated |
4.6 | A Little Perspective |
undated |
4.7 | Phantom Body |
undated |
4.8 | Rorschach |
undated |
4.9 | Dear Soul |
undated |
4.10 | Carried From the Current |
undated |
4.11 | Slake |
undated |
4.12 | Finish |
undated |
4.13 | A Legacy |
undated |
4.14 | Dawn |
undated |
4.15 | Water Knows Its Own Kind |
undated |
4.16 | Vantage |
undated |
4.17 | Basin |
undated |
4.18 | Sense |
undated |
4.19 | Half Empty, Half Full |
undated |
4.20 | When Meeting the other |
undated |
4.21 | Late Blooming |
undated |
4.22 | Gather Close |
undated |
4.23 | Narrative Description, Imaginative
Leaps |
undated |
4.24 | For Special Emphasis |
undated |
4.25 | Ink |
undated |
4.26 | Breugel's Babel |
undated |
4.27 | On Seeing Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily,
Rose |
undated |
4.28 | Circus |
undated |
4.29 | Charles Burchfield, Your World |
undated |
4.30 | Slip Work |
undated |
4.31 | Paper-Cutting Art |
undated |
4.32 | Traveler |
undated |
4.33 | A Cycladic Proof |
undated |
4.34 | Moonrise, Asteria |
undated |
4.35 | On the Aegean |
undated |
4.36 | Navigation |
undated |
4.37 | A Municipal Servant Serenades at the
Pier |
undated |
4.38 | Siren |
undated |
4.39 | Rooms to Let Dream |
undated |
4.40 | Phaethon's Warning |
undated |
4.41 | Polar Flight |
undated |
4.42 | Printed text of Kindle |
2008 |
The Voluptuary , ca. 2010Return to Top
Container(s): Box 5
This box contains manuscript and drafts versions of the book The Voluptuary (2010). The earliest title for the book was The Body Eclectic.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
5.1 | Paulann Petersen's handwritten
journal
journal in response to Whitman's Leaves of Grass and
Specimen Days
|
July, 2000-August, 2001 |
5.2 | drafts of poems from The Body
Eclectic
|
August 2, 2001 |
5.3 | Single draft sheet from The Body
Eclectic
|
2001 |
5.4 | from The Body Eclectic
draft |
September 3, 2001 |
5.5 |
The Body Eclectic
draft |
September-October, 2001 |
5.6 | from The Body Eclectic
draft |
October 26, 2001 |
5.7 |
The Body Eclectic
draft |
undated |
5.8 |
The Hyphenate
World
An assemblage of poems from The Body Eclectic.
|
2002 |
5.9 | from The Body Eclectic
draft |
undated |
5.10 | from The Body Eclectic
draft |
June 2002 |
5.11 |
Something Made Room in This
World
An assemblage of drafts from The Body Eclectic.
|
ca. 2004 |
5.12 | "Paulann Homage to Whitman"
a collection of poems reviewed by Tess Gallagher and Greg Simon.
|
undated |
5.13 |
Room in This
World
A draft assemblage of poems.
|
ca. 2004 |
5.14 |
Leaves Shed Out of
Me
A newly titled assemblage of poems from The Body
Eclectic.
|
January 17, 2005 |
5.15 |
The Hermaphrodite Flower
chapbook
A subset of poems that were eventually incorporated into The
Voluptuary. Proofs and the finished book.
|
September-October, 2005 |
5.16 |
A Work of the
Body
A newly titled assemblage of poems from The Body
Eclectic.
|
January 17, 2007 |
5.17 |
The Voluptuary
Typed draft.
|
January 8, 2008 |
5.18 | Drafts not used in The
Voluptuary
|
undated |
5.19 |
The Voluptuary
typed draft.
|
ca. 2009 |
5.20 | Paulann Petersen, reviews, commentaries,
The Voluptuary correspondence |
ca. 2010 |
5.21 |
The Voluptuary finding aids
and charts
Charts documenting the various drafts and iterations of the poems in
The Voluptuary. Created by students at Lewis &
Clark College with the help of Paulann Petersen.
|
undated |
The Voluptuary , ca. 2010Return to Top
Container(s): Box 6
Drafts for poems published in the book The Voluptuary (2010). Each folder includes copies of every draft, including the final typed version, of each poem in the book.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
6.1 | Title page |
undated |
6.2 | A Powder of Stars section
epigraph |
undated |
6.3 | Bloodline |
undated |
6.4 | Why the World Isn't Flat |
undated |
6.5 | Indigo |
undated |
6.6 | Fennel |
undated |
6.7 | This Could Be |
undated |
6.8 | Since Most Stars Are Strangers |
undated |
6.9 | What's Left From That First
Goddess |
undated |
6.10 | Atavist |
undated |
6.11 | A Way to Say Gladness |
undated |
6.12 | In February's Field |
undated |
6.13 | What Remains |
undated |
6.14 | In the Book of Waves |
undated |
6.15 | Forever Forbidden to Wed |
undated |
6.16 | In a Fleck of the Cosmos |
undated |
6.17 | Skin |
undated |
6.18 | Blind Abundance section
epigraph |
undated |
6.19 | Sky-Sower |
undated |
6.20 | Doxology |
undated |
6.21 | Ashes |
undated |
6.22 | Ember |
undated |
6.23 | Bright Song Bred in a Dark
Throat |
undated |
6.24 | Propagate |
undated |
6.25 | Span |
undated |
6.26 | The Light Connecting Each to
All |
undated |
6.27 | The Milky Way |
undated |
6.28 | Be Here When I Can See You, When I
Can't |
undated |
6.29 | Among the Yet Unfallen |
undated |
6.30 | The Hermaphrodite Flower section
epigraph |
undated |
6.31 | Nearness Called Forth |
undated |
6.32 | Vantage |
undated |
6.33 | One Soul |
undated |
6.34 | Hermaphrodite |
undated |
6.35 | Numen |
undated |
6.36 | Reservoir |
undated |
6.37 | Sounding-Bowl section epigraph |
undated |
6.38 | Ark |
undated |
6.39 | Fig |
undated |
6.40 | Feeding Crows |
undated |
6.41 | A Pinch of Your Ashes Mixed with
Mother's |
undated |
6.42 | Far |
undated |
6.43 | For Continuance |
undated |
6.44 | Silver and Deep |
undated |
6.45 | Appear |
undated |
6.46 | Abandon |
undated |
6.47 | Yet Again I Name Aloud |
undated |
6.48 | Gravity |
undated |
6.49 | Death-Clothes |
undated |
6.50 | Moonflower |
undated |
6.51 | Whose Feet I'd Dry with my
Hair |
undated |
6.52 | To My Coffin Maker |
undated |
6.53 | The Somewhere of Blue section
epigraph |
undated |
6.54 | Anthem |
undated |
6.55 | Small Wonder |
undated |
6.56 | Watermelon |
undated |
6.57 | Solar Eclipse |
undated |
6.58 | Heavenly Body |
undated |
6.59 | Hive |
undated |
6.60 | Wax |
undated |
6.61 | Mend |
undated |
6.62 | On the One True Way Out of This
World |
undated |
6.63 | Crescents |
undated |
6.64 | Wick |
undated |
6.65 | The Metamorph World |
undated |
6.66 | Forest Sutra |
undated |
6.67 | Crows Feeding on Crusted Snow |
undated |
6.68 | Use |
undated |
6.69 | Voluptuaries |
undated |
The Voluptuary , ca. 2010Return to Top
Container(s): Box 7
Miscellaneous materials relating to the publication of the book The Voluptuary (2010).
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
7.1 | Charts and Correspondence
Includes tables showing different titles and drafts for each poem.
Compiled by Paul Merchant and students at Lewis & Clark College.
|
undated |
7.2 |
The Voluptuary manuscript
Complete typed manuscript
|
undated |
7.3 | The Voluptuary corrected proof
Corrected page proofs.
|
2010 |
7.4 | The Voluptuary final proof
copy
Trimmed pages on publication page stock with cover proof.
|
2010 |
7.5 | drafts of essay about Paulann Petersen by Eric Muller |
2010 |
7.6 | handmade notebook with two poems
Includes facsimiles of original drafts used for exhibit of "Leaves of Grass" and "Starting from Paumanok."
|
2010 |
Misc. Publications, 2010-2012Return to Top
Container(s): Box 8
Includes published materials featuring poems by Paulann Petersen.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box-Folder | ||
8.1 |
Shimmer and Drone
small chapbook of poems published by Imperfect Press.
|
2012 |
8.2 | Hawthorne Bridge calendar
contains the poem "Willamette Calendar".
|
2010 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- American poetry -- Oregon
- Petersen, Paulann
- Poetry
Personal Names
- Petersen, Paulann--Archives
Titles within the Collection
- Blood Silk
- Kindle
- The Voluptuary
- The Wild Awake