Vern Rutsala Papers, 1970-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Rutsala, Vern
Title
Vern Rutsala Papers
Dates
1970-2006 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 cubic feet, (5 boxes)
Collection Number
OLPb002RUT
Summary
This collection includes handwritten and typescript drafts of poems, short stories, essays, as well as the correspondence of the American poet, Vern Rutsala.
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, English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Vern Rutsala was born in 1934 in McCall, Idaho. He moved to Portland, Oregon in the early 1940s where he attended Milwaukie High School. Rutsala received his BA from Reed College in 1956 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1960. He taught English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon from 1961-2004.

As a poet, Rutsala has published over 700 poems in poetry journals including Atlantic Monthly, Times Literary Supplement, New Yorker, Midland, Poetry, Harper's, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Mississippi Review, Nebraska Review, Seneca Review, and New Letters. Rutsala has penned sixteen books of poetry, and has been featured in numerous anthologies. Poetry prizes received by Rutsala include the Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize (twice), a Pushcart Prize, a fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, an Oregon Masters fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize for his book, the Oregon Book Award, the Richard Snyder Prize, the Kenneth O. Hanson Award, the Akron Poetry Prize, and a finalist selection for the National Book Award for The Moment's Equation.

Rutsala resides in Portland, Oregon.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection is composed of poetry drafts and typescripts. Most drafts are identified by date.

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 Papers of Vern Rutsala, OLPb002RUT, Lewis Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in one series: 1. Poems (alphabetical by title)

Location of Collection

Special Collections

Acquisition Information

These papers were given to Lewis & Clark College in by Vern Rutsala in annual gifts from 2001 to 2005.

Future Additions

Additional materials will be added to this collection on an annual basis.

Processing Note

Processed in December of 2005.

Separated Materials

Lewis & Clark College Special Collections also owns a complete set of Rutsala's publications in books, anthologies, and journals.

Bibliography

For more information about Rutsala's writings see: Muller, Erik. Vern Rutsala. Western Writers Series no. 132, Boise State University, 1998.

Muller, Erik. Vern Rutsala. Western Writers Series no. 132, Boise State University, 1998.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: Drafts and typescripts, 1970-2005Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
1
Series 1: Box 1 A-E
Poetry Drafts and Typescripts
Alphabetical by poem title. Folder entries note where the poem was published.
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.
1970-2005
Folder
1
"Adelfina" Three drafts; three full sheets and one small sheet. Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Summer 1986.
2
"After the Dog Died" Five drafts; seven sheets. Portland Review, June 1994.
3
"Against Telephones" Six drafts; five sheets. College English, December 1986.
4
"Airport Thoughts" Ten drafts; fifteen sheets. Unpublished?
5
"All Day" One draft. Four sheets. Unpublished?
6
"An American Morning" Three drafts; three sheets. Poetry, January 1985.
7
"American Names" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Summer 1986; Moment's Equation (2004).
8
"American Song" Twelve drafts; twenty-three sheets. Unpublished?
9
"Angels" Six drafts; ten sheets. Unpublished?
10
"Another Night" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
11
"Another of the Lost" Two drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
12
"Approaching 1934" Three drafts; five sheets. A Handbook for Writers (2004)
13
"April" Two drafts; two sheets. Interim Fall 1986.
14
"As Luck Would Have It" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
15
"At Four in the Morning" One draft; one folded sheet. Columbia, Spring/Summer 1982; Ruined Cities (1987).
16
"At Lydia's" [prose] One draft.; nine sheets. See "Going to Lydia's." Unpublished?
17
"At This Point" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
18
"August Memories" Six drafts; ten sheets. Moment's Equation (2004)
19
"Aunt Fret" Three drafts; three sheets. published as "Fret" in Moment's Equation (2004)?
20
"Back There" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
21
"The Backyard at Night" Three drafts; three sheets. Poetry Kanto, 1985.
22
"Backyard Elegy" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
23
"The Bad Night" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
24
"Bandits" Six drafts; six sheets. Unpublished?
25
"...Baudelaire's 'Carrion'" Two drafts; one sheet. Unpublished?
26
"The Beast in the Cellar" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
27
"Becoming American" One draft (incomplete); one sheet. Poetry, June 1992; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
28
"Being Away II" Eight drafts; nine sheets. Unpublished?
29
"Behind That Door" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
30
"Big Tires" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
31
"Billie Holiday" Five drafts; nine sheets. Calapooya, 1998; Moment's Equation (2004); Berberis Press broadside (2006).
32
"Black Map" Two drafts; two sheets. Chelsea, Fall 1991.
33
"Blake in Idaho" One draft; three sheets. The Chariton Review, Fall 1998; Moment's Equation (2004).
34
"Bleached Grass" Nine drafts; one large folded sheet, ten full sheets. Calapooya, 1998; Moment's Equation (2004).
35
"Body Language" Four drafts; three sheets. Calapooya, 1998.
36
"The Boneyard" Six drafts; six full sheets and one small sheet. American Poetry Review, September/October 1996; Moment's Equation (2004).
37
"Bravado and Rage: A Memoir" Seven drafts; nine sheets. Black Warrior Review, Winter 1984; Ruined Cities (1987).
38
"Broken Songs" [fragment] One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
39
"Calling up the Pain" Eight drafts; fourteen sheets. Earlier title: "Returning Your Call" Tar River Poetry, Fall 1988; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
40
"Camping with Ecclesiastes" Five drafts; twelve sheets. How We Spent Our Time (2006).
41
"The Cannery" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
42
"Cannon Beach Meditation" Thirty-seven drafts; one hundred ten sheets (one folded and stapled). Earlier titles: "Sand Dollars at Cannon Beach" and "Striking It Rich at Cannon Beach." Eleven drafts; forty-six sheets. Open Spaces, Summer 1998; Moment's Equation (2004).
43
"Cards From My Aunt" Three drafts; three sheets. Crazyhorse, Fall 1984; Moment's Equation (2004).
44
"The Carnival" [prose] Four drafts; forty sheets. Unpublished?
45
"Carpe Diem" One draft; one sheet. A Handbook for Writers (2004).
46
"Carpentry" Four drafts.; four sheets. Colorado Review, Spring/Summer 1991; Moment's Equation (2004).
47
"Carraway and the Ladies" [prose] One drafts; six sheets (unseparated). Unpublished?
48
"Casualties" Three drafts; nine sheets. Unpublished?
49
"Casualties" [prose] Three drafts; fifty sheets. Unpublished?
50
"Cathleen and the Book of Blankness" [prose] One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
51
"Choice" Unpublished? Five drafts; six sheets.
52
"Close Reading" One draft; two sheets. The Quarterly, Summer 1990.
53
"Cold Trees" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
54
"Coming Home" Five drafts; five sheets. Poetry, January 1985; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
55
"Common Law Muse" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
56
"Cousins" Six drafts; six sheets. The New Yorker, April 16, 1984; Ruined Cities (1987).
57
"Cooperation" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
58
"The Cradle of Civilization" Three drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
59
"Dancing in the Attic" Fourteen drafts; sixteen sheets. Unpublished?
60
"The Dark Figure" Four drafts; three full sheets, one half sheet. Unpublished?
61
"A Day Late and a Dollar Short" Seven drafts; fourteen full sheets, five small sheets. Unpublished?
62
"The Day You Knew Would Come" Nine drafts; nine sheets. Unpublished?
63
"Days" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
64
"The Dead" One draft.; one sheet (torn at bottom). Jefferson Monthly, November 1994; Ruined Cities (1987).
65
"Deceptions" One draft; one sheet. Clackamas Literary Review, Spring 1998
66
"Departmental" Four drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
67
"Detective Story" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
68
"Dilemma" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
69
"The Disposal" Six drafts; six sheets. Unpublished?
70
"Donning Armor" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
71
"Door to Door" Nine drafts; eleven sheets. Chadakoin Review, Summer 1990.
72
"Drawing Petroglyphs" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
73
"Driving North" Eight drafts; eight sheets. Labeled "Driving 101 North" Hubbub, vol 10 (1992?); How We Spent Our Time (2006).
74
"Driving South in '44" Four drafts; four sheets. Nebraska Review Spring/Summer 1987.
75
"Eating Nuts" Four drafts; three sheets and one note card. Unpublished?
76
"Empty Rooms" [1983] Four drafts; four sheets. Earlier title: "After People Leave"
77
"Empty Rooms" [1986] One draft; one sheet. The American Poetry Review, September/October 1989.
78
"The End of Waiting" One draft; one sheet. River Styx, 1993
79
"An Evening with Chuang Tzu" [verse drama]. One draft; sixteen sheets. Unpublished?
80
"Every Year" Two drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
81
"Explication de Texte" One draft; one sheet. The Sewanee Review, Summer 1983; Ruined Cities (1987).
2
Series 1: Box 2 F-J
Poetry Drafts and Typescripts
Alphabetical by poem title.
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.
1970-2005
Folder
1
"Families Returning" Four drafts; seven sheets. Mud Creek, Fall 1989; Moment's Equation (2004).
2
"Family" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
3
"A Family Story" Two drafts; five sheets.
4
"Father Fear" Four drafts; four sheets. The Kenyon Review, Winter 1987.
5
"Field Burning" Six drafts; sixteen sheets. Crazyhorse, Spring 1987; Moment's Equation (2004).
6
"Finns Have Long Memories" Two drafts; eight sheets. ZYZZYVA, Summer 1989.
7
"Fishing" [prose] One draft; five sheets. Unpublished?
8
"Folly" [prose] One draft; seven sheet (four folded and/or taped together). Unpublished?
9
"For Donald Hall" [prose] Four drafts; four sheets and one note card. Unpublished?
10
"Forest" Two drafts; two sheets. Earlier title: "My Forest" Poetry Kanto, 1985.
11
"The Forgetful House" One draft; two sheets. The Seattle Review, Spring/Summer 1989.
12
"From a Bestiary: Cobwebs, Broom, Desk Blotter, Telephone, Thermostat, Flowers" Three drafts; three sheets. Earlier title: "Six for a Bestiary" Portland Review, June 1994.
13
"From Our Gift Catalog" Four drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
14
"The Frozen Lake" [prose] Four drafts; thirty-three full sheets (five folded and/or taped), seven small sheets, eleven note cards. Northwest Variety: Personal Essays By 14 Regional Authors, 1987.
15
"The Fruit Cellar" Nine drafts; nine sheets (one folded). Earlier title: "The Fruit Cellar: A Memoir" Three Rivers Poetry Journal, 1991.
16
"Furniture" One draft; one sheet. Fireweed, June 1991 [?? that poem is listed as "The Furniture Factory" but there is an earlier poem under that same title from Harper's in June 1974.]
17
"The Geek" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
18
"Geography" Twelve drafts; seventeen sheets. Earlier titles: "Geography Lesson" "Lessons in Geography," "Geography Lessons." Moment's Equation (2004).
19
"Getting and Spending" Eight drafts; sixteen sheets. Earlier title: "Neighborhood Sales" The Laurel Review, Spring 1996; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
20
"Getting Out of the Army" Six drafts; nine sheets. How We Spent Our Time (2006).
21
"Getting Ready for Spring: Barnes" Eleven drafts; fourteen sheets. Unpublished?
22
"Ghazal" Two drafts; three sheets. Free Lunch, 2000.
23
"Ghosts" Two drafts; two sheets. Earlier title: "Mice" The Literary Review, Spring 1992.
24
"Glory" Eight drafts; eight sheets. The Seattle Review, Spring 1987.
25
"Going to England" Two drafts; three sheets. Stand, Spring 1984; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
26
"Going to Lydia's" [prose] Three drafts; thirty-three sheets (one torn off toward bottom, one taped and folded). See "At Lydia's." Unpublished?
27
"The Goodbye Series: A Memoir" Seven drafts, seven sheets. Earlier titles: "One Summer in the Sixties: A Memoir" and "The Goodbye Series: One Summer: A Memoir" Massachusetts Review, Fall 1985; Moment's Equation (2004).
28
"Grandfather" Two drafts; two sheets. The Sewanee Review, Summer 1998.
29
"The Great Day" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
30
"The Great Night" Six drafts; six sheets. Unpublished?
31
"The Guest" One draft; one sheet. The Reaper, Spring 1983; Backtracking (1985).
32
"Guilty Secrets: Watching Game Shows" Eleven drafts; twenty sheets. Unpublished?
33
"Hands and Faces" [prose] Four drafts; sixteen sheets. Earlier title: "The Photographer" Elkhorn Review, Winter 1983-84.
34
"Hannalore" [prose] Seven drafts; twenty full sheets (one folded and taped) and two small sheets. The Prose Poem, 2000; A Handbook for Writers (2004).
35
"Hard Cases" Six drafts; six sheets. Earlier titles: "Hard Times" and "Hard Scrabble." The New Yorker, August 29, 1985; Ruined Cities (1987).
36
"The Hard Market" Seven drafts; nine sheets. The Kansas Quarterly, Summer 1990.
37
"The Hard Night" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
38
"The Hard Rock" Seven drafts; seven sheets. On verso a few lines of "Remembering a Return" Unpublished?
39
"The Hard Song" Three drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
40
"Having Your Picture Taken" Two drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
41
"The History of Apples" Two drafts; four sheets. Tar River Poetry, Spring,1985 and Tar River Poetry, 2000. [same poem??]
42
"The History of Disappointment" One draft; one sheet. College English, December 1986.
43
"A History of Junk" Four drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
44
"Hit Songs" Four drafts; six sheets. Unpublished?
45
"Hollywood" One draft; two sheets (pages eight and twelve). Unpublished?
46
"Homage to William Carlos Williams" Five drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
47
"Home Remedies" Four drafts; four sheets. College English, December 1986; Moment's Equation (2004).
48
"Home Thoughts" Four drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
49
"The House of Loneliness" One draft; one sheet. Prairie Schooner, Fall 1997.
50
"The House of Perfect Attendance" [prose] Two drafts; six pages. Unpublished?
51
"The House of Pleasure" One draft; one sheet. A Handbook for Writers (2004).
52
"The House of the Past" One draft; one sheet. A Handbook for Writers (2004).
53
"House Plants" Nine drafts; thirteen sheets. Unpublished?
54
"How Deadshot Reed Got His Name" Twelve drafts; twenty-four sheets. Other title: "Deadshot Reed, His Story" Unpublished?
55
"How It Felt" Two drafts; two sheets. published as "How it Feels"? in A Handbook for Writers (2004).
56
"How to Leave Town" Five drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
57
"Hunting" Seven drafts; twelve sheets. Unpublished?
58
"The Icestorm and Other Matters" Six drafts; six sheets. Earlier title: "Last Year" Unpublished?
59
"Identities" Three drafts; seven sheets. River City, Summer 2000.
60
"The Impossible Light" One draft; two sheets. Backtracking (1985).
61
"In the Attic" Four drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
62
"In the Dark" Six sheets; six drafts. Earlier title: "Figures in the Dark" Unpublished?
63
"In the Midst of Life" [prose] Four drafts; one hundred fourteen sheets. Also contains four pages of "blood." Unpublished?
64
"In the Next Room" Five drafts; five sheets. Mississippi Mud, 1990..
65
"In Utah" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
66
"Industrial Relations" One draft; one sheet. Rain City Review, Fall/Winter 1996; Moment's Equation (2004).
67
"It" One photocopy. Published.
68
"It Happens" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
69
It Works This Way" Three drafts; six sheets. Calapooya 19, 1998.
70
"The Jerrybuilt Dream" One draft; two sheets. Backtracking (1985)
3
Series 1: Box 3 K-O
Poetry Drafts and Typescripts
Alphabetical by poem title.
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.
1970-2005
Folder
1
"K.C. Jones and Me" [prose] One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
2
"K*y*k Poem" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
3
"Keeping It Together" Fifteen drafts; twenty-one full sheets, two smaller sheets. Earlier title: S.O.P. Oregon English, Fall 1988; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
4
"Kees" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
5
"Killing Flies in Georgia" Eleven drafts; forty-eight sheets. Ploughshares, Spring 1989; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
6
"Killing Time" Six drafts; six sheets. The Review (Ohio State), Spring 1997; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
7
"The King of Childhood" Five drafts; five sheets. Earlier title: "Wally." Unpublished?
8
"The Knocking" Eight drafts; eight sheets. Free Lunch, Summer 1990.
9
"Largo" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
10
"Late Afternoon Class" One draft; one sheet. Portland Review, June 1994.
11
"Late Innings" Nine drafts; eights sheets. Unpublished?
12
"Layers" One draft; two sheets. Crazyhorse, Winter 1996.
13
"Learning" Three drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
14
"Learning Your Lesson" Eight drafts; nine sheets. Poetry East, Fall 1991.
15
"Leaving Town" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
16
"A Legend" Ten drafts; nineteen sheets. Other title: "The Legend of the Rocks" Unpublished?
17
"Lela and Others" Six drafts; thirteen sheets. Earlier title: "Going through the Album"; also includes drafts of "Going to School" and "Figures in the Dark." Poetry, November 1983; Ruined Cities (1987).
18
"Letitia Loves Spud" [prose] Four drafts; thirty-eight sheets. Unpublished?
19
"Letter from Cedars Road" Ten drafts; seventeen sheets. Tampa Review, Fall/Winter 1996.
20
"Listening to a Russian Choir" Thirty-nine drafts; seventy-one sheets. Poetry, May 1994; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
21
"A Little Night Music" One draft; one sheet. Black Water Review, Winter 1981; Ruined Cities (1987).
22
"The Little Old Man" Four drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
23
"Lives Not Lived" Nineteen drafts; eighteen sheets. Earlier title: "Walking After Midnight" Unpublished?
24
"Living C.P. Snow" One draft; one sheet. Portland Review, 1979.
25
"Living Somewhere Else" Five drafts; five sheets. Harvard Magazine, September/October 1987; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
26
"London Days" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
27
"Look, We Have Come Through" Four drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
28
Looking For Work" Nine drafts; six full sheets, three small sheets. Calapooya Collage 10, 1986; Greatest Hits (2002); How We Spent Our Time (2006).
29
"The Lost Barn" Twelve drafts; twenty-one sheets. Stand, Winter 1988-89.
30
"The Lost Reader" Five drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
31
"Louver" Four drafts; four sheets. Earlier title: "Sea." The Chariton Review, Spring 1986.
32
"Making a Living" Nine drafts; nine sheets. Tar River Poetry, Spring 1985; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
33
"Making Lists" Four drafts; seven sheets. The American Poetry Review, September/October 1989; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
34
"Mavis" [prose] Three drafts; twenty full sheets, two small sheets. Unpublished?
35
"Menus From the Thirties" Thirteen drafts; nineteen sheets. Earlier title: "The Black Skillet" Unpublished?
36
"Missing It" One draft; one sheet. Crazyhorse, Winter 1991; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
37
"The Modern Eye" Five drafts; eleven sheets. Unpublished?
38
"The Moment's Equation" Five drafts; eleven full sheets and one card. Includes correspondence with the editor of Sycamore Review. Sycamore Review, Summer 1990; The Moment's Equation (2004).
39
"Moon Driving" Two drafts; two sheets. Earlier title: "No Problem." College English, March 1992; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
40
"Moonlight Walk: Li Po" One draft; four full sheets, one small sheet. Also includes "The Night Journey: Lu Chi" and "Everyone Knows." Ruined Cities (1987).
41
"Morning Birds" Four drafts; seven sheets. Earlier titles: "Morning Notes" and "Morning." Unpublished?
42
"The Muse in a Holding Pattern" Eleven drafts; eleven sheets. Clackamas Literary Review, Spring 1998.
43
"The Muse of Bedroom Monsters" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
44
"The Muse of Self-Pity" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
45
"The Muse of the First of the Month" nine drafts; ten sheets. Tampa Review Fall/Winter 1996.
46
"The Muse of the South Lockers" Two drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
47
"The Muses of Rooms" One draft; two sheets. Poetry, Winter 1990.
48
"My Buddies" One draft; two sheets. The Reaper, Spring 1983; Backtracking (1985).
49
"My Father's Cousin" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
50
"My Sense of Your Life" Three drafts; three sheets. Mr. Cogito, 1985.
51
"A Mystery" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished? [or is this "Our Mystery" Seattle Review, Summer 2000.
52
"The Mystery of Lost Shoes" One draft; one sheet. The Paris Review, Summer 1977; The Mystery of Lost Shoes (1984); Greatest Hits (2002); Ruined Cities (1987).
53
"Near Puget Sound" One draft; three sheets. Unpublished?
54
"Neighborhood Sales" Twelve drafts; twenty-five sheets. Earlier title: "Garage Meditation." Unpublished?
55
"The New Librarian" [prose] One draft; eleven sheets. Unpublished?
56
"The New Stove" Two drafts; three sheets. Also includes a draft of "The Improvement" The Reaper, Spring 1983. ["The Improvement" is from The Literary Review, Summer 1962; The Window (1984); Backtracking (1985); Greatest Hits (2002).
57
"The New Tree" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
58
"The New World" Eight drafts; thirteen sheets. Panoply, Summer/Fall 1987.
59
"Nickel and Dimed" One draft; two sheets. The Reaper, Spring 1983; Backtracking (1985).
60
"No" Four drafts; four sheets. "Unpublished"
61
"Numbers Game" Two drafts; two sheets. The Ohio Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1994; Moment's Equation (2004).
62
"Of Lost Things" Three drafts; three sheets. Earlier title: "The Drawer of Lost Things" Unpublished?
63
"Office Hours Ancestors and Drought" Seven drafts; fourteen sheets. Southern Poetry Review, Summer 1993; Moment's Equation (2004).
64
"Old Flames" Five drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
65
"The Old Place" One draft; one sheet. Portlander, 1992; Moment's Equation (2004).
66
"Old Workers" Seven drafts; nine sheets. Also a two-line draft of "Field Burning" Unpublished?
67
"On Teaching Poetry Writing" [prose] One draft; eighteen sheets. Oregon English, Fall 1989.
68
"On This Corner of the Map" Six drafts; twenty-two sheets. Alternative title: "This Corner" (see below). Unpublished?
69
"Once Again" Five drafts; five sheets. The Poetry Review, April 1985.
70
"One Life" Two drafts; four sheets.
71
"The Other Place" One draft; one sheet. The American Scholar, Summer 1979; Ruined Cities (1987).
72
"The Other Room" One draft; one sheet. The Sewanee Review, Summer 1983; Ruined Cities (1987).
73
"Our Story" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
74
"Our Wars: A Memoir" Nine drafts; twenty sheets. Unpublished?
75
"Owning Things" Seven drafts; thirteen sheets. Indiana Review, Winter 1989; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
4
Series 1: Box 4 P-S
Poetry Drafts and Typescripts
Alphabetical by poem title.
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.
1970-2005
Folder
1
"Pablo, I'm Tired Too" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
2
"Pastoral" Two drafts; four sheets. Moment's Equation (2004).
3
"Pepper: 1940" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
4
"The Plank Bridge" Eight drafts; thirty-four sheets. Two sheets are folded and taped. Stapled to it is one draft, six sheets of "The Visit" [prose]. Earlier title of "The Plank Bridge": "The Return." Unpublished?
5
"Poetry and Vision: 1990" [prose] Two drafts; four sheets. Mississippi Review vol iii, no. 3 (1990?).
6
"The Poetry of W.S. Graham" [prose] Two drafts; twenty-six sheets. Unpublished?
7
"Politics" Four drafts; ten sheets. The Seattle Review, Spring 1987; Little-known Sports (1994).
8
"Poltergeist" [prose] Three drafts; thirty-seven sheets. Unpublished?
9
"Portland Hosts the Second Coming" Four drafts; eight sheets. Agni, Fall 1990; Moment's Equation (2004).
10
"The Potato Cellar" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
11
"Progress" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
12
"Prospectus for Visitors" One draft; one sheet. Poetry, December 1980; Ruined Cities (1987).
13
"The Protocol of Shadows" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Tar River Poetry, Fall 1996.
14
"Pulling Up Stakes" Fifteen drafts; sixteen sheets. Unpublished?
15
"Quest" One draft; two sheets. Oregon Rainbow, Fall 1976; The Journey Begins (1976).
16
"Raisins" Four drafts; four sheets. The Kenyon Review, Winter 1987; Moment's Equation (2004).
17
"Reading: A Memoir" Six drafts; fourteen sheets. Poetry Northwest, Spring 1995.
18
"Reading the Book of the Dead Man" One draft; one small sheet. Unpublished?
19
"Reading the Days" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
20
"Reading the Sports Page" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
21
"Ready to Cook Still Life" Eleven drafts; eight sheets. Earlier title: "We Shall Overcome Finnish Creole Shrimp" Unpublished?
22
"Real Things" One draft; one sheet. Ohio Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1984; Moment's Equation (2004).
23
"Recipe Protest Poem" Two drafts; two sheets. The International Examiner, October 16, 1991.
24
"Reclaiming the House" Three drafts; three sheets. The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
25
"Recording" One draft; one sheet. Rain City Review, Spring 1993.
26
"The Rest of Your Life" Five drafts; five sheets. Southwest Review, Winter 1989.
27
"Reunion on the Weekend of the Fourth" Ten drafts; thirty-one sheets. Southern Poetry Review, Fall 1993; Moment's Equation (2004).
28
"Revenant" [prose] Two drafts; twenty-five sheets. Unpublished?
29
"Review of Sufficiency by Doug Marx" [prose] Four drafts; seven full sheets, one small sheets. Unpublished?
30
"The Lost Reader" Five drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
31
"Rogers' Rangers, A Late Report" One draft; one sheet. Ruined Cities (1987).
32
"Romance" Four drafts; seven sheets. The Sewanee Review [date?] Republished in: Greatest Hits (2002); The Moment's Equation (2004).
33
"The Round Table" One draft; one sheet. Backtracking (1985).
34
"Run Sheep Run" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Tar River Poetry, Fall 1996; Moment's Equation (2004).
35
"Runes for a Totem" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
36
"Rutsala Weather" Sixteen drafts; thirty sheets. Barnabe Mountain Review, Winter 1997.
37
"Salvage" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
38
"Scene" One draft; one small sheet. Unpublished?
39
"Seasonal" Sixteen drafts; twenty-five sheets. Earlier titles: "Shadows," "Cold Trees," "Winter." Unpublished?
40
"Second Wives" Five drafts; seven sheets. Earlier titles: "Party: Second Wives," "Observations at a Party: Second Wives." Unpublished?
41
"Shame" Three drafts; three sheets. The American Scholar, Fall 1988; Greatest Hits (2002); Moment's Equation (2004).
42
"Shelter" Nine drafts; seventeen sheets. Poetry, November 1986.
43
"Shopping Carts" Two drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
44
"Signs Unseen: To My Brother" Six drafts; ten sheets. Earlier title: "Sharing the Grief: To My Brother."
45
"The Situation Tonight" Seventeen drafts; forty-four pages. Earlier title: "This Corner of the Map." See "On This Corner of the Map." Unpublished?
46
"Skaters" One draft; one sheet. Poetry, December 1980; Ruined Cities (1987).
47
"Sleep 101" [prose] One draft; two sheets. Open Space, 1985.
48
"Slinging Hash" Three drafts; three sheets. Missouri Review, Fall 1985.
49
"Slivers" Eight drafts; fifteen full sheets, one and a quarter note cards. Earlier titles: "My Father's Cousin," "A Family Story." Westbranch, Fall 1997; Moment's Equation (2004).
50
"Small Craft Advisories" Three drafts; three sheets. Hubbub, 1983; The Mystery of the Lost Shoes (1984).
51
"Small World" Eight drafts; seven sheets. Earlier title: "Street Scene." Unpublished?
52
"Some Houses" One draft; one sheet. The Sewanee Review, Spring 1982; Ruined Cities (1987).
53
"The Song" One draft; three sheets. The Antioch Review, Spring 1996.
54
"Sparrow" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
55
"Speaking Her Lonely Greek" One draft; one sheet. Black Warrior Review, Winter 1981; Ruined Cities (1987); Greatest Hits (2002).
56
"Specter" One draft; three sheets. The Georgia Review, Fall 1989; Moment's Equation (2004).
57
"Spending the Night" Ten drafts; forty sheets. How We Spent Our Time (2006)
58
"Spring in McCall, Idaho" Three drafts; three sheets. Interim, Fall 1986.
59
"Standing on the Corner" Eight drafts; eight sheets. Unpublished?
60
"Stories" [prose] One draft; seventeen sheets. Unpublished?
61
"The Story Without End" Twenty-three drafts; forty-two sheets. Earlier titles: "The End of the Line," "Taking the Old Road." Mid-American Review, Fall 1997; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
62
"Strangers' Beds" Nine drafts; twelve sheets (one torn). Earlier title: "Ten Years Later." Unpublished?
63
"Suitable Transportation" One draft; two sheets. The Reaper, Spring 1983; Backtracking (1985).
64
"Summer's End" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
65
"Sunday Drives" Ten drafts; ten sheets. Earlier title: "My Contract." Poetry East, Fall 1984.
66
"Sunday Morning Walk: A Memoir" Six drafts; twelve sheets. Nebraska Review, Spring/Summer 1987.
67
"Sunset and Dawn: T'ao Ch'ien" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Earlier title: "The Problem: T'ao Ch'ien" Calapooya Collage 8, 1984.
68
"The Super 99 Drive-In Cronicle" Five drafts; five sheets. Colorado Review, Spring-Summer 1991; Moment's Equation (2004).
69
"Surfaces" Nine drafts; seventeen sheets. Earlier title: "Travellers." Tar River Poetry, Fall 1988.
70
"SW13" Ten sheets: drafts of several poems including "Once Again", "Walking By the Old House", "Letter from Cedars Road", "House Plants". "Getting Ready For Spring", "Home Thoughts", "Back There", "Look We Have Come Through", and "Politics: There and Here."
5
Series 1: Box 5 T-Z
Poetry Drafts and Typescripts
Alphabetical by poem title.
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.
1970-2005
Folder
1
"Taking Down the Tree" Nine drafts; nine sheets. Unpublished?
2
"Taking Pictures" Three drafts; three sheets. Wigwag, December 1989; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
3
"Taking the Old Road" Eight drafts; fourteen sheets. Alexander, Robert and Mark Vinz and C.W. Truesdale, eds. The Talking of Hands (Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1998); How We Spent Our Time (2006).
4
"A Tale of the Fifties" [prose] One draft; twelve sheets. Earlier/alternative titles: "Art Macki's Fiftieth Year," "A Birthday Party: A Tale of the Fifties."
5
"Talking to Strangers" Eight drafts; ten sheets. The Hudson Review, Spring 1987; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
6
"Ten Years Later" Eleven drafts; eleven sheets. See also "Stranger's Beds" and "Walking By Our Old House." Unpublished?
7
"Thanksgivings" One draft; two sheets. Unpublished?
8
"That Other House" Six drafts; six sheets. Literature and Belief, Fall 1986.
9
"Theory of Fiction" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
10
"They" Four drafts; twelve sheets. Other title: "They Were Always Out There" Pebble 9 (1972?); Paragraphs (1978).
11
"Thieves" Twenty drafts; twenty sheets. Clackamas Literary Review, Spring 1998.
12
"This Corner" Fifteen drafts; twenty-nine sheets. Earlier/alternative title: "This Corner of the Map." See also "On This Corner of the Map." Unpublished?
13
"This Otherness" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
14
"Throwing: A Memoir" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
15
"Time" One draft; one sheet. Poetry, June 1989; Ruined Cities (1987).
16
"To the Canadian Immigration Officials at Blaine, WA" Three drafts; six sheets. The Wilmington Review, Fall 1987.
16B
"To Whom it May Concern" Three drafts; four sheets. unpublished?
17
"Tom Pete" Two drafts; two sheets. Poetry NOW, no. 6 (1975??); Moment's Equation (2004).
18
"Toothbrushes" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
19
"Traffic Watch" Eight drafts; eight sheets. The Atlantic, February 1987; Moment's Equation (2004).
20
The Trailer" [prose] Three drafts; seven full sheets, two half sheets, three note cards. Unpublished?
21
"Translations from Rilke" ["From a Childhood", "End of Autumn" and "The Neighbor."] Three sheets. Unpublished?
22
"Travelling East" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
23
"Travelling One Way" Two drafts; four sheets. Calapooya Collage 12, 1988; Greatest Hits (2002); How We Spent Our Time (2006).
24
"Trees and Wind" Six drafts; five sheets. Unpublished?
25
"Trust" Eight drafts; eleven sheets. The Chariton Review, Fall 1988.
26
"The Truth About Us: William Carlos Williams" Four drafts; twenty-six full sheets, five small sheets, thirty-two note cards. Earlier title: "Getting the News." New England Review/Breadloaf Quarterly, Fall 1985.
27
"Two Rooms" Five drafts; nine sheets, one note card. Earlier title: "The Sadness of Two Rooms." Unpublished?
28
"Two Weeks" [prose] One draft; three sheets. Unpublished?
29
"Uncle" Five drafts; six sheets. Poetry, November 1983; Ruined Cities (1987).
30
"Vanport" [prose] Three drafts; eleven full sheets, seven small sheets, six note cards. Unpublished?
31
"Walking By Our Old House" Nine drafts; nine sheets. Earlier title: "Ten Years Later" (see above). Unpublished?
32
"Wallace Stevens and the Malady of the Quotidian" [prose] Two drafts; twenty-six sheets. Unpublished?
33
"Watching Game Shows" Twenty drafts; twenty-five sheets. Unpublished?
34
"The Way We Live Now" Three drafts; three sheets. The Chowder Review, 1985; Ruined Cities (1987).
35
"We Count on Brady" Twenty-one drafts; fifty-eight sheets. Unpublished?
36
"We Count on Brady" [prose poem] One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
37
"We Learned It At the Movies" Twelve drafts; fifteen sheets. Earlier titles: "An Education at the Movies" and "Going to School at the Movies." Prairie Schooner, Fall 1997.
38
"We Save What We Can: A Memoir" Five drafts; six sheets. Calapooya Collage 16, 1992.
39
"Wedding Gift" Five drafts; ten sheets. Unpublished?
40
"What Days Do" Five drafts; eight sheets. Unpublished?
41
"What Have You Done?" Two drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
42
"What Needs to Be Said?" Eleven drafts; twenty-one sheets. Unpublished?
43
"What the World Does" Twenty drafts; thirty-five sheets. Earlier title: "Aunt Jenny and the American Dream" Agni, Spring 1997; Moment's Equation (2004).
44
"What They Did" One draft; one sheet. The Massachusetts Review, Summer 1996.
45
"What Thou Lovest Well Remains: Ezra Pound" [prose] Two drafts; seven full sheets, one small sheet, three note cards. What Thou Lovest Well Remains: 100 Years of Ezra Pound, ed. Ardinger (Limberlost Press, 1986).
46
"What We Owe" Sixteen drafts; nineteen sheets. Winter Springs, Willow 1999.
47
"What We Really Want" One draft; one sheet. Advancing Poetry [Class Antholog-Advanced Poetry Writing 422], 1992; The Mystery of the Lost Shoes (1984).
48
"Whatever It Is" Eight drafts; eight sheets. Earlier titles: "One Day" and "Routine." Indiana Review, Winter 1989.
49
"What's Out There Now" Nineteen drafts; twenty-one sheets. The Gettysburg Review, Summer 1997; Moment's Equation (2004).
50
"Where the Path Disappears" One draft; one sheet. Unpublished?
51
"Where We Live" Four drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
52
"White Water" Five drafts; four sheets, one note card. Poetry, November 1986.
53
"Wilderness" One drafts; two sheets (one torn). Brown Journal of the Arts, Spring 1984. Reprinted in Pushcart Prize X; Ruined Cities (1987).
54
"The Windowsill Over the Sink" Three drafts; three sheets. The Atlantic, August 1984; Moment's Equation (2004).
55
"Winter" Three drafts; two sheets. Unpublished?
56
"Without Words" Four drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
57
"The Woman in the Pub" [prose] One draft; nineteen sheets. The Massachusetts Review, Fall 1998.
58
"Words" One draft; one sheet. Washington Post Bookweek (reprinted)
59
"Writing to the Past" One draft; one sheet. College English, March 1992; How We Spent Our Time (2006).
60
"Yard Sales, Garage Sales…" Four drafts; four sheets. Unpublished?
61
"A Year Away" Seven drafts; seven sheets. Unpublished?
62
"Yet Another of the Lost" Three drafts; three sheets. Unpublished?
63
"You Said I Should Look" Four drafts; four sheets. River Styx, 1993
64
"You Should Pay Attention" Three drafts; three sheets. Panoply, Summer/Fall 1987.

Series III: Miscellaneous Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-Series I: General Correspondence
Box Folder
6 1
American Poetry Review
6 2
American Scholar
 1981-1993
6 3
Antioch Review
 2004
6 4
Associated Writing Programs
 1985-1997
6 5
Atlantic
 1991
6 6
Allanson, Sherry
 1969
6 7
Anderson, Maggie
 1991
6 8
Artquake
 1979
6 9
Armsbille Elementary School
 1980
6 10
Averill, Diane
 1999
6 11
Baker, Lois
 2006
6 12
Baldwin, Gary
 1979
6 13
Balliet, Vivien
 1994
6 14
Baxter, Charles
 1998-2008
6 15
Bedbug Press
 2006
6 16
Bell, Marvin
 1969-2000
6 17
Berke, Judy
 1980
6 18
Berner, Bob
 2005
6 19
Bierman, Judah
 1992
6 20
Binni, Francesco
 1992
6 21
Blue Heron Publishing
 1992
6 22
Robert Bly
 2005
6 23
Booth, James
6 24
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne
 2003
6 25
Braden, Bill
 1991-1992
6 26
Braun, Ted & Alice
 2003
6 27
Brown, Curt
 2005
6 28
Brown, John/Lewis & Clark Provost and Dean of Faculty
 1979
6 29
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
 1997
6 30
Budbill, David
 1980
6 31
Cady, Jack
 1991
6 32
Camden House
 1993
6 33
Cannon Beach Book Company
 1993
6 34
Carlile, Henry
 1994-2004
6 35
Carlsen, Susan/ A Forest Gathering of Poets
 1992
6 36
Chuang, Angie
6 37
Cline, Hilary Bragdon
 1995
6 38
Cole, Robert/ Columbia Gorge Community College
 1996-1997
6 39
Contemporary Literature
 1991
6 40
Cooley, Cris
 1980
6 41
Costanzo, Gerald/ Carnegie Mellon University Press
 1990-1995
6 42
Crawford, Tom
 1981-1992
6 43
Daedalus Books
 1992
6 44
Dassori, Jr, F. Davis
 1992
6 45
Daver, Lesley
 1998-2006
6 46
Derry, A
 1998
6 47
Denver Quarterly acceptance note
6 48
Davis, Barbara
 1992
6 49
Doolittle, Jim & Barbara
 1968
6 50
Doty, BJ & St. John, Primus
 2004
6 51
Drake, Barbara
 1981-1998
6 52
Emmons, David
 1992
6 53
Engle, Hualing Nieh
 1995
6 54
England, Eugene/Brigham Young University
 1986-1993
6 55
Enright House
 1992
6 56
Esquire/ Lee, Yishane
 1994
6 57
Ferté, Tom/ Calapooya College
 1986-1999
6 58
Fine Madness
6 59
Fort, Charles
 1994-1995
6 60
Four Way Books
 2005
6 61
Francis, Justin
 1996
6 62
Friedman, Norman
 1991
6 63
Fund to Support and Advance the Teaching of English
 1994
7 1
Gale, Vi/ Prescott Street Press
 1976-1996
7 2
Gardner, Doll
 1991
7 3
Correspondence with The Georgia Review
 1996
7 4
Germain, Carmen/Peninsula College
7 5
Gettysburg Review
 1997
7 6
Gildner, Gary
 1999
7 7
Goodrich, Charles
 1998-2003
7 8
Green, Eugene
 1987
7 9
Greenberg/ Macalester College
 1969
7 10
Green Haven Correctional Facility
 1994
7 11
Greenwood, Georgianna
 2002
7 12
Groves, Michael
 1993
7 13
Guggenheim Foundation
 1984-2004
7 14
Hall, Donald
 1978-1989
7 15
Halperin, Mark
 1978-2005
7 16
Hart, Emily
 2005
7 17
Hart, Jack
 1999
7 18
Hartigan, Endi F./ Spectaculum
 2004
7 19
Hathaway, Dev/ The Black Warrior Review
 1982
7 20
Hausing, Jim
 1993
7 21
Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
 2005
7 22
Hazel, Robert
 1989
7 23
Hilberry, Conrad/ Kalamazoo College
 1979
7 24
Holder, Russel
 1987-2004
7 25
Horovitz, Michael
7 26
Howell, Chris
 1998
7 27
Hubert, Jim
 1978
7 28
Hudson Review
 1981-1996
7 29
Idaho Commission on the Arts
 2001
7 30
Inada, L.
 1966-2006
7 31
Indiana University
 1992
7 32
International Authors and Writers Who's Who
 1998
7 33
Jarman, Mark
 1979-1998
7 34
Johnson, Kenneth E.
 1979
7 35
Johnson, Mel
 1990
7 36
Jones, Fay
 2004
7 37
Justice, Donald
 1990-2002
7 38
Keithley, George
 1979-1995
7 39
Kessler, Milton
 1992
7 40
Koal, Karin
 1968
7 41
Kogan, Nicolaus
 1994
7 42
KPBS
 1973
7 43
Kuehl, Linda Kandel
 1999
7 44
Kuzma, Greg
 1978
7 45
Lake Oswego Chamber of Commerce
 1980
7 46
Laurel Review
 1995
7 47
Lerman, Jonas
 2003-2004
7 48
Levin, Susan J.
 1991
7 49
Library
 2000
7 50
Lewis, William Oliver
 1996
7 51
Lewis & CLark College, Department of English
 1992
7 52
Lindberg, Stanley W./ The Georgia Review
 1978
7 53
Literary Arts
 1998-2006
7 54
LitEruption
 1992
7 55
Letter from The Loess Press
 1990
7 56
Looking Glass Books
7 57
Lorts, Jack
 1990-2001
7 58
Lower Columbia College
 1995
7 59
Lucht, Philys
 2003
7 60
Lum, Pam
7 61
Lynn, Bill
 1969
8 1
Magowan, Robin
 2002
8 2
Malloy, Mike and Ruth
 2004
8 3
Malone, Hank
 1988
8 4
Mapes, Linda
 1999
8 5
Marcus, Morton
 1969-2004
8 6
Marks, S.J.
 1974
8 7
Marlboro Review
 2003
8 8
Marlowe, Vaughn
 1991
8 9
Massachusetts Review
 1963-1998
8 10
Matthews, William
 1969-1992
8 11
McFarland, Ron
 2000
8 12
Melnicove, Mark
 1979
8 13
Merwin, W.S.
 2005
8 14
Metropolitan Events
 1992
8 15
Misiura, Yalina
 1989
8 16
Mississippi Mud of America
 1989
8 17
Mitchell, Roger/Indiana University
 1991-1992
8 18
Monitor Book Company, Inc/Alan Pater
 1979
8 19
Moody, Roger
 1999
8 20
Mooney, Michael
 1999
8 21
Moore, George
 1980-2005
8 22
Morgan, Robert
 1985-1993
8 23
Morrison, John
 2005
8 24
Morton, Carol
 1990
8 25
Mountain Writers Series
 1990
8 26
Mud Creek
8 27
Mukand, Jon
 1994
8 28
Muller, Erik
 1992-2005
8 29
Nathanson, Donald
 1992-1996
8 30
National Endowment for the Arts
 1992
8 31
Nebraska Review
8 32
New England Review
 1980-1985
8 33
New Rivers Press
 1994-2004
8 34
Nicolett, Stephanie
 1996
8 35
Nims, John
 1992
8 36
Nobles, Edward
8 37
Norris
 1980
8 38
North American Review
 2001-2005
8 39
Northwest Review
 1966-1994
8 40
Northward
 1993
8 41
Nye Beach Writers Series
 1994-1998
8 42
Oberlin College
 1980-1993
8 43
Offen, Ron
 1980-1994
8 44
Ohio University
 1998
8 45
Olson, Yvonne
 1991
8 46
Orlen, Steve
 1997
8 47
On The Bus
 1992
8 48
Orchard Books
 1995
8 49
Oregon Arts Comission
 1976-1989
8 50
Oregon Arts Foundation
 1980
8 51
Oregon English
 1990
8 52
Oregon Episcopal School
 2000
8 53
Oregon Historical Society
 1995
8 54
Oregon Institute of the Literary Arts
 1991-1992
8 55
Oregon Review
 1993
8 56
Orr, Verlena
 1998-2005
8 57
Ostroff, Anthony
 1969
9 1
Letter from Parry Center for Children
 1991
9 2
Pearl, Daniel
 1998
9 3
PEN Northwest
 1992
9 4
Peterson, Paulann
 1997-2003
9 5
Petrs, Bob
 1980
9 6
Pittsburgh
 1990
9 7
Poetry
 1981-1994
9 8
Poets' Digest
 1992
9 9
Note from Katha Pollitt
 1990
9 10
Card from Charles Potts
 1989
9 11
Portland Poetry Festival Inc.
 1992
9 12
Portland State University
 1992-1998
9 13
Pushcart Press
 1985-2001
9 14
Pennsylvania Review
 1991
9 15
Quarterly
 1990
9 16
Rachel, Naomi
 1980
9 17
Rankin, Paula
 1988-1989
9 18
Letter from Heikki Ratalahti
 1989
9 19
Reunion News
 1993
9 20
Reyes, Carlos
9 21
Rhea and Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition
9 22
Robinette, Janice
 1999
9 23
Rubottom, Otis
 1997-1998
9 24
Rutsala, David
 1992
9 25
Rutsala, Kristen
9 26
Rutsala, Vern
 1989-1998
9 27
Ryskind, Allan H.
 1957
9 28
Schneberg, Willa
 2005
9 29
Sears, Peter
 1992-2001
9 30
Seattle Review
9 31
Shevin, Dave
 1994-1997
9 32
Sills, Rick
 1979
9 33
Skloot, Floyd
 2003
9 34
Letter from Gibbs Smith, Publisher
 2000
9 35
Southern California Anthology
 1992-1996
9 36
Stafford, Dorothy and William
 1985-1988
9 37
Stalker, Doy
 1995
9 38
Stanton, Maura
 1984-2005
9 39
Starck, Clemens
 1991-1993
9 40
Steinman, Lisa and Shugrue, Jim
 1985-2005
9 41
Stone, Sandra
 1998
9 42
Story Line Press
 1990-1998
9 43
Stoves, Dave
 1993
9 44
Sukrungrvang
 2003
9 45
Syndicated Fiction Project
 1993
9 46
Talking River Review
 1994
9 47
Tampa Review
 1996
9 48
Tar River Poetry
 1995-2002
9 49
Thielen, Jim
 1993-1998
9 50
Thompson, Gary and Linda
 2002-2005
9 51
Tremblay, William
 1995-1998
9 52
Tomei, Carolyn
 2005
9 53
Trask House Books
 1979
9 54
Trusky, Tom
 1979
9 55
Turco, Lewis
 1969-2004
9 56
Letter from Uiversity Press of New England Re:Paragraphs
 1990
9 57
Correspondence with Wesleyan University Press
 1978-1994
9 58
Correspondence with White Pines Press Re:A Handbook for Writers
 2001-2004
9 59
White Pine Press Author's Questionare
9 60
Note to Bruce Wilcox, UMass Press, and response
 2003
Sub-series II: Hubbub Correspondence
Box Folder
10 1
Hubbub: Special British Issue-Vol. 3, No.1
 1985
10 2
Medbh McGuckian
10 3
Tony Harrison
 1984
10 4
Douglas Gunn
 1984
10 5
D.J. Enright
10 6
Glym Jones
 1986
10 7
John Davies
10 8
Roy Fuller
 1984
10 9
Vernon Scannell
 1984
10 10
Peter Porter
 1984
10 11
Tony Curtis
 1984
10 12
Ian Caws
 1984
10 13
Robert Gittings
 1984
10 14
Stewart Brown
 1984
10 15
Jon Stallworthy
 1984
10 16
Craig Raine
 1984
10 17
Andrew Motion Correspondence
 1984
10 18
Carol Rumens
 1988
10 19
Robert Morgan Correspondence
 1984
10 20
John Fuller Correspondence
 1984
10 21
Alan Brownjohn Correspondence
 1984
10 22
Jon Silkin Correspondence
 1984
10 23
Leslie Norris
 1984
10 24
Michael Hamburger
 1984
10 25
Alan Bold
 1984
10 26
Dannie Abse
 1986
10 27
Michael Blackburn
 1984
10 28
Editor's Notes
 1984
Sub-series III: MISC Correspondence
Box Folder
11 1
Anderson, Erland
 1981
11 2
Ardinger, Rick
 1985
11 3
Arrowood Books, Inc.
 1986
11 4
Back Door Press
 1981
11 5
Bumpus, Jerry
 1962
11 6
Capes
 1966
11 7
Central Washington University
 1981
11 8
Crenner, Jim
 1966
11 9
Davies, Robert A.
 1966
11 10
Davis, Charles
 1985
11 11
Fish Lips Productions
 1992
11 12
Gilgun, John
 1981
11 13
Gordon, William; Jewish Community Center
 1961
11 14
Gottfried, Herb
 1969
11 15
Harper, Michael S.
 1966-1968
11 16
Harper's
 1974
11 17
Hart, Jack
 1968
11 18
Harvey, Byron
 1981
11 19
Hitchcock, George
 1967
11 20
Homer, Britt; Spring Church Book Company
11 21
Honder, Russell
 1986
11 22
Hongo, Garrett
 1981-1984
11 23
Katz, Dori
 1969
11 24
Kempe, Melita
 1981
11 25
King Broadcasting Company
1966
11 26
Knox
 1970
11 27
Lea, Sydney
 1985
11 28
Lewis & Clark College
 1985
11 29
Lowenfeis, Walter
 1966
11 30
Lowerfels, W.
 1966
11 31
Machaffie, Ingeborg S.
 1985
11 32
Malloy, Mike
 1975
11 33
McClelland
 1969
11 34
Menci, Tanya
 1966
11 35
Mike Berryhill
 1969-1970
11 36
Miller, Conny
 1998
11 37
MISC Correspondence
11 38
MISC Postcards and cards
11 39
University of Missouri-Kansas City
 1981-1986
11 40
The Missouri Review
 1985
11 41
Mt. Hood Community College
 1975
11 42
The New Republic
 1986
11 43
The New Yorker
 1981
11 44
Niflis, Michael
 1976
11 45
Northeast Technical Community College
 1984
11 46
The Ohio Review
 1981
11 47
Oregon Journal
 1974
11 48
The Paris Review
 1974
11 49
Pavlich, Walter
 1985
11 50
Pen/Nelson Algren Fiction Award
 1985
11 51
Poison Claw Press
 1966
11 52
Portland Area Writers
 1966
11 53
Reed College
 1981
11 54
Regional Writers Project
 1991
11 55
Schmitz
 1985
11 56
The Sewanee Review
 1985
11 57
Shattuck-St. Mary's School
 1985
11 58
Silkin, Jon
11 59
Slisinger, Havier
 1969
11 60
The Southern Review
 1981
11 61
Stalker, Douglas A.
 1977
11 62
St. Francis College
 1969
11 63
Syndal, James
 1985
12 1
University of California, Irvine
 1981
12 2
University of Cincinnati
 1979
12 3
University of Iowa
 1961-1970
12 4
The University of Massachusetts Press
 1984
12 5
University of Nebraska
 1998
12 6
University of New Haven
 1985
12 7
University of Strathclyde
 1966
12 8
University of Washington
 1968
12 9
University Press of Florida
 1992
12 10
University Press of New England
 2005
12 11
University Publishing
12 12
Venn, George
 1979-1980
12 13
Vesta Publications Limited
 1986
12 14
Wallace, Ron
 1988
12 15
Wallaert, Josh
 2004
12 16
Weber, Marsha
 2003
12 17
Western Oregon University
12 18
Western Washington State College
 1966
12 19
Willson, John
 1979-1999
12 20
Williams, Sandra
 1991-2003
12 21
Wong, Flo
 1989
12 22
Woznick, Maureen
 1990
12 23
Zietlow, E.R.
 1968
13 1
College and English Department Materials
 1989-2000
13 2
Correspondence with Lewis and Clark Administration regarding 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship
 1982
13 3
Correspondence with campus bookstore
 1997
13 4
Lewis and Clark Developmental Review
13 5
Letter from the University of Pennsylvania re: creative writing position
 1994
13 6
Oregon Literary Coalition, Agenda (Oct 6, 2000) and Mission
13 7
Invitation, Oregon Poets List
 1998
13 8
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th century invitation
 1999
13 9
Who's who in the West entry/ Who's who in American Education entry/ Who's who in America and others
 1990-1996
13 10
Pushcart Prize: Correspondence
 1989-1997
13 11
Poems by students ( Washington Writers Workshop)
13 12
Washington Writers Workshop, correspondence and evaluation forms
 1996
12 24
MISC Correspondence
 1990-2007
12 25
Professional Correspondence
 1987-1989
13 13
Contract, Washington State Arts Commission
 1989
13 14
Mountain Writers Pacific MFA Residency Evaluation (Student Activities)
13 15
Student Evaluations, Haystack Program
 1987
13 16
Evaluations: Across the River Reading Series
 1989
13 17
Poetry Judging for Cloudbank Books and the Oregon State Poetry Association
 2001
13 18
Oregon State Poetry Association newsletter March 1976
 1976
13 19
PEN Northwest
 1990-1991
13 20
Lists of poets and writers
13 21
Iowa Writers' Workshop Newsletter
 1990-1991
13 22
Portland Poetry Festival, Correspondence
 1991
13 23
List of possible blurb writers
13 24
Membership Card, AARP
 1990
13 25
Schedule Northwest Film Center
 1994
13 26
William Stafford Birthday Event, Correspondence
 2001
13 27
Request for support, miscellaneous organizations
 1990-1991
13 28
Events
 1989-2000
13 29
Royalty statements, honoraria, book sales
 1966-2001
13 30
List of poetry reading payments and other payments
13 31
Poetry reading notes
13 32
Poetry reading announcements
 1989-2000
13 33
Poetry Minutes, Radio Reading
 1996
13 34
Reed College poetry reading
 2000
13 35
Invitation to reading: associating writing programs
 1990-2001
13 36
Introduction by John McClelland
 1996
14 1
Acceptance Letters
 1982-1986
14 2
Correspondence with Publishers
 1988-2000
14 3
Miscellaneous notes and cards
 1989-2005
14 4
Fragments
14 5
Letter drafts
14 6
Rejection letters
 1988-2001
14 7
Vern Rutsala correspondence, course descriptions, misc.
 1989-1996
14 8
Submission requests
 1989-1997
14 9
Working drafts of collections

Series II: CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
15 1
The American Poetry Review, September/October 1989, "On the Fifties and Eighties"
 1989
15 2
C.V.s and Acknowledgements
15 3
"A Chairperson"-Drawing
15 4
Ghazal, page proof from Free Lunch
 1990-2000
15 5
Guggenheim material
 1977-2000
15 6
Lists of poems and publishers
 1988
15 7
List of publications
15 8
National Endowment for the Arts Certification
 1979
item
15 9
Northwest Poets & Artists Calendar
 1990
Folder
15 10
Notice from the Chronicle
 1992
15 11
Oregon Arts Commission, Fellowship Notification
 1989-1990
15 12
Photocopies of printed poems
 1981
15 13
Photographs
 1990-1998
15 14
Poetry Now Article on Rutsala
15 15
Reflections and Notes
15 16
Reviews, Little Known Sports
15 17
Reviews of selected poems
15 18
Reviews of The Window
 1963-1970
15 19
The Signal
 1991
15 20
Wesleyan Poetry Collection
 1969-1993
15 21
To-Do Lists
15 22
Unidentified poems and stories
15 23
Reed College Poetry Themed Calendar
 2005
15 24
Rushdie
 1989
15 25
Local Prexies
 1988-1989
15 26
The Prose Poem notes
15 27
Sketches and notes

Series IV: Drafts and ManusciptsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
16 1
Greatest Hits
16 2
A Handbook for Writers
16 3
Histories
16 4
Houses
16 5
The New Yorker Oct 27,1985, contains 'Walking Home From the Icehouse"
16 6
Aisling, Summer '75
16 7
Déja Vu: Thoughts on the Fifties and Eighties, title page and note
16 8
Shame and Other Poems, title page
16 9
New Poems, contents
16 10
Selected Poems, cover copy
16 11
Manuscript and Reader Responses-"On Teaching Poetry Writing"
16 12
Backtracking
16 13
Backtracking, manuscript
17 1
Backtracking Drafts
 1974-1980
17 2
Backtracking Drafts, annotated
 1975
17 3
Backtracking notes and trascript
 1975-1980
17 4
The Jerrybuilt Dream
Box 17 5
The Window album
18 1
How We Spend Our Time, manuscript and notes
18 2
How We Spend Our Time, manuscripts and draft Table of Contexts
18 3
How We Spend Our Time, manuscripts and correspondence
18 4
Shame/The Moment's Equation
18 5
The Moment's Equation, manuscript
18 6
The Moment's Equation, manuscript and correspondence with Copper Canyon Press
19 1
Photocopies of Poems
19 2
Selected Poems
19 3
Little-Known Sports:copy
19 4
Little-Known Sports
19 5
Drafts of Poems
19 6
Drafts of Poems
19 7
Adjectives [prose poem]
19 8
Baxter
19 9
Chekovian
19 10
Conversation Piece
19 11
Course Description
19 12
Don't Lock the Barn Door
19 13
Driving in the Rain
19 14
The End of the Year
19 15
Estrangement
19 16
Gardening
19 17
Geography Lesson
19 18
Going Back to Work
19 19
Good Guests
19 20
Hardyesque
19 21
Henry As It Were James
19 22
How It Feels
19 23
How We Get By
19 24
A Kafka Prophecy
19 25
Leaving
19 26
Local Game
19 27
Night
19 28
Night Games
19 29
Nouns [prose-poem]
19 30
Wow
19 31
The Old Man and the Menu
19 32
The Other
19 33
Drafts of "Other Lives"
19 34
The Pen or My New Pen
19 35
Plagiarism
19 36
The Shop Steward
19 37
Storm
19 38
To Borges
19 39
The Walker in the House
19 40
Verbs [prose-poem]
19 41
Vowels [prose-poem]
19 42
Prose Versions of "The House of..."

Series V: Publications/Messages from Other Authors and Teaching NotesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
20 1
A Garland of Rubliws for Lewis Turco
20 2
Detours, poems by Sandra Williams
20 3
Illustrated notes/messages
20 4
Rutsala Tractor, GrowBoy
20 5
Tiffen University
 1993
20 6
Carslaw's Sequence, Lise M. Steinman
 1998
20 7
Massacre in Peacetime--July 1947, Pat Clifton
 2005
20 8
Stranger in Town, Ron McFarland
 1999
20 9
The Brink, Peter Sears
 1999
20 10
New Rivers Press, Morton Marcus
 1994
20 11
Carslaw's Sequences manuscript, Lisa M. Steinman
20 12
The Furious Standing Still, George B. Moore
20 13
Flowers and Whistling, Charles Goodrich
 1998
20 14
Striking Through the Masks, Morton Marcus
20 15
Poems from Garrett Kaoru Hongo
20 16
Martin Robbins, "One Illness, Long Life..." off print
20 17
Student Poems
 1989-2000
20 18
John Willson, "Black House"
20 19
Lewis Turco
21 1
"Cannon Beach Meditation" edits for Anthology
 2006
21 2
Notebook
 1991
21 3
Western States Book Awards
 1990
21 4
Story Line Press, photocopy of Rutsala'a Selected Poems
 1991
21 5
Story Line Press, Author's Questionnaire
1989
21 6
2007 Publications
 2007
21 7
Mississippi Review: On Vision 1990
 1990
21 8
Oregon Literary Review
 2007
21 9
The Paris Review
 2007
21 10
Before, Maxine Scates
 2006
21 11
Selected Poems/Story Line
 1988-2007
22 1
Rutsala Teaching Notes, authors, A-D
22 2
Rutsala Teaching Notes, authors, E-N
22 3
Rutsala Teaching Notes, authors, P-W
22 4
Poetry Festival Reading
22 5
Reed Lecture
 2006
22 6
Let's Talk About It (lecture material)
22 7
On Teaching Poetry Writing
22 8
Notebook

Series VIReturn to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • American poetry--20th century
  • American poetry--20th century
  • Poets, American--20th century
  • Poets, American--20th century

Personal Names

  • Rutsala, Vern

Form or Genre Terms

  • Poetry drafts--1970-2005

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2006

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