Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Cage 729
Cooke, Faith Beamer
Faith Beamer Cooke Papers
1928-1999
5.5 Linear Feet of Shelf Space
11 boxes
The collection consists primarily of material related to Faith Cooke's poetry: drafts, notes, responses, and final versions of her poems. Other materials include her correspondence with publishers, writers, and government officials.
Collection materials are inEnglish
Poet Faith Elinor Beamer Cooke (1910-2001) was a native of Oregon. She graduated from Vancouver (WA) High School and continued her education throughout her life, taking classes at Cheney (WA) Normal School, Oregon State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho. In the early years of their marriage, during the Great Depression, she and her husband Phil Cooke lived in mining camps, then moved to Salt Lake City briefly for Phil Cooke's work as a chemical engineer with the Remington Arms Company. With the economic revival associated with World War II they returned to Washington, arriving at Hanford in October of 1943.
Everywhere she lived, Cooke was an active member of the local community, with a special interest in developing cultural programs. By 1945, she had founded the Writer's Workshop (later Mid-Columbia Writers League and the Mid-Columbia Writers Association) and a Unitarian Fellowship. She participated in school activities, adult education, and Girl Scouts. She continued throughout her life to develop her skills as a poet by participating in writer's organizations and seminars throughout the Pacific Northwest and often around the world.
As the Tri-Cities grew Cooke expanded her efforts to develop regional and statewide poetry and community organizations. She was a key participant in the Benton-Franklin County Fair, the creation of the Columbia Arts Center, the Washington Poets Association, the 1976 USA Bicentennial Project, the Washington State Centennial Project, and other similar events. The Washington Poets Association established a poetry award as a memorial to Cooke, their founder, in 1999.
Every year she sent her family and friends an original poem for Christmas and other religious holidays. Like most of her poetry, these related to events in her life and environment, and they often revealed her Christian world view. After Phil Cooke's death in 1994, she remained active in several community programs. She moved to Vancouver in 1999, where she lived until her death in 2001.
The collection consists primarily of material related to Faith Cooke's poetry: drafts, notes, responses, and final versions of her poems. Other materials include her correspondence with publishers, writers, and government officials. These papers reveal the long struggle of a poet trying to gain recognition and an audience, and her persistent efforts to see her work published. The collection also includes papers related to the numerous organizations and events in which Cooke was involved. There is a substantial documentation of her lifelong efforts to expand her knowledge and understanding and to improve her creative techniques.
The collection is arranged in five series; its original order and has generally been retained.
Series 1: Poems (by title) and related documentation, 1928-1999 - Cooke's poems and related material: drafts, notes, and correspondence (primarily acceptance and rejection letters from publishers). Of particular note is an entire collection of Cooke's unpublished work, Shadows Within, a compilation of her poetry from 1928 to 1959.
Series 2: Publisher materials and Cooke's published poems, 1954-1992 - Correspondence from publishers including responses to Cooke's submissions, newsletters, and publications containing Cooke's poems.
Series 3: Organizations, 1957-1999 - Meeting minutes, newsletters, event and poetry contest materials, related to Cooke's participation in poetry and social organizations. She was particularly active in the Washington Poets Association and the Mid-Columbia Writers Association, both of which she co-founded with other poets in Washington State.
Series 4: Poetry classes, research materials, notes, and workshops, 1945-1992 - This series consists primarily of Cooke's notes related to research for her poetry, educational activities, travel, and personal matters. The research material is especially useful, offering information about the origins of some of her poems.
Series 5: Miscellaneous material and event files, 1946-1994 - This series includes printed ephemera (primarily poetry), newspaper articles, and items related to Cooke's honors and awards, community involvement and events, and photographs.
Selected images and documents from this collection have been digitized and can be found online in the: Faith Beamer Cooke Digital Collection
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item Description]
Faith Beamer Cooke Papers
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections,
Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was donated to the Washington State University Libraries in 2008 by Elinor Perlich, daughter of Faith Cooke.
This collection was processed in 2008 by WSU graduate student Nathan James Roberts, with funding from the Washington Women's History Consortium.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Cooke, Faith Beamer -- Archives.
Washington Poets Association -- History.
Mid-Columbia Writers Association -- History.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Fine Arts
Women
Washington (State)
Series 1: Poems (by title) and related
documentation, 1928-1999
Cooke's poems and related material: drafts, notes, and correspondence (primarily acceptance and rejection letters from publishers). Of particular note is an entire collection of Cooke's unpublished work, Shadows Within, a compilation of her poetry from 1928 to 1959.
1
1
33 A.D., 1961
1
2
1966, undated
1
3
1967, undated
1
4
1968, undated
1
5
Aberfan, circa 1969
1
6
Above the Chalet, 1980
1
7
Activitease, 1962
1
8
The Adam's Girls, 1983
1
9
Adeau, 1986
1
10
Admiral Columbus, 1979
1
11
All Hallowed Morn, 1989
1
12
Ancient Charge (McAuley), 1982
1
13
And Still the Lands Repeat,
1972
1
14
Antique Tongue, 1955
1
15
Apres Amor (Pre Amor), 1982 and
1984
1
16
Artists at Fort Worden, 1975
1
17
Ashes, 1990
1
18
At Crescent Beach, 1989
1
19
Away From Den, 1988
1
20
Ball of Life, 1984
1
21
Ballad of Larry at Raton, 1979
1
22
Basalt Womb, 1997
1
23
Basic Math, undated
1
24
A Bauble on the Christmas Tree,
undated
1
25
Beach Patrol, 1977
1
26
Beak Talk, circa 1970s
1
27
Beatitude, undated
1
28
Beemerville, 1983
1
29
Beginning, 1989
1
30
Between Winter and Spring,
1975
1
31
Boy Weeding, 1986
1
32
Brave Love, circa 1963
1
33
Breccia and Conglomerates,
1984
1
34
Bridge of Dust, 1965
1
35
Build Mansions, 1988
1
36
Burren-Ireland, circa 1981
1
37
By One They Return, 1984
1
38
By the Kiosk, 1986
1
39
By Old Scriptures--Three Women,
1980
1
40
By the Sign of Sin, 1989
1
41
Cassandra, 1982
1
42
Cats, circa 1964
1
43
Charles Proctor, 1986
1
44
Christmas, 1986, undated
1
45
Christmas Like Sixty, circa
1955
1
46
Cinquain, 1975
1
47
Colored Pebbles, Broken Shells,
1980
1
48
Columbia Head, 1987
1
49
Columbia Oak, undated
1
50
Columbia Point, 1987
1
51
Come Take Me, 1998
1
52
Companion, circa 1999
1
53
Compartments (a Quinelle),
1959
1
54
Crucifix, 1967
1
55
Curragh, 1979
1
56
Curses and Blessings, circa
1968
1
57
Cynthia, 1973 and 1977
1
58
Dare Black Dream, 1975
1
59
Dark Angel, 1975
1
60
Dark Crib, undated
1
61
Death to Cuchulain, 1989
1
62
Deer in October, 1981
1
63
Divine Right, 1959
1
64
Doughnuts In The Sky, 1958
1
65
Drive On, undated
1
66
Easter-1967, 1967
1
67
Easter-1982, 1982
1
68
Easter Anthem, undated
1
69
Easter--One Lily, 1950
1
70
The Electric Knife Hummed,
1967
1
71
Elephant Hills, 1987
1
72
Epistle, 1968
1
73
Epistle in England-1615, 1984
2
74
Eratosthenes (circa 276-194 B.C.),
1984
2
75
Ethiopia, circa 1985
2
76
Ethos Web, 1992
2
77
Except-Seed, 1973 and 1978
2
78
Father's Day, undated
2
79
Fayda Speaks By The Fire, 1982
2
80
Fealty, 1985
2
81
Feather of Now, 1963
2
82
February Storm, 1990
2
83
Five Bodies, 1984
2
84
Flattop at Easter Sunrise,
1983
2
85
Footnote to the Golden Rule,
1979
2
86
Fort Rock, 1959
2
87
Fort Worden (Townsend) Brethren,
1975
2
88
Free Verse, 1986
2
89
Gay Retaliation, circa 1961
2
90
Genera, 1965 and 1978
2
91
Gloria Mundi, circa 1980
2
92
Grace for Gratitude, 1973
2
93
Grandmothers in Chapel,
undated
2
94
Grandmother's Parlour, 1963
2
95
Haiku, 1986 and 1988
2
96
Hakone Gardens, 1980
2
97
Halloween, 1975
2
98
Hannah's Ride, circa 1983
2
99
Happy Birthday, 1983
2
100
Hard Head Grass, 1987
2
101
Haunted House, 1930
2
102
Heartbreak House, undated
2
103
High Revelry, circa 1960s
2
104
Home Town (Portland), 1980
2
105
The Host, 1992
2
106
House at Night, 1986
2
107
House on Hemlock Street, 1982
2
108
If I Have Borrowed From You and Not
Repaid... (untitled) 1988
2
109
I Have Time, 1967
2
110
Inclined, 1984
2
111
In DuPont Days, 1944
2
112
In New Berg Town, 1990
2
113
In Search of my Grandmother,
1979
2
114
In September Sun, 1964
2
115
Inspiration (Point) Mark, 1955 and
1967
2
116
Issues and Answers, 1980
2
117
Janeka, 1977
2
118
JFK, 1965
2
119
Joshua, 1980
2
120
Joyous Yule, 1978, 1984, and
1987
2
121
The Kalidoscope of Righteousness,
1993
2
122
Keepers of Man's Soul, 1962
2
123
Kyrio Mode of History, undated
2
124
Laboratory, 1977
2
125
Lake Wallula, circa 1982
2
126
Lenton Song, 1979
2
127
Light of Learning, undated
2
128
Listen to the House, 1970
2
129
Litany For Lost Children, 1975
2
130
The Magical Thing, undated
2
131
Man's Reach, 1962
2
132
Masks, 1961
2
133
Men Fishing, 1990
2
134
Men Like Work, undated
2
135
Missa, 1989
2
136
Modern Architecture, 1973
2
137
Mosaic of Memory, circa 1986
2
138
A Mother's Prayer, circa 1965
2
139
Mountains Watch, undated
2
140
My Granddaughter's Wedding,
1994
3
141
My Young Friend Asks of Life,
1984-1985
3
142
National Guard, 1983
3
143
Natividay, 1987
3
144
Nay, But a King (We Will Have A King),
1980 and 1982
3
145
Necessity of Life, 1975
3
146
No Reply, circa 1980
3
147
Now Washington, circa 1982
3
148
Oak in the Iowa Knolls, 1989
3
149
Ocean Coast, 1955
3
150
Olympian Cleansing, 1983
3
151
Opinions, 1959
3
152
Orthopedic Room A, circa 1988
3
153
Our Constitution, 1987
3
154
Outcast, 1990
3
155
Pantoum for Phil's Building, 1968 and
1982
3
156
The Passing, circa 1980
3
157
The Passing of Arthur (Notes),
1982
3
158
Past Choice ("That Choice Back There"),
1980-1981
3
159
Pax Romana, undated
3
160
Peach Tree, 1963 and 1971
3
161
Persian Melon, 1986
3
162
Pipes, 1968
3
163
Point of Day, undated
3
164
Prayer For A Young Woman, 1954
3
165
Preceptress, 1977
3
166
Pride of Law, 1964 and 1971
3
167
Prodigal Son--New Revelations (Parable),
1988
3
168
The Proper Role of Women, circa
1968
3
169
Proverbs In the Arab Manner, circa
1984
3
170
Psalm, 1973
3
171
The Questing Folk, undated
3
172
Realless, 1989
3
173
Repacking, 1982
3
174
Reservation, circa 1980
3
175
Retaliation, circa 1962
3
176
The Ripening, undated
3
177
Rite at the Eighth Gate, 1990
3
178
Roadside Flowers, 1980
3
179
Rock Town (Salutatorian) (Bureaucratic
Identity), 1985
3
180
Saffron Martyrdom, 1982
3
181
Saga Seed, 1985
3
182
Scapegoat, 1980
3
183
The School Board Sets the Curriculum,
1967
3
184
Security, 1976 and 1983
3
185
Self Complete, circa 1961
3
186
September, 1090, 1989
3
187
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, circa
1960s
3
188
Silk and Wool, 1987
3
189
Sister Ileana, 1986
3
190
Sixty Years, 1991
3
191
Slowly, Slowly The Trees Came Up, circa
1980
3
192
Social Security, undated
3
193
Soap Bubble Vision, undated
3
194
Solutions, 1963
3
195
Solving The Problem, 1980
3
196
Sons of Abram, 1985
3
197
The Spinning Wheel, 1961
3
198
Spot Check, 1975
3
199
Spring Cleaning, 1955
3
200
Spring Walk, fall, 1983
3
201
Star Seed, 1988
3
202
Strong Beauty, 1961
3
203
Sunday Easter, 1987
3
204
Tax For Education ("Six Boxes of Scribble
Scraps"), 1980
3
205
Tess Gallagher, 1986
3
206
That Day I Would Have Been... (untitled),
circa 1981
3
207
That Other World, circa 1986
3
208
There Were Two Holy Mountains,
1982
4
209
Time Piece, 1986
4
210
Token, 1992
4
211
To Literature, 1974
4
212
To Oregon, 1982
4
213
To Skipper, 1964
4
214
Touch, 1967 and 1980
4
215
Triad, 1986
4
216
Twisted Torque: For My Golden Wedding
Anniversary, undated
4
217
Unlonliness, 1983
4
218
Unwinding Gyre, 1986
4
219
Villanelle, 1986
4
220
Visiting Preacher, 1992
4
221
Waitsburg, 1983
4
222
Walk First, 1973
4
223
The Wallula Tablet, 1955
4
224
The Way, 1971
4
225
The Way We Love, 1983
4
226
Winter Poem, 1982, 1982
4
227
Women, 1988
4
228
Woman's Program, 1967
4
229
Woman: Trinity, 1988
4
230
Words, undated
4
231
You'd Better Believe, circa
1980
4
232
Zirconium, 1967 and 1978
Shadows Within, 1928-1959, Part
One
4
233
"We have a small grey end-stone at our
place..." (untitled), undated
4
233
"Masks," undated
4
233
"Furrows-From an Essay,"
undated
4
233
"Seashore," 1929
4
233
"Wanton River," 1929
4
234
"Perhaps your heart gives a surge..."
(untitled), undated
4
234
"Dance Dance," Summer 1930
4
234
"Our Time," 1929
4
234
"June," 1928
4
234
"Haven for Spring,"
undated
4
234
"Night Cap," 1929
4
235
"Private Exhibit," 1929
4
235
"The Wind," 1929
4
235
"Dead Leaves," 1945
4
235
"Evolution of Deities,"
1930
4
235
"Mockery," undated
4
235
"The Brown Room," undated
4
236
"Not Gone," undated
4
236
"To Jack," undated
4
236
"Thanksgiving for '31,"
undated
4
236
"Far Peaks and Diamonds,"
undated
4
236
"City Owl," circa 1966
4
236
"Mountain Goat," undated
4
236
"The Bride," 1936
4
237
"Thought," undated
4
237
"Snatches at Life,"
undated
4
237
"On to the Sea," Winter,
1934
4
237
"Look at us Europe..." (untitled),
Spring 1934
4
237
"Suzette," undated
4
238
"Fool All The People," Spring
1934
4
238
"And He Charged Man To Tend The
Garden," undated
4
238
"Dear To Know," Winter
1934
4
238
"Gowns," undated
4
238
"Soldiers Wife," undated
4
238
"Thanksgiving for 30,"
undated
4
238
"Closed Door," 1931 March
16
4
238
"Death," 1931 April 18
4
238
"Love Among The Chimney Pots," Winter
1930
4
239
"My Life A Pool," Fall
1930
4
239
"Winter Sun," Winter 1930
4
239
"Hand Bells of the Wind,"
undated
4
239
"God Is A Mountain,"
undated
4
239
"Notice to Lucifer,"
undated
4
239
"Apartment House," Spring
1935
4
239
"Tea Party," undated
4
239
"Dilemma's Horns," undated
4
239
"Ripples--Salt And Pool,"
undated
4
239
"This Beating Breast,"
undated
4
239
"Myself In This City,"
undated
4
240
"Receptacle (The Skull),"
undated
4
240
"Fickle Poet," undated
4
240
"Ma Dame," undated
4
240
"Lifted Pennants," undated
4
240
"Oh Mountain," undated
4
240
"Small Jewels Their Precious Keeping
Have," undated
4
240
"Cities A Fruitful Reaping Are,"
undated
4
241
"Resurrection In Fief," Spring
1935
4
241
"The Captured Pearl,"
undated
4
241
"Conservatism," March 1938
4
241
"Brae's In Bloom," undated
4
241
"Purification By Tears,"
undated
4
242
"My Heritage," undated
4
242
"Wed," undated
4
242
"Child Mother," undated
4
242
"Dethrowned," undated
4
242
"Reversed Alchemy," 1939
4
242
"Pariah," undated
4
242
"Om Mani Padme Hoom,"
undated
4
243
"Fragment--Kerard,"
undated
4
243
"Lyric in Concert,"
undated
4
243
"After Tchaikovsky's Symphony in B
Minor," undated
4
243
"Indictment," undated
4
244
"Lease Only," undated
4
244
"Coin of Passage," undated
4
244
"Courage For A Puritan,"
undated
4
244
"Christmas At War," 1944
4
244
"Nostalgia of the Angels,"
1943
4
245
"Silver Promise," Summer
1944
4
245
"After the Station," 1945
4
245
"Term Unknown," February,
1945
4
245
"Only The Lonely Dare,"
1945
4
246
"Into Legend," 1945 March
Shadows Within, 1928-1959, Part
Two
4
246
"The Cost Of Love," 1945
May
4
246
"Bon Voyage My Son,"
undated
4
246
"Ad Astra," undated
4
246
"Michael," undated
4
247
"Novitiate," 1945 July
4
247
Wallflower," 1946 July
4
247
"Epipheras," 1946
4
247
"And I Say," 1946 August
4
247
"But A Strength," undated
4
248
"Sword of Release," 1946
November
4
248
"Shout Victory," 1946
December
4
248
"And These Things Also Are,"
undated
4
248
"Pensive Musings on the Way of a Man
with a Maid," undated
4
248
"From She To He," undated
4
249
"Mix-Master," undated
4
249
"Why," undated
4
249
"This Is Not The End," 1948
March
4
249
"Desecration," undated
4
250
"Lust-2," undated
4
250
"Michael's Teacher," Winter
1948
4
250
"The Color Of Questing," Winter
1948
4
250
"Pagan Belief," undated
4
250
"Easter 1950-One Lily,"
undated
4
251
"Ballad-Black Is The Color,"
undated
4
251
"Basic Math," undated
4
251
"Activitease," undated
4
251
"Bravado," undated
4
251
"Michal," undated
4
251
"Suburban Autumn," Fall
1951
4
251
"Mutations," undated
4
251
"False Fractions," undated
4
252
"Cry Rescue," undated
4
252
"No Brave Songs," undated
4
252
"Proof," undated
4
252
"April Showers Bring May Flowers,"
undated
4
252
"Constant," undated
4
252
"Early In The Four O-Clock,"
undated
4
253
"Before Breakfast," 1953
4
253
"O Night Of Carols," 1953
4
253
"Fall," undated
4
253
"Saint Michael's Day,"
1953
4
253
"Wisdom and Plenty," Easter,
1954
4
254
"Prayer For A Young Woman," Easter,
1954
4
254
"Spirit Aspire," 1954
October
4
254
"Play On," 1954 October
4
254
"Love Suffers Not," 1954
October
4
254
"Truly, Dear," 1954
October
4
255
"God's Gift," 1954 October
4
255
"Disarmament," 1954
October
4
255
"Skid Ride," undated
4
255
"To Shoot Off At The Mouth,"
undated
5
256
"Lake Wallula Reflections," volumes 1-6,
1961-1965
5
257
"Lake Wallula Reflections," publisher
correspondence, 1961-1965
5
258
"Lake Wallula Reflections," newspaper
clippings, 1961-1965
5
259
"Coin of Passage," 1968
5
260
"Coin of Passage," publication
correspondence, 1968
5
261
"Coin of Passage," newspaper clippings,
1968
5
262
"Rescuing the Past," 1982
5
263-264
"The Mountains Watch," 1986
5
265
Holiday poems and postcards,
1960s-1970s
Christmas card poems
5
266
1960s
5
267
1970s
5
268
1980s
5
269
1990s
5
270
Undated
5
271
Unidentified and incomplete manuscripts,
undated
5
272
Book reviews: "Night of the Comet" and
others, 1969
Series 2: Publisher materials and Cooke's
published poems, 1954-1992
Correspondence from publishers including responses to Cooke's submissions, newsletters, and publications containing Cooke's poems.
5
273
Publisher newsletters,
1960s-1980s
5
274
Publisher information and announcements,
1960s-1990s
5
275
Publisher correspondence,
1950s-1980s
5
276
Other publisher material (magazines,
anthologies, etc.), 1970s-1980
5
277
Author contact information,
undated
5
278
"Rejections" (publisher rejection
letters), undated
Publications with Cooke's
poems
6
279
American Mosaic: Creative Offerings by
Today's Mosaic Authors, 1976
6
280
Caravan, 1963
6
281
Cavalcade of Poetry: Best Poems of
1963, 1964
6
282
Ellensburg Anthology, 1980
6
283
Flame, Avalon Anthology (2 issues),
1962-1963
6
283
Warriors of Eternity, Avalon
Anthology, 1963
6
284
Golden Circle, 1965 and
1966
6
285
Haiku, 1977-1981
6
286
Kavita (Poetry) 100, 1960
6
287
Kayak 56 Richland Workshop,
1981
6
288
The Muse, 1961-1962
6
289
Nascent: LCC Student Creative Arts
Magazine, undated
6
290
New Athenaeum, 1963-1964
6
291
The Pendulum of Time and the Arts,
1964
6
292
The Poesy Book, 1961 and
1963-1964
6
293
Projections, 1973
7
294
Quarterly Unitarian, 1966
March
7
295
Sand Script, 1966-1967
7
296
Sand Tracks: Anthology of Columbia
Basin Poetry, 1976
7
297
The Spring Anthology, 1967
7
298
Stable Stops, 1980
7
299
Treasures of Parnassus--Best Poems of
1962, volume 2, 1963
7
300
Wisconsin Poetry Magazine, issue 11.1,
undated
Series 3: Organizations, 1957-1999
Meeting minutes, newsletters, event and poetry contest materials, related to Cooke's participation in poetry and social organizations. She was particularly active in the Washington Poets Association and the Mid-Columbia Writers Association, both of which she co-founded with other poets in Washington State.
Washington Poets Association
7
301
History, 1971-1984
7
302
Newspaper Articles, 1983 and
1999
7
303
Newsletters, 1998-1999
7
304
Correspondence, 1978
7
305
Ephemera, undated
7
306
Meetings and events,
1975-1994
7
307
"A Poetry Event," 1986
7
308
"Festival and Faire of Poetry,"
1978-1983
7
309
Poetry Readings, circa
1970s
Mid-Columbia Writers
Association
7
310
Meeting minutes and miscellaneous,
1974-1987
7
311
Newsletters and flyers,
1957-1998
7
312
Newspaper Articles,
1967-1994
7
313
Notes, 1967-1968
8
314
Conferences, 1963-1987
8
315
Correspondence, 1960-1994
8
316
Seminars, "Syllabic Verse,"
1985-1986
8
317
Mid-Columbia Writers League, 50th
Anniversary "Collage of Memories," 1994
8
318
Mid-Columbia Writers League, Poetry Day
and other poetry readings, 1964-1989
8
319
Mid-Columbia Writers Association. Poetry
Contests, 1994-1995
8
320
Poetry clubs, 1964-1967
8
321
Arts Council, 1976
8
322
Columbia Basin College Performing Arts
Center, 1977
8
323
Environmental Information Network,
1991
Series 4: Poetry classes, research materials,
notes, and workshops, 1945-1992
This series consists primarily of Cooke's notes related to research for her poetry, educational activities, travel, and personal matters. The research material is especially useful, offering information about the origins of some of her poems.
Classes
8
324
Notes on American poetry,
1966
8
325
Verse writing, University of
Washington, 1967
8
326
Language and Literature of Britain to
1500, 1979-1980
8
327
Summer writing workshop, Eastern
Washington University (held in Dublin), 1981
8
328
David Wagner summer workshop at
Haystack, 1982
8
329
"Poetry is an Art of Patience" (pamphlet),
1955
8
330
"Writer's Notes and Quotes" (magazine),
1961-1963
Index card files
9
331
Early British or Celtic, Latin, Greek,
Etruscan bibliography; undated
9
332
Linguistics bibliography,
undated
9
333
Anglo Saxon bibliography,
undated
9
334
Celtic bibliography,
undated
9
335
Poetry copyright listing by title,
undated
9
336
Publications by title,
undated
9
337
Poems by title, undated
Subject note files
10
338
Poetry classes, undated
10
339
Various topics, undated
10
340
Poetry of the Finns,
undated
10
341
American poets, circa 1965
10
342
Greek poetry, 1972
10
343
Welsh poetry, 1972
10
344
Persian poetry, 1972
Lecture notes
10
345
Mark Halperin, 1980
10
346
David Wagoner, 1985
10
347
Trip to England (travel notes),
1991
Research notes
10
348
Feminist publications, 1982 and
1984
10
349
Halley's Comet, 1985-1986
10
350
Queen Marie Room at Maryhill Museum,
1987
10
351
News clippings, Sunday Oregonian, 1941 and
1981
10
352
Historical Backgrounds of Benton and
Franklin Counties (pamphlet) by Margaret Thompson, 1945
10
353
"Praise," Spokane Symphony Orchestra,
1981
Workshops
10
354
M and M, 1977
10
355
Lance Olson: Fiction-Nonfiction,
1981
10
356
Judith Roche, 1985 and
1989
10
357
Rattlesnake Mountain Workshop,
1985-1989
10
358
Short Story workshops, circa
1986
10
359
The Inquiring Mind: A Forum In The
Humanities, 1988
10
360
Unknown, 1991
10
361
Clark College poetry workshop,
1992
Series 5: Miscellaneous material and event
files, 1946-1994
This series includes printed ephemera (primarily poetry), newspaper articles, and items related to Cooke's honors and awards, community involvement and events, and photographs.
10
362
Awards, 1953-1976
10
363
Newspaper articles authored by Cooke,
1946-1980
10
364
Incoming correspondence (praise and
thank-you letters), 1980-1983
10
365
Personal correspondence,
1960-1990s
11
366
Photographs, 1950s-1990s
11
367
Contests, 1952-1987
11
368
"Tie Wires" By "Smokie Joe" Meek
(pamphlet), 1971
11
369
Off the Aleutian Chain: poetry by Linda
Bierds (pamphlet), 1985
11
370
Poems by others (miscellaneous typescripts
and printed items), undated
11
371
Poem: "My Mother Would Weep," Florence
Mayne Merrick (newspaper clipping), 1980
11
372
Favorite Welsh and English Hymns and
Melodies (pamphlet), circa 1940s-1950s
11
373
From Pig's Feet to Corn Pone: Mama's
Family Favorites (cookbook; pamphlet), Nina Whitaker Pickren,
1981
Event files
11
374
West Richland Days (newspaper
clippings), 1960
11
375
Scandinavian Yuletide Dinner,
1970
11
376
An Appreciation of the Arts of Black
African, Asian, Semitic, Amerindian, 1970
11
377
United States Bicentennial, "The
American Revolutionary Experience," 1976
11
378
Tri-City Chinese Language School year
end program, circa 1977
11
379
Chinese Language School dinner
(newspaper clippings), 1980
11
380
"Art of the Peoples," 1981
11
381
"Talking Turkey About Gratitude,"
1988
11
382
Benton and Franklin County authors,
library book display, 1988
11
383
Public lecture, "The Uncontrollable
Mystery: The Life and Works of W. B. Yeats," Keith Scales,
1989
11
384
Washington Centennial, Benton and
Franklin Counties, 1989
11
385
Miscellaneous events, circa
1960-1990