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MSS Weaver
Weaver, Roger.
Roger Weaver Papers
1989-2012
0.1 cubic foot, including 1 audio cassette
2 boxes
The Roger Weaver Papers reflect the poetry and teaching career of Weaver and include biographical materials, books of Weaver's poems, a journal, and a sound recording. Weaver was a faculty member in the Oregon State University English Department from 1962 until his retirement in 1996.
Materials in English.
Biographical Note:
Roger Weaver was a faculty member in the Oregon State University English Department from 1962 until his retirement in 1996. Weaver studied English literature and poetry at the University of Oregon and the University of Washington and earned a BA (1957) and MFA (1967) from the University of Oregon and MA (1962) from the University of Washington. Weaver's poems have been published in journals, anthologies, and poetry books. Weaver promoted poetry at Oregon State by establishing the Poetry Interest Group and the Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award. In 2012, Weaver collaborated with Oregon State alumna Judith Walls Freeman on
Five Songs for Voice, Piano, and Cello, featuring five of Weaver's poems set to original musical compositions by Freeman.
Roger Keys Weaver was born in Portland, Oregon on February 2, 1935 and graduated from Salem High School in 1953. In addition to his University teaching, Weaver has taught children, youth, and adults in school settings as well as through workshops and summer programs.
The Roger Weaver Papers reflect the poetry and teaching career of Weaver and include biographical materials, books of Weaver's poems, a journal, and a sound recording. The collection includes three books of Weaver's poetry:
Traveling on the Great Wheel (1990), Reading the Stones (2003), and The Ladder of Desire (2006). Five Songs for Voice, Piano and Cello (2012) consists of poems by Weaver set to music composed by Judith Walls Freeman. The journal that is included with the collection was created in June and July 1994 and includes poems, drawings, and narrative entries. It documents Weaver's daily ruminations during the summer of 1994 in Greece. The biographical materials include a curriculum vita as well as an introduction of Weaver written and delivered by Tracy Daugherty at a poetry reading in 2006.
Traveling on the Great Wheel - Poetry by Roger Weaver is a 1989 audio cassette recording of Weaver reading his poems that were published in the book with the same title.
Collection is open for research.
Roger Weaver Papers (MSS Weaver), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
The Papers were donated to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center by Weaver in 2013.
The Special Collections & Archives Research Center houses the papers of several Oregon State English
faculty including Peter Copek; Elizabeth Henley, also a poet; Ray S. Hewitt; Bernard Malamud; Sigurd H. and Ruth Peterson; and
M.
Ellwood Smith as well the Richard Dankleff Sound Recording of poetry reading. The English Department Records are part of the
College
of Liberal Arts Records (RG 143); the
English
Department Photographs (P 222) consist of photographs of Bernard
Malamud during his years as a faculty member at Oregon State. The
Edwin T.
Reed Papers include poetry written by Reed.
Daugherty, Tracy.
American poetry--Oregon.
Oral interpretation of poetry.
Audiocassettes.
Colleges and Universities
Oregon
Corvallis
Sound Recordings