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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)
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
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Biographical Note

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.

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Content Description

Includes poem drafts, correspondence, and publications.

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Use of the Collection

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.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in a single series with groupings by book title.

Location of Collection

Special Collections

Acquisition 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.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • The Wild Awake, ca. 1996

    Container: 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.

  • Blood Silk, ca. 2003

    Container: 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.

    • Description: [no title]

      early drafts titled "In Hospitality"; appears in Blood Silk without a title

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.1
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: In the Narrow Margins
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.2
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Turkish for Hello
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.3
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: A Calling
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.4
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: The Nectar
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.5
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: A Center of Gold
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.6
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Bouquet
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.7
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: The Four Seasons, Istanbul
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.8
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Illumination
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.9
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Ecumenical
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.10
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Regeneration
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.11
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: In This Land, Exotic
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.12
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Two Places I've Seen Mullein Grow
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.13
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Moonrise, Adiyaman
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.14
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Offering
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.15
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Customary
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.16
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: For a Second Time on Today's Bus Ride
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.17
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Regular Issue
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.18
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: The World, Rushing
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.19
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Grooming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.20
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Gleaner
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.21
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Breakfast at the Caravansaray's Edge
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.22
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Night Shift
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.23
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: In a Kurdish Village
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.24
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: First Sight, Cappadocia
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.25
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Itinerary
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.26
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: In Early Spring, Outside the Greatest Ottoman Architect's Masterpiece Mosque, Ken, in His Limited but Beautiful Turkish, Fends the Peddlers Off
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.27
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: The Proselytizer
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.28
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Memento
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.29
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Aftermath
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.30
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: To You, Aysegul
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.31
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: At the Postal Worker's Flat, Nevsehir
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.32
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Place Setting
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.33
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: After Dinner, Drinking Cay on Ermine's Small Balcony
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.34
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: What Remains in the Byzantine Cave-Church
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.35
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Daybreak Ballooning, Cappadocia
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.36
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Speaking of Men, of Women, of Love
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.37
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Black Cave, Red Star
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.38
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: To Unbury a Poet
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.39
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003
    • Description: Here, In This Sky, Lay Me Down
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 2.40
      Location: Blood Silk, ca. 2003

  • Kindle, ca. 2008

    Container: 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.

    • Description: Kindle

      Typed draft submitted to Ce Rosenow.

      Dates: May 15, 2005
      Container: Box Folder 3.1
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Seed

      Typed draft submitted to Ce Rosenow.

      Dates: May 16, 2005
      Container: Box Folder 3.2
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Seed and Kindle contents pages
      Dates: 2005-2008
      Container: Box Folder 3.3
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Kindle submissions

      Correspondence with Ce Rosenow and poem submissions.

      Dates: November 10, 2005
      Container: Box Folder 3.4
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Kindle poem submissions (after November 10, 2005)

      Poems and correspondence.

      Dates: 2005-2008
      Container: Box Folder 3.5
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Kindle draft

      Assembled from page proofs for Kindle and Seed.

      Dates: Fall 2006
      Container: Box Folder 3.6
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Kindle page proofs
      Dates: March 27, 2008
      Container: Box Folder 3.7
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Kindle journal submissions

      Documentation of periodicals in which poems collected for Kindle were previously published.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 3.8
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: reviews of Kindle
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 3.9
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Correspondence about Kindle
      Dates: 2010-2011
      Container: Box Folder 3.10
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Correspondence with publisher, Ce Rosenow
      Dates: 2005-2011
      Container: Box Folder 3.11
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008

  • Kindle, ca. 2008

    Container: Box 4

    Drafts for poems published in the book Kindle (2008).

    • Description: Grounded
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.1
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Calendar
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.2
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: As Fall Days Continue Their Onward Count
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.3
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Time-Travel
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.4
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Suture
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.5
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: A Little Perspective
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.6
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Phantom Body
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.7
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Rorschach
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.8
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Dear Soul
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.9
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Carried From the Current
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.10
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Slake
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.11
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Finish
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.12
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: A Legacy
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.13
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Dawn
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.14
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Water Knows Its Own Kind
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.15
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Vantage
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.16
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Basin
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.17
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Sense
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.18
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Half Empty, Half Full
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.19
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: When Meeting the other
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.20
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Late Blooming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.21
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Gather Close
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.22
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Narrative Description, Imaginative Leaps
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.23
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: For Special Emphasis
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.24
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Ink
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.25
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Breugel's Babel
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.26
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: On Seeing Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.27
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Circus
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.28
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Charles Burchfield, Your World
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.29
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Slip Work
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.30
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Paper-Cutting Art
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.31
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Traveler
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.32
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: A Cycladic Proof
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.33
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Moonrise, Asteria
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.34
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: On the Aegean
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.35
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Navigation
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.36
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: A Municipal Servant Serenades at the Pier
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.37
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Siren
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.38
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Rooms to Let Dream
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.39
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Phaethon's Warning
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.40
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Polar Flight
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 4.41
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008
    • Description: Printed text of Kindle
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box Folder 4.42
      Location: Kindle, ca. 2008

  • The Voluptuary, ca. 2010

    Container: 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.

    • Description: Paulann Petersen's handwritten journal

      journal in response to Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Specimen Days

      Dates: July, 2000-August, 2001
      Container: Box Folder 5.1
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: drafts of poems from The Body Eclectic
      Dates: August 2, 2001
      Container: Box Folder 5.2
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: Single draft sheet from The Body Eclectic
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box Folder 5.3
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: from The Body Eclectic draft
      Dates: September 3, 2001
      Container: Box Folder 5.4
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Body Eclectic draft
      Dates: September-October, 2001
      Container: Box Folder 5.5
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: from The Body Eclectic draft
      Dates: October 26, 2001
      Container: Box Folder 5.6
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Body Eclectic draft
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 5.7
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Hyphenate World

      An assemblage of poems from The Body Eclectic.

      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box Folder 5.8
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: from The Body Eclectic draft
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 5.9
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: from The Body Eclectic draft
      Dates: June 2002
      Container: Box Folder 5.10
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: Something Made Room in This World

      An assemblage of drafts from The Body Eclectic.

      Dates: ca. 2004
      Container: Box Folder 5.11
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: "Paulann Homage to Whitman"

      a collection of poems reviewed by Tess Gallagher and Greg Simon.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 5.12
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: Room in This World

      A draft assemblage of poems.

      Dates: ca. 2004
      Container: Box Folder 5.13
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: Leaves Shed Out of Me

      A newly titled assemblage of poems from The Body Eclectic.

      Dates: January 17, 2005
      Container: Box Folder 5.14
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Hermaphrodite Flower chapbook

      A subset of poems that were eventually incorporated into The Voluptuary. Proofs and the finished book.

      Dates: September-October, 2005
      Container: Box Folder 5.15
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: A Work of the Body

      A newly titled assemblage of poems from The Body Eclectic.

      Dates: January 17, 2007
      Container: Box Folder 5.16
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Voluptuary

      Typed draft.

      Dates: January 8, 2008
      Container: Box Folder 5.17
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: Drafts not used in The Voluptuary
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 5.18
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Voluptuary

      typed draft.

      Dates: ca. 2009
      Container: Box Folder 5.19
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: Paulann Petersen, reviews, commentaries, The Voluptuary correspondence
      Dates: ca. 2010
      Container: Box Folder 5.20
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: 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.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 5.21
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010

  • The Voluptuary, ca. 2010

    Container: 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.

  • The Voluptuary, ca. 2010

    Container: Box 7

    Miscellaneous materials relating to the publication of the book The Voluptuary (2010).

    • Description: Charts and Correspondence

      Includes tables showing different titles and drafts for each poem. Compiled by Paul Merchant and students at Lewis & Clark College.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 7.1
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Voluptuary manuscript

      Complete typed manuscript

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box Folder 7.2
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Voluptuary corrected proof

      Corrected page proofs.

      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box Folder 7.3
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: The Voluptuary final proof copy

      Trimmed pages on publication page stock with cover proof.

      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box Folder 7.4
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: drafts of essay about Paulann Petersen by Eric Muller
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box Folder 7.5
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010
    • Description: handmade notebook with two poems

      Includes facsimiles of original drafts used for exhibit of "Leaves of Grass" and "Starting from Paumanok."

      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box Folder 7.6
      Location: The Voluptuary, ca. 2010

  • Misc. Publications, 2010-2012

    Container: Box 8

    Includes published materials featuring poems by Paulann Petersen.

    • Description: Shimmer and Drone

      small chapbook of poems published by Imperfect Press.

      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box Folder 8.1
      Location: Misc. Publications, 2010-2012
    • Description: Hawthorne Bridge calendar

      contains the poem "Willamette Calendar".

      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box Folder 8.2
      Location: Misc. Publications, 2010-2012

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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

Alice Whitaker and Sarah Osborne
2013

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