Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives
Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and
Archives
Aubrey R. Watzek Library
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR 97219
archives@lclark.edu
503-768-7254
OLPb147PET
Petersen,
Paulann
The Paulann Petersen Collection
1989-2013
8 boxes
3 cubic feet
The collection includes poetry drafts and publications
by the Oregon poet, Paulann Petersen.
Special Collections
English
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.
Includes poem drafts, correspondence, and publications.
Arranged in a single series with groupings by book title.
This collection has no restrictions and is open for research.
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.
The Paulann Petersen Collection (OLPb147PET), Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek
Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Donated to Lewis & Clark College by Paulann Petersen.
This collection will be supplemented periodically with new material from the
author.
Processed in 2013.
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.
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.
Petersen, Paulann--Archives
Petersen, Paulann
American poetry -- Oregon
Poetry
Literature
Blood Silk
Kindle
The Voluptuary
The Wild Awake
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the
collection.
1
The Wild Awake
ca.
1996
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.
1.1
A Reading from the Erotic Compass of the
World
undated
1.2
Not an Angel
undated
1.3
Timepiece
undated
1.4
Cloth
undated
1.5
Promise
undated
1.6
Merman
undated
1.7
Oriental Lilies
undated
1.8
Graveyard Narcissus
undated
1.9
Small Acts of Devotion
undated
1.10
Mirror of These Eyes
undated
1.11
A Bride of the World
undated
1.12
Speaking of Dreams
undated
1.13
Feral
undated
1.14
In Dreams
undated
1.15
What You Didn't Know About
Money
undated
1.16
The Day I Became a Woman
undated
Early drafts titled "The Day Jesus Became a Woman"
1.17
Then She Is the Garden
undated
1.18
Second Skin
undated
1.19
To Dream a Lover Away
undated
1.20
Perfume
undated
1.21
Snow Red
undated
1.22
A Natural History
undated
1.23
Room
undated
1.24
Lullaby
undated
1.25
A Little Primer on Sleep
undated
1.26
Haven
undated
1.27
Calling
undated
1.28
Where the Animal Goes When I Am
Awake
undated
1.29
For the Love of Sleep
undated
1.30
Words Rise from Nowhere Else
undated
1.31
Fabrication
undated
1.32
Coat of Fur
undated
1.33
A Woman Remembers Water
undated
1.34
Where, Then Who You Are
undated
1.35
In Her Palm, Perfection
undated
1.36
Resolution
undated
1.37
Pity
undated
1.38
Work
undated
1.39
Making Do
undated
1.40
The New Cosmology
undated
1.41
Psychopomp
undated
1.42
Handwriting
undated
1.43
Translation
undated
1.44
Who Shadows the Sun
undated
1.45
The Same Worlds Within You As
Without
undated
1.46
When I Walk
undated
1.47
Appetite
undated
2
Blood Silk
ca.
2003
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.
2.1
[no title]
undated
early drafts titled "In Hospitality"; appears in
Blood
Silk without a title
2.2
In the Narrow Margins
undated
2.3
Turkish for Hello
undated
2.4
A Calling
undated
2.5
The Nectar
undated
2.6
A Center of Gold
undated
2.7
Bouquet
undated
2.8
The Four Seasons, Istanbul
undated
2.9
Illumination
undated
2.10
Ecumenical
undated
2.11
Regeneration
undated
2.12
In This Land, Exotic
undated
2.13
Two Places I've Seen Mullein
Grow
undated
2.14
Moonrise, Adiyaman
undated
2.15
Offering
undated
2.16
Customary
undated
2.17
For a Second Time on Today's Bus
Ride
undated
2.18
Regular Issue
undated
2.19
The World, Rushing
undated
2.20
Grooming
undated
2.21
Gleaner
undated
2.22
Breakfast at the Caravansaray's
Edge
undated
2.23
Night Shift
undated
2.24
In a Kurdish Village
undated
2.25
First Sight, Cappadocia
undated
2.26
Itinerary
undated
2.27
In Early Spring, Outside the Greatest
Ottoman Architect's Masterpiece Mosque, Ken, in His Limited but
Beautiful Turkish, Fends the Peddlers Off
undated
2.28
The Proselytizer
undated
2.29
Memento
undated
2.30
Aftermath
undated
2.31
To You, Aysegul
undated
2.32
At the Postal Worker's Flat,
Nevsehir
undated
2.33
Place Setting
undated
2.34
After Dinner, Drinking Cay on Ermine's
Small Balcony
undated
2.35
What Remains in the Byzantine
Cave-Church
undated
2.36
Daybreak Ballooning,
Cappadocia
undated
2.37
Speaking of Men, of Women, of
Love
undated
2.38
Black Cave, Red Star
undated
2.39
To Unbury a Poet
undated
2.40
Here, In This Sky, Lay Me Down
undated
3
Kindle
ca.
2008
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.
3.1
Kindle
May 15,
2005
Typed draft submitted to Ce Rosenow.
3.2
Seed
May 16,
2005
Typed draft submitted to Ce Rosenow.
3.3
Seed and Kindle contents pages
2005-2008
3.4
Kindle submissions
November
10, 2005
Correspondence with Ce Rosenow and poem submissions.
3.5
Kindle poem submissions (after November
10, 2005)
2005-2008
Poems and correspondence.
3.6
Kindle draft
Fall
2006
Assembled from page proofs for Kindle and Seed.
3.7
Kindle page proofs
March
27, 2008
3.8
Kindle journal submissions
undated
Documentation of periodicals in which poems collected for Kindle were
previously published.
3.9
reviews of
Kindle
undated
3.10
Correspondence about
Kindle
2010-2011
3.11
Correspondence with publisher, Ce
Rosenow
2005-2011
4
Kindle
ca.
2008
Drafts for poems published in the book
Kindle (2008).
4.1
Grounded
undated
4.2
Calendar
undated
4.3
As Fall Days Continue Their Onward
Count
undated
4.4
Time-Travel
undated
4.5
Suture
undated
4.6
A Little Perspective
undated
4.7
Phantom Body
undated
4.8
Rorschach
undated
4.9
Dear Soul
undated
4.10
Carried From the Current
undated
4.11
Slake
undated
4.12
Finish
undated
4.13
A Legacy
undated
4.14
Dawn
undated
4.15
Water Knows Its Own Kind
undated
4.16
Vantage
undated
4.17
Basin
undated
4.18
Sense
undated
4.19
Half Empty, Half Full
undated
4.20
When Meeting the other
undated
4.21
Late Blooming
undated
4.22
Gather Close
undated
4.23
Narrative Description, Imaginative
Leaps
undated
4.24
For Special Emphasis
undated
4.25
Ink
undated
4.26
Breugel's Babel
undated
4.27
On Seeing Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily,
Rose
undated
4.28
Circus
undated
4.29
Charles Burchfield, Your World
undated
4.30
Slip Work
undated
4.31
Paper-Cutting Art
undated
4.32
Traveler
undated
4.33
A Cycladic Proof
undated
4.34
Moonrise, Asteria
undated
4.35
On the Aegean
undated
4.36
Navigation
undated
4.37
A Municipal Servant Serenades at the
Pier
undated
4.38
Siren
undated
4.39
Rooms to Let Dream
undated
4.40
Phaethon's Warning
undated
4.41
Polar Flight
undated
4.42
Printed text of Kindle
2008
5
The Voluptuary
ca.
2010
This box contains manuscript and drafts versions of the book
The
Voluptuary (2010). The earliest title for the book was
The Body Eclectic.
5.1
Paulann Petersen's handwritten
journal
July, 2000-August, 2001
journal in response to Whitman's
Leaves of Grass and
Specimen Days
5.2
drafts of poems from The Body
Eclectic
August
2, 2001
5.3
Single draft sheet from The Body
Eclectic
2001
5.4
from The Body Eclectic
draft
September 3, 2001
5.5
The Body Eclectic
draft
September-October, 2001
5.6
from The Body Eclectic
draft
October
26, 2001
5.7
The Body Eclectic
draft
undated
5.8
The Hyphenate
World
2002
An assemblage of poems from
The Body Eclectic.
5.9
from The Body Eclectic
draft
undated
5.10
from The Body Eclectic
draft
June
2002
5.11
Something Made Room in This
World
ca.
2004
An assemblage of drafts from
The Body Eclectic.
5.12
"Paulann Homage to Whitman"
undated
a collection of poems reviewed by Tess Gallagher and Greg Simon.
5.13
Room in This
World
ca.
2004
A draft assemblage of poems.
5.14
Leaves Shed Out of
Me
January
17, 2005
A newly titled assemblage of poems from
The Body
Eclectic.
5.15
The Hermaphrodite Flower
chapbook
September-October, 2005
A subset of poems that were eventually incorporated into
The
Voluptuary. Proofs and the finished book.
5.16
A Work of the
Body
January
17, 2007
A newly titled assemblage of poems from
The Body
Eclectic.
5.17
The Voluptuary
January
8, 2008
Typed draft.
5.18
Drafts not used in The
Voluptuary
undated
5.19
The Voluptuary
ca.
2009
typed draft.
5.20
Paulann Petersen, reviews, commentaries,
The Voluptuary correspondence
ca.
2010
5.21
The Voluptuary finding aids
and charts
undated
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.
6
The Voluptuary
ca.
2010
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.
6.1
Title page
undated
6.2
A Powder of Stars section
epigraph
undated
6.3
Bloodline
undated
6.4
Why the World Isn't Flat
undated
6.5
Indigo
undated
6.6
Fennel
undated
6.7
This Could Be
undated
6.8
Since Most Stars Are Strangers
undated
6.9
What's Left From That First
Goddess
undated
6.10
Atavist
undated
6.11
A Way to Say Gladness
undated
6.12
In February's Field
undated
6.13
What Remains
undated
6.14
In the Book of Waves
undated
6.15
Forever Forbidden to Wed
undated
6.16
In a Fleck of the Cosmos
undated
6.17
Skin
undated
6.18
Blind Abundance section
epigraph
undated
6.19
Sky-Sower
undated
6.20
Doxology
undated
6.21
Ashes
undated
6.22
Ember
undated
6.23
Bright Song Bred in a Dark
Throat
undated
6.24
Propagate
undated
6.25
Span
undated
6.26
The Light Connecting Each to
All
undated
6.27
The Milky Way
undated
6.28
Be Here When I Can See You, When I
Can't
undated
6.29
Among the Yet Unfallen
undated
6.30
The Hermaphrodite Flower section
epigraph
undated
6.31
Nearness Called Forth
undated
6.32
Vantage
undated
6.33
One Soul
undated
6.34
Hermaphrodite
undated
6.35
Numen
undated
6.36
Reservoir
undated
6.37
Sounding-Bowl section epigraph
undated
6.38
Ark
undated
6.39
Fig
undated
6.40
Feeding Crows
undated
6.41
A Pinch of Your Ashes Mixed with
Mother's
undated
6.42
Far
undated
6.43
For Continuance
undated
6.44
Silver and Deep
undated
6.45
Appear
undated
6.46
Abandon
undated
6.47
Yet Again I Name Aloud
undated
6.48
Gravity
undated
6.49
Death-Clothes
undated
6.50
Moonflower
undated
6.51
Whose Feet I'd Dry with my
Hair
undated
6.52
To My Coffin Maker
undated
6.53
The Somewhere of Blue section
epigraph
undated
6.54
Anthem
undated
6.55
Small Wonder
undated
6.56
Watermelon
undated
6.57
Solar Eclipse
undated
6.58
Heavenly Body
undated
6.59
Hive
undated
6.60
Wax
undated
6.61
Mend
undated
6.62
On the One True Way Out of This
World
undated
6.63
Crescents
undated
6.64
Wick
undated
6.65
The Metamorph World
undated
6.66
Forest Sutra
undated
6.67
Crows Feeding on Crusted Snow
undated
6.68
Use
undated
6.69
Voluptuaries
undated
7
The Voluptuary
ca.
2010
Miscellaneous materials relating to the publication of the book
The
Voluptuary (2010).
7.1
Charts and Correspondence
undated
Includes tables showing different titles and drafts for each poem.
Compiled by Paul Merchant and students at Lewis & Clark College.
7.2
The Voluptuary manuscript
undated
Complete typed manuscript
7.3
The Voluptuary corrected proof
2010
Corrected page proofs.
7.4
The Voluptuary final proof
copy
2010
Trimmed pages on publication page stock with cover proof.
7.5
drafts of essay about Paulann Petersen by Eric Muller
2010
7.6
handmade notebook with two poems
2010
Includes facsimiles of original drafts used for exhibit of "Leaves of Grass" and "Starting from Paumanok."
8
Misc. Publications
2010-2012
Includes published materials featuring poems by Paulann Petersen.
8.1
Shimmer and Drone
2012
small chapbook of poems published by Imperfect Press.
8.2
Hawthorne Bridge calendar
2010
contains the poem "Willamette Calendar".