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OLPb104STA Stafford, William, 1914-1993 The William E. Stafford, Archives Series 1, Sub-Series 4: Prose Drafts 1937-2000 7 cubic feet 11 boxes William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. This subseries includes handwritten and typed drafts of Stafford's prose. The Index to the entire Stafford Archives can be found at: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv83782 Special Collections English Biographical Note

William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many credentials, Stafford served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark (1963). During his lifetime, Stafford wrote over sixty books of poetry that still resonate with both scholars and general readers. Stafford’s perspectives on peace, the environment, and education serve as some of the most articulate and engaging dialogues by a modern American writer about three of the most important issues of the second half of the twentieth century with lasting impacts on future generations. Howard Zinn, one America’s most iconic modern historians, was keenly aware of Stafford’s insight into modern American culture. Zinn claimed, “William Stafford’s prose and poetry, wise and eloquent, speak directly to the violence of our time, and to our hope for a different world” (from cover of Every War Has Two Losers).

The William Stafford Archives, donated to Lewis & Clark College by the Stafford family in 2008, contain the private papers, publications, photographs, recordings, and teaching materials of the poet William Stafford. The Lewis & Clark College Special Collections actively add to this collection by acquiring unique Stafford related materials.

Stafford wrote every day of his life from 1950 to 1993. These 20,000 pages of daily writings form a complete record of the poet’s mostly early morning meditations, including poem drafts, dream records, aphorisms, and other visits to the unconscious, recorded on separate sheets of yellow or white paper or when traveling, often in spiral-bound reporters’ steno pads. The archive also includes typescripts of poems submitted for publication and for use in readings. Stafford listed where he submitted each poem, and whether it was accepted for publication on the typescript. Each of his published collections, large and small, is represented by its gathering of documentary copies (typescripts), called by Stafford a “put-together.” Unpublished poems, poems published in journals, and reading copies of published poems were also gathered, in a virtually complete record from 1937 to 1993, totaling about 7,000 items. The collection also includes copies of all known Stafford books and translations. Stafford saved correspondence received, with an indication of the date of reply, and sometimes a copy of the reply, from the early 1960s to August 1993. Estimated at 100,000 sheets, the collected correspondence contains some full exchanges of correspondence initiated by WS. One such exchange is the correspondence with Marvin Bell on their sequence Segues. In addition to many photographs of and relating to William Stafford, the archive includes an estimated 20,000 photographs and negatives taken and developed by Stafford of fellow poets, family, friends, and Lewis & Clark College faculty. The archive provides documentation of Stafford's teaching career, including more than one thousand index cards, some dating from research at Iowa, others from later. These were much used in preparing for classes, workshops, and lectures. The files also contain scattered notes for workshops and lectures. The archive also includes course syllabi, and faculty documents relating to Stafford's teaching years at Lewis & Clark College.

Includes handwritten and typed drafts of: interviews and questionnaires; book reviews; stories; public presentations; and essays.

Arranged in boxes by prose type (interviews and questionnaires; book reviews; stories; public presentations; and essays), and chronologically within type.

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 William Stafford Archives, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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.

Stafford, William, 1914-1993--Archives Stafford, Dorothy Stafford, Kim Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.) Kansas. Oregon. Poets, American--20th century. Poetry--20th century. Poetry -- Study and teaching. Poetry -- Authorship. World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States. Pacifism--Poetry. Pacifism--United States. Literature.

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

1a Interviews 1962-1988 1 box 1.1 Some Topics for Discussion: Being a Poet Nowadays 1962

Questionnaire from Paul ?Fillinger

1.2 The Farm On the Great Plains, Poet's Choice 1962

Correspondence with Paul Engle

 1.3 Traveling Through the Dark, Reading Modern Poetry 1964

Correspondence with Warren Carrier

 1.4 Comments on Some Poems, Critical Quarterly for Tony Dyson, 1964

Portions reproduced for Answers are Inside the Mountains

 1.5 A Writer's Views on Writing 1966

Stafford to Daphne Horine for KATE bulletin

1.6 Question-and-answer sheet 1966

To Dale Pfleiger

1.7 William Stafford television interview questions undated

1.8 Remarks by Stafford for KOAP TV program 1967

1.9 Writer: Northwest, KOAP 1967

1.10 For "Writer's World" program, KOAP, 1967

Further remarks by Stafford to Clark Santee for KOAP TV

 1.11 An Interview with William Stafford, Crazy Horse 1971

1.12 Discussions During the Spring Poetry Festival, Tennessee Poetry Journal 1971

1.13 A Conversation with William Stafford, Contributor's Copy 1971

Interview with Dick Case

 1.13.1 William Stafford Interview 1972

Interview with Cynthia Loftness

 1.13.2 Interview with William Stafford, Tamasha Magazine (Iran) 1972

Interview with William Stafford by Adnan Gharifi for Tamasha Magazine (Iran) during W.S. USIS 1972 tour. Translated by Andranik Mirzabegi.

 1.14 The Third Time the World Happens, NW Review 1973

Interview with Richard Hugo

 1.15 He Renders to God, 101 Coast Magazine of the Arts 1974

Interview with Mike Archbold

 1.16 Comment, I Almost Keep Seeing a Black Star 1974

Interview with Karen Sollid

 1.17 Tales From the Inkwell: William Stafford on Writing, Encore 1976

Interview with Anita Helle

 1.17b "Of Earthen Beasts and Other Muses," Alchemy 1976

Interview with Cathy Lenox

 1.18 William Stafford on War and Peace, Spectrum 1978

Interview with Stephen Sander

 1.18b Where Poems Begin, Christian Science Monitor 1978

Interview with Henrietta Buckmaster

 1.19 Diving For Dreams, Writing #2 1979

Interview with Charles Brashers and Sam Turner

 1.20 Oregon's Poet Laureate, Willamette Week 1979

Interview with Amy Godine

 1.21 William Stafford: An Interview by Nancy Bunge, with revised text Jan/Feb 2004 1981

for The American Poetry Review (1981) and Kansas Quarterly (1994)

 1.22 When Writers Get Together: Some Issues, Reminders, Questions, Literature and Belief 1982

Forum address by Stafford for Brigham Young University and the Rocky Mountain Writers’ Conference

1.23 Question and Answer Session with William Stafford, Literature and Belief undated

Transcript of question and answer session between audience and Stafford following forum address

1.24 William Stafford Interview, Pacific Review 1982

Interview with Gregg Lambert

1.25 Roving Across Fields 1983

Conversation between Thom Tammaro and other poets

1.26 An Interview with William Stafford: Monmouth, Oregon 1983

Interview recorded at Grey Elliot’s poetry class

1.27 Interview with William Stafford 1984

Interview with Kevin Lollar

1.28 An Interview with William Stafford, The Cottonwood Review 1984

Interview with Steven Hind

 1.29 Performing and Poetry, Literature and Performance 1984

Interview with Gail Miller

1.30 William Stafford on Urdu and Spanish, Poet News 1984

Interview with Mary Zappa

1.31 He Seeks Presence of "Hovering Greatness," Wittenburg Today 1984

Interview with Imogene Bolls

 1.31.1 William Stafford: Ambitions to Wake Up 1984

Interview with Gene Von Troyer

 1.32 Vision and Revision 1985

Prototype of Jane Shore’s poem revisions for Vision and Revision, sent to Stafford by Richard LeMon

 1.33 Willingly Local: A Conversation about Regionalism and Northwest Poetry, Studia Neophilogica 1985

Interview with Lars Nordstrom

1.33.1 Cimarron Review: Oklahoma State University 1985

Interview with Michael J. Bugeja

 1.34 Letters on voice, Poet News 1987

Questions from Mary Zeppa

1.35 Making Things Happen: Marvin Bell and William Stafford, Oregon English Journal (1987, pub. 1999) 1987-1999 1.36 Craft interview 1987

Interview with William Packard

1.37 William Stafford in At the Field’s End 1987

Interview with Nicholas O’Connor

1.38 Account of a dream, to Diane Hill and Karen Kenyon at Sunshower 1988

1.39 An Interview with William Stafford, Maryland Poetry Review 1988

Interview with Anthony McGurrin and Michael Fallon

1b Interviews 1988-2001 1 box 1b.40 Lucky Talk, to Paul Janeczko 1988

Poem commentary by Stafford for Paul Janeczko’s anthology, This Delicious Day

 1b.41 From "A Conversation with William Stafford" 1988

Interview with Jeff Gundy for Modern American Poetry

 1b.42 Shelter From the Permanent Gale, The Literary Center Quarterly 1989

Interview with George Myers, Jr.

1b.43 William Stafford: A Conversation, Tampa Review 1989

Conversation with Stafford, Richard Mathews, Dorothy Stafford and Kathryn Van Spanckeren

1b.44 Comments on "Traveling Through the Dark," Oregon English Journal 1989

Interview with Vincent Wixon and Michael Markee

1b.45 William Stafford: An Interview by Claire Cooperstein, Poets and Writers Magazine 1990

Interview by Claire Cooperstein

1b.46 Round Three, Poets and Writers Magazine 1991

Stafford’s response to Stephen Minot’s criticism

 1b.47 Poetry Happens Whenever the Language Gets Lucky 1991

Interview with Thomas Kennedy

1b.48 Comment on "One Time", The Place My Words Are Looking For 1991

1b.49 A Priest of the Imagination, Friends Journal 1991

Interview with David Elliot

1b.49b untitled, Writer's Digest 1992

Questionnarie sent to Bruce Woods

 1b.50 William Stafford, What! Contemporary Writing and Ideas 1993

Interview with Kevin Connolly

1b.51 PN Magazine 1993

Interview with June Owens

1b.52 William Stafford: An Interview by Thomas E. Kennedy 1993

for The American Poetry Review

1b.53 William Stafford: The Art of Poetry LXVII, The Paris Review 1993

Interview with William Young

 1b.54 BABEL questionnaire 1993

1b.55 Letters, and An Interview with William Stafford, Bakunin 1993

Interview with Mitchell Smith

1b.56 Remembering William Stafford, Kansas Quarterly 1994

1b.57 Fishing Your Life, Bonuses, and the Helicopter Arts, Connections 2001

Interview with Gala Muench

 1b.58 Listings of Stafford interviews compiled by Paul Merchant and Vince Wixon ca. 2000

2 Book Reviews 1948-1963 1 box 2.1 Review of "The Landscape Has Voices," Scott Greer in The Bridge October 12, 1948

2.2 Fellowship: "Pacifist Hero": review of Spring Is Not Gentle, Ronald Kirkbridge February 1950

2.3 Fellowship: Mennonite CPS Story: review of Service for Peace, Melvin Gingerich May 1950

2.4 Fellowship: "A Sure Faith": review of Winter Solstice and Other Poems, Winifred Rawlins September 1953

2.5 Fellowship: A Hateful Thing: review of Who Speaks for Man?, Norman Cousins October 1953

2.6 Poetry:"Several Tongues": reviews of Union Street by Charles Causely; Of the Festivity by William Dickey; First and Second Love by Eleanor Farjeon; The Collected Poems of E.J. Pratt; The Stone and the Shell by Sara Henderson Hay; The World's One Clock by Louise Townsend Nicholl; Zen Telegrams by Paul Reps. January 1960

2.7 Poetry: "Breath in Cold Air": reviews of Back to Life, ed. Robert Conquest; Anerca, ed. Edmund Carpenter; Facing North, Terence Heywood and Edward Lowbury December 1960

2.8 Poetry: "Confrontations": reviews of Beasts in Clothes, Harold Witt; The Linen Bands, Raymond Roseliep; The Outdoor Labyrinth, Myron H. Broomell; Companions to Your Doom, Richard Emil Braun; Changes, Michael Benedikt March 1962

2.9 Poetry: "Two Good Hands": review of In Praise of Adam by Reuel Denney December 1962

2.10 Poetry: "Touching Sacred Objects": reviews of Collected Poems, Winifred Townley Scott; Collected Verse Plays, Richard Eberhart; 16 Once Published, Louis Zukofsky May 1963

2.11 Poetry: "The Service of Friendliness": review of The Norfolk Poems of Hayden Carruth August 1963

2.12 Poetry: "In the Sandburg Tradition": review of Honey and Salt, Carl Sandburg September 1963

2.13 Writers' Digest: "A Scholar with Savvy": review of The Poet and the Poem by Judson Jerome 1963

3 Book Reviews 1964-1967 1 box 3.1 Unpublished review of The Psalm of Christ by Chad Walsh 1964

3.2 Chicago Tribune: "Poetic Homage to a Welsh Bard," review of A Garland for Dylan Thomas February 2, 1964

3.3 Chicago Tribune: review of E.E. Cummings The Magic Maker March 15, 1964

3.4 Chicago Tribune: Review of Robert Frost in Russia April 12, 1964

3.5 Poetry: "Terminations, Revelations": reviews of At the End of the Open Road, Louis Simpson; Between Matter and Principle, Alan Stephens; My Bones Being Wiser, Vassar Miller; The African Boy, E.N. Sargent; Interpreter's House, William Dickey May 1964

3.6 Chicago Tribune: Review of Selected Letters of Robert Frost, ed. Lawrance Thompson September 6, 1964

3.7 Chicago Tribune: Review of The Acts of Creation, Arthur Koestler October 8, 1964

3.8 Chicago Tribune: reviews of The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren, ed. Warren V. Bush; and Selected Poems, Stephen Spender November 1, 1964

3.9 Chicago Tribune: review of For the Union Dead, Robert Lowell November 15, 1964

3.10 Chicago Tribune: review of Dylan Thomas's Choice, an Anthology of Poetry December 20, 1964

3.11 Poetry: "Indirections of Reason": review of The Journal of John Cardan, Together with The Quest of the Opal and The Problem of Form, J.V. Cunningham; To What Strangers, What Welcome, J.V. Cunningham (1964, pub. 1965) January 1965

3.12 Chicago Tribune: "Fathoming Five Poets," reviews of Theodore Roethke: Essays on the Poetry, ed. Arnold Stein; The Poetry and Prose of E.E. Cummings, Robert E. Wegner; The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell, Jerome Mazzaro; A Colder Fire: The Poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Victor H. Strandberg; To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings, T.S. Eliot January 9, 1965

3.13 Chicago Tribune: review of Man Does, Woman Is, Robert Graves January 10, 1965

3.14 Chicago Tribune: review of The Lost World, Randall Jarrell February 14, 1965

3.15 Chicago Tribune: review of Dylan Thomas, His Life and Work, John Ackerman; Dylan Thomas and Poetic Disassociation, David Holbrook; The Days of Dylan Thomas, a Pictorial Biography, Bill Read February 28, 1965

3.16 Chicago Tribune: review of The Orgy, by Muriel Rukeyser March 7, 1965

3.17 Poetry: "Losses, Engagements, Privacie"s: reviews of The Whitsun Weddings, Philip Larkin; Selected Poems, Stephen Spender; Man Does, Woman Is, Robert Graves July 1965

3.18 Poetry: "The Inner Legislation": review of Markings, Dag Hammarskjold August 1965

3.19 Chicago Tribune: review of Robert Frost: Life and Talks-Walking, Louis Martins August 15, 1965

3.20 Poetry: "Weighed and Found Wanted": reviews eight anthologies including Roofs of Gold, ed. Padraic Colum; Poems of Doubt and Belief, ed. Tom F. Driver and Robert Pack; American Lyric Poems, ed. Elder Olson; Poets of Today, ed. Walter Lowenfels; American Poems, ed. Jascha Kessler; New Negro Poets: USA, ed. Langston Hughes; Dylan Thomas's Choice, ed. Ralph Maud and Aneirin Talfan Davies; A New Directions Reader, ed. Hayden Carruth and J. Laughlin. September 1965

3.21 Chicago Tribune: reviews of Sound and Form in Modern Poetry, Harvey Gross; A Prosody Handbook, Karl Shapiro and Robert Beum; The Gist of Poetics, Clyde E. Henson September 12, 1965

3.22 Chicago Tribune: "Past and Present in a Mediterranean Paradise," review of Majorca Observed, Robert Graves and Paul Hogarth September 26, 1965

3.23 Chicago Tribune: "The Poet's Art in Clear Focus," review of American Poetry Since 1945, Stephen Stepanchev (1965) October 3, 1965

3.24 Chicago Tribune: "Wholesale Dismissal": Review of The Partial Critics, Lee T. Lemon October 10, 1965

3.25 Capital Times: review of Country Places, August Derleth November 15, 1965

3.26 Chicago Tribune: "An Apocalyptic View of History," review of The Old Glory, Robert Lowell November 21, 1965

3.27 Chicago Tribune: "Dispelling Some of the Clouds," review of Ezra Pound: Perspectives, ed. Noel Stock January 2, 1966

3.28 Chicago Tribune: "The Artistry of the Actual," review of Selected Poems, Andrey Voznesensky April 24, 1966

3.29 Poetry: "There Yet Remains What Fashion Cannot Kill:" review of Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson, ed. Morton Dauwen Zabel (1966) June 1966

3.30 Chicago Tribune: review of Selected Poems: New and Old 1923-1966, Robert Penn Warren October 9, 1966

3.31 Chicago Tribune: "An American Literary Phenomenon," review of Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1847-1915, Lawrance Thompson November 6, 1966

3.32 Chicago Tribune: "Reminisence and Appreciation of Eliot": review of T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, ed. Allen Tate November 13, 1966

3.33 Chicago Tribune: "A World of the Imgination," review of The Letters of Wallace Stevens, ed. Holly Stevens; Wallace Stevens: The Art of Uncertainty, Herbert J. Stern November 27, 1966

3.34 Poetry: "Sidesaddle on the Ocean:" review of Looking Up at Leaves, Barbara Howes January 1967

3.35 Chicago Tribune: review of Near the Ocean, Robert Lowell, Chicago Tribune February 5, 1967 3.36 West Coast Review: review of Toward Montebello, Warren Carrier Spring 1967

3.37 Chicago Tribune: "Aiming with the Head": review of Poems 1957-1967, James Dickey and Berryman's Sonnets, John Berryman May 14, 1967

3.38 Chicago Tribune: review of Of Flesh and Bone, John Frederick Nims June 11, 1967

3.39 Chicago Tribune: "Toward the End of the World," review of Herakles, A Play in Verse, Archibald MacLeish June 25, 1967

3.40 Chicago Tribune: "Promising Was Too Strong a Word," review of Poems Written in Early Youth, T.S. Eliot August 13, 1967

3.41 Poetry: "A Five-Book Shelf": review of Half Sun Half Sleep, Mary Swenson; Excusions: New and Selected Poems, Katherine Hoskins; Buckshee, Ford Madox Ford; This Strangest Everything, John Ciardi; The Collected Shorter Poems, Kenneth Rexroth. December 1967

3.42 The American Scholar: review of The Wind Southerly, Heather Ross Miller Winter 1967-1968

4 Book Reviews 1968-1978 1 box 4.1 Poetry: "Whole and Changing," review of Selected Writings by Charles Olson ed. Robert Creeley March 1968 4.2 The American Scholar: "Nostalgia, Discovery, a New Kind of Being," review of The Savage Mind, Claude Levi Strauss; Ishi in Two Worlds, Theodora Kroeber Summer 1968 4.3 Poetry: "Books That Look Out, Books That Look In": review of Openings, Wendell Berry; The Unblinding, Laurence Lieberman; Awaken, Bells Falling, Lewis Turco; In the Mecca, Gwendolyn Brooks; The Talking Girl, John Thompson; Selected Poems of Rosemary Thomas. March 1969 4.4 The New Orleans Review: Reviews of Summer Love and Surf, Philip Appleman; Eight Poets of Germany & America, ed. Heiner Bastian and George Hitchcock; Once Again, Jean-Francois Bory; Watch Us Pass, Robert Canzoneri; Mr Menu, Louis Garcia; Selected Poems, Yvan Goll; Locations, Jim Harrison; Poems, 1933-67, H.R. Hays; The Unblinding, Laurence Lieberman; The Collected Longer Poems, Kenneth Rexroth; New Heiroglyphic Tales, Edouard Roditi; What the Grass Says, Charles Simic; Driving to Biloxi, Edgar Simmons; Inside the Blood Factory, Diane Wakoski. Spring 1969 4.5 Hudson Review: "At Home on Earth": review essay on Since Silent Spring, Frank Graham; Terracide, Ron M. Linton; Challenge for Survival, ed. Pierre Dansereau; The End of the Twentieth Century, Desmond King-Helle; The Only Earth We Have, Lawrence Pringle; New Lives, New Lanscapes, Nan Fairbrother; Biology and the Future of Man, ed. Philip Handler; America's Changing Environment, ed. Roger Revella and Hans H. Landsberg; Reason Awake, Rene Dubos; The Environmental Revolution, Max Nicholson; The RSVP Cycles, Lawrence Halprin; Design with Nature, Ian L. McHarg Autumn 1970 4.6 English Language Notes: "At Home on Earth": unpublished? review of John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection, ed. by Robert Penn Warren 1971 4.7 The Sunday Star: Review of Other Things and the Aardvark, Eugene McCarthy January 10, 1971 4.8 Ararat: "Finding Home": Review of Homage to Adana, David Kherdian Summer 1971 4.9 PTA Magazine: Review of Earth, Air, Fire, & Water, Frances Manson McCullough 1972 4.10 Criticism: review of William Carlos Williams: The Later Poems, Jerome Mazzaro Spring 1974 4.11 The New York Times Book Review: review of Local Lives, Millen Brand May 18, 1975 4.12 American Literature: review of Poetry and the Common Life, M.L. Rosenthal November 1976 4.13 Journal of Ethnic Studies: unpublished? review of Riding the Earthboy 40, James Welch 1976 4.14 The New York Times Book Review: review of Moon-Whales, and Other Moon Poems, Ted Hughes January 9, 1977 4.15 The Saturday Review: review of The Names of the Lost, Philip Levine September 3, 1977 4.16 American Literature: "Swimming Out of a Fish trap": review of Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Joshn Ashbery, David Kalstone May 1978 4.17 Inquiry: "A Poet with Something to Tell," review of Philip Levine June 26, 1978 4b Book Reviews 1979-1994 1 box 4b.1 Inquiry: "The Glory and the Grief": review of The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver March 1979 4b.2 New York Times Book Review: "The Self-Contained Traveler": review of News from the Glacier, John Haines October 13, 1982 4b.3 Berkeley Poetry Review: Review of Collected Poems, Josephine Miles 1985-1986 4b.4 unpublished?: "A Strange Kind of Stealthy Torque: Self-Review of An Oregon Message, William Stafford 1987 4b.5 Hungry Mind Review: "Human Claims": review of The Freedom of History, Jim Moore Fall 1988 4b.6 Hungry Mind Review: Review of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, ed. Carolyn Forche Winter 1993-1994 4b.7 records for reviews without manuscripts or print copies 1970-1977 5 Stories 1937-2012 1 box 5.1 "Answer, Echoes" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. Two drafts and published text.

 5.2 "The City Behind the Eyes" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.3 "Miss Howard and Beyond Las Vegas" 1937-1941

Written at El Dorado, Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.4 "Interview with a Town" later titled "Three Stories that almost Happened" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. Two drafts.

 5.5 "Moonstone" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.6 "Near is the City of David" 1937-1949

Written in Kansas. Three drafts.

 5.7 "Mr. Right" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.8 "The Osage Orange Tree" 1937-1959

Written in Kansas. Two drafts and photocopy of published text.

 5.9 "Pills Pender" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.10 "A Pint in the Back Booth" 1941

Written in El Dorado, Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.11 "The Shoes" November 19, 1937

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.12 "Two Men" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.13 "The Unknown Region" 1937-1948

Written in Kansas. Two typed drafts.

 5.14 "A Visit to the Delmonico" 1937-1941

Written in Lawrence, Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.15 "What Happened at the Lazy Phil's" 1937-1941

Written in Kansas. One typed draft.

 5.16 "When I Was a Mule" 1937-1952

Written in Kansas. Three drafts.

 5.17 "Wind in the Rigging" 1937-1949

Written in Kansas. Three drafts.

 5.18 "An Evening on Earth" October 17, 1943

Written in Los Prietos. One draft.

 5.19 "So Long, Chimes" 1943-1944

Written in Los Prietos. One draft.

 5.20 "To Remember: Afternoon, 1943" 1943-1944

Written in Los Prietos. One draft.

 5.21 "Jabo and the Root" October 13, 1947

Written in Berkley. One draft.

 5.22 "The Man Who Turned to Salt" 1947-1948

Written in Berkley. One draft.

 5.23 "The Name of the Time is Herod." Earlier versions titled "Our Neighbor, Herod." 1948

Written in Lake Grove, Oregon. One draft.

 5.24 "The Littlest Chicken" 1948-1949

Written at Lake Grove, Oregon. One draft.

 5.25 "Fried Rabbit" 1950-1952

Written at University of Iowa. One draft.

 5.26 "Held Level" later changed to "The Lost Catfish in the Sandy River" 1951-1954

Written at University of Iowa. Five drafts.

 5.27 "Loyalty Check" 1950

Written at University of Iowa. Two drafts.

 5.28 "Mr. Bomb" 1950-1952

Written at University of Iowa. One draft.

 5.29 "The Second-Storey Window" 1952

Written at University of Iowa. One draft.

 5.30 "A Way of Seeing" 1950-1952

Written at University of Iowa. Three drafts.

 5.31 "Sounds Reasonable Enough (Dear Coach Musselman" October 8, 1955

Written in Portland. Photocopy of published version from Harvard Yardage

 5.32 "Recklessly a Friend" 1956-1957

Written at Yaddo. Two drafts.

 5.33 "Robinson Jeffers' Groceryman" and "Joan" 1973

Written in Portland. Published versions of both stories in Northwest Review.

 5.34 Research notes about Stafford stories. 2012

Compiled by Paul Merchant

 6 Talks 1957-1991 1 box 6.1 Introduce Hideo to Chapel November 7, 1957

William Stafford provides an introduction to Hideo Hashimoto speech.

 6.2 Introduction at Lewis and Clark College January 30, 1958 6.3 Oregon Poetry Day Banquet October 15, 1958 6.4 Scripture of Our Time - A Chapel Talk March 1, 1962 6.5 Left Foot Hope, Right Foot Despair June 2, 1963

For the commencement at Lewis and Clark College.

 6.6 Stories the Blow Away September 11, 1963

Speech for Pacific University.

 6.7 To the National Honor Society March 5, 1964

An introduction speech for the National Honor Society, Lake Oswego High School.

 6.8 The Recognition of Discoveries March 19, 1964

For the Convocation at Willamette University.

 6.9 Three Poems September 3, 1964

Three poems for the Lake Oswego teachers; Poems include, Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson, Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevenson, and As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerarel Mantley Hopkins.

 6.10 The Recognition of Discoveries (II) April 1965

Given at the St. Louis CCCC Convention, and Scheduled for publication in the college Composition and Communications Journal.

 6.11 A Whole Wheat Valentine June 1965

For the Commencement at Rippon College.

 6.12 A History of Theory June 1966

Eastern Oregon College Commencement speech.

 6.13 Literature Now June 2, 1966

A lecture for the Civilizations course at Lewis and Clark College.

 6.14 Coming Toward Today June 1966

Commencement speech for Catlin Gabel School, Portland Oregon.

 6.15 It is in the Minds of Men that Peace is Won October 5, 1966

Lake Grove Presbyterian Conference on Viet Nam.

 6.16 Structure in Poetry 1996-1967

Lecture given at Marylhurst University July 1966, University of Nevada, July 1966, and Bozeman Montana, October 1967.

 6.17 The Artist in all of Us February 1967

A statement on art for the Lincoln High School "Symposium" on the "Artist and Society".

 6.18 Critic, Fact, Fiction November 1967

For NCTE national convention, Honolulu Hawaii.

 6.19 A Better Art Inside a Lesson September 1967

For Asilomar seventeenth conference of teachers of English.

 6.20 Hawaii Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference April 6, 1968

A reminder for speakers and presentations.

 6.21 "Humanities and Un-Humanities" 1969

Published with title: "Today's Poets and the Language of Everyday Life." See Stafford Bibliography #F84.

 6.22 Opening Statement - Conference on Poetry and the National Conscience April 1970

University of Maryland.

 6.23 For Chapel at Gustavus Adolphus April 28, 1970

Handwritten draft.

 6.24 Everytime We Graduate May 17, 1970

Commencement speech for Linfield College.

 6.25 Introduction for Kurt Vonnegut at Library of Congress February 1, 1971

Typed draft with handwritten corrections.

 6.26 Introduction for Eugene McCarthy at Library of Congress May 11, 1971

2 Typed drafts.

 6.27 What Happens When You Say or Write a Word? July 1971

Handwritten draft.

 6.28 Following the Golden String ca. 1971

Typed draft with handwritten corrections. Undated speech given while Poetry Consultant at Library of Congress.

 6.29 Poets Speak of the Earth: America the New Eden 1972

TV script for program at "Man and the Land Conference," Oregon State University.

 6.30 The End of a Golden String March 17, 1973

Typed draft with handwritten corrections. Talk given to NCTE, Dallas.

 6.31 Leftovers: A Care Package 1973

1 handwritten draft, 1 typed draft with handwritten corrections, and 1 clean typed copy. Published in a pamplet titled Two Lectures: A Care Package. See Stafford Bibliography #F220.

 6.32 Things to Take Along 1980

Commencement for Evergreen State College.

 6.33 Opening the Lake Oswego Library August 22, 1983

6.34 An Excursion of Thoughts on Reading Anne Sexton September 1985

At Reed College.

 6.35 Oregon House Session April 13, 1987

6.36 Fishtrap 89' 1989

Transcript of a talk by William Stafford given at the Fishtrap writers conference

 6.37 For our Esteemed Companions on the Way June 26, 1989

Transcript of a talk by William Stafford given at the Western Writers' Conference.

 6.38 Making Peace Among the Words March 1990

Keeney Peace Lectureship at Bluffton College.

 6.39 Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Speech June 1990

Includes revisions of "Our Kind", Serving with Gideon", West of Here, "The Gift", and "Advice".

6.40 Accompanying Students toward Poetry September 26, 1991

Speech delivered in Stuttgart, Germany.

 6.41 Mt. Angel College Undated

Announcement for poetry reading at Mt. Angel College by William Stafford and Ralph Salisbury.

 6.42 Lecture Notes Undated

Two undated lecture notes titled; "How Reading is Sustained", and "Why a Poem or Other Art Works Cannot be Built by Pattern or Rule".

6b Workshops and Pageants 1958-1989 1 box 6b.1 Literature and Language in Service Course 1958

A workshop for the Portland Public Schools.

 6b.2 Poetry Making Considered June 26, 1960

Workshop session for the Eugene Writers Conference.

 6b.3 Montana Writers Workshop 1964-1965

Program (1964), publications, programs, Stafford notes, student works, and misc papers for the Missoula Montana writers workshop.

6b.4 University of Utah Writers Conference 1966

Programs, schedules, notes, teaching materials, and misc papers for the 1966 University of Utah Writers Conference.

6b.5 Port Townsend Summer School of the Arts 1966

Workshop program, schedules, notes and misc papers.

 6b.6 Port Townsend Summer School of the Arts 1967

Workshop program, schedules, notes and misc papers.

 6b.7 34th Writers Conference - University of Colorado 1967

Program, schedules, correspondence, notes, teaching materials, and misc papers for the thirty-fourth Writers Conference in the Rocky Mountains, Boulder Colorado.

 6b.8 Poetry in-Service New York Teachers Course 1967

Includes lecture "Where the Words Come From".

 6.9 University of Utah Writers Conference 1970

Notes and teaching materials for the 1970 University of Utah Writers Conference.

 6b.10 Reporting to Crazy Horse UCSC Workshop Santa Cruz 1971

Notes and teaching materials for the UCSC Reporting to Crazy Horse writing workshop.

 6b.11 Haystack Writers Workshop Summer 1989 1989

Handout guide of poets and writers. Contains W.S. poems "Not Marble nor the Guild's Monuments", and from one of Jim Heynen's "Ways to Start Writing".

 6b.12 Miscellaneous programs for conferences and workshops Undated 6b.13 Miscellaneous notes from workshops, talks, etc. Undated 6b.14 "Towards this Day" CBYF National Youth Conference 1954

Script for the CBYF National Youth Conference pageant.

 6b.15 "Alters of Faith" KATU Christmas Special 1963

Outline and script for the KATU Christmas special pageant.

 6b.16 KGW Christmas Program 1966

Program materials for KGW Christmas program pageant.

 6b.17 Research notes about Stafford prose 2012

Compiled by Paul Merchant.

 7 Essays 1947-1985 1 box 7.1 "Are You Sure You Want To Teach?" 1947

California Journal of Secondary Education.

 7.2 "War Trial" 1950

Three typescripts.

 7.3 "Religious Perspectives in Teaching English Literature" 1950

A comment on Mr. Hoxie Fairchild's, Hazen pamphlet.

 7.4 "The Proof and Echo of All Human Fame" ca. 1950

Typed (2-page) essay about Alfred Tennyson with hand-written correction.

7.5 "Winterward" an Abstract 1954

Intro to Ph.D. dissertation Winterward.

 7.6 "The Spontaneity Theme" 1954

Subtitled "Mutually Reinforcing Passages in Wordsworth, Newman, and Arnold"

 7.7 "The Negotiable Poem" 1960

In Approach journal.

 7.8 "I am a Pacifist" 1960

A discussion on war.

 7.9 "Fiction Versus the Lie" 1961

A search for identities in Carlyle and Wordsworth - Particularly as related to The France Revolution and "The Convention of Cintra".

 7.10 "How to Keep from Being Overwhelmed by Your Appreciation of Poetry" January 1962

The Journal, Lewis and Clark College.

 7.11 "Writing the Australian Crawl" 1963

Read at NCTE convention 1963, Published in NCTE's CCC journal 1964.

 7.12 "The Poet on Campus" 1963

For Writers Digest, Spring 1964.

 7.13 "No Answer to this Day" 1963

7.15 "The Convent Threshold" 1964

7.15 "A Send-Off" 1964

For the Grand Ronde Review.

 7.16 "Composition as Art" February 1964

A prose statement for the back cover of College Composition and Communication. This publication is listed in the Stafford bibliography #E297, but the entry lacks a description for this statement.

 7.17 "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "The Convent Threshold" 1964

For Pocketbook publishers.

 7.18 "New Perimeters: Poets on the Early Warning Line" 1965

7.19 "Scripture: The Boundary of Literature" 1965

7.20 "In the Funhouse Mirror" 1965

Satire Newsletter, State University College N.Y.

 7.21 "A Few Easy Lessons" 1965

An essay including "Seventy Dollars an Hour", "You are on Trial at School", "Parents and the First Day of School", "What is a Current Event", and "Soliloquy at a Writing School".

7.22 "A Poets Voice: An Approach Through Peace" 1965

A statement on "How does a poem mean" for the Vanguard, Portland State University.

7.23 "Om a Statement of Sympathy foe Civil Rights Workers" 1965 7.24 "A Statement About Fifteen" 1966

Poems for young readers, 56th Annual NCTE Convention.

 7.25 "What Roethke Gave" and "Roethke's Way" 1966

7.26 "Start with the Little Things" 1966

For Camp Fire Girl magazine.

 7.27 "Where the Words Come From" 1966

7.28 Tennessee Poetry Journal Statement 1967

7.29 "Poetry and Music: Some Reflections on the Muse" 1967

For Music Teacher at Corvallis, Oregon.

 7.30 "Finding the Language" 1967

Submitted for Steins book on Fall reads.

 7.31 "Every Syllable Can Vote" 1967

Essay following "Finding the Language".

 7.32 "A Little Statement About Art: The Importance of the Trivial" 1967

Prose statement with copy of correspondence to David Green.

 7.33 "Poems, Traditional and Modern" 1967

7.34 "These Poems" 1968

Introduction by William Stafford for Earle Birney's "Memory No Servants: Poems 1947-1967".

7.35 "Lit Instructor: Why it Matters' 1968

7.36 "Today's Poets and Everyday language" 1968 7.37 "Poems and a Statement" about "Traveling through the Dark" 1968

Published. See Stafford bibliography #s F76 and A75.

 7.38 "Brother Antoninus, (William O. Everson)" 1969

For St. James Press, "Contemporary Poets of the English Language".

 7.39 "On May Swenson" 1969

For St. James Press.

 7.40 "A Way of Writing" 1969

For Field: Contemporary Poetry and Politics.

 7.41 "The College Bookman" 1970

For Harper & Row Publishers.

 7.42 "A Witness for Robert Penn Warren" 1970 7.43 Drafts of official Library of Congress Consultant's reports circa 1971

Includes notes on guests and readers at LOC.

 7.44 "Getting Our Language Back" circa 1974 7.45 "The Terror in Robert Frost" 1974

For New York Times magazine, August 18, 1974

 7.46 "Assumptions About Literature Classes" 1976

Seattle NCTE

 7.47 "A Report on a College Party: 5 November 1976" November 5, 1976

Unpublished typed copy with handwritten notes.

 7.48 "Ten Little Questions" 1976

Typed draft of essay sent to Agenda.

 7.49 "The Minuet: Sidling Around Student Poems" 1976

Typed draft and correspondence for essay published by Field. See Stafford bibliography items #s E989 and F370.

 7.50 "A Way of Writing" circa 1977

Early draft with handwritten notes.

 7.51 "Whose Tradition" circa 1978

One clean typed copy and two typed versions with handwritten edits. First published in Writing the Australian Crawl. See Stafford bibliography #s A30 and F346.

 7.52 "The Kids Dance" 1979

Typed draft and copy of letter to Gary Young. Published in The Heart of Knowing (F352).

 7.53 "Staying Carefully Ignorant" 1982

For The Writer Feb. 1982. Essay includes "The Writers Vocation" using selections from "Writing the Australian Crawl".

 7.54 "In Memorium of Richard Hugo" 1982

For The Weekly Seattle, Nov. 10, 1982

 7.55 "A New Portfolio of Poems" 1983

Introduced and selected by William Stafford for World Order quarterly, Vol. 17, no. 4.

 7.56 "A Priest of the Imagination" 1983

For the ADE Bulletin no. 76, Winter 1983.

 7.57 "A Side Glance at History" 1984

For The Bench Press.

 7.58 How to Eat Loaches, by Yorifum Yaguchi 1984

Book and manuscript. Note by William Stafford.

 7.59 "The World and Yellow Cars" 1985 7.60 "Exploring the Wild, Surprising World of Poetry" 1985

For Learning Magazine, Jan. 1985.

 7.61 "Some Qualms about Excellence" 1985

8 Essays 1986-1993 1 box 8.1 Russ Roberts' Book - Introduction 1986

Introduction by William Stafford.

 8.2 "William Stafford, 1914-" 1986

Autobiographical essay. Correspondence and drafts.

 8.3 "Inner Journeys, Outer Balances" 1986

Afterword to James DePreist's This Precipice Garden. Drafts.

 8.4 "Jumping Into the Daylight" April 1986

8.5 "How it Feels to Write Poetry Today" circa 1986

Including the poem "Waiting for the Poem to Come".

 8.6 "Hitchhiking Toward Jeffers" 1986

For American Poetry.

 8.7 "Soul Food" 1987

Essay published with title, "The Writers Compass" for The Writer, Sept. 1987. Drafts and correspondence.

 8.8 "Hunting for Gold in a Manuscript" 1987

For The Phoenix magazine, Clark College, WA.

 8.9 "Iowa, Snodgrass, Heart's Needle" 1988

For Ford-Brown and Co. Publishers. On the Poet W.D. Snodgrass.

 8.10 "Larger than the World" 1988

Introduction for Fr. Jeremy's book of poems.

 8.11 "What Happened at Port Angeles" 1988

On Raymond Carver for Washington Magazine, Published as "Suddenly Everything Became Clear to Him: Writer Raymond Carver Turned College Life into Art".

 8.12 "Making Best Use of a Workshop" 1988

For The Writer, April 1988

 8.13 "Learning One's Place in the Family" 1988

8.14 "An Artist's Anguish" circa 1989

In response to "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano and the NEA/ACLU conflict.

 8.15 "Of All Forms of Literature Poetry Suffers First from Pollution" 1989

Published without title in Hungry Mind Review (E1583). Correspondence and typed draft.

 8.16 "Eighth Grade Art" 1990

For The Hungry Mind Review, July 1990.

 8.17 "Months with R's in them" 1990

For New York Times Magazine, Oct. 21, 1990. Published in the article "The Oyster at its Best".

 8.18 "Reaching Into the Well" 1990

Includes the poem "Why the Sun Comes Up".

 8.19 "Being Tough, Being Gentle" 1991

For The Writer, May 1991.

 8.20 "A Guide for Modern Teachers of Creative Writing" 1991

Open letter in response to Stephen Minot's critique of Stafford's comments in an interview with Claire Cooperstein. Published in Poets & Writers Sept/Oct. 1991. See E1637, E1678, and H310.

 8.21 "Just a Good Read" 1991

Essay for Miller Williams and the Poetry of the Particular. See F555.

 8.22 "Robert Bly's Working-with-Things Project" 1991

In response to the Bly's Fest event

 8.23 "Available to the World" 1991

Correspondence and drafts. Published; see F586.

 8.24 Introduction to Some Other Morning by Jeremy Driscoll 1992

Typed draft.

 8.25 "The Writing of Bess" 1992

Typed draft and correspondence. Published in Writer's Digest.

 8.26 "Approach with Caution" 1993

Typed draft and correspondence. See A57b.

 8.27 "Sometimes, Reading" 1993

Typed draft. Submitted to Ohio Review. See A75 and F681.

 8.28 "Listening, Sniffing, Inhaling a Student's Work" 1993

Unpublished? essay sent to University of Texas at San Antonio.

 8.29 "Not a Speech" Undated

Essay including the poem "With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach" published in Sponsa Regis, later called Women Today, and the poem "Lit Instructor".

 8.30 "Improving Your Dreams" Undated

For a poem and essay labeled "A Course in Creative Writing, from A Glass Face in the Rain.

 8.31 "A Sign from one of the Islands" Undated

To Washburn Press.

 8.32 "A Gesture Towards an Unfound Renaissance" Undated

8.33 "The Writer and His Beliefs - An Excursion" Undated

8.34 "Teaching 'Edited English'" Undated

unpublished? essay. Typed drafts with handwritten corrections

 8.35 Untitled prose, "Think of the writers who broke into individuality..." Undated

unidentified fragment.