Rosemary Catacalos Accessions
Scope and Contents
Materials in this collection pertaining to Catacalos’s personal life include Catacalos’s birth certificate, school records, early childhood artwork, genealogical records pertaining to the Catacalos, Peñaloza and Ferreyro families, family correspondence, audio interviews with family members, photographs, personal journals, newspaper clippings and ephemera.
Materials pertaining to Catacalos’s literary career include press clippings, early newspaper columns and published works, photographs, correspondence and business records pertaining to her various posts (including SAISD Poetry in Schools, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Literature Program and Gemini Ink), teaching, poetry submissions and permissions, teaching notes, business accounting ledgers, notebooks and journals, handmade chapbooks and art books, VHS tapes, conference and event programs, artwork, ephemera and artifacts including Catacalos’s Rolodex and a lock of her hair. Backlog includes 113 books, magazines, journals and periodicals.
Folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Rosemary Catacalos’s original titles.
Dates
- 1892-2022
Creator
- Catacalos, Rosemary (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials from the Wittliff Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user assumes responsibility for determining copyright status, obtaining permission to publish, and abiding by U.S. copyright laws. https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/visit/policies/publication.html
Biographical Notes
Archival materials received from San Antonio, Texas poet, Rosemary Catacalos (1944-2022). Rosemary Catacalos was named the Poet Laureate of Texas (2013-2014), becoming the first Latina named to the post. In addition, Catacalos earned NEA, Stanford University Wallace Stegner Creative Writing (1989-1991) and Dobie-Paisano (1986) fellowships, and received the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize (1985) for Again for the First Time. She was the Poet-In-Residence/Poetry In Schools Program for the San Antonio Independent School Districts (1970s, 1980s), and was Director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s literature program (1986-1989), the Executive Director of the San Francisco Poetry Center and American Poetry Archive (1991-1996), affiliated scholar at the Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and was the first recipient of Gemini Ink’s Literary Excellence Award where she was appointed Director in 2003. Materials in this collection date 1892-2022 and document Catacalos’s personal life and literary career.
Extent
5.5 Linear Feet
11 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- The descriptive data created for this finding aid is licensed under the CC0 Creative Commons license and is free for use without restriction.
Abstract
Materials in this collection date 1892-2022 and document Catacalos’s personal life and literary career.
Physical Location
Materials may be stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use: https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/makearesearchappointment.html.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Rosemary Catacalos Estate, 2024.
- Title
- Guide to the Rosemary Catacalos Accessions.
- Author
- Sherri Turner-Herrmann
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2025: Revised for ArchivesSpace by Fiona Zupke.
Repository Details
Part of the The Wittliff Collections Repository
