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Poetry

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3363 Collections and/or Records:

Check Registers, 1964 - 1974

 Sub-Series — Box 36, Folder: 8-9
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Check registers, bank statements, tax receipts and notes comprise one-half of this subseries. The second half includes financial notes and notebooks maintained by R. G. Vliet, which document expenditures relating to research and writing and may have been tax deductible.

Dates: 1964 - 1974

Check Registers, 1975 - 1985

 Sub-Series — Box 37, Folder: 1-2
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Check registers, bank statements, tax receipts and notes comprise one-half of this subseries. The second half includes financial notes and notebooks maintained by R. G. Vliet, which document expenditures relating to research and writing and may have been tax deductible.

Dates: 1975 - 1985

Chesapeake High School

 File — Box 246, Folder: 14
Series Description From the Series: Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates: 1995

[Chicago], 1990s

 File — Box 178, Folder: 6
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Sandra with mom, brother, and Terry Ybañez (27 photographs)

Dates: 1990s

[Chicago], circa 2001

 File — Box 204, Folder: 5
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Family gathering, Subjects include Elvira Cordero Anguiano (19 photographs)

Dates: circa 2001

[Chicago], “1969 photos and earlier”

 File — Box 171, Folder: 1
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Subjects include Estelita (cousin) Beamonte Cisneros (cousin), Enrique Cisneros (grandfather), Margaret Lopez (aunt on mother’s side), Arnando, Arthur, Carlos, Uncle Frankie, Kiki, Aunt Lily (Enlalia), Mario, Rita, Grandmother Trinidad. (8 photographs)

Dates: “1969 photos and earlier”

Chicago, 1970s

 File — Box 171, Folder: 5
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"Me at lakefront” (3 photographs)

Dates: 1970s

Chicago, 1976

 File — Box 171, Folder: 10
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Subjects include Keeler House, Richie Aguilar (cousin), Dennis Mathis, Kevin Mihogue. (3 photographs)

Dates: 1976

Chicago, early 1980s

 File — Box 171, Folder: 13
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“Licha and me.” Cousin Phyllis Lopez (Licha) as a teen, “Like a sister to me. Daughter of Margaret, my mother’s youngest sister.” (5 photographs)

Dates: early 1980s

Chicago, 1982

 File — Box 171, Folder: 14
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“Good-bye Chicago, May 1982, gin and tonic picnic.” (80 photographs) Emergency Taco group (butts). Photo of Richard Devries the “crazy anarchist,” Welsh carpenter, faculty trying to get students to join the union [man with mustache]. “One of the great loves of my life, along with Ruben.” Photos of little girls in Pilsen taken by SC. Sepia photo Carlos Cumpian, Raul Nino, Carlos Cortez, Margarita Lopez Flores

Dates: 1982

“Chicago,” 7 typed pages, corrected with grader’s Comments

 File — Box 42, Folder: 5
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series: Early poems span 1971-1986 and are arranged alphabetically. Many were originally housed in two black binders. The first binder contents are in folders 1-51 and were from Cisneros’ time at The University of Iowa. The second binder is in folder 53 and contains early poems, many later published in My Wicked Wicked Ways. Additional early poems not originally housed in one of the two binders are listed alphabetically and include high school poems. Also included are titles with numerous...
Dates: 1971 - 1985

“Chicago After Europe”, 1983

 File — Box 173, Folder: 7
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Subjects include Carlos Cortez, Carlos Cumpian, Ted Dvoracek, Cindy Gallagher, Jasna Karaula, Raúl Niño, Aleksandra, Beatriz, Frankie (uncle), Licha (cousin), Pilaris, Suzy (cousin). (71 photographs)

Dates: 1983

Chicago and Greece. Drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street. Includes drawings of animals. Approximately 40 pages. Black “University” composition book, 1982

 File — Box 16, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: Notebooks and Journals span 1979-2012 and often overlap with the items in series III: Diaries. They include notes, story ideas, lists, addresses, and a number of other jottings by Cisneros. Some notable entries include notes and quotes concerning what poetry is while she was working as a counselor at Loyola University in Chicago in 1981; drafts and notes for poems and for The House on Mango Street in 1982; a list of stories for Mango Street in 1983; and notes from 1987 which Cisneros titled”...
Dates: 1982

Chicago, Guild Books reading from House on Mango Street Carlos Cortez in corner. Photograph by Raul Niño, 1983

 Item — Box 161, Folder: 7
Subseries Description From the Sub-Series:

Portraits are formal, posed photographs of Cisneros, and are arranged chronologically. Photographers include her brother, Henry (Kiki) Cisneros, Joan Frederick, Alexandro Galindo, Ruben Guzman, Armando Rascón, Al Rendon, and Diana Solís, among others. Also included are a number of portraits of Cisneros with others, notably with her mother in 1998, and Gertrude Baker, Ruben Guzman, Denise Chavez, Jasna Karaula, and Emma Tenayuca.

Dates: 1983

Chicago, IL class stories based on The House on Mango Street

 File — Box 257, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: Reader Correspondence, 1990-2013, is arranged chronologically. Each year is separated into letters from individuals and letters from classes. The individual letters are typical fan letters and document the effect her writing has had on her readers. The class letters are often packets sent by teachers containing letters from students who have read her works in class, and sometimes thank-you letters from students whose class Cisneros visited. When known, the school name is included in the...
Dates: 2006

Chicago MacArthur and family, circa 1998

 File — Box 192, Folder: 5
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Subjects include Elvira Cordero Anguiano and others (24 photographs)

Dates: circa 1998

“Chicago – MacArturos Reunion” Chicago, 1997

 File — Box 189, Folder: 2
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Subjects include Curandero and others (19 photographs)

Dates: 1997

“Chicago to Albuquerque”, 1992

 File — Box 183, Folder: 6
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Subjects include Licha, Julie, Mama, [Mando] (47 photographs)

Dates: 1992

“Chicago trip mother’s house", 2002

 File — Box 209, Folder: 2
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Subjects include Elvira Cordero Anguiano, Diana Solis, Carlos, Lindy. (22 photographs)

Dates: 2002

“Chicago visit at my mother’s”, 2002

 File — Box 209, Folder: 1
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Subjects include [Cesar Albert], Elvira Cordero Anguiano, Jorge (uncle). (30 photographs)

Dates: 2002