American poetry -- Texas

Scope and Contents From the Series: Personal and Biographical materials contain legal, family, and biographical materials, and photographic materials. Legal documents include contracts and copyright papers for very early works and songs, library card, vaccinations and passport. Biographical material includes multiple vitas, online biographies and publication lists, and school and family documents. Of note is a college reunion questionnaire and a Guggenheim application with reference letter from Charles Busch. Photographs many...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Personal papers of author James Crumley. These items were collected from his home and reflect Crumley’s professional writing career and personal life. This collection includes multiple drafts of Crumley’s screenplays and novels, international translations, and publicity; some writings by other authors; drawings and work by Crumley’s first wife, Martha Elizabeth; correspondence; a sampling of documents that reflect his medical and financial history; reviews; publicity; photographs; office...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Personal and Biographical materials contain legal, family, and biographical materials, and photographic materials. Legal documents include contracts and copyright papers for very early works and songs, library card, vaccinations and passport. Biographical material includes multiple vitas, online biographies and publication lists, and school and family documents. Of note is a college reunion questionnaire and a Guggenheim application with reference letter from Charles Busch. Photographs many...

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Writing prompts and descriptions, poem draft "My Body is a Mystery." 42 pages.

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"Clean Slate," New York Times

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With annotations.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The largest series by far is Works. Subseries include Diaries, Notebooks, Appointment Books, Artwork, Early Work, Music, Poems, Monographs-Poetry, Monographs-Edited Poetry, Monographs-Prose, Editor Correspondence, Short Stories, Essays, Publications, Artbooks, Broadsides, and Talks.Diaries and Notebooks are arranged chronologically and include diary entries starting at age eight, and ideas and drafts for poems and longer writings. Individual works are noted where possible....

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Included within the collection are correspondence; photos of Cook through the years starting from childhood; Cook’s poetry during grade school; and a Robbers TV pitch. Box 2853 is Restricted until 2025. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Cook’s original descriptions.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Instruction Series documents Nye’s considerable teaching work for twelve years in public schools across Texas as part of the Texas Commission on the Arts Writers in the Schools Programs, and in other parts of the United States and particularly the Arabic-speaking world. The bulk of the materials consists of student poems, collected into photocopied or mimeographed publications, many from San Antonio Independent School District schools. Also included are single poems and songs, and...

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2 audio CDs and correspondence from Slomovits

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Included within the collection are correspondence; photos of Cook through the years starting from childhood; Cook’s poetry during grade school; and a Robbers TV pitch. Box 2853 is Restricted until 2025. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Cook’s original descriptions.

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"Rain," Communities. "The Round Window Waits with its Eye Half Open," "Quiet of the Mind," "So There," "Concrete," ¡Tex! "The Traveling Onion," and Interview with Michael and Naomi Shihab Nye, Forum.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Works by Others include musical and theatrical adaptations of Nye’s works, Artist Files compiled by Shihab Nye, and Collected and Received materials. Artist Files include clippings on Ashley Bryan, who illustrated Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets. Artist Files also include drafts, clippings, publications, correspondence, and other materials by Texas writers Roberto Bonazzi, Sandra Cisneros, Albert Huffstickler, Jack Myers, John Phillip Santos, and San Antonio politician Maury...

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Journals and magazines containing poems or prose by Nye. Also includes poetry edited by Nye and an interview. Incomplete runs of Cedar Rock and Organica, containing poetry and edited poetry. Arranged chronologically.

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Journals and magazines containing poems or prose by Nye. Also includes poetry edited by Nye and an interview. Incomplete runs of Cedar Rock and Organica, containing poetry and edited poetry. Arranged chronologically.

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Journals and magazines containing poems or prose by Nye. Also includes poetry edited by Nye and an interview. Incomplete runs of Cedar Rock and Organica, containing poetry and edited poetry. Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Journals and magazines containing poems or prose by Nye. Also includes poetry edited by Nye and an interview. Incomplete runs of Cedar Rock and Organica, containing poetry and edited poetry. Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents Annotated poems, "The Little Things Which Keep us Alive," "The Violin Teacher," "Lunch With the Cousins," "The Surgeon," "Bad Days," "She Sits in the Living Room," "Four Late Songs," "The World's Largest Pecan," "Kansas," "What the Indian is Looking At," "Man with a Clarinet," "Girl on the Rock, Galveston, Texas," "Roller-skating in 1976," "For Thomas Wolfe, If He'll Take It," "My Father and the Fig Tree," "Days Like This," "How Arabs Have Babies," "The Worst Agony is You Driving Away,"...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Personal and Biographical materials contain legal, family, and biographical materials, and photographic materials. Legal documents include contracts and copyright papers for very early works and songs, library card, vaccinations and passport. Biographical material includes multiple vitas, online biographies and publication lists, and school and family documents. Of note is a college reunion questionnaire and a Guggenheim application with reference letter from Charles Busch. Photographs many...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Included within the collection are correspondence; photos of Cook through the years starting from childhood; Cook’s poetry during grade school; and a Robbers TV pitch. Box 2853 is Restricted until 2025. The folder titles preceding a semicolon reflect Cook’s original descriptions.