American poetry -- Texas

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.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Forty-eight document boxes and seven oversized boxes containing drafts, diaries and notebooks, photographic material, correspondence, and published material document the working life of poet, writer, and educator Naomi Shihab Nye (1952-). The collection has been arranged into seven series: Series I: Personal and Biographical; Series II: Works; Series III: Correspondence; Series IV: Instruction; Series V: Appearances and Awards; Series VI: Writings on Nye; and Series VII: Works by Others....

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.

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.

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: 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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Includes a translated letter from Yasir Arafat, and letters from Bonazzi and Merwin about the manuscript for Shihab’s memoir Does the Land Remember Me?, and Bonazzi’s review of the book in the San Antonio Express-News.

Scope and Contents “Baby,” “Baby,” “Bad Moon,” “Back in the City of My Birth (St. Louis, March 22, 1973),” “Bangalore,” “Because of poems,” “Bed,” “The Bells, Longview, Texas 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 1974,” “Beyond All This,” “Beyond This World There Are Twenty Other Worlds,” “Bingo!,” “Bir Zeit, Palestine,” “Birthday - for Jack Kerouac,” “Birthday," “The Blanco Cafe Burning,” “Blanket of bygones is too heavy for this season,” “Blessings on our Early Minds,” “Blood,” “Blood on All Your Shirts,” “The Body in the...

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Bachman, John. Baer, Zet. Baker, Kathy. Barghouti, Omar. Barakat, Ibtisam Suleiman. Barbee, Lynne (Journal of Palestine Studies). Barks, Coleman (University of Georgia). Bass, Ellen. Bass, Rick. Bedway, Barbara. Bekoff, Marc (University of Colorado-Boulder). Bell, Marvin. Belul, Sherry R. Ben-Israel, Yael. Benedikt, Michael (The New Yorker). Benka, Jennifer (Academy of American Poets). Bennett, John (Vagabond Press). Berger, Barbara. Berger, Margi. Berryhill, Michael.

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....

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...

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Correspondence and poems by Abu Zafar Obaidullah, Farhad Mazhar, Humayun Azad, Humayun Kabir, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Rafiq Azad, Al Mahmud. Preface and contributor's notes.

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The bulk of the series is composed of correspondence between Naomi Shihab Nye and her parents, Aziz and Miriam Shihab. Also contains correspondence from Nye’s husband, Michael Nye, and their son, Madison Cloudfeather Nye. Correspondents also include Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Allwardt (Miriam Nye’s parents), Nina and Paul Nye (Michael Nye’s parents), Ellen R. Fehr, a cousin, and Nye’s brother Adlai and his wife Janis.

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Yellow Brick Road

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.

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.

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Program and DVD

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....

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.

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.