Finding Aid to the David Meltzer papers BANC MSS 2003/256 c
Marjorie Bryer
The Bancroft Library
2022
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: David Meltzer papers
Creator:
Meltzer, David
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2003/256 c
Physical Description:
64 Linear Feet
(48 cartons, 1 oversize box, 11 oversize folders)
Physical Description:
xx gigabytes
1 laptop, 1 hard drive, 11 CDs, 4 DVDs, and 54 floppy disks
Date (inclusive): 1885-2017, bulk, 1936-2017
Abstract: This collection documents the personal and professional life of Jewish-American musician, poet, and teacher David Meltzer.
His papers also document over 50 years of literary and artistic life in the Bay Area and beyond, Meltzer's expertise as a
scholar of Kabbalah, and the Humanities and Poetics programs at New College of California. The collection includes correspondence
with poets and writers from a variety of literary movements; manuscripts by Meltzer and his writer friends; materials related
to the small press world, Jewish-American poetry, and Jewish mysticism/Kabbalah; teaching materials from his tenure at New
College and his prison writing workshops; Meltzer's research and writings on music, particularly jazz, and records of his
career as a musician and music critic. There are materials related to his wife, musician and artist Tina Meltzer, and their
children, as well as other biographical and personal records, literary ephemera that spans nearly 60 years, and a small amount
of audiovisual material.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English, Hebrew, with some Yiddish.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Accruals
No future additions are expected.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The David Meltzer papers were purchased by The Bancroft Library between 2003 and 2018.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternative forms of this collection.
Biography
David Meltzer was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. Leon David Meltzer
was born in 1937 in Rochester, New York to musician parents and raised in Brooklyn, Rockville, NY, and Los Angeles. Meltzer
moved to San Francisco in 1957 and became part of a circle of writers that included Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. He was
also a key figure in the small press scene in California in the 1960s and 1970s, and a scholar of Judaica and Kabbalah. He
founded the journal Tree and the publishing enterprise Tree Books in the 1970s and was well known as a music writer and critic.
Meltzer formed a duo with his wife Tina, and the two were also in the bands bands The Serpent Power, and MIX. Meltzer wrote
more than 50 books of poetry and prose, and edited many anthologies and collections of interviews, publishing most of them
with small presses, such as City Lights and Oyez. He was a beloved teacher and mentor and taught poetry and humanities at
the New College of California in San Francisco for nearly 30 years. Meltzer died at his home in Oakland in 2016.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], David Meltzer papers, BANC MSS 2003/256c,The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Marjorie Bryer and Christina Velazquez Fidler in 2022.
Related Collections
David Meltzer correspondence and typescripts (BANC MSS 2005/201)
Stan Brakhage letters to David Meltzer (BANC MSS 2018/106)
David Meltzer papers (University Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis, WTU00081)
Meltzer mss., 1954-1974 (Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, LMC 1837)
Letters, 1969-1970 (Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Meltzer mss. II)
David Meltzer papers 1956-1977 (Merrill-Cazier Special Collections, Utah State University, COLL MSS 526)
David Meltzer reading in the UCSD New Poetry Series : Wednesday, March 2, 1977 (Archive for New Poetry, University of California,
San Diego, SPL-57)
Song : signed typescript, [196-] (Archive for New Poetry, University of California, San Diego, MSS-352)
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection documents the personal and professional life of Jewish-American musician, poet, and teacher David Meltzer.
His papers also document over 50 years of literary and artistic life in the Bay Area and beyond, Meltzer's expertise as a
scholar of Kabbalah, and the Humanities and Poetics programs at New College of California. The collection includes correspondence
with poets and writers from a variety of literary movements; manuscripts by Meltzer and his writer friends; materials related
to the small press world, Jewish-American poetry, and Jewish mysticism/Kabbalah; teaching materials from his tenure at New
College and his prison writing workshops; Meltzer's research and writings on music, particularly jazz, and records of his
career as a musician and music critic. There are materials related to his wife, musician and artist Tina Meltzer, and their
children, as well as other biographical and personal records, literary ephemera that spans nearly 60 years, and a small amount
of audiovisual material.
The collection has been divided into 10 series: Correspondence/Writer Files; Writings; Tree, Judaica, Kabbalah; New College
of California; Prison Teaching, Workshops, and Poetry Anthologies; Music; Tina Meltzer; Biographical Materials and Personalia;
Literary Ephemera; and Audiovisual Materials.
Contents of folders were kept intact and original folder titles were retained. Please note that there is overlap between the
series. This reflects the fact that the boundaries between the different parts of Meltzer's life and work – especially his
writing, teaching, and music – overlapped and bled into one another.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to audio-visual materials may be restricted due to technical limitations.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Meltzer, David -- Archives.
Meltzer, David -- Correspondence.
Poets, American -- California -- 20th century
Poets as teachers -- California -- San Francisco.
American poetry -- California -- San Francisco.
Authors, American--California--20th century
Beats (Persons)
Beat generation--California.
Jewish poetry.
Authors and publishers -- California.
New College of California -- Faculty.
Poetry -- Study and teaching.
Serpent Power (Musical group)
Manuscripts for publication
Poems -- California -- 20th century.
Notebooks.
Series 1.
Correspondence/Writer Files
1953-2016
Physical Description: Cartons 1-19; Carton 20, folders 1-25; Carton 21, folders 1-24; Oversize Folders 2, 5-8, 10
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization. A small amount of email from unidentied correspondents is arranged
chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of Meltzer's correspondence with contemporary poets; scholars of Judaica; writer friends - many of whom
he collaborated with; publishers and colleagues in professional organizations; and his students at New College of California.
The is a small amount of outgoing mail, but his correspondence is primarily incoming, and is personal and professional. There
are letters and email. Some correspondence is addressed to both David and Tina. Files for individuals and organizations may
also include manuscripts, typescripts, poetry, art, writing assignments, MFA theses, and subject file material. There are
also some broadsides. Writers often sent Meltzer chapbooks or other publications; these have been transferred to Acquisitions
for cataloging, but drafts and related correspondence can be found in this series. Please note that there is correspondence
in other series.
carton 1, folder 1
Abrams, Sam, includes American Renaissance Criminals and Other Poems
approximately 2003-2010
carton 1, folder 2
Ainsworth, Edward
1995-1998
carton 1 , folder 3
Alaoui, Youssef, includes Arabesques and Other Texts, Poems
2001, undated
carton 1, folder 4
Albers, Missy
1972-1976, undated
carton 1 , folder 5
Alcalay, Ammiel/Lost and Found
approximately 2001-2004
carton 1, folder 6-10
Alexander, Robert (Baza) and Anita/Temple of Man, includes an Interview with Robert Alexander
1961-2010
carton 1 , folder 11
Allen, Don, includes We Are the Ancestors
1975-1997
carton 1, folder 12-13
Armistead, Annie Laurie, includes Poetry, and Max Jacob Translations
approximately 1989
carton 1 , folder 14
Auster, Paul
approximately 1974
carton 1, folder 15-16
Avital, Samuel/Le Centre du Silence/Phil Smith
approximately 1973-1985
carton 1 , folder 17-18
"A"
approximately 1974-2006
carton 1, folder 19-20
Ballard, Micah, includes M.A. Thesis, Administrative and Personal Correspondence
approximately 1999-2014
carton 1 , folder 21
Ballentine Books/George Young/George Walsh (Birth, The San Francisco Poets)
approximately 1973-1975
carton 1, folder 22
The Bancroft Library, includes Coyote Suitcase, Symposium on Ferlinghetti, City Lights, and the Beats in San Francisco
1996-2003
carton 1 , folder 23
Baraka, Amiri, includes Newark Influence/Somebody Blew Up America/Proposal to Create a Razor
1998-2003
carton 1, folder 24-25
Baron, Todd, includes Eye, [Chain Letter]
1986-2003
carton 1 , folder 26-27
Barrish, Keith, The Vindicators
1982
carton 1, folder 28
Baxter, Glen
approximately 1985-2002
carton 1 , folder 29
Beausoleil, Beau, includes Poetry
1977-1984
carton 1 , folder 30
Beckett, Larry, includes Typescript
carton 1 , folder 31-36
Before Columbus Foundation (BCF)
1977-2000
Scope and Content Note
Meltzer was a founding member of the Foundation. Materials and files in Cartons 1-2 include correspondence, writings, BCF
in Manhattan, American Book Awards, board meetings, annual reports, catalog/anthology II, BCF review, multiculturalism, Gundars
Strads
carton 2, folder 1-9
Before Columbus Foundation
1984-2003
Scope and Content Note
See scope note for Carton 1
carton 2, folder 10
Benamou, Michel
approximately 1977
carton 2, folder 11
Bentley, Wilder
1989-1991
carton 2, folder 12-15
Benveniste, Asa and Pip
1968-2004
carton 2, folder 16
Berg, Peter (Bioregionalist, Planet Drum Foundation)
1976-1986
carton 2, folder 17
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) - Brakhage, Broughton, Maclaine, Radical Light
2010
carton 2, folder 18-20
Berkson, Bill
approximately 1975-2016
carton 2, folder 21
Berman, Tosh/Tam Tam Books
1996-2004
carton 2, folder 22
Biala, Arlene, Continental Drift
1996
carton 2, folder 23-26
Birnbaum, Noam, includes Manuscript [Thesis?]
1999-2003
carton 2, folder 28-32
Black Sparrow Press/John Martin/David Godine Publisher, Inc., includes Contracts
1969-2008
carton 2, folder 33
Bontaites, Carmella, MA Thesis
2001
carton 2, folder 35-36
Bradwell, Robert, and W.E. "Dutch" Haley, Night-Hunter, a Novel
carton 2, folder 38-40
Brakhage, Jane and Stan, includes Goodbye to Barbara, Chris MacLaine, Bird Journal
1967-1988
carton 3, folder 1-9
Brandi, John
1970-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes Hiding Behind Open Doors and other manuscript materials; The Sky House (art); photographs; materials from Brandi
and Renée Gregorio
carton 3, folder 10
Brandon House (The Agency)
1967-1972
carton 3, folder 11-16
Briggs, Robert and Diana/Robert Briggs Associates, includes Ruined Time
1973-2003
carton 3, folder 18-25
Brook, James
1989-2016
Scope and Content Note
Brook was an editor at City Light. Includes his work as translator of poems by Victor Serge; material related to San Francisco
Beat; his Senior Thesis from the Weekend BA Completion Program, New College of California [translations of Benjamin Péret];
and his MFA Thesis from San Francisco State University
carton 19, folder 21-38
Buck, Marilyn
1990-2010
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, essays, and poetry by political prisoner, educator, and poet Marilyn Buck (1947-2010). Includes manuscripts;
ephemera; New College assignments, practicum presentation, and MA Thesis; poems and publication data; and poems for a book
with Meltzer, and David's "A" list [of Buck's work].
carton 20, folder 1-6
Buck, Marilyn
2010-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes Inside/Out: Selected Poems - manuscript draft, Meltzer's working copy, and correspondence; In Her Spirit: A Commemorative
Solidarity Booklet to Benefit the 6 Political Prisoners in New York State; and Sparks Fly 2020 – honoring Marilyn Buck and
all women political prisoners
carton 3, folder 27
Bulitt, Patricia
1985-1986
carton 3, folder 28
Burch, Charlton
1997-1999
carton 3, folder 29
Burger, Hedwig (Hedy)
1990
carton 3, folder 31
[Burke, Clifford]
1969-2003
carton 3, folder 32
Burke, Liz, includes Translation of Cristina Peri Rossi, and Poetry
1997-1999
carton 3, folder 33
Burnett, John, Senior Project
1993
carton 3, folder 34-37
"B"
approximately 1975-2006
carton 3, folder 38-41
Caldwell, Christopher, includes MFA Thesis, Practicum re: the David Meltzer Archives
1999-2001
carton 3, folder 42-44
Callahan, Bob and Eileen O'Mally
1975-2008
carton 3, folder 46
Caples, Garrett ("The Art/the Veil")
approximately 2010-2014
carton 4, folder 1
Capra Press (Noel Young)
1972-1973
carton 4, folder 2
Carll, Steve, MA Thesis, Draft
1990-1993
carton 4, folder 3
Castro, Jan and Michael/River Styx
1975-2002
carton 4, folder 4-7
Cassidy, Daniel, includes Tuig it! and Other Typescripts
2000-2004
carton 4, folder 9
Charters, Ann and Sam
1977-2001
carton 4, folder 10
Cherkovski, Neeli
2000-2009
carton 4, folder 11
Cherney, Esther/Esther Rich
approximately 1977
carton 4, folder 12
Ciavonne, Carol
1994-2006
carton 4, folder 13-17
City Lights
1962-2003
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Stacey Lewis, and Nancy Peters; includes folder labeled "Lawrence suggests these
be reprinted"
carton 4, folder 18
Clare, includes Poetry
1990
carton 4, folder 19-20
Clark, Angelica, Tom Clark, Adam Cornford, Bob Callahan (New College of California)
2000-2005
carton 4, folder 21-27
Clarke, Christopher/Christopher Clarke Productions
1976-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes Gerard V. Parker, Chance, screenplay based on a story by Clarke; No Vine Before Its Time; Morgan's Edge, Screenplay;
Thunder from the East; Viking's Nightmare; Thomas K. Nash, Supersecs, an original motion picture for Christopher Clarke Productions
carton 4, folder 29
Claymore, Rick and Shiela [Tully]
1999-2000
carton 4, folder 30
Cole, Norma, Working Notes on Reading Rhythm
carton 4, folder 32
Coleman, Sharon, Yiddish Poetry
1999
carton 4, folder 36
Contemporary Authors
approximately 1996-1997
carton 4, folder 37-38
Continuum Books/Crossroad Books/Herder and Herder/(New) Seabury Press/Rossel Books
1971-1983
carton 4, folder 39-47
Coolidge, Clark
1973-2003
Scope and Content Note
In addition to correspondence from Cooolidge, includes CC's Wants; Kerouac/CC - The Long, Long Skies; correspondence from
Meltzer to Coolidge; Joe Dodge in conversation with Clark Coolidge; Shifts in the Gamut; and To the Cold Heart
carton 20, folder 7-18
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines
1969-1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes annual report, board and regional meetings, correspondence, grant materials
carton 4, folder 48-49
Corman-Roberts, Paul – MFA and MA Theses in Poetics
2002-2003
carton 4, folder 50
Cornford, Adam
approximately 1988-2000
carton 5, folder 1
Creative Work Fund
2008-2011
carton 5, folder 2
Creeley, Robert
1972-1983
carton 5, folder 3
Crispell, Marilyn, Animalized Spirit (Interviewed by Anne Waldman)
carton 5, folder 4-5
Crowe, Thomas Rain, includes 10,000 Dawns: Love Poems of Yvan & Claire Goll, Translated by Rain and Nan Watkins
2001-2004
carton 5, folder 6
Curtay, Jean Paul
approximately 1982
carton 5, folder 10
Dalachinsky, Steve (Ted Joans Lives)
2003
carton 5, folder 12
Dannenmüller, Sophie
2002-2003
carton 5, folder 13
Davidson, Michael/University of California, San Diego Poetry Archive
approximately 1976-1982
carton 5, folder 15
Dawson, Thomas/Stone Press/San Francisco International Poetry Festival
1976-1978
carton 5, folder 17-26
Dickison, Steve/Shuffle Boil
1976-2008
Scope and Content Note
Includes The Poetry Center, San Francisco State; manuscripts for Shuffle Boil; Disposed;
John Temple on John Wieners (manuscript); The Orphic Sacred Stories
carton 5, folder 27-30
Di Prima, Diane
approximately 1985-2010
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials re: New College of California, broadside celebrating Di Prima's 70th birthday; The Mysteries of Vision:
Some Notes on H.D.; Tryst; and The Hall of Mirrors (for Tree)
carton 5, folder 31
di Vincenzo, Jan, One Hundred Fragments (Chapbook)
1989
carton 5, folder 32
Doubiago, Sharon
2005-2009
carton 5, folder 33
Doubleday re: Anthology of Jewish Poetry, Edited. By J. Rothenberg
1976
carton 5, folder 34-35
Drachler, Rose, includes Manuscripts, Photographs
approximately 1976-2003
Scope and Content Note
One of the photos (of Drachler) may date back to the 1930s or 1940s
carton 5, folder 36
Ducat, Stephen, Wimp Factors and Gender Gaps... (Draft)
carton 5, folder 38
Dumont, Raymond
1998-2000
carton 5, folder 40-44
Edminster, Suzanne (Suzanne Reilard), includes MA Thesis/Notes on Lorine Niedecker
approximately 1985-1998
carton 5, folder 45
Einzig, Barbara
approximately 1969-1981
carton 5, folder 46
Ehrlich, Marty, includes Interview by Steve Dickison and Meltzer
approximately 2002-2003
carton 5, folder 47
Ellingham, Lewis
1982-1984
carton 5, folder 48
English, Avrill, MA Thesis
1990
carton 5, folder 49
Essex House, includes Hodge, Houchins Zweig; Kennedy and Zweig; and Jaybird Publications
1969-1976
carton 5, folder 50
Evans, John, MA Thesis
1987
carton 5, folder 51
Evensmo, Jan, The Piano of Richard Twardzik
2016
carton 6, folder 1-6
Fagin, Larry
1971-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes work with Ron Padgett, such as Teachers & Writers; Parade of the Cater Pillars; Adventures in Poetry educational
pamphlet; Ordinary Fascism; Guidelines without Realizing (with Clark Coolidge); [catalog of Fagin's record collection]; and
emails re: Death of Jazz
carton 6, folder 8
Falk-Hirschman, Agneta, may include some Jack Hirschman
2000-2015
carton 6, folder 9
Fay, Tom, Selected Works
2004
carton 6, folder 10
Feinstein, Sascha
1994-1996
carton 6, folder 11
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1974-1996
carton 6, folder 12-14
Finkel, Bruria, includes Catalogs, Photographs
1981-1988
carton 6, folder 15
Fisher, Christina
approximately 1999-2000
carton 6, folder 17-18
Fitzgerald, Kevin S., Email and MA Thesis (with Revision)
1999-2000
carton 6, folder 19
Fixel, Lawrence, includes Writings for [Man/Woman]
approximately 1979-1992
carton 6, folder 20
Florsheim, Stewart, A Split Second of Light
2011
carton 6, folder 21
Foley, Jack – from Visions and Affirmations, includes Photographs
approximately 2005
carton 6, folder 23
Foye, Raymond, includes Biographical Entry on Kirby Doyle
approximately 1981-1984
carton 6, folder 25-26
Frym, Gloria, includes Mind Over Matter: A Tribute to Poetry
approximately 1983-2011
carton 6, folder 27-28
"F"
approximately 1976-2009
carton 6, folder 29
Gach, Gary
approximately 1977-2011
carton 6, folder 30
Gaon, Nan (and Jack/Zanko)
approximately 1996-2005
carton 6, folder 31
Gardner, Geoffrey
1975-1981
carton 6, folder 32
Gassoway, Cliff, Mosaic Coefficients of a Futurist Kabbalah, MFA Thesis
1998
carton 6, folder 33-34
Gatza, Geoffrey – includes A Poem (in a Cigarette Box); and A Rocket Full of Pie, etc.
approximately 2010
carton 6, folder 35
Getty Research Inst./Semina Culture
2002-2007
carton 6, folder 36
Getzler, Marsha
approximately 1999-2001
carton 6, folder 37
Ginsberg, Allen, includes Memorial Program and Poem
1973-1998
carton 6, folder 38
Gitin, David and Maria
1973-1986
carton 6, folder 40-41
Gladman, Renee, includes Prose City (Thesis)
1996-2006
carton 6, folder 42
Goldman, Albert
1993-1994
carton 6, folder 44
Goodman, Hananya/Kabbalah: A Newsletter of Current Research in Jewish Mysticism
1985-1986
carton 6, folder 45
Gottesman, Leslie (Les)
2012
carton 6, folder 47
Granary Books/Steve Clay
1996-2001
carton 6, folder 48
Gray, Denise - Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
2000
carton 6, folder 49
Griffiths, David B.
approximately 1992-1995
carton 6, folder 50
Grossman, Martin, includes The Bread of Our Affliction
1975-1977
carton 6, folder 52
Grundberg, Carl, includes Notes in Exile/War Diary
1985-2002
carton 6, folder 53
Guss, David, The Tale, etc.
approximately 1981
carton 6, folder 54
Guy, Arielle
approximately 2006
carton 6, folder 58
Hankin, Larry (to Tina and David)
1994
carton 6, folder 59
Hartsholme Primary School
1997
carton 7, folder 1-3
Hawley, Bob/Oyez Press, Holmes Book. Co., includes Meltzer Bio for Beat Writers Volume
approximately 1974-2003
carton 7, folder 6
Hellar, Mark and Paul Madonna - A Day's Prayer for the Hatred Machine
1995
carton 7, folder 7-8
Herms, George, includes Sue Herms, Slides from The Secret Archives/Catherine Clark Gallery
1973-2000
carton 7, folder 9
Hessing, Siegfried
1972-1976
carton 7, folder 10
Higgins, Tiffany, Love
1999
carton 7, folder 11
Hill, Owen, Sea of Kooks, Novel Manuscript
approximately 2001
carton 7, folder 12
Hiller, Tobey, includes Poetry, Certain Weathers
approximately 1981
carton 7, folder 13
Hirschman, David, includes Tyger Blues, and an Aya Tarlow Poem
approximately 1964-1970
carton 20, folder 19-25
Hirschman, Jack - Correspondence
approximately 1967-1973
carton 21, folder 1-24
Hirschman, Jack
1961-2012
Scope and Content Note
There is correspondence; artwork, including The Mad Dogwolf, and Wallbreak; poetry; Saurès: S. Yetsira, tr[anslated] by Hirschman;
Aur Sea; translations [for Tree]; Schnapps Son!, The Book of the Letter (translated by Hirschman); Messiah: Shabbati Zevi;
Abraham Abulafia's Works and Doctrine - Thesis by Moshe Idel; on Paul Celan; Choroso! An Autobiographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman;
Erotic Verses, by Lucia Lucchensino (tranlaated by Hirschman); Kabbalistic Common Points, translated by Hirschman (Tree Text:
1); Tobia Ravà; and Hirschman's Arcanes (The Urinal Stalls Arcane; The Black Chrysanthemum Arcane; and the Ulitsea Arcane)
oversize_folder 5A
Hirschman, Jack - Paintings, Collages [Mail Art]
approximately 1976
carton 7, folder 14
Hollander, Benjamin – 2. Citation Is the Order of the Day/Academica Judaica
2001-2002
carton 7, folder 16
Hunter, Carrie
approximately 2001-2002
carton 7, folder 18-19
"H"
approximately 1974-2010
carton 7, folder 22
Jafrate, Keith, includes Body Lyrics
approximately 2000
carton 7, folder 23
Jakubowski, Maxim
1976-1995
carton 7, folder 24
James, Laura Dewitt, includes The Word Went Forth [1943?]
approximately 1971-1973
carton 7, folder 25
[JG?] [JJ?] - Tanzin: Putting in Order
carton 7, folder 27
Joans, Ted/Ted Joans Lives!
approximately 1993-2004
carton 7, folder 28
Johnson, Ray – Mail Art
1976
carton 7, folder 29-30
Johnston, Alistair/Poltroon Press, includes Interview with Meltzer
1978-2010
carton 7, folder 31
Jones, Steve, Dark Flowers, Manuscript Submission
carton 7, folder 32
"J"
approximately 1974-1997
carton 7, folder 34
Kamenetz. Rodger
1979-2003
carton 7, folder 35-37
Karavatos, Nicholas – debt (Magazine), "How to Die" (MFA Thesis), No Asylum
1997-2009
carton 7, folder 38
Kat -- MFA Manuscript
2003
oversize_folder 10A
[Kaufman, Bob] - Photograph
carton 7, folder 40
Kearney, Larry, North Beach
carton 7, folder 42
Kelleher, Michael - Visible Instruments
carton 7, folder 43
Kemp, Carolyn L., includes MA Thesis in Poetics
1989
carton 7, folder 44
Kharma, Ed, Michael Thomas, and Tom Mankiewicz - Ladyhawke (Screenplay)
1982
carton 7, folder 45
Kinney, Jay/Gnosis
approximately 1982-1991
carton 7, folder 46-48
King, Basil (BAZ), Learning to Draw/A History
carton 8, folder 1
King, Basil and Martha, includes A Frame for Stefan
approximately 1988-2007
carton 8, folder 2-4
Kolokithas, Dawn, includes MA Thesis (on Jack Spicer), H.D. (Thesis Proposal)
1983-1986
carton 8, folder 5
Körte, Mary Norbert – Mammals of Delight
approximately 1977
carton 8, folder 6
Krakowsky, Rabbi Levi L., includes Kabbalah: Dialogue between G-D and the Hebrew Alphabet
1973
carton 8, folder 7
Kronsky, Betty
approximately 1995-2001
carton 8, folder 9-10
Kun, Josh, includes Strangers Among Sounds (Dissertation Outline, UC Berkeley)
approximately 1996-2001
carton 8, folder 11-16
Kush (Steven Kushner)
approximately 1988
carton 8, folder 17-19
Kyger, Joanne, includes Selected Poems of
1973-2011
carton 8, folder 20-21
"K," includes B. Kliban Letter/Drawing
approximately 1976-2014
carton 8, folder 23-24
Landauer, Susan, includes Stray Cat Theatre, by Landauer and Tanya Marina Maxwell
approximately 2016
carton 8, folder 25
Lang, Daniel, Stories of Our Youth
1999
carton 8, folder 26-30
Lazzara, Marina
1992-2011
Scope and Content Note
Includes When Poetry Happens, Thesis Ideas and Poems; MA Thesis; Wind on the Firecracker of the Building Next Door/The Public
Sound Inside the Sun; and The Ear Is the Last Face – Manuscript
carton 8, folder 31
Leblanc, Peter, Back to the Beat Proposal, Illustrations
approximately 1995
carton 8, folder 32-34
Lenowitz, Harris, includes Transparencies, The Words of the Lord [Jacob Frank]
approximately 1973-2000
carton 9, folder 1-2
Lenthe, Jean-Vi, includes MA Thesis and Syllabus
approximately 1989-2000
carton 9, folder 3
Letters Removed from Books
1968-1998
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from Anne Lombardo, Marielle Setzu, and Dr. Philip S. Gruberger, President of the yeshiva Kol - Yehuda/National
Institute for Research in Brooklyn. Correspondence from Jenny includes a Jerome Rothenberg poem. The books these letters came
from have been cataloged separately.
carton 9, folder 4
LeVasseur, Greg and Keiko
approximately 1991-2004
carton 9, folder 5
Levi, Louise Landes, The Book L
2010
carton 9, folder 6-7
Lewis, Joel, includes [Jazz Poems by Joel]
approximately 1990-1995
carton 9, folder 9-11
Leyton, Gayle, includes Poetry and a Play
1988-2009
carton 9, folder 12
Lifson, Beth
approximately 2001
carton 9, folder 13
Lim, Genny, Child of War: Poems, and Correspondence
approximately 2001-2003
carton 9, folder 14-17
Litton, M.C., (Mark)
1999-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes Litton, Broken Beer Bottles…/Funkey Monkey Press; Syllabus; MFA in Poetics Thesis and Draft (The Collected Books
of the Game)
carton 9, folder 18
Llacera, Jennifer, re: Writing Jazz
1997
carton 9, folder 19
Locust Media/Dawson Prater
2003
carton 9, folder 20
Lombardo, Anna, includes Photographs
approximately 1997-1999
carton 9, folder 21
Longoria, Christopher
2003-2005
carton 9, folder 22
Los Angeles, City of, Cultural Grant Panel – Literary Arts, and Cultural Affairs Grants
1990-1996
carton 9, folder 23
Lowenstein, Tom
1979-1992
carton 9, folder 24
Lucas, Brian, Circles Matter
carton 9, folder 25
Luna, Christopher, Ghost Town USA
2004
carton 9, folder 26
Luria-Sukenick, Lynn
1995
carton 9, folder 27
Luttrell, Steve/Café Review
1996-2012
carton 9, folder 28
Lyle, Kathryn, Musical Metasonics, MA in Composition, Mills College
carton 9, folder 29-30
"L"
approximately 1966-2007
carton 9, folder 31
Mackey, Nate
approximately 1981-1997
carton 9, folder 32
Maimes, Steven L./Judaic Book Service, includes Tzaddikim Review
1974-1978
carton 9, folder 33-34
Malanga, Gerard, includes Crowns
1972-1975
carton 9, folder 35
Marco, Rosamund K. (Mrs. Anthony) (David Meltzer's Mother) - Incoming and Outgoing
1956-1964, 1996-1997
carton 9, folder 36
Margolin, Malcolm/Heyday Books/California Poetry Series
approximately 1995-1999
carton 9, folder 37-39
Marin, Peter, includes The Book of Chairs, and Going Home on Water
approximately 1974-1993
carton 9, folder 40
Mattingly, George
approximately 1999-2000
carton 9, folder 42
McBride, Pat – with Student Poems from Colne Valley High School, England
carton 9, folder 43-44
McClure, Michael, includes Touching the Edge, Pierre Variations
1982-2011
carton 9, folder 46
McKenna, Kristine (kiki7)
approximately 1998-2003
carton 10, folder 1-7
McNaughton, Duncan
approximately 1979-2014
Scope and Content Note
Includes I; Companies in Reality I-X; and La Rosita
carton 10, folder 8-10
Meilicke, Christine, includes Her Writings about Meltzer and the Journal Tree
1999-2003
carton 10, folder 11-19
Meltzer Children and Family
approximately 1981-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes Adam Meltzer; Amanda Meltzer; Daniel Meltzer; Jennifer (Jen/Jenny); Margaret (Maggie); Deborah Richardson. Some letters
and notes date from when David Meltzer's children were very young.
oversize_folder 1A
Birthday Card Collage to Dad from Amanda
carton 10, folder 20-21
Mercury House, includes Kirsten Janene-Nelson and Thomas Christensen
1990-2000
carton 10, folder 22
Mernit, Susan/Hand Book
approximately 1975-1984
carton 10, folder 23
Meru Foundation/Meru Project
1985-1989
carton 10, folder 24
Milos, Marilyn
1985-2008
Scope and Content Note
There is correspondence from Timothy Milos in the "M" folders
carton 10, folder 25
Min, Hongyu, Thirteen Ways to Breathe a Word
carton 10, folder 26
Mines, Muriel Newman (Minnie), includes A Life Remembered
1984-2002
carton 10, folder 27-28
Mines, Stephanie, includes Nadia, Photographs
approximately 1973-2007
carton 10, folder 29-30
Minganti, Franco
approximately 1994-2001
carton 10, folder 31-33
Moore, Daniel P., aka Abd al-Hayy
approximately 1999
Scope and Contents
Includes The Blind Bookkeeper and Other Poems; and Easy Steps to Nowhere (microsongs for macrovoices)
carton 10, folder 34
Moore, Richard O., Particulars of Place
carton 10, folder 35
Moore, Thurston/Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal
approximately 2001-2003
Scope and Content Note
Transferred copies of the journals to Acquisitions for separate cataloging
carton 10, folder 38-41
Morgan, Seth, Homeboy
approximately 1989-1990
carton 11, folder 3
Multimedia Edizioni/House of Poetry
1999-2000
carton 11, folder 4-5
[Murray]
approximately 1994
carton 11, folder 6-7
Music-Related Letters
approximately 1983-1994
carton 11, folder 12
Naropa Summer Writing Program/Naropa Institute
2004
carton 11, folder 13
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
1974-2000
carton 11, folder 14
National Poetry Festival
1973-1977
carton 11, folder 15
Natsoulas, John/John Natsoulas Gallery/The Beat Generation & Beyond
2002-2005
carton 11, folder 16
Newton, Ryan
approximately 2002
carton 11, folder 17-19
Nicosia, Gerald
1988-2007
Scope and Content Note
Includes Gerard Nicosia/D.S. Lliteras; and The Keroauc Conspiracy – A Book Proposal
carton 11, folder 20
Nilsson, Paoloa and Judith Jamison
1999-2009
carton 11, folder 21
Nisbet, Jim/Sweetie's
2002-2005
carton 11, folder 22
Noble, Joseph, Antiphonal Airs, etc.
2013
carton 11, folder 24-25
Noonan, Erik, MA Thesis; Poetry; and Songs
2006-2009
carton 11, folder 26-29
Northington, Joseph
1999
Scope and Content Note
Includes Days of Awakening; The Lynching Series (thesis project); Days of Awakening - Last Volume; Oxford School practicum
carton 11, folder 31
Oliver, Laura J., [MA Thesis]
carton 11, folder 32
Olson, Charles, These Days
carton 11, folder 33
A One Shot Deal – Anthology of Various Poets, Bolinas
approximately 1969
carton 11, folder 34
Ortiz, Travis, Variously, Not Then; and Geography of Parts
1998
carton 11, folder 35
"O"
approximately 1973-1995
carton 11, folder 37
Parmeley, Tish, includes Senior Project
1999
carton 11, folder 38-39
Patler, Louis, includes Eloísa; and Holiday Cards/Broadsides with Poems
1980-1984
carton 11, folder 41
Payne, Dottie, on the Hirschman Arcanes
2011
carton 11, folder 41-42
Peoples, David and Janet (Jan), includes Femme Fatale, a Screenplay
1978-2003
carton 12, folder 1-5
Peoples, David Webb
1977-1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following screenplays: The Journey to the 14 Presidents/The Journey to the Presidents (drafts and revisions);
Joint Account; and Taxi to Glory
carton 12, folder 6
Perkins, Michael
1969-2002
carton 12, folder 7
Perkins, Stephen/Assembling Magazines
1996
carton 12, folder 8
Perkoff, Stuart Z. and Gerald T.
approximately 1987-1995
Scope and Contents
Photocopied materials date back to the fifties.
carton 12, folder 9
Pevnick, Stephen, includes Photograph
carton 12, folder 10
Pickens, Kayanne, includes Poetry, Garberville Anthology, and Tribute to Jean Paul Pickens
1982-2000
carton 12, folder 11
Pickering, Steve/Yeshiva Books
approximately 1972-1975
carton 12, folder 12-14
Pickett, Amy T., includes MA Thesis (on Audre Lorde) and Draft
1997-2000
carton 12, folder 15
Pietarinen, Fred/Prison Literature Course, MA Proposal
1991
carton 12, folder 16
Pines, Paul, includes Last Call at the Tin Palace
2009-2010
carton 12, folder 17-18
Pintchuck, Liz (Liz P.)
1996-1999
carton 12, folder 19
Poetry Center/Poetry in the Schools - San Francisco State
circa 1976-2001
carton 12, folder 20
Poetry Flash
approximately 1983-2004
carton 12, folder 21
Poetry Project/Bernadette Mayer
1980-2011
carton 12, folder 22
Poirier, Julien, Out of Print
carton 12, folder 23
Pope, J.F. (Just)
1997-1998
carton 12, folder 25-26
Procopio, Danielle
1986-1989
Scope and Content Note
Beersheeba: The Explanation of Completion, by Don and by Danielle Procopio; and The Stranger's Bible, by Gizmo C. Thingamajig
carton 12, folder 27
Prosodia
approximately 1993-2000
carton 12, folder 31-33
Quasha, George, includes Amanita's Hymnal; and Talking Tree
1970-1998
carton 12, folder 34-36
Radford, Michèle, includes Journey to the Spiritual Heart
1982-1993
carton 12, folder 37
Rainy Day Women Press/Robin Rule
2002-2003
carton 12, folder 38
Ratner, Rochelle/American Book Review, includes Hand Book
1977-2001
carton 13, folder 2-4
Re, Gg
Scope and Content Note
Also known as Gg Poetrescr and Greg Spector. Includes writings; syllabus for Musing the New: New Women's English Poetry and
Museek List; Poetreefree Press; Grey Space; Po; Qwee; and Jonny and Gg
carton 13, folder 5
Reed, Ishmael/Before Columbus Foundation/Multiculturalism
1980-2001
carton 13, folder 6
Reynolds, Tim, Manuscript, with Jack Shoemaker Correspondence
1985
carton 13, folder 7
Ring, Kevin (Beat Scene Magazine)
2000-2001
carton 13, folder 8
Robbins, Tasha, An Angel Alphabet
carton 13, folder 10
Roberts, Paul Corman, MA Proposal
2002
carton 13, folder 11
Roche, John, Road Ghosts
2010-2011
carton 13, folder 12-14
Roche, Judith, includes Myrrh; and H.D.
1984-2005
carton 13, folder 15
Rockwell, Jarvis, Illustrations
carton 13, folder 16
Rogers, Julie, includes Poetry
1977-2016
carton 13, folder 18
Ross, Bruce, A Poetics of Absence: Kabbalist Allegory in the Poetry of Paul Celan, Edmond Jabès and David Meltzer
1992-1993
carton 13, folder 19-21
Rotenberg, Tina (Bettina), includes Bearing Horror/Jerusalem Story
1991-2006
carton 13, folder 22-23
Rothenberg, Jerome, includes Abulafia's Circles
1974-2004
carton 13, folder 24-33
Rothenberg, Michael
1991-2010
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials with Walter Blue; The Drums of Grace; Rockpile; Big Bridge Press; King Cosmos Collections 1-2; The Blanket
of Goodness (with Steve Irish); Echo; Last American Smile; Unhurried Vision; and Head Shed
carton 13, folder 34-35
Roush, Tricia, includes MFA Thesis, from The Books of Danger
1995-1999
carton 13, folder 36
Rudolf, Anthony/Menard Press
1973-1993
carton 13, folder 37
Ryscamp, John, On New Ground
1988
carton 13, folder 38-39
"R"
approximately 1973-2003
carton 14, folder 1
St. James Press, includes James Vinson
1972-1995
carton 14, folder 3-5
Sanfield, Steve, includes The Rain Begins Below; and Fools of Chelm (with Bob Jenkins)
approximately 1976-2009
carton 14, folder 6
San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival – Outlaw Poets
1998
carton 14, folder 7
San Francisco Mime Troupe
approximately 1965
carton 14, folder 9-10
Savoy, Jude, includes Senior Project
1997-2000
carton 14, folder 11
Scalapino, Leslie
1979-2001
carton 14, folder 12
Schachter, Z.M., includes Translation of Heschel Poems
1971-1975
carton 14, folder 13
Schlesinger, Nicholas, Senior Project
carton 14, folder 14-18
Schneider, Jono
approximately 1997-2000
Scope and Content Note
Includes MA thesis and drafts (on Edmond Jabès); and Treatise Spoken through Transparent Fibers
carton 14, folder 19
Schnurer, Danielle Louise, includes MA Thesis
1989
carton 14, folder 20
Scholem, Gershom
1976-1981
carton 14, folder 21-28
Schwartz, Howard
1968-2011
Scope and Content Note
Includes Reflections (poetry magazine from the University of Missiour); Vessels; and Breathing in the Dark
carton 14, folder 30
Semina Culture - Wallace Berman and His Circle
approximately 1993-2007
Scope and Content Note
At the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Musem/Pacific Film Archive, and San Francisco Art Insitute
carton 14, folder 31-32
Shafer, Felix (Alan Felix)
1996-2010
Scope and Content Note
Includes Photographs; and "the blue afterwards: mourning for Marilyn" [Buck?]
carton 14, folder 33-35
Shamir, Yehuda
1975-1982
Scope and Content Note
Includes Mystics of Galilee; and Judaica Studies Annual Review, University of Miami
carton 14, folder 36
Shepherd, Joe D., A Secret Survivor, a Novel
carton 15, folder 1-6
Shoemaker, Jack and Victoria/North Point Press/Sand Dollar Booksellers and Publishers
1970-2010
Scope and Content Note
Includes book contracts and other financial records; a draft catalog for Sand Dollar; Magical Mayan Survival Techniques and
The Spring Clouds/The Summer Stars by Jack Shoemaker
carton 15, folder 8-9
Singleton, Giovanni, includes Blue Cactus; and Still Life with Trees
1995-2001
carton 15, folder 10-11
Skinker, Will, includes MA Thesis; and "the fittest of the fit"
approximately 2002
carton 15, folder 12
Skratz, G.P.
approximately 2003
carton 15, folder 13
Small Press Distribution (SPD)
1995-2004
carton 15, folder 14-15
Smith, Dale, includes MA Thesis; The Ass: A Romance
approximately 1997-2000
carton 15, folder 16
Smith, Phil – Light Blew/Dark Blue (Poems)
carton 15, folder 17
SNT - Pythagorean Garden/Speculations, Draft
1984
carton 15, folder 19
Solnit, Rebecca, Manuscript on Wallace Berman
1985
carton 15, folder 20
Sorkin, Jenni
approximately 2003
carton 15, folder 21
Soules, Dale Sterling, and Janet Tallman, includes Truth: Fatigue's By-Blow
1993-1999
carton 15, folder 22
Spicer, Jack, Broadside (from Language)
1965
carton 15, folder 23
Springer, Anna Joy, includes True Crime
1992-1998
carton 15, folder 24
Stahl, Jayne Lyn, Riding with Destiny
2010
carton 15, folder 25-27
Stahl, Thomas
approximately 2000
Scope and Content Note
Includes The Bear Trilogy; Green Themes, Hard Hearts, and Joy; and Epiphanies of Consciousness
carton 15, folder 28
Stengel, Jill, Poems
2012
carton 15, folder 29
Stephans, Michael, Experiencing Jazz
carton 15, folder 31-32
Stone, Leah, includes Aloft, Where Wind Speeds Are Great
1999-2007
carton 15, folder 33
Storer. Thomas Tone, "A Good Day to Die," Christopher Clarke Productions, Inc.
1975
carton 15, folder 34
Strauss, David Levi
approximately 1986-1998
carton 15, folder 37
Switaj, Elizabeth Kate, Poems in Support of MFA Degree and Other Assignments
approximately 2001
carton 16, folder 1-3
Tallman, Janet -- What Can I Say? (Draft); and Syllabus
1991-1993
carton 16, folder 4-14
Tarlow, Aya Rose
approximately 1972-2010
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry; materials re: Mothership Enterprises (Mothership Astrological Serivces]; files labeled "Marrying, etc. *"
and "Tarlow, Aya/D[avid]." She is also known as Idell Tarlow.
carton 16, folder 15
Taylor, William R. - Survivors
2000
carton 16, folder 16
Taylor-York. Jesse
approximately 1991-1995
carton 16, folder 17-28
Thompson, Scott J.
approximately 1983-1998
Scope and Content Note
Includes Hegel on Neoplatonism (translation); materials re: Greece; Hölderlin – Vol. I-II, Translated; and Walter Benjamin
on Hashish
carton 17, folder 1-2
Thompson, Scott J.
Scope and Content Note
Includes translation of Gershom Scholem's "Zelem: The Re-Presentaion of the Astral Body"
carton 17, folder 3
Tikkun/Michael Lerner
approximately 1986-2004
carton 17, folder 4-5
Tolbert, M. Blake (Blake Tolbert), includes MA Thesis, Harlem to Hip-Hop
approximately 1998-1999
carton 17, folder 7-8
A Traveling Jewish Theatre/Corey Fischer
approximately 1983-2000
carton 17, folder 10
Turtle Island Foundation/The Netzahualcoyotl News
approximately 1979
carton 17, folder 11
Tussman, Malka Haifetz
1974-1979
carton 17, folder 12-13
"T"
approximately 1976-2011
carton 17, folder 15
Utah State University, O.C. Tanner Symposium: The 1950s, the Beat Generation & the Power of Expression
2006
carton 17, folder 16
"U-V"
approximately 1969-2015
carton 17, folder 17-18
Vartnaw, Bill, includes MA Thesis
1982-2007
carton 17, folder 19
Vincent, Stephen/Momo's Press, includes Birth Journal
1977-1982
carton 17, folder 20
Vinograd, Julia
approximately 2004
carton 17, folder 22
Volpendesta, David
approximately 2016
carton 17, folder 23
Voillequé, J.P. - 1953 - Explorations, Arguments, Decisions, Lyrics
carton 17, folder 24-29
Wagstaff, Christopher
2011-2013
Scope and Content Note
Includes Mythos Fine Art & Artifacts; and A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan (ed.)
carton 17, folder 30
Wainio, Ken - Automatic Antiquity (Thomas Rain Crowe, New Native Press)
2004
carton 17, folder 31
Walden, T. [Teresa]
1983-2011
carton 17, folder 32
Waldman, Anne
approximately 1975-2001
carton 17, folder 33-34
Waldrop, Rosmarie
approximately 1973-1979
Scope and Content Note
Includes Her Translation of The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès
carton 17, folder 35
Walsh, Alex, Senior Project
1996
Scope and Content Note
Includes audio cassette (Alex and the Chocolate Blockhead Band)
carton 17, folder 37
Warner, Simon
approximately 1997-2005
carton 17, folder 38
Warshall, Peter/Bio-Centennial
approximately 1975
carton 17, folder 39
Watkins, Nan/Yvan Goll
2010
carton 17, folder 40-42
Weiners, John
1973-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes newspapers with poems; and "The sea under the house": The Selected Correspondence of John Weiners and Charles Olson,
Parts I-II, from Lost and Found, the CUNY Poetics Documentation Initiative
carton 18, folder 1-2
Weiss, Jason, includes an Interview with Edmond Jabès
1983-1998
carton 18, folder 3
Welch, Lew
approximately 1965-1998
carton 18, folder 4
Welsh, Lawrence
1999-2001
carton 18, folder 5
West Coast Print Center/J.D. Whitney (John)
1976-1978
carton 18, folder 6-9
Whalen, Philip
approximately 1957-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes Whalen-Charles Olson Correspondence (photocopies); Off the Wall - Interviews; celebratory readings for Whalen with
correspondence from Michael Rothenberg and Alistair Johnston; and correspondence removed from "Some of These Days"
carton 18, folder 11
White Rabbit Symposium and Jack Spicer Conference, includes Dawn Kolokithas Correspondence
1985-1986
carton 18, folder 12-13
Whittington, Eric and Nicholas James
2003-2011
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bird and Beckett flyers, newspaper clipping, interview with Meltzer, and poems
carton 18, folder 16-21
Willems, J. Rutherford (James Rutherford Lassen-Willems)
1971-2015
Scope and Content Note
Includes The Fine Strain; Poems for the Goddess, a Journey; Opening the Cube (a Tree book); and academic papers he wrote for
his theology program that he shared with Meltzer
carton 18, folder 23
Winans, A.D., includes San Francisco Poems
1983-2010
carton 18, folder 25
wingly spire the wiered glidder, includes Dreams 'o mine
1999-2000
carton 18, folder 26-27
Winks, Christopher, includes MA Thesis (in Poetics) and Thesis Outline
1992-2000
carton 18, folder 28
Wizard, Mariann G., includes Didn't You Hear me the First Time
2013
carton 18, folder 29
Wabol, Murray - Poems
2000-2001
carton 18, folder 31
The Word Hoard
approximately 1997-2000
carton 18, folder 32-33
"W"
approximately 1975-2009
carton 18, folder 34-43
Young, Karl
1974-2004
Scope and Contents
Includes The Old English Rune Poem; Stellar Dreams above the Middle Kingdom; correspondence; chapbooks; essays; some Mexican
images of death; materials re: Light & Dust Books, the International Shadows Project, and the Barrie Philip Nichols Memorial;
and prints for Meltzer broadsides
carton 19, folder 1
Yu, Wendy Smyer
1994-1999
carton 19, folder 2
"Y-Z"
approximately 1975-2010
carton 19, folder 3
Zambrano, Julio J., includes Potential Space, Demonstrations
1999-2000
carton 19, folder 4-19
Correspondents by First Names: "A-Z" and Unidentified Correspondents
approximately 1971-2010
Scope and Content Note
Also includes email where the correspondent couldn't be identified. Many correspondents just signed their first name. Those
are filed here, alphabetically. Includes a folder that contains letters from various Michaels and one with correspondence
from different Steves.
carton 19, folder 19-20
Outgoing Correspondence, includes Clark Coolidge and Jack Hirschman
approximately 1969-2015
Scope and Content Note
Most outgoing correspondence is filed with incoming correspondence from the same recipient, as that was how Meltzer generally
did it. These folders primarily contain stray outgoing letters and emails he sent himself (which often contained poems)
oversize_folder 2A, oversize_folder 6B, oversize_folder 7A, oversize_folder 8B, oversize_folder 10A
Broadsides, Various Poets
approximately 1969-2012
Scope and Content Note
OSF 2A: many of these broadsides are signed or include dedications to Meltzer. Writers include Tom Raworth, Andrei Codrescu,
Diane di Prima (and Sheppard Powell), Howard Schwartz, Jack Shoemaker, Asa Benveniste, Samuel Charters, Lew Welch, and Katie
McDonald. There is also a Bardo Matrix broadside from the mid-1970s (on dreamers! /waken or die/only the SY/is open to you
now/UNITE/or you may/never know)
OSF 6B: Poem for David Meltzer by Stephen Vincent (for A Father's Reading)
OSF 7A: Milk Magazine, Rose and Jacob Dreschler, Tomas Tranströmer, and the SF County Jail Creative Writing Workshop
OSF 8B: In-Terminal Rose [Doren Robbins, with letter, multiple copies], Ira Cohen poems; broasides by Rose Supply
OSF 10A: The San Francisco Weather Report, Richard Brautigan, 1969 (newsprint); From Mind Over Matter, Gloria Frym, 1999 signed;
Saving It, geri digiorno, Clamshell Press, 2005
"Write Something about Poetics," Joanne Kyger, 2011 (Lost & Found Celebration, 2012); This Time, Michael Palmer, 1984; The
Rainbos Calendar of Isaac Luria, Version by Jerome Rothenberg & Harris Lenowitz; YANAGI Broadside Number 1 (#34 of 150); and
John Weiners Poem (Lost & Found Celebration, 2012)
Series 2.
Writings
1885-2015
Physical Description: Cartons 20, folders 26-40; Cartons 22-32; Carton 33, folders 1-27;Oversize Box 1; Oversize Folders 2-3, 10
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by title or first line. Poems he grouped by year precede the alphabetical files.
Scope and Content Note
This series documents Meltzer's prolific output of poetry and prose, including his poetry anthologies, and his edited volumes
Reading Jazz and The Secret Garden. There are administrative files regarding publications; autobiographical writings; broadsides;
drafts of manuscripts and poems; drawings and doodles; editing and translation projects; essays and articles; fragments; galleys
and page proofs; interviews; journals, notes, and notebooks; lectures; music research files; reviews of books, films, and
recordings written by Meltzer; and reviews of his work. Contents of folders were kept intact and original folder titles were
retained. Please note that this series includes some correspondence, and there is overlap with Series 3.Tree, Judaica, Kabbalah
and Series 4. New College of California (some writings may be lectures notes for classes he taught at the college).
carton 20, folder 26-33
1972, 1981-1983, 1985-1987, 1990-2001
carton 20, folder 35
1945 (Nineteen-Forty-Five)
1976
carton 20, folder 36
The absolute total crazy energy of sanity…
carton 20, folder 37-40
Abulafia/AA
Scope and Content Note
Work re: Abraham Abulafia (sometimes spelled "Abulaphia"). Includes drafts, final copy, assorted articles.
carton 20, folder 41
After Beat – Interviews with Bay Area Poets, includes Correspondence
2001-2002
carton 22, folder 1-4
After *
Scope and Content Note
Stories; some are by "Lionel Meltzer" (Meltzer's full name is Lionel David Meltzer). Includes Shells; Ten; from Love and Death;
Pinball; Mischnah; and The Rehearsal
carton 22, folder 5
The Agency Trilogy – Galleys, Book Covers, Review
1968, 1994
Scope and Content Note
The bookcovers are for the Agent, and How many blocks in the pile? (both from 1968)
carton 22, folder 8
Alone as the street denies touch
1988
carton 22, folder 9-11
Alphabet Museum
Scope and Content Note
Includes Word Magic; Seeds; Aleph; AB; WB
carton 22, folder 12-13
Alphabet Soup; and Alphabet Soup Re-Stirred
carton 22, folder 14
Angelize
approximately 2006
carton 22, folder 15-17
Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957-1993, includes Typescript, Review
1982-1995
Scope and Content Note
One folder is labeled Arrows/A Rose/Eros Rose [Eros Sorg]
oversize_folder 2A
Arrows Book Covers (also Book Covers for The Name, and Blue Rags)
carton 22, folder 18-19
The Art/the Veil (The Veil, the Art), Typescript, Poems
carton 22, folder 20
As If To Name It
approximately 1987
carton 22, folder 22-24
Autobiographical Writings, includes Intro/Fragmentation; Auto-Bios-Graphy
approximately 1993
carton 22, folder 26
B there – and Other Drafts of Poems
2010
carton 22, folder 27
(From) The Bad Book/Luna Two
approximately 2012
carton 22, folder 28
Bakelite, includes Draft
1988
carton 22, folder 30
Beat Me, Daddy and/or Mommy, Eight to the Barbed
carton 22, folder 31-41
Beat Thing
1991-2004
Scope and Content Note
Files include typescript (computer); Beat Thing: The Text; The Beat Thing Looms Up; Beat Thing: The Text – La Alameda Press/J.B.
Bryan and Cirreleda Sinder-Bryant; Beat Thing/From the Beat Thing; Beat/Sexville; and Sexville Outtakes
carton 23, folder 1-2
Beat Thing/Sexville/Raw
approximately 1991-2004
carton 23, folder 3
Beginning always
approximately 1994
carton 23, folder 4
Biographies/Biographical Sketches
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include Susan Howe, Charles Olson, Nathaniel Mackey, and Asa Benveniste
carton 23, folder 5-10
Birth, an Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers, and Stories (Editor), includes Original Paste-Up and Reviews
1979-1981
carton 23, folder 12
Bob Hawley - The Ampersand Interview
2000
carton 23, folder 13
Bolero, includes Final Drafts
1976
carton 23, folder 14-21A
Bomb Culture/Back to the Beat/Wallace Berman
1962-2011
Scope and Content Note
Includes Bomb Culture: 2 and materials on Kenneth Patchen; and Up with Down; or WB (Working Title: Down with Up; Or, W.B.).
There is also correspondence; newspaper and magazine articles; ephemera; and Aleph Beat: Wallace Berman between Photography
and Film (by Louis Kaplan)
carton 23, folder 22
Book within Book
approximately 1978
Scope and Content Note
aka The Book Within The Book Within the Book. This is part of Meltzer's second Kabbalah anthology (some folders are labeled
Tree/KBL Antho [2])
carton 23, folder 23
Brain-Plant; or Fun-Zone (aka Glue Factor)
1969
carton 23, folder 24
Brandi, John - Writing About
oversize_folder 2A, oversize_folder 3A, oversize_folder 7A, oversize_folder 10A
Broadsides
Scope and Content Note
Broadsides in Oversize Folder 10A include Santa Maya/Love Song for Basho and Pound; The Beginning of Machinery, the Start
of Language (Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker), 1968; The Wedding for Victoria & Richard, 2002; and Who Knows One? One; Two; Stones
(Meltzer and Shirley Kaufman)
carton 23, folder 28
California Dreamin or Onion Rings
approximately 1982-2011
carton 23, folder 29
[California Dreamin] trance parent...
1995
carton 23, folder 30
Certificates of Copyright - Hero/Lil; Harps; Six
1973-1976
carton 23, folder 31
Chains – Proof, Draft
[2005]
carton 23, folder 32
A Conversation with David Meltzer by Steven Gray
2015
carton 23, folder 33
Count me out of the men's group…
carton 23, folder 35
Cultural Studies/Cultural Histories
approximately 1996
carton 23, folder 36
"C"
approximately 1991-2006
carton 23, folder 37
D Mutt Biograf Fragment/Mongol Mutt/Dogma
carton 23, folder 38
David Dog the Lion/Songs of David Dog the Lion
carton 23, folder 39
Darn that dream and bless it too
approximately 1972
carton 23, folder 40-52
David's Copy
2004-2005
Scope and Content Note
Includes first and second pass of pages; galleys; and David's Final Copy
carton 24, folder 1-3
David's Copy
approximately 2005-2009
Scope and Content Note
Includes Tell Them I'm Struggling to Sing with Angels, and poems by other writers; a Tribute to Meltzer on the occasion of
the publication of David's Copy (edited by Michael Rothenberg); and memos and financial records from Penguin Books
carton 24, folder 4-9
Death : An Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers, and Stories
approximately 1982-1983
Scope and Content Note
Includes Death Notes; permissions and notes; and the copy-edited manuscript
carton 24, folder 10
Diringer/Book [Review of The Book Before Printing]
approximately 1983
carton 24, folder 11
Dog Rose Quartet/David Dog the Lion
carton 24, folder 12-13
Drafts (Poems and Prose)
approximately 1988-1995
carton 24, folder 15
Duncan, Robert - for Sagetrieb Special Issue
1984
carton 24, folder 17
Ehrlich, Marty - Interview (by Steve Dickison and David Meltzer)
2002
carton 24, folder 18-19
Entries
Scope and Content Note
Includes Drafts for First Two Parts; Enter Light; and O Bride, O Queen
carton 24, folder 21
An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11
2002
carton 24, folder 24
Father Notes
approximately 1982, 1994
carton 24, folder 27
From the Rabbi's Dream-Book
approximately 1996
carton 24, folder 29
Giono, Jean - Writing About
approximately 1981
carton 24, folder 30
Golden Gate: Interviews with Five San Francisco Poets
1982
carton 24, folder 32
Growing old in a house of beans...
carton 24, folder 34
Handbook of the Invisible: A Poetry Primer (Assembled by David Meltzer)
carton 24, folder 35
Harps
1975
Scope and Content Note
Harps was published separately but notes indicate it may be part of Asaph
carton 24, folder 38
hello death hovering around Tina/From No Eyes
1995
carton 24, folder 39
Herms, George/George Herms Notes
1992
carton 24, folder 40
(From) Hero/Hero in Outer Space/Hero's Mom
approximately 1973
carton 24, folder 41
Hero/Lil
approximately 1980
carton 24, folder 42
Howls, Raps & Roars - Recordings from the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance
1993
carton 24, folder 45-46
Imprint: Two Musicians; and Imprint: Four Musicians
approximately 1985
carton 24, folder 47-48
In: Beginning: Notes
approximately 1984
carton 24, folder 49
In like Flynn...
approximately 2008
carton 24, folder 50
The insane ain sof aur rite as sleepwalked by Rebbe Yaakov Yosef ben Ariel as charted & diagrammed by Rube Goldberg & framed
by Henny Youngman
carton 24, folder 51
Interview with David Meltzer for The Café Review (by Steve Luttrell/Timothy Gillis)
2014
carton 24, folder 52
Interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and David Meltzer
2013
carton 24, folder 53
In the Groove/ For Chris Gaynor/Counter-Notes/ Tones/ Points
carton 24, folder 54
It goes quicker than the blast of past flutter...
carton 24, folder 56
"I"
approximately 1978-1998
carton 25, folder 4
Journal of the Birth
1967
carton 25, folder 5-15
Journal for the Protection of All Beings: A Visionary and Revolutionary Review
1977-1979
Scope and Content Note
Meltzer co-edited the journal with Michael McClure and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Includes used and unused material; Puffins and
Eregrines: Excerpts from My Farallones Journal.
carton 25, folder 16-19
Ka:Rear [Reviews, etc.], includes Events
approximately 1971-1992
carton 25, folder 21
Kabbalistic Tree Poem for R. Skratz
1985
carton 25, folder 22-36
KBL [Kabbalah]
Scope and Content Note
Files include KBL 1 and KBL 2; Writings on the Kabbalah; KBL and Fragments on Kabbalah; KBL Survey; Kotzker; Notebooks; Writings
on Kabbalah; If occultism is the "belief in hidden, mysterious, superhuman powers..."; and a fragment of an unidentified typescript.
The KBL Survey is an annotated checklist of titles pertaining to the Kabbalah in the New College of California (NCOC) library.
There is likely overlap here between Meltzer's writings and his NCOC lectures.
carton 26, folder 1-3
Kinot/Blues; Kinot: Rant: 1st Entries; and Kinot Notes
approximately 1978
carton 26, folder 6
Lemmebe: Amulets, and Other Amulet Poems
carton 26, folder 7
Life on Line
approximately 2004
carton 26, folder 8
Lionel David Meltzer Poems
carton 26, folder 10
Lute - A Momentary (not necessarily brief) inner-lute
carton 26, folder 11
Men's Magazines with Stories by Meltzer
1959-1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes the following stories: Judgement Day, …and all that Jazz, Glue Factory, and Kick Me Deadly
carton 26, folder 13
Mongol Mutt: Drafts
early 1980s
carton 26, folder 15
More on the Art [from R.W.R.]
carton 30, folder 0 (Zero)
Music – Notes/Typescripts, includes Riffrap
approximately 1993-1994
carton 26, folder 19-26
The Name: Selected Poetry, 1973-1983
approximately 1981-1984
Scope and Content Note
Files include typescripts; Hero/Lil/The Process, Bart, Brother, R.W.R.; Poems from The Name; and Notes [from The Name]
carton 30, folder 1
The Name: Selected Poetry, 1973-1983
1984
carton 26, folder 27
The Name Reversed/Reversed Name
carton 26, folder 29
The New World Project
1969-1971
Scope and Content Note
Includes The New World: Turtle Island/The New World: A History of the U.S.A.'s Hidden Life, Revealed
carton 26, folder 30
Newsreel (Black Ace, Book 1)
[1991]
carton 26, folder 32
Night Reel/Night Reels/Night Reals
carton 26, folder 33-35
No Eyes: Lester Young, includes Reviews
2000-2001
carton 26, folder 36
North Point Press, Book Proposal [on Music/the Little River Band]
1985-1993
carton 26, folder 39-40
Oddities: Notes for a Future Labyrinth
1973-1997
carton 26, folder 43
Old Man in a House of Beans
carton 26, folder 44
On KJAZ announcement of Richard Lord Buckley's birthday...
1979
carton 26, folder 45
OP Reviews (of Albums), from OPtion Magazine
1983-1986
carton 26, folder 46
open up your Golden Gate California...
1995
carton 26, folder 47
Orbits, includes Obituaries, Correspondence
1986-1991
carton 26, folder 48
Orf - Book Cover, Review
1972
carton 26, folder 50
Other DM Work [Poems from 1976]
Scope and Content Note
Folder labeled Meltzer Book/Mss 3 of 6
carton 26, folder 51-52
Out/OutSpots
1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes Jeffrey H. Weinberg Rare Books/Roman Books Catalog, and Correspondence
carton 26, folder 54
PRDS -- Manuscript in Progress [Paradise?]
carton 26, folder 55
The Path of the Names: Writings by Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, Edited by Meltzer - Typescript
1976
carton 30, folder 2
The Path of the Names - Galleys
approximately 1976
carton 27, folder 3
Poems to Jim Dickson, Vaya Records
1958
carton 27, folder 4
Poetry -- Drafts (Prose Piece)
carton 27, folder 7
Possibilities: Anthologies
approximately 1999
carton 27, folder 9
PW Project (Philip Whalen Project)
2010
carton 27, folder 11-36
Reading Jazz
1992-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence; annotated drafts; the author's copy and Mercury House's copy of the first page proofs; Books on Parade;
Intro to Origins, Meanings; Pre-Ramble Conclusion; and second page proofs
carton 28, folder 1-17
Reading Jazz
1974, 1991-1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes second page proofs; correspondence; Jack Hirschman poetry; reviews; public relations; typescript; administrative
records; production schedules and memos; uncorrected page proofs; multi-cult; and prose fragments about jazz. There are also
some reviews of Arrows: Selected Poetry, 1957-1992
carton 28, folder 19-20
Reds vs Feds: Poems of Radical Yearning & Years Spent at the Party
[1995]
Scope and Content Note
One copy is labeled "Beatitude 25"
carton 28, folder 21-29
Reviews
approximately 1968-2002
Scope and Content Note
Reviews of The Dark Continent, and Journal of Birth (both by Meltzer). The rest are Meltzer's reviews of the following: Paul
Gilroy's The Black Atlantic; various poetry collections (by Jack Hirschman, Robert Bly, Rodger Kamenetz, Diane Di Prima, Ducan
McNaughton, and Elias Canetti); movies; Julia Vinograd's Jerusalem; books about Judaica/Kabbalah, including some published
in Gnosis, such as The View from Golem Heights (with correspondence); records, and San Francisco Bay Guardian music columns;
and books by John Giono, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Reviews - San Francisco Bay Guardian Music Columns
1996-2001
carton 28, folder 30
Rexroth, Kenneth (Writings on)
carton 28, folder 31
Riff Rap: Notes on Jazz Autobiography and Biography – Drafts and Passes
May 1985
carton 28, folder 32
The Ritual (or the Chosen, or The One)
carton 28, folder 34-35
Rock Tao – Draft, Photographs
carton 30, folder 3
Rock Tao - Photographs/Field Trip: Fillmore Cherry
carton 28, folder 36
Rockpile Performance; Miscellaneous Typescripts and Drafts, including Dark Park
approximately 2009
carton 28, folder 37
Rogers, Julie, and David Meltzer – Poetry and Events
2010-2012
carton 29, folder 1-15
San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets (Edited by Meltzer)
1994-2001
Scope and Content Note
Includes cover, proof, interviews, and bibliographies. Interview files: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Hawley on William Everson,
Jack Hirschman, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Musical Offerings Café, Kenneth
Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen.
carton 29, folder 16
The San Francisco Poets - Intro
carton 29, folder 18-26
The Secret Garden (Edited by Meltzer)
1976-1977
Scope and Content Note
Variously subtitled "The Classic Kabbalah," "An Anthology in the Kabbalah,"
and "An Anthology Dedicated to Kabbalah." Includes typescripts; master pages/dead matter; and "The Secret Garden: The Classic
Kabbalah"
carton 30, folder 4-11
The Secret Garden
1976
Scope and Content Note
Includes galleys - master set, first and second passes; and author's galleys; and manuscript
carton 29, folder 27
The secret text lost in the processor
carton 29, folder 28
Shekinah, Sefiroth, Safed [Lecture]
carton 29, folder 29-30
[Shema and Other Drafts]; From: Shema
carton 29, folder 32-35
Shiga, Naoya - Translations, Correspondence
approximately 1976
Scope and Content Note
Meltzer notes that "Allen Say translated the text from the Japanese and I then 'Englished' his translations." One of the folders
is labeled "Rakagu"; it is not clear whether the text inside was written by Shiga.
carton 29, folder 38
Six/Five/Vav; and Apple
approximately 1975-1976
Scope and Content Note
The folder says Six; the typescript says Five/Vav; Apple
carton 29, folder 40
Small Black Fabricoid Notebook
Scope and Content Note
This is housed in a folder labeled "Drafts for P.H"
carton 29, folder 41-42
Snaps; Or, Blips, includes The American Book Review
1981-1982
carton 29, folder 46-47
[Spirit Gum]; Spirit Gum, Part 1
approximately 2009
carton 31, folder 1
spoken into emptiness...
1995
carton 31, folder 2
stamped on/Stravinsky's birthday
1991
carton 31, folder 4
Static: A Brief History of Capitalism & Communism
1978
carton 31, folder 5
Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille, Review of
1977
carton 31, folder 6
The Struggle/Poems For The Muse
carton 31, folder 12
to the Coronet Louvre to watch Isou's Venom and Eternity/Joe Carroll at Birdland (Bolero/Asaph)
carton 31, folder 14
Tough Break, Kid: Or Faust Upscaled
carton 31, folder 15
Trail of Apache Blood/The Horse-Trader (Motion Picture Synopsis)
Scope and Content Note
Folder is labeled Meltzer book/mss 1 of 6
oversize_folder 3A
Trail of Apache Blood - Movie Posters
carton 31, folder 17
True Car-Driving Story/Two True Car Driving Stories
carton 31, folder 18-22
Two-Way Mirror
approximately 1977, 2014
Scope and Content Note
Includes Two-Way Mirror: A Note-Book
carton 31, folder 24
Uncollected Poems
approximately 1955-1961
carton 31, folder 26
The Wedding/We stand in the center of your lives...
carton 31, folder 27
The Wedding Ceremony of Liza Boone and Frank Pedrick as Performed by the Reverends David and Tina Meltzer...
1979
carton 31, folder 31
what can the observant seeing-eye poem do...
1995
carton 31, folder 32
What Remains/The Heavens, the Earth/The Love and Mythology of Writing - Anthology Proposals
carton 31, folder 33-39
When I Was a Poet; and Outs from When I Was a Poet
2010-2011
Scope and Content Note
Includes reviews and [Part V: New Poems]
carton 31, folder 42
Working Paper: Statement of Intent [re: New College of California]
approximately 1990
carton 30, folder 12
* Works * - includes Poetry and Prose
carton 31, folder 43-47
Writing Jazz (Edited by Meltzer)
approximately 1991-2000
Scope and Content Note
Includes typescript, list of computer files, correspondence, entries, and reviews
carton 30, folder 13-16
Writing Jazz, includes Permissions and Manuscript Schedules
1991-1996
carton 31, folder 50
Yu: Or, Enthusiasm/Put Ubu out to dry
1982
carton 31, folder 54-64
Fragments and Miscellaneous Writings
approximately 1977-1989
Scope and Content Note
Primarily poetry and prose. Meltzer's arrangement/grouping within folders was maintained
carton 32, folder 1-7
Notes and Drawings
approximately 1967-2006
Scope and Content Note
There are fragments of poems and prose, but these files primarily contain miscellaneous notes, drawings by Meltzer, addresses,
cartoons, ephemera, and secondary sources that he collected. Meltzer's arrangement/grouping within folders was maintained
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Drawing/Doodles on a Paper Towel
carton 32, folder 8-22
Unidentified Writings/Writings by Others
approximately 1964-1989
Scope and Content Note
Most of these are probably not by Meltzer. Titles/folder names include Bending Edges (for David Meltzer); Haiku; Heaven; Huxley,
Alduous (letter to Julien and Juliette); Polar Particles/New Devotional Rabbitson White [by Running Scarecrow?]; Gasum; The
Ten Sefiroth and the Ten Commandments; Unidentified Poem [by Tina]; Unidentified Manuscript [re: the Messiah] - not Meltzer;
Unidentified Poetry - not Meltzer; Unidentified Typescript (there are five folders with the following chapter titles: Rings
n Things, Street Court, Sunny Deelight, Stick Pussy, Z Block, and Epilogue (Don't Look Back). There are also various Published
Poems. Meltzer's arrangement/grouping within folders was maintained
carton 32, folder 23-33
Journals
1968-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes illustrated journals and notebooks; a music-related notebook; a journal kept in London, Bolinas, and Richmond; and
a notebook titled "Notes." Meltzer's original titles were retained when available, and items were arranged chronologically
carton 33, folder 1-6
Journals
approximately 1985-2004
Scope and Content Note
Includes Death Book Notes; Transit Book (and New College of California Notebook); a diary with notes; and an addressbook
carton 33, folder 7-14
Music Research - Music Publications
1964-1995
Scope and Content Note
Includes Beatles Fanzines (The Beatles Appreciation Society Magazine Book; All about the Beatles; The Beatles Talk! The Beatles
Color Pinup Album; and Beatles Film); Comstock Lode; Creative World; Doo/Dah – the Bonzo Dog Band Fan Club; downbeat, Hot
Raz Times, Impetus; John Edwards Memorial Foundation (JEMF) Quarterly/Newsletter; Letter from Evans; Sonic; and Surface Noise
oversize_box 1
Music Research - Music Publications
1975-1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes Pulse (the Tower Records Magazine); Rolling Stone Articles
carton 30, folder 17-18
Music Research - Music Publications: Sound Choice
approximately 1984-1987
carton 33, folder 15-27
Music Research - Subject Files
approximately 1959-2012
Scope and Content Note
Includes Cecil Taylor Panel Discussion; Counterculture Timeline, 1965-1967; Jazz Research (Kenneth Patchen, and San Francisco
Psychedelic Music); a music notebook; New Perspectives on Jazz; Newspaper Clippings (Miscellaneous); obituaries, biographies,
and Wikipedia pages; files on Philosophy, Poetry, Situationists, Politics, and Clarence White
carton 30, folder 19-20
Music Research - Subject Files
1885-1994
Scope and Content Note
Includes music history (articles, catalogs, posters); sheet music; and flyers from Keystone Korner
oversize_box 1
Music Research - Subject Files
approximately 1913, 1974-1978
Scope and Content Note
Includes sheet music (Rose of Italy); a Randy Newman poster; and liner notes (Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire)
Series 3.
Tree, Judaica, Kabbalah
approximately 1896-2010
Physical Description: Carton 30, folders 22-24; Carton 33, folders 28-36; Carton 34; Carton 35, folders 1-7; Cartons 36-38; Carton 39, folders 1-6;
and Oversize Folder 11
Scope and Content Note
According to scholar Christine Meilicke, the journal "Tree" (approximately 1970-1976) was a literary, aesthetic, and spiritual
undertaking that sought to center dissident texts and marginal voices and create a new Jewish "countercanon." Each issue –
there were five – was an anthology of poetry, prose, medieval treatises, translations, lists, graphs, and charts that revolved
around a particular theme. (Meltzer established Tree Books soon after the first issue was published.) Meilicke explains that
Tree demonstrates Meltzer's expertise in the fields of 19th and 20th century Kabbalistic writing, and his recognition of talented
writers. Many poet contributors became well known later, and Meltzer published groundbreaking translations of works by Jewish
writers that were not available in English. For more on Tree, please see Meilicke's 2003 article, "The Forgotten History of
David Meltzer's Journal Tree": https://www.jstor.org/stable/41205982
This series consists of materials related to the journal Tree and Tree Books, including administrative and financial records;
correspondence; illustrations, manuscripts, paste-ups, and design materials; subject files; and translations. There are also
materials relating to Judaica generally, and Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism more specifically. These include 19th and 20th
Century Judaica and Kabbalah texts that Meltzer collected. The series includes some materials relating to the occult. Please
note that many of the correspondents in Series 1 also wrote for "Tree" so there is overlap with that series, and Meltzer taught
courses on Judaica and Kabbalah at New College, so there is overlap with that series as well.
carton 33, folder 28-33
Manuscripts, etc.
approximately 1971-1975
carton 33, folder 34
Hermanowicz, Henry K., 7 Photo Montages
1974
carton 33, folder 35-36
Tree: Number 4, Galleys
1974
carton 34, folder 1-3
Tree: Number 4, Galleys; and Tree: Number 4, Typeset but Never Used
1974
carton 34, folder 4
Miscellaneous Tree Books, including Blessing over Ashes, by Howard Schwartz
approximately 1974
carton 34, folder 5
Drachler, Rose, Burrowing In, Digging Out
1974
carton 34, folder 6-7
Hirschman, Jack, Aur Sea; and The Book of Noah (translated by Hirschman)
1974-1975
carton 34, folder 8
Amulet
approximately 1974-1977
carton 34, folder 9
Mernit, Susan, The Angelic Alphabet
1975
carton 34, folder 10
Rothenberg, Jerome, The Pirke & the Pearl
1975
carton 34, folder 11
Willems, J. Rutherford, Opening the Cube
1975
carton 34, folder 12
Tree: Number 5
approximately 1975
carton 34, folder 14
Young, Karl, Cried and Measured
1977
carton 34, folder 15
Three Tracks [The Book of Prophecy]
carton 34, folder 16-17
Letters and Manuscripts
approximately 1977-1983
Scope and Content Note
Some of these may not be from Tree
carton 34, folder 18
Tree: 6 – Sayings of Yakov Frank translated by Harris Lenowitz
1977
carton 34, folder 19
A Book of Trees
approximately 1977
carton 34, folder 20
Bornstein, Emily
approximately 1978
carton 34, folder 22
Creation, Emanation, The Tree
carton 34, folder 23
Messiah, Shekonah, Prophecy
carton 34, folder 24-27
Orders, Subscriptions, Invoices, Tree Business, Mailing Lists
approximately 1972-1986
carton 34, folder 28-32
Correspondence
approximately 1974-1990
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Dead Letters," a Dead Letter File, and manuscripts
carton 34, folder 33
Telos Press, Ltd., Brodart Books, Iowa State
1995-1996
carton 34, folder 34
Tree Catalog/Bibliographic Information, Original Stationery, Rejection Forms
2000, undated
carton 34, folder 35
"A History of Tree," Christine A. Meilicke
approximately 2003
carton 30, folder 22
Jewish Mysticism ("Jewish Archival Materials")
1963-2005
carton 34, folder 36
[Nature Notes, etc.]
approximately 1970-1984
carton 34, folder 37
Hessing, Perle (Article About) and Siegfried (Articles By)
approximately 1974
carton 34, folder 37A
The Golem: The Thing that Walks Like a Man! Marvel Comics, and Articles about Golem
approximately 1974
carton 34, folder 38-40
Sephirot Notebook; Kabbalistic Notebook; and Alphabet Notebook
1981
Scope and Content Note
[from Jane Edelman?]
carton 34, folder 41-42
Miscellany, includes Xeroxes, Diagrams
1984-1985
carton 34, folder 43
Articles about Kabbalah/Jews/Judaism
1984-2010
carton 34, folder 44
Religion and Spirituality, including Judaism, Tibetan Buddhism
approximately 1985-2010
carton 34, folder 45
The Jewish Publication Society Members Catalog
1988
carton 34, folder 46
The Formative Meanings of the Ten Sephirot Belmina/Sefiroth
approximately 1989
carton 30, folder 23
Kabbalah – Copies of Photographic Images
carton 36, folder 1
Tesla; Mysticism; Metaphysics; Health Research Publications and Newsletters
approximately 1960s-1970s
carton 36, folder 2
Occult Publications, including T.A.R.O.T. Newsletter
approximately 1970-1991
carton 36, folder 3-10
Tracts * Fortunes
approximately 1984-1995
Xeroxed Judaica
Scope and Content Note
Consists of articles, chapters, and monographs xeroxed and/or collected by Meltzer. Some are rare; some are available elsewhere.
Many have been bound. They are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name or by title. Enumerated titles should give
researchers a sense of the kinds of materials Meltzer collected.
carton 36, folder 12
Amblein, Robert, La Kabbale Pratique
1951
carton 36, folder 13
Arendt, Hannah, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age
1978
carton 36, folder 17-18
Bosman, Leonard
approximately 1914-1932
Scope and Content Note
Includes The Book of Genesis Unveiled; The Meaning and Philosophy of Numbers; The Music of the Spheres or Cosmic Harmony;
and The Sacred Names of God
carton 36, folder 22
Davidson, P., The Sepher Jetsirah; and The Chaldean
1896, 1911
carton 37, folder 0 (Zero)
carton 37, folder 3-5
Fludd, Robert, History of the Macrocosmos, Books I-III, Translated by William D. Dragos
Scope and Content Note
Includes corrections and a celebration of the first complete translation of one of the books into English
carton 37, folder 9
The Greater Treatise Concerning the Palaces of Heaven, with Edits and Commentary
carton 37, folder 10-11
Gruenwald, Ithamar, Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism; and From Apocalyticism to Gnosticism
1980, 1988
carton 35, folder 1
Guillame, Alfred, Prophecy and Divination among the Hebrews and Other Semites
1938
carton 37, folder 13
Hall, Manly P., The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah
1925
carton 37, folder 14
Harrison, Jane Ellen, The Religion of Ancient Greece
1905
carton 37, folder 16
I.O.K. Conference 1975 (International Order of Kabbalists)
carton 38, folder 5-7
Lambert, A. C. (Asael Carlyle), A Private Notebook on Blood Atonement, Blood Sacrifice, Blood Vengeance, Infant Sacrifice,
and Mystical and Religious Ideas Concerning the Blood
195-
carton 38, folder 9
Maclaine, Christopher, The automatic wound; and The time capsule
1949, 1960
carton 35, folder 2
Miscellany, including Notes from 1983
carton 38, folder 10
The Morning Star
1892, 1907
carton 38, folder 11
Munk, Rabbi Michael L., The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet: The Sacred Letters as a Guide to Jewish Deed and Thought
1983
carton 35, folder 3
[The New World]
approximately 1976-1979
carton 38, folder 15
Page, Thomas Frederick
1888
Scope and Content Note
Jewish Mythology or the Coming of the Messiah; and The Golden Fleece: A Book of Jewish Cabalism
carton 38, folder 16
Quispel, Gilles, Gnostic studies; and Jewish and Gnostic Man (The Birth of the Child)
1974, 1986
carton 39, folder 1
Sassoon, George, and Dale, Rodney, The Manna Machine
1978
carton 35, folder 4
Schachter, Rabbi Zalman M., The Yehidut (Encounter): A Study of Counselling in Hasidism
1968
carton 39, folder 2
Scholem, Gershom
Scope and Content Note
Jewish Mysticism in the Middle Ages (1964); Jewish Mysticism and Kabbala; and The Name of God and the Linguistic Theory of
the Kabbala
carton 35, folder 5
Sepher Yetzirah/Sefer Yetsira
1980, undated
carton 39, folder 3-4
Thompson, Scott
approximately 1985
Scope and Content Note
Sepher Yetzirah: Book of Formation (Thompson is translator and editor); and Saadia's Commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah (translated
by Thompson and Dominique Marson)
carton 35, folder 7
Various Articles
Scope and Content Note
Includes Pythagorean Number Theory; A Dictionary of Amulets; The Zoharic Tradition, articles about the Sefer Yetsirah and
the Sephiroth; notes
oversize_folder 11A
Posters and Drawings
Scope and Content Note
Includes Permutations [illegible]: AIN SOPH AUR "Light of Eternity"; The Mystery Mani Fest and The Heart of Paridiso, by Scott
Thompson (ink drawings and text), approximately 1982; line-cut, with images and a poem that begins "holy apple garden…"; poster
illustrating quotes from The Book of Ecclesiastes by John Swanson, inscribed "for David, Tina, Jenny, Maggie and Amanda, Love,
Howard; and The Golden Rule poster (from Utah State Museum of Art)
Series 4.
New College of California
1975-2007
Physical Description: Carton 39, folders 7-35; Cartons 40-42; Carton 43, folders 1-24; and Oversize Folders 2, 10
Scope and Content Note
David Meltzer taught in the Weekend BA Completion Program, and the Humanities and Graduate Poetics program at New College
of California for nearly 30 years (New College was founded in 1971 and ceased operations in 2008). This series consists of
files related to his tenure at the college, and includes administrative records; course bulletins and program catalogs;
flyers for events; faculty and staff meeting minutes and memos; mission statements, manifestos, and policies; a small amount
of material regarding accredidation; student/college publications; and teaching materials. New College teaching materials
include course readers, handouts, lectures and notes, and syllabi. There is a small amount of material from the Naropa Institute
and from Meltzer's other teaching gigs; some student writing; and BA and MA theses. (Theses were kept because there is currently
no archive of New College records.) Many of Meltzer's students became his colleagues, or corresponded with him extensively.
If a student has a file in the Correspondence/Writer Files (Series 1.) their thesis will be found there. Some correspondence
from Meltzer's colleagues regarding New College business can also be found in that series.
Administrative Records and Correspondence
carton 39, folder 7-9
Poetics Program, includes Faculty Meetings, Course Descriptions, Book Lists, Writing & Literature Center, Catalogs and Information,
Notes
1980-1987
carton 39, folder 10-11
Faculty-Staff Community Meetings/Schedules/General Admin, Poetics Faculty Meeting Minutes, Agenda, Budget
1981-1997
carton 39, folder 12
Visions – Vision and Mission Statements
1981
carton 39, folder 13
Humanities, Visual Arts Catalogs and Programs
1981-1983
carton 39, folder 14
Spring Schedules/ACTS (Publication)
1982-1983
carton 39, folder 15-16
New College, includes Administrative Records, Class Schedules, Correspondence, Course Descriptions, Meeting Notes, Memos,
Publications (New Visions #1), Student Newsletters
1984-1987
carton 39, folder 17
New College Notes II
Fall 1985
carton 39, folder 18-21
Course Descriptions and Listings, Electives – Humanities and Poetics Programs, includes Email
1985-2003
carton 39, folder 22-26
Humanities Program/Graduate Program in Psychology
approximately 1986-2002
Scope and Content Note
Includes School of Humanities catalogs; graduate program catalogs; Core Humanities Program – Faculty Meeting Minutes, Recruitment
Committee; The Core Humanities Cluster; and Ducat, Stephen – Crosscultural Psychology Course
carton 39, folder 27
Meltzer – Class Lists, ID, Contract, Notes, Resume (Partial)
approximately 1986-2003
oversize_folder 2A
Certificate Honoring Meltzer
carton 39, folder 28-30
Correspondence, Memos and Forms, includes Faculty Process and Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Accreditation;
and Micah Ballard (Administration)
approximately 1986-2007
carton 39, folder 31-32
Advising/Learning Evaluations/Student Learning, Humanities Advising
1987-2000
carton 39, folder 33
Professional Judgement and Dissent at New College/Working Papers on Critical Pedagogy
approximately 1988
carton 39, folder 34
Curricula
approximately 1989
carton 39, folder 35
Student Handbooks – Poetics & Humanities Programs/Intro to the Library/Advising Guide
1989-1990
carton 40, folder 1-2
Faculty Development Grant Group/Faculty Development Seminars; and Faculty Meeting Calendars
approximately 1989-1991
carton 40, folder 3
By-Laws, Grading Proposal, Advertisements, Notes
1990
carton 40, folder 4-5
Poetics Workshop, includes Correspondence; Poetics Program Calendar; Student Handbook; JFK University Faculty Grievance Procedures
1990
carton 40, folder 6
Statement of Intent: Working Paper
approximately 1990
carton 40, folder 7-8
Graduate Student Teaching Proposals/Student Teaching Proposals
1990-1991, 2001-2002
carton 40, folder 9
New College Politics Student Meeting Minutes; Student Co-Representative Notes; Student Grievances and Concerns
1993-2002
carton 40, folder 10
Lawlor, William – Syllabi on Teaching the Beats
1995
carton 40, folder 11
Graduation Programs
1995-2003
carton 40, folder 12
Manifesto for a New College
1998
carton 40, folder 13
Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community – BA Completion Program/MA in Humanities & Leadership/MFA Creative Inquiry, Bay
Guardian Ad
approximately 1998-1999
carton 40, folder 14
Proposals for Revision of Poetics Curriculum
[2001?]
carton 40, folder 15
(Western Association of Schools and Colleges) WASC Self-Study Report (re: Accreditation )
2001-2002
carton 40, folder 16
Course Descriptions and Catalog Listings
2002-2003
carton 40, folder 17
Weekday BA Program/NC in Solidarity Students
2003
carton 40, folder 18
Sign Up Sheets, Emails re: Expectations and Standards, Faculty Meeting Minutes
2006-2007
carton 40, folder 19
Meeting with Martin Hamilton, Ceila Esposito, Beth Kransburger, Juana Alicia, Maria Luisa Medonça, and Ann Berklak - Transcript
carton 40, folder 20
Writing and Literature Program/Cultural Studies Program
carton 40, folder 22
New College Publications
approximately 1985-2001
Scope and Content Note
Includes Poetry/Poetics Journals in the Special Poetry Collection, NCOC Humanities School Library, compiled by Jeff Gburek,
Jeff and D. Soules, 1985; Humanities Newsletter, 1988; New Knowledge News & Views, [1988]; The Funkey Monkey, 1999; and The
Traveling Poet, 2000-2001
Teaching
Scope and Content Note
Includes lectures and readings for classes, and assignments. Files are arranged (roughly) in chronological order. There may
be overlap with the Writings and Judaica series.
carton 40, folder 23-27
Kabbalah Courses
approximately 1980-1985
Scope and Content Note
Files nclude Lectures re: Feminine Elements, Bahir, Sefiroth, AA (Abulafia); Lectures and Notes, including Letter, Word, Sound,
Number; Classwork; Kabbalah Course; Lectures, Readings; and Annotated Checklist of Titles Pertaining to the Kabbalah in the
New College Library/KBL and Notes, Judaica Classes
oversize_folder 10A
Hand-Painted Gift Certificate, Kabbalah Class
1981
Scope and Content Note
Good for one complete set of the complete works from Kabbalah class, 1980-1981; Philo of Alexandria and Robert Duncan/Diane
Di Prima
carton 40, folder 28
Dream Workshop
approximately 1981
carton 40, folder 29
Lectures – on (Everyday) Myth and Jazz, including Jazz List, Jazz Words, Intro, Bird, Poles (Polarities)
approximately 1981
carton 40, folder 30
Class on Ads/Everyday Myths
carton 40, folder 31
Ha! NCOC Poetics Class with [Duncan] McNaughton – Class Notes
1983
carton 40, folder 32
In Beginning
approximately 1985
carton 40, folder 33
History [Assignment?]
approximately 1986
carton 40, folder 35
[The Book Within the Book: Six Lectures on the Kabbalah], includes The Prophetic, Prophecy, Prophecy Miscellaneous, Poet:
Prophet: Seer: Fool: 2, Futurus; or, Ehu; or, Abut; or, Bheu–, and Nature
approximately 1988
carton 40, folder 36-38
The Prophetic, includes Lecture Notes, Class Readings
approximately 2008
carton 40, folder 39
Romance – Defining Art (Maria Luisa Mendoza)
1988, 1994
carton 40, folder 40-48
Humanities 2/Shocks and Breaks Lecture Notes
approximately 1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Includes Hum 2: Modern/Modernity/Modernism/Modernization/The Endlessly New; Letter, Word, Sound, Number: Second Semester;
In: Personing; Presence(s) Part Two; Gaia; Sophia; Prophet/Prophecy; Notes on the Book; "What's New" – Modernism Lecture Notes;
Humanities 2: US History: Beginnings and Endings; Lecture Notes – Humanities 2, Shocks and Breaks, etc.; Shocks/Breaks, includes
Automatism; Courses – Shocks/Modernity; Shocks, etc./Hum. 2; and Shocks WWI
carton 40, folder 50
Miscellaneous Courses Taught, Drawings and Notes, includes Unexpected Gifts: The Prophetic Tradition in Jewish Poetry Before
and After the Holocaust
approximately 1988-2003
carton 40, folder 51-53
Letter, Word/Before, During, After Writing
approximately 1989-1993
Scope and Content Note
Before, During, and After Writing: A Survey of Literatures, includes Course Notes: The Unspeakable/Unsayable; Is/Isn't; and
In-Personing Presence
carton 41, folder 1-4
Myth; and Everyday Myth: Sources/X Masters
1990-1991
carton 41, folder 5
Writing/Lit/Course Proposals
approximately 1994
carton 41, folder 6
Answer
approximately 2000
carton 41, folder 7
Course Notes, includes Poetry Fragments, Drawings, Course Enrollment Forms
2001
carton 41, folder 8
Assignments – Hand Outs, Sign Up Sheets, includes Poetry for the People
approximately 2004
carton 41, folder 9
Music and Poetry – Women Musicians and Poets (Secondary Source Material)
2005
carton 41, folder 10
Readings on Jazz/The Tibetan Myth of Divination
[2006-2007]
carton 41, folder 12-13
Duncan, Robert
Scope and Content Note
Class on Duncan: Lecture, Notes, and Poems; and The Nature of a Person – Transcribed from a Lecture by Robert Duncan
carton 41, folder 15-23
NCOC/Teaching Notebooks
approximately 1990-2001
Scope and Content Note
Please note that there may be overlap with the notebooks in Series 2. Writings
carton 41, folder 24
The Future as Seen through Utopian Literature (Weekend College)
1990
Scope and Content Note
The class was taught by Meltzer. The course reader also contains readings for a course taught by Jerry Decker, Alternative
Social Systems I & II
carton 41, folder 25
Utopian Literature
[1990]
carton 41, folder 27-30
Romantics and Revolt; and Revolting Romantics
approximately 1992-2002
carton 42, folder 1
Before, During After Writing
Spring 1993
carton 42, folder 3
Video Seminar (Maria Louisa Mendonça)
Fall 1993
carton 42, folder 4-6
Everyday Art; and Critical Perspectives on Western Civilization: Everyday Art
approximately 1994-1996
Scope and Content Note
One class is with Maria Louisa Mendonça
carton 42, folder 7
Techno-Onthology
Spring 1997
carton 42, folder 8
History's History
Fall 1998
carton 42, folder 9-12
Urban Scrawl: Making it New; and Urban Scrawl
approximately 1998-2003
Scope and Content Note
Includes Notes, Khurban Revised Syllabus
carton 42, folder 13-14
Silent Sound (Fasicle One, Reader #2)
approximately Spring 2000
carton 42, folder 15
Start & Stop: Survey of Creation and Cessation Myths
Spring 2001
carton 43, folder 2-4
Kid Lit, includes Lecture Notes
approximately 2007
carton 43, folder 5
Making it New: The Williams Line
Fall 2007
carton 43, folder 6-7
American Earthquake: Reading the Thirties
Miscellaneous Student Work
carton 43, folder 8-11
Poetry, Independent Studies, Assignments
1986-2001
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Extraction of Notes from the Basic Elements," by Lynne Wildey; Fawnita A. Williams interview with David Lyle; and
assignments from the class Making It New, 2001. These assignments consist of students' reactions to the canon, to their writing
community, and to what they learned in the course/how it transformed them. Note that there may be other papers from student
in this class in the individual correspondence/writer files.
carton 43, folder 12-13
Kid Lit/Alphabets – Various Handmade Chapbooks; and Alphabet Class – Assignments
carton 43, folder 14-19
Non-MFA/Non-Poetry Theses
approximately 1990-2003
Scope and Content Note
Some other theses (mostly for the MFA) can be found in the correspondence/writers' files. Includes the following: Deborah
Nagle Burks, California Institute of Integral Studies Dissertation Proposal (1993); Claudia Crosetti, Claudia, Senior Thesis,
Weekend BA Completion Program (2003); Avrill English, thesis (approximately 1990); The Poetics of Raymond Carver, MA Thesis
Draft; Ellie Sugar, thesis (2000); and Mary Willging MA Thesis in Poetics (1997). These were retained because it is not clear
that a New College of California archives exists.
carton 43, folder 20
Poetry Workshop [Urban School?]
1975
carton 43, folder 21-23
Poetry/Translations by Students on Jewish Subjects/Themes [Correspondence Course]
approximately 1986
Scope and Content Note
Students includes published authors, such as Rodger Kamenetz; most students are in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Massachusetts,
and Louisiana
carton 43, folder 24
Naropa Institute – MFA Program in Writing and Poetics
1987-1988
Series 5.
Prison Teaching, Workshops, and Poetry Anthologies
approximately 1971-1985
Physical Description: Carton 43, folders 25-38; Carton 44, folders 1-20
Scope and Content Note
This series includes administrative records, correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials related to writing workshops
and classes Meltzer taught at Vacaville Prison. There are also materials related to the publication of two poetry anthologies:
About time: an anthology of California prison writing, edited by Seth Morgan and Edward Posada (1980) and From the heart to
the people: an anthology of Vacaville Prison poetry, edited by R.V. Cottam (1983). The series also has files related to Kite,
a magazine for writers in prison, the KPFA radio program "Inside Out," and copies of newsletters, including the Vacaville
Star. Some materials related to individual writers may also be found in Series 1. Correspondence/Writer Files.
carton 43, folder 25-28
Vacaville Writing Workshop and Anthology
approximately 1977-1983
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, writing, flyers; and materials from the California Arts Council. Correspondents include Eloise Pickard Smith,
and Edward Posada
carton 43, folder 29-31
Prison Arts Project, Vacaville
approximately 1979-1981
Scope and Content Note
Iincludes correspondence, personnel and financial records, proposal, and materials re: Kite Magazine, and Inside Out
carton 43, folder 32-35
Inside Out, KPFA Radio
1981-1985
Scope and Content Note
Includes script, and KPFA Program Guides. Writers represented include L. Gene Ferris, Donald C. Stroud, and Bob Grove.
carton 43, folder 36
Newsletters
1979-1980
Scope and Content Note
Includes Newscam (from the Department of Corrections), The Outreach Press, El Progresso Del Empleo, and the Vacavalley Star
carton 43, folder 37-38
About Time Anthology, includes Additional Material
approximately 1978-1980
carton 44, folder 1-2
About Time - Correspondence
1979-1980
Students/Writers/Manuscripts/Typescripts
carton 44, folder 3
De Victoria, Joe, Desert Ordeal
approximately 1979-1981
carton 44, folder 4-6
Ferris, L. Gene – Manuscripts
carton 44, folder 7
Ferris, L. Gene-Edward Posada, Works in Progress
approximately 1980
carton 44, folder 8
Ferris, L. Gene/William Franklin aka Bob Grove – Writing and Correspondence
approximately 1982-1983
carton 44, folder 9
Franklin, Wm., Death of a Child
carton 44, folder 10
MacDonald, Charles – Play
1980
carton 44, folder 11-13
Stanchi, Hugo, The Rattle of Our Own Drum – Novel Manuscript, with Correspondence
1975, 1979
carton 44, folder 15
Thompson, Gene
approximately 1981
carton 44, folder 16
Trantino, Tommy
approximately 1971
carton 44, folder 17
Prison Poems, including Edmundo Ayala, Wm. Franklin, Bob Grove, Chet Morris, Joe De Victoria, Melvin Lowery
carton 44, folder 18
Tuesday Afternoon #2 – Writings Selected from the Tuesday Afternoon Writers Workshop
[1980]
carton 44, folder 19
The Volunteers of Vacaville
approximately 1978
carton 44, folder 20
Melter's Notes, Newspaper Clippings, Miscellany
approximately 1980
Series 6.
Music
1959-2009
Physical Description: Carton 44, folders 21-41
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of materials related to Meltzer's career as a musician. Subjects include Meltzer's psychedelic rock band,
The Serpent Power (1966-1968), which featured his wife Tina on vocals and poet Clark Coolidge on drums; the music he created
with Tina; and MIX, the poetry and jazz combo he was in with Tina and Coolidge (formed in 1993). Meltzer's writings about
music, including his books on jazz and album reviews, can be found in Series 3.
carton 44, folder 21
Notes [for a Record Album]/AB: Want List
1959, undated
carton 44, folder 22-24
The Serpent Power
1968-2009
Scope and Content Note
Includes writings about and reviews of The Serpent Power; reviews of Poet Song (an album by David and Tina); a poster; and
a master list of David Meltzer's songs
carton 44, folder 25-31
Tina & David Meltzer
Scope and Content Note
Includs songs (love songs); lyrics to songs on one of Tina and David's albums; and Tina and David's compilation of standards
carton 44, folder 32-38
MIX
approximately 1994-1995
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters, posters/flyers (for MIX shows and Meltzer's readings), photographs (some by Ben E. Watkins), and reviews
carton 44, folder 39
Jazz Guitar Record Club, etc.
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Includes Robert Yelin's Jazz Guitar Record Catalog, catalogs from record clubs, and alternative zines, such as The Green Mystery
carton 44, folder 40
Wolff, Michael, Impure Thoughts
1998-2000
carton 44, folder 41
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – Correspondence and Royalties
2006-2009
Series 7.
Tina Meltzer
approximately 1936-1995
Physical Description: Carton 35, folders 8-10; Carton 44, folders 42-45; Carton 45, folders 1-20; Carton 46; and Oversize Folder 4
Scope and Content Note
Musician, singer, and artist Tina Meltzer (née Meyer) was born in 1936; she died of ovarian cancer in 1995. Tina was married
to David Meltzer for approximately 30 years. This series includes art and writing from the Meltzer children; correspondence;
materials related to Tina's music and teaching; her writings; personalia; photographs; and calendars and stuffed animals she
handcrafted annually for David. Please note that there is virtually no correspondence between David and Tina. Letters to David
and Tina, and most of the correspondence with their children can be found in Series 1.
carton 44, folder 42-45
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Includes childhood photos, and photos of Tina's family and friends that date back to at last 1936. Some are likely from earlier
in the 20th century. There is a photo of Elliott Roosevelt, and at least one of Tina and David. There are snapshots, and 8
x 10s; most are in black and white.
carton 45, folder 1-2
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
See Scope and Content Note for the photographs in Carton 44
carton 45, folder 3
Martin, Don, Photographs
approximately 1956
Scope and Contents
Includes a trip to Mexico in 1956; Martin was described as a former lover
carton 45, folder 4
Personalia, includes Birth Certificate, Passport, Postcards, Memorial Program
1936-1995
carton 35, folder 8
Tina and Jenny Meltzer
1958-1995
carton 45, folder 5
Faces, Vol. II (Book)
1969-1994
carton 45, folder 6
Correspondence – Incoming and Outgoing, includes Card to David
1969-1995
carton 35, folder 9
Meltzer Children – Writing and Art
approximately 1973
carton 45, folder 7
Adam Meltzer: The Early Years [Family History Project]
carton 45, folder 8
Amanda Meltzer – The World's Tiniest Dog
1975
carton 35, folder 10
Music Pre-School Day Camp
approximately 1980-1982
carton 45, folder 10
Letters and Notebook
approximately 1985-1993
carton 45, folder 12
Notebook – Tina's Writings and Songs
approximately 1989
carton 45, folder 13-15
"Stars" (Script), "Colors," "Wheels," Songs, Youth in Arts
1989-1993
carton 45, folder 16
Brown, M.K. [Illustrated some of Tina's Lyrics]
1993
carton 45, folder 17
Tina to Eduardo/Howl at Slims
1993
oversize_folder 4A
Handmade Calendars Tina Made for David
1959-1967
carton 46, folder 1-13
Handmade Calendars Tina Made Annually for David
1962-1994
carton 46
Handmade Toys Tina Made for David's Birthdays (His 37-40th, 46th, and 49th)
Scope and Content Note
Toys are in a box inside the carton
Series 8.
Biographical Materials and Personalia
approximately 1929-2015
Physical Description: Carton 35, folders 11-17; Carton 45, folders 21-41; Carton 47, folders 1-18, Oversize Box 1; Oversize Folders 1, 3, 6-8, and
10
Arrangement
Arranged (roughly) chronologically
Scope and Content Note
Includes addresses and business cards, art made for David or Tina, articles about Meltzer, autobiographical and biographical
material, awards and grants, collage scraps, curricula vitaes, datebooks and calendars, family records re: their children
and other relatives, horoscopes and astrological charts, materials related to Meltzer's sexual fetishes, [notebooks?], photographs,
tracts and fortunes collected by Meltzer, travel ephemera, musicians union membership and other ID cards. Photographs are
of family and friends and members of their literary, artistic, and music circle. There is also an album that utilizes 19th
and 20th Century photographs to create a fictional account of Meltzer's life.
carton 45, folder 21
Financial Records - McCormick-Santa Barbara Expense Report; Tax Forms
1929, 1980
carton 45, folder 22
Awards, Certificates, Grant
1954, 2005-2012
carton 45, folder 23-32
Photographs
approximately 1956-2010
Scope and Content Note
Black & white, 8 x 10s, and color snapshots, negatives, contact sheets, and xeroexed photographs. Subjects include David and
Tina Meltzer, and their family and friends, Julie Rogers, Aya Tarlow (a photo magnet), and pets (a dog and cat, [named Murray,
and J.R.]). Locations include North Beach, the Jazz Cellar, gallery readings, recording sessions, performances, and New College
of California. Photographers include Jim Marshall, Barry Oliver (for the Berkeley Folk Music Festival), Becky Cohen (includes
contact sheets), Erik Weber, [Larry Durdan], Tina, Mort Shuman, Chester Kessler, Larry Keenan, Steven Wilson, and John Sarsgard.
There are photographs of poet friends (John Weiners, Philip Lamantia, Bob Alexander, and [Bob Kaufman]). Includes photographs
from Pip Benveniste documenting visits to England and Connecticut; and a photo of an art object George Hermes made for David
and Tina. One folder contains negatives and ephemera from a trip to Amsterdam and the ICA Amsterdam Berman Exhibit; another
labeled "Photographs, 4 David #2," has correspondence, and includes materials related to MIX, and photos by Ben E. Watkins.
oversize_box 1
Portraits of David Meltzer
approximately 1966-1981
Scope and Content Note
Black & white. Photographers include by Chris Felver, Christa Fleischmann, and Erik Weber
oversize_box 1
Photo Album – A Fictional Account of Meltzer's Life, Utilizing 19th and 20th Century Photographs
oversize_folder 1A
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs - Family Portrait; and Performances (by CR Snyder) [The Serpentpower]; and a commercial photo
taken by Allen Say that includes Tina and Jenny
carton 45, folder 33
Family Personalia
approximately 1960-1993
Scope and Content Note
Includes birth announcement for son Adam, marriage certificate from first marriage, drawings from his kids, and jewelry
carton 45, folder 34
Badges and Musicians Union Card
1967-2004
carton 45, folder 35
Bolinas School Graduation Exercises
1972
carton 45, folder 36-37
Biographical/Autobiographical, includes Articles about Meltzer/Interview
1970s-2015
carton 45, folder 38-39
Horoscope, Astrology, Numerology
1976-2007
Scope and Content Note
Includes David's Solar Return (with Brain-Mind Bulletin, Comics Lecture)
carton 47, folder 1-7
Datebooks and Calendars
1989-1998, 2006-2010
carton 47, folder 8-9
Addresses, Appointments, and Business Cards
carton 47, folder 10
"Vita Stuff" – includes Reviews
approximately 1993-1995
carton 47, folder 11
Family History – Photocopied Documents, Letter to Nan/Roots Search
approximately 2006
carton 47, folder 12
List of Meltzer's Artwork for Show at Firehouse Gallery
2014
carton 47, folder 13
Stationary – Mostly Vintage
oversize_folder 3A, oversize_folder 7A, oversize_folder 10A
Miscellany
Scope and Content Note
OSF 3A: an issue of the periodical Praxis One (1971 – may be partial)
OSF 7A: Van Heusen shirt ad featuring Ronald Reagan
OSF 10A: [Japanese] characters drawn in ink
carton 47, folder 14
Ephemera – includes Entertainment and Clothing Catalogs
approximately 1950s-1990s
carton 47, folder 15-16
Fetish/Kink Catalogs (Erotica)
approximately 1982-2005
carton 47, folder 17
Bud Plant's Incredible Catalog
1999
carton 47, folder 18
WCW: Contents of the Original Volumes (William Carlos Williams)
carton 35, folder 11
Hermes, George [and Pixie?], Collage
1994
carton 35, folder 12
Reggio Emilia at Katherine Michiels School (Photo Album)
1996
carton 35, folder 13
Drawing for David from Guy, Art for Tina, Jim Gill Photograph
approximately 1996
carton 35, folder 14
Tasha R., Contemplation, Painting
2001
carton 35, folder 15
Shel Silverstein Drawing and Robo David – The Sequel
carton 35, folder 17
Drawing for Tina by [MK Brown – Mary Kathleen Brown]
oversize_box 1
Rebecca Goodsel, Print [Self-Portrait], (#6 of 25)
2002
oversize_folder 3A
Drawings and Birthday Card by Allen Say
oversize_folder 6B
Drawing – [Self-portrait of Tina and David]
oversize_folder 8B
Pencil/Charcoal Drawing by [Deb Frund]
oversize_folder 8B
Untitled Artwork (Mail Art) by [Pip Benveniste to Meltzer]
Series 9.
Literary Ephemera
approximately 1962-2017
Physical Description: Carton 35, folder 18; Carton 47, folders 19-32; Carton 48, folders 1-20; Oversize Folders 3, and 6-10
Scope and Content Note
Documents poetry readings, music, art events, small presses, conferences, and seminars happening in the literary and arts
scenes in the Bay Area and beyond. Many are Beat-related. Though there may be overlap between the two sections, events that
featured Meltzer are filed first. These include flyers, poem cards, press releases, small press catalogs, and unidentified
manuscripts. Some ephemera has been transferred to Acquisitions for separate cataloging. Please note that there is overlap
with Series 1. Correspondence/Writer Files
carton 47, folder 19-32
David Meltzer Events and Ephemera
1960s-2000s
Scope and Content Note
Arranged (roughly) chronologically. There are flyers for poetry readings (solo and with others), benefits for political causes,
art exhibits, and cultural events. Includes the International San Francisco Poetry Festival; Beyond Baroque; Berman and Semina;
Beat Generation (Cesena); Beat Culture and the New America (DeYoung Exhibit); and Re/Beat; Istituto Gramsci; Literatur Werk
Statt Berlin; A Night of the Beats (LA Philharmonic); Outpost Performance Space/Outpost Productions; and Beatnik Shindig.
carton 48, folder 1-3
David Meltzer Events and Ephemera
2000s, undated
carton 35, folder 18
David Meltzer Events and Ephemera
carton 48, folder 4-13
Literary Events and Ephemera
approximately 1962-2017
Scope and Content Note
Includes poetry readings, small press info, publication notices/book releases, information about schools and poetry programs,
conference materials, invites to gallery shows (Hermes, Jess), and notices of memorials.
carton 48, folder 14-18
Literary Press Ephemera and Catalogs, A-W
approximately 1972-2003
Scope and Content Note
Also contains mass mailings from literary presses, including Arte Public Press, City Lights, Oyez, Poltroon, and Post-Apollo.
There is overlap with chronologically sorted ephemera, and small press ephemera can also be found in Series 1. Correspondence/Writer
Files
carton 48, folder 19-20
Poem Cards and Press Ephemera
approximately 1972-1997
oversize_folder 3A, oversize_folder 6B, oversize_folder 7A, oversize_folder 8B, oversize_folder 9C, oversize_folder 10A
Posters for Poetry Readings, Political Benefits, and Other Events
approximately 1973-2016
Scope and Content Note
OSF 3A: posters for poetry readings, including Polymnia in the House (Junior Council of MOMA), The Poetry Project, Bread and
Wine, Harold Norse Benefit, Noe Valley Poets Workshop (for the publication of Quasar), Duff's Poetry Series, and Writers and
Poets in Santa Cruz
OSF 6B: posters for readings and benefits, including a David and Tina Concert, MIX, and Amiri Baraka (a Keystone Korner jazz
and poetry benefit). There's also a novelty poster featuring David and Tina in a faux 1950s setting.
OSF 7A: posters for the Poets Theatre at SFMOMA, David and Tina's poetry and music, Mighty Sparrow, The Fillmore, Poets of
the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, Michael McClure's The Beard, and William Blakes' Fall of Man. There are
also political posters re: consumption, a Prop 15 benefit, and anti-Iraq war events (many by Arch D. Bunker Madvertising)
OSF 8B: posters for SF Jazz, art exhibits (including Pip Beneviste and Hermes), the first annual SF Poetry Festival, Will
Eisner SF (The Spirit, 1973), Double Lion Dharma (from Wallace Berman's estate and Michael McClure, 1998), and Brian Ferry
OSF 9C: includes the following posters - Felix the Cat, the Wallace Berman exhibit at ICA Amsterdam (multiple copies - one
is signed by Michael McClure), Jazztoldtales, MIX (multiple posters and a handmade sign), Ink Slingers Fair (at the Berkeley
Adult School), trippy poster ([MOSOCO] and John Reed); National Tribute to Cesar Chavez, International Women's Day, Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Double Lion Dharma, Black Oaks Books event calendars, and Beat Generation Cesena
OSF 10A: posters for the Rotary, a Meltzer Reading at Moe's Books (2007), Outrider Tales, Beyond Baroque (signed, 2014), and
Meltzer's Memorial, 2016
carton 48
Series 10.
Audiovisual Materials
Physical Description: Carton 48 (5 VHS tapes)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to audio-visual materials may be restricted due to technical limitations.
Scope and Content Note
Overtime, Philip Whalen, for David Meltzer, Ft. Mason, Cowell Theater 1999
Lun*Na Menoh, Dress for Poet with bang! Manifesto, [fashion show], 1993
Computer as a Spiritual Tool?/Dream On - Former husband lives on through technology, part of a panel, audience questions and
a performance, 1997
Allen Ginsberg & Company, poetry reading at Nourse Auditorium with [Lens], David, Allen, John, Michael, Phil, Lawrence, 1968
Poetics Faculty Reading, New College Archives, with Tom Clark, Adam Cornford, Gloria Frym, Lyn Heninian, David Meltzer, 1996