Guide to the Rae Armantrout Papers, circa 1970-2001 M1211

Joseph Geller

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2009 ; revised 2022

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Rae Armantrout papers

Creator: Armantrout, Rae

Identifier/Call Number: M1211

Identifier/Call Number: 1449

Physical Description: 23 Linear Feet (48 manuscript boxes, 3 half boxes)

Physical Description: 28.16 gigabyte(s) (digital files, including 2 email accounts)

Date (inclusive): circa 1970-2022

Abstract: The collection documents Rae Armantrout's writing and teaching career from the 1970s through 2022.

Physical Location: Special Collections materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36 hours in advance.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with the exception of the born-digital materials, which are closed until processed. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Two files in the 2022 addendum are restricted until 2032 and 2037.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession numbers: MSS.2001-095, MSS.2001-140. This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in April and May 2001. Additional materials were acquired in 2022.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in six series:

Series 1: Correspondence

Series 2: Notebooks

Series 3: Writing

Series 4: Teaching Materials

Series 5: Photographs

Series 6: Addendum - Accession 2022-125

Biographical / Historical

Poet and essayist Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, in 1947 and grew up in San Diego. Graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970, she studied under Denise Levertov. Armantrout also received a master's degree in creative writing at San Francisco State University in 1975. Armantrout is the author of many books, including, Versed (2009), for which she won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She also was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry in 2008 and received a National Book Critics Circle AwardA founding member of the West Coast "Language Poetry" movement, Armantrout worked closely with a dynamic group of writers including Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Barret Watten, Tom Mandel, and Carla Harryman. Although Language poetry can be seen as advocating a poetics of nonreferentiality, Armantrout's work, focusing as it often does on the local and the domestic, resists such definitions. Armantrout's work has been the subject of numerous essays (some of which are gathered in A Wild Salience: The Writings of Rae Armantrout, a collection dedicated to her work), and an entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 193). In addition to her literary output, Armantrout taught at the University of California, San Diego, for more than two decades.

Related Materials

Fanny Howe Papers, M0648, M0768, M0848

Marjorie Perloff Papers, M1504

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Rae Armantrout papers (M1211). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, notebooks, typescripts, teaching materials, and photographs. Much of the correspondence, from the late 1970s to 2022, consists of substantive letters and emails from other poets and writers, including Lydia Davis, Fanny Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman. The notebooks in the collection record random thoughts from which Armantrout's poems often evolved. The collection also includes typescripts for Armantrout's books, including Precedence (1985), Necromance (1989), Made to Seem (1995), True (1996), Versed (2009), Just Saying (2013), Itself (2015), and Wobble (2018), as well as typescripts for other miscellaneous poems and essays. Teaching materials in the collection consist of Armantrout's lecture notes, syllabi, and course readers for classes on poetry and personal narrative taught at the University of California, San Diego from the mid-1980s to the 2010s. Additional materials in the addendum include some personal papers, reviews, and drafts of speeches and talks given by Armantrout.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American poetry -- 20th century.

Women authors.

Davis, Lydia.

Armantrout, Rae

Howe, Fanny

Perelman, Bob

Hejinian, Lyn.

Silliman, Ronald

Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE 446303

Scope and Content

This series contains incoming letters, postcards, and printed emails. Typescripts and other materials originally included with the correspondence have been retained in this series.

Box 1, folder 1

Abbott, Steve, 1979: letters 939201

Box 1, folder 2

Acker, Kathy, 1978-1980: letters, postcard 939203

Box 1, folder 3

Alcosser, Sandra, 1988: letter 939205

Box 1, folder 4

Alexander, Charles, 1990-2000: letter, emails 939207

Box 1, folder 5

Alferi, Pierre, 1991: letter 939209

Box 1, folder 6

Andrews, Bruce, 1977-1995: letters, postcards 939211

Box 1, folder 7

Armantrout, Hazel, 1989: birthday card 939213

Box 1, folder 8

Ashbery, John, 1979-1992: letters 939215

Box 1, folder 9

Baracks, Barbara, 1976-1978: letters 939217

Box 1, folder 10

Bellamy, Dodie, 1995-1998: emails 939219

Box 1, folder 11

Benson, Steve, 1977-1992: letters, typescripts, postcards 939221

Box 1, folder 12

Bernheimer, Alan, 1985-1994: postcard, letter 939223

Box 1, folder 13

Bernstein, Charles, 1977-2000: postcards, letters, emails 939225

Box 1, folder 14

Berrigan, Sandy, 1988: letter 939227

Box 1, folder 15

Brito, Manuel, 1990-1994: letters, questionnaire 939229

Box 1, folder 16

Bromige, David, 1985-1997: letters, postcards, email 939231

Box 1, folder 17

Brooker, Gregory, 1994: letter, typescripts 939233

Box 1, folder 18

Brossard, Nicole, 1987: letter 939235

Box 1, folder 19

Brown, Colin, 1986: letters 939237

Box 1, folder 20

Brown, Lee Ann, 1994: letter 939239

Box 1, folder 21

Capgras, Genevieve, 1991: letter 939241

Box 1, folder 22

Chadwick, Cydney, 1989-1992: letters, postcard 939243

Box 1, folder 23

Chamberlain, Lori, 1988-1991: letters, postcard 939245

Box 1, folder 24

Codrescu, Andrei, 1993: letter 939247

Box 1, folder 25

Coleman, Wanda, 1990: letter 939249

Box 1, folder 26

Creeley, Robert, 1985-1999: postcards, email 939251

Box 1, folder 27

Cutler, Carolyn, 1991: letter 939253

Box 1, folder 28

Damon, Maria, 1995: email 939255

Box 1, folder 29

Darragh, Tina, 1987-1992: letters, postcards 939257

Box 1, folder 30

Davidson, Michael, 1987-1991: letters 939259

Box 1, folder 31

Davies, Alan, 1979-1992: postcards, essay 939261

Box 1, folder 32

Davis, Lydia, 1983-1995: typescripts, letters, postcards 939263

Box 1, folder 33

Davis, Lydia, 1996-2000: letters, postcards, emails 939265

Box 1, folder 34

Destremau, Lionel, 1995: letter 939267

Box 1, folder 35

Doris, Stacy, 1994: letter 939269

Box 1, folder 36

Doughty, Julia, 1987: postcard 939271

Box 1, folder 37

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 1984-1998: letters, postcards, emails 939273

Box 2, folder 1

Edwards, Ken, 1978: letters 939275

Box 2, folder 2

Equi, Elaine, 1992-2001: emails, postcards 939277

Box 2, folder 3

Eshleman, Clayton, 1970-1988: letters 939279

Box 2, folder 4

Evans, Steve and Jennifer Moxley, 1989-1992: letters, greeting card 939281

Box 2, folder 5

Fraser, Kathleen, 1978: letter 939283

Box 2, folder 6

Freilicher, Melvyn, 1982-1992: postcards 939285

Box 2, folder 7

Gilonas, Harry, 1990: letters 939287

Box 2, folder 8

Gizzi, Michael, 1991: letters 939289

Box 2, folder 9

Gizzi, Peter, 1988-1997: letters, postcards, email 939291

Box 2, folder 10

Golding, Alan, 1992-1995: letters, email 939293

Box 2, folder 11

Grim, Jessica, 1989-1998: letters, postcards, email 939295

Box 2, folder 12

Hejinian, Lyn, 1977-1995: letters, signed broadside, postcards, typescripts, emails 939297

Box 2, folder 13

Hejinian, Lyn, 1996-2000: letters, emails 939299

Box 2, folder 14

Hocquard, Emmanuel, 1985-1986: letters, program 939301

Box 2, folder 15

Hoover, Paul, 1988-1994: letters 939303

Box 2, folder 16

Howe, Fanny, 1988-1995: letters, postcards, typescripts 939305

Box 2, folder 17-18

Howe, Fanny, 1996-2000: emails 939307

Box 22, folder 1

Howe, Fanny, 1994-2000: emails. Closed until Jan. 1, 2021. 939309

Box 3, folder 1

Howe, Susan, 1978-1996: letters, postcards, emails 939311

Box 3, folder 2

Jarolin, Edie, 1985-1991: letters, postcards 939313

Box 3, folder 3

Jorris, Pierre and Jerome Rothenberg, 1996: letter 939315

Box 3, folder 4

Killian, Kevin, 1989-1996: letters 939317

Box 3, folder 5

Killian, Kevin and Dodie Bellamy, 1996-2000: emails, letter 939319

Box 3, folder 6

Kinnell, Galway, 1990: letter 939321

Box 3, folder 7

Kitchell, Marilyn, 1986: letters 939323

Box 3, folder 8

Krantz, Chris, 1989: letters 939325

Box 3, folder 9

Lally, Michael, no date: note 939327

Box 3, folder 10

Lauterbach, Ann, 1991: letters 939329

Box 3, folder 11

Lazer, Hank, 1988-2000: letters, emails, typescripts 939331

Box 3, folder 12

Leddy, Michael, 1991-1995: letters, postcards, typescripts, essay on Armantrout 939333

Box 3, folder 13

Levertov, Denise, 1970-1978: postcards 939335

Box 3, folder 14

Littman, Brett, 1991-1993: letters, typescript, postcard 939337

Box 3, folder 15

Luoma, Bill, 1995: email 939339

Box 3, folder 16

Manson, Peter, 1994: letters 939341

Box 3, folder 17

Mayer, Bernadette, circa 1989: postcards, letters 939343

Box 3, folder 18

McCaffery, Larry, 1991: letter 939345

Box 3, folder 19

McGann, Jerome, 1989-1990: letters 939347

Box 3, folder 20

Merritt, Bruce, 1993: letter 939349

Box 3, folder 21

Messerli, Douglas, 1985-1997: letters, postcards, publishing agreement 939351

Box 3, folder 22

Moriarty, Laura, 1994-2000: letters, emails, wedding invitation 939353

Box 3, folder 23

Morrow, Brad, 1990-1995: letters 939355

Box 3, folder 24

Mott, Glenn, 1991: letters 939357

Box 3, folder 25

Moxley, Jennifer, 1991-1995: letters, typescripts 939359

Box 3, folder 26

Mullen, Harryette, 1993: letter 939361

Box 3, folder 27

Myles, Eileen, 1994: postcard 939363

Box 3, folder 28

Neilson, Melanie, 1989-1995: letters, postcard 939367

Box 3, folder 29

Nicholls, Peter, 1994-1995: letters, email 939365

Box 3, folder 30

Nielsen, Aldon, 1992: letter 939369

Box 3, folder 31

Nowak, Mark, 1992: letter 939371

Box 3, folder 32

Olson, Toby, 1985: letter 939373

Box 3, folder 33

O'Sullivan, Maggie, 1994-1995: letters 939375

Box 3, folder 34

Owen, Maureen, 1978: letter 939377

Box 4, folder 1

Perelman, Bob, 1978-1994: letters, postcards, typescripts, some with annotations by Armantrout 939379

Box 4, folder 2-3

Perelman, Bob, 1994-2001: emails; includes poems, some with annotations by Armantrout. 939381

Box 4, folder 4

Perloff, Marjorie, 1994-2001: emails, letter, postcard 939383

Box 4, folder 5

Perry, Margeaux, 1989: letter 939385

Box 4, folder 6

Peterson, Jeffrey, 1995: essay on Armantrout 939387

Box 4, folder 7

Piombino, Nick, 1990: note 939389

Box 4, folder 8

Quartermain, Peter, 1995: email 939391

Box 4, folder 9

Raworth, Tom, 1990-1999: letters, postcards, email 939393

Box 4, folder 10

Reed, Pat, no date: greeting card 939395

Box 4, folder 11

Retallack, Joan, 1992: letter 939397

Box 4, folder 12

Robinson, Kit, 1978: letter, postcard 939399

Box 4, folder 13

Royet-Journoud, Claude, no date: letter 939401

Box 4, folder 14

Scalopino, Leslie, 1990: postcard 939403

Box 4, folder 15

Schultz, Susan, 1990-1995: letter, email 939405

Box 4, folder 16

Sherry, James, 1992: letter, postcards 939407

Box 4, folder 17

Silliman, Ron, 1972-1994: postcards, letters, essay 939409

Box 4, folder 18-19

Silliman, Ron, 1994-2000: letters, emails, typescripts 939411

Box 4, folder 20

Sloan, Margy, 1994-2000: letters, emails 939413

Box 5, folder 1

Stein, Jean, 1990-1991: letters 939415

Box 5, folder 2

Swenson, Cole, 1992-1995: letter, greeting card 939417

Box 5, folder 3

Sze, Arthur, 1992: greeting card 939419

Box 5, folder 4

Waldrop, Rosemarie, 1983-1991: letters, postcard 939421

Box 5, folder 5

Ward, Diane, 1989-1998: postcards, note, email 939423

Box 5, folder 6

Watten, Barrett, 1985-1993: letters, greeting card 939425

Box 5, folder 7

Wheeler, Susan, 1997-2000: emails; includes typescript essay on Armantrout. 939427

Box 5, folder 8

White, Shelly, 1990-1991: letters, greeting cards 939429

Box 5, folder 9-12

Miscellaneous correspondence: mostly emails; some letters, cards, typescripts. 890719

Box 6, folder 1-5

Miscellaneous correspondence continued 939431

Series 2: NOTEBOOKS 446307

Scope and Content

The notebooks in this series contain drafts and notes for published and unpublished poems, as well as miscellaneous notes. Dated notebooks are arranged chronologically, followed by undated notebooks.

Box 7, Item 1

1986 882065

Box 7, Item 2

1988-1989 890599

Box 7, Item 3

Spring 1992 890601

Box 7, Item 4

Fall 1992 890603

Box 7, Item 5

1992 890605

Box 7, Item 6

1992 890607

Box 7, Item 7

1992 890609

Box 7, Item 8

1992-1993 890611

Box 7, Item 9

Summer 1993 890613

Box 7, Item 10

Summer-Fall 1993 890615

Box 8, Item 1

Fall 1993 890641

Box 8, Item 2

1993 890643

Box 8, Item 3

1993-1994 890645

Box 8, Item 4

1993-1994 890647

Box 8, Item 5

Spring 1994 890649

Box 8, Item 6

Summer 1994 890651

Box 8, Item 7

Summer 1994 890653

Box 8, Item 8

Summer 1994 890655

Box 8, Item 9

Fall-Winter 1994 890657

Box 8, Item 10

1994 890659

Box 8, Item 11

1994 890661

Box 9, Item 1

Winter 1995 890663

Box 9, Item 2

Winter 1995 890665

Box 9, Item 3

Summer 1995 890667

Box 9, Item 4

Summer 1995 890669

Box 9, Item 5

Fall 1995 890671

Box 9, Item 6

Fall 1996 890673

Box 9, folder 7

1996 940541

Box 9, Item 8

1996-1997 890675

Box 9, Item 9

Spring 1997 890677

Box 9, Item 10

Spring 1997 890679

Box 9, Item 11

Spring-Summer 1997 890681

Box 9, Item 12

Fall 1997 890683

Box 9, Item 13

Fall 1997 890685

Box 9, Item 14

Fall 1997 890687

Box 10, Item 1

Winter 1997-1998 890689

Box 10, Item 2

Winter 1998 890691

Box 10, Item 3

Winter 1998 890693

Box 10, Item 4

Spring 1998 890695

Box 10, Item 5

Spring 1998 890697

Box 10, Item 6

Spring 1998 890699

Box 10, Item 7

June 1998 890701

Box 10, Item 8

Summer 1998 890703

Box 10, Item 9

Summer 1998 890705

Box 10, Item 10

Fall 1998 890707

Box 10, Item 11

1998-1999 890709

Box 10, Item 12

May 1999 890711

Box 10, Item 13

Fall 1999 890713

Box 11, Item 1

1999 890715

Box 11, Item 2

2000 890717

Box 11, Item 3-13

Undated 939975

Box 12, Item 1-13

Undated continued 939977

Series 3: WRITING 446305

Scope and Content

This series contains typescripts, proofs, periodicals, clippings, and other materials relating to Armantrout's publications and reading engagements. Loose typescripts by other writers have also been included in this series.

Box 13, folder 1

American Literature, 1993: letter 890723

Box 13, folder 2

Best American Poetry, 1988: letter 880477

Box 13, folder 3

Clippings, circa 1986-1995: newspaper and magazine articles by or about Armantrout 890725

Box 13, folder 4

Davis, Lydia, circa 1994: End of the Story typescript 890729

Box 13, folder 5

Davis, Lydia, circa 1999: typescripts 890727

Box 13, folder 6

Delo, 1989: no. 8 890731

Box 13, folder 7

Equi, Elaine, no date: typescripts 890733

Box 13, folder 8

The Germ, 2000: galley proofs 890735

Box 13, folder 9

Grand Piano Project, 2000-2001: emails 890737

Box 13, folder 10

Hejinian, Lyn, 1991: typescript 890739

Box 13, folder 11

HOW(ever), 1983-1984: vol. 1, nos. 1, 3; vol. 2, no. 1 890741

Box 13, folder 12

Howe, Fanny, no date: typescripts 890743

Box 14, folder 1

Interview, 1987: typescript interview of Armantrout by Lori Chamberlain 890745

Box 14, folder 2

LANGUAGE, 1978-1979: nos. 2, 3, 5, 7, 890747

Box 14, folder 3

Lazer, Alexander, no date: typescript of essay on Armantrout 890749

Box 14, folder 4

Made to Seem, circa 1995: typescript 890751

Box 14, folder 5

Necromance, 1989: typescript; includes letter from Sun and Moon Press. 890753

Box 14, folder 6

Necromance, 1989: proofs 890755

Box 14, folder 7

Neilson, Melanie, 1995: typescripts 890757

Box 14, folder 8

Page Mothers, 1999: typescript essays by Armantrout and others 890759

Box 14, folder 9

Partisan Review, 1981: letter 890761

Box 14, folder 10

Perelman, Bob, no date: typescripts 890763

Box 14, folder 11

Perelman, Bob, 1998: annotated proof for The Future of Memory 890765

Box 14, folder 12

Poetry Flash, 1979-1991: nos. 74, 148, 223 890767

Box 14, folder 13

Precedence, circa 1985: typescript 890769

Box 14, folder 14

Prosodia, 1994-1995: letters 890771

Box 15, folder 1

Reviews, circa 1989-2000: clippings, typescripts 890773

Box 15, folder 2

Silliman, Ron, no date: typescript 890775

Box 15, folder 3

Sun and Moon Press, 1992-1993: royalty statements, publishing agreement 939981

Box 15, folder 4

True, circa 1996: typescripts 890777

Box 15, folder 5

True, 1996: page proofs 890779

Box 15, folder 6

Tuumba Press, no date: broadsides 890781

Box 15, folder 7-9

Typescripts, no date: poems and essays, many with extensive annotations 939979

Box 16, folder 1-7

Typescripts continued 939983

Box 17, folder 1

Wesleyan University Press, 1999-2001: emails, publishing agreement for American Women Poets of the Twenty First Century 890783

Box 17, folder 2

A Wild Salience, 1998-2000: correspondence 890785

Box 17, folder 3

A Wild Salience, 2000: page proofs 890787

Box 17, folder 4

Zyzzyva, 1993: letter, publishing agreement 890789

Box 18, folder 1-5

Miscellaneous writing, no date: typescript essays by Armantrout and others; includes flyers for readings and conferences. 890791

Series 4: TEACHING MATERIALS 446315

Scope and Content

This series contains teaching materials, such as course readers and handouts from courses taught by Armantrout at the University of California, San Diego.

Box 19, folder 1

Syllabi 890797

Box 19, folder 2

Course handouts 890799

Box 19, folder 3-7

Course notebooks 890801

Box 20, folder 1

Course readers, 1985-1987 890803

Box 20, folder 2

Course readers, 1988 890805

Box 20, folder 3

Course readers, 1989 890807

Box 20, folder 4

Course readers, 1991-1992 890809

Box 20, folder 5

Course readers, 1992 890811

Box 21, folder 1

Course readers, 1993 890813

Box 21, folder 2

Course readers, 1994-1996 890815

Box 21, folder 3-4

Course readers, no date 890817

Box 21, folder 5

Naropa course packet, 2000 890819

Box 21, folder 6

Miscellaneous teaching 890821

Series 5: PHOTOGRAPHS 939973

Scope and Content

This small series includes one black and white portrait of Armantrout from a 1982 reading, snapshots from a later reading with Ron Silliman, and other miscellaneous snapshots of Armantrout and others.

Box 21, folder 7

Photographs, circa 1982-1996 890793

Series 6: ACCESSION 2022-125

Scope and Contents

This series contains materials from a 2022 addendum to the collection. The first four sub-series correspond to and expand on the materials in Series 1-4. Sub-series 5 includes additional papers that were not included in the original collection.

Sub-series 1: CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains incoming letters, postcards, and printed emails.

Box 23, folder 1

Armantrout, John W.: letter 1952

Box 23, folder 2

Axelrod, Steven Gould: emails 2009

Box 23, folder 3

Bartczak, Kacper: emails 2012-2016

Box 23, folder 4

Bernstein, Charles: emails 2008-2011

Box 23, folder 5

Biuro Literackie Aleksandra Olszewska (Polish Book Interview): emails 2018

Box 23, folder 6

Burt, S.: emails 2011

Box 23, folder 7

Carbajosa, Natalia (Translator - Spanish): emails 2011-2015

Box 23, folder 8

Cave, Nick: emails 2019-2020

Box 23, folder 9

Davidson, Michael: emails, letters 2006-2010

Box 23, folder 10

Davis, Lydia: emails 2009-2013

Box 23, folder 11

Dimitrov, Alex: emails 2015-2016

Box 23, folder 12

Granger, John: emails 2004-2006

Box 23, folder 13

GRANTA: emails, letters 2015-2019

Box 23, folder 14

Hejinian, Lyn: emails 1997-2019

Box 23, folder 15

Heuving, Jeanne: emails, letter 2006-2016

Box 23, folder 16

Howe, Fanny: emails 2002-2019

Box 23, folder 17

Howe, Susan: emails 2015-2020

Box 23, folder 18

International Poetry Festival of Granada, Nicaragua: emails, letters, festival materials 2016

Box 23, folder 19

Keating, Brian: emails 2013

Box 23, folder 20

Lanham, Sheila (US Poets in Mexico): emails, letters 2010

Box 23, folder 21

Larios, Francisco: emails 2015

Box 23, folder 22

Lehman, David: letters 2008-2014

Box 23, folder 23

Loden, Rachel: emails 2009-2014

Box 23, folder 24

Luna, Mayra (Translator - Spanish): emails, translation drafts 2012

Box 23, folder 25

Lux Books (Translator - German): emails 2009-2010

Box 23, folder 26

Luxford, Dominic: emails 2009-2015

Box 23, folder 27

Messerli, Douglas (Sun & Moon Press): emails, letters 2002-2009

Box 23, folder 28

Middleton, Peter: emails 2015-2016

Box 23, folder 29

Muldoon, Paul: emails, letter 2010-2017

Box 23, folder 30

Myles, Eileen: emails 2005-2021

Box 23, folder 31

Oxford Thesaurus project: emails, proofs 2011

Box 23, folder 32

Perelman, Bob: emails 2009-2021

Box 23, folder 33

Perloff, Marjorie: emails 2008-2016

Box 23, folder 34

Phillips, Adam (psychologist): letter 2021

Box 23, folder 35

Pulitzer Prize: letters 2010

Box 23, folder 36

Pulitzer Centennial Poetry Celebration: email, celebration materials 2016

Box 23, folder 37

Remnick, David (The New Yorker): email 2020

Box 23, folder 38

Rigo, Paolo (Translator - Italian): email 2013

Box 23, folder 39

Robertson, Lisa: email 2008-2010

Box 23, folder 40

Scalapino, Leslie: memorial services 2010

Box 23, folder 41

Serkosalo, Laura: emails 2015

Box 23, folder 42

Silliman, Ron: emails 2008-2021

Box 24, folder 1

Snowden, Robert: emails 2014

Box 24, folder 2

Wagner, Cathy: emails 2011-2014

Box 24, folder 3

Wesleyan University Press: emails, letters, publishing agreements 2005-2016

Box 24, folder 4

Wiman, Christian: emails 2010-2012

Box 24, folder 5

Xu Xi (City University of Hong Kong): emails 2012

Box 24, folder 6

Yale Series of Younger Poets: agreement, emails 2021

Conditions Governing Access

File restricted until 2032

Box 24, folder 7

Correspondence with Translators

Box 24, folder 8

Correspondence with Misc. Editors

Box 24, folder 9

Correspondence with Physicists

Box 24, folder 10

Correspondence with Doctors

Box 24, folder 11

Misc. Correspondence 2003-2021

Box 24, folder 12-13

Correspondence re: Invitations & Solicitations 2006-2021

Sub-series 2: NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Contents

The notebooks in this sub-series contain drafts and notes for published and unpublished poems, as well as miscellaneous notes. Dated notebooks are arranged chronologically, followed by undated notebooks.

Box 25, Item 1

February 2003

Box 25, Item 2

January-February 2005

Box 25, Item 3

April-May 2006

Box 25, Item 4

January 2009

Box 25, Item 5

September 2009

Box 25, Item 6

March-April 2010

Box 25, Item 7

August-October 2010

Box 25, Item 8

January-February 2011

Box 25, Item 9

April-May 2011

Box 25, Item 10

May-June 2011

Box 25, Item 11

February 2012

Box 25, Item 12

April 2012

Box 26, Item 1

April-May 2012

Box 26, Item 2

June 2012

Box 26, Item 3

August 2012

Box 26, Item 4

November-December 2012

Box 26, Item 5

April-May 2013

Box 26, Item 6

May-June 2013

Box 26, Item 7

June-July 2013

Box 26, Item 8

April-May 2014

Box 26, Item 9

May-June 2014

Box 26, Item 10

August-September 2014

Box 26, Item 11

September-October 2014

Box 26, Item 12

October-December 2014

Box 26, Item 13

December 2014-January 2015

Box 26, Item 14

January-February 2015

Box 27, Item 1

February-March 2015

Box 27, Item 2

March-April 2015

Box 27, Item 3

April-June 2015

Box 27, Item 4

June-July 2015

Box 27, Item 5

July-August 2015

Box 27, Item 6

October-November 2015

Box 27, Item 7

November-December 2015

Box 27, Item 8

January-February 2016

Box 27, Item 9

March-April 2016

Box 27, Item 10

June-July 2016

Box 27, Item 11

August 2016

Box 27, Item 12

August-October 2016

Box 28, Item 1

October-November 2016

Box 28, Item 2

December 2016-February 2017

Box 28, Item 3

February 2017

Box 28, Item 4

May 2017

Box 28, Item 5

July-September 2017

Box 28, Item 6

September-October 2017

Box 28, Item 7

November-December 2017

Box 28, Item 8

January-March 2018

Box 28, Item 9

March-May 2018

Box 28, Item 10

May-June 2018

Box 28, Item 11

July-August 2018

Box 28, Item 12

August-October 2018

Box 28, Item 13

October 2018-January 2019

Box 29, Item 1

January-March 2019

Box 29, Item 2

March-May 2019

Box 29, Item 3

May-July 2019

Box 29, Item 4

July-September 2019

Box 29, Item 5

September-November 2019

Box 29, Item 6

November 2019-January 2020

Box 29, Item 7

January-February 2020

Box 29, Item 8

February-March 2020

Box 29, Item 9

March-May 2020

Box 29, Item 10

May-June 2020

Box 29, Item 11

June-July 2020

Box 29, Item 12

September-November 2020

Box 29, Item 13

March-April 2021

Box 29, Item 14

April-May 2021

Box 29, Item 15

May-June 2021

Box 30, Item 1

July-September 2021

Box 30, Item 2

September-October 2021

Box 30, Item 3

October-December 2021

Box 30, Item 4-13, Box 31, Item 1-10

Undated notebooks

Sub-series 3: WRITING

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains typescripts, proofs, drafts and other materials relating to Armantrout's publications. Typescripts by other writers that were sent to Armantrout have also been included in this series.

Box 32, folder 1-2

Abandoned Poems 2009-2022

Box 32, folder 3

"About" essay draft with notations undated

Box 32, folder 4

Bernstein, Charles: "Shade" typescript 1978

Box 32, folder 5

Burt, S.: "Like" essay draft 2013

Box 32, folder 6

Burt, S.: "Tin Pest" poem draft undated

Box 32, folder 7

Collings, Simon: essay drafts undated

Box 32, folder 8-9, Box 33, folder 1-4

CONJURE: poem drafts, finished poems 2020

Box 33, folder 5

Davis, Lydia: "Varieties of Disturbance" typescript undated

Box 33, folder 6

Davis, Lydia: misc. prose drafts undated

Box 33, folder 7

De'Ath, Amy: "With an Eye on Surroundings: The Quotidian in Rae Armantrout's Recent Poetry" essay 2006

Box 33, folder 8

THE FINALIST: finished poems 2022

Box 34, folder 1

"four poems" by Rae Armantrout, illustrated by Thomas Evans 2004

Box 34, folder 2

Freilicher, Melvyn: "A Journal of the Plague Year" novel draft undated

Box 34, folder 3

Freilicher, Melvyn: "Get Real" novel typescript 1987

Box 34, folder 4-6

GO FIGURE (unpublished): poem drafts

Box 34, folder 7

"Grand Piano": drafts undated

Box 34, folder 8

Heijinian, Lyn: "The Cell" typescript 1987

Box 34, folder 9

Howe, Fanny: misc. poem and prose drafts

Box 35, folder 1

Howe, Fanny: "Night Realism: some thoughts on Edith Stein" typescript undated

Box 35, folder 2

Howe, Fanny: "The Quietist" typescript 1992

Box 35, folder 3

Howe, Fanny: "The Splinter" typescript 1998

Box 35, folder 4

Howe, Fanny: "When She Was Dying" draft with Armantrout's annotations undated

Box 35, folder 5

Huk, Romana: companion piece to Rae Armantrout's "Denise and Me" undated

Box 35, folder 6

Illustrated poems by Rae Armantrout undated

Box 35, folder 7-10

ITSELF: manuscript, drafts, edits, galleys, proofs 2015

Box 35, folder 11

JUST SAYING: manuscript 2013

Box 40, Item 1

KUNHAN SANON (Finnish translation of selected poems) 2017

Box 35, folder 12

Languell, Krystal: "Systems Thinking with Flowers" selections with Armantrout's notations 2022

Box 36, folder 1

Lynn, Robert Wood: "Mothman Apologia" introduction draft and notes 2022

Box 36, folder 2

MONEY SHOT: page proofs, contract, blurbs 2011

Box 36, folder 3

"Morning" poem in THE PHOENIX literary magazine 1969

Box 36, folder 4

Nakayasu, Sawako: "Pink Waves" proof with Armantrout's annotations 2022

Box 40, Item 2

NARRATIV (German translation of selected poems) 2009

Box 36, folder 5

Nelson, Maggie: "Something Bright, Then Holes" manuscript 2003

Box 36, folder 6

Nielsen, Aldon: "Extremities Made to Seem Precedence" typescript undated

Box 36, folder 7

"The Not Quite City of San Diego" prose piece undated

Box 36, folder 8

NOW AND THEN: selection from memoir draft 2022

Conditions Governing Access

File closed until 2037.

Box 36, folder 9-11

PARTLY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: poem drafts, edits, proofs 2016

Box 36, folder 12

Perelman, Bob: "The Future of Memory" draft 1998

Box 37, folder 1

Perelman, Bob: "Jack and Jill in Troy" typescript 2019

Box 37, folder 2

Perelman, Bob: "Poems from Virtual Reality" manuscript 1993

Box 37, folder 3

Prose manuscripts by Rae Armantrout undated

Box 37, folder 4

Reciprocal Chinese Translation Project for book edited by James Sherry undated

Box 37, folder 5

"Return Ticket" chapbook for Rae Armantrout undated

Box 37, folder 6

Roberson, Ed: "Asked What Has Changed" manuscript 2019

Box 37, folder 7

Robinson, Elizabeth: misc. poem drafts undated

Box 37, folder 8

Sadoff, Ira: "On the Margins" typescript undated

Box 37, folder 9

Silliman, Ron: "American Songbook" typescript undated

Box 37, folder 10

Silliman, Ron: autobiography draft undated

Box 37, folder 11

Silliman, Ron: "Benjamin Obscura" typescript 1984

Box 37, folder 12

Silliman, Ron: "Enward" unpublished poem with Armantrout's notations undated

Box 37, folder 13

Silliman, Ron: "Ketjak" typescript 1978

Box 38, folder 1

Silliman, Ron: "OZ" manuscript undated

Box 38, folder 2

Silliman, Ron: "Paradise" manuscript 1985

Box 38, folder 3

Silliman, Ron: "Parrot Eyes Lust" manuscript 2021

Box 38, folder 4

Silliman, Ron: "Under" manuscript 1995

Box 38, folder 5

Toscano, Rodrigo: "The Disparities" manuscript 2002

Box 38, folder 6

VERSED: proof 2009

Box 38, folder 7-10, Box 39, folder 1-3

WOBBLE: production documents, poem drafts, edits, finished poems 2018

Box 39, folder 4-5

Misc. Poem Drafts

Sub-series 4: TEACHING MATERIALS

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains teaching materials, such as syllabi, course readers, lesson plans, and quizzes from courses taught by Armantrout at the University of California, San Diego. A large portion of the materials is made up of poetry printouts used by Armantrout in creating course readers and/or annotated during class discussions. Also included are materials related to the establishment of an MFA in Writing program at UC San Diego in the early 2000s.

Box 41, folder 1-6

Syllabi: various courses

Box 41, folder 7

Course Handouts: quizzes & exams

Box 41, folder 8

Course Handouts: general

Box 41, folder 9-11, Box 42, folder 1

Course Notebooks

Box 42, folder 2-5, Box 43, folder 1

Lectures & Lesson Plans

Box 43, folder 2

Course Reader: Personal Narrative, vol. 1 1995

Box 43, folder 3

Course Readers: Personal Narrative, vol. 2 1996

Box 43, folder 4

Course Reader: Craft of Poetry 1998

Box 43, folder 5

Course Readers: Craft of Poetry 2002

Box 43, folder 6

Course Reader: Poetry 2002

Box 43, folder 7

Course Reader: Personal Narrative 2003

Box 43, folder 8

Course Reader: Theory for Writers 2004

Box 43, folder 9

Course Reader: American Poetry since 1950 2006

Box 44, folder 1

Course Reader: Poetry 2006

Box 44, folder 2

Course Reader: Theory for Writers 2006

Box 44, folder 3

Course Reader: Personal Narrative 2007

Box 44, folder 4

Course Reader: Poetry 2007-2008

Box 44, folder 5

Course Reader: Writing States 2009

Box 44, folder 6

Course Reader: Poetry 102 & 202 2009

Box 44, folder 7

Course Reader: Poetry 2010

Box 44, folder 8

Course Reader: Poetry 2012

Box 45, folder 1

Course Reader: Poetry for Physicists 2014

Box 45, folder 2-5, Box 46, folder 1

Course Readers: unidentified courses undated

Box 46, folder 2-3

University of Washington - Bothell course materials 2015

Box 46, folder 4

Miami University [Ohio] 2019

Box 46, folder 5

UC San Diego MFA in Writing proposal 2000s

Box 46, folder 6

Misc. Teaching Papers - administrative

Box 46, folder 7, Box 47, Box 48, Box 49

Misc. Course Materials

Sub-series 5: ADDITIONAL PAPERS

Scope and Contents

This sub-series contains papers that did not fall into the series of the original collection. It includes personal papers; information about exhibits Armantrout was involved with; fliers from readings; information about awards; drafts of speeches and talks given by Armantrout; transcripts of interviews with Armantrout; and printouts of reviews of Armantrout's works.

Personal Papers

Box 50, folder 1

Adoption Papers for Rae Armantrout's Father

Box 50, folder 2

Grade School Report Cards 1953-1960

Box 50, folder 3

National Merit Certificate 1964

Box 50, folder 4

Certifications

Exhibits

Box 50, folder 5

Man Ray (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Box 50, folder 6

Pawel Althamer (Guggenheim Museum

Box 50, folder 7

Readings 1995-2015

Awards

Box 50, folder 8

National Book Critics Circle

Box 50, folder 9

National Book Award

Speeches & Talks

Box 50, folder 10

Poetry and "The Binding Problem"

Box 50, folder 11

Chancellors Talk

Box 50, folder 12

Finland Talk: Meaning, Intention and the Uses of Irony

Box 50, folder 13

Entanglements Conference 2

Box 50, folder 14

Long Beach Remarks

Box 50, folder 15

Craft Talk: The Uncanny

Box 50, folder 16

Portland Craft Talk

Box 50, folder 17

Tucson

Box 50, folder 18

Fanny Howe

Box 50, folder 19

Bob Perelman

Box 50, folder 20

Joyelle McSweeney

Box 50, folder 21

Emily Dickinson

Box 50, folder 22

Visits to Universities

Box 50, folder 23

Science & Physics

Box 50, folder 24

Medical School/Doctors

Box 50, folder 25

Misc. Poetry Topics

Interviews & Profiles

Box 51, folder 1

Paris Review interview 2019

Box 51, folder 2

Interview with Zach Mueller

Box 51, folder 3

Interview by Jeanne Heuving

Box 51, folder 4

Bob Perelman interview for San Diego Book Festival 2020

Box 51, folder 5

Ron Silliman interview

Box 51, folder 6

Misc. Interviews

Box 51, folder 7

Profiles on Rae Armantrout

Box 51, folder 8-11

Reviews 1995-2020

Miscellany

Box 51, folder 12

Guggenheim Foundation Reports to the President and Treasurer 2007

Box 51, folder 13

Audio Recordings of Rae Armantrout Poems Performed by Chuck Speed