Robert Peters Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2020
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Robert Peters Papers
Creator:
Peters, Robert, 1924-2014
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0672
Physical Description:
23 Linear feet
(25 archives boxes, 4 card file boxes, 12 records cartons and 6 oversize folders)
Physical Description:
.92 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): 1923-2017
Abstract: Papers of Robert Peters (1924-2014), American poet, critic, scholar, and teacher. A professor of literature (1968-1992) at
the University of California, Irvine, Peters reviewed contemporary poetry for small press magazines beginning in the 1970s,
published over thirty poetry collections, and performed his work internationally. Materials include manuscript drafts of recent
writing, including individual poems and drafts for collected poetry publications, book reviews; several novels; play scripts;
correspondence; and journals.
Languages:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Robert Peters, American poet, critic, scholar, and teacher. A professor of literature (1968-1992) at the University
of California, Irvine, Peters reviewed contemporary poetry for small press magazines beginning in the 1970s, published numerous
poetry collections, and performed his work internationally. The collection contains manuscript drafts of recent writing, including
individual poems, collected poetry publications, book reviews (1993-2001), plays, journals (1957-2004), and novels. Also includes
correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues and editors; interviews; sound recordings of Peters' readings and
performances; and photographs of Peters. Photograph albums document Peters' personal life, travels and his relationship with
his husband, Paul Trachtenberg.
Accession Processed in 2008
Arranged in seven series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 5) JOURNALS, 6) PHOTOGRAPHS,
and 7) SOUND RECORDINGS.
Accession Processed in 2020, 2022
Arranged in five series: 8) BIOGRAPHICAL, 9) CORRESPONDENCE, 10) WRITINGS, 11) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 12) SOUND RECORDINGS.
Biography
Robert Peters, distinguished American poet, critic, scholar and teacher, was born in 1924 in Eagle River, Wisconsin. His father,
Samuel, and mother, Dorothy, were farmers, and his own hard physical work and closeness to the land may contribute to the
preference for the concrete over the abstract in his poetry, criticism, and scholarship. He studied British literature at
the University of Wisconsin, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1952 with a dissertation on several late Victorian poets and their
relationship to the visual arts. It served as the basis for his major scholarly work,
The Crowns of Apollo: Swinburne's Principles of Literature and Art (Wayne State University Press, 1965). He co-edited the 3-volume edition of
The Letters of John Addington Symons (Wayne State University Press, 1967-69) and edited
Letters to a Tutor: The Tennyson Family Letters to Henry Graham Daykins, 1866-1911 (Scarecrow Press, 1988) and Edmund Gosse's diary of his visit to America (Purdue University, 1966) among other scholarly
pursuits in the field of Victorian literature. After several post-doctoral stints (University of Idaho, Boston University,
and Ohio Wesleyan University), Peters received tenure in the English Department of Wayne State University. In 1963, he was
hired by the rapidly expanding University of California, Riverside and five years later transferred to the University of California,
Irvine, from which he retired in 1992.
Peters had felt the urge to be a writer from his adolescent years, but college studies, military service (1943-46), his teaching
and research responsibilities, and raising a family -- he was married in 1950 and had three children by 1959 -- provided him
with little time to pursue non-academic writing seriously. However, the sudden death from meningitis at age five of his second
son, Richard, in 1960 led to an outpouring of poetry that was collected in his first major volume,
Songs for a Son, published in 1967 by W.W. Norton on the strong recommendation of Denise Levertov. Early influences on his work are varied,
and include Robert Bly, James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, and Gary Snyder.
Although he continued to teach and do research in Victorian literature, particularly on Symonds and the Tennyson family, until
his retirement, from 1967 on Peters' identity increasingly became that of a poet and critic of contemporary poetry.
Songs for a Son was followed quickly by
The Sows Head and Other Poems (1968),
Connections: In the English Lake District (1972),
Red Midnight Moon (1973),
Cool Zebras of Light and
Holy Cow: Parable Poems (both 1974),
Bronchial Tangle, Heart System (1975),
Gauguin's Chair: Selected Poems 1967-1974 (1977), and
The Drowned Man to the Fish (1978). In 1973, the first of what would become a long-standing interest in biographical poetry,
Byron Exhumed: A Verse Suite, appeared. It was followed by
The Gift to be Simple: A Garland for Mother Ann Lee (1975),
Hawthorne: Poems Adapted from Journals (1977),
The Picnic in the Snow: Ludwig of Bavaria (1981),
Hawker (1984, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize),
Kane (1985),
The Blood Countess: Erzebet of Hungary (1987),
Shaker Light: Mother Ann Lee in America (1987), and
Haydon (1989). Peters also adapted his work on King Ludwig and the Blood Countess into performance pieces, which he has performed
internationally.
After his divorce in 1972 and meeting with life partner and fellow poet Paul Trachtenberg (b. 1948) later that year, Peters'
poetry began to reflect his experiences as a middle-aged gay man; this theme is particularly apparent in
Cool Zebras of Light (1974),
The Poet as Ice-Skater (1975),
Love Poems for Robert Mitchum (1981),
What Dillinger Meant to Me (1983), and in
Snapshots of a Serial Killer: A Fiction and a Play (1992). In his mid-sixties, Peters began to write autobiographical work, including
Crunching Gravel: Growing Up in the Thirties (1988),
For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II (1995),
Feather: A Child's Death and Life (1997), and
Familial Love and Other Misfortunes: Poems of My Early Years (2002).
Feeling that too much academic criticism of poetry had become overly theoretical, Peters began publishing reviews of contemporary
poetry in the 1970s, primarily in small-press magazines. These reviews were collected in four volumes entitled
The Great American Poetry Bake-Off (1979, 1982, 1987, 1991). In this same vein, he began writing reviews of the little magazines themselves; these have been
published, also in three volumes, as
The Peters Black and Blue Guide(s) to Current Literary Journals (1983, 1985, 1987). The astuteness and the directness of tone and language in these reviews and their wide circulation among
small press readers led Peters to receive and write an unusually large amount of correspondence with contemporary poets, all
of which is preserved in archives at UC San Diego and at the University of Kansas.
In the mid-2000s, Peters began to exhibit symptoms of dementia. He and Trachtenberg, who wed in 2008, enjoyed attending Scrabble®
tournaments, visiting the occasional casino, and reading and writing, but no further books appeared. Peters died at his home
in Huntington Beach on June 13, 2014.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Robert Peters Papers, MSS 672. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2005, 2016, 2022.
Restrictions
Original sound recordings are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.
Digital Content
The collection contains a small number of individually described digital audio files.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century
Gay men -- United States -- Poetry
Gay men -- United States
Eshleman, Clayton -- Correspondence
Peters, Robert, 1924-2014 -- Archives
Prado, Holly -- Archives
Northup, Harry E. -- Archives
Accession Processed in 2008
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scope and Content of Series
Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Arranged in three subseries: A) Miscellaneous, B) Interviews and C) Peters' Family.
A) Miscellaneous: Memorabilia and documents related to important events in Peters' life, biographical and bibliographical
information, and keepsakes.
B) Interviews: Arranged alphabetically by interviewer. Includes published interviews, as well as drafts of biographical questionnaires.
C) Peters' Family: Largely contains materials related to the death of Peters' four year old son, Richard, including a "death
journal" and family correspondence.
Box 1, Folder 2
Bibliography for Robert Peters, 1948-1991
General note
Edited by Madeline Jaroch.
Box 1, Folder 3
Biographical notes by Peters
Box 1, Folder 4
Biography for Academic Personnel
1981
Oversize FB-443, Folder 11
Box 1, Folder 6
Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series - Peters' entry
Box 1, Folder 7
Contemporary Poets
General note
Biography entry proof.
Box 1, Folder 8
Divorce papers
1968 - 1972
Box 1, Folder 9
Famous Authors Calendar with Robert Peters aphorism (signed)
1976
Oversize FB-447, Folder 2
Johnny Visits Granmama
General note
Ink on board drawing.
Box 1, Folder 10
Lists of publications and recordings
Box 1, Folder 11
Newspaper reviews
1994 - 2002
Oversize MC-141, Folder 08
Posters of readings by Peters
Box 1, Folder 13
Jason, Philip K. "Robert Peters: An Interview by Philip K. Jason"
1987
General note
Published in
The Signal Network International, vol. 1, issue no. 1. Annotated by Peters.
Box 1, Folder 14
Lerner, Linda. "Interview with Robert Peters"
1996
General note
Includes "Questionnaire for Linda Lerner."
Box 1, Folder 15
Moffet, Penelope. "Life on the Outside: Robert Peters"
1985 fall
General note
Published in
Electrum Magazine.
Box 1, Folder 16
Oberc, Larry. "Answer to Larry's Questions"
Box 1, Folder 17
Oberc, Larry. "Talking to Robert Peters"
1993
General note
Published in
Oxygen.
Box 1, Folder 18
Picano, Felice. "Not Exactly a Good Gay Grandfather of Poetry"
2002 April
General note
Published in
Lambda Book Report.
Box 1, Folder 19
Weber, Mark. Peters' response to Mark's questions
1994
Box 1, Folder 20
Keck Family genealogy (Peters' mother's family)
Box 1, Folder 21-22
Peters, Richard - Baby book, correspondence and memorabilia following Richard's death
1955-1960
Box 2, Folder 1-4
Peters, Richard - Family correspondence surrounding his death, memorial record, photographs, and death journal written by
Robert Peters
1960
Box 2, Folder 5
Willard, Leora Pepple. "A Genealogical Record of Our Kinsfolks - Peters"
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged in two subseries: A) Family and B) Professional.
A) Family: Recent correspondence with Peters' two sons, Jeff and Robert, and his daughter, Meredith, among other family members.
B) Professional: Correspondence regarding the publication of Peters' poetry.
Box 2, Folder 6-10
Peters, Jeff (son)
2000 - 2004
Box 3, Folder 1
Peters, Jeff (son)
undated
Box 3, Folder 2-10
Peters, Meredith (daughter)
2001 - 2005
Box 3, Folder 11
Peters, Robert (son)
1994 - 2003
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Robert Peters' letters to all children
2001 - 2004
Box 4, Folder 3
Family - Miscellaneous
2002 - 2004
Box 4, Folder 4
5 AM Magazine
1999 - 2002
Box 4, Folder 6
American Book Review (Rebecca Kaiser, editor)
2000 - 2003
Box 4, Folder 7
Bachardy, Don
1970 - 2014
General note
Photographs of artistic portraits of Robert Peters and Paul Trachtenberg included.
Box 4, Folder 10
Balingit, Joann
2002 - 2004
General note
Poems enclosed.
Box 4, Folder 12
Banbow, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
2002
Box 4, Folder 13
Barton, David
1994
General note
Poems enclosed.
Box 4, Folder 17
Berg, Jim
1998 - 2001
General note
Regarding "The Isherwood Century."
Box 4, Folder 21
Borchardt, Georges, Inc.
1994
Box 4, Folder 22
Bosveld, Jennifer (Pudding House Publications)
2000 - 2005
Box 4, Folder 23
Boyd, Greg (Asylum Arts)
2000 - 2004
Box 4, Folder 27
Cape Review (Wayne Atherton, editor)
1999
Box 4, Folder 30
Chandler, Jim
(Thunder Sandwich)
2001
Box 4, Folder 31
Chapman, David L.
2003 - 2004
Box 4, Folder 33
Chichetto, James
2002 - 2004
General note
Regarding tenureship at Stonehill College.
Box 4, Folder 34
Chiron Review (Ruth Kemper)
2002
Box 4, Folder 37
Cirino, Leonard
2001
General note
Contains broadsides.
Box 4, Folder 40
Collins, Richard
2000 - 2010
Box 4, Folder 41
Congdon, Kirby
2001 - 2005
Box 4, Folder 42
Connecticut Poetry Review
2004 - 2005
Box 4, Folder 44
Cotter, Craig
1999 - 2004
Box 5, Folder 1
Dakyns, Andrew
2004 - 2005
General note
Great grandson of Henry G. Dakyns (Alfred Tennyson's son's tutor).
Box 5, Folder 6
Electronic Poetry Review (Doug Powell)
2002
General note
Poems with line edits enclosed.
Box 5, Folder 7
Elysium Press (David Deiss)
2004
Box 5, Folder 9
Europa Publications (Alison Neale, associate editor)
2003
Box 5, Folder 10
Fellows, Will
2001 - 2004
Box 5, Folder 11
Field, Edward
2001 - 2006
Box 5, Folder 12
Fisher, David
2002 - 2003
General note
San Francisco poet.
Box 5, Folder 16
Fulton, Len
2002
General note
Dust book publication.
Box 5, Folder 18
Giles, Fiona
1998 - 1999
General note
Regarding "Pig-Family Game" reprint.
Box 5, Folder 20
Glaze, Andrew
2002 - 2003
General note
Alabama poet.
Box 5, Folder 24
Hathaway, Michael
(Chiron Review)
1998 - 2006
Box 5, Folder 25
Hauk, Barbara
2003 - 2004
Box 5, Folder 27
Healey, Trebor
2003 - 2004
General note
Los Angeles fiction writer.
Box 5, Folder 28
Heeltap (Richard Houff)
1999 - 2000
Box 5, Folder 31
Hofstadter, Marc
2001
General note
Poems and graphics enclosed.
Box 5, Folder 34-36
Hood, Charles
2000 - 2005
General note
Photos enclosed. Includes manuscript entitled "Tiger Songs".
Box 6, Folder 1
Hoppenbrouwers, Toke
2005
Box 6, Folder 2
Hunt, Nan
2002
General note
Broadside enclosed.
Box 6, Folder 6
Jones, Seaborn
2001 - 2004
Box 6, Folder 7
Kaiser, Rebecca
(American Book Review, editor)
2003
Box 6, Folder 8
Katcher, Antje
(Three Mile Harbor, editor)
Box 6, Folder 9
Kempher, Ruth Moon
2001 - 2003
General note
Broadside enclosed, Florida poet.
Box 6, Folder 11
Kim, Chungmi
2003
General note
Korean-American poet, Robert Peters review enclosed.
Box 6, Folder 12
Kostos, Dean (Painted Leaf Press)
1999
Box 6, Folder 15
Los Angeles Times Book Review (Steve Wasserman, editor)
1999
Box 6, Folder 17
Leaping Dog Press
2001 - 2003
Box 6, Folder 19
Lerner, Linda
1996 - 2005
General note
Includes 1996 edition of
Poets on the Line.
Box 6, Folder 21
Library of Congress Copyright Office
1996
Box 6, Folder 23
Linehan, Katherine
2002
General note
Oberlin College.
Box 6, Folder 24
Liveright Publishing Corporation
2004
Box 6, Folder 26
Louisiana State University
1993
Box 6, Folder 28
Manic d Press (Lisa Taplin)
1994
General note
Excerpt from unpublished novel
Candyman enclosed.
Box 6, Folder 30
Manza, Jenny (Copper Canyon Press)
2001
Box 6, Folder 31
Marquis Who's Who in America (Fred Marks, managing director)
2002
Box 6, Folder 33
McCombs, Judith
2004 - 2014
Box 6, Folder 34
McCrie, Bob and Fulvia
2001 - 2015
Box 6, Folder 35
McDaniel, Wilma E.
2000 - 2003
Box 6, Folder 38
Metras, Gary
2001
General note
Poems enclosed.
Box 6, Folder 39
Millett, John
2001 - 2002
Box 6, Folder 40
Minotaur Press (Jim Watson-Gove)
2004
Box 6, Folder 44
Murphy, Sheila
2002
General note
Regarding Leo Connellan.
Box 6, Folder 46
Neon (Kirk Robertson, editor)
1999
Box 6, Folder 48
Northup, Harry and Holly Prado
2001 - 2003
General note
Poems enclosed.
Box 6, Folder 50
Offen, Ron
(Free Lunch, editor)
2002 - 2009
Box 6, Folder 52
Pearl (Barbara Hauk)
1993 - 2004
Box 6, Folder 54
Picano, Felice
1998 - 2005
General note
Los Angeles writer.
Box 6, Folder 57
Plymell, Charles
1998 - 2004
Box 7, Folder 2
Powers, Michael
2002 - 2015
Box 7, Folder 3
Prado, Holly
2002 - 2004
General note
Los Angeles poet.
Box 7, Folder 4
Pygmy Forest Press (Leonard Cirino, editor)
2001
General note
Includes broadsides.
Box 7, Folder 5
Questia Media, Inc. (Ashlee Ross)
2000
Box 7, Folder 8
Ratner, Rochelle
(American Book Review, editor)
2001 - 2003
General note
New York poet, novelist.
Box 7, Folder 9
Red Hen Press (Mark Cull and Kate Gale, editors)
2001 - 2004
Box 7, Folder 10
Reynolds, Eric
2001 - 2003
General note
Graphic artist for Robert Peters'
Love Poems for Robert Mitchum.
Box 7, Folder 11
River King Poetry Press (Wayne Lanter, editor)
2000
Box 7, Folder 12
Sandy, Stephen
2001 - 2006
Box 7, Folder 14
Shakespeare and Co. Booksellers
1999 - 2001
Box 7, Folder 15
Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review
Box 7, Folder 18
Stoloff, Carolyn
2001 - 2005
General note
Poet and painter.
Box 7, Folder 20
Strongin, Lynn
2002 - 2005
General note
Poet and editor.
Box 7, Folder 21
Sundog (Jarret Keene, editor)
2000
Box 7, Folder 22
Suntup, Paul (Three Penny Poets, editor)
2000 - 2003
General note
Council for Tebot Bach Anthology of California Poetry.
Box 7, Folder 23
Taggart, Phil
2000 - 2006
Box 7, Folder 24
Thomas, John and Philomene Long
2002 - 2007
Box 7, Folder 25
Thus Spake the Corpse (Mark Spitzer, editor)
2000
Box 7, Folder 26-27
Tieger, Harold and Helen
1999-2002
Box 7, Folder 30
Turney, Robert
2001 - 2004
Box 7, Folder 31
UCSD Soft Reserves Services
1999
Box 7, Folder 32
University of Iowa Press
1999
Box 7, Folder 33
University of Wisconsin Press
1998 - 2003
Box 7, Folder 34
Urbanus Press (Peter Drizhal, editor)
1993
Box 7, Folder 35
Van Gogh's Ear (Ian Ayres, editor)
2004
Box 7, Folder 36
Vazquez, Paul
2003 - 2005
Box 8, Folder 2
Warner, Bill (GLB Publishers)
1998 - 2004
Box 8, Folder 3
West Beach Books (Jim Ericson)
2001
General note
Regarding Robert Peters' erotica submission.
Box 8, Folder 4
West, Eleanor (Sandy)
2001 - 2002
Box 8, Folder 6
Whoreson Dog (Dennis Nishi, editor)
1993
Box 8, Folder 8
Willard, Leorah (great aunt)
Box 8, Folder 10
Williams, Walter (One Institute Center for Advanced Studies, director)
2000
Box 8, Folder 11
Wisconsin River Valley Journal
2003 - 2004
Box 8, Folder 13
Yamada, Mitsuye May
2004 - 2005
Box 8, Folder 15-17
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 3) WRITINGS: Arranged in nine subseries: A) Reviews, B) Novels, C) Short Fiction, D) Plays, E) Collected Poetry, F)
Individual Poems, G) Non-Fiction, H) Essays, and I) Miscellaneous.
A) Reviews: Includes manuscript drafts of recent (1993-2001) book reviews by Peters' of other poet's published work. Arranged
chronologically.
B) Novels: Drafts of unpublished novels, arranged chronologically.
C) Short Fiction: Includes three works.
D) Plays: Scripts for many of Peters' performances, including
The Blood Countess,
Ludwig of Bavaria and
Serial Killer: A Play for Single Performer. The subseries also includes the costume for
Ludwig of Bavaria.
E) Collected Poetry: Dating from 1992, materials include
Love Poems for Robert Mitchum (1992),
Familial Love and Other Misfortunes: Poems of My Early Years(2002), and
Makar's Dozens (2006).
F) Individual Poems: Drafts of poems arranged alphabetically by title.
G) Non-Fiction: Published and unpublished works related to Peters' early life and career. Arranged chronologically.
H) Essays: Short essays on poets Katherine Ann Porter and Charles Bukowski, the Los Angeles poetry scene and a visit with
William S. Burroughs.
I) Miscellaneous: Contains a tribute to Charles Bukowski of poems by other authors collected by Peters and files related to
publication business.
Box 8, Folder 18
Bibliography of Robert Peters reviews
1988 - 1999
Box 8, Folder 19
Review of
Dakota: A Spiritual Biography, by Kathleen Norris
1993
General note
Includes edited draft.
Box 8, Folder 20
Review of
City of Coughing and Dead Radiators, by Martin Espada
1994
Box 8, Folder 21
Review of
Back: Brazil-Peru Poems, by Hugh Fox
1997
Box 8, Folder 22
Review of "Fireflies", by Carol Muske
1997
General note
Includes correspondence with Michael Hathaway.
Box 8, Folder 23
Review of
Quantum Genesis and Other Poems, by Philip Fried
1997
Box 8, Folder 24
Review of
Still Life with Buddy: A Novel Told in Fifty Poems, by Leslea Newman
1997
General note
Includes correspondence with Michael Hathaway.
Box 8, Folder 25
Review of
Alphabet Soup: A Laconic Lexicon for Word Lovers, by Paul Trachtenberg
1998
General note
Includes draft copy.
Box 8, Folder 26
Review of
Blessings The Body Gave, by Walter McDonald
1998
Box 8, Folder 27
Review of
Bukowski in the Bathtub, by Philomene Long
1998
General note
Includes correspondence with the author.
Box 8, Folder 28
Review of
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus, by Holly Prado
1998
General note
Draft with line edits and correspondence with
Chicago Review.
Box 8, Folder 29
Review of
In the Flesh: Undressing for Success, by Gavin Dillard
1998
General note
Includes correspondence with Michael Hathaway (editor,
Chiron Review)).
Box 8, Folder 30
Review of
New and Selected Poems, by Linda Lerner
1998
Box 8, Folder 31
Review of
Selling the Hammock, by Kate Gale
1998
Box 8, Folder 32
Review of A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry, by Gavin Geoffrey
1999
Box 8, Folder 33
Review of
Anytime Blues, by Linder Lerner
1999
Box 8, Folder 34
Review of
Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, ed. Scott Gibson
1999
Box 8, Folder 35
Review of
Early Grrrl, by Marge Piercy
1999
Box 8, Folder 36
Review for
Endless Tongue: 22 Semi-Automatics for Andre Breton, by Richard Houff
1999
Box 8, Folder 37
Review of
Glass Town, by Lisa Russ Spaar
1999
General note
Includes correspondence regarding publishing in
ABR and edited drafts.
Box 8, Folder 38
Review of
God's Haircut and Other Remembered Dreams, by Ron Offen
1999
General note
Includes edited drafts.
Box 8, Folder 39
Review of House of Peace, by Marc Hofstadter
1999
General note
Includes correspondence with author.
Box 8, Folder 40
Review of
Iceman: An Expansive Narrative: WWII, by John Millet
1999
Box 8, Folder 41
Review of
Lost River Mountain, by Charles Potts
1999
General note
Includes correspondence with
The Cafe Review (editor, Wayne Atherton).
Box 8, Folder 42
Review of
Betrayal's Like That, by John Bennett
2000
Box 8, Folder 43
Review of
Cool, Calm, and Collected: 1960-2000, by Carolyn Kizer
2000
General note
Includes edited draft.
Box 8, Folder 44
Review of Enemies of Time, by Donald Leu
2000
Box 8, Folder 45
Review of
Geography of the Forehead, by Ron Koertge
2000
Box 8, Folder 46
Review of
Modern Love: And Other Tall Tales, by Greg Boyd
2000
Box 8, Folder 47
Review of "Osso Buco," by Billy Collins
2000
Box 8, Folder 48
Review of
Picking the Lock to Paradise, by Joan Jobe Smith
2000
Box 8, Folder 49
Review of
The Xopilote Cantos, by Charles Hood
2000
Box 8, Folder 50
Review of
Archaeology of Desire, by Miriam Sagan
2001
General note
Includes edited draft.
Box 8, Folder 51
Review of
Borrowed Coats, by Wilma E. McDaniel
2001
Box 8, Folder 52
Review of
The Cave: Selected and New Poems, by C.H. Hanzlicek
2001
Box 8, Folder 53
Review of
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst
2001
General note
Includes edited drafts.
Box 8, Folder 54
Review of
Fuck You - Aloha - I Love You, by Juliana Spahr
2001
Box 8, Folder 55
Review of
Loose Change, by Louis McKee
2001
General note
Includes chapbook with line notes by Robert Peters and correspondence.
Box 8, Folder 56
Review of
The Million Dollar Hole, by Michael Casey
2001
Box 8, Folder 57
Review of
The Prisons, by Maggie Jaffe
2001
Box 8, Folder 58
Review of
Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, by Denise Duhamel
2001
Box 8, Folder 59
Various reviews - Incomplete, undated
Box 9, Folder 1-3
Joseph Lord
1986
General note
Unpublished novel; includes correspondence regarding publishing.
Box 9, Folder 4
Candyman
1992
General note
Correspondence regarding manuscript; unpublished novel.
Box 9, Folder 5
Hunting the Snark: A Compendium of New Poetic Terminology
1996 - 2007
General note
Correspondence, notes and review.
Box 9, Folder 6-7
Shadow and Stone
General note
TS with line edits by Paul Trachtenberg; unpublished.
Box 9, Folder 11-12
Miscellaneous source material
Box 9, Folder 13
Performance and reading shows - Contacts and correspondence
Box 9, Folder 14
The Blood Countess
ca. 1985, 2007
General note
Abbreviated acting version and review.
Box 9, Folder 15-16
Daisy and Mignionette: A Chamber Play for Three Actors
General
Includes source materials and poem by Richard Peabody.
Box 9, Folder 17
Hawker of Morwenstow
1989
General note
TS and two duplicates.
Box 10, Folder 1
Hawker of Morwenstow
1989
General note
Play adapted from
Hawker (1984).
Box 10, Folder 2
Haydon: A Performance Work for Single Actor
1990
General note
Version with line notes for presentation at Festival of Britain.
Box 10, Folder 3-4
Ludwig and
Blood Countess - Production notes and tour diaries
1982 - 1988
Oversize FB-445, Folder 1
Box 10, Folder 5
Mengele's Uterus: The Sex Life of J. Edgar Hoover, A Fairy's Tale
Box 10, Folder 6
Mother Ann Lee of the Shakers
Box 10, Folder 7
Picnic in the Snow: Ludwig II of Bavaria
Box 10, Folder 8
Polaroids for a Serial Killer
1991
General note
Edited reading version.
Box 10, Folder 9
Railroad Spikes and a Bed of Shaved Ice: A Reading Version
1991
General note
Line edits for performance.
Box 10, Folder 10-11
Serial Killer: A Play for Single Performer
General note
Includes 1992 and 1993 performance flyers and materials.
Box 10, Folder 12-13
A Mad King, Two Killers, Two Saints, A Pair of Siamese Twin Vaudeville Stars, and J. Edgar Hoover: Seven Short Plays Mainly
for Solo Performers
- Typescript and correspondence with Asylum Arts
2001
Box 10, Folder 14
Picnic in the Snow: Ludwig of Bavaria - Review by Edward Butscher
1983
Box 10, Folder 15
Good Night, Paul: Poems (1992) - Reviews and contracts
Box 10, Folder 17
Love Poems for Robert Mitchum (1992) - Correspondence and miscellaneous
1981 - 2001
General note
Drafts of Eric Reynolds' Mitchum graphics, photos, and chapbook enclosed.
Box 11, Folder 1-2
Love Poems for Robert Mitchum (1992) - Undated manuscript and cover illustration by Meredith Peters
Box 11, Folder 3
Poems: Selected and New, 1967-1991 (1992)
Box 11, Folder 4
Where the Bee Sucks: Workers, Drones, and Queens of Contemporary American Poetry (1994)
General note
Correspondence and reviews.
Box 11, Folder 6-13
Familial Love and Other Misfortunes: Poems of My Early Years (2002)
1999 - 2003
General note
Drafts and correspondence.
Box 12, Folder 1-5
Familial Love and Other Misfortunes: Poems of My Early Years (2002)
General note
Drafts and proofs.
Box 12, Folder 6-7
Bob's selected poems
2005
Box 12, Folder 8
Pulling Hens' Teeth: Poems 2005
2005 May 2
Box 12, Folder 9-28
Makar's Dozens (2006)
General
Includes poems from
Pulling Hens' Teeth: "Adeline," "Berry-Gathering-Time Fears," "Bivouac: Ft. Jackson, SC," "Blephartis," Brownie Box Camera," "Cowboys at Reno,"
"Dietrich in Wisconsin," "Dunwich, the North Sea," "An Elegy for Marry Perry," "English Lake District Lover," "Fine Points,"
"For Paul on his Birthday," "Freaks at the Orange County Fair," "Frost: Early May," "Garter Snake Gurgitates a Toad," "Hiram
Ewald," "How Old Men Die: Commemorating the Explorer," "Jeff and Akemi Return to Japan," "At Al Jolson's Tomb," and "July
4th Cemetery Walk."
Box 13, Folder 1-13
Makar's Dozens (2006)
General
Uncorrected proof, ephemera, and poems from
Pulling Hens' Teeth,: "Mom's Friday Hair Ritual," "On the Night he Died They Sat Side by Side Swinging on Their Front Porch," "Old Man Observes
a Shopping Mall Christmas Tree," "Osteoarthritis as a House Mate," "Picking Blueberries," "Pomegranates," "The Possum," "Saw-Rig,
Home-Made," "Son," "Today: A Love Poem for Paul," "Traipsing Through a Local Cemetery," and "Wisconsin Snapshots."
Box 13, Folder 14
Correspondence with small presses
2000
Box 13, Folder 15
Poems published in magazines
Box 13, Folder 16
Poems submitted to journals and magazines
1992 - 1994
General note
Correspondence enclosed.
Box 13, Folder 17
Poetry reading flyers/promos
Box 13, Folder 18
78th Birthday Poem: Emir for a Day
Box 13, Folder 20
Aging Father Loses His Children
1994
Box 13, Folder 21
Arctic Nights, Wild Men, Venison
Box 13, Folder 24
Boy in a River as Painted by Seurat
Box 13, Folder 27
Celebrity poems (4-11, 15-36)
General note
Includes "For Lawrence Welsh".
Box 13, Folder 30
On Climbing a Mountain with a Son
Box 13, Folder 34
Dick and Jane Poems - Unpublished
1982
Box 13, Folder 39
For Paul on his 53rd birthday
2001
General note
25 November 2001.
Box 13, Folder 40
Frigates of Illusion: Childhood
Box 13, Folder 41
Gambling at the Pechanga Casino
Box 13, Folder 42
Geography, Agism, and Coprophagia
1994
Box 13, Folder 45
Heaven's Barbecued Passenger
Box 13, Folder 48
How to Cook a Flamingo Old Roman Style
Box 13, Folder 49
I Find You at Last in Patagonia
Box 13, Folder 50
Indian Burial Ground, Onyx, California
1993
Box 14, Folder 2
Intergalactic Travel, Heaven's Passenger
Box 14, Folder 3
It Takes Guts to Eat a Pet
Box 14, Folder 4
J. Edgar Hoover and the Lindbergh Baby
Box 14, Folder 7
Las Vegas Poem #3: My Brother's Keeper
Box 14, Folder 10
Memory Loss in the Parking Lot
Box 14, Folder 14
Nude Father Sleeping with Son
Box 14, Folder 15
O Beautiful Ohio, in Dreams Again I See
Box 14, Folder 16
On Helping a Wounded Friend
Box 14, Folder 19
On Walking Nude on the San Bernardino Mountains
Box 14, Folder 24
Playing in the Tavern Band
Box 14, Folder 32
San Gorgonio Mountain Walk
Box 14, Folder 33
Saw-Rig, Home-Made, Picking Strawberries, Frost
Box 14, Folder 36
Sleeping in the Mojave Desert
Box 14, Folder 37
So Far, Few Wolf Children Have Been Authenticated
Box 14, Folder 38
Songs for a Son (1967) - "I Hunger to Count Them" and "Easter"
Box 14, Folder 39
Suite on Death of Byron
1999
Box 14, Folder 41
Swallows Arrive at Capistrano
Box 14, Folder 42
Thanksgiving Turkey Ritual
Box 14, Folder 43
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
2000
Box 14, Folder 47
Wisconsin Deer Hunting Tale: The Severed Foot
Box 14, Folder 48
Poem fragments and drafts
Box 14, Folder 49
Crunching Gravel: Growing Up in the Thirties (1988) - Reviews
Box 14, Folder 50
Nell's Story: A Woman from Eagle River (Nell Peters with Robert Peters,1995) - Correspondence and ephemera
Box 14, Folder 51-53
For You, Lili Marlene (1995) - Photographs, correspondence, and reviews
Box 14, Folder 54-55
Feather, A Child's Death and Life (1997) - Proofs
1996
Box 15, Folder 1-4
Feather, A Child's Death and Life (1997) - Proofs, photographs, reviews, and correspondence
1996
General note
Revised page proof.
Box 15, Folder 5-11
The House that Robert Built - Drafts and correspondence
1997 - 1998
General
Unpublished memoir of the 1960s and 1970s.
Box 16, Folder 1-3
Clean Writing, Dirty Shirts: A Memoir of the Sixties - Correspondence, drafts and source material
1970 - 2001
General note
Includes correspondence with Billy Collins and Jean Peters.
Box 16, Folder 4
Gab Poetry, or Shrike vs. Nightingale Music: Charles Bukowski
Box 16, Folder 5
Gay Isherwood Visits Straight Riverside
1999
General note
With copy edits.
Box 16, Folder 6
Katherine Ann Porter on Jews, Homosexuals, and Herself
Box 16, Folder 7
The L.A. Poetry Goose Keeps on Laying Plastic Eggs: Thoughts on West Coast Poetry
Box 16, Folder 8
Trip to Hardy County
1989
Box 16, Folder 9
Visit with William S. Burroughs
General note
See also Box 30, Folder 22.
Box 16, Folder 10
Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994
General note
Poems by others collected by Peters.
Box 16, Folder 11-12
Publishing contracts and copyright agreements
1968 - 1999
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 4) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Includes several works by Peter's relatives, as well as other authors.
Box 16, Folder 14
Dzama, Marcel. Artwork
General note
Student of Peters.
Box 16, Folder 17
Peters, Jefferson
General note
Robert Peters' son.
Box 16, Folder 18
Peters, Meredith. Artwork
Box 16, Folder 19
Peters, Sam. "A Dakota Boyhood"
1981
General note
Edited by Robert Peters.
Box 16, Folder 20
Trachtenberg, Paul.
General note
Miscellaneous poems.
JOURNALS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 5) JOURNALS: Bound blank books (primarily dating from 1966-2004) with diaristic entries, poem drafts, memorabilia and
photographs pasted in, and occasional letters that document Peters' life. Arranged chronologically.
Box 17, Folder 1
Journal and paste-up book
1957
Box 17, Folder 2-15
Journals
1966 January - 1973 November
Box 18, Folder 1-12
Journals
1973 November - 1980 March
Box 19, Folder 1-14
Journals
1980 April - 1984
Box 20, Folder 1-13
Journals
1984 March - 1990
Box 21, Folder 1-11
Journals
1990 September - 2000
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 6) PHOTOGRAPHS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Photograph Albums and B) Prints and Slides.
A) Photograph Albums (1977-2003): Snapshot color prints pasted into albums that describe Peters' travels, especially with
Paul Trachtenberg. At the end of this series is a World War II album documenting his service in Europe.
B) Prints and Slides: Largely documents Peters' performances and contains publicity images taken for book jackets and portfolios.
Box 23, Folder 2
Tombs and Flowers: A Curiosity Assembled by Robert Peters
1977 July 30
Box 23, Folder 3
Trip to England
1981 summer
Box 23, Folder 4
Huntington Beach
1977 - 1980
Box 23, Folder 7-8
England; Eagle River family; Disneyland, Anaheim
1982 summer
Box 24, Folder 6
London and Norwich, Isle of Man
1987 summer
Box 25, Folder 1
Australia
1988 May 22 - June 5
Box 25, Folder 3
Trip to England
1989 August
Box 25, Folder 5
Wisconsin trip
1991 April - June
Box 27, Folder 1
1993 August - 1994 January
Box 28, Folder 1
Christmas with Karen and Rob
1998
Box 28, Folder 7
Ludwig and
Countess performances
Box 29, Folder 1
Ludwig: Performance history
Box 29, Folder 2
Old photos printed from slides
Box 29, Folder 3-6
Miscellaneous
General
Includes modeling for book, and family.
Box 30, Folder 1
The Blood Countess
1985 - 1989
Box 30, Folder 2
Dakyns, Janine in Huntington Beach
1985-1986
Box 30, Folder 3-4
Robert Peters and family
1923 - 1994
Box 30, Folder 5
Friends, visitors, and visits of Robert Peters
1979 - 1990
Box 30, Folder 7
Historical - Miscellaneous photos
Oversize FB-443, Folder 12
Levin, Sheree - Portraits of Robert Peters and Paul Trachtenberg
Box 30, Folder 9
Mad King Ludwig
1976 - 1988
Box 30, Folder 10
May's visit and Poet's Conference, 1990
Box 30, Folder 11
Mother Ann Lee's grave site
Box 30, Folder 12
Robert Peters with "No Regrets" mural
Box 30, Folder 13
Robert Peters and Paul Trachtenberg
Box 30, Folder 14
Photographs of Robert Peters
ca. 1980 - 1990
Box 30, Folder 15
Photographs of Robert Peters and family, sent by his sister Marjorie
1925 - 1955
Box 30, Folder 16
Poetry readings
1999 - 2000
Box 30, Folder 19
Robert Peters at Bowling Green
1992 February
Box 30, Folder 21
Robert Peters visits Burroughs, Lawrence, Kansas
1991 February 3
General note
See also Box 16, Folder 9.
Box 31, Folder 1
Robert Turney portraits of Robert Peters
ca. 1987
Box 31, Folder 2
Snapshots
1977 - ca. 1987
Box 31, Folder 3
Trachtenberg, Paul
1979 - 1985
Box 31, Folder 5
UC Riverside's Writer's Conference
1982 February
Oversize FB-447, Folder 3
Will Kirkland photograph album of images of Peters
SOUND RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 7) SOUND RECORDINGS. Arranged in three subseries: A) Readings by Peters, B) Readings by Others and C) Interviews.
A) Readings by Peters: Audiocassette tapes of poetry readings at UC Irvine and other venues.
B) Readings by Others: Tapes collected by Peters.
C) Interviews: Audio versions of interviews with Peters.
Box 32, Folder 1
Peters, Robert reading his poetry at UC Irvine
1984 June 6
Box 32, Folder 2-3
Peters, Robert reading
Spiked Iron
1988 August
Box 32, Folder 4
Peters, Robert performs "Killer" at UC Irvine
1990 July 16
Box 32, Folder 5
Peters, Robert reading in Venice Beach
1991 January 11
Box 32, Folder 6
Peters, Robert reading at UC Santa Barbara
1991 February 7
Box 32, Folder 7
Peters, Robert reading "Mitchum"
1991 March 17
Box 32, Folder 8
Peters, Robert in Eagle River, WI
1991 May
Box 32, Folder 9
Peters, Robert reading at Poetry Harbor in Duluth, MI
1991 July 18
Box 32, Folder 10
Peters, Robert reading "Killer" in Long Island Beach
1992 March 29
Box 32, Folder 11
Peters, Robert reading with students at UC Irvine
1992 July 9
Box 32, Folder 12
Peters, Robert reading at UC Irvine
1992 July 16
Box 32, Folder 13-14
Peters, Robert reading at the Festival of Experimental Music and Lit in Georgia
1993 December 8
Box 32, Folder 15
Peters, Robert reading his poetry at UC Irvine
1994 June 6
Box 32, Folder 16
Peters, Robert reading with Austin Strauss' "The Poetry Connection" on KPFK
1994 September 3
Box 32, Folder 17
Peters, Robert as "Hoover" at UC Santa Barbara
1994 October 27
Box 33, Folder 1
Peters, Robert reading with Nell at Ashland, Wisconsin
1995 May 16
Box 33, Folder 2
Peters, Robert reading with Nell at Gay/Lesbian Brother's Touch in Minneapolis
1995 May 19
Box 33, Folder 3
Peters, Robert and Nell Peters reading at Madison
1995 May 31
Box 33, Folder 6
Burroughs reading with Bukowski
Box 33, Folder 8-9
Chin, Marilyn and Paul Trachtenberg reading at UC Irvine
1991 June 27 - July 6
Box 33, Folder 10
Connelly, Stephen reading on "Mercury Tea"
1990 August
Box 33, Folder 11
Field, Edmund and Eloise Healy reading at UC Irvine
1994 April 26-28
Box 33, Folder 12
Healy, Eloise K. reads at UC Irvine
1992 May 28
Box 33, Folder 13
Healy, Eloise K. reading at UC Irvine
1994 May
Box 33, Folder 14
Hiller, Sharon reading on McDaniel with Lisa Havagimyan, Winnie Jong, Jennifer Naturski
1991 November
Box 33, Folder 15
Horner reading
1995 January
Box 33, Folder 16
Lesbian Writers' Series Benefit with Suzanne Leemis, Terry Wolverton, Michael Kearns, Michelle T. Clinton, Tim
1990 November 3
Box 34, Folder 1
Morgan, Aron reading with Robert Peters at UC Irvine
1994 May 19
Box 34, Folder 2
Peters, Nell interview
1995 June 9
Box 34, Folder 3
Peters, Nell - Last reading at ER public library
1995 June 10
Box 34, Folder 4
Phillips, Tim reading with Valerie Tripodi, Kristen Shaushressy, Rachel Rots, Kristen Decoster, Angeline Doran
1991 November
Box 34, Folder 5
Prado, Holly and Michelle Clinton reading at UC Irvine
1991 July 11-17
Box 34, Folder 6
Rodriguez, Aleida reading with Katherine Forest, Mitsuye Yamada, Michael Nava, Robert Peters at Lesbian Writer
1990 November 3
Box 34, Folder 7
Stein reading at UC Irvine
Box 34, Folder 8
Students reading Robert Peters' poetry at UC Irvine
1992 July 14
Box 34, Folder 9
Tennyson, Charles reading 4 poems by Alfred Tennyson
1956
Box 34, Folder 10
Trachtenberg, Paul reading
Mercury Tea
Box 34, Folder 11
Trachtenberg, Paul reading "Making Waves" with Robert Peters in Hermosa Beach
1991 January 13
Box 34, Folder 12
Trachtenberg, Paul reading
1991 March 9
Box 34, Folder 13
Trachtenberg, Paul reading with Julia Stein, Robert Peters at Blue Marble Cafe in Costa Mesa
1991 July 11
Box 34, Folder 14
Trachtenberg, Paul and Peters, Robert reading at Celebration Theater, LA
1991 August 22
Box 34, Folder 15
Trachtenberg, Paul reading at UC Irvine
1992 July 7
Box 34, Folder 16
Trachtenberg, Paul reading at UC Irvine
1994 May 12
Box 34, Folder 17
Uyematsu, Amy reading for Robert Peters at UC Irvine
1993 July 8
Box 35, Folder 1
Webb, C. reading at UC Irvine
1992 July 9
Box 35, Folder 2
Webb, C. reading with Robert Peters at UCI
1992 July 9
Box 35, Folder 3-4
Fellows, Bill interviews Robert Peters in Huntington Beach
1992 January 16
Box 35, Folder 5
Merkt, Eric interviewing Robert Peters at UC Irvine
1995 January 8
Box 35, Folder 6-7
Peters, Robert interviews for Public Radio in Wisconsin
1991
Accession Processed in 2020, 2022
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scope and Content of Series
Series 8) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Biographical materials about Robert Peters, including his faculty profiles, articles about
Peters and his writings, and poems and blog posts by his husband, poet Paul Trachtenberg.
Box 36, Folder 1
Academy of American Poets certificate of recognition
2011
Box 36, Folder 2
Bill Mohr's Tribute to Robert
2014 July 4
Box 36, Folder 3
Faculty profiles
2007-2008
Box 36, Folder 4
Poems by Paul Trachtenberg about Robert Peters
2012-2014
Box 36, Folder 5
Rolle, Elisa. Persistent Voices: Robert Peters
2011
Box 36, Folder 6
Voices of a Poet - Blog posts about Peters by Paul Trachtenberg
2009
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 9) CORRESPONDENCE: Correspondence to and from Robert Peters and Paul Trachtenberg by poets, writers, publishers, and
family members. Prominent correspondents include Kirby Congdon, David Fisher, Barbara Hauk, Charles Hood, Carolyn Stoloff,
and Lawrence Welsh. Peters also corresponded frequently with his children, Jefferson, Meredith, and Rob Peters. Much of the
later correspondence to Peters was answered by Paul Trachtenberg, who often printed out emails in large type for Peters to
read. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname.
Box 36, Folder 7
Correspondent lists
2006-2014
Box 36, Folder 9
Academy of American Poets
2007-2009
Box 36, Folder 10
Anderson, Sharon
2009-2016
Box 36, Folder 11
Ari, Daniel (Fleischman, Daniel)
2005-2006
Box 36, Folder 12
Ayre, Maggie (BBC Radio 4)
2013
Box 36, Folder 13
Ayres, Ian
(Van Gogh's Ear)
2006
Box 36, Folder 17
Blankheads (Scrabble group)
2007-2011
Box 36, Folder 19
Bosveld, Jennifer
2008-2010
Box 36, Folder 24
Caliban (Larry Smith)
2010-2011
Box 36, Folder 25
Chapman, David and David Berryman
2007-2010
Box 36, Folder 26
Chichetto, James
2005-2009
Box 36, Folder 27
Chorlton, David
2005-2009
Box 36, Folder 35
Dillard, Gavin Geoffrey
1998-2017
Box 37, Folder 1-2
Hood, Charles
1994-2014
General note
Includes photographs of Charles Hood.
Box 37, Folder 11
McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
1999-2007
Box 37, Folder 13
Mulkiewicz, Martha
2011-2014
Box 37, Folder 14
North Atlantic Books (Jessica Moll)
2011
General note
Correspondence regarding "A Conversation with Robert Duncan," a 1976 interview of Duncan by Peters and Trachtenberg, to be
reprinted in
A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews with Robert Duncan, 1960-1985.
Box 37, Folder 15
Northup, Harry and Holly Prado Northup
2005-2014
General note
Includes photo of Harry Northup.
Box 37, Folder 17
Offen, Ron and Beverly
2005-2006
Box 37, Folder 18
Oklahoma State University (Karen Neurohr)
2009-2011
General note
Correspondence regarding the "Remembering Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel: Poet and Oklahoma Dust Bowl Emigrant" oral history project.
Box 37, Folder 19
Orange Coast Review (Rangno, Erik)
2008-2009
Box 37, Folder 21
Peters family
2005-2014
General note
Includes photographs of Peters family members.
Box 37, Folder 22-24
Peters, Jefferson
1997-2015
Box 38, Folder 1-5
Peters, Meredith J.
2005-2014
Box 38, Folder 6
Peters, Meredith, Jefferson, and Rob
2005-2006
Box 38, Folder 7
Peters, Rob, Karen, and Athena
2005-2009
Box 38, Folder 8
Picano, Felice
(Van Gogh's Ear)
1996-2011
Box 38, Folder 9
Pietila, Nell and Terra
2007-2009
Box 38, Folder 12
Plymale, Charles
2003-2014
Box 38, Folder 17
Shiffrin, Nancy
2006-2008
Box 38, Folder 18
Silha, Stephen (The Big Joy Project)
2010-2012
Box 38, Folder 19
Spivack, Kathleen
2006-2007
Box 38, Folder 20
Steinberger, Harlan
2011-2014
Box 38, Folder 21
Stoloff, Carolyn
2006-2010
Box 39, Folder 2
Trachtenberg, Paul
2001-2014
Box 39, Folder 4
University of Wisconsin Press
2007-2010
Box 39, Folder 6
Voss, Joan Jobe (Smith)
1999-2015
Box 39, Folder 8
Warner, Willis L. (GLB Publishers)
2005-2011
Box 39, Folder 11
Welsh, Lawrence
2008-2009
Box 39, Folder 16
WXPR Public Radio (Walt Gander)
1991
General note
Regarding Peters' interviews in 1991.
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 10) WRITINGS: Drafts, proofs, correspondence, and ephemera for Peters' works of poetry and biography, including
Ikagnak (1979),
Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties (1993),
Pulling Hens' Teeth: Poems 2005, and
I'm Now Eighty Four, An Evocative Year (2008). The series also includes drafts and photographs for Peters' 2006 poetry reading "Words and Sentiments of Tolerance"
at Antelope Valley College.
Box 39, Folder 21
Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties (1993) - Correspondence and ephemera
2010
Box 39, Folder 22
Poems - Page proofs
2005
General note
Drafts of "Theme," "Scene," "Wall," "Opacity," "Easter," "Snow," "Responsibility," "Ceremony," and "Calm."
Box 39, Folder 23
Pulling Hens' Teeth: Poems 2005 - Draft
2005 March 4
Box 39, Folder 24
Words and Sentiments of Tolerance - Featured Poet, Robert Peters. Poetry reading at Antelope Valley College - Drafts, ephemera
and photographs
2006 March 22
Box 39, Folder 25
New Measure 6: A Magazine of Poetry, Summer 1967
2008
General note
Ephemera for poetry journal signed and annotated by Peters.
Box 39, Folder 26-27
I'm Now Eighty Four, An Evocative Year - Drafts
2008
Box 40, Folder 1-5
I'm Now Eighty Four, An Evocative Year - Drafts
2008
Box 40, Folder 6
My Father as House Builder - Poem draft and correspondence
2013
Box 41
Ikagnak: The North Wind - Correspondence, drafts, layouts
1979
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 11) PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographs of Robert Peters throughout his life, and of two of his children, Meredith and Jefferson
Peters.
Box 40, Folder 8
Meredith and Jefferson Peters
1984-2013
Box 40, Folder 9
Robert Peters
ca. 1940-2014
SOUND RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 12): SOUND RECORDINGS: Audiocassette recordings by Peters, including music and sound effects for his production of
The Blood Countess, an interview and poetry reading for Wisconsin Public Radio, and a reading of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg in collaboration
with other poets for National Poetry Month. The series includes correspondence, proofs, and digital sound recordings for Peters'
published poetry reading
Going Down the River in a Hayloft Coffin: The Evocative Years of Robert Peters (2009).
Box 35, Folder 8
The Blood Countess music and sound effects - Audiocassette
1986 May
Box 35, Folder 9
Robert Peters and Jean Feraca. A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties. Reading and discussion of Peters' memoir for Wisconsin
Public Radio - Audiocassette
1993 September 21
Box 35, Folder 10-11
Whitman reading for National Poetry Month, Los Angeles - Audiocassettes
1997 April 6
General
Holly Prado, Lewis MacAdams, Robert Peters, Steve Abee, Garrett Brown, James Cushing, Harry Northup, Robert Crosson, and Jay
Paulson read Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric," "The Sleepers," and "Song of Myself," and Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket
in America." The reading was dedicated to Ginsberg.
Box 40, Folder 10
Going Down the River in a Hayloft Coffin: The Evocative Years of Robert Peters (2009) - Correspondence, review, and CD booklet proof
2009-2010
Going Down the River in a Hayloft Coffin: The Evocative Years of Robert Peters (2009) - Mastered digital recordings with voice and music, .WAV files (45 minutes)
2009
Going Down the River in a Hayloft Coffin: The Evocative Years of Robert Peters (2009) - Digital recordings with voice only, .WAV files (45 minutes)
2009