Holly Prado Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2023
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Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Holly Prado Papers
Creator:
Prado, Holly
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0597
Physical Description:
22 Linear feet
(55 archives boxes, 3 oversize folders)
Physical Description:
6.2 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): 1890-2019
Abstract: The Holly Prado Papers include material spanning the career of poet Holly Prado, from examples of early efforts written in
her youth in the 1950s, through her professional work in the 2010s. Prado's personal journals, dating from 1960 - 2019, make
up the largest portion of the collection. Influenced by Jungian psychology, Prado has described journals an important tool
for "nourishing" her writing. The second largest group of material consists of drafts of poetry, prose, and talks and lectures.
The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, artwork, audiovisual recordings, and publication materials from
Cahuenga Press.
Languages:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Holly Prado Papers include material spanning the career of poet Holly Prado, from examples of early efforts written in
her youth in the 1950s, through her professional work in the 2010s. Prado's personal journals, dating from 1960 - 2019, make
up the largest portion of the collection. Influenced by Jungian psychology, Prado has described journals an important tool
for "nourishing" her writing. The second largest group of material consists of drafts of poetry, prose, and talks and lectures.
The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, artwork, audiovisual recordings, and publication materials from
Cahuenga Press.
Accessions Processed in 2006
Arranged in nine series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) NOTES, 5) READINGS, 6) TEACHING MATERIALS,
7) CONFERENCES, 8) JOURNALS, 9) WRITINGS BY OTHERS & MISCELLANEOUS.
Accessions Processed in 2008, 2022
Arranged in nine series: 10) BIOGRAPHICAL, 11) CORRESPONDENCE, 12) WRITINGS, 13) READINGS AND LECTURES, 14) JOURNALS, 15)
CAHUENGA PRESS, 16) PHOTOGRAPHS, 17) ARTWORK, and 18) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS.
Biography
Holly Prado was born Holly Kay Johnson on May 2, 1938 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She attended Grand Rapids Junior College and Albion
College, where she was awarded a bachelor of arts with honors in 1960. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles, where she
remained to become an active, influential member of the Southern California literary community as a poet, educator, and regular
participant in live poetry readings and literary events. She began writing as Holly Prado during her marriage to George Prado
(1967-1975) and continued using that name after her marriage to actor and poet Harry Northup in 1990. She has also used the
names Holly Schwartz and Holly Prado Northup.
Prado became involved in poetry and literary education for all age groups in the mid-1960s. She taught English at John Marshall
High School in Los Angeles (1965-1972), participated in a Poetry in the Schools Program sponsored by the Department of Labor
and the National Endowment for the Arts (1973-1974), and has taught numerous writing workshops offered through a variety of
schools and organizations. Prado was hired as a faculty member for the University of Southern California Master of Professional
Writing Program in 1973.
Prado began writing for publication while still in college, but attributes a 1970 writing workshop taught by Alvaro Cardona-Hine
with helping her develop her mature style. Prado's first published collection was
Nothing Breaks Off at the Edge (1976). Her other published collections include
Specific Mysteries (1990),
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (1998),
These Mirrors Prove It: Selected Poems and Prose, 1970-2003 (2005),
Oh, Salt/Oh, Desiring hand (2013), and
Weather: A Poem/A Chronicle (2019). Her poetry has also appeared in various anthologies, poetry journals, and magazines such as
Ms. and
Rolling Stone. In addition to poetry, Prado has contributed essays and reviews to several periodicals, notably the
Los Angeles Times Book Review, and published two books of prose,
Feasts (1976) and
Gardens (1985). Prado became a founding member of the Cahuenga Press Poets Publishing Cooperative in 1989 with James Cushing, Phoebe
MacAdams, Bill Mohr, Cecilia Woloch, and Harry Northup.
Prado's work is often noted for her use of a mythic voice and references to classical myths and mysteries. In the introduction
to her collection
Greatest Hits (2000), she described the work in
Specific Mysteries and
Word Rituals (released as a spoken word recording in 1993) as "ceremonies making words sacred." Jungian psychology has also had a significant
influence on Prado's work, especially her enthusiasm for keeping personal journals. In the literary journal
Chrysalis (no. 7, 1979) she discussed personal journaling as an important tool for keeping in touch with the unconscious, developing
intuitiveness, and exploring emotional states without self-censoring, as well as a means of "nourishing" writing intended
for publication. Her personal journals record thoughts, experiences, and dreams and sometimes include drawings, photographs,
or ephemera.
Holly Prado and Harry Northup shared a home on Mariposa Avenue in East Hollywood for more than thirty years. In July 2017
an electrical fire in the apartment destroyed their study along with their computer and much of their correspondence, records,
and artwork. A box of Prado's family photographs, slightly singed and smoke damaged, survived the fire. Prado and Northup
relocated to housing on the Motion Picture and Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills. Holly Prado died on June 14, 2019
in Los Angeles, California.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Holly Prado Papers, MSS 597. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2002, 2006-2019.
Restrictions
Original audiovisual and digital media are restricted; listening/viewing copies may be available for researchers.
Digital Content
The collection contains a small number of individually described digital files.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century
Poetry -- Congresses
Poetry -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Prado, Holly -- Archives
Northup, Harry E.
Woman's Words Conference
Accessions Processed in 2006
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: General background on Holly Prado's life and career, including drafts of her resumes from
the 1970s through late 1980s, brief biographies, a grant application, photographs, and newspaper clippings of articles about
Prado.
Box 1, Folder 1
Biographies and resumes
1974 - 1991
Box 1, Folder 2
Newspaper clippings
1960 - 1991
Box 1, Folder 3-4
Photographs - Holly Prado and Judy Brown
1973 - 1975
Box 1, Folder 5
Shatterproof Press Poetry Production and Social Action Award
1987
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Personal and professional correspondence. Given Prado's active involvement with poetry publications
and acquaintance with other writers, professional and personal may overlap, with personal letters from friends occasionally
including comments on Prado's work. Query letters to poetry journals and magazines are also present.
Box 1, Folder 9
Atlantic Monthly
1973 - 1974
Box 1, Folder 11
Brooks, Elaine
1970 - 1978
Box 1, Folder 15
Caterpillar (Clayton Eshleman)
1970 - 1971
Box 1, Folder 16
Dacotah Territory (Mark Vinz)
1971
Box 1, Folder 18
Fire Exit (Bill Corbett)
1973
Box 1, Folder 21
Hickman, Leland (Lee)
1977 - 1990
Box 1, Folder 23
Hudson Review (Erin Seely)
1980
Box 1, Folder 24
Hughes, Barbara
1975 - 1977
Box 1, Folder 25
Ironwood (Michael Cuddihy)
1974
Box 1, Folder 27
Kayak (George Hitchcock)
1970
Box 1, Folder 29
Lamp in the Spine (Patricia Hampl)
1974
Box 1, Folder 30
Lifson, Martha
1976 - 1980
Box 1, Folder 32
Margins (Angela Peckenpaugh)
1974
Box 1, Folder 34
Minnesota Review (C.W. Truesdale)
1972 - 1973
Box 1, Folder 42-44
Northup, Harry
1979 - 1983
General
Includes postcards from Harry Northup to Prado while he worked on the movies
Tom Horn and
Used Cars.
Box 1, Folder 49
Robertson, Kell
1972 - 1973
Box 1, Folder 50
Rolling Stone
1971 - 1973
Box 1, Folder 53
Stoltzfus, Ben
1988 - 1989
Box 2, Folder 2
Townsend, Alison -- Includes notes on
Island
1980 - 1989
Box 2, Folder 5
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 3) WRITINGS: Primarily Prado's poetry, typically in typescript form, sometimes annotated. Some examples of Prado's
earliest writing efforts from the 1950s and early 1960s are also present, including work Prado submitted for publication while
still a student at Albion College and clippings of a column Prado wrote for the Albion College student newspaper. Arranged
in six subseries: A) Childhood and Early Writings, B) Student Work, C) Poems, D) Poetry Collections, E) Poetry Miscellaneous,
and F) Prose.
A) Childhood and Early Writings: Material Prado describes in a note as writing created "before I had any idea I could have
a writing life." Includes poems from the early 1950s, short prose and a one act play.
B) Student Work: Primarily short prose written between 1954 and 1960, when Prado was a student at Albion College. Includes
several clippings of her column for the Albion College student newspaper,
The Pleiad, and a paper written for a Contemporary American Literature class taught by Peter Marin at CSU Los Angeles.
C) Poems: Individual poems and prose-poems, finished and unfinished, some in more than one version. Poems are typically typed,
occasionally with handwritten annotations, and date from the late 1970s to early 1990s.
D) Poetry Collections: Groups of poems from Prado's files with a collective title. Some work is grouped thematically, some
created as a poem cycle, and some grouped in collections intended for publication. Work dates from the 1970s to early 1990s.
E) Poetry Miscellaneous: Poems and prose-poems from Prado's files grouped to represent various date spans. The largest portion
of material dates from the 1970s.
F) Prose: Several works of short prose, typed drafts and newspaper clippings of Prado's reviews for the
Los Angeles Times, and a draft of her unpublished novel
The Bright Obvious from 1989.
Childhood and Early Writings
Box 2, Folder 8-10
Prose written at Albion College
1954-1960, undated
Box 2, Folder 11
"Wallace Stevens and Paul Klee" - Written at CSU Los Angeles
1966 May
Box 2, Folder 13
1965: What I Have Not Said About the House on MacBeth Street
1978 - 1992
Box 2, Folder 15
Climate: A Letter for Harry
1978
Box 2, Folder 18
Dream of Frog Christ, unfinished
1990
Box 2, Folder 19
For Judy, Driving from Los Angeles to Ojai Right Now
ca. 1975
Box 2, Folder 21
The Griffith Park Observatory: A Ritual
1978
Box 2, Folder 22
Hades' Wife, unfinished
1992
Box 3, Folder 4
What is it in Us that Almost Sees Itself: A Serenade for Cat
1978 - 1995
Box 3, Folder 5
Astrologer Poems
1973 - 1974
Box 3, Folder 6-7
Dream Combinations
1982 and undated
Box 3, Folder 8-11
Dream Fictions - Stones, Marla and the Singer, finished dream fictions, dreams to possible work with as fiction
1988 - 1991
Box 3, Folder 13-14
From One to the Next - Drafts
1989 and undated
Box 3, Folder 15
Introductions: 15 Morning Love Stories
undated
Box 3, Folder 16-20
Island - Drafts and notes
1989
Box 3, Folder 21-23
Luna - Originals, rewrites, and selections
1984 - 1987
Box 3, Folder 24
Marriage Poems - Drafts
1990
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Marriage Poems - Drafts and unused poems
1990 - 1991
Box 4, Folder 4
Novels About England and France
1976
Box 4, Folder 5-6
Poems on the Mooncycle - Groups 1 and 2
1989
Box 4, Folder 7
S'Associent Dans Une Menage a Trois Scandaluese, with Michael C. Ford and Neal Spiegel
ca. 1975
Box 4, Folder 8
Soft Essays: Explorations of the Creative Process
undated
Box 4, Folder 9-14
Specific Mysteries - Drafts, manuscripts, revisions, book jacket,
A Book of a Year, and poems published in
Analytic Psychology Club of Los Angeles
1978 - 1982
Box 4, Folder 15
The Word in the Middle of the Body - Unpublished typescript
ca. 1980
Box 4, Folder 16-17
Word Rituals - Drafts and poems
1983 - 1993
Box 5, Folder 4
From Prado's file "Completed Poems"
1970
Box 5, Folder 5
Sketchbook including drawings and poetry
1970s
Box 6, Folder 1-6
Poems
1976 - 1991, undated
Box 6, Folder 7
To Approach Poetry, Fiction, and Symbolic Sense
1989
Box 6, Folder 8-9
The Bright Obvious
June 1989
Box 6, Folder 13
Looking Toward America's Third Century: The Artist as Harpo Marx -- And More
undated
Box 6, Folder 14-15
Los Angeles Times - Book reviews
1976 - 1989
Box 6, Folder 16
Luke Stone's Sister
undated
Box 6, Folder 17
Mankind magazine - Book reviews and article
1976 - 1977
Box 7, Folder 3
The Other Side of the Family
1987
NOTES
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 4) NOTES: Chiefly consists of notepads which Prado and her husband, actor and poet Harry Northup, kept by their bedside
between 1980 and 1995. On the notepads Prado and Northup shared thoughts, feelings, observations, and short messages. The
subseries also includes a small amount of Prado's writing notes, notes from and about classes she attended in 1963 and 1964,
and some working lists of material she had submitted for publication and information about sources for grants and awards.
Box 7, Folder 6-19
Bedside notepads
1980 - 1996
Box 7, Folder 22
Lists of work submitted for publication
1970 - 1989
READINGS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 5) READINGS: Preparatory material and annotated poems used for live readings during the 1970s and 1980s.
Box 8, Folder 1
Open readings - Beyond Baroque
1980
Box 8, Folder 2
Miscellaneous readings
1972 - 1988
Box 8, Folder 3
From Prado's file "Pieces About Writing from Various Readings"
1979 - 1987
Box 8, Folder 4-5
Miscellaneous readings
1980 - 1993
Box 8, Folder 6-7
Reading announcements
1971 - 1991, undated
TEACHING MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 6) TEACHING MATERIALS: Preparatory material for writing workshops led by Prado, and courses for which Prado was a guest
lecturer.
Box 8, Folder 8
Los Angeles Council of English Teachers talk
1985
Box 8, Folder 10
Whitman, Walt - Session for course taught by Bob Peters, July 1989
Box 8, Folder 11-12
Writing workshops
1976 - 1990
CONFERENCES
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 7) CONFERENCES: Chiefly consists of notes and organizational material for conferences in which Prado participated.
The largest amount of material relates to the Woman's Words Conference (1975), including promotional materials which Prado
helped create and a packet of writings by various authors who participated in the conference.
Box 8, Folder 13
Beyond Baroque panel on "The Politics of the Politics of Poetry," 1990
Box 8, Folder 14
The Diary, the Journal, the Autobiography conference - Reprint of article, "Journal Writing: Where it Can Go From Where It
is," by Prado, published in
New 44
1977 May
Box 8, Folder 16-20
Woman's Words - Correspondence, notes, organizational and promotional materials, and writings
1974 - 1975
JOURNALS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 8) JOURNALS: Comprises the largest amount of material in the collection. Prado's personal journals date from 1960 through
1999. Influenced by Jungian psychology, Prado has described journals an important tool for "nourishing" her writing. They
record thoughts, experiences, and dreams, and sometimes include drawings, photographs, or ephemera. Some journals deal specifically
with trips Prado took, or dreams, and are typically handwritten.
Box 9, Folder 2
Acting with Jeff Corey
1962
Box 28, Folder 8
Prado's responses to re-reading journals
1999-2001
WRITINGS BY OTHERS & MISCELLANEOUS
Scope and Content of Series
SERIES 9) WRITINGS BY OTHERS & MISCELLANEOUS: A small selection of material, chiefly short prose, on subjects of interest
to Prado.
Box 28, Folder 9
Cooper, Dennis and Mark Watt. It's a Small World: Los Angeles Poets,
Gosh!
1978 November
Box 28, Folder 10
Cushing, Jimm. L.A. Poets Drive Alone on Metaphysical Freeway,
Reader (Los Angeles free weekly)
1983 June 10
Box 28, Folder 11
Delp, Laurel. The License to Write: L.A.'s Poets Start a New Tradition of Their Own,
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1982 January 31
Box 28, Folder 12
Doubiago, Sharon. Review of
Poetry Loves Poetry: An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets, edited by Bill Mohr.
Electum Magazine
1987 fall/winter
Box 28, Folder 13
Hampl, Patricia. A Woman's Journal: Where Public and Private Merge,
Literata
1975 April 21
Box 28, Folder 14
Koval, Amy. Prado's "Bread Worth Eating" Explains Process, Outcome of Self Satisfaction,
New York Times
ca. 1990
Box 28, Folder 15
Margolis, Susan. 100 American Seducers on Their Craft and Sullen Art,
Rolling Stone
1973 August 16
Box 28, Folder 16
Nolan, Tom. The Storytellers,
Los Angeles
1987 March
Box 28, Folder 17
Northup, Harry - Miscellaneous notes and poetry
1977 - 1985
Box 28, Folder 18
Schwarz, John. Everything at the Same Time
ca. 1980
Box 28, Folder 19
Zweig, Paul. The Art of Poetry
undated
Box 28, Folder 20
On Hearing Holly Read Her Poem
undated
Box 28, Folder 21
Poems and broadsides - Miscellaneous
1975 - 1989
Oversize FB-411-04
Davis, Marshall.
The Rhythm Bridge - Black and white photograph with inscription on reverse, "For Holly Prado"
1980
Box 28, Folder 22
Hickman, Leland - Memorial service
1991 August 3
Box 28, Folder 23
Los Angeles Times Book Review dispute
1987 - 1989
Box 28, Folder 24
Publication announcements
1971 - 1985
Oversize FB-411-05
Whole Woman Calendar
1978
General
September includes a quote from Prado.
Accessions Processed in 2008, 2022
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scope and Content of Series
Series 10) BIOGRAPHICAL: Biographical information about Holly Prado, including correspondence, ephemera, photographs, diplomas,
grant applications, interview notes, and poems written about her by other poets.
Box 29, Folder 1
Holly Prado biographical information
1975-2019
Box 29, Folder 2-4
High school and college materials
1955-1960
General note
Includes photographs of Holly Prado.
Box 29, Folder 5
Poems about Holly Prado by Ellen Reich, Jean Samuel, Judy Oberlander, Paul Brooks, and Olivia Sanchez Brown
1976-2019
Box 29, Folder 6
National Endowment for the Arts applications
1990-1992
Oversize FB-425, Folder 08
City of Los Angeles certificate of recognition
2006 November 15
Box 29, Folder 7
Holly Prado interviewed by Naomi Lowinsky
2009 April
Box 29, Folder 8
Notes for video interview
2013 May 11
Box 29, Folder 9
Holly Prado interviewed by John Wisniewski
2019 April
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 11) CORRESPONDENCE: Prado's correspondence with poets, publishers, and family members, arranged alphabetically. Prominent
correspondents include Diane Wakoski, Alison Townsend, Harry Northup, Cecilia Woloch, and Robert Peters. Includes outgoing
correspondence by both Holly Prado and Harry Northup, and correspondence with Prado's writing workshops and journal groups.
Box 29, Folder 12
Anstey, Jennifer
2011-2019
Box 29, Folder 13
Askew (Phil Taggart and Marsha de la O)
Box 29, Folder 16
Bartels, Sanora
2005-2006
Box 29, Folder 18
Brooks, Elaine
1960-2001
General note
Includes photograph of Elaine Brooks and Holly Prado at Albion College, 1960.
Box 29, Folder 20
The Café Review (Gibson Fay-LeBlanc)
2002
Box 29, Folder 21
Chelsea (Sonia Raiziss)
1973-1992
Box 29, Folder 22
City of Santa Monica
1990
General note
Includes poems by Prado selected to appear on Santa Monica buses in 1990.
Box 29, Folder 23
Colorado Review (Bill Tremblay)
1990-1991
Box 29, Folder 25
Cushing, James
1989-2018
General note
Includes photographs of Jimm Cushing, 1995.
Box 29, Folder 27
Denver Quarterly (Geri Lynn Baumblatt)
1995
Box 29, Folder 31
Gargoyle (Richard Peabody)
2007
Box 29, Folder 37
Johnson family
1924-1977
General note
Includes correspondence from Holly Prado to her parents while she was at Albion College.
Box 29, Folder 39
Kupernick, Harvey Robert (BarKubCo Music, Inc.)
1989-1991
General note
Agreements regarding spoken word performances of Prado's work.
Box 30, Folder 5
Lummox Press (R. D. Armstrong)
2001-2002
Box 30, Folder 7
Malpais Review (Gary Brower)
2012
Box 30, Folder 12
New Rivers Press
1994-1998
Box 30, Folder 16
Oberlander, Judy
1984-2018
Box 30, Folder 19
Pacific Review (Suzanne Sato)
1991
Box 30, Folder 20
Pearl (Joan Jobe Smith)
1991-1999
Box 30, Folder 21
Peninsula (Joe Safdie)
1989-1991
Box 30, Folder 22
Peters, Robert and Paul Trachtenberg
1990-2002
Box 30, Folder 23
Poetry International (Fred Moramarco)
1996
Box 30, Folder 24
Psychological Perspectives (Margaret O. Ryan)
2003-2009
Box 30, Folder 26
Roter, Danielle
1989-2005
Box 30, Folder 28
Salem College Center for Women Writers
2008
Box 30, Folder 29
Sanchez Brown, Olivia
1986-2019
Box 30, Folder 31
Sison, Maria Ramonita (Sister Maria)
2007-2009
Box 30, Folder 32
Solo (Jackson Wheeler)
2002-2004
Box 30, Folder 33
Stafford, William - Rules for Building a Labyrinth
1999
Box 30, Folder 36
Tebot Bach (Paul Suntup)
2001-2003
Box 30, Folder 37-38
Townsend, Alison
1988-2000
Box 31, Folder 1-3
Townsend, Alison
2001-2019
Box 31, Folder 5
UC Los Angeles Extension, The Writer's Program (Linda Venis)
1991
Box 32, Folder 5
Walker, Gary
2000
General note
Includes photos of Holly Prado and Phoebe MacAdams, 2000.
Box 32, Folder 6
Woloch, Cecilia
1993-2019
General note
Includes photos of Holly Prado and the Tuesday morning writing workshop, 2001.
Box 32, Folder 7
Writing workshops and journal group
2007-2018
Box 32, Folder 9
ZYZZYVA (Howard Junker)
1990
Box 32, Folder 10
Outgoing correspondence by Holly Prado and Harry Northup
1976-2019
Box 32, Folder 11
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 12) WRITINGS. Arranged in four series: A) Notes, B) Poems, C) Poetry Collections, D) Prose and Journal Works.
A) Notes: Prado's notes from 1990-2018, including notes on possible publishers, notes on deities, and a list of loved ones
for Día de los Muertos.
B) Poems: Drafts, notes, correspondence, and ephemera for Prado's published and unpublished poetry. Most of her drafts are
typescript, then annotated and dated by hand. Arranged chronologically, with untitled poems at the end.
C) Poetry Collections: Drafts, manuscripts, notes, correspondence, ephemera, reviews, cover art, photographs, and promotional
materials from Prado's published and unpublished works of poetry.
D) Prose and Journal Works: Drafts, notes, and correspondence for Prado's prose and prose poems, including her novels
Gardens (1985) and
The Bright Obvious, an untitled memoir from 1992, another personal essay written in 2010, blurbs for the publications of other writers, and
an essay in honor of poets Philomene Long and John Thomas. Includes copies of Prado's work in other publications from 1973
through 2006.
Box 32, Folder 14
List of loved ones for Día de los Muertos
2018
Box 32, Folder 15
Publishers and poetry competitions
1990-2011
Box 32, Folder 16
Poems and prose from blue notebook
1976-1989
Box 32, Folder 18
Guidance: Requiem (in
The Kenyon Review)
1990
Box 32, Folder 19
Miscellaneous choices to work on
1993
Box 32, Folder 20
Los Angeles Poetry Festival
(Grand Passion: The Poets of Los Angeles)
1994-1997
Box 32, Folder 21
One Country: 1991 (in
The Southern California Anthology)
1995
Box 32, Folder 22
The Tall, Upheaving One (in
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection)
1999
Box 32, Folder 23
Writers at Work project (Sense of Site)
2002
Box 33, Folder 2-4
Tu Fu (Chinese Letter from LA)
2009-2010
Box 33, Folder 6
The Big Gate Left Open
2018-2019
Box 33, Folder 8
Two Sightings of the Aurora Borealis
2019
Box 34, Folder 1
Specific Mysteries (1990) - Reviews, correspondence, notes, ephemera
1990-1991
Box 34, Folder 2-13
American Poetry - American Food and American Love
1995-1997
General note
Drafts, revisions, selections for New Rivers Press, reading copy, poetry chapbook competition, and American Poetry parts 1-2.
Box 35, Folder 1-6
American Poetry - American Food and American Love
1994-2003
General note
American Poetry parts 3- 5, original notebook, drafts and revisions.
Box 35, Folder 7
Horizon: For my Nebraska (Good Buffalo)
1997
Box 35, Folder 9
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (1998) - Notes
1990-1993
General note
Originally titled
Blood Becomes Seed: Poems for Orpheus.
Box 36, Folder 1-9
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (1998) - Poems, drafts, and introduction
1991-1994
Box 37, Folder 1-10
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (1998) - Drafts, proofs, correspondence, publicity, reviews, cover art, photographs, and classes by Philomene Long and James
Cushing
1991-2008
Box 37, Folder 11-12
Barnsdall Park - Drafts, notes, and correspondence
1998
Box 38, Folder 1-3
Barnsdall Park - Drafts, notes, and correspondence
1999-2000
Box 38, Folder 4
Greatest Hits, 1976-2000 (2001) - Draft and correspondence
2000-2001
Box 38, Folder 5-6
Poems for Harry
2001-2003
Box 38, Folder 7-10
These Mirrors Prove It: Selected Poems and Prose, 1970-2003 (2004) - Drafts, notes, promotional materials, and review
1978-2006
Box 39, Folder 1-7
From One to the Next (2008) - Drafts, cover art and ephemera
1989-2008
General note
Includes drafts of
Branch (2005) and
Celery (2007).
Box 39, Folder 8-10
Monkey Journal (2008) - Drafts, notes, and correspondence
2004-2008
Box 40, Folder 1-2
Monkey Journal (2008) - Drafts and reading selections
2005-2006
Box 40, Folder 3-5
My Career (2009) - Drafts and notes
2008-2009
Box 40, Folder 6-7
Summer Mariposa - Drafts
2010-2013
General note
Originally titled
Lush Severity and
Bitter Greens.
Box 40, Folder 8-9
Oh, Salt/Oh, Desiring Hand (2013) - Drafts
2011-2013
Box 41, Folder 1-8
Oh, Salt/Oh, Desiring Hand (2013) - Drafts, notes, proofs, correspondence, and cover photograph
2011-2013
Box 41, Folder 9
Rogue Star - Draft
2014
General note
Early titles included
World and
Crux and Jubilation.
Box 42, Folder 1-4
Rogue Star - Drafts
2014-2015
Box 42, Folder 5-9
Weather: A Poem/A Chronicle (2019) - Drafts
2017-2019
General note
Early drafts were titled
Nothing Like Caution or Whisper.
Box 43, Folder 1-10
Weather: A Poem/A Chronicle (2019) - Drafts, proofs, correspondence, drawings, cover art, publicity, and responses by Kathleen Bevacqua
2018-2019
Box 44, Folder 1-3
Gardens (1985) - Correspondence, manuscripts, publication, reviews, and excerpt
1982-1999
Box 44, Folder 4
To approach poetry, fiction, and symbolic sense
1989
Box 44, Folder 5
Tension and conflict in writing and how to create it
1990
Box 44, Folder 6
The Bright Obvious - Excerpts and correspondence
1990-1991
Box 44, Folder 9
On solitude and writing
1993 October 27
Box 44, Folder 10
Widswarth
1993 December 26
Box 44, Folder 12
Creation myth
1995 spring
Box 44, Folder 13-14
Where Have I Been?
1998 - 1999
Box 44, Folder 16
Water on Mars
2000 December 7
Box 44, Folder 17
Miscellaneous prose
2000-2001
Box 45, Folder 3
Philomene Long and John Thomas
2012
Box 45, Folder 4
Review of Spring Restaurant
2016
Box 45, Folder 5-8
Works within journals - Photocopies
1973-2006
READINGS AND LECTURES
Scope and Content of Series
Series 13) READINGS AND LECTURES: Drafts, notes, ephemera, correspondence, and photographs for poetry readings and talks given
by Holly Prado. Includes Prado's teaching materials for the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern
California.
Box 45, Folder 9
The Los Angeles School of Poetry. Los Angeles Poets on Poets: A Celebration. UC Los Angeles
1983 May 21
Box 45, Folder 10
Beyond Baroque
1992 July 31
Box 45, Folder 11
Beyond Baroque.
Word Rituals (spoken word, 1993) - Drafts, notes, ephemera, reviews, correspondence and photograph of Holly Prado
1994 February 4
Box 46, Folder 1
American Poetry - American Food reading selections
1996 - 1997
Box 46, Folder 2
Writers in Focus at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1998 May 15
General note
Includes note cards with a photograph of Holly Prado reading at the event.
Oversize FB-425, Folder 08
First annual Ventura County Poetry Festival poster; Poetry Ball poster
2002, 2008
Box 46, Folder 3
Paul Brooks' memorial reading. Venice Library
2004 February 16
Box 46, Folder 4-5
USC Master of Professional Writing Program - Notes, correspondence, ephemera, reading lists, syllabus, and student comments
2007-2009
Box 46, Folder 6
The Los Angeles Bards. Poetry Ball. Presented by the Baseball Reliquary, Pasadena Central Library
2008 September 21
General note
Includes photograph of Holly Prado and the Los Angeles Bards.
Box 46, Folder 7
Introduction to Phoebe MacAdams reading
Touching Stone
2012 September 23
Box 46, Folder 8
Nothing Like Caution or Whisper. Loyola Marymount and Beyond Baroque
2018 March 14 and December 2
Box 46, Folder 9
Library Girl reading with Cahuenga Press
2018 June 10
Box 46, Folder 10
The Bridge (Hart Crane, 1933). Readings by Holly Prado and others. Motion Picture and Television Fund and Beyond Baroque
2019 April 27
Box 46, Folder 11
Poetry readings - Ephemera
1990-2017
JOURNALS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 14) JOURNALS: Prado's journals from 2000 to 2019, both handwritten and typescript, which were usually kept in three-ring
binders. Prado recorded both her life experiences and dreams, and often included notes, correspondence, drafts, and ephemera
in the binders. She sometimes removed or transcribed journal entries from the binders to work on as the basis for both her
prose and poetry, keeping these notes and drafts separately in the front of the binders.
Box 46, Folder 12-19
Journals
2000 January - 2001 May
Box 47, Folder 1-11
Journals
2001 June - 2003 July
Box 48, Folder 1-12
Journals
2003 August - 2006 April
Box 49, Folder 1-11
Journals
2006 May - 2008 August
Box 50, Folder 1-10
Journals
2008 September - 2011 December
Box 51, Folder 1-11
Journals
2013 January - 2015 December
Box 52, Folder 1-10
Journals
2016 January - 2019 June
Box 52, Folder 11-12
Journal notes and drafts
1988-2019
CAHUENGA PRESS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 15) CAHUENGA PRESS: Correspondence, ephemera, notes, photographs, promotional materials, articles of incorporation
and by-laws for small press Cahuenga Press. Prado was one of the founding members of Cahuenga Press with Harry Northup, James
Cushing, Phoebe MacAdams, Bill Mohr, and Cecilia Woloch.
Box 53, Folder 1
Articles of association and by-laws
1992
Box 53, Folder 2
Cahuenga Press - Correspondence, ephemera, notes and finances
1989-2016
Box 53, Folder 3
Cahuenga Press - Photographs
1990-2015
General note
Includes photographs of Harry Northup, Holly Prado, James Cushing, Susan Hayden, and Phoebe MacAdams.
Box 53, Folder 4
Cahuenga Press benefit - Introduction by Holly Prado
1996 March 10
Box 53, Folder 5
Cott, Jonathan.
Homelands (2000) - Promotional materials
2000
Box 53, Folder 6
Cushing, James.
Solace (2018) - Introduction and correspondence
2018
Box 53, Folder 7
Cushing, James.
You and the Night and the Music (1991) - Ephemera
1991-1992
Box 53, Folder 8
Northup, Harry - Articles on Cahuenga Press
1991-1997
Box 53, Folder 9
Northup, Harry.
Reunions (2001) - Promotional materials
2001
Box 53, Folder 10
Stanford, Ann.
Dreaming the Garden (2000) - Promotional materials
2000
Box 53, Folder 11
Woloch, Cecilia.
Sacrifice (1997) - Promotional materials
1996-1997
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 16) PHOTOGRAPHS: Prints and slides of Holly Prado, including her family; her spouses, George Prado and Harry Northup;
and her friend, Diane Wakoski. Some of the photographs and slides were slightly damaged by a fire in Prado's home in 2017.
Box 53, Folder 12-16
Johnson family photographs and slides, including Holly Johnson
1890-1954
Box 54, Folder 1-3
Philip, Gladys, and Holly Johnson
1900-1959
Oversize FB-425, Folder 08
Holly and Gladys Johnson; Albion College class photographs
1944-1960
Box 54, Folder 4
Holly and George Prado
1967-1971
Box 54, Folder 5
Holly Prado and Harry Northup - Photographs by Philomene Long
ca. 1995
Box 54, Folder 6
Holly Prado - Portrait by Mark Savage
1997
Box 54, Folder 7
Holly Prado, Diane Wakoski, and Harry Northup - Photographs by Robert Turney
1997-1998
Box 54, Folder 8
Holly Prado - Portrait by Ken Cogan on her 64th birthday
2002 May 2
Box 54, Folder 9
Holly Prado and Eloise Klein Healy
2002 September
ARTWORK
Scope and Content of Series
Series 17) ARTWORK: Watercolor paintings and line drawings by Holly Prado, many depicting her dreams or I Ching readings.
Most of the paintings were dated and annotated by Prado.
Box 54, Folder 10-13
Watercolor paintings, books 1-4
2012-2015
Box 55, Folder 1
Watercolor paintings and line drawings
2013-2019
Box 55, Folder 2-3
Watercolor paintings and I Ching
2014-2018
AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 18) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS. Arranged in two subseries: A) Sound Recordings, and B) Video Recordings.
A) Sound Recordings: Audio recordings of a poetry reading by Holly Prado and Diane Wakoski, and of an interview of Prado by
Paul Lieber.
B) Video Recordings: Video recordings of interviews of Holly Prado, and of poetry readings by Prado and other poets. Includes
a memorial video and photo slideshow with interview clips and photographs of Holly Prado.
Box 55, Folder 4
Holly Prado and Diane Wakoski. Poetry reading at Beyond Baroque (audiocassette, 73 minutes)
2001 May 25
General note
Side A: Diane Wakoski. Side B: Holly Prado.
Holly Prado interviewed by Paul Lieber for
Why Poetry?, KPFK, Los Angeles, with readings from
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (digital audio, 29 minutes)
2001 June 14
Box 55, Folder 5
Holly Prado. Poetry reading at Cypress College (VHS, 70 minutes)
1996 April 10
General note
Holly Prado discusses her poetry and reads from
Word Rituals,
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus,
Marriage Poems, and other works.
Box 55, Folder 6
Holly Prado interviewed by Robert Greenfield for
The Greenfield Code, Channel 17, Santa Barbara (VHS, 59 minutes)
1999 August 11
General note
Includes readings from
Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus and other poems.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Show #1930, Motion Picture and Television Fund and Beyond Baroque (digital video, 102 minutes)
2018 April 14
General note
Garret M. Brown, Holly Prado, James Cushing, Harry Northup, Robert Forster, and Phoebe MacAdams read from "Song of Myself."
Box 55, Folder 7
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Show #1930, Motion Picture and Television Fund and Beyond Baroque - Ephemera and notes
2018-2019
Holly Prado interviewed by Joe Sutton for
Behind the Silver Screen. Show #2077, Motion Picture and Television Fund (digital video, 34 minutes)
2018 May 8
Holly Prado memorial video (17 minutes) and photo slideshow (6 minutes). Show #2201, produced by Amy Wiesenick and Harry Northup.
Motion Picture and Television Fund Saban Center, Woodland Hills, CA (digital video)
2019 August 10