Bernadette Mayer Papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Accession Processed in 1998
Address books
Calendars 1975-1977, 1981-1986
Calendars 1987-1994
Conversation between Lee Ann Brown and Bernadette Mayer - Typescript ca. 1993
Educational Press Association of America - Distinguished Achievement Award 1989
Grant applications 1987 - 1992
Interview with Bernadette Mayer by Ann Rower - Typescripts 1984 October 18
Interview with Bernadette Mayer, by Clark Coolidge? Typescript
Introduction of Mayer as a speaker, by Ed Friedman - Typescript
National Endowment for the Arts. Final Report - Fellowship in Poetry 1979-1980
New School for Social Research - Bachelor's degree 1967
Passport 1972
Reading and speaking contracts 1978 - 1992
Reading announcements
Resumes
Reading lists
Skyline, Saint Saviour High School, Brooklyn, New York [Mayer was co-editor] 1958 - 1962
Who's Who of American Women - Biographical note
Zines - Addresses of small presses and literary magazines
CORRESPONDENCE
Unidentified correspondents - Incoming and outgoing correspondence
13th Moon 1974 - 1976
A - Miscellaneous
Abbott, Steve 1983
Acconi, Vito 1963
Adam, Helen
The Alternative Press 1993
Altieri, Charles
Andrews, Bruce 1973 - 1976
Armantrout, Rae 1989
Arthurs, Meg 1991 - 1994
B - Miscellaneous
Baker, Peter N., Jr. 1993 - 2003
Banks, Lea 1980 - 1982
Banks, Russell 1980 - 1987
Barg, Barbara 1981 - 1983
Barnes, Susan 1990
Beckett, Tom 1981
Benson, Steve 1981
Berkson, Bill 1980 - 1995
Berkson, Lynn 1975 - 1979
Berninger, Wayne 1993 - 1995
Bernstein, Charles 1978 - 2004
Berrigan, Ted 1969 - 1983
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei 1982
Blanchard, David 1992 - 1993
Borrus, Beth 1990-1995
Bowes, Catch and Ed Sr. (Ed Bowes's parents) 1970 - 1972
Bowes, Ed 1967 - 1979
Bowes, Tom 1967 - 1993
Brainard, Joe 1980 - 1992
Brenner, Summer 1980 - 1984
Bricken, Patsy 1990 - 1991
Brody, Jim 1969 - 1985
Brown, Jean 1977 - 1980
Brown, Lee Ann 1985 - 1995
Brownstein, Michael 1973
Budenz, Julia 1985 - 1986
Burckhardt, Rudy 1982
Burk, Ronnie 1983
Butterick, George 1986
Bye, Reed 1986
Bynum, Tom 1990 - 1995
C - Miscellaneous
Cage, John 1982 - 1989
Cabiles, Claire 1979 - 1991
Calas, Alex 1992 - 1995
Callahan, Eileen 1978 - 1986
Callahan, Robert 1978 - 1982
Canter, Art 1990 - 1993
Carey, Steve 1984
Carroll, Paul 1971 - 1972
Carter, Charlotte 1974 - 1991
Chadwick, Cydney 1990 - 1991
Chasnoff, Julius and Julia 1978 - 1994
Chester, Laura 1987 - 1992
Cleary, Beverly
Codrescu, Andrei 1980 - 1994
Cohn, Jim 1985 - 1991
Collom, Jack 1987 - 1994
Columbia Scholastic Press Association 1988 - 1989
Coolidge, Clark 1973 - 1995
Coolidge, Susan 1987 - 1992
Coolidge, Sylvia 1985 - 1993
Cooper, Dennis 1983
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines 1969 - 1983
Cope, David 1988 - 1994
Corbett, Bill 1977 - 1995
Creative Artists Public Service Program 1975 - 1983
Creeley, Robert 1980 - 2002
Cruz, Victor Hernandez
Cummings, Paul 1983 - 1995
Cunningham, Merce 1992
Curtis Brown Ltd. (Ellen Levine) 1977
D - Miscellaneous
Davidson, Michael 1979
Davies, Alan 1974 - 1983
Decker, Helen 1990 - 1992
DeCoursey, Peggy 1973 - 1997
DeNoyelles, William 1983 - 1993
Devennie, Diane 1975
The Denver Art Museum 1979
Dinsmore, Danika 1992 - 1995
Donegan, Patricia 1988
Donofrio, Beverly 1984
Downes, Rackstraw
Dreyer, Lynne 1976
Durrell, Brad
E - Miscellaneous
Eigner, Larry 1987
Einzig, Barbara 1974 - 1987
Ellis, Simone (Simone O) 1979 - 1980
Ellis, Stephen 1988 - 1991
Elmslie, Kenward 1979 - 1989
Enslin, Theodore 1989
Ensslin, John 1969 - 1979
Epoch 1986 - 1992
Eshleman, Clayton 1971 - 1973
F - Miscellaneous
Fagin, Larry 1982 - 2002
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1987
Field, Edward 1990
Fischer, Norman 1980 - 1983
Foley, Jack 1986
Foster, Ed 1982 - 1994
Fox, Elizabeth 1979 - 1986
Frances, Linda 1983 - 1984
Friedman, Ed 1970 - 1989
Friedman, Elizabeth 1989
Freilicher, Melvyn 1971 - 1992
G - Miscellaneous
Galet, Josh 1987 - 1994
Gallagher, Liam 1976 - 1984
Gander, Forrest 1986
Gardner, Keith 1992 - 1994
Gerber, Yancy
Ginsberg, Allen 1989
Giorno, John 1973 - 1994
Gitin, David
Gizzi, Michael
Gizzi, Peter 1995
Good, Philip
Gordon 1986
Graham, Dan 1970 - 1991
Greenspan, Eliot 1989 - 1994
Grossinger, Richard 1989 - 2013
Guest, Barbara 1994
Gullo, Gary 1991 - 1993
H - Miscellaneous
Hackman, Neil 1972 - 1974
Hall, Ree 1978
Hanaoka, Makiko 1987 - 1988
Hard Press 1993 - 1994
Harrison, Lee 1987 - 1991
Harwood, Lee 1981
Hejinian, Lyn 1981 - 1989
Henning, Barbara 1993
Higgins, Dick 1969 - 1977
Hollo, Anselm 1972
Holman, Bob 1980 - 1989
Hornick, Lita (Kulchur Foundation) 1973 - 1994
Howe, Fanny 1980 - 1996
Howe, Susan 1980 - 1981
I - Miscellaneous
Irby, Kenneth 1985
Ivanovic, Deyan 1990
J - Miscellaneous
Jarnot, Lisa 1992 - 1994
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1981 - 1992
Johns, Jasper 1969
K - Miscellaneous
Kashner, Sam 1978
Katz, Alex and Ada 1971 - 1992
Katz, Vincent 1984 - 2009
Kearney, Margaret 1975 - 1990
Kidde, Katherine 1984
Killian, Kevin and Dodie Bellamy 1989 - 1999
Kostelanetz, Richard 1969 - 1974
Kushner, Bill 1980 - 2003
L - Miscellaneous
Lally, Michael 1971 - 1982
Lance, Jeanne 1981 - 1988
Lange, Art 1976 - 1981
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1982
Leblond, Pauline 1992
Lehman, David 1978 - 1988
Lenhart, Gary 1982 - 1986
Lenox Library Association 1979
Levine, Steve 1978 - 1991
Levitt, Annabel 1975 - 1979
Levy, Andrew 1987 - 1992
Lichtenstein, Roy 1969
Liff, Seena 1985 - 1991
Lifshin, Lynn 1981
Long News: In the Short Century 1991
Luster, Helen 1979 - 1983
M - Miscellaneous
Mac Low, Jackson 1976 - 1993
Malanga, Gerard 1966 - 1989
Malmude, Steve 1987
Masters, Greg 1982 - 1986
Matthews, Harry 1969
Mattingly, George 1973 - 1974
Mayer, Rosemary 1963 - 1980
McGrath, Connell 1990
Mechem, James 1976 - 1992
Meltzer, David 1972
Messing, Robin 1975 - 1977
Metcalf, Paul 1971 - 1984
Mikolowski, Ken 1984 - 1988
Miller, David 1973 - 1978
Monaghan, Timothy (The Ledge) 1986 - 1988
Moore College of Art 1977 - 1978
Moran, Judy 1979 - 1980
Moxley, Jennifer 1991 - 2002
Mullen, David
Murphy, Grace 1976 - 1986
Murphy, Mrs. (Grace's mother)
Myles, Eileen 1980 - 1992
N - Miscellaneous
Naropa Institute 1977
National Endowment for the Arts 1971 - 1991
National Poetry Foundation 1985
New College of California (John Effing and Louis Patler) 1985 - 1986
New Directions (Barbara Epler) 1983 - 1994
New School for Social Research 1973 - 1995
New Wilderness Foundation 1978 - 1984
New York Foundation for the Arts 1990
Noel, Susan 1978 - 1988
Nolan, Pat
North Atlantic Books (Richard Grossinger) 1980 - 1985
North Carolina Arts Council 1987
North, Charles 1975 - 1985
Notley, Alice 1967 - 1983
Nunley, Dick 1979 - 1982
O - Miscellaneous
o-blek 1987 - 1988
Orlovsky, Peter 1978 - 1982
Owen, Maureen 1980 - 1991
Owen, Robert 1980 - 1982
P - Miscellaneous
Packer Collegiate Institute 1990 - 1993
Padgett, Ron 1973 - 1984
Palmer, Michael 1976 - 1994
Partisan Review 1974 - 1978
Perelman, Bob 1979
Perreault, John 1970 - 1973
Persea Books, Inc. (Simon Schuchat) 1976 - 1977
Pettet, Simon 1990 - 1995
Phipps, Wanda 1986 - 1990
Pindell, Howardena 1990
Piombino, Nick 1972 - 1998
Piper, Paul S. 1982 - 1984
Poetry Center 1978 - 2001
Poetry Project 1974 - 1994
Pratt, Tim 1983 - 1990
Prevallet, Kristin 1992 - 1994
R - Miscellaneous
Ratcliffe, Stephen 1982 - 1984
Raworth, Tom 1990
Ricereto, Danine 1989 - 1991
Rizza, Gerard 1983 - 1988
Robinson, Elizabeth 1984 - 1986
Rodefer, Stephen 1980
Rosenthal, Bob 1981 - 1982
Rosenthal, Shelley 1973 - 1982
Rothenberg, Jerome 1972 - 1982
Rower, Ann 1974
Rubinfine, David 1975
S - Miscellaneous
Sanders, Edward 1983 - 1998
Saroyam, Aram 1965
Savage, Tom 1981 - 1996
Scala, Suzanne 1980 - 1992
Scalapino, Leslie 1989 - 1994
Schelling, Andrew 1992 - 1994
Schjeldahl, Peter 1974 - 1979
Schneeman, Elio 1980 - 1982
Schneeman, George 1973 - 1977
Schnieder, David 1981 - 1986
Schuchat, Simon 1978 - 1983
Selby, Spencer
Sher, Gail 1982 - 1985
Sherry, James 1991
Shoughrue, Vaughn
Sikelianos, Eleni 1989 - 1996
Silliman, Ron 1973 - 1998
Silverman, Herschel 1978 - 1994
Simon, Meg 1978 - 1994
Smedman, Lorna 1978 - 1984
Solan, Miriam 1988 - 1993
Sollfrey, Stacey
Sondheim, Alan 1973
Soyer, Rebecca and Raphael 1973 - 1985
Spahr, Juliana 1993
St. Germain, Rita 1978 - 1979
St. Luke's School 1988 - 1993
St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery 1974 - 1982
Stamos, Peter 1974 - 1979
Stearns, Ethelyn 1986 - 1992
Stearns, Todd 1986
Strauss, David Levi
Stroffolino, Chris 1990
Stuart, Philip 1985
Sukenick, Ron 1975 - 1977
Sullivan, Gary and Marta 1991 - 1994
Sullivan, Mary 1987 - 1989
Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli) 1977 - 1995
T - Miscellaneous
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 1991
Tarn, Nathaniel 1974 - 1976
Tart, Indrek 1989 - 1990
Tauger, Gayle 1991
Teachers and Writers Collaborative 1982 - 1994
Templeton, Fiona 1980
Thomas, Heather
Thomson, Virgil 1972
Tillman, Lynne 1988
Tysh, Chris 1987
U - Miscellaneous
University of California, San Diego 1982 - 1993
V - Miscellaneous
Valoritis, Nanos 1980 - 1981
Vasovic, Nebojsa 1989 - 1991
Veitch, Tom 1971
Vermont, Charles 1973 - 1992
Viscusi, Mr. and Mrs. J. 1963
Viscusi, Robert 1963
W - Miscellaneous
Wachtel, Andrea 1971
Waldman, Frances 1970 - 1991
Waldrop, Keith 1993 - 2009
Waldrop, Rosmarie 1980 - 1994
Warsh, Lewis 1967 - 1993
Warsh, Marie 1988 - 1994
Warsh, Max 1988 - 1990
Warsh, Sophia 1987 - 1990
Washington Review of the Arts 1982 - 1984
Watkins, Ben
Watten, Barrett 1974 - 1986
Weigel, Tom 1983
Weinberger, Eliot 1984
Weiner, Hannah 1974 - 1992
Welsh, H. 1981 - 1982
Wessells, Henry W., IV 1987
Whalen, Philip 1967 - 1985
Wilentz, Ted 1968 - 1992
Willis, Elizabeth 1992 - 1994
Wilson, Edmund 1976
Winch, Terence 1983 - 1988
Winkfield, Trevor 1970
Woolf, Doug 1978 - 1986
Worsley, Dale and Elizabeth 1988 - 1994
Wright, C.D. 1986 - 1991
Y - Miscellaneous
Yorty, Don 1986
Young, Geoffrey 1983 - 1986
Z - Miscellaneous
WRITINGS
Collected
August - Draft and typescripts
Bernadette Food - Typescript
A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) - Typescript, drafts, and notes
A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) - Bluelines, agreement, and reviews
Bill Berkson interview, conducted by mail between 1981 and 1985
Collaborations and Phil Good's poems
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) - Drafts
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) - Typescript and contract agreement
Dialogue
Eruditio ex Memoria (1977) - Typescript and review 1977 - 1979
The Formal Field of Kissing: Translations, Imitations and Epigrams (1990) - Drafts, typescripts and reviews 1990 - 1991
The Golden Book of Words (1978) - Drafts, typescripts, galleys, poems excluded, and reviews
Good Poems - Typescript and manuscript drafts
Image Sound - Typescript draft
An Introduction to Reasoning - Typescript draft with letter from Harry Segessman 1973
Landlord, Family, Money, and Poetry Situations - Miscellaneous drafts
Leave Out (?) - List of poems and miscellaneous drafts
Interpretation of Dreams
Leek House (Every Other Day of Sept. 1977) - Typescript
Manuscripts - [Mayer's title]
Memory - First draft with cut-ups, journal and audio tape transcriptions
Memory - Slides 1971
Midwinter Day (1982) - Notes, typescript and reviews 1978 - 1983
Mind of Hour - Drafts, typescripts, and correspondence 1992
Moving (1971) - Notes, drafts and negatives
Mutual Aid (1985) - Drafts and typescripts
Not Published Originals - Typescript drafts of poems and prose
Not Sure - Typescript drafts of poems
The Old Style is Finding Out Something About a Whole New Set of Possibilities - Transcript ca. 1970
Ones I'm Not Sure of
Peru Dream Journal
Piece of Cake, with Lewis Warsh 1976
Poem-like Things - Collaborations, others' poems, failed experiments, found things, lecture on structure published in O Anthology, and some Marie works
Poems 80-82
Poems for the Dead
Poetry (1976) - Typescript and publication contract
Proper Name and Other Stories (1996) - Typescript, correspondence, drafts, and agreement
Random Words from Milton
Remembering (Conclusion) - Typescript draft with postcard cover
Secret Knowledge of Utopian Philosophies - A Journal of a Week in New York April 26 - May 2, 1981
Selected Poems, 1965-1990 - Typescripts
Selected Poems, 1965-1990 - Typescripts
Sex or Suppressed Poems
Skinny Sonnets - Typescript
Sonnets (1989) - Drafts, typescripts, and reviews
Sources and poems with miscellaneous drafts
Story (1968) - Typescript drafts and notes
Strike Anywhere(s) - Typescript drafts and cover
Studying Hunger (1975) - Typescripts
Studying Hunger (1975) - Journals and review
Things to Use
Things Written Recently and Not So - Lists of poems and miscellaneous leaves
To Type or Work on - Various writings, incomplete
Two Haloed Mourners (1998) - Typescripts and cover
Utopia (1984) - Source material, poems, drafts, and notes
Uncollected
Lists of poems with title cut-ups
0 to 19
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
3 X's
3 Years 3 Gifts: Another Other
7 Love Songs on a Dinner
11 Lines
12 Days till 1st School Day
13 American Imitation Amatory Epigrams
14-Line Poem
15 Times
15 1/2 Lines for Philip
16 Lines for Anybody
123 - With Lewis Warsh
1966
1979
1980
1981
1982
1988
The 1992 Election
Abbreviated Phrase Memory
About Having to Leave Lenox
The Abstractest
Adult Diapers
The Aeschulyeans - Includes Bill Berkson's comments
Afternoons; Second Afternoon; The German, Last of Her Race; The Grandfather Orders His Tomb
Against Air
Agoraphobia
Aid for Dependent Children
Alice
All Soul's Day 1985
Almanac 1984
The Alternative Life Combined
Amatory Eclogue
America
America is Greed
American Antiquity - Includes comments by Bill Berkson
Analysis of Lions and Bears and Owls
Ancient Brooklyn Talk by the Boardwalk
An Ancient Degree - Includes comments by Bill Berkson
And if I had to give this up, I'd give it to you
And When We're Tired We're Understood
Announcement Sonnet
Annual Poems
Another Landlord Poem
Antarctic
Anti-Superbowl Bleeding
Anything That You Wanna Tell Me
Apologia pro Vita Sua
Appendix Out
Apple
April 19 Walk
The Arcadian Shop: Your Birthday Presents
As I Adam You with Blue
As You Are
At Arnold Eagle's tape playing
At Lake Buel
At least it isn't raining
At the Blue Hour
Attempt at a Love Song for Lack of Exactitude about Politics or Lack of a Movement Political in 1990 - With Philip Good
Attention to Spring
Auditoriums
August 16 - September 12
1983 August 23
August Twenty-One
Avenue A to Class
Bad Ghazal Weather
Bad Poems New and Old
The Ballad of Theodore
Be Not to Be
Beach Poem, Tree Poem, Stalin Poem
Bear in Mind
Beech-Nut - With Peter Schjeldahl
Been in NY 3 weeks today
Before Sextet and After Sextet
Beginning Middle End
Bell Ring
Bernadette Mayer - Holtsville, BM/IRS Fantasy, 1991
Bernadette's Dream of Philip('s End of School) May 5th
Best in acts, "itself heat light," the room repairing
Bill Pledge
Birds of Gloucester
Birthday Song
Bitter American Poem
Block Island, Rhode Island
Blue
Blue Spots the Poet
Blue veins. Blue dawn
Bob the Sham and the Scaredycats, a Vicious Poem
Body hurts dogfood fire mind sock smell tollbooth ring
Boot-Black, an Artists' and Writers' Groucho
Booze Turns Men into Women
The Breadth of or Homage to a Frozen Waterfall
Bring It Here
Buck-Buck McFate
Buy a leg of lamb or half of one
But What!
Bye 1980
Cabin Fever a Letter
The Cactus is Flowering
A Calvin Cooler for Philip Justice
The Capital Letters at the Beginnings of Each Line Give Importance to Them
Carlton Fisk is My Ideal
Carrot Poem
Casional Poems and Casional Prose 1965
Catapulted
Catholic Harmony
Celluloid and the Pie-Pot
A Chair in Heaven
Chased Perception
Chiefly beauty is visual
Christmas 1975
The City is Anger
Clara Olson
The Clarity Version of the Enigma of Light
The Classic Sloop
Cleaning the Colander
The Coffee Ardor - With commentary by Bill Berkson
The Coffeepot Nuclear Arms
Coincidence of the Three Blue Lighters Coin
Coincidental Dream on the Deck of Twin Lakes
Collaboration - How to dismiss the epicenter from
College Poem
Colors of All the Letters (This Is in Answer) 2 Beat, Love You (the Long Ago Burrito Poem)
Comeback
Coming back to NY on Earth Day's 20th anniversary
Coming of age at the cathedral
Coming Work
Complete Introductory Lectures on Poetry
Complete Music of Webern (a Movie)
Constant Minutes
Convention
Counting Proofreading Errors Sonnet
Country Curtains
Crickets or Katydids
Crops Like Coffee and Cut Flowers - Collaboration
Cross-Country
CSPA - Collaboration with notes
Cucumbers in a Box of Snow
Curl that under under the under
Currency
Cycloplegia at the Cyclopedia
Daddy Long Legs
Dairy Queen of Byrum
Dangerous Solamente Sense
Dante - With Bill Berkson's comments
Dark the Large-Mouthed the War
Dark Where the Straight
The Date
David
Day
A day a night with - Collaboration with Ethie Stearns
The Dead Moth Fall
Dear Amended Return Acknowledge
Dear Ed
Dear Marie
Dearest Ethelyn Friend
Death is a cambric fabric
A deer knows life is awesome do you agree
Definitions at the Center of a Newspaper
Dentist Fiction
The Desultoriness of Courtyards
Did Me Seek
Did You Ever See a Devil, Uncle Joe?
Disorder - Travel Section
Dithyramb on You
Do You Have Sex in Bed of the Floor?
Do You Tell Stories? Yes
Dominations
Don Can't Sleep - With Philip Good
Don Cliff Sophie Phil Sonnet
Dream
The Dream: Common?
Dream July 6th
Dream Notes for Fanny
Dream Tape Transcribed - Hypnagogic Imagery
Dreamed I started to bleed - Dark red blood
Dreams I Had While You Were Here
Drivers
E Commits A Murder
Each passing hour I want no power
The Earmark
Early Poems One
Early Poems Two
Early Poems Four
Ed and Ned
The edge ought to stir
Eels on Toast Points
Electric's Time of Use
Elegy
Eleventh Cup
Elmer Gantry
Empty Chairs
Encyclopedia
The Enigma of Night
Epithalamium for Ethel and Todd
Erase it, it's easily the blue of the sky and the sea
Essay - Notes by Bill Berkson
Essay II - Notes by Bill Berkson
Etymological Epithalamium
Even among the solutions of resemblances plus dreams
Everyday Life Lecture
Everything Hour
Eve of Angst
Everyone Seemed So Laid Back in the Park
Exact as what my old maid the cleaner more brotherly
Ex-Communist Wins in Ukraine
Exhibit
Experimentation in Rubrics
Explanation
Failures in Infinitives
Falling Cranes Low-Flying Planes
Familiar Paeans of Discovery
The Family Situation
Famous People - A Play in Two Acts
Fan
Fear Sure
Feast
Feeling Dead of my Words
Ferenczi
Ferenczi and Other Stories
A Fiction
Fifteen Three's
Five Automatic Poems and Some Hynagogic Wanderings 1966 and 1990
Fjdkdirufjghty
For Alice
For Max on His Second Birthday
Four Poems
Frame
Francois Villon Follows the Thin Lion
Fred/Freud/Ferenczi/Frenzy/Fuck
Freewriting it's it's I think it's
Freewriting last class Monday May 20th
Fresh Air Is Met Red
The Frogs
From Delirium
From the workshop door
Fuck Your Brains Out
The Garden
The General
Generic Elbows
The Generosity of an Ill Wind
Gerard Cento
Get your dose of color proving what not that proving what but
Getting into the Locker Room
Gin riggers my nerve
Glass
Go right end p 2 rte. 10A
God must be hanged
God Told Me To
Going go spinning around the earth on your back spinning
Good Friday
Goshen Double-Sonnet
Grave You
Gray, Not Purple; Fresh Air Is Met Red
Greens
The Guanyin
Guarding the Cake
Guild
Hair Law
Hairless Love
Hardship
Hazy Day (for the New Yorker)
He had an actual complaint - With comments by Bill Berkson
Headdress
Hear the thrusts, deaths, and sighs
Heart
The Heat of the Sun
Helena said the truth was
Help
Help Wanted
Helpless of
Hen's Teeth - With Peter Schjeldahl
Here's Gold
Hide the Blue Utopias
High Standing
Hike #72: Without the Bibliography
His Tight White Pants - Collaboration with Phil Good
Historic Preservation
History of Violet of the Iris Family
House and Bernadette
House Caps
How come I always feel
How the People or the Men Wear Their Pants So Low
A Hundred Eggs
I Adorn You with Blue
I always think something might come up
I Am the Adriatic Sea
I Am Raymond Chandler
I Am Your Child No I'm Not Your Child I'm Your Girlfriend
I Am Your Food I Am Your Fate
I can't write a poem in a state like this
I could not force
I could try to write something, I really think I ought to read
I Fault Love
I have no faith in myself except when
I have this sensation I'm not doing anything exactly right
I Have Some Time Off
I Knock Out a Tab to You
I write my poems with my hands on my breasts
I haven't got anything to work with
I knew I'd dream of David on this morning
I knew I wouldn't sleep this night theres too
I know it's dangerous but I am going to eat it
I Love You
I met John jogging when Max said
I Never Cooked Rice
I Soaked the Now Empty Adriatic Quince Jar I Got from Bella's Store and Its Lid in Steaming Water
I sweep the stones
I think I've done everything but I can't stop now
I, this same bear
I threw away the rest of the pea soup and swept the
I want my prime numbers to appear crystal clear - Collaboration
I Won't Not Go
I Wore a Swear in My Aperture
I will wed
I Wish You Were up Late, Gerard
I would present an arm of her entry under the
I'd Like to Practice Armed Swimming with the Republican Woman Who Has Her Eyebrows Tattooed On
Ice Cube Epigram
Idyll
If it be true that this
If My Name Was Clark I'd Open a Clark Bar
Illustrated Progress
I'm going to write my opinions
In one second I see/green
In Same Rooms
In the dark sky by means of stones
In the Middle of the Night
In three d?
The Incorporation of Sophia's Cereal
The Injection of Milk as Sense of Humor
Instead of Always Doing Old Things
Insult Poem to Fred Jordan
The Intermission
International Security and Arms Control
Introductions
Inventing Stasis
The Invisible Structure
Invoking Saint Augustine
Iroquois Experiment
Is Lana Turner an Angel?
Is Summer There?
Is the work to be done in loud waiting color secrets
Is This My Pen?
Island
The Istanbul Train
It Moves Across
It Was Miss Scarlet with the Candlestick in the Billiard Room
It's August in the ristorante, May on 1st. Avenue, June in the trees - Collaboration
I've been being very sloppy IUD..
Jean Harlow in the Newspaper Room
Jonas was bitten by a wasp
Journal 8/6/84
Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate
July 8th
July 29
Jumping the Tyrnstyle
June
June 5 for David
Just a need to put some paper in the typewriter for no
Justice Murder
Katydid Peggy
Kerouac Would
Key Food
Khartoum
The King Wished He Was a Factory
The Kingly Englanders - With comments by Bill Berkson
The Knicks
Lake Buel Nothings
The Landlord Quit to Write a Book
Language Woes
The Last Thing I Need to Do
Late Faulkner
The Late Morning Activity Obtained Colorful Postage Stamps Instead of Small Ones
Laura Cashdollars
Leaders Are Hanging in Outlines from the Clotheslines
Let's write a poem on the very fancy folder
Letter to Fifteen People
The Life-saving fish was having some difficulty
Lines?
The lines are fallen in pleasant places - With comments by Bill Berkson
Little Injuries
Living in Prison with Me
Living in sin is fast becoming
The Living Section
Lollard the dull
The Loop
Lost Boys
Love and Death
Love Awry
Love Poet Change World
Love's Price
Loveliest melodious variations
Madman Beats up Nun, 74
The Magical
Make Noise
A man on the night of January first
The Management
Manicatriarchic Sonnet
March 15
March 18
1986 March 25
Marie Goes out at Eight to Buy Me Flowers
Marie walks out early on July 22 morning. Your description of the thunderstorm
Marie You Must Meet Christina at the Music School Tomorrow and Not at Her Home
Max had a dream
The Measured Dissertation of Observation
The Mental Aberrations Starting with O
Midwinter
Midwinter Day
Migratory Workers on the Edge of a Frozen Field
Mildred Pierce and Worse
Milkweed Smithereens
Milton and Enjambment
Minnesota
Miss Thailand
The Misses Good and Hell 1985
Mistranslation of a Poem in a Foreign Language Not Known by the Author or the Translator
Mistresses of Ceremonies
Morning Poems
Most Precious Not Aluminum
Mother's Both Ways
Mountain Sentence
Moving
A Moving Boat is a Squeezed Boat: 52 Cards
Mums
My jaw's jagged and rugged
My Machines
My Parents Politics
My Presidential Platform
My Timer Went Off
Name of the Place Is I Like It Like That (O Factum Male)
Naropa Some Residue in the Glass
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The New Malfunctioning Buses
New Paper Not Meditated On
The New Yorker
Night Poems
No day no-car Sunday all the other children have
No Fool Like a Piano
No Good
No More Reading
No Nukes
Non-Unified Field Theory of Love and Landlords
North Vietnamese troops on Apbia Mountain near the Laotian border..
Not knowing writing anymore
Notes in Letter to L.J. about Possibility of Poetry Essay
Notes on Mine - A review of Clarke Coolidge's Mine
The notion to write a poem
Notus Notandum in the Open-Window Kitchen Only for Two
Now I can write something finally, I cannot write
O Alice are you a virgin
On You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Obedience to Clothing
The Obfuscated Poem
The Obfuscated Version of the Enigma of Night
October 8th
October 28 New York to Buffalo on "Maple Leaf"
Ode on Periods
Ode to Max's Report Card: Failing, Falling in Love
Of the lack of mutual aid I pawn
O.K., Fiacre
The Old is Finding Out Something
On a Mess
On Grace and Peggy Not Visiting
On Re-Typing and Re-Reading My Own Works
On the Biographies of a Hundred Poets
On the Way
On the Unknown Lavender Raspberry
On top of books - Collaboration with Phil Good 1991 January 11
Onan Bows
Once We Breathe the Breath of Sweet Surrender
One of the Animals Retires
One more cup of coffee
One Sentence Poem
One Thing
Ones
Order is the marathon rain three
Orgasm or Organism?
Otives and intentions, public importance
Our lives are so crazy
Outline of Our Lives
Outside the Rectangles or What Spaces of All Your Cars You Go
Paid Political Advertisement to Look Slimmer
Painting by Chimes
Paragon
Parsley
Part of a Longer Poem - With comments by Bill Berkson
Passion in an Angel
Past the Right Falling of My Hair
Peach pear plum grape date fig lime prune apple orange
Penguins remind me of abstract illusions
Penis O'Clock
People
People Get Ready Blow Ups Happen, or Mikhail Gorbachev's Premature Ejaculation
The People He Knows by Tom Bowes
The Period of the Delaware Water Gap
Philadelphia - Kansas City 1980
Philip
The Phils
Photos
A Play; I Don't Speak Well; The Blues
Pleasure
The Pleasures of Love
Poem (A false log is burning furnished)
Poem (If I were atonal and you were a monk)
Poem (A surface of)
Poem (We've solved the problem)
Poem (You view the wrist to view)
A Poem for Jimmy
Poem for Max
Poem for Peter Gizzi, Shall I Ever Chance to Find Him
Poems in Journal
The Poetry Project
Poetry starts with a P - So what - Collaboration
Poetry, Moths
The Poet's Work
Pope John
The Pope Loses His Crocodile Skins
Porch Items
Portrait of Mabel Dodging the Village Cure
Postal Patterns of Reaction
Possessives and Apostrophes
Postmodernism
Pour Aide-Memoire
Praying to the Sun
Preservation of Fruit Stands in January
Primitive Road
Principal Stock Exchanges of the World
Prose
Prose and Mallarme
The pussy's sleeping on the clipboard for the mud sculpting studio
Rad: "I Think to You My Encased Fish"
Rains
Random Words from Anna Karenina
Random Words from Milton
Rape Purple
Reading
Reading and Relations, Art and Mathematics
Reading proofs for love I've lost mostly bills
Reading the unread books, I happened upon a passage which
Realism, Eroticism and Nihilism
The recognition of astonishing things
Recommendation for Allen Ginsberg
Redempt Shun Songs
Redemption Song
Replace Every Word
Request for Telephone Contact
Respected ocean of the Red Paint People
Reviews by Mayer
A Review of Any Book
Rich Sweat
Risk Left
Roses That Wither Most Gracefully on Avenue A
Salvation
Say Goodbye to Legacy
Sci-Fi notes
Scifi Thank You
The Screaming Cheetah Wheelies
Sea
Selective, a play
Self-Criticism Session 1982
Semi-colons
September 31st
Seriosity
Sestina
Sestina - for Ted
Setting my poems out to dry
Seven Lakes Drive
Seventy-Nine Blues
Several Events (Every One the Same)
The Sexual Etiology of the Child
She left me soon as it was early enough for
Short History of Education
She Turned
Shuffle and Deal
Simon, Lewis and Sophia in Front of the Curtis Hotel
Simon's in China
Simple Complications
Sin in the Bleekers
Since it is late, my primitive disdain - With comments by Bill Berkson
Sing sweet spell of not singing
Situation Vacant
Six Groups of Nine - With comments by Bill Berkson
Skinny Sonnets
Skinny Sonnets: Hypnagogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notepads - Photocopy with manuscript note
The Skylark
Sleep Soup: My List of Things to Do
So I Spill the Ink
So I wouldn't have to hang out
So much a little who's who period love
So Much Depends on William Carlos Williams
So We Each Worked
The Social workers are asleep in Louis XIV
Soma
Some Other Paradise
Something has to be done on the holiday
Sonnet 23 degrees 47%
Sonnet (I see the veins)
Sonnet (a little tiny poem)
Sonnet (Swell is the attribute of leisure)
Sonnet (There was a man on 8th Street)
Sonnet Ann Fuller
Sonnet Bill DeNoyelles
Sonnet for Marie
Sonnet for Philip
Sonnet Independent
Sonnet Mothers and Fathers
The Sonnet of Six Parents
Sonnet: Three Bowerbirds Are Known to Be Bowerless
Sonnet Water
Soon Full Moon
Sophia painted the rock that keeps the poems from flying
Sophia's Birthday (7th)
Sorry of Lightning's Not Dumb Escort
Sorting Socks
South Ferry
Spectacle after spectacle in the conspiratorial silence
Spent three months thinking
Split Decision
Spotted Touchwomen
Spring
Spring and All
Spring winter weather no work good Friday
St. Luke's vs. Tweed
St. Paul's Index Finger - With comments by Bill Berkson
Star Wars
Staring Down Watching Everyone - Collaboration
Steps
Still Used Arms Ultra Light History
Stimulus yes and answer swell so
Story
Story of a Woman Who Am I? Forgive Me
Studying Hunger - For Bob and Elizabeth on a particular Thanksgiving
Summer Vacation
Sun Ideas
Sunday
Super Grand Food Union Caldor Town Bowl
Suzie
The Swan Silvertones
Sweet Content
Sweet smack
Sweetheart no love
Table
Take Me to the River
Talismans
Talk
Tapestry
Teeners - With Peter Schjeldahl
Telling
Thanks for the Blue Lighter, George
That - Soil (NYC)
That New York City Earth
The sun's in my eyes and
There is a giant bug in my hair
Thick
Thin Red
Things not as
Things to Do in Henniker
This Audience of Men
This day we'd
This Ink Doesn't Look Black to Me
This is the first part and the first one
This man/s this and this man's that
This man whom I love is not good
This Is a Problem Solving Dream
This is the program memory
This maturity is good for poetry
This Morning
This World's w.o. a Cap
Those two unfortunate roses must've
Three
Three Casual Poems for Johnny Stanton
Three Envelopes; Art Has Lapsed We Know; Dead Is the Dumb Ass Lover
Three Mesostics for Gerard Rizza
Three Stories Entitled to Tempt
The Thursday Poem
A Tin Dish - Will It Burn?
Tirade (Not Wanted) -- to Write Is Evil
Tires for Succulent
To a Ballet-er: Don't Bring the Men in the Water or You Won't Be Able to Incest Mr. Bluet
To a Politician
To Admiral Scott About Space
To be read with a midwestern accent
To My Mistrusters
Toadstools
To All Who Will Be Home Tomorrow
To Bill and Phil on Getting My Things from Massachusetts
To have an eye to
To Muse
To Sophia
To start
To the Woman in the Candy Store
To Walk to the Waterfall
Tomorrow's tuesday another nursery school day
Tract of Land, etc.
The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty
A Tree Grows in Padua - Collaboration
Twin Plants and Dash Mystery - With Clark Coolidge
Two Ghosts Embracing in a Churchyard
The Typewriter Wrote This
Two Dollar Bill
Two girls
Typing Blind So You Will Know
Ugly of May
Ugly Random Haircuts in the Shower Hay Fever
Unrelated Couplets
Untitled
Vacation
Valentine for
Visual Room
Vitamin E
W Sonnet
The Waltze's Waltzes
Wandering Scholars
The Wandering Scholars Mess
Warmongers
Warren
War in Every Line
Wars
Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
We are like two pears
We are two long boys swimming
We coexist with these cockroaches
We Had Exempt a Status of Our Play Now We Shouldn't Speak This Way
We must go back to school to make new metrical rules
We Plow the Roads
We Who Remain - Collaboration
We've Solved the Problem
What Reception (of Death)?
What's in the Teeth of the Geometric Wind (It Was As If)
What's Meant for Pleasure
When a skeptic begins to sing I don't listen
When finally done is not done and
While absolute ending of Gerard's still
Whimper
White Blood
Who Am I? Forgive Me
Why what you say is love I see as hostile
The Wild Newt
Wilderness 1982 - Includes Poetry Project Newsletter
Will and Dreams
Windows
Wing Is Living of Involved a Quiet Act
The Wives of the Poets
A Woman I Mix Men Up
Work in Progress
The Worst Journey in the World
Worthless Conversation Unless It Is Going to Direct Pain
Writing Science
The Wrong Refrigerator
X on Page 50 at Half-Inch Intervals
Xerox this work often and - Collaboration with Phil Good
Yellow-orange
Yo - Here Are Some Neat Poems
You Don't Aggressively Soothe the Butter
You Get Pretty Good and Listen, Men, the B-52's
You Have a Right to Utility Service During Serious Illness Interrupted Us
You know there is a condition
You see because I cook I am an explainer
You "Shouldn't" Be Fair in Poems Love
You Think Tomatoes Are Sex on (8/6/84) a Frightening Monday
You, Us, Fuck It
You wanted me to tell about David
The young girls wished for stars instead of husbands
Ziggurat; Ziggurat II
School Papers
Book reports and miscellaneous writings from high school 1958 - 1959
Note regarding papers 1981
Gerontion and the Psalms 1962
Grimm and American Values 1965
Image and Spectacle in Blood Wedding and Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca. Also, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Words, Epiphanies, Poetry 1966
Canzone I of the Canzoniere: Al Poco Giorno e al Gran Cerchio D'Ombra, by Dante. Falstaff: Logic and Language in I Henry IV. Modern Poetry Examination. Statement and Form in Mythology 1967 January
20th Century Cultural History 1967 May
The Allegory of the Artist. Bloom in the Modern Age. Goethe's West-Oestlicher Divan. The Owl by John Hawkes 1967 Spring
Fragments and unidentified writings
Notes, jottings, lists, and fragments
Undated or unidentified. Includes papers on Yeats, Goethe, and Hawthorne and the title sheet from Translations of Mallarmé
Unidentified drafts and miscellaneous notes
NOTEBOOKS
Dated
Latin - Manuscript and some class notes 1964 July
Poem to the People Downstairs - Manuscript and typescript 1964 September
Denise Levertov Poem - Manuscript 1965
Silas Marner - Manuscript with typescript leaves included 1965
Dreams 1966 April
Story - Letter from Ed Bowes 1969 January
Red Tide in Florida - Manuscript, includes notes regarding photography 1971 July
Manuscript with newspaper clippings and some notes regarding photography. Includes a letter from Dan Graham 1971 July 22
Tonight - Manuscript and typescript October 1971
Notebook 1971 October
Jean Perreault's Commune 1971 November
Notebooks 1972 April and August
I had my Amazons shout you - Manuscript with numerous bound and unbound typescript leaves 1972 October
Somebody Says 1973
Notebook 1973 January
Manuscript with some typescript includes 22 sheets of typescript bound by safety pin into the notebook 1973 March 23
House in Use - Manuscript with letters and numerous typescript leaves 1973 September
This begins where morning leaves off - Manuscript and typescript, includes typescript drafts of poems 1973 September
Notebook 1974 April
The Subject 1974 May
Notebook 1974 July
An Open and Shut Case 1974 August
I just wanna see all these inanimate objects 1974 September
I Think 1974 October
Utah Stars 1974 December
Notebook 1975
Notebook 1975 January 11
It's the Lewis Journal 1975 March
Painting is with me but another word for feeling is design - Manuscript with some typescript poems, receipts and postcards 1975 December
The Ferns 1976 May
Melanie - Manuscript with typescripts 1976 July
Problems 1976 July
Notebook 1976 August 14
Notebook 1976 October - 1977 March 17
Elvis Presley and the Poppies - Manuscript with some typescript poems 1977 March 18 - November 10
Notebook 1977 September
The Free Sixpack 1977 November 19 - 1978 February 8
Notebook 1978 February 8 - March 24
Book on Epic 1978 March 30 - June 5
Notes for a Big Book 1978 July 14 - November 19
You Planned the Disappearance of My Desire - Manuscript with typescript leaves 1978 October 31 - November 14
Midwinter Day 1979
Dreams - Manuscript with some typescript leaves included 1979 February
Walk Around 1979 February - March
Jovian Moons - Manuscript with photographs and newspaper clippings 1979 March - June
Slippage 1979 November
Begin Again 1980 February - April
It's gonna be awhile - Manuscript with typescript drafts of poems 1980 April - June
Where else am I but in New York 1980 June - September
Name is the word I live - Manuscript with typescript leaves included 1980 September - 1981 February
Another Journal Entitled - Manuscript with numerous typescript leaves included. Some children's drawings and paintings 1981 February - June
This Is Mobile Knowtebook to Right in 1981 August - September
This is the journal of Bernadette Mayer - Manuscript with some typescript leaves and newspaper clippings 1982 January - April
Journal Most Precious - Manuscript with various unbound leaves, realia, etc. 1982 April - September
I just got back from the lake 1982 September - 1983 July
Delayed starting another journal - Manuscript with some typescript leaves included 1983 August - 1984 May
Writing with Linda Francis - Manuscript includes collaboration with Linda 1983 November - December
Had dream of corn 1984 July - 1985 March
Around Spring 1985
I've been meaning to begin keeping this journal 1985 November - 1986 April
Wars 1986 December - 1987 February
Notebooks 1989
Cascade Reporter Notepad 1989
Trip Book - Manuscript of summer trip to Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado 1989
Notebook 1988 August - 1989 April
Farm 1990
A Journal of Small Cures - Manuscript includes newspaper clippings and miscellaneous realia 1990 March
Notebook 1990 June
Somewhere in 1990 - Manuscript with some drawings 1990 September - October
New Method of Sleeping 1991 May
The quiet place within yourself 1993 January
Poetry and prose: Contains list of some hikes and other poems 1993 November
Undated
Memo Book
Two Nuns and a Statue of Christ - Pencil, crayon and ink drawings 1960s?
Barbara Overhaul - Manuscript with drawings 1964-1965?
Bataille - Manuscript with drawings 1967-1969?
Thursday 5 pm Early 1970s?
NYC 1970s?
A police car 1970-1973?
Dear David 1970-1973?
There's a whole - goddammitt 1972?
Buy Water - Drawings 1980s?
Includes notes for Utopia index early 1980s
Notebook 1980s
Recorded 1989?
Nijinsky's Lecture on God 1990s?
Notebook 1990s
Write narrative among each? 1990s?
Russian art 1993?
A beautiful villa 1993?
Skinny Sonnets for Phil 1993?
New News 1993?
Girl w. Ball
Notebook ca. 1990
WRITINGS OF OTHERS
Acker, Kathy - Includes "A Map of My Dreams" and "Records of Daily Life" (photocopy)
Ayden, Erje
Barnes, Susan
Berkson, Bill - Includes poems entitled "Job's Lane," "Getty" and "Women Bring Nuts"
Berrigan, Ted - "Litany," "Bernadette Mayer," and paste-ups for The Sonnets
Bowes, Ed
Bricken, Patsy
Brito, Manuel
Brown, Lee Ann
Brownstein, Michael - "Hi! I'm Michael Brownstein!"
Bynum, Thomas
Canter, Arthur
Carey, Steve
Carter, Charlotte
Ceravolo, Joseph
Cohn, Jim
Collom, Jack
Coolidge, Clark
Corbett, William - Includes "Esker," "Kame," "Felled Elms," "Either/Or," "A Common Story," "Runaway Pond," and "Don't Think: Look"
Crawford, Lynn and Harry Mathews
DeNoyelles, Bill
Dinsmore, Danika - "Observing Memory: Thought, Ritual, States of Consciousness, and the Writing Process - With a Focus on the Works of Bernadette Mayer"
Dreyer, Lynne
Elmslie, Kenward - Poems (photocopies) from City Junket
Ensslin, John
Foley, Jack
Friedman, Ed
Fyman, Cliff
Gallup, Dick
Genser, Cynthia
Gerber, Yancy
Giorno, John
Gizzi, Michael
Gizzi, Peter
Goldberg, Jeff
Good, Phil
Gurnis, Peter
Gustafson, Jim
Hanaoka, Makiko
Hartman, Yuki
Henning, Barbara
Hixon, India
Howe, Fanny - Includes photocopies of "Introduction to the World," "The Lives of a Spirit," and "The Quietist"
Jarnot, Lisa
Jurek, Thom
Kaplan, Edward
Klester, Johanna
Kushner, Bill
Kyger, Joanne - Eight typescript poems including "Ode," "Descent," "The Blue Sword of Night," and "Poem"
Lange, Art
Lenhart, Gary
Levy, Andrew
Livingston, Peter
Luster, Helen
Mac Low, Jackson - Includes "A Vocabulary for Sharon (Belle) Mattlin," "60th Light Poem: In Memoriam Robert Duncan - 8-9 October 1988," "They Didn't Whir / He Gave No Advice," "Rebus Effort Remove Government," "He Never Relaxed for a Moment," and "Forties 16 2nd Mix"
Malanga, Gerard
Masters, Greg
Mayer, Rosemary
Moxley, Jennifer
Mullen, Harryette
Myles, Eileen
Nemet-Nejat, Murat
Noel, Susan
Notley, Alice - "For My Sister: Meeting in Air" (photocopy)
Owen, Maureen
Pearlman, Dina
Phipps, Wanda
Pinney, Todd
Piombino, Nick - Typescript of "The Meaning and Structure of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Brief Analysis"
Prevallet, Kristin
Quasha, George
Ricereto, Danine
Rosenberg, David
Rosenthal, Bob
Rubenfine, David
Savage, Tom
Savage, Tom
Schjeldahl, Peter
Schloss, Edith
Schneeman, George
Schuyler, James - "At Home With Ron Padgett" (typescript) and "Many of My Poems" (typescript)
Sher, Gail
Silverman, Herschel
Smedman, Lorna
Solan, Miriam
Sollfrey, Stacey
Sparrow
Stearns, Ethie
Stroffolino, Chris
T
Truitt, Samuel
Tysh, Chris
Upshaw, Reagan
Valerio, Anita
Vasovic, Nebojsa
Vermont, Charlie
Waldman, Anne
Waldrop, Rosmarie - "Shorter American Memory"
Warsh, Marie
Warsh, Sophia
Weiner, Hannah - Includes Spoke, "Little Book 137" and "Seen" introduction
Weiners, John - "The Lanterns Along the Wall" (photocopy)
Whalen, Tom
Wright, C.D
Yorty, Don
TEACHING MATERIAL
Handouts and Assignments
Course descriptions - Proposals and drafts of proposals for courses taught at The New School for Social Research and elsewhere
Dictionaries and definitions
Dreams - Includes a list of dream-related quotations and dream writing experiments
Experiments - Lists of assigned and recommended writing experiments with some student writing resulting from those experiments
Insults - Includes manuscript and photocopies of insult poems, some student work and a manuscript draft of "To a Politician"
Joyce and Stein - Includes photocopied material written by or relating to James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, including essays by Stan Brakhage and Catherine R. Simpson
Love poems - Photocopy selection of love poems by various poets
Pantoum/Sestina - Photocopied descriptions and examples of pantoum and sestina forms
Reading lists - Includes typescript and photocopy lists of recommended reading complied collectively with students and others
Structure of the Prose Sentence and of the Poetic Line - Photocopy, paste-up and typescript anthology of readings gathered and titled by the poet
Surrealism - Typescript, print and photocopy pages of or pertaining to surrealist writing
Various - Untitled photocopy collection of readings gathered and bound by Mayer. Includes typescript, final exam, miscellaneous handouts, and assignments
Visual poems - Photocopy pages of concrete and visual poems by others
Writings of others
Miscellaneous photocopy pages of poems and writings by others gathered unbound by the poet
Printed pages of poems by others gathered unbound by Mayer
Notes and Notebooks
Notes from an unidentified course taught in 1986
Notebook - Contains notes from teaching writing at various public school locations in New York City, beginning February 1986
Mrs. Poetry - Notes from writing courses taught at various public schools in New York City, beginning May 1986. Includes some student writing and poems in typescript by the poet
Mott Hall and MCSM - Notes from courses taught at Mott Hall and the Manhattan Center in 1986 and 1987
Notebook - Includes notes from workshops taught at The New School for Social Research, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and J.H.S. 104 in NYC between December 1987 and July 1988
Poetry Workshop - Notes from Poetry Workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning February 8, 1988, and other unidentified courses 1987 - 1988
Lang Po Mini Lectures - Typescript and holograph notes for lectures delivered at The Poetry Project, New York City, February 24, 1989 - March 17, 1989
Naropa 89 - Notes from a workshop taught at The Naropa Institute in summer 1989
New School - Notes and student writing with manuscript comments by Mayer from a workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning September 1990
Poetry Workshop - Notes from Poetry Workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning September 1990
Notebook - Notes from unidentified course beginning November 6, 1990
Notes from unidentified courses taught in 1990 and 1991
Poetry Workshop - Notes from Poetry Workshop taught beginning September 23, 1991, at The New School for Social Research
Experiments in Poetry - Notes from workshop taught beginning February 5, 1991, at The New School for Social Research
Notes from CWR 270 taught at an unidentified location 1991 September
Notes from an unidentified course taught at The College of Staten Island beginning October 1991 1991 - 1992
Poetries I and II - Notes from courses taught at an unidentified location beginning February 1992
Notes from workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning October 1994 1994 - 1995
Diary JHS 104 - Typescript diary of experiences teaching at JHS 104, New York City
Miscellaneous notes, unbound freewrites, class plans, etc.
Lesson plan - Notes regarding math and science
Social Studies Health Writing - Notes regarding writing and social studies and health
Small Notebook Shared with Mott Hall - Notes regarding courses taught at the Manhattan Center
Miscellaneous
August 2nd writing experiment
Letter of resignation from New England College
Miscellaneous notes
Mott Hall Sestinas - Includes work by Mayer and students
Naropa workshop 1987
Notes from an unidentified workshop
On the Ending of the Staten Island 40-Person 4-Hour Class
Poetry Project Workshop
Reading workshop - Includes typescript notes "On Reading"
Student publications - 1987 "Blast to the Past;" 1987 "Poetry Movements of the Summer of 1987," 1988 "JHS 104M," and undated PS 154, PS 161 and PS 208
Student writings - "Night Sky." Collection of poems inspired by an article in The New York Times
EDITING MATERIAL
0-9
Letters to the editors
Grant proposal to the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines 1968
Unidentified manuscripts
Poetry submissions
Coolidge, Clark
Drummond, Phillip
Higgins, Dick
Rothenberg, Jerome
Saroyan, Aram
Smithson, Robert
Weiner, Hannah
Miscellaneous
Handbook of Poetic Forms. Teachers and Writers Collaborative. Drafts of Mayer's entries for basic poetic forms and correspondence with Ron Padgett 1986-1987
Proofreading notes
Street Works Theater - Ephemera, mimeograph flyers and notes 1969
United Artists
Logos
Examples of type
Miscellaneous proofreaders notes
Unnatural Acts
Manuscripts
Material gathered by Mayer pertaining to Unnatural Acts magazine
Magazine with notes and rewrites
Miscellaneous notes
Agnes and Sally announcement. Mimeograph promotional announcement for Warsh's book
Bernadette Mayer and Ed Bowes. Includes "A list of arbitrary changes agreeed to by E.F. Bowes and B.F. Mayer"
Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh. Includes notes and drawings
Ed Bowes biography materials
Drawing
Family notes
Horoscope [for Bernadette] 1969
Garden of Eden on Manhattan's Lower East Side
PHOTOGRAPHS
Prints
Photographs of Mayer
Photographs of others - Mostly images of Ed Bowes
Miscellaneous photographs - Images of buildings and nature
Albums
Photo album one. Includes images of Lewis Warsh, Bill Berkson, Kenward Elmslie, Joe Brainard, and Alice Notley
Photo album two. Includes images of Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan and Bill Berkson
Photo album three. Includes images of Mayer family, Bill Berkson and Anne Waldman
For Bernadette from Rosemary with Love 1979
Slides
Ed Bowes and children
Miscellaneous
SOUND RECORDINGS
Lewis Warsh
Bernadette Mayer
Accession Processed in 2019
Bernadette Mayer ID cards, business card, and note paper 1972-1997
Bernadette Mayer interviewed by Daniel Kane - Transcript 1998 October 8
Bernadette Mayer interviewed by Stephanie Anderson - Transcript 2013 November 1
Biographical information 1986-2013
Brito, Manuel. Bernadette Mayer (1945- ): Introducción, selección de textos y traducción 1992
Ephemera - Poetry reading flyers, postcards, and brochures 1994-2016
Interviews with Bernadette Mayer - Clippings and correspondence 1998-2013
Poetry readings - Posters 1994-2012
CORRESPONDENCE
A - Miscellaneous
Abrams, Sam 1994
The Academy of American Poets 2002-2013
Aktar, Sascha 2003-2004
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1994-1997
Angle (Brian Lucas) 1996-1997
Annie Tinker Association for Women 1998-2003
Ashbery, John 2003
Atkins, Tim 1997
B - Miscellaneous
Baker, Peter 1994-2017
Beck, Regina 1979
Benjosh Management Corporation 1985
Berlant, Tillie and George 1983-1997
Brenda and Atticus 1999-2005
Brilliant, Eileen 1996
Brinks, Dave 1996-2012
Brown, Lee Ann 1988-2017
Brown University Program in Creative Writing 1998-2004
Browne, Laynie 1995-2017
Burns, Megan 2004-2012
Bynum, Thomas L. 1989-1990
C - Miscellaneous
Cain, Sarah 2000-2016
Cain, Sarah
Calas, Alex 1997-1998
Carcanet Press Limited 2004
Carol
Casline, Alan 2011-2014
Cherry Hill Arts Festival 1998
Cole, Norma 1999
Collom, Jack 1994-2016
Coolidge, Clark and Susan 1994-1996
Corbett, William 1987-1996
Court Green 2009-2013
Cummings, Paul 1990-1996
D - Miscellaneous
Dawson, Fielding 1998
Day, Russell 1993-2015
Decker, Helen and Gary Gullo 1990-2001
DeCoursey, Peggy 1996-2017
Delany, Samuel R. 1998
DeNoyelles, Bill 1997-2013
Dickison, Steve 1995
Dinsmore, Danika and Lee Christopher 1993-2001
di Prima, Diane 1998
Downes, Rackstraw 1997-2008
Durand, Marcella 1999-2017
E - Miscellaneous
Elkin, Barbara and Herb 1983-1998
Epler, Barbara (New Directions) 1989-2017
F - Miscellaneous
Farmingdale State University of New York 2004
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts 1995-1997
Fourteen Hills (Nicole Stefanko) 1996-1997
Freifeld, Larry 1971-1972
Freind, Bill 2004
Friedman, Ed 1995-2002
Fry, Susanna 2003-2005
Further Other Book Works 2015
Futurefarmers 2011-2012
Fyman, Cliff 1997-2014
G - Miscellaneous
Galet, Josh 1994
Gardner, Keith 1996-2001
The Germ (Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card) 1996-1997
Gizzi, Michael and Pilar 1985-2010
Gizzi, Peter and Elizabeth Willis ( The Nation) 1995-2008
Good, Philip 1984
Granary Books 1996-2000
Grand Street 1990-2001
Greenspan, Eliot 1996-1997
H - Miscellaneous undated
Hagan, Tom 1988-1989
Hale, Robert 1994
Hamlin, Louise 1986-1995
Harris 1972-1978
Heath, Jennifer (Jenny) 1999
Hedstrom, Cynthia 1981-1982
Hejinian, Lyn 2001-2016
Henning, Barbara 1991-2015
Highfill, Mitch and Kim 1983
Hoover, Paul 1992-1993
Howe, Fanny 1994-1998
I - Miscellaneous
Iijima, Brenda 1998-2003
The Institute for Writing and Thinking 1999
J - Miscellaneous
Jarnot, Lisa 2003-2007
Jones, Jamey 1994-2017
K- Miscellaneous 1999-2016
Karmin, Jen 2006-2016
Kiely, Aaron 1998-2000
Kyger, Joanne 1999
L - Miscellaneous
Lehman, David 2002-2007
Levy, Andrew 1996-2001
Licht, Matthew 2002-2004
Lloyd, Martha 2002-2008
M - Miscellaneous
Malone, Eric 1999-2005
Mariah, Paul (Manroot)
Mary P. Sears Trust - Shelley Memorial Award 2014
Mayer family 1986
Mayer, Rosemary 1979-2016
Merry 1997
Messerli, Douglas (Sun and Moon Press) 1996-2001
Mlinko, Ange 1995-2000
Morris, Jason 2009-2016
N- Miscellaneous
Naropa Institute 1992-2015
New Directions 2011-2013
New Orleans Review 1999
New School for Social Research 1992
O - Miscellaneous
Owen, Maureen 1999-2005
P - Miscellaneous
Padgett, Ron 1997-1998
Palmer, Michael 1992-2002
Patrick 1988
PEN American Center 1998-2005
Peters, Ann 1997-2012
Pettet, Simon 1995-2013
Phipps, Wanda 1999-2003
Phoebe 1994-1997
Pittelman, Karen 1995
The Poetry Project 1994-2008
POG 1998-1999
Princeton University 2003
R - Miscellaneous
Radfar, India 2001-2010
Raworth, Tom 1994-2002
Ray 1993
Reddin, Elizabeth 2002-2004
River Styx 1990
Romano, Tina 1993-1994
Ruby, Michael 1999
Rychlíková, Helena (Hela) 2001-2003
S - Miscellaneous
Saidenberg, Jocelyn 1994-1999
Scala, Suzanne 2001-2002
Shaw, Lytle 1998-2003
Shively, Sharon 1988
Sikelianos, Eleni 2001-2010
Silverman, Hershel 1994-2013
Skinner, Jonathan 1997 December
Smith, Ed 1983-1991
Solan, Miriam 1989-1999
Spahr, Juliana (Chain) 1994-2000
Sprague, Jane 2003
Stavsky, Laurie 1996-1997
Susan 2003
T - Miscellaneous
Talisman House 1995-1997
Tannenbaum, Matthew 1982-1997
Teachers and Writers Collaborative 1985-2017
Teaching Resource Center 2000
Tysh, Chris 1981-2005
U - Miscellaneous
Ugly Duckling Presse 2005
University of California, San Diego 1984-2015
University of New Orleans 1999
V - Miscellaneous
Valéry, Juliette 2000-2001
Vermont, Charlie 2005-2015
Vermont Studio Center 2011-2012
W - Miscellaneous 1997-2001
Waldman, Anne 1974-2004
Walker Art Center 2012
Ward, Zac 1997-2012
Warsh, Lewis 1985-2007
Warsh, Marie 1998-2016
Warsh, Max 1988-2013
Warsh, Sophia 1987-2014
Wilenz, Ted 1995-1998
World tour correspondence 1999
W.W. Norton and Company 1992-2013
Y - Miscellaneous
Yorty, Don 1998-2017
Yvonne 1982
Z - Miscellaneous
Zasterle Press (Manuel Brito) 1994-2005
Zen Mountain Monastery 1987-1988
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS
The 3:15 Writing Experiment, with Danika Dinsmore (2001) 1993-2001
Another Smashed Pinecone (1998) - Review and ephemera
The Art of Science Writing (1989), with Dale Worsley - Reviews
Bernadette Mayer on CD: Epigrams, Imitations and Translations - Ephemera 2000
A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992)
The Cave (2008), with Clark Coolidge 1972-1978
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994)
Don Can't Sleep (but we will make him), with Philip Good
Dreams
Eruditio ex Memoria (1977) - Reviews
Ethics of Sleep (2011)
The Formal Field of Kissing 1990
The Golden Book of Words (1978) - Ephemera and reviews
Memory (1975) - Reviews
Michael Ruby interviewed by Bernadette Mayer - Transcript 2014 March 23
Notebooks 1985-1992
Poems - Miscellaneous 1979-2011
Poetry State Forest (2008)
Rubber stamps for The Boston Eagle, Angel Hair, United Artists, and Unnatural Acts.
Scarlet Tanager (2005)
Skinny Sonnets 2000
Sonnets (1989 and 2014) - Reviews
Studying Hunger (1975) - Reviews
Summer Solstice 2007
Tom Savage collaboration - Poems and correspondence 1984-1988
The Tsatsawassans, issues 1-2 (editor) 2009-2010
Two Haloed Mourners (1998) - Review
Uncle Andrew's Pile of Pads (2014)
Utopia (1984) - Reviews
Works and Days (2016) - Review
Writing for Ron Padgett 1985
TEACHING
Language poetry lectures and bibliography 1989
The New School for Social Research 1989-1990
Poetry I - Take-home final examination
Rootdrinkers workshop (Beyond the Basics of Poetry) 2013
Summer workshop 2003
Whitman notes for lecture