Guide to the Jerry Kilbride Papers

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California State Library. All rights reserved.

Guide to the Jerry Kilbride Papers



California State Library

Sacramento, California

Contact Information:

  • California History Room
  • California State Library
  • Library and Courts Building II
  • 900 N. Street, Room 200
  • P.O. Box 942837
  • Sacramento, California 94237-0001
  • Phone: (916) 654-0176
  • Fax: (916) 654-8777
  • Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
  • URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
Processed by:
The California State Library staff
Encoded by:
James Lake
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Jerry Kilbride Papers
Box Number: 100-120 HAIKU MS
Creator: Kilbride, Jerry
Repository: California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jerry Kilbride Papers, California State Library.

Access Points

Kilbride, Jerry, 1930-
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.
Haiku, American--History and criticism--Sources.
Photographs, Original.

Contents

Correspondence, scrapbooks and memorabilia arranged in two series: Haiku Related Materials and Personal Papers.

Biography

Born February 25, 1930 in Denver, Colorado. Attended grammar and high schools affiliated with St. Mel Roman Catholic Parish in Chicago's west side, 1936-1948. United States Army, 1951-1953. Studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Mexico City College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Member of the Small Press Traffic Writers' Workshop, San Francisco, 1979-1986. Vice-President of the Haiku Society of America, 1989. A co-founder of the Haiku Poets of Northern California and the American Haiku Archives. Museum of Haiku Literature Award, 1987. Japan Air Lines Haiku Conference Awards, First Prize, 1987. Henderson Awards, First Prize, 1987. Henderson Awards, Third Prize, 1988. Mainichi Daily News Awards, First Prize, 1989. HPNC President's Gavel Award, 1991. Retired as senior bartender of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, March 1995. Participant in the 16th Annual Summer Writers' Workshop, Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin, Ireland, August 1995. Member of the Irish Literary and Historical Society, San Francisco. Widely traveled.

Correspondents

Major Correspondents

  • Currier, Joyce.
  • Eulberg, Mary Thomas.
  • Gurga, Lee.
  • Heitmeier, Doris.
  • Lamb, Elizabeth Searle.
  • Roth, Hal.
  • Spiess, Robert.
  • Yarrow, Ruth.

Other Correspondents

  • Anderson, Kay.
  • Aoyagi, Fay.
  • Davidson, L. A.
  • Gay, Garry.
  • Hadman, Ty.
  • Huang, Zhong-Ru.
  • Kenny, Adele, 1948-
  • McKay, Anne, 1932-
  • Ruxton, David.
  • Story, Ebba.
  • Tripi, Vincent.
  • Welch, Michael Dylan, 1962-
  • Reichhold, Jane.
  • Reichhold, Werner.

Related Collections

  • American Haiku Archives

Box Box 100

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, A-C (Kay Anderson; Fay Aoyagi; Joyce Currier)

Box Box 101

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, D-G (L.A. Davidson; Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg; Garry Gay; Lee Gurga)

Box Box 102

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, H-K (Ty Hadman; Penny Harter; Doris Heitmeyer; Christopher Herold; Adele Kenny; Davina Kosh)

Box Box 103

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, L (Elizabeth Lamb thru 1995)

Box Box 104

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, L-Q (Elizabeth Lamb 1996- ; Anne Mckay; Marlene Mountain)

Box Box 105

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, R-S (Alexis Rotella; Jane & Werner Reichhold; Hal Roth; Robert Speiss; Kevin Starr)

Box Box 106

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, S-W (Ebba Story; Kenneth Tanemura; John Thompson; Vincent Tripi)

Box Box 107

Haiku Materials: Correspondence, W-Z (Michael Dylan Welch; Ruth Yarrow)

Box Box 108

Haiku Materials: Correspondence Letters from Haiku poets in China; Letters regarding American Haiku Archive

Box Box 109

Haiku Materials: Photographs, Announcements, Ephemera, Publications, Audio Tapes

Box Box 110

Personal Papers: Correspondence, Family letters, Letters from friends, A-M

Box Box 111

Personal Papers: Correspondence, Letters from friends, N-Z

Box Box 112

Personal Papers: Correspondence From David Ruxton; To Harun Latif; From Low Chin Yow; From Zhong-Ru Huang

Box Box 113

Personal Papers: Official Documents, Address books, Army letters, 1951-1953, Army troopship newsletters, Army ephemera.

Box Box 114

Personal Papers: Photographs, Birthday Cards, Ephemera.

Box Box 115

Personal Papers: Publications

Box Box 116

Personal Papers: Travel: Mexico, Europe, South America

Box Box 117

Personal Papers: Travel: Postcards, Receipts, Passports.

Box Box 118

Personal Papers: Travel: Scrapbooks

Box Box 119

Personal Papers: Travel: Scrapbooks

Box Box 120

Personal Papers: Realia