Alice Notley Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2005
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Languages:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Alice Notley Papers
Creator:
Notley, Alice, 1945-
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0319
Physical Description:
34.35 Linear feet
(54 archives boxes, 16 flat boxes, 1 map case folder, and 3 art bin items)
Date (inclusive): 1969-2014
Abstract: Papers of Alice Notley (1945-), an American artist and poet. The collection includes manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence,
and original artwork.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of Alice Notley (1945-), an American artist and poet involved in the New York poetry scene beginning in the mid-1960s.
The collection contains correspondence with other prominent poets and writers, typescripts of published and unpublished literary
works, notebooks, and Notley's original artwork, including collages, sketches and watercolors. The collection was processed
in five major accessions.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 1995
This accession is comprised of notebooks filled with manuscript writings, correspondence with poets and editors, and examples
of Notley's visual art, such as collages. Most of the material dates from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Arranged in three series: 1) MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS, 2) CORRESPONDENCE and 3) ARTWORK.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 1998
Arranged in two series: 4) MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS and 5) CORRESPONDENCE.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2003
The accession processed in 2003 complements the first portions of the collection and includes additional correspondence, notebooks,
manuscripts and artworks. It also contains material related to the production of the literary magazine
Gare du Nord. Most of the papers date from the late 1990s through 2001.
Arranged in six series: 6) CORRESPONDENCE, 7) WRITINGS, 8) NOTEBOOKS, 9)
GARE DU NORD PRODUCTION MATERIALS, 10) ARTWORK and 11) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2011
Arranged in three series: 12) CORRESPONDENCE, 13) DREAM NOTEBOOKS and 14) WRITINGS.
ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 2017
The bulk of this accession dates from 2000 through 2014.
Arranged in five series: 15) CORRESPONDENCE, 16) WRITINGS, 17) NOTEBOOKS, 18) ARTWORK and 19) MISCELLANEOUS.
Biography
Alice Notley was born in 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967, and her M.F.A. from the
University of Iowa in 1969. She married the writer Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she had two sons, Anselm and Edmund, both
poets. After Berrigan's death in 1983, she married the British poet Doug Oliver and relocated to Paris, France.
Notley's writing and art responds to a broad spectrum of American culture. Among the numerous collections of verse that Notley
has published are
Incidental in the Day World (1973),
When I was Alive (1980),
Waltzing Matilda (1981),
Margaret and Dusty (1985), and
How Spring Comes (1981), which received a 1982 San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. Notley has also written a short autobiography entitled
Tell Me Again (1982).
Notley is also a visual artist, and her collection includes original artworks such as collages, watercolors, and sketches.
Many of her collages are composed of everyday objects and images and are quite consistent with her poetry in that respect.
Notley was co-editor of the literary magazine
Gare Du Nord with Douglas Oliver, publishing five issues over two years (1998-1999). Magazine production ceased in the fall of 1999 when
Oliver was diagnosed with cancer; he died the following spring.
Notley has continued to write both prose and poetry, including an epic poem,
The Descent of Alette (1992), and the titles
Desamere (1995),
Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) (for which Notley was a Pulitzer Prize finalist),
Disobedience (2001),
Coming After (2005),
Alma or the Dead Women (2006),
In the Pines (2007),
Reason and Other Women (2010),
Culture of One (2011),
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011),
Benediction (2015) and
Certain Magical Acts (2016).
Notley has been recognized by the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Memorial
Award from the Poetry Society of America, and in 2015 Notley was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
She currently resides in Paris.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Alice Notley Papers, MSS 319. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1995-2017.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American poetry -- 20th century
Women poets -- United States
Art, American -- 20th century
Myles, Eileen -- Correspondence
Foster, Edward Halsey -- Correspondence
Messerli, Douglas, 1947- -- Correspondence
Notley, Alice, 1945- -- Archives
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1927 -- Correspondence
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- -- Correspondence
Whalen, Philip -- Correspondence
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence
Scalapino, Leslie -- Correspondence
Padgett, Ron, 1942- -- Correspondence
Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Correspondence
Accession Processed in 1995
MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 1) MANUSCRIPTS & NOTEBOOKS: One manuscript of a three-act play entitled "Twilight Vision" and Notley's notebooks, which
are arranged chronologically from 1969 to 1990. Entries contain descriptions of Notley's day-to-day activities, literary writings,
drawings, and meditations on others writers such as Dante, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos
Williams.
Box 1, Folder 1
Twilight Vision: A Play in Three Acts
Box 1, Folder 2-8
Notebooks
1969 June-1970 September
Box 2, Folder 1-8
Notebooks
1970 September-1971 October
Box 3, Folder 1-7
Notebooks
1971 October-1972 December
Box 4, Folder 1-7
Notebooks
1973 June-1976 September
Box 5, Folder 1-7
Notebooks
1976 September-1978 November
Box 6, Folder 1
Notebooks
1978 November-1979 April
Oversize FB-117, Folder 1
Notebook
1979 April-October
Box 6, Folder 3-7
Notebooks
1979 August-1980
Box 7, Folder 1-6
Notebooks
1980 March-1981 September
Box 8, Folder 1-6
Notebooks
1980 December-1982 July
Box 9, Folder 1-7
Notebooks
1982-1983 January
Box 10, Folder 1-3
Notebooks
1983 February-November
Oversize FB-117, Folder 2
Notebook
1983 May-November
Box 10, Folder 5-7
Notebooks
1983 June-November
Box 11, Folder 1-5
Notebooks
1983 November-1984 June
Box 12, Folder 1-5
Notebooks
1984 June-1985 January
Box 13, Folder 1-5
Notebooks
1984 December-1985 October
Box 14, Folder 1-5
Notebooks
1985 October-1986 October
Box 15, Folder 1-5
Notebooks
1986 November-1988 June
Box 16, Folder 1-6
Notebooks
1988 June-1989 May
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: The correspondence series is extensive and includes letters from prominent people in contemporary
art and literature such as Joe Brainard, Andrei Codrescu, Edward Halsey Foster, Allen Ginsberg, Douglas Messerli, Eileen Myles,
Ron Padgett, Leslie Scalapino, Anne Waldman, and Philip Whalen. Most of the material dates from 1988 to 1994. Letters are
arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Box 19, Folder 2
Alson, Sheila
1992 - 1993
Box 19, Folder 3
Baude, Dawn Michelle
1992 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 6
Brainard, Joe
1991 - 1993
Box 19, Folder 7
Burckhardt, Rudy
1992 - 1993
Box 19, Folder 13
Codrescu, Andrei
1993 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 19
Foster, Edward Halsey
1993 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 26
Hollo, Anselm
1992 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 34
McNaughton, Duncan
1993 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 35
Messerli, Douglas
1993 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 36
Myles, Eileen
1987 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 37
Nauen, Elinor
1992 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 40
Pettet, Simon and Rose
1993 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 43
Rosenthal, Robert and Kraut, Rochelle
1994
Box 19, Folder 45
Saroyan, Aram
1991 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 47
Scalapino, Leslie
1992 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 48
Schiff, Harris
1992 - 1993
Box 19, Folder 52
Sparrow, E Carter
1991 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 53
Stanford, David H. (Viking Penguin)
1993 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 54
Stanton, Johnny
1986 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 58
Waldman, Anne
1991 - 1994
Box 19, Folder 61
Whalen, Philip
1989 - 1994
ARTWORK
Scope and Content of Series
Series 3) ARTWORK. Arranged in seven subseries: A) Collages, B) Book Collages, C) Box Collages, D) Fan Collages, E) Mask Collages,
F) Sketches and G) Watercolors. Materials in each subseries are arranged alphabetically by title. In cases when a title was
not supplied by Notley, a title was created based on a topic sentence or major feature or theme of the work. The subjects
of Notley's artworks vary from human portraits, women's figures, still lifes, and landscapes to abstract objects, shapes and
colors. Her style is sensuous, lyrical and humorous. She often incorporates traditional elements of Chinese and Japanese art
in her collages.
Box 20, Folder 3
Black Butterfly On A Female Body
Box 20, Folder 4
Bloomington: With Red Blush
Oversize FB-110, Folder 2
Box 20, Folder 6
But Other Than All That I Want To Hear A Song
Box 20, Folder 8
Chinese Medicine and A Young Lady
Oversize FB-110, Folder 3
Oversize FB-110, Folder 6
Oversize FB-110, Folder 1
Box 20, Folder 12
Do Not Judge A Man By His Action
Oversize FB-110, Folder 4
Oversize FB-110, Folder 5
Heart With One's Own On Escutcheon
1975
Oversize FB-110, Folder 7
Here's a Quiet Tributary Stream to the Snake
Oversize FB-110, Folder 8
Oversize FB-110, Folder 9
Oversize FB-110, Folder 10
Oversize FB-110, Folder 11
Box 20, Folder 25
Poetry: Aside to My Nephew (4 Items)
Oversize FB-110, Folder 12
Oversize FB-110, Folder 13
Prestige Status Heartbreakers
Box 21, Folder 1-22
Special Today, nos. 21-42
Oversize FB-110, Folder 14
Special Today 43 (3 Items)
Oversize FB-110, Folder 15
Oversize FB-110, Folder 16
Box 21, Folder 26
Vacuum, or the Inside of a Neon Light...
Box 21, Folder 28
What I Like About Being Married
1976
Box 21, Folder 29
You'll Never Be That Good
Box 21, Folder 30
You Will Climb Far and High...
Box 21, Folder 31
Better Than Love Are You The Man Who Stands
Box 21, Folder 34
Move Yourself or Opponent to Beach
Box 21, Folder 35
New York: Past and Present
Oversize FB-112, Folder 4
Oversize FB-112, Folder 1
Oversize FB-112, Folder 3
Oversize FB-112, Folder 2
Oversize FB-112, Folder 5
Oversize FB-113, Folder 1
Oversize FB-114, Folder 4
Oversize FB-114, Folder 3
Oversize FB-115, Folder 2
Oversize FB-114, Folder 2
Diamond Crystal Shaker Salt
Oversize FB-114, Folder 1
Oversize FB-116, Folder 3
Oversize FB-113, Folder 4
Oversize FB-113, Folder 2
Oversize FB-116, Folder 2
Oversize FB-116, Folder 1
Oversize FB-113, Folder 3
Oversize FB-115, Folder 3
Oversize FB-115, Folder 1
Oversize FB-111, Folder 3
Black Face With Tears of Pearl
Oversize FB-111, Folder 1
Oversize FB-111, Folder 2
Oversize FB-112, Folder 6
Oversize FB-112, Folder 7
Oversize FB-112, Folder 8
Oversize FB-110, Folder 18
Box 22, Folder 29
Curtain in the Room (2 Items)
Box 22, Folder 31
Four Bedrooms for Ted (4 Items)
Box 22, Folder 37
Bottles and Glasses (5 Items)
Box 22, Folder 41
Colour Shade with Poems (5 Items)
Oversize FB-110, Folder 17
Box 22, Folder 45
Flower and Poetry (2 Items)
1985
Box 22, Folder 48
Play (Ballet): Boot of... (5 Items)
Box 22, Folder 49
Poetry Project: Robert Grenier & Alice Notley (4 Items)
Box 22, Folder 53
Twenty Poems: Steve Carey (4 Items)
Box 22, Folder 55
Women's Portraits (7 Items)
Box 22, Folder 56
Watercolor with Poems (14 Items)
1986
Box 22, Folder 57
Watercolor with Poems (8 Items)
1987
Box 22, Folder 58
Undefined Object (2 Items)
Accession Processed in 1998
Box 23, Folder 1
Close to Me and Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and Desamere - Typescript
Box 23, Folder 2-5
Notebooks
1990 December-1991 December
Box 24, Folder 1-6
Notebooks
1992 February-1993 June
Box 25, Folder 1-6
Notebooks
1993 August-1994 December
Box 26, Folder 2
Alvarez-Maurer, Pansy
1995 - 1996
Box 26, Folder 3
Baude, Dawn Michelle
1995
Box 26, Folder 11
Chernoff, Maxine
1995 - 1996
Box 26, Folder 14
Collaborative Postcard
1995
General note
Includes Jack Collom, Anselm Hollo, Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Lee Ann Brown, Steven Taylor, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Rose Pettet.
Box 26, Folder 20
Foster, Edwin
1993 - 1997
Box 26, Folder 23
Goldman, Judith
1996 - 1997
Box 26, Folder 25
Hawkins, Ralph
1996 - 1997
Box 26, Folder 26
Hejinian, Lyn
1994 - 1996
Box 26, Folder 30
Hollo, Anselm
1995 - 1997
Box 26, Folder 34
Jones, Patricia Spears
1997
Box 26, Folder 41
Messerli, Douglas
1995 - 1996
Box 26, Folder 48
Pettet, Simon
1995 - 1996
Box 26, Folder 50
Salerno, Mark
1995 - 1996
Box 26, Folder 52
Scalapino, Leslie
1995 - 1997
Box 26, Folder 54
Stanford, David
1994 - 1996
Box 27, Folder 4
Waldman, Anne
1995 - 1997
Accession Processed in 2003
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 6) CORRESPONDENCE: A continuation of the earlier accessions, with materials dating mostly from the late 1990s through
2001. It includes correspondence with many prominent artists and writers, as well as a number of younger writers. The largest
files are from Katy Lederer, Eleanor Nauen, Leslie Scalapino, Eleni Sikelianos, and Anne Waldman. Arranged alphabetically
by correspondent.
Box 28, Folder 3
Alcalay, Ammiel
1997 - 2000
Box 28, Folder 4
Baude, Dawn Michelle
2000 - 2001
Box 28, Folder 5
Benson, Steve
1999 - 2000
Box 28, Folder 7
Berkson, Bill
1995 - 1998
Box 28, Folder 9
Brook, James
1997 - 1998
General note
Includes excerpts from reclaiming San Francisco, ed. James Brook: "Weather and Repetition."
Box 28, Folder 12
Burckhardt, Yvonne Jacquette
1998 - 2000
Box 28, Folder 14
Cataldo, Susan
1998 - 1999
General note
Includes "The Mother Journal" (excerpt).
Box 28, Folder 18
Collom, Jack
1997 - 2000
General note
Includes poems and drawings.
Box 28, Folder 19
Corbett, Bill (editor of Grand Street)
1997 - 1998
Box 28, Folder 20
Creeley, Robert
1998 - 1999
Box 28, Folder 22
Dalrymple-Hollo, Jane
1997 - 1998
General note
Includes pen-and-ink artwork.
Box 28, Folder 24
Dorn, Ed
1997
General note
Includes "Le Drouot a Metro Richelieu (23 Juin, 1992)".
Box 28, Folder 27
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
1999 - 2000
Box 28, Folder 29
Elmslie, Kenward
1998 - 2001
Box 28, Folder 30
Eshleman, Clayton
1995 - 1998
Box 28, Folder 31
Evans, Thomas
1997 - 1998
Box 28, Folder 33
Friedman, Ed (artistic director, The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church)
1997
General note
Includes proof of Notley's "Half-Dome With Symmetrical Angels" (broadside).
Box 28, Folder 36
Granary Books
1998
General note
Includes proof of cover for
Ted Berrigan: An Annotated Checklist.
Box 28, Folder 37
Griffiths, Bill (Eric Mottram Archive)
1998
Box 28, Folder 38
Hall, John and Angela
1999
Box 28, Folder 40
Hawkins, Ralph
1998 - 2000
Box 28, Folder 41
Hejinian, Lyn
1998 - 2001
General note
Includes "Figuring Out."
Box 28, Folder 43
Hollo, Anselm and Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
1995 - 2000
General note
See also Dalrymple-Hollo, Jane.
Box 28, Folder 47
Jewel Heart (Center for Tibetan Culture and Buddhist Studies)
1997
General note
Memorial for Allen Ginsburg.
Box 28, Folder 48
Johnson, Nicholas (Etruscan Books)
1995 - 2001
General note
Includes "Certificate that Purchase the Past Easily and On Our Own Terms."
Box 28, Folder 49
Jones, Miriam
1995
General note
Includes "If I had a Pig I Would Cry Over It."
Box 28, Folder 50
Jones, Patricia Spears
1996 - 2000
General note
Includes "All Saint's Day" and "Days of Awe."
Box 29, Folder 2
Keelan, Claudia
2000 - 2001
Box 29, Folder 3
Killian, Kevin
1999 - 2000
Box 29, Folder 4
Koch, Kenneth
1996 - 2000
Box 29, Folder 5
Kyger, Joanne
1997 - 2001
General note
Includes "Living a Spiritual Life in the Woods."
Box 29, Folder 6
Lederer, Katy
1996 - 1999
General note
Includes miscellaneous poems.
Box 29, Folder 7
Lewis, Joel and Sandy Flitterman
1998
General note
Includes miscellaneous poems.
Box 29, Folder 10
Maurer-Alvarez, Pansy
1995 - 2001
Box 29, Folder 11
McNaughton, Duncan
1998
General note
Includes "In the Old City."
Box 29, Folder 15
Milne, Drew
1997
General note
Includes "The Eclipse of the Ear."
Box 29, Folder 16
Mlinko, Ange
1999
General note
Includes "Irrational Superballs."
Box 29, Folder 18
Moxley, Jennifer and Steve Evans
1999 - 2000
Box 29, Folder 19
Mulford, Wendy
1997 - 2000
Box 29, Folder 20
Myles, Eileen
1999 - 2000
General note
Includes "Seattle Harbor" and "Milk."
Box 29, Folder 21
Nauen, Elinor and Johnny Stanton
1994 - 1999
Box 29, Folder 24
Opstedal, Kevin
1994 - 1998
Box 29, Folder 26
Penberthy, Jenny
1999 - 2001
Box 29, Folder 27
Pettet, Simon
1996 - 2000
Box 29, Folder 29
Quatermain, Peter and Meredith
2000
Box 29, Folder 30
Riley, Denise
1999 - 2000
Box 29, Folder 31
Riley, Peter and Beryl
1998 - 2001
Box 29, Folder 34
Rothenberg, Jerry and Diane
1997 - 1999
Box 29, Folder 37
Salerno, Mark (editor,
Arshile)
1998
Box 29, Folder 38
Saroyan, Aram
1996 - 2000
General note
Includes "For Alice Notley."
Box 29, Folder 40
Scalapino, Leslie
1997 - 1999
General note
Includes "I Romance Comic Book - Noh Play," from
Orchid Jetsam and "From Orchid Jetsam - A Dee Goda Mystery."
Box 29, Folder 41
Scalapino, Leslie
2000 - 2001
Box 30, Folder 4
Schneeman, Katie and George
1995 - 2000
Box 30, Folder 7
Sikelianos, Eleni
1995 - 2001
Box 30, Folder 10
Smith, Dale
1995 - 1997
General note
Includes "Poetry and Crisis in Gertrude Stein's
Tender Buttons," "Song That I Be Near," "Definition of Art," and "Montana."
Box 30, Folder 11
Spahr, Juliana
1998 - 2001
Box 30, Folder 12
Stanford, David (editor, Viking Penguin)
undated
Box 30, Folder 15
Talisman House, Publishers (Ed Foster, editor)
1997 - 2000
General note
Includes interview with Alice Notley by Ed Foster.
Box 30, Folder 16
Tarlo, Harriet
1998 - 1999
Box 30, Folder 17
Thesen, Sharon
1999 - 2000
Box 30, Folder 18
Thomas, Heather
1998 - 2001
General note
Includes "Interview with Alice Notley by Heather Thomas."
Box 30, Folder 20
Trinidad, David
1998 - 1999
Box 30, Folder 22
Waldman, Anne
1994 - 1998
General note
Includes "Notes on Sitting Beside A Noble Corpse...," "Last Days, Hours," "Alice's Street Near the Palace," and other miscellaneous
poems.
Box 30, Folder 23
Waldman, Anne
1999 - 2001
General note
Includes "Mild Times You Mean Violent All the Great Men Dying."
Box 30, Folder 26
Unidentified correspondents
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 7) WRITINGS: Drafts and typescripts of published books, as well as essays. Included are materials for
Homer's Art (1990),
Desamere (1995),
Descent of Alette (1996),
Mysteries of Small Houses (1988), and
Disobedience (2001). Arranged chronologically.
Box 31, Folder 2
Homer's Art (1990) - "White Phosphorous" drafts
ca. 1988
Box 31, Folder 3
Feminine Epic
1995
General note
Drafts. Talk given at New York State Writers Institute, SUNY Albany on October 1995.
Box 31, Folder 4
Close to Me... and Closer (The Language of Heaven) (1995) - First typescript
Box 31, Folder 7
Descent of Alette (1996)
General note
Drafts and discards.
Box 31, Folder 8
Byzantine Parables
1998
General note
Published in Poetical Histories No. 45, Cambridge. Includes page proofs and correspondence.
Box 31, Folder 9
Lauren Baudes Studio exhibition notes
1998
Box 31, Folder 10-11
Mysteries of Small Houses (1998) - Typescripts
Box 32, Folder 1-2
Disobedience (2001) - Early typescript
Box 32, Folder 3-4
Disobedience (2001) - Final typescript
Oversize FB-352, Folder 13
Disobedience (2001) - Cover proofs
Box 32, Folder 5
Penguin Putnam Inc. letter re: Disobedience jacket design
2001 July 12
Box 32, Folder 6
American Poetic Music at the Moment drafts
undated
NOTEBOOKS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 8) NOTEBOOKS: Includes a number of small and large notebooks dating from roughly 1988-1997. These notebooks contain
notes and drafts for various essays and poems published in
Disobedience (2001), as well as her book,
Coming After (2005), published by Ann Arbor Press. Arranged chronologically.
Box 33, Folder 1
Notebook
ca. 1988
General note
Includes notes and drafts for essays published in journals and to be published in
Coming After. Also includes the essay "Voice."
Box 33, Folder 2
Notebook
1994 April
General note
Includes notes and drafts of essays published in journals and to be published in
Coming After.
Box 33, Folder 3-5
Notebooks
ca. 1994 May-1995 May
General note
Includes notes and draft materials for
Disobedience.
Box 34, Folder 1
Notes for essays
1996 October
General note
Includes notes and drafts for essays published in journals and to be published in
Coming After.
Box 34, Folder 2
Notebook
undated
General note
Includes notes and drafts for essays and poems published in journals and to be published in
Coming After.
GARE DU NORD PRODUCTION MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 9)
GARE DU NORD PRODUCTION MATERIALS: Papers related to the publishing of the literary magazine which Notley and her husband, Douglas Oliver,
founded and edited from 1997 through 1999. It contains correspondence, manuscripts and paste-ups associated with each issue,
and is arranged chronologically by issue. Within each issue, however, the materials are arranged alphabetically according
to the authors' last names.
Box 34, Folder 3
Volume 1/1 (1997) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1997 - 1998
General note
Part 1. Baude, Dawn Michelle; Burckhardt, Rudy; Collom Jack; Duncan, Andrew; Griffiths, Bill, Hollo, Anselm; Johnson, Nicholas;
Klein, Ishmael; and Lake, Grace (Anna).
Box 34, Folder 4
Volume 1/1 (1997) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1997 - 1998
General note
Part 2. Lederer, Katy; Leonard, Tom; Lopez, Tony; Marriott, David; and Miles, Patrick.
Box 34, Folder 5
Volume 1/1 (1997) - Paste-up
1997
Box 34, Folder 6
Volume 1/2 - Correspondence and manuscripts
1996 - 1998
General note
Part 1. Berrigan, Edmund; Buckhardt, Yvonne Jacquette; Duncan, Andrew; Griffiths, Bill (translations of Judy Kemenczky); Hawkins,
Ralph; Healey, Linda; Hollo, Anselm; Jarnot, Lisa; Kyger, Joanne; Milne, Drew; Mulford, Wendy; and Padgett, Ron; and Riley,
Peter.
Box 34, Folder 7
Volume 1/2 - Correspondence and manuscripts
1996 - 1998
General note
Part 2. Rothenberg, Jerry; Schneeman, George; Vaughn, Victtoria; Williamson, Aaron; Wing, Alicia; and Zivanavic, Nina.
Box 34, Folder 8
Volume 1/2 (1998) - Paste-up
1998
Box 34, Folder 9
Volume 1/3 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1998
General note
Part 1. Baker, Tony; Brook, James; Cierzo, Thomas; Crozier, Andrew; Herbert, William; Hollo, Anselm; Howe, Fanny; Joris, Pierre;
and Marriott, David.
Box 34, Folder 10
Volume 1/3 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1998
General note
Part 2. Moorcock, Michael; Notley, Alice; Portugal, Anne; Rosenthal, Bob; Scalapino, Leslie; Wagner, Catherine; and Wilkinson,
John.
Box 34, Folder 11
Volume 1/3 (1998) - Paste-up
1998
Box 35, Folder 1
Volume 1/3 (1998) - Psychic questionnaire
1997 - 1998
Box 35, Folder 2
Volume 2/1 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1998 - 1999
General note
Part 1. Adman, Etel; Ball, David; Burckhardt, Rudy; Clark, Tom; Corcoran, Kelvin, DeWit, Johan; Frym, Gloria; Gladman, Renee;
Hall, John; Lewis, Joel; Manson, Peter; Margolis, Elinor; Millet, Laure; Moorcock, Michael; Notley, Alice; Saroyan, Aram;
and Schelling, Andrew.
Box 35, Folder 3
Volume 2/1 (1998) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1998 - 1999
General note
Part 2. Sinclair, Ian; Smith, Rod; Staffolino, Chris; and Waldman, Anne.
Box 35, Folder 4
Volume 2/1 (1998) - Paste-up
1998
Box 35, Folder 5
Volume 2/1 (1998) - "Poetry: Love It, Hate It" (questionnaire responses)
1999
Box 35, Folder 6
Volume 2/2 (1999) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1998 - 1999
General note
Part 1. Brook, James; Burnstead, Leslie; Caddel, Richard; Cataldo, susan; Collom, Jack; Conant, Jeff; Corcoran, Kelvin; DuPlessis,
Rachel; Griffiths, Bill; Holloway, Rob; Keelan, Claudia; and Luna, Christopher.
Box 35, Folder 7
Volume 2/2 (1999) - Correspondence and manuscripts
1998 - 1999
General note
Part 2. Notley, Alice; Pepper, Karen; Pettet, Simon; Riley, Peter; Robinson, Kit; Skinner, Jonathan; and Sutherland, Keston.
Box 35, Folder 8
Volume 2/2 (1999) - Edited manuscripts and notes
1999
Box 35, Folder 9
Volume 2/2 (1999) - Paste-up
1999
Box 35, Folder 10
Volume 2/2 (1999) - Poetic Risk (questionnaire responses)
1999
Box 35, Folder 11
Miscellaneous correspondence and subscriptions
1997 - 1999
ARTWORK
Scope and Content of Series
Series 10) ARTWORK. Arranged in two subseries: A) Fans and Collages, and B) Miscellaneous.
A) Fans and Collages: Works which contain collage-like elements, including a number of fans decorated with paint. Many of
the works include everyday objects, such as a key, beads, lace, and stamps, as well as cut-out pieces from magazines. Arranged
alphabetically by title.
B) Miscellaneous: Pages from Notley's sketchbooks. Many of these works are done in pen-and-ink and watercolor, but other media
are used as well. Also included are flyers for poetry readings which Notley created and works for Ted Berrigan and Douglas
Oliver. Arranged alphabetically.
Box 36, Folder 1
Anniversary card - "For Ted"
General note
Pen-and-ink and collage.
Oversize FB-386, Folder 1
Big fan
General note
Fan with paint and collage (flowers and small fan).
Oversize FB-385, Folder 7
Cigar Box
General note
Wooden cigar box with collage inside (lace, stamps, feathers, coins, etc).
Oversize FB-385, Folder 6
Collage
1985
General note
Collage on cardboard and with red lace heart and painting.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 2
Dark Thought Postcard
General note
Paint, collage text ("You cannot discourage your wingspread").
Oversize FB-388, Folder 2
Fan with wheel
General note
Fan with silver and black paint and collage (gold wheel, green pieces and bird).
Oversize FB-387, Folder 2
Feather flute fan
General note
Silver-painted round fan with tube attached to handle and feather glued to fan.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 8
Four Roses
General note
Painting/collage on wood.
Oversize FB-387, Folder 3
Glass Church
General note
Fan with pieces of glass and picture of church. Collage and paint.
Oversize FB-388, Folder 1
Lo Fan
General note
Fan with gold paint, black lace, marker and collage (LO in wooden scrabble letters, stamps and beads).
Oversize FB-389, Folder 1
Mask
General note
Collage and silver paint (bird-face mask).
Oversize FB-385, Folder 5
Rhythmic Frame
General note
Collage on cardboard. Gold text ("Defies You: The Rhythmic Frame"), black sequins and flowers.
Oversize FB-387, Folder 1
Sculpture with key
General note
Wood with gold paint, collage, beads and key.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 1
Shoes and Panties Collage
General note
Collage and marker on cardboard.
Oversize FB-385, Folder 3-4
Works for Doug - "Commes nous" and Happy Birthday card
Box 36, Folder 2
1967 Game Calendar - Drawings by Joe Brainard and words by Alice Notley
General note
Presumably not a collaboration - Notley has whited-out the printed texts, providing her own commentary on Brainard's drawings.
Oversize FB-352, Folder 14
Bombay Gin
General note
Pen-and-ink (sketch of woman).
Box 36, Folder 3
Diary of drawings
1983 - 1984
Box 36, Folder 4
Flyers for poetry readings and book covers (designed and painted by Notley)
General note
Also includes watercolors, pen-and-ink drawings, etc.
Oversize FB-352, Folder 15
Large watercolors
General note
On Painter's pallette-shaped paper.
Box 36, Folder 5
Postcards - Pencil, pen-and-ink, paint on printed postcards by Ted Berrigan, George Schneeman, and Dick Jerome
ca. 1982
General note
Includes postcards inscribed by Kenward Elmslie.
Box 36, Folder 6
Sketchpad works
General note
Pen-and-ink, crayon and watercolors.
Box 36, Folder 8
Works for Doug
General note
Includes birthday cards, collages and drawings.
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 11) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS: Flyers and announcements for readings and conferences in which Notley participated, as
well as some unidentified items.
Box 36, Folder 9
Readings - Flyers and announcements
ca. 1995-1997
Oversize FB-352, Folder 16
Unidentified color copies of painting
Accession Processed in 2011
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 12) CORRESPONDENCE: Materials dating primarily from 2000-2010, arranged alphabetically. Some highlights include correspondence
with Edmund Berrigan regarding the poems of Ted Berrigan; Leslie Scalapino; Eleni Sikelianos; and Anne Waldman.
Box 37, Folder 3
Alvarez-Maurer, Pansy
2002-2010
Box 37, Folder 5
Berrigan, Edmund
2001-2002
Box 37, Folder 6
Berrigan, Edmund - re: The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
2001-2005
Box 37, Folder 7
Berrigan, Edmund - re: The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan
2008
Box 37, Folder 12
Creeley, Robert
2004-2005
Box 37, Folder 16
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
2001-2004
Box 37, Folder 27
Keelan, Claudia
2002-2004
Box 37, Folder 28
Koch, Kenneth (About Koch)
2000-2003
Box 37, Folder 33
Mikolowski, Ken
2002-2004
Box 37, Folder 35
Moxley, Jennifer
2003-2009
Box 38, Folder 4
Pollet, Sylvester
2002-2005
Box 38, Folder 10
Scalapino, Leslie
2001-2005
Box 38, Folder 12
Schneider, David
1989-2008
Box 38, Folder 13
Schuchat, Simon
2002-2005
Box 38, Folder 15
Sikelianos, Eleni
2001-2005
Box 38, Folder 16
Skinner, Jonathan (ECOPOETICS)
2002
Box 38, Folder 18
Steinhoff, Eirik
2002-2004
Box 38, Folder 20
Thomas, Heather
2001-2008
Box 38, Folder 23
van den Beukel, Karlien
2002-2003
Box 38, Folder 24
W, X, Y, Z - Miscellaneous
Box 38, Folder 27
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Unidentified
Box 38, Folder 28
Correspondence re: Douglas Oliver's passing
Box 39, Folder 1
Correspondence re: Sept. 11
Box 39, Folder 2
Correspondence re: Transatlantic HOWL
2004
Box 39, Folder 3
Blurb manuscripts and correspondence
DREAM NOTEBOOKS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 13) DREAM NOTEBOOKS: Twenty-one small and large notebooks dating from 1995-2008. These notebooks are arranged chronologically
and contain Notley's recollections of her dreams.
Box 39, Folder 4-10
Dream notebooks
1995 January-1999 September
Box 40, Folder 1-7
Dream notebooks
1999 September-2003 July
Box 41, Folder 1-7
Dream notebooks
2003 July-2008 December
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 14) WRITINGS: Drafts and typescripts of Notley's published books, and some essays. Most of the writings date from 2005-2011
and include
City Of (2005),
Coming After (2005),
Alma, or the Dead Women (2006),
In the Pines (2007), and
Above the Leaders (2008),
Reason and Other Women (2010),
Culture of One (2011) and
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011) and others.
Box 42, Folder 1
Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (1979)
Box 42, Folder 3
What Can be Learned from Dreams?
1991
Box 43, Folder 4-8
Alma, or the Dead Women (2006)
Box 44, Folder 1-3
Alma, or the Dead Women (2006)
Box 44, Folder 5
In the Pines (2007) and
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)
Box 44, Folder 6
Above the Leaders (2008), talk - "Music and Poetry", and notes for Ed Dorn essay
Box 44, Folder 8
Reason and Other Women (2010)
Box 45, Folder 1-6
Reason and Other Women (2010)
Box 46, Folder 1
Reason and Other Women (2010)
Box 47, Folder 4-8
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)
Box 48, Folder 1-3
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)
Box 48, Folder 4
Beginning with a Stain
undated
Box 48, Folder 6
Homer and Postmodern War
undated
Box 48, Folder 7
Notes and drafts of essays on bp nichols, dreams and The Tulsa School
undated
Accession Processed in 2017
CORRESPONDENCE
Scope and Content of Series
Series 15) CORRESPONDENCE: Includes letters exchanged with prominent artists and writers such as Jack Collom, Lyn Hejinian,
Leslie Scalapino, Anne Waldman and Philip Whalen. Materials date mostly from 2003 through 2014. Arranged alphabetically by
correspondent.
Box 49, Folder 1
Alette in Oakland correspondence with David Brazil, Jane Gregory, and Alana Siegal
2014
General note
Includes program for "Alette in Oakland" and "Anne's White Glove." Includes "Gloves Dreams."
Box 49, Folder 2
Alvaerz, Pansy Maurer
2007-2014
Box 49, Folder 3
Berrigan, Edmund and Anselm Berrigan
2008 March 6-7
General note
Emails and notes for
The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan.
Box 49, Folder 4
Collom, Jack A.
2012 March-2015 February
General note
Includes "The Book," a work in progress.
Box 49, Folder 5
Dewhurst, Robert
2015 May 13-16
General note
Includes correspondence related to interview for Bomb magazine. Includes early versions of interview.
Box 49, Folder 6
Dipippo, Al
2007 January-2012 July
Box 49, Folder 8
Hall, Phil
2011 April-July
Box 49, Folder 10
Keelan, Claudia
2013 August-September
General note
Includes correspondence related to interview on collage in The Volta.
Box 49, Folder 11
Knief, Matthias
2014 May 9
General note
Includes correspondence and program for the 2014 Berlin Poesie Festival.
Box 49, Folder 12
Kuhfeld, Jemimah
2008 December 6-2014 October 12
Box 49, Folder 13
Morris, Sawnie
2011 May
General note
Includes correspondence related to interview on "Dream to Poem," unpublished interview.
Box 49, Folder 14
Murray, Beth
2011 October 15-2002 July 1
Box 49, Folder 15
Need, David
2012 May-August
General note
Includes correspondence and interview on "Dream, Trance, and Form" published in Hambone.
Box 49, Folder 16
Nodland, Jayne
1969 October-November
General note
Letters for Ted Berrigan.
Box 49, Folder 17
Padgett, Ron
1965 April 11-2005 December
General note
Includes three missives/gifts for Ted Berrigan.
Box 49, Folder 18
Peková, Olga
2013 March 21-May 9
Box 49, Folder 19
Power, Allison
2014 February-April
Box 49, Folder 20
Scalapino, Leslie
2003 March 14-2008 November 21
Box 49, Folder 21
Slovak, Paul (Editor, Penguin Group)
2010-2011
General note
Includes correspondence regarding the publication of
Culture of One.
Box 49, Folder 22
Talvaz, Anne
2013-2014
General note
Includes correspondence regarding the translation of
Negativity's Kiss.
Box 49, Folder 23
Waldman, Anne
2004 May 21-2008 March 19
Box 49, Folder 24
Whalen, Philip - Valentine for Alice Notley
1979 February 21
Box 49, Folder 25
Miscellaneous A-Y
1993-2013
NOTEBOOKS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 16) NOTEBOOKS: Small and large notebooks, dating from roughly 2000 through 2012, containing ideas and drafts for essays
and poems. Arranged chronologically.
Box 50, Folder 1-7
Notebooks
2000 May-2006 December
Box 51, Folder 1-7
2006 December-2011 August
Box 52, Folder 1-2
2010 December-2012 November
Box 52, Folder 3
Address book belonging to Ted Berrigan
undated
Box 52, Folder 4
Address books belonging to Alice Notley
ca. 1985
WRITINGS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 17) WRITINGS: Drafts and typescripts of Notley's published books of poetry. Included are materials for
Benediction,
Certain Magical Acts,
Culture of One,
Negativity's Kiss,
Iphigenia,
Reason and Other Women and a broadside from "The Speak Angel Series." Arranged chronologically.
Box 52, Folder 5
American Memories, Melbourne (Not Quite After Hope Mirrlees)
undated
General note
Author unknown. Includes quote from
Above the Leaders by Alice Notley.
Box 52, Folder 6-9
Benediction - Drafts
General note
Contains material cut from published version.
Box 52, Folder 10
Certain Magical Acts - Drafts
General note
Includes drafts of "Private Life: the Names."
Box 53, Folder 1-3
Certain Magical Acts - Drafts
General note
Includes a prose diary cut from final draft.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 5
Culture of One - Mock-up
2010 June 30
Box 53, Folder 4
Negativity's Kiss - Draft with notes
Box 53, Folder 6-7
Reason and Other Women - Early draft
General note
Contains material cut from published version.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 9
The Speak Angel Series
General note
Signed broadside by Alice Notley.
Box 53, Folder 8
Miscellaneous manuscript materials
undated
ARTWORK
Scope and Content of Series
Series 18) ARTWORK. Arranged in two subseries: A) Fans and Collages, and B) Other Artwork.
A) Fans and Collages: Arranged alphabetically by descriptive title. Includes wooden and paper fans, and cardboard decorated
with paint, drawings, clippings and other embellishments. Many of the works include everyday objects such as beads, shells,
fabric, stamps, and clippings.
B) Other Artwork: Arranged alphabetically by artist. This series contains both artwork by Notley and other artists such as
Bill Berkson, Guy Bernard, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Donna Dennis, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, Adam Saroyan, George Schneeman
and Anne Waldman, and includes some collaborations between Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett, Ron Padgett and George Schneeman,
and George Schneeman and Anne Waldman. Materials include drawings, watercolors, and work from Notley's sketchbooks.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 1
Fan collage - "Whatever breaks owns the universe whatever has nothing now"
General note
Black stars, paint, various clippings on wooden oriental fan.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 2
Fan collage on paper - Birds, red feather, "Marque Deposée," Needles Boat Racing Club
Oversize FB-554, Folder 3
Fan collage on paper - "Purchase of You"
General note
Drawn faces, Indian fabric, jewel embellishments.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 4
Collage works on cardboard - "Fuck gold come in my heart"/"Implements door in a house basement"
General note
Gold foil, leaves, clippings, various embellishments.
Oversize FB-555, Folder 1
Fan collage - Heart of Darkness
General note
Paper collage with shell, beads and embellishments on wooden oriental fan.
Oversize FB-555, Folder 2
Fan collage - Solanum rostratum
General note
Clippings of flower images and embellishments on wooden oriental fan.
Box 54, Folder 1
Berard, Guy - Cover art for "Homer's Art"
Box 54, Folder 2
Berrigan, Ted - "Three places"
Box 54, Folder 3
Berrigan, Ted and Ron Padgett - Collaborative drawings
Oversize FB-554, Folder 5
Brainard, Joe
General note
"Hi!" Original "C" comic; and list.
Box 54, Folder 4
Dennis, Donna
General note
Includes cover art for Berrigan's "So Going Around Cities."
Box 54, Folder 5
Hollo, Anselm
2000 March
General note
Includes broadside from "Guests of Space," and printed photos of Anselm Hollo and Alice Notley.
Box 54, Folder 6
Notley, Alice -
Culture of One - Watercolors and collage
Oversize FB-554, Folder 6-8
Notley, Alice -
Culture of One - Watercolors and collage
Box 54, Folder 7
Notley, Alice
General note
Drawings used in the publication of "The End of the Far West" by Frank O'Hara.
Box 54, Folder 8
Padgett, Ron and George Schneeman - "A glass of orange juice"
2001 February 27
Box 54, Folder 9
Saroyan, Adam, Ted Berrigan, and Bill Berkson
General note
Various artwork. Includes "The Night Tie" and an untitled piece by Adam Saroyan, three works by Ted Berrigan, and a drawing
of William de Kooning by Bill Berkson.
Box 54, Folder 10
Schneeman, George
General note
Includes cover art for Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley.
Oversize FB-554, Folder 10
Waldman, Anne and George Schneeman
General note
Various drawings and printed materials.
Box 54, Folder 12
Berrigan, Ted and Alice Notley Poetry Readers
1971 July and undated
General note
Includes broadside, postcards, and flyer.
Box 54, Folder 13
Blurbs/reviews of fellow poets
undated
General note
Includes drafts of blurbs for Lyn Hejinian, Nicholas Johnson, Beth Murray, Anna Joy Springer, Ed Dorn, David Schneider, Anne
Waldman, Elizabeth Willis, Bill Kushner, Edwin Torres, and Celia Dropkin.
Box 54, Folder 14
Essay on Post-Olsonian Epic by Charles Olson
General note
Speech given at Prague Poetry Festival and published in VLAK.
Box 54, Folder 16
Flyer for Unterberg Poetry Center, reading series
2011 April-May
Box 54, Folder 17
It's Me and the Paint and What I'm Looking at I Don't Think About it That Way - Drafts
undated
Box 54, Folder 18
On the Poetry Talent - Drafts of talk given at Poets House
undated
Box 54, Folder 19
Photographs of Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan
ca. 1975