CORRESPONDENCE
Incoming Correspondence
Almeida, Wendy 1988-1993
Bowker, R.R. (Books in Print) 1994-1998
Brookner, Edward 1988-2003
The Cerulean Press (Blair H. Allen, editor) 1984-1989
Crago, Gina 1982-1993
Crane, Richard 1984-2003
David, Marguerite H. 1982-1991
Davis, Crystal E. 1984-1995
Davis, Suzi 1991
Deluca, Carlo J. 1989-1990
Dowling, Elizabeth 1988-1990
Eritano, Candice (Candy) 1997-2000
Gill, Jerry 1989-2000
Gomez, Mark and Maria 1989-1994
Gregory, Erna C. 1999-2007
Griese, Todd 1983-1984
Harper, Kate Gale 1992-1995
Heaney, Janet 1983
Heaney, Jocelyn 1988-1992
Heaney, Sean Andrew 1982-1984
Kempton-Smith, Debbi 2002-2003
King, Jon 1989
Kitaj, R.B. 2000-2007
Kludjian, Veronica Marie 1983-1986
Lally, Michael 1992-2004
Laskey, John 1991-1995
Leisure, Matt 1983-2002
Lichtle, Melissa 1991-1992
The Los Angeles Review (Mark E. Cull, Publisher) 1988-1989
Mara 1992
McInerney, Kevin 1983-2004
McInnis, Michael (Primal Publishing) 1989-1992
Milne, Kathleen 1983-1995
O'Sullivan, Francis (Frank) and Ann 1982-1992
Pettet, Simon 2004
Poole, Eileen 1998
Posey, Robert Stephen 1982-2006
Punch/Press (Robin Eckhardt, editor) 1988-1989
Salerno, Justin 1995-1999
Salerno, Louis and Margaret Giannini (parents) 1977-1987
Salerno, Louis J. II (brother) 1975-1993
Salerno, Robert (brother) 1999 May 29
Schwarz, Robin 1992
Smallenburg, Harry 1990-1991
Straus, Austin 1983-1985
Tierney, Anne 1985-1992
Tierney, Elizabeth (Lisa) 1982-2004
Weekley, Richard (Editor of Vol. No) 1984
Williams, Ted and Veronica Kludjian 1982-1992
Zavesky, John 1991-2001
Zollo, Leslie Diller 1985-1998
Miscellaneous
Outgoing Correspondence
1981 June-1986 August
1998 March-2000 December
2002 October-2003 November
2003 July-2004 September
2004 October-2005 August
2005 September-2007 August
WRITINGS
Poetry
14 Lines + 1 for Marguerite 1984 December 18
14 Lines + 1 (for Marguerite): A Sequel 1990 June 6
1915 to 1945 1984 February 25-26
Account Summary 1986 December 30
The Actor -- for Bob Gill 1991 February 22
Advice Haiku 1987 January 14
Afternoon Song 1990 March 11
All Days 1991 March 18
Always Open 1987 January 14
American-Standard 1991 April 4
An Alba 1987 February 18
Another Quandary 1990 September 12
Anybody's Guess 1990 April 16
Anyone Somehow Burning 1987 March 2
The Arbitrary is Merely Terrifying 1990 May 4
Arthur Rimband Has A Vision 1986 October 29
As If 1990 October 17
Assessment 1990 October 31
Assignment in Two Parts 1991 March 1
Atlantic City undated
Autobiography at 26, and The Persistence of Memory (III)
Because There Was One One Time 1991 February 19
Best Regards 1990 May 14
Best Wishes undated
Boston Moon Ode undated
Boulder undated
Boy Meets Girl 1991 April 19
Bronx Cheer 1990 April 2
The Bureau of Control 1990 October 7
Calendar 1987 January 7, 8
Calligrammes for Valentine's Day 1987 February 12
Calling All Cars 1984 December 18
Canada Dry 1985
Cavano undated
Check 1990 October 19
Core Curricula 1990 April 9
Credo 1983 July 7, Septeber 27
Cubby Selby 1991 March 26
Cynical 1985 January 23-24
The Darkest Month undated
Day After Thanksgiving 1990 November 22
Dear Richard 1987 February 14
Discouraging News 1990 November 24-28
Domestic Life (Some Perils Therein) 1985 January 16
Done For 1987 March 31
Don't Make Me Laugh 1989 June 21
Door to the River 1989 June 26
Double Sonnet -- for, but not to, Sean Heaney undated
E.A.T. and R.S.P. Suite: Three Sonnets 1987 February 11
Elegy 1989 February 17
End of the Century 1990 April 13
Entertainment Tonight 1991
Epithalamium, Or The Prophet -- to Paul and Leslie Zollo 1988 December 16
Even the Light 1990 October 17
Everything -- for Melissa 1991 April 15
Final Cut 1990 November 10
For Revery 2000
Forget About It 1990 October-November
Forgetting Rita 1981
Frank O'Hara and Joel Oppenheimer are Dead 1989 June 23
From a French Text 1987 January 27
Funny Business 1990 February 20
General Advice (Ten Things) 1990 November 7
Get Lucky 1990 November 17
Glad You Asked 1989 June 22
Gone Camping with Ted Williams undated
Good-Bye and Hello 1989 June 23
Good-Bye Porkpie Hat 1991 March 28
The Good-Bye Sonnet 1987 March 6
The Gratitude 1985 January 8
Greenwich Mean Time 1990 February 15
Grief #1 2002 May 16-2005 January 11
Haiku undated
Haiku: Winter 1986 December 9
Hands 1990 May 3
Hands Up 1989 July 7
Happy Motoring undated
Hard to Please 1990 April 17
Hate: A Book of Poems 1994, 1995
Hate: A Book of Poems display board 1994
He Never Thought 1990 November 10
Head Arrangement 1990 February 16
Heads or Tales 1990 March 28
Heart Haiku 1987 February 24
A Heart-Shaped Box 1987 February 2
Hearts and Flowers 1990 May 7
Hello to Her Hello 1990 May 21
Hermeneutics 1990 November 17
His Premise Is 1987 January 22
A History of Love 1991 February 27
Hollywood & Cahuenga, 1983 1991 February 18
If It Were True 1984 November 28-29
In Any Case 1990 March 29
In Dutch 1990 November 5
In Memoriam a Suicide -- #2 undated
In Memoriam: Locvizza, 30 September 1910 1984 July 12
In My Solitude 1990 October 29
In the History of Bop undated
Instead of Saying 1987 April 3
Intentional Fallacy undated
It Must Have Been Lousy 1991 April 16
It Takes Around 10 Years 1990 April 19
It Was A Mistake, Honest 1982 August
It's All 1990 October 31
A Japanese Hat 1990 June 18
Juilianne 1983 May 17, 24
June Street 1990
Last Sonnet 1990 May 18
Late Morning Sky 1991 April 18
Latin Imitation 1991 January 30
Le Beau Monde et Le Poete 1983 July 28
Letter to Heaney 1983 May 27
A Letter to My Love 1984 November 1
Lexicon undated
A Life 1987 June 15
Life Not Death 1987 February 16
Lights Out 2006 December
Love Made Me So 1983 October 5
Love or Something 1991 March 20
Love Poem -- for Joel Oppenheimer 1990 May 15
Love Troubles 1990 September 12
Lucy in the Sky 1990 May 23
Manifesto: Ten Things undated
Matters 2002
Maybe It's Christmas in New York 1983 December, 1987 January 9
Mayday 1990 May 30
Melissa; Melissa (What You Need to Know About Her) 1991 March-April
The Memory of Location 1986 November 18
Memory Piece #5 and # 6 undated
Message To You, Night Song, and Duplicate Is A Word 1989
A Modernist Aesthetics Manifesto 1983 September 28
Morning
Morning Song 1987 March 13
The Motto of Denny's is Not "We Never Close" -- for R.S.P. 1990 October 25
The Murial of the Lead
New and Selected 1987 January 30
New Life (11 lines) 1991 March 15
Night Scene 1984 November 10
Not These Days 1985
Notation 1990 June 8
Novice Birder Speaking 1990 May 1, 1991 March 4
Now as These Days Go By 1990 October 19
Now's the Time 1989
October 1990 October 16
Old Style Poem 1987 January 16
On a Theme from Thomas Wyatt 1991 March 1
One for Creely 1990 October 19
Our Ontology
Past Suite: Four Sonnets 1987 March 3
Pat Walsh, Cavano, and Haiku
People Just Aren't, for Bukowski 1994 March 10
Perils of Metaphor 1991 April 11
The Persistence of Memory
Philosophical Dualism Does Not Win the West -- for Posey Ferguson, maybe 1991 February 28
Philosophy: A Fragment 1990 May 16
The Photograph 1991 February 15
Pick a Card 1985 January 22
Pick a Color 1987 February 17
Piece of Cake 1987 February 24
Pleasant Dreams
Poem 1990 May 9
Poetry 1991 April 18
Postcard Home -- for Bob Gill 1987 January 13
Prayer: Moonlight on Glimmerglass
Promise to Heaney 1982 August
Pursuit of Happiness 1990 November 23
Quatrains 1990 October 25-29
Rationale -- for Melissa 1991 May 6
The Real Valentine's Day Poem 1987 February 3
Red Wagon
Registration 1990 October 22
Relaxin' at Camarillo
The Return of Art Pepper 1990 February 12-15
Ringing the Changes 1990 April 11
Roman Catholic Italo-American Zen Buddhist Blues 1983 November 15
Rondeau 1991 February 20-21
Ruthless 1992-1995
Ruthless
The Same, But Different 1990 October 8
Same Old 1990 October 31
Say it Isn't So 1990 May 9-10
She Is 1987 February 4
She Wants to Hear "The Man I Love" 1990 April 23
Short Orders 1990 October 31
The Silence of Animals 1985 (Valetine's Day) February 14
Six Two and Even 1989 June 29
Sixteen Love Sonnets 1987
Sketch 1983 July 18
A Sketch in Winter 1990 March 27
Snap-On 1987 February 25
So Then 1991 April 25
Some Valentine 1991 February 14
Sonnet 1984 July 28
Sonnet: Atlantic City 1983 August 24, 27
Sonnet and Coda
Sonnet for Ed 1989 February 28
Sonnet for the Do-It-Yourself-ers
Sonnet from Memory 1984 January 25
Sonnet: Paris List
Sonnet: To Lisa 1983 July 25, August 27
Souvenir 1989 May 11
Stiff Upper Lip 1990 April 12
Still Checking Will You Hold 1991 March 16
Street of Dreams 1990 February 27
Strictly According to Hogle 1987 February 27
Sunday 1990 November 18
Sure Thing 1990 September 14
Susan
Take Five 1987 March 5
Taking It From the Top 1984 December 13-14, 17
Talking to You When You're Not Even Here 1991 April 24
Ten in Nine 1990 May 17
Testing One Two Three 1987 January 2
Testing the Gauges 1990 October 19
They Come Back 1987 February 23
They Think… 1983 November/December
Things I Do Every Day in Fountain Valley 1982
Thinking it Over at the Newstand undated
Thinking of Ted 1989 July 17
Three Etudes for W.C.W. 1990 February 26
Ticker Tape on Pier 52 1989 June 28
Time is on My Side (Yes it Is) 1987 February 13
Time. Love. Money. 1991
The Time of the Fire 1990 May 21
Time's Up 1990 October 19
To Bill Mohr 1987 January 5-6, 7
To Leslie Diller 1984 November 12
Tom's #5 1991 February 18
The Treachery of Images
Troubadour 1987
Try to See it My Way 1990 February 23
Two Sketches for Sean Heaney 1986 October 24
Under It All 1984 November 14
Une Femme 1983 November 15
Untitled XXX 1989 July 11
Untitled XXXI (Abstract Sonnet) 1990 April 27-30
The Usual 1984 November 9
Vanitas 1981 August 7
Vinegar, Red Pepper and Salt 1991 February 27
Was I Not There undated
Weeks 1991 April 23
Were the World 1985 January 9
What Are You Doing Now 1987 January 22
What Are Those Lights on the Moon -- after Joel Oppenheimer 1987 January 20
What I Remember 1982 August 29, September 20
What People Said 1982 August
What We Think People Will Think of Us 1990 February 22
What You Do 1990 November 2
What's Your Story - Broadside undated
When I'm Gone 1987 January 21
Which is Equal To 1986 December 29
Who Are You Kidding 1991 April 22
Who Can Tell 1991 April 18
Who Feels Unless He Clutches 1987 January 12
Why Aren't We Laughing 1986 October 30, 1985 Febuary
Wishing 1987 January 29
With Kathy in Tuscany, 1977 1982 November
Yonkers in January 1989 June 27
You Are Entitled to Receive a Complimentary Gift (for Tony Campisi) 1991 April 5-8
You Are My Heart's Bouquet
You Know 1990 October 8
You Were Thinking of Bronx Roofs 1986 December 31
Young Girls in the Sixties 1991 April 17
Miscellaneous poems 2000, undated
Manuscript draft of poems sent to Ted Berrigan, includes Berrigan's comments 1982 July 25
Radio Plays
Albert Schweitzer 1983 December 29
Alfred Nobel 1983 December 27
A Biography of John Wayne ca. 1983-1984
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ca. 1983-1984
The Consumer Price Index ca. 1983-1984
The Emperor's New Clothes ca. 1983-1984
A Grimm Sampler ca. 1983-1984
Here's A, B and C ca. 1983-1984
How Running Can Change Your Life 1983 December 29
Hypnosis ca. 1983-1984
Judas--Betrayer of Christ ca. 1983-1984
Macrobiotics: The Oriental Way to Good Health 1983 December 13
Polo: The Aristocrat of International Sport 1983 December 28
The Psalms 1983 December 20
The Real Princess ca. 1983-1984
Remodeling [House] 1983 December 14
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 ca. 1983-1984
Stonewall Jackson's Victories in Virginia ca. 1983-1984
Trolling the Fresh Water Lakes For Bears ca. 1983-1984
Visiting San Francisco ca. 1983-1984
What You Should Know About House Painting ca. 1983-1984
When Television Was Live ca. 1983-1984
Winning at Baccarat ca. 1983-1984
Essays, Reviews and Interviews, Etc.
Acceptance letters 1987-1989
Dream notes 1982-1984
Desk notes, Van Nuys 1984
Napolitano, Johnette (Concrete Blonde) - Interview recordings on audiocassette 1995
Nature, Culture, and the West, A Journal - Essay draft 2002 September-December
Notes for "June Street" ca. 1992
Notes from The New American Poetry and Painting undated
Notes 1998
Notes and synopses for movie script
Notes for movie script
Notes, various
Notes for poetry
Papers/essays for Beginning Fiction, The New School 1980
Rejection letters 1986-1989
Speech, Dennis Catrell's retirement party 1999 May 21
Statement for Paul Vangelisti's "History" issue of Ribot 1997
Untitled Story undated
Titles and publication data of Mark Salerno's poetry 1992 August 2
Translation by Salerno of "The Buried Port" by Giuseppe Ungarretti 2001
Recorded interviews with Mark Salerno - KPFK Poetry Show and Sound Exchange, and KSCA-FM 101.9 (four audiocassettes) 1995, 2001
Words for Music: A Novel - Draft pages of synopses
Works by Others
Laskey, John - Excerpt from The Monster
Zollo, Paul - Radio play drafts with corrections
POETRY EVENTS
Beyond Baroque poetry reading 2000 May 6
The First Annual Conference of the College of Neglected Science (CONS) 1997 May 2-3
Flyers for book signing at Cody's Books in Berkeley - Mark Salerno and John Laskey 1996 April 10
Flyer for Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Carl Rakosi and Mark Salerno 1998 January 23
Poetry small press flyers and advertisements
National Academy of Songwriters, Salute to the American Songwriter 1991 December 12
Photographs - Mark Salerno Poetry events 1982-2002
Poetry project posters
Flyers for poetry events, readings, and book signings 1983-1996
Poetry readings at Boston Playwrights Theatre and Barnes and Nobel Bookstore 1994, 1995
Poetry reading at Butler/Gabriel Books 1992 September 11
Reading at The Poetry Project - Flyers by Joe Brainard
Robert Creeley Memorial in Hollywood 2005
Writers on Site Program, Poets & Writers Inc. 1997
The Writer's Voice poetry workshop and reading by Mark Salerno 1996 February
MISCELLANEOUS
Academic/fiscal planner 1982-1984
Writer of the Year Award, Boston University 1988
Columbia University Dept. of English and Comparative Literature award letter for Master of Arts 1979 August 1
Course proposals ca. 1991
Cuban art and literary small presses - Flyers and ephemera 1993-1997
Curriculum vitae ca. 1991
OTIS College of Art and Design - Graduate writing program course description and correspondence 2001
Reviews, The New Review of Literature
Watercolor portraits of Mark Salerno by Don Bachardy 1998