Series 1 Biographical
Astrology chart for Suzanne Gary 1972, 1977
Biography / Autobiography 1991, undated
Birth certificate for Suzanne Gary 1940 (issued 1973)
Genealogy
"Great Aunt Frieda" 2000, [also contains "Mirrors and Masks Script;" "My Dog Speaks Her Mind on the Subject;" "Sisters Script, July 2001;" "My Mother at Her Vanity," November 1999] 1999-2001
Photographs: family, ancestors
Photographs: Grosse Point, Michigan, young Suzanne, family
Photographs: Grosse Point High School, Michigan [photographs, class reunion directories. Suzanne graduated in 1958] 1958, 1983, 2007-2008
Photographs: Suzanne with beloved animals
Donald Hall [about Suzanne's teacher and mentor at University of Michigan] 2006
Tuffy, beloved Volks Wagon bug [license plate and photographs]. See also Poetry: My Life with Bugs
College Years, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor [clipping, postcards] 1976
Marriage certificate and license [Suzanne Cumberworth and Dennis Todd Gary]; Suzanne Gary passport 1960
Divorce petitions and certificate 1971, 1973
Photographs: adult Suzanne Gary 1997, undated
Photographs: Friends and lovers 1977-1997, undated
Suzanne Gary business cards
Teaching. Includes photographs, Standard Teaching Credential, clipping, Alameda Unified School District observation of her teaching 1982-1985
1915 Rules for Women Teachers
Rainbow Flag, Gay Pride, Transgender Pride Flag, Bisexual Flag [New Leaf Outreach to Elders, Women Writers exercise] 2007
Scott's [a piece by Suzanne about her home bar, for which she played second base on the lesbian softball team]
Insomniacs [Academy, Club] 1981, 2006
"Draft: Notes Toward Lesbian Political Theory" by Amanda Buchwald, Carol Heenan, Sue Gary, Gretchen Milne
Our Bodies, Our Selves: A Course by and for Women (Boston: Boston Women's Health Course Collective) 1971
Two cards ("Café Du Mongrel" and "I used to live each day as if it were my last…") and a photo of a woman [possibly Noelle?]
Flyers, Feminist material 1991-2018
Mothertongue flyer for "Escape" 1999
Bay Area OLOC [Old Lesbians Organizing for Change] Newsletter. Contains the article "Aging on Wheels" by Suzanne Gary August 2019
Other events
Bernal Heights postcards (Bocana Street, off Holly Park, San Francisco) 1996-1998
Cards from Sherry Spom (girlfriend)
Cards from family, undated; email to Laurie 2019
Cards from friends 1981-1983, 1995-2016
Letters to friends [Marsha Canfield] 2000, 2014, 2016
"A Neurologist's Notebook: The Mind's Eye, What the blind see" by Oliver Sacks ( The New Yorker ). [Suzanne's partner, Laura Bock, is blind] July 28, 2003
Life with Laura Bock [photograph album, photos and color photocopies, condolence notes on pet dog Bailey's death, clipping on Laura Bock's book Red Diaper Daughter ] 2000-2019
Cards to Laura Bock [The bulk of these cards are in the Laura Bock Papers, GLBT Historical Society] 2009-2018
Cards from Laura Bock 2001-2018
Bucket list 2005
The Redwoods, "Welcome" [introductory bio for move to The Redwoods] Fall 2013
Power of attorney, healthcare 2018
"Personal miscellaneous" songs, jokes
Memorial. See also: Oversized Folder #1 Memorial poster June 2019
Suzanne Gary obituary 2006, 2019
Condolences 2019
Memorial Bench 2020
Journal 1963
Journal 1971
1972 Journal volume 1 1972
1972 Journal volume 2 1972
Journal 1972
Journal 1973
Journals 1974
Journals 1974-1975
Journals 1975
Journal 1975-1976
Journal 1976
Journal 1977
Journal 1977-1978
Journal 1978
Journal volume 1 1980
Journals 1980-1981
Journal volume 2 1981
Journal 1982-
Journal October 1982
Journals 1983
Journal August 1983
Journal, poem 1984
Journal 1984
Journal 1985
Journal 1988
Journal 1989
Journal 1991
Journal June 1992
"The Judy Journals" (therapist) 1994
Journal 1994
Journal March 7, 1995
Journal (therapist) March 7, 1995
Journal 1995-1996
Journal 1995-2006
Journal 1997
Journals on therapist October 1997
Journals 1998
Journal [drafts of "My Mother At Her Vanity" and "Masks" for Mothertongue script called "Mirrors and Masks"] 1999
Journal 2000
Journal 2003
Journal February 7, 2003
Journal February 8, 2006
Journal 2008-2009
Journals 2009-2012
Journal 2010
Journal 2013
Journal undated
Walking Journal March 14
Journals unknown year
Dreams, Journals, etc.
Series 3 A Writing Practice
Workshops, Groups, Classes
Writing workshops 1979-1984
Writing workshop II "Characters in conflict" 1993
Fiction workshop 1995
Workshop exercise "Jenny's Way" 1995
Workshops/Classes -- Nona Caspers 1996
"Writing Group with Victoria Joyce" 2001
Writing workshops, Mothertongue 1996-2002
New Leaf Women's Group 2004
Women's writing workshops -- New Leaf 2004-2006
New Leaf writers -- Nona [Caspers] 2004-2005
Diane di Prima's class 2004-2005
Writing card exercise 2005
New Leaf women's writers group [Facilitated by Ida V.S.W. Red] 2005
Articles on writing 2006
Lesbian writers group-New Leaf 2006
New Leaf Outreach to Elders Women Writers group 2007
How to make a chapbook 2008
Lesbian memoir writing group 2009-2010
"Story Form and Structure" unknown year
Classes-workshops
Dream journals November [unknown year]
Miscellaneous workshop assignments
Writing Prompts
Poetry Prompts, with one example
Poetry notebook-other poets
"Responsibility" (Grace Paley)
"Poems in Progress"
Readings
Mothertongue reading "Sisterspeak" 2002
Poetry readings [unknown places, dates]
New Leaf reading flyer "An April's 'Wise Fool' Reading" circa 2008
New Leaf readings flyers "The Names" 2003, 2008
The Redwoods, readings at [includes a photograph] 2015
"Two" [ongoing writing class with Tom at the Redwoods] circa 2008
Redwoods, poetry reading flyers 2017
Submissions
Submissions -- poetry [Sinister Wisdom] 1982, 2000-2001
Getting published
Submissions, accepted and not accepted, published and not published 2000, 2004
Poems for submission to Plumbers Ink Books
Publications
A Stack of Rooms: poems by Suzanne Gary (San Francisco: Cucumber Press). Suzanne's 1st chapbook March 1974, March 1980
Wrinkles and Lines: An offering of poems, rants, raps and love songs from the Women Writers of New Leaf Outreach to Elders to the variety of LGBTQQ women at the Dyke March (copyright Homegrown Chapbook) 2009
Older Writers Laboratory: 2009 poetry anthology . Signed by Ida V.S.W. Red 2009
Blood in the Water: poems by Suzanne Gary (Twin Peaks Press, San Francisco) [chapbook] 2009
Book in Progress
Stack of Rooms: a collection of poems by Suzanne Gary . Worksheets for book 1
Stack of Rooms: a collection of poems by Suzanne Gary . Worksheets for book 2
Mock up for a book
Planning Suzanne's book
Book project with Laura's help [2 CD-ROMs with poems] 2017
Blood in the Water . Worksheets 2009
Awards
Hopwood Prize: "A Stack of Rooms" ["Barbara Smith" on the label, poems written by Suzanne Cumberworth Gary] 1961
Hopwood Prize: "At The Edge" ["Joan Stone" on the label, poems written by Suzanne Cumberworth Gary] 1967
Short Stories
"From Scratch" short story exercise
"Like Father"
Writing short stories, Examples [not written by Gary]
Stories, workshops 1985
"Killer" short story assignment 1993
"Buddy's Story" 1999
"Our Personal Worst"
"The Best Job Yet"
"For the Time Being"
"The Shoes"
Poems (chronological)
Poems, Tacoma, Washington; Boston, Massachusetts 1962-1963
Poems 1966-1967
Poems while married in San Francisco 1970-1971
Poems after marriage [ended] 1971-
Poetry, journaling in process 1975?
Poems 1984 and before
Poems 1980-1984
Poetry journal (Living at the Redwoods) 2014-
Poetry journal (Living at the Redwoods) 2016-
Drafts, 3 poems May 20, 2014
Poetry notebook (Living at the Redwoods) 2013-2019
Poems (alphabetical)
Abortion
Adjective-Noun Exercise First Love
Afraid...
After a car accident [disability script] 2002
After a friend's death [previous version: "Betty"] [2011]
After Amber Rose 1967
After the fire
After we are old
Afterwards...we take off these suits of glitter...
Afterwards...For awhile I died of her... 2005
Aging
Aging on wheels
Alone
Angus
Angus, our stray dog (for Laura)
Ann Arbor Again 1967
Anniversary of Her Son's Death [Noelle's son] 2005
Anthony
Apart in Mid-July
The Art of Napping
As Though She Were A Bird
Authorless
Autumn (1940-2008) [previous title: Death of a Childhood Friend (for Autumn)]
Awakening
Bailey
Baseball Then and Now
"Before we built a wave..." [previous title: Early Seventies, Sisterhood Not Yet Powerful]
Betty (1937-2011)
Beverly
Burdens
By the Lake
Cantcles, an Appreciation: For Lynn
Caramel, a Golden Retriever. [Compare with Notes on a Dog]
Carole's Journey [for Suzanne's sister] [Compare with: For Carole; and with: My Sister Now]
Casualties of Time
Chairs
Child
The Children
The Cliff (card exercise) 2005
The Climber
Clock "As good as any emblem of my marriage..."
The Clock "It was a wedding present..." [previous titles: Clocks; and, My Kitchen Clock]
The Corner [previous title: Saying Goodbye]
The Cup
Dachshund
Daffodil by a Window [Previous title: Morning]
Dailies
Departure [for D. Garner]
Design
Divorce
Doctrine of Survival
Dog on the Rug
Dog with Me
Dog Years
Doors
Doris [Doris DeWit, Suzanne's high school English teacher]
Dream (for Laura)
The Dream, The Actual Visit
The Dress
Early Seventies, Sisterhood Not Yet Powerful
Euthanasia (for Amber Rose 1995-2012)
Family Dreaming (prose poem)
Family Reunion
Father [compare with: My Father]
A Feeling Arrives
Feral 2006
Flooding 1995
For Amber Rose
For Awhile 2006
For Carole (For Mothertongue 'SisterSpeak' script) [Compare with: Carole's Journey; and with: My Sister Now] September 2001
For Sandy July 19, 2013
For the Time Being [Nancy's copy] 1994
Fishflies
Five Musts
A Friend's Abortion
A Friendship
Glitter [Attraction, Ending]
Great Blue Herons [previous title: Great Blue Herons at Stow Lake (for Laura). [compare with: Herons; and with: The Herons at Stow Lake...]
Grosse Pointe
Growing Old, Together
Guitar [compare with: My Guitar and Other Things] 2012
"Had passed a lifetime..."
Harvest 2005
"Haunted by blue shores..." [Adjective-Noun Exercise]
"Haunted by you once..."
He Kept Throwing Words 2005
The Helper
Her Hair
Her Tail
Here, There
Here's
Herons [compare with: Great Blue Herons; and with: The Herons at Stow Lake...]
The Herons at Stow Lake with My Legally Blind Partner [compare with: Great Blue Herons; and with: Herons]
His Olding (Bailey) [previous title: The Woods with Bailey]
Holly Park, Trees at Risk
Home From Santa Fe 2018
The Horse
The House in Ann Arbor
"How can I explain to the younger ones..." 2000
"I can still see..."
"I have taught myself joy..."
I Learned to Take Them (for Donald Hall)
"I see the signs..."
"I wonder what it felt like..."
"If Bush Wins..."
"Images associated with my disability..."
Images of Falling in Love with a Woman for the First Time (While Married)
Impressions on a Perfect Day 1995
In Germany
In Our Twentieth Season
"In the dry autumn grass..."
Incident of hope or love, unexpected 1995
"Injured from a car accident..." [Disability script] 2002
Islands
Japanese Plum Trees [alternate title: The Plum Blossoms] 2008
Kinds of Anger [Adjective-Noun Exercise]
The Lake
Last Chances
Last Pictures 1993
Last Visit to the Animal Hospital [previous title: Last Visit to the SPCA] 2005
Late Harvest
Late Middle Age
Laura
The Letter
Lightmares
The Likeness [Doris DeWit] 2000
Loneliness
Looking at Family Photographs
Love Story (Best Case Scenario) 2005, 2010
The Love Song of J. Alyce Bluefrock
Marna
Marriage
Marsha, After 30 Years
Masks and Gifts [Includes Mirrors and Masks Script, July 2001] 1999, 2001
The Meaning of Family, a Dissertation 2013
Messages 2006-2007
Message from Inland
Michigan Winters: School Days
Molly and Me
Mornings
A Mountain in Grenoble
Movement
Music
My Disappointment with Marriage
My Dog Says Hello
My Dog Speaks Her Mind on the Subject of Aging
My Father [compare with: "Father"]
My Father's Grave
My Glasses and Other First Grade Matters
My Great Aunt Frieda
My Guitar and Other Things [compare with: Guitar]
My Life with Bugs [Volks Wagon bugs]
My Love
My Mother (Oceans of Silence) 2005
My Mother at her Vanity [Masks and Mirrors script] 1999
My Mother's Rage
My Shih Tzu [previous title: Her Voice]
My Sister Now (flash memoir) [compare with: Carole's Journey; and with: For Carole]
The Names
Near Detroit
Near the Farm: Spring, Summer, and Fall (poems for R.F.)
New Perspective
New Year's Eve 2001-2002
Not Everyone Has A Green Thumb
Notes on a Dog [compare with Caramel, A Golden Retriever]
Nothing Would Surprise Me
November 1, San Francisco (for Charlotte)
Numbers 1, 2, 3
October
On Getting Old
On the Loss of a Friend's Child
One Memorable Evening
Original Music
Our eyes grab...
Paper of Plastic 2005-2006
Paradise Lost 2014
Paradise Regained
Paranoid
Parental Replacement (musings on my mother)
Perspective
The Photo of Abu Ghraib
Pieta
The Plum Blossoms
Possessed
Postcard from the Interior
The Precipice [previous titles: "On Your Way Back from the Edge" and "For Betty in the I.C.U."]
Predicament
"The present encloses me..."
The Puppy 2005
"The Question"
Radio Nights
The Redwoods: Some Morning Impressions
Respect 1994
Response to Whitman's "I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals..." [Also titled: Response to a line from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman]
A Return [possible title: On A Return. "Junior and Senior years, U. of M." in pencil]
Returning to Holly Park. [Also titled: Returning with my Dog to Holly Park]
Richer, Louder, But That Has Limits Too
Saying Goodbye
Scenes of Sisterhood: The Playhouse, 2001 [Also titled: Scenes with my Sister, for Mothertongue theme: Sisters]
Seasons
Secrets
Senior Housing (for Sherrill)
A Sestina
Setting
"She got old and limped..."
Sirens R Us
Small Dog Days
Small is Beautiful
"Some might see..."
Someday
Spring
Sumac
Teacher
Ten Ways I Was Different (As A Child)
Therapy
"There Is Always Another One Walking By"
"There was feminism, and there was softball..." 2002
Thinking of Mary Oliver's "You Don't Have to Be Good" (for Sherrill)
Thoughts on Leaves (for Charlotte, died Nov. 1, 1999)
The Three of Us
To a Funeral
To My Father
To the Blind Lover
Tools
The Trees of Holly Park
Trip of Your Life
Two Waters
Valentine's Day 2009
Veins
Visit (Mothertongue Sisters script)
Voices
"Wanting to stretch myself..."
Weather Glass
A Wedding (for D.)
The Week After Amber Rose Died 2005
Weeping Willow
What Am I Doing Here?
What Laura Does "Good"
"When Ann Arbor trees turned..."
Where I Lived With Him [previous title: Images of Falling In Love With a Woman for the First Time (While Married)]
Who I Love I Can't (for Sherrill)
Why
With Bailey
Yellow
"You talk about an old lover..."
Your Rosie (for Laura) [also includes: "Rosie and Me" by Laura J. Bock, 2000]
Youth
An Old Sweetheart of Mine by James Whitcomb Riley (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill) 1891
Wilson brand baseball/softball glove/mitt labeled "Sue Gary"
Tin box labeled "Nails" [Suzanne Gary's nickname]
Lapel pins/buttons: Politically Incorrect; The Insomniacs Club; Card Carrying Member of the ACLU; Dyke; God Created Woman in Her Own Image; Bent; Femmey Butch; Butchy Femme; Generic Person [with barcode]; baseball/softball glove/mitt; Support Gay Teachers and Gay school workers [image of an apple]; Support Your Sisters; Hello, My Name Is [barcode]; I Love Older Women; Pre-emptive War is state terrorism stopUSwars.org [with peace symbol]; [peace symbol]; [dove with olive branch and rainbow]; Leftfielder [with image of Snoopy in a ball cap and baseball mitt]; Blockade Livermore, June 20, 1983; Eat a Twinkie, Beat the Rap: Only if You're a White, Anglo, Heterosexual Male Ex-Cop; Stop Reagan's War Machine; ACLU Member for Choice; Pride '92; Teaching is not a female secondary sex characteristic; We Are Family, Gay Pride Day '79 [image of two interconnected women's symbols]; Born Again Lesbian; Highstrung But fine tuned; Assume Nothing; Feed The Cities Not the Pentagon: women's international league for peace and freedom; Love Is a Basic Human Right [Amnesty International logo]; Earth Native; Age is Becoming [image of a woman's symbol]; Same Struggle, Different Difference [4 images: "I have A Dream," woman's symbol, rainbow, wheelchair]; Defend Atlanta's Children Not El Salvador's Junta: March on the Pentagon, May 3, People's Anti-War Mobilization; [United Farm Workers Union black eagle logo]; Scott's Softball medallion and chain [bas relief of softball player holding a bat (on front), laurel leaf wreath and "Scott's 75" (on back, the "o" in Scott's is a woman's symbol)].
Suzanne Gary Memorial poster June 2019
"Lum Special Students Till Mother Earth" ( Alameda Times-Star ) [newspaper clipping. Gary was a teacher in Alameda's Lum Elementary School]