Finding Aid to the Ted Joans papers, 1941-2005
Finding Aid to the Ted Joans papers, 1941-2005
Collection number: BANC MSS 99/244 z
The Bancroft Library- Finding Aid Author(s):
- Monica Arriola and Katherine Yu; Revised by Lisa Monhoff, Dean Smith and Mario H. Ramirez
- Date Completed:
- 2012
- Finding Aid Encoded By:
- GenX
- Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library.
- Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1999.097 - ALB).
- Videotapes/sound recordings have been transferred to the Microforms Collection of The Bancroft Library.
Scope and Content of Collection
Series 1: Poetry, undated, 1948-2001
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Subseries 1.1: Individual Poems, undated, 1948-1994
The Living End, 1948 July
Believe You Me!, 1950
She Spit in My Soup, 1952 July 16
Corduroy Mustard, 1952
Doublebarreled, 1952
The First Great Black Music Voice of Trumpet Jazz, 1952
The Enigma of Francis Parrish of Paris France, 1953 April 16
August Ass, 1953 Aug.
The.38, 1953
Going Home, 1953-1960
Dream Factory, 1954 March 23
Uh Huh, 1954
Jazz is My Religion, 1954-1964
Birdeath, 1955 March
The Forest is Nude This Morning, 1957 August
The Copper on the Corner was Looking..., 1957 Dec. 5
To Africa I Went, 1957
Why Else?, 1957
The Truth, 1958 Jan. 1
Him the Bird, 1958 March
Damn Poor Worker or D.P.W., 1958
Deadnik, 1958
Mr. I.S. Black, 1958
Why Try?, 1958
Playmates Future Laymates, 1958-1959
Let's Play Something, 1958-1963
The Sermon, 1958-1965
There She Is, 1958-1967
For Christ Sakes Hurry, 1959 Aug. 8
So Now, 1959 Oct. 16
It's Here?, 1959 Oct.
Why Try?, 1959
Hallelujah I Love Jazz So..., 1959-1964
True Confession, 1959-1967
The Rain Came as I Sighed, 1960 Aug. 9
Africa, 1960
Its Curtains, 1960
Jazz Must Be a Woman, 1960
Duchamp's Decent Daughter, circa 1960
Sweet Potato Pie, 1961 Apr. 17
Impala Poem, 1961 July 2
Miles Delight, 1961 July
Le 1714, 1961 Oct.
The Surrealist Wish, 1961 Oct.
The Alabama Bebop Pussy Cat, 1961
America, 1961
Bishop Beat, 1961
Sister Salvation, 1961
O Great Black Masque!, 1962 June
They Forget to Fast, 1962 July
What I Wrote Upon Awakening Poem, 1962 Aug. 25
Le Jazz est ma Religion, 1962
The Lost Jockey, 1962
Pygmy Stay Away from My Door, 1962
My Trip, 1962-1967
The Son of a Son, 1963 Feb. 15
O Great Black Masque!, 1963 March
Afroamericanightmare, 1963 June 4
Zutphen, 1963 Aug.
And She Wore Klompem, 1963 Sept. 1
A Jazz Prose Bit for Gerrit Kouwenaar, 1963 Sept. 10
Mad Moments of the Marvelous, 1963 Sept. 14
Tell Dark and Dutch, 1963 Sept.
Artist at the Artis, 1963 Oct. 2
Plenty of Words for a Painter Poem, 1963 Oct. 4
African Grete My Giantstep, 1963 Oct. 7
JFK Blues, 1963 Nov.
A Risten Zara, 1963
Cable, 1963
Dear Miss America, 1963
Poet the Polluted, 1964 March 7
For Real, 1964 April 20
If..., 1964 April 22
Beauty Bit, 1964 May 9
Rubber, 1964 June 23
Attention Travelers!, 1964 Sept. 24
Safari by Skin, 1964 Sept. 24
Blues for Lady E, 1964 Sept.
Let's Play Something Let's Play Anything Let's Play:, 1964 Oct. 1
Moscow Mississippi Poem, 1964 Nov. 2
Hans Harlem, 1964 Nov. 7
A Ready Made Poem, 1964
The Hipster Is..., 1964
Long Gone Lover Blues, 1964
Love, 1964
Mr A A of Grade A Jazz, 1964
As I Blew the Second Chorus of..., 1965 Feb. 23
Twin Sounds, 1965 March 24
Europe on Five Dollars a Day, 1965 March
Surrealist Blues for International Jazz Women that Sweat!, 1965 April
The Freedom Cap, 1965 Feb. 10
Sha Re, 1965 May 21
Dutch Angel, 1965 May
Scriteaser, 1965 June 1
The Forgive and Forget and Forgotten, 1965 Aug. 8
Running Woman, 1965 Aug. 10
Catalogued, 1965 Aug.
A Reason (Pop Secret!), 1965 Nov.
Fuck Who?, 1965 Nov.
For My Daughter, 1965
For the Viet Congo, 1965
No Letter, 1965
Technicolored Time, 1965
Paris Poem, 1966 Feb. 9
A Message from Motherland to Fatherland, 1966 March 11
Hard On, 1966 June 29
My Ace of Spades, 1966 June
Emastication, 1966 July 7
Promised Land, 1966 July 11
Vietnamoiselle, 1966 July 16
Beads, 1966 July
I Come, to Read and Run, 1966 Aug. 15
I Think of You, 1966 Aug.
Yourope, 1966 Aug.
When the Last Bit of Art is Creative..., 1966 Nov. 2
T I Ne Ke, 1966 Nov. 15
Proposition, 1966 Nov.
Thanksgiving, 1966 Nov.
A Reason Why, 1966 Dec.
The Black Jazz Smile, 1966
Gentlemen!, 1966
Stormy Monday Gal, 1966
Long Gone Lorca Blues, 1967 Jan. 13
Gri-Gri Poem, 1967 Jan. 26
Broadside
Okay, Just for Fun, 1967 Feb. 14
Banister, 1967 Feb. 21
Upside Down Parachute Vice, 1967 Feb. 22
Mama Drum, 1967 Feb.
Faces, 1967 March 9
The Statue of 1713, 1967 March
Cunnilingus to You, 1967 April 16
Stood Up, 1967 May 3
Passed on Blues (The World of Langston Hughes), 1967 June 4
It's Ours (To Olivia Meersjon), 1967 June 20
In Hommage to Heavy Loaded Trane, 1967 July 19
White Blood, 1967 July 21
Aardvark and Impala Poem, 1967 July
The Love That I Love, 1967 Aug. 26
Giving the Wind Its Twirl in Scotland, 1967 Aug. 26-29
He Came, 1967 Aug.
Twenty-Three is Next, 1967 Aug.
A Froken/A Danish One..., 1967 Sept. 22
To Hold My Own Hand..., 1967 Sept. 22
In Structions, 1967 Sept. 23
Stormy Monday Girls, 1967 Sept.
No Zoo for You, 1967 Oct. 1
A Live Liverpool Poem, 1967 Oct. 17
Hell and Black Power, 1967 Oct. 22
Togather, 1967 Nov. 7
New Paris Poems, Paris, 1967 Nov. 10
She Walked Hurriedly Up, 1967 Nov. 13-15
The Occident Noir on Rue Jacques Callot, 1967 Nov. 23
On Rue Jacques Callot, 1967 Nov. 23
Squatters, 1967 Nov. 23
The Fire Next Time Blues, 1967 Nov.
En Garde!, 1967 Dec. 13
Black Flower, 1967
Blues Amsterdam, 1967
Hairy Warning, 1967
Jazz is My Religion, 1967, 1970
Make It?, 1967
The Nice Colored Man, 1967
Spare the Flies But Kill the Lies, 1967
Summertime, 1967
Tatoo, 1967
You Just Tell-A-Phone, 1967
Europe, 1968 March 21
One to Tree, 1968 May 5-1972 Nov. 3
Metteck Like the Wind..., 1968 May 14
To Cool It This and That Summer..., 1968 May 28
Toujours et Jamais, 1968 May
Change New Left, 1968 June 19
1619, 1968 June 21
Le Week-Weak-End (A Goodbye), 1968 June 25
I Love You, 1968 July
Start Loving, 1968 July
Tuff Stuff, 1968 July
The Big Black Three, 1968 Aug. 1
Black Woman Black Man, 1968 Aug. 18
When Buddy Bolden Was He Wasn't, 1968 Aug. 20
To Be Yours..., 1968 Aug. 21
Priekuntidy, 1968 Aug. 27
Not Yet Uhuru, 1968 Aug. 28
Revenge, 1968 Aug.
Africa, 1968 Sept. 4
Perscription, 1968 Sept. 4
Feeding Place, 1968 Sept. 9
For Me Again, 1968 Sept. 22
Greyhound, 1968 Sept. 23
Do Not Say half You'll Only Make me Laugh..., 1968 Sept.
The Son Rose at Ten..., 1968 Sept.
I Ask Harlem, 1968 Oct. 6
Mahalia Jackson, 1968 Oct. 6
Duke's Advice, 1968 Oct. 7
Rain, 1968 Oct. 7
... And as Though I was Somekinda Computor Pugny Runt, 1968 Oct. 11
Cold, 1968 Oct. 11
The Non-John Browns, 1968 Oct. 13
Black People, 1968 Oct. 17
Black Repeater, 1968 Oct. 17
She Gave Him This..., 1968 Oct. 17
Shut Up Sustah!!, 1968 Oct. 17
U.S. Initiation, 1968 Oct. 17
Blood, 1968 Oct. 20
Ego-Sippi, 1968 Oct. 29
The Athelete, 1968 Oct.
Four Nothing-To-Do Dark Men of Harlems, 1968 Oct.
If You or Yr Mother..., 1968 Oct.
Lets Do Something, 1968 Oct.
Lost, 1968 Oct.
Surreally South, 1968 Oct.
Untoo, 1968 Oct.
Whiteyes on Blackthighs, 1968 Oct.
Winter Hawk in Harlem, 1968 Nov. 12
It Am That Way, 1968 Nov. 20
Scenery, 1968 Nov. 20
Bad Two Words, 1968 Nov. 25
Those Dark Faces, 1968 Nov. 28
Gutter Gal, 1968 Nov.
You Black..., 1968 Dec. 5
Afrodisia, 1968 Dec. 6
A Poem for a Little Old Kind White Lady, 1968 Dec. 10
Telephone, 1968 Dec. 10
Waiting, 1968 Dec. 11
Someday, 1968 Dec. 29
Cold Weather Causes Curses, 1968 Dec.
Taken Care of Business, 1968 Dec.
They Black as Black Me..., 1968 Dec.
Afrohelpmate, 1968
A Message from Harlem to Picasso, 1968
Bad Vibrations, 1968
Black Talent, 1968
Bread!, 1968
C_C_Raiders, 1968
Eavesdroper, 1968
Flamethrower!!, 1968
Harlem Sunday, 1968
His Feet Were Bad..., 1968
History, 1968
How Bout That, 1968
I Think It Be This Way, 1968
La Grande Granny, 1968
Make it Plain, 1968
Marzett, 1968
Send Letters To..., 1968
Togather, 1968
The Truth [with Hindi translation], 1968
The Ubiquitous Lions, 1968
Yeah I Dig, 1968
For Pianoman of Afroamerica, 1969 Jan.
Sakiet Sidi Yousseff, 1969 Feb. 7
Chickitten Gitten, 1969 March 11
He Was a Cat..., 1969 March 29
Tide of March, 1969 March
The Roving Sphinx, 1969 April 15
The White Goddess, 1969 April
All White on Europe Sixty Nine Western Front, 1969 May 24
To Be or Else, 1969 May 26
Hurt, 1969 May 30
Poem for the Leftovers of Europe, 1969 May
Round, 1969 June 2
D-Day Will Be the Dark Day, 1969 June 5
Who Are These People?, 1969 June 9
Full, 1969 June 11
Right on Black Children, 1969 June 11
Who Dat?, 1969 June 11
Naturally, 1969 June 12
Second Snakes, 1969 June 21
On the Ground, 1969 June 23
Bobo Bird, 1969 June 24
Just a Thought I Ought, 1969 June
To You, circa 1969 June
Eye for Eye-talian, 1969 July 7
Blackaction, 1969 July 15
Sweat..., 1969 July 16
Avis, 1969 July 21
Last Time, 1969 July 25
My Love Is Like, 1969 July
We, Don and Me..., 1969 July
Number Ten, 1969 Aug. 5
Change is the Wind Blowing..., 1969 Aug.
Dutch Treatment, 1969 Aug.
Just Us, 1969 Aug.
Nothing to Hide But the Truth, 1969 Aug.
Its All Depends, 1969 Sept. 15
Harlem, 1969 Sept. 17
Harlem Poster, 1969 Sept. 19
In a Post Office, 1969 Sept. 19
Subway, 1969 Sept. 19
Parking, 1969 Sept. 26
Strain-You-Late, 1969 Sept. 30
A...?, 1969 Sept.
Number Twenty East 127 Street Harlem, 1969 Oct. 4
The Plunge, 1969 Oct. 13
The Wild Spirit of Kicks in Memory of Jack Kerouac, 1969 Oct. 22
I Have a Wife Who is a Woman, 1969 Oct. 24
Dear Woman What I Can Tell You, 1969 Oct. 25
Missed, 1969 Nov. 2
Inter-Racists, 1969 Nov. 3
When Then?, 1969 Nov. 22
If She Has a Lonely Vacancy, 1969 Nov. 23
The Dirty Old Man, 1969 Nov. 26
Out at Last, 1969 Nov. 27
Be Real/Hip & Happy, 1969 Nov.
They Were, 1969 Nov.
Quitshit!, 1969 Dec. 2
Liddle Merrier Christmust, 1969 Dec. 7
We Worked Hard, 1969 Dec. 27
White Mail Your Mammy!, 1969 Dec.
And Yet..., 1969
Don't Dig Him, 1969
The E Ball, 1969
The Flirt, 1969
Life, 1969
Not to Be Read Aloud, 1969
On the Ground, 1969
Plaidtable, 1969
The Reward, 1969
Shopping Bag, 1969
Soup, 1969
Stokely Quotes, 1969
Under, 1969
Afroamerican Black Magic Love Journey, 1969-1975
Cold Blue Eyes, 1970 Feb. 10
Big Lid, 1970 March 6
Bam Bam, 1970 May 28
Thou Swell, 1970 June 4
Hand Black, 1970 June 7
The Deep Sea Round-Up, 1970 June 11
Sophisticated Sofie, 1970 July 17
John Bullshit, 1970 July 24
Dont!!, 1970 July 25
Big Sell, 1970 July 27
A Member, 1970 July 30
Wait for..., 1970 July 31
Need Not Say, 1970 Aug. 2
La Concierge, 1970 Aug. 17
My Religion, 1970 Sept. 23
Plea, 1970 Sept. 23
Ole Sussannah, 1970 Sept. 26
Your Open Secret, 1970 Sept. 26
Fuzzy Mothers, 1970 Sept. 27
Oh Sussannah, 1970 Sept. 28
After Work Face, 1970 Sept. 29
Tucked Away, 1970 Sept. 30
White Folks Don't Know the Trouble We Have, 1970 Sept. 30
Payment: Five Kisses, 1970 Oct. 1
To Susan Denn, 1970 Oct. 1
Theory, 1970 Oct. 2
The Fashion Love, 1970 Oct. 4
Nothing to Say, 1970 Oct. 4
Tarbaby II, 1970 Oct. 11
The Human Race Race Rage, 1970 Oct. 16
My Country is for Me, 1970 Oct. 19
The Brotherhood of Breath, 1970 Oct. 25
Tarbaby's Takeoff, 1970 Oct. 30
What If?, 1970 Nov. 4
Dear Friend I Am So Un Happy, 1970 Nov. 5
Jungle Jill, 1970 Nov. 10
Senegalese Austlens, 1970 Nov. 21
Cop the Okapi, 1970 Dec. 17
Dear Langston, 1970 Dec. 22
Zimbabwe, 1970 Dec. 22
Did You Know?, 1970
Happy Git Up Blues, 1970
I Warned Sue, 1970
Sex Hex, 1970
Street Scene, 1970
Trigger Nigger, 1970
Mount Kilimanjaro Poem Too, 1971 Jan. 3
Mad Cure, 1971 March 7
Malagasy Girls, 1971 March 7
A Norwigian is Usually White, 1971 March 7
Alphabet Ayler, 1971 March 8
At This Moment, 1971 March 9
Le Pied Nu Pilote, 1971 March 9
Eye See, 1971 March 17
The Seven Several Clock Rendevous Between You and Me..., 1971 March 20
Mankind, 1971 March 24
May This Poem (To My Enemy--Wrong People), 1971 March 25
Just Natural, 1971 March 27
The New Dawn, 1971 March 27
Night Dance, 1971 March 30
Last Call, 1971 April 6
That's All, 1971 April 6
You Rope, 1971 April 22
What Belief These Africans Had..., 1971 April 22
Undressed, 1971 April 24
Amanda Lady of Exeter, 1971 May 18
Dead Overcoat Poem, 1971 May 22
And Then There Were None (The Death of Louis Armstrong), 1971 July 7
If You Look..., 1971 July 29
Baptism, 1971 Sept. 7
Grey Music, 1971 Sept. 7
"... And They Got Rifles Too!," 1971 Oct. 28
Smoked Tongues, 1971 Oct. 29-31
John and Yoko in G-Village, 1971 Nov. 2
Loving Letter, 1971 Nov. 29
Once and For All!, 1971 Dec. 11
Little Lady, 1971 Dec. 14
Poems of the Brown Beauty: Guadeloupelise, 1971 Dec. 21
P.Z. Xmas Ago, 1971 Dec. 25
Tongue, 1971 Dec. 25
The Thoughts I Brought, 1971 Dec. 27
Coconut Childlady of Love, 1971 Dec. 29
Three Pair of Your Eyes, 1971 Dec. 29
Marrakesh of My Memories..., 1971 Dec. 31
New You, 1971 Dec. 31
Smoke of Smegm, 1971 Dec. 31
Marry Xmas, 1971 Dec.
Black Out, [1971]
For Children Only, Questions, 1971
Letzter Auruf, 1971
Meat Bender, 1971
Ole Sussannah is a Tribe of Poems That Was Created..., [1971]
Pills, 1971
This Our Black Magic, 1971
Vital Force of Blackness: Albert Ayler, 1971
The Dedikathication, 1972 Jan. 7
The Djamaa Fnaa at Night, 1972 Jan. 18
Love is the Most Important Feeling that A Man Can Give Naturally, 1972 Jan. 19
Untwogether People, 1972 Jan. 19
What I Need and What I'm Gonna Get..., 1972 Jan. 19
What Must a Man Do, 1972 Jan. 21
Jazz is an Afroamerican Creative Force, 1972 Feb.
Spark!, 1972 March 1
Black Caper, 1972 March 2
Downstairs Dylan's Daughter, 1972 March 19
For You For Awhile, 1972 March
Sister Share, 1972 April 8
Cool Birthday Love, 1972 April 27
Tufat an Neglu Dennagelwaq, 1972 April 28
Another April, 1972 April 30
One Less/Many More to Go, 1972 May 16
Waning Words, 1972 May 20
Razzle Dazzle, 1972 May 28
Speuk, 1972 May
We Knew You When!, 1972 May
Straight Croissants, 1972 June 3-5
I Told On It, 1972 June 12
The Animal Dish, 1972 Aug. 19
A Pork Meat Pie in the Shape of a Hat, 1972 Aug. 21
I Lay Wondering, 1972 Aug. 23
On Our Honour, 1972 Aug. 23
There Are Amongst Them..., 1972 Aug. 29
Grave Situations, 1972 Aug. 31
Twogether: Free, 1972 Sept. 2-5
At Midnight When We Close..., 1972 Sept. 3
Pear of Stair, 1972 Sept. 3
You Are Not the Door..., 1972 Sept. 3
Je Sens Que..., 1972 Sept. 4
Before Incident..., 1972 Sept. 6
Our Mothers, 1972 Sept. 13
Pyramids I've Seen/ Heard..., 1972 Sept. 21-25
If You..., 1972 Sept. 25
The Fuss The Fight..., 1972 Sept. 30
Terri, 1972 Oct. 4
You/Me Lets Split!!, 1972 Oct. 6
Out There Off Spring, 1972 Oct. 8
Out There Somewhere..., 1972 Oct. 8
Terra Plainer, 1972 Oct. 9
Are You Ready to Fright For Fish?, 1972 Oct. 10
Natural Fat Fact Poem, 1972 Oct. 10
Salt Penis, 1972 Oct. 14
Guilt Free, 1972 Oct. 31
Halloween Blues, 1972 Oct. 31
Allons Allyall!, 1972 Oct.
Goober Goober, 1972 Nov. 1
Fruit Should Taste Like It Sounds, 1972 Nov. 30
Un Sold - Out Brother, 1972
Yours If Granted, 1972
True, 1973 Feb. 19
Entrendez-Vous Cela?, 1972 March 17
Two Times Two, 1973 May 8
A Day With Sister of Unhip Japan, 1973 May 11
Freewoman, 1973 May 26-July 24
A Word to Society--We Do Not Need Permission, 1973 May
Black Woman, 1973 May
Chiswick Chick, 1973 June 12
The First St-Cirq-Lapopie Poem, 1973 July 17
At 33 Champes de Mars, 1973 Aug. 9
True, 1973 Nov. 19
Ever Which a Way Blues, 1973 Dec. 11
Black Manifest, 1973
I Hear This Painting..., 1973
In My Hands I Held, 1973
Smoke Sleep, 1973-74
Be Tongue, 1974 Feb. 27
The Black Ivory Pendant, 1974 May 6
Alphabetical Love You, 1974 May 20
Above Giraffe Head, 1974 May 21
Why Sure!, 1974 May
Swahili Animal Poem Blues, 1974 July 2-1977 June 28
Au Mauvais Moment, 1974 July 5
Wet Socks Blues, 1974 July 5
Good Greens, 1974 July 5-20
No Cages, 1974 Sept. 4
Bedding Day Poem, 1974
Common Place Blues, 1974-1977
Black Son of Year One, 1975 Jan.
Pretty Far-A-Way, 1975 Feb.
Maldoror Me Atings, 1975 April 25
Les Femmoiselles D U Maldoror, 1975 May 2
Cogollo is the Way..., 1975 May 8
Toothbrush Made..., 1975 June 6
Eachtime, 1975 June 14
Je Me Rapelle, 1975 July
Blue Collards, 1975 Oct. 7
Common Place Blues, 1975 Oct. 7
Bookmark, 1975 Nov. 30
Bon Jour Messieurs Dames, 1975 Dec. 2
He Got it Down Pat, 1976 Feb. 29
Why I Shall Sell Paris?, 1976 March 30
Cadeaux d'Entreprise, 1976 April 21
Le Petit Vatel, 1976 April 21
John-Dig-Me, 1976 April 26
Hold Tight, 1976 April 30
Confrontation and Decision Poems, 1976 April
Spent Penny, 1976 May 2
The Mark, 1976 May 21
Just a Jazz, Thats All, 1976 May 24
Looks Like It Will Spain, 1976 May 30
Just a Jazz Poet, 1976 May
See Eyes Augment, [1976] May
Mean Paris, 1976 June 10
Yellow Morn of Purple Aardvarks, 1976 June 22
Bliss Miss Blues, [1976 June]
Vertueuse Volonte, 1976 July 9
Nude, 1976 Oct. 11
Art Son, Arret! (Terra Nostra), 1976 Oct. 15
She Materializes Again..., 1976 Dec. 1
Akwa-Ba Ankh, 1976 Dec. 25
Afrika's Gate, 1976
My Audieu Good-byes to Hotels of Paris, 1976
My My Manhattan, 1976
Travaux a la Negreese, 1977 Jan. 2
Unsurpassed U of Timbuktu, 1977 Jan. 2
Easy Decision, 1977 Jan. 14
Glad Festac Blues, 1977 Jan. 30
A.J. So Far, 1977 Feb. 19
Within Me, [1977 Feb. 21]
Forgive Them Afrika, 1977 Feb. 23
Chocolate Hairport, 1977 Feb. 26
Not a god, 1977 Feb. 27
Prey Will $ray$£$£$, 1977 March 4
The Last Poem to Please, 1977 March 16
Eye Dancer, 1977 May 20-June 27
I Wanna Whip You Some Real Cream, 1977 May 28-30
Eye All or Nothing, 1977 May 30
This Poet's Laurel, 1977 June 8
Chinese Meating, 1977 June 14-24
As All Coloured, 1977 June 16
Animal? No! Cracker? No! Groucho? Yes!!!, 1977 Aug. 20
A U Dessus Du Con Tinent Blanc, 1977 Dec. 7
Everynight Before and Day Before New Year, 1977 Dec. 23
Twas a Night a Decade after Birdland, 1977 Dec. 23
Marvelous Mental Invitation to the Dizzy Night In Tunisia, 1977 Dec. 28
Your Belly Watch Out, [1977]
Happy Stew Year, 1978 Jan. 1
That Night and Day In Tunisia, 1978 Jan. 8
God Being a Fresh, 1978 Jan. 26
Instead Beauford, 1978 Jan.
Within, 1978 Jan.
Happy '78 Hughes, 1978 Feb. 1
Yeah Timbuktu, Even Over All of You!, 1978 Feb. 21
Moonlight in Timbuktu, [1978 Feb.]
Batik, 1978 March14
Rainbow We, 1978 March 22
United We Stand, 1978 March 26
Sacreminnesotian, 1978 April 1
Flutterbye, 1978 April 3
Feminine Position, 1978 April 4
That's Him, 1978 April 14
Lorited, 1978 April 16
I the Graduate, 1978 May 3
Cadillac Zodiac Blues, 1978 May 10
Red and White Long Dresses, 1978 May 15
Pro-Poem Ending Without, 1978 May 19-20
Just Listen to Books, 1978 May 23
Pro-Poem Ending Without, 1978 May-July
All Too Soon, 1978 June 20
Love Is..., 1978 June 21
Nefritti The Sweet Strawberry Brown, 1978 June 21
May No Male Make A..., 1978 July 25
Mammifreres, 1978 Aug. 20
Kissers Not Kickers, 1978 Aug. 31
Gallup Jack, [1978] Nov.
An Orange Crush or Green from My Scene, [1978]
Elight From Tunisia, 1978
Street To You I Sing, 1978
The Gibridge, 1979 Jan. 3
Wa Wa's Ha Ha! continued, 1979 March 2
The Black Explosion of Truth, 1979 May 19
She & Me Went to Belgium..., 1979 June 21
Unfinished Furniture, 1979 Aug.-Sept.
Holy Hijinks, 1979 Sept. 25
The Bowery '79, 1979 Sept. 27
La Maison D'Andre Breton, 1979 Oct. 27-1985 April 25
Dreamland, 1979 Nov. 24
Sausages with Geraniums, 1979 Nov. 30
Miss-Meat-Me, 1979
Two Forts Have We!, 1980 March 15
Poem for the Dull Brainers, 1980 May 4
Smokey Blood Over Miami, 1980 May 19
He is Turning (None Name to Me), 1980 May
Double Dozen Done Deliberately, 1980 June 21
Tissue Issue, 1980 June 29
Kimathi South My Son Robert Kimathi Jones, 1980 June
Pow Wow Behind Your Back, 1980 June
Best Eleven On the Eleven, 1980 July 11
The Reprisal, 1980 July 14
Could Be Should Be, 1980 July 17
Beau Fleuve Screendoors, 1980 Aug. 2
Nicht Wieder, 1980 Aug.
The 'The' One Two, 1980 Sept. 3
Two of Them, 1980 Nov. 5
The Invaluable Lady, 1980 Nov. 8
The Bar Chatter, 1980 Nov. 14
Rainbow Pillows, 1980 Nov. 23
Above Fishmeats, 1980 Nov. 26
Step Up Sakkara, 1980 Nov. 30
The Pest Office, 1980 Nov.
False Front, 1980
Holy Hijinks... In Memory of Jack Kerouac, 1980 Winter
Printed Upside Down, 1980-81
Dear Gwen, 1981 Jan. 2
Yesternight Tree, 1981 Jan. 3
What Key of We?, 1981 Jan. 4
Das Fraulein Von Sieben Schlussels, 1981 March 15
Award Winning Action News, 1981 April 21
Gallup Jack, 1981 Fall
Petty Cash, 1982 March 15
Jazzemblage, 1982 April 8
Je Prendrai, 1982 April 28
Day In April's May Way, 1982 May 28-June 8
On the Day Poet Breten Breytenback Arrived Alive In Paris I Heard, 1982 Dec. 14
No Mad Talk, 1982
You Can Not Prevent Satellite, 1983 Jan. 22
Man To Man, 1983 Jan. 23
Cafe de la Paix, 1983 Feb. 15
I Too Am The Voice of America, 1983 March 20
Up in Tree Branches..., 1983 April 3
You Are Invited..., 1983 July 3
Dear Allen, Happy Birthday to, 1984
Frida of Coyaocan, 1985 Feb. 28
Love Thy Librarian, 1985 April 18
Drilling Laxitive, 1985 July 17
Afterall Fuck We, 1985 Aug. 5
Black Powder Party, 1985 Nov. 13
L'E'Poir, 1985 Dec. 12
Bravo Beth Breath Arrive (and Berlin Bound), 1985 Dec. 20
A Hip Birthday Declaration, 1985-1986
No Mumps In July, 1986 Feb. 3
Catalunya Encounter, 1986 March 9
Thin As a Bush, 1986 April
Il est à Moi, 1987 Aug. 9
M I T, 1987 Aug. 11
The Armpits on Réverbère, 1987 Aug. 25
Eye Understood, 1987 Sept. 6
No Staten Island Traum Boot, 1987 Sept. 6
Seething, 1987 Sept. 10
Yupphew (stink!)Lization, 1987 Sept. 12
Ou Est Quebec?, 1987 Sept. 22
B To B Atmosphere, 1987 Sept. 27
Le surrealisme est ce qui sera, 1987 Sept. 28
Nickel-Nickle, 1987 Sept. 28
Onari Onari, 1987 Sept. 30-Oct.1
T H E R E, 1987 Oct. 6
Do Not Remove the Pangolin, 1987 Oct. 10
Steps Enhanced, 1987 Oct. 21
A Certain Dignity of the Okapi..., 1987 Oct. 31
Ourgraphy, 1987 Nov. 10
To Step In and Fetch It for Love, 1987 Nov. 10
A Good Clean Breath of Air Now-A-Days is Hard to Find!, 1988 Jan. 27
Touch Me Not I'm Tegueigalpa!, 1988 April 8
If I Were a Jew I'd..., 1988 April 22
Jim 'N Him, 1988 Oct. 2
The Other Nights at Place Jamma FNA, 1989 March 3
Qui Est?, 1989 July 13
Popsicle Peace Person, 1989 Oct. 21
Contagious Junkies, 1989
She Turns Out to Be a Rare Okapi, 1990 Jan. 12
The Weegee Ones, 1990 March
Jes Say Yes, 1990 March 25
Pay No Mouth Matter, 1990 May 12
June Mois, 1990 June 27
Why Wonder Why, 1990 July 16
Sweet Surreal Smokestack, 1990 Oct. 27
Are There No Aardvarks in Munchen?, 1990 Nov. 8
Hammock Swings!, 1990 Dec. 3
Brief Case, 1990
Parlez Vous Yuko, 1990
The Day of the Second Object Trouvez, circa 1990
Anathema of Erection, 1991 Jan. 11
Jazz is My Religion, 1991 April 15
Bank Cleaned Out, 1991 April 22
From He to Z, 1991 April 23
Flying Rats of Paris, 1991 May 9
Brown River Danube Blues, 1991 May 23
Dutch Physical Harassment, 1991 Nov. 19
Poznámky K Básni, 1991
Humble Haphazardly Happy He, Beauford Delany, 1992 April 25
Collect and Selective, 1992 July 23
Und Mit Offenen Wahrheit!, 1992 Oct. 19
Void and Reward, 1993 Nov. 1
I, Too, At the Beginning, 1994 May 26
For that Daughter, 1994 Nov. 14
Aji, 1995 Jan. 2-3
Got Up Goodbye Blues, 1995 June 11
Sunday Seattle Museum Encounter with Joyce Mansour, 1995 Oct. 29
Aardvavark Paw, undated
A Black First, undated
A Book Without a Leaf, undated
A Dear Jane Letter Poem, undated
Africa, undated
Africa Is Your Moma, undated
Afrorphan, undated
'A' Has Always Been for Me, undated
A Highly Rewarding Black Theory, undated (Nov. 15)
'A' in Berlin is for, undated
A Letter to a Drummer Jones, undated
All for One, undated
Animal of Africa... I?, undated
Another Love Letter, undated
Answer One Question..., undated
A Poem for I&C&B&M, undated
A Poet, a Painter, a Musician, undated (April 13)
Archie Shepp is a Truth Poet..., undated
A Reason Why, undated
A Reminder, undated (Nov 24)
Are You Ready to Fright for Fishes, undated
Are You Too, Able, undated
A Sad Jazz Poem for the Late Great J.F. Kennedy, undated
Bamako Grand Marche Aardvark Claws, undated
Bang Baby Bang, undated
Baobab, undated
Bath Love, undated
Beauty, undated
Beauty at Bochum, undated
Bed, undated
Beyond Your This and My That, undated
Bird Continues, undated
Body Robber, undated
Brains, undated
But Yes!, undated
B.Y.T.A.M.Y, undated
Catch It?, undated
Cat of Nine, undated
Code Dance, undated
Cold Petroleum, undated
Colored Negro?, undated
Cool, undated
Crocodiles Never Dialed a Phone, undated
Damn If I Know, undated
Dear Brothers and Especially You Sisters..., undated
Dear Don, undated
Dear Poem, undated
Deep in the Start, undated
Dem Desert Blues, undated
Did? Done It!, undated
Dig, Like Man Can, Be Something Else?, undated
Dirt Blues, undated
Dishwishwasher, undated
The Djamaa Fnaa At Night, undated
Dogon Daddy's, undated
Don't Send Me Black Male..., undated
The Doll, undated
Do's and Donts, undated
Early Morning Warning Poem, undated
Eatting [sic] Apples..., undated
Edna the Black Cowrie, undated
Elle Ma Dit..., undated
Endowment of "Dawa," undated
Even Like That, undated
Everytime You Tobacco Smoke, undated
Fabulous One, undated
Feeding Place, undated
Flying Pirhana the Beautiful Bird-Fish, undated
Food, undated
Footsteps, undated
For a Negro, undated
For Children Only, undated
Forgive and Forget, undated
Franklin Rosemont, undated
Gonder, undated
Gone are the Days, undated
Greyhound, undated
Guess, undated
Heavyweight Blues Turned Red, undated
Hello Friend, undated
Hello High Low, undated
Helpmate, undated
He Who Lives Around the Coin from Scissor Rue, undated
Hey Boy, undated
Hi Ho! Silver?, undated
Hippy Hetty Was Not Ready..., undated
Hitchiking, undated
Horny Harry House Blues, undated
Hot Nights, undated
I Am the Lover, undated
Ice Freezes Red, undated
I Do Steal a Glance or Two..., undated
If I was a Jew, I'd Disown You, undated
If There is One Genteel Gesture to make Is to Lay a Present..., undated
In the Midst, undated
Irreplaceable, undated
I Shall Now Reveal the Source of My Poetry..., undated
Is My Bouzouke Happy, undated
It is More than being Profound..., undated
It is the Great Epoch of African, undated
It's Got a Good Shape..., undated
It was a Israeli Lady, undated
I Warn You, undated
Jazz Is..., undated
Jazz is My Religion, undated
Jazz is My Religion Blues, undated
Jazz Must Be a Woman Because Its the Only Thing That..., undated
Jive Audience, undated
Juke Boxes Growl, undated
The Kebir Bezaf Blues, undated
Know What?, undated
La Grande Granny, undated
A Lecture of a Mean, A Very Mean Dada on Tongues, undated
Le Fou de Bamba, undated
Legs..., undated
Le mot est Benjamin, undated
Lend Her to Me, undated
Lend Me Your Ear, undated
Lero Flower Booming, undated
The Letter to Maiden..., undated
Like Me, undated
Long Gone Lover Blues, undated
The Love Is, undated
Love Tight, undated
Lumumba Live!, undated
Makonde Sculptor, undated
Mali is Hippopotamus to Us Bambara, undated
Maldoror Loves Me, undated
Man Oh Man, undated
Me Too!, undated
Mind Liberations, undated
Moms Gri-Gri, undated
Ms. Ila Errus, undated
Must Do, undated
My Ace of Spades, undated
My Love Has Taken a Two Hour Fast Train, undated
Natural, undated
New Muse Blues, undated
Niakaramandougou, undated
No Nothing, undated
Nursery, undated
O.C. in D.C., undated
Of Duck Buttering, undated
Oh Great Black Mask of Harlem, undated
Okay Little One Blues, undated
Open Minded, undated
Out of Step, undated
The Over Loaded Horse, undated
Over the..., undated
Passed on Blues: Homage to a Poet, undated
Peanut Butter, undated
The Pied Noire, undated
Planning, undated
The Plung, undated
Pocket Full of Smoke, undated
The Poem, undated
Pubik Pak, undated
Rain, undated
Repression, undated
Requirements, undated
Respect, undated
[El Rey de Harlem], undated
The Ride, undated
Ritual, undated
The Romance, undated
Root Head, undated
Rough Rapping, undated
Sanza Seven, undated
Scenario, undated
The Seer I Knew Called Langston Hughes..., undated
Selbstportrait Für Her: Alicia, undated
Share, undated
The Sink, undated
Smile, undated
Soho Birds, undated
Some Herstory Other Than Hers, undated
Southern Salute, undated
So You Read and the Preaching, undated
Spadeland, undated
Spare the Flies But Kill the Lies, undated
Still, undated
Straight Croissants, undated
Successexful, undated
The Sun My Son, undated
Surreally I Is, undated
Sussex Suck Toe, undated
The Swahiliornithologist Spoke of Birds, undated
Sweet Art Sparrow, undated
Tail For No Mail, undated
Tangerine Kif Poems, undated
Tangerine Scene, undated
Tarbaby, undated
Taskut Black Beaut, undated
Teducated Take-off on 'The Circus Animals Desertation' by W.B. Yeats, undated
Ted Joans, undated
Ted Joans, Poete Americain, undated
Theory, undated
There Are Those, undated
Theres a Nigger Uptown..., undated
They Can't Change, undated
They'll Put You Up----Tight, undated
They Wear A Gentleman's Straw Hat..., undated
This Rainy Afternoon, undated
Thought, undated
Three Ways to Fay Blues, undated
Tied Tongue, undated
Tifignat: An Ancient Language, undated
Tom Tom the Pushers Son..., undated
To Wait For Someone, undated
Toy Maker, undated
Travelin (Continued from 1960), undated
Twin Beds Are Not For Lovers, undated
Two Rolls, undated
Two Trombones, undated
Undeceived, undated
The Underground Bitch, undated
Unsalvagiable, undated
Us Is, undated
Vancouver Clock Breath, undated
Victorian B.S., undated
Wet Goodbye, undated
What If, undated
What Makes Some Black Girls Sick..., undated
What You're Missing?, undated
When I Gits Up in a Cold Room Morning, undated
When Watermelon Becomes a Dangerous Firespitter, undated
White Blame, undated
Whose Accidental Thoughts are Wondering..., undated
Who To, undated
Will She, undated
Why O Why O?, undated
Why Try?, undated
Women of the World, undated
Write It All Here in this Book, undated
Writing About Things, Places, Events and Persons, undated
Zvolím Si, undated
Subseries 1.2: Poetry Collections, undated, 1958-2001
New Duck Butter Poems, Typescript and Illustrations, 1958-1982
Untitled [Original Handwritten Poems by Ted Joans Later Published], 1960-circa 1999
Uganda Dawn Poems, Typescript Carbon Copies, 1968 March 31-1971 April 6
Untitled Fragment, 1969
Common Place Blues [Box with Poems Inside], 1974
[Dedicated to P. Dann...], Photocopy, 1976
Hallo Heidelberg, Photocopy, 1990
Double Trouble, Maquette and Illustrations, 1991
Poems for You In and Out of Africa, Book Cover (photocopy), 1994
Teducation, Correspondence and Uncorrected Page Proofs, 1999
Introduction to Teducation by Gerald Nicosia, Typescript, 1999
Out Thang, Correspondence and Uncorrected Page Proofs, 2001
Black Pow Wow Jazz Poems, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Series 2: Other Writings, undated, 1949-2002
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Subseries 2.1: Nonfiction, undated,
Proposition For a Black Power Manifesto, Typescript with Corrections, 1968
Black Talk, Newspaper Article, 1970
A Black Man Guides All Yall to Africa, Original Typescript with Corrections, Carbon, Notes, Research Material, and Correspondence, 1971
Dies Und Das, First and Final Layout Marquette, Uncut Galley with Annotations, Galley Cut and Unbound, 1985
Complete magazine in book format with original inscription and research material 1985
I, Black Surrealist, Newspaper Article, 1989
I Too at the Beginning Beat Generation Segment, Typescript with Corrections, 1989
Aardvarkian Surreal Stroll in Paris, Manuscript Notebook Cover and Inserts, Holograph Manuscript, Typescript with Corrections, French Translation, Notes, Drawings, Diagrams, Maps, and Research Documents, undated
They Have Perfomed in Apartheid South Africa, Photocopy, undated
Subseries 2.2: Fiction, undated, 1991, 1995
Honey Spoon, Galley with Annotations, 1991
Money Soon, Original Holograph Manuscript, Typescript, Copies, Proof, and Notes, 1995
Razzle Dazzle, Original Manuscript, Notes, Typescripts with Corrections and Copies, undated
The Rhinoceros Story, Manuscript Copy, undated
Subseries 2.3: Short Stories, undated, 1964-1971
Andaconda, Typescript with Corrections (2 copies), 1964
The Prestige Whores A Surrealist Youniverse, Typescript with Corrections, 1967
Quasimodo to You, Typescript with Corrections, 1967
The Adventures of Ultra White and Super Black, 1969
The Black Beard and Bright Blonde, Typescript, 1969
Once Upon a Time There Were White Women Too, Typescript with Corrections, 1969
The Sheepshit Lam (An Airy Tail), Original and Carbon Typescript with Corrections, 1970
De Tess Story, Holograph Manuscript, 1971
Laugh Deathly, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Laughter Laugh, Holograph Manuscript, undated
Subseries 2.4: Essays, undated, 1961-1993
Ornette Coleman, Typescript, 1961
A Black Writer Comes Home to Black Power, Published Article, 1968
Last Statement of the Manifesto for Cricket Magazine, Typescript with Corrections, 1970
General Cultural Genocide Meineherr Hotfer Dumbness, Typescript with Corrections, 1972
Real Free, Typescript with Corrections, 1972
Is Jazz Your Religion?, Typescript with Corrections, 1973
Jazz and the Jive Writer, Typescript with Corrections, 1973
Sewing Wooden Shoes to Swing, Typescript with Corrections, 1973
A Seven Sons of Lautréamont Prose Piece, Dedicated to..., Original Typescript with Corrections, 1975
Kaufman is a Bird Called Bob, Typescript with Corrections, 1975
Nice Bearden Beaux-Art Blues, Typescript with Corrections, 1975
An Evening of Excellent Musical Arrogance, Typescript, 1976
Archie Shepp at the Riverbop, Typescript with Corrections and Notes, 1976
Archie Shepp or L'Archie Triumphant á Paris, Typescript with Corrections, 1976
Mutualité á la Cecil Taylor, Typescript with Corrections, 1976
Not Much Noise, Typescript, 1978
The Unpremeditated Birth of an Immaculate Cadavre Exquis, Original Typescript with Corrections and Copy with Addendum, 1980
West Coast Jazz-Quakening, Typescript, 1980
The Biggest Book on Jazz's Biggest Musical Band, Typescript with Corrections, 1981
The Funeral of Thelonious Monk, Original Typescript with Corrections and Copy, 1982
Weegee and Me, Typescript with Corrections, 1989 Sept.
An Abbreviated Autobiography of Afroamerican Artists Over Yonder - Original Manuscript and Typescript, 1991
The Beat Generation and Afro-American Culture, 1991
Teducated Points of Views of Paris, Holograph Manuscript, 1993
Alto Sax Sensations, Typescript, undated
Black-Flower (or the Negro and the Hippies), Typescript with Corrections, undated
The Electronic Nigger Uptown Against the Wall, Typescript with Corrections and Notes, undated
Free Jazz on Bird's Sixtieth Birthday, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Giddons in Jazz Must Be Big Word Kidding, Typescript (photocopy), undated
Jazz Information and Mis-information, Typescript, undated
The Langston Hughes I Knew, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Langston Hughes: Poet for Real, Typescript, undated
Let's Call This Humph!, Holograph Manuscript, undated
My Objectives..., Photocopy of Typescript with Corrections, undated
Once Upon a Time There was a Poet of Harlem, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Onward Toward the Needed Hope, Typescript with Corrections, undated
That Lofty Black Music, Typescript with Corrections, undated
That New York Report of What Has Happened / Happening / And Will Be Happening, Typescript, undated
Fragment, undated
Subseries 2.5: Plays, undated, 1949, 1969-1970
Dont Fucketh with Me: A Surreal Play, Typescript with Corrections, 1949
The Flag, Holograph Manuscript and Typescript, 1969
Who I Is, Typescript with Corrections, 1970
Black Black, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Subseries 2.6: Jazz Critiques, 1966, 1981, 1986-1988
AA! AA? Yeah, AA!, Newspaper Article, 1966
Bird and the Beats, Photocopy, 1981
A Hip Word-to-the-Wise from His Hipness, Typescript with Corrections, 1986
They, The Jivers, Holograph Manuscripts, 1987
The Professor and the Student, Holograph Manuscript, 1988
Subseries 2.7: Reviews, undated, 1967-1989
Homage to Bosch, Newspaper Article, 1967
The Jazz Expo '67, Typescript with Concert Program, 1967
Cecil Taylor Solo, Typescript with Corrections, 1976 June 11
Riding on a Blue Note by Gary Giddens, Print Copy, 1982 March
A Perfidious Pretense to Write a Review of an Unfavorable Poetry Anthology, Typescript with Corrections (Original and Copy), 1982
The Yves Tanguy Retrospective Exhibition, Holograph Manuscript, 1982
Langston Hughes, Before and Beyond Harlem by Faith Berry, Print Copy, 1984 May
Coagulations: New and Collected Poems, Holograph Manuscript with Corrections, 1984
The Collected Poetry of Aimé Césaire, Typescript with Corrections (First Draft), 1984
Bird (Film by Clint Eastwood), Print Copy 1988 July
Bird: A Feathery Movie Piece of Artful Understatement, Print Copy, 1989 March-April
Magicians of the Earth, Holograph Manuscript and Typescript, 1989
Scarifications, Book of Poems by Jayne Cortez, Holograph Manuscript (Photocopy), undated
Such Letters Bear Fruit, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Subseries 2.8: Movies, 1964-1965
A Movie Written by and for Ted Joans in the USA, Typescript with Corrections and Copy (First Draft), 1964
Negative Cowboy, Typescript with Drawing, 1965
Subseries 2.9: Translations, undated, 1952-1983
Translations by Ted Joans, 1957-1983
Translations by Others, 1952-1980
Miscellaneous Translations, undated
Notes and Fragments on Translations, undated
Subseries 2.10: Prose, undated, 1951-1993
Il etait (beaucoup) une fois: For Femmoiselles that Fortunately Favorite a Teducation, Typescript with Corrections, 1951
The Potential Futher Mucker, Holograph Manuscript and Typescript, 1958 Oct. 20
Steamshovel, Typescript, 1960
Swingeth with Me and Ye too Shall Learneth to Dig, First Draft Typescript, 1960
Onboard the Lyaute, Holograph Manuscript, 1961
The Book of the Best Travels To and Back from Timbuktu, Original Holograph Manuscript and Typescript, 1962-1978
Niggers from Outer Space: A Black Power Dream Surrealized for You to Read, Typescript with Corrections, Original Holograph Manuscript with Corrections, and Cover, 1964-1968
A Happy Hip Happening, Typescript with Corrections (First Draft), 1965
The Air-Conditioned Oasis, Holograph Manuscript and Typescript (3 copies), 1967
The Negro and "the Hippies" or Black Power and Flower Power, Holograph Manuscript with Corrections, 1967
BIG, Typescript Carbon Copy, 1968 June 12
The Kiss of Death: A Surrealist, Short Prose Piece, Typescript with Corrections, 1969 June 21
Freedom Now, Typescipt Carbon with Corrections, 1969 Aug. 25
The Chauffer Driven Cadillac..., Holograph Draft, 1969 Nov. 4
All Shadows are Dark Like Me - A One Act Play about Americans in the USA, Typescript (First Draft, 2 Carbon Copies), 1969
Tarbaby, Typescript (2 copies, 1 with corrections), 1970 Oct. 20
Africa is the Richest Continent, Typescript (2 copies) and Carbon with Corrections, 1970 Nov. 15
Spiritual Unity--Albert Ayler, Handwitten Draft and Print Copy, 1971 Aug.
Well I'll Be Damn, Typescript, 1971 Sept. 8-9
A Memoir [Beat Scene Saw by Langston Hughes], Photocopy Fragment, 1972
The Opening Address to the Evening of Contagious Surrealism, Typescript (First Draft), with Corrections, 1974
Votez Carter (Betty), Print Copy, 1976 Nov.
Splinter Tongue (or Woodyn You), Holograph Manuscript and Typescript, 1977
Black Tongue Lash on Surreality, Holograph Manuscript with Corrections, 1980
Bird and the Beats, Print Copy, 1981 Dec.
Journal Jotting, Holograph Manuscript, 1985
Yeah, Your Mother! By Ted Joans Your Fertile Father, Holograph Manuscript, Sections 1-4 (copy), 1985
Teducation to Exemplify Immanence, Typescript, 1987 July 3
Journal Jotting, Relating to Surrealism, Holograph Manuscript with Corrections (copy), 1987
I, Black Surrealist, Print Copy, 1989
Weegee and We, Holograph Manuscript, 1989
You Are Still Taking My Blues, Holograph Manuscript, 1991
An Abbreviated Autobiography of Afro-American Artists Over Yonder, Print Copy, 1992
The Case of the Four Rhino Horns by Professor I.M. Rotapep, Holograph Manuscript, 1993
The Case of the Golden Klompen by Herr Doktor Rotapep, Holograph Manuscript, 1993
The Dangerous Envelopes Case by Herr Doktor Rotapep, Holograph Manuscript, 1993
The 25th Anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival, Typescript (First Draft), with Corrections, undated
Acetylene, Holograph Manuscript and Typescript, undated
And I went as usual to the Desert, Holograph Manuscript, undated
The Bad Case of the Flying Pussy of Perry Street, Typescript, undated
The Divorce Before the Divorce, Typsecript, undated
Dreams of the Rarest Friend, Typescript Carbon Copy, undated
Juju For the Jew, Typescript and Carbon Copy, undated
Mau Mau Manifesto, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Mississippi Here They Come!, Holograph Manuscript, undated
Mr. Gillespie was also Exuberance, For Example, Holograph Manuscript, undated
My Trip, Print Copy, undated
The Nothing Happening, Photocopy, undated
Spades and Foreign Fays, Typescript and Carbon Copy, undated
Telling It Like It Damn Show Is!!, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Un Peu Comme en Rêve, Typescript with Corrections, undated
Well Shut My Mouth Wide Open, Typescript with Corrections and Carbon, undated
The White Woman and Black Magic, Holograph Manuscript and Typescript with Corrections, undated
Subseries 2,11: Letters to Editors, [1963]-1970
Letter to Athens News Editor, 1963, Nov. 7
Letters to the Time Editor, 1968, 1970
Subseries 2.12: Notes and Notebooks, undated, 1952-2002
On Dada Nigeria, Rhinos, and Timbuctoo's Barbers, 1952
Photographs From the 'Not Quiet on B'Way Nor Off B'Way' Play by Reginald Mann Titled "My Man Don' Tol' Me," 1957 June 7
Cliff Jordan Concert, 1968 Oct. 9
Steve Lacy Concert, 1974
To Pop Group War, 1976
Poems by Others, undated, 1978-1980
Quincy Troupe/David Henderson Reading, 1982
Toronto Canada Notes, 1987
Writing Notebook, 1989
The Cinema at Odéon, Paris, 1990 Dec. 10
Notes, undated, 2002
The Adventures of Herr Doktor Rotapep (A Sherlockian Alter Ego), Research Material and Envelope Cover, undated
Andre Bréton and Langston Hughes, undated
Art/Black Artists, undated
Autobiography, undated
Bits 'n' Pieces of Orginal This 'n' Thats, undated
Hart Leroy Bibbs, undated
Innocent Beat Scene Sense, undated
Joyce Mansour, undated
Once Upon a Time There were White Cats Too, undated
Roscoe Mitchell Concert, undated
Slavery, undated
Thoughts on Self and Africa, undated
Unidentified, undated
Subseries 2.13: Writings by Others, undated, 1965-1982, 2001
Tsongas, George, 2001
Miscellaneous, undated, 1965-1968
Broadsides, undated, 1972-1982
Series 3: Correspondence, undated, 1955-2005
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous A-Z, including, 1955-1998
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946-
Martin, Peter J.
Peters, Nancy J. (Joyce)
Robbins, Tom
From Ted Joans, undated, 1967-2001
Miscellaneous A, undated, 1968-2001
Miscellaneous B, Incudes Baraka, Amiri, undated, 1967-2002
Miscellaneous C, Includes: Conner, Bruce and Creeley, Robert, undated, 1960-2000
Miscellaneous D, undated, 1963-1998
Miscellaneous E, undated, 1967-2001
Miscellaneous F, Includes: Felver, Chris, undated, 1979-2002
Miscellaneous G, undated, 1960-2002
Miscellaneous H, undated, 1964-2001
Miscellaneous I, undated, 1964-1993
Miscellaneous J, undated, 1977-1998
Miscellaneous K, Includes: Kerouac, Jack, Knight, Arthur and Koch, Peter, undated, 1963-1990
Miscellaneous L, undated, 1964-1994
Miscellaneous M, Includes, Morgan, BIll, undated, 1958-2002
Miscellaneous N, Includes: Nicosia, Gerald, undated, 1971-2002
Miscellaneous O, 1969-1993
Miscellaneous P, undated, 1966-2001
Miscellaneous Q, R, undated, 1969-1999
Miscellaneous Q, R, undated, 1962-2002
Miscellaneous T, undated, 1962-2000
Miscellaneous U, 1964-2000
Miscellaneous V, undated, 1971-2001
Miscellaneous W, undated, 1968-1996
Miscellaneous X, Y, Z, undated, 1970-1999
The American Book Review, 1982-1998
Amram, David, 1966-1994
Anders, Richard, undated, 1980-1996
Ansen, Alan, 1962-1983
Backwoods Broadsides, 1995-1997
Baker, Houston A. and Charlotte, 1975-1991
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-, 1992-1997
Baxter, Anne, 1992-1996
Beck, Julian, 1905-, 1979-1985
Berger, Nanos, undated, 1996
Besseyre, Francoise, undated, 1977
Bischof, Phyllis, undated, 1980-2003
Black World, 1971-1975
Bliss, Anthony, undated, 1989-2005
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973, 1962-1969
Bowles, Paul, 1910-, undated, 1970-1988
Brown, Cecil, 1943-, undated
Cairo Music Center, undated, 1979-1983
Calder and Boyars, Ltd., 1969-1971
Carmichael, Stokely and Miriam Makeba, 1969
Cassady, Carolyn, 1981-1982
Cesariny, Mario, 1991
Chandra, Sharod, 1980-1981
City Lights Books, undated, 1966-2001
Cortez, Jayne, 1983-1995
Creeley, Robert, 1926-, 1983-1994
Dalachinsky, Steven, 1981-2002
Debris, Kristof, 1992-1995
Denn, Susan, undated, 1970-2002
Deutscher Akadeimischer Austauschdienst, undated, 1980-1984
Di Prima, Diane, 1976-2000
Drawing Center, New York, 1993
Edwards, Melvin, 1985-1995
The Eighth Street Bookshop, Inc., 1962
Ellis, Trey and Wright, Erika, undated, 1992
Emanuel, James A., 1982-2001
Ettrick, Makinde, 1977-1981
Fabre, Michel, 1972-1998
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, undated, 1963-1998
Ford, Charles Henri, 1964-1997
Ford, Charles Henri and Tamang, Indra, undated, 1990-1991
Foye, Raymond, 1957-, 1981-1984
Gascoyne, David, 1916-, undated
George Schiffer, Attorney at Law, 1971
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-, undated, 1958-1990
Gotlieb, Howard B., undated, 1972-1986
Grossman Publishers, Inc., 1970-1971
Guillaume, Francelise, undated, 1971-1972
Halifax, Joan, undated, 1970-1972
Hart, Leroy Bibbs, 1991-1993
Haynes, Jim, 1970-2002
Henderson, David, 1979-1981
Henri, Adrian, 1932-, undated, 1967
Hill and Wang Incorporated, undated, 1964-1995
Holler, Dr. W., 1983
Hotel Ivorie, 1967
Hrebeniak, Michael, undated, 1992-1993
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, 1967
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 1977
Insitute for Contemporary Arts, undated, 1968-1974
Ishima, Gregory [Zio], 1995-2002
John Hay Whitney Foundation, 1960-1963
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1978-1985
Johnson, Petronia, undated, 1968-1970
Jones, Andrea, 1968
Jones, Hettie, 1996-1997
Kaufman, Bob, 1983
Kellner, Michael, undated, 1979-1996
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, undated
Klapheck, Konrad, undated, 1982-2000
Klefinghaus, Syblle, undated, 1983
Knight, Arthur Winfield, 1937- and Kit, 1981 March 31
Knight, Etheridge, 1977
Krim, Seymour, 1922-, 1959-1964
Lan, Alan and Kuzuko, 1997-2002
Lauren-Lam, Lou, 1973
Lina, Rik, 1990-1996
Loftin, Elouise, 1971
Lyle, John, 1981-1991
Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-, 1969-1974
Marion Boyars, Publishers, Ltd., 1976-1998
McPherson, Sandra, 2000-2001
McRath, J.L., 1984-1986
Meersjon, Olivia, undated, 1966-1968
Mohrhenn, Wolfgang, 1980-1988
Morgan, Bill, 1949-, 1985-1986
Morland, Dorothy, 1967
National Museum of African Art, 1984-1985
Newport Beach Elementary School, Newport Beach, Calif., undated
Nicosia, Gerald, 1993-1998
Olympia Press, 1963
Perlstein, Laurence, undated, 1991
Pillet, Alain Pierre, undated, 1972-2001
Pool, Rosey E., 1961-1962
Rampersad, Arnold, 1976-1987
Reed, Ishmael, undated, 1973-1997
Reisner, Robert George, 1963
Reznicek, Pavel, 1984-1987
Roditi, Edouard, 1910-, 1977
Ronald Hubbs, Literary Agency, 1969-1970
Rosemont, Franklin and Penelope, 1991-1997
Rudin, Beth, 1983-1989
Saar, Betye, 1984-1997
Sandler, Joan, undated, 1971-1972
Senechal, Ro, undated, 1971
Shore, Hy, 1969-1997
Skarstedt, Sonja A., 1987-1991
Smith, Hale, 1978-1981
Stovall, Tannie and Jean, undated, 1984
Stuhlmann, Gunther, 1970-1997
Tabb, Eric, undated, 1991-1993
Tamang, Indra Bahadur, undated
Thompson, Robert Farris, 1980
Tomoko, Suga, 1992
Tsongas, George, undated, 1988-1989
Uitgeverij En Boekhandel Van Gennep N.V., 1971-1973
University of Sussex, School of African and Asian Studies, undated, 1971
Vancrevel, Laurens, 1970-1992
Vikholt, Merete, 1970-1971
The Village Voice, 1956-1973
Von Dermei, Carol, undated, 1982
Walsh, Joy, undated, 1978-1989
Welsh, Nicolai, 1961-1988
White, Carol, 1970-1971
Wilcock, John, undated, 1994
Wildey, Lynne, undated
Wilentz, Elias, 1972-1985
Wilentz, Ted, 1962-1995
Youngblood, Shay, 1992-2001
Zebron, Pat, 1971
Wright, Julia undated
Zwerin, Mike, 1978-1996
No Surname, Alem, undated, 1971
No Surname, Andrew, 1968-1969
No Surname, Chinks, 1971
No Surname, [Ginny], undated, 1972
No Surname, Joanne, 1969
No Surname, Ra, undated, 1971
No Surname, Race, 1966-1969
No Surname, Richelle, undated, 1977
No Surname, Sarah, undated, 1971
No Surname, Tess, undated
No Surname, Miscellaneous A-K, undated, 1961-2001
No Surname, Miscellaneous, L-Z, undated, 1969-2001
Unidentified, undated, 1967-1996
Envelopes without Correspondence, undated, 1978-2002
Letters from Others to Others, 1970-1992
Oversize Correspondence, 1986, 1993
Series 4: Professional Career, undated, 1957-2002
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Invitations to Read, 1955-2000
Biographies, undated, 1974-1996
Bibliographies, undated, 1975
Resumes, undated
Readings and Exhibitions, 1961-1990
Flyers, Art Exhibitions, undated, 1959-1992
Flyers, Art Exhibitions by Others, 1989
Flyers, Poetry Readings, Designed by Ted Joans, undated, 1969-1995
Flyers, Poetry Readings, undated, 1968-2002
Flyers, Poetry Readings by Others, undated, 1959-1989
Flyers, Publication, "Yugen 5," 1959
Flyers, Miscellaneous, undated, 1973
Posters, Poetry Readings, undated, 1975-2002
Posters, Miscellaneous, undated, 1968-1969
Posters, Miscellaneous, [Ted Joans and Saxophonist in Concert.], 1969
Programs, Art Exhibitions, undated, 1958
Programs, Art Exhibitions by Others, 1967, 1987
Programs, Lectures and Symposia, 1976-1991
Programs, Poetry Readings, undated, 1965-2002
Programs, Poetry Readings by Others, 1979
Programs, Theater, undated
Poetry Readings, Schedule, 1985
Press Releases, undated, 1980-2001
Publishers Catalogs, 1979, 2000
Poems in Publications, American Negro Poetry, 1963
Poems in Publications, Black Culture Weekly, Black Dialogue, Jazz Magazine and Surrealism Here & Now, undated, 1968-1971
Poems in Publications, Other Scenes, The Village Voice, and The Paris Metro, 1968-1978
Artwork in Publications, Cover Art for Yeah, 1957
Tributes, Poems by Others for Ted Joans, 1972-1990
Reviews, 1983
Passion Magazine Cover, Photo by Gaston Bergeret, 1986 Jan.
Articles and Newsclippings about Ted Joans, undated, 1957-2001
Clippings, 1965-1997
Contracts, undated, 1961-2001
Permissions, 1961-1995
Honoraria, Payments and Advances, undated, 1960-1987
Conferences, 3rd Annual Black Power Conference, 1968
Conferences, 3rd National Conference on Afro-American Writers, 1977
Conferences, Towards a Black University, 1968
Conferences, National Black Power Conference, undated
Festivals, 1st Pan African Cultural Festival, 1969
Festivals, Crossing Border Festival, 1993
1997 Langston Hughes, Young Poets Competition, 1997
Ephemera, undated
Apperances, undated, 1990-2002
Series 5: Artwork, undated, 1953-2003
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Untitled Painting, 1963
Collage Book, "The Revolving Book. By Proust," undated
Collage Book, undated
Collage, Untitled, 1966
Collage, "The Real Black Power," 1967
Collage, "Jazz Yes, Jive No," 1970
Collage, Untitled, undated
Collages, undated, 1965-1966
Drawing on Copy of Jack Kerouac Letter, 2002
Drawing of Jack Kerouac, 1988
Drawings of Rhinoceri, undated, 1954-1964
Drawings and Sketches, undated, 1953-2000
Sketch Book, 1999-2003
Sketch Pad, undated
Portraits of Ted Joans, undated, 1954-1959
Artwork by Others, 1968, 1991
Series 6: Personal Papers, undated, 1952-2003
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Scrapbook, "Ted Joans," circa 1950s
Photocopies of Original Photographs of Ted Joans, undated
Collection of Mohamed El Yacoubi, circa 1960s
Rental Agreement and Receipt Paid Forms for Apartment in Tangier, Morocco, 1963
Ephemera, undated, 1957-2001
Photographs, 1952-2002
Miscellaneous, undated, 1988-2000
Ted Joans Related Articles and Materials, 1983-2003
Patten, Brian, Poem and Correspondence, circa 1971
Series 7: Newsclippings, Flyers, Newsletters, Programs and Newspapers, Various Topics, undated, 1941-2000
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Newsclippings, Africa, undated, 1963-1973
Newsclippings, Arts and Culture, undated, 1955-1970
Newsclippings, Beat Culture, undated, 1958-2001
Newsclippings, Black Panthers, undated, 1968-1971
Newsclippings, Black Power, undated, 1959-1972
Newsclippings, Blacks in America, 1963-1969
Newsclippings, Carmichael, Stokley, undated, 1966-1968
Newsclippings, Jones, LeRoi, undated, 1965-1968
Newsclippings, King Jr., Martin Luther, undated, 1964-1968
Newsclippings, Malcolm X, undated
Newsclippings, Race Riots, undated, 1966-1968
Newsclippings, Miscellaneous, undated, 1941-1971
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Africa, undated, 1958-1970
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, After Ginsberg, 1967-1997
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Arts and Culture, undated, 1958-1990
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Black Panthers, undated, 1968
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Black Power, undated, 1967-1972
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Lumumba, Patrice, undated, 1968
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Palestine National Liberation Movement, undated
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Protest, undated
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNCC), undated, 1967-1968
Flyers, Newsletters and Programs, Teducational Bird Bits, 1959-2000
Newspapers, African, undated, 1962-1969
Newspapers, Black Power, undated, 1964-1971
Newspapers, Radical, British, undated, 1967-1969
Newspapers, Radical, United States, 1969-1971
Series 8: Writings, Materials and Documents, "A Black Man's Guide to Africa," undated, 1961-1972
Writings, Introduction, 1972
Writings, Liberia, 1972
Writings, Sierra Leone, 1972
Writings, Senegal, 1972
Writings, Miscellaneous Notes, 1972
Department of State, United States, Passport Office and Africa Information, undated, 1969
Algeria, undated, 1969
Botswana, undated, 1968-1970
Cameroon, undated, 1970
Central African Republic, undated, 1970
Chad, undated
Congo, undated, 1969-1971
East Africa, undated
Egypt, undated, 1965, 1970
Ethiopia, undated, 1971
Dahomey, undated, 1970
Gabon, undated, 1970
Gambia, undated
Ghana, undated, 1969-1972
Guinea, 1967
Lagos, undated
Liberia, undated, 1968, 1970
Libya, undated
Madagascar, undated
Malawi, undated, 1971
Mali, undated
Mauritania, undated
Mauritius, undated, 1968-1969
Niger, undated, 1963, 1969-1970
Nigeria, undated, 1966
Rwanda, undated
Senegal, undated, 1966-1970
Sierra Leone, undated, 1964-1969
Somalia, undated, 1970-1971
Tanzania, undated
Togo, undated, 1962-1970
Tunisia, undated, 1969-1970
Uganda, undated, 1969-1971
Upper Volta, undated
Zambia, undated, 1970
Miscellaneous, undated, 1961, 1970
UN Poster of Nation Flags and Map of Africa, undated, 1961