Bernadette Mayer Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2019
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: Bernadette Mayer Papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0420
Physical Description: 30.0 Linear feet (70 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize file folders)
Date (inclusive): 1958-2017
Abstract: Papers of Bernadette Mayer, writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. Most often associated with the New York School, Mayer uses compositional methods such as chance operations, collage and cut-up. Materials include correspondence with writers, artists, publishers, and friends; manuscripts and typescripts; notebooks and loose notes; teaching notes; audio recordings and photographs; and biographical materials such as calendars, datebooks and ephemera.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Bernadette Mayer Papers document Mayer's career as a writer and teacher and, to a lesser extent, her career as a publisher and editor. Additionally, the papers reflect the broader community of artists and writers known as the New York School. Materials include correspondence from writers, artists, publishers, and friends; notebooks and loose notes; manuscripts and typescripts of Mayer's works; teaching notes; audio recordings and photographs; and biographical materials such as calendars, datebooks and ephemera.
Accession Processed in 1998
Arranged in eleven series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) NOTEBOOKS, 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 6) TEACHING MATERIAL, 7) EDITING MATERIAL, 8) EPHEMERA, 9) PHOTOGRAPHS, 10) SOUND RECORDINGS, and 11) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.
Accession Processed in 2019
Arranged in four series: 12) BIOGRAPHICAL, 13) CORRESPONDENCE, 14) WRITINGS, and 15) TEACHING MATERIALS.

Biography

Bernadette Mayer was born on May 12, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. from the New School for Social Research in 1967, shortly after which she began teaching there on a part-time, semi-permanent basis. From 1967-1969, Mayer and conceptual artist Vito Acconci edited the experimental journal 0 to 9, which published work from experimentalists in a range of genres and media. In the early 1970s, Mayer lived with film-maker Ed Bowes, with whom she collaborated on numerous projects. In 1975, Mayer married writer and publisher Lewis Warsh, with whom she had three children. Warsh and Mayer collaboratively edited United Artists press, which published a number of seminal books of poetry, including Ted Berrigan's Sonnets and Mayer's own Utopia.
Throughout the 1980s, Mayer was director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York where, as well as teaching writing workshops, she produced the Poetry Project's reading series. Mayer's position made her a central figure in the community of artists and writers gathered at that time in New York City's Lower East Side, and many of her students from this period—Lee Ann Brown and Lisa Jarnot among them—have gone on to become writers themselves.
As a writer, Mayer is most often associated with the New York School, a rubric which refers to composers, painters, visual artists, conceptual artists, and choreographers in addition to writers. Mayer's use of compositional methods such as chance-operation, collage, and cut-up identify her as an artist pursuing concerns similar to those of John Cage, Jackson Mac Low or Frank O'Hara—central figures in the New York School—as well as more contemporary figures associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing. But Mayer's work is also significantly influenced by modernist figures such as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, as well as by her background in classical studies, evident in her syllabi, reading lists and in her informal translations of Catullus.
Mayer's publications include: Ceremony Latin (1964), Story (1968), Moving (1971), Memory (1975), Studying Hunger (1975), Poetry (1976), Eruditio ex Memoria (1977), The Golden Book of Words (1978), Midwinter Day (1982), Utopia (1984), Sonnets (1989), The Formal Field of Kissing (1990), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), Proper Name and Other Stories (1996), Another Smashed Pinecone (1998), Two Haloed Mourners (1998), Scarlet Tanager (2005), The Cave (with Clark Coolidge, 2008), Poetry State Forest (2008), Ethics of Sleep (2011), The Helens of Troy, New York (2013), and At Maureen's (2013).

Preferred Citation

Bernadette Mayer Papers, MSS 420. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 1996 and 2018.

Restrictions

Original audiovisual media and unprocessed digital media are restricted. Researchers may inquire about access to these materials in advance of their visit.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Related Materials

Bernadette Mayer. Letters to Rosemary Mayer, MSS 520. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Bernadette Mayer. Moving typescript, MSS 480. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Bernadette Mayer. United Artists records, MSS 12. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American poetry -- 20th century
Poetry -- Editing
Women poets -- United States
Mayer, Bernadette -- Archives
Warsh, Lewis
Silliman, Ronald, 1946- -- Correspondence
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931- -- Correspondence
Notley, Alice, 1945- -- Correspondence
Mac Low, Jackson -- Correspondence
Whalen, Philip -- Correspondence
Warsh, Lewis -- Correspondence
Waldman, Anne, 1945- -- Correspondence
Berkson, Bill -- Correspondence
Corbett, William, 1942- -- Correspondence
Banks, Russell, 1948- -- Correspondence
Coolidge, Clark, 1939- -- Correspondence
Andrews, Bruce, 1948- -- Correspondence
Berrigan, Ted -- Correspondence
Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 -- Correspondence
Bernstein, Charles, 1950- -- Correspondence
Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991 -- Correspondence
Howe, Fanny -- Correspondence
Hejinian, Lyn -- Correspondence
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 -- Correspondence

 

Accession Processed in 1998

 

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL: Mayer's calendars and datebooks for the years 1975-1994, address books, biographical abstracts, interviews with Mayer, and grant applications. Additional biographical material may be found in Series 4, 8, 9, and 10.
Box 1, Folder 1

Address books

Box 1, Folder 2-10

Calendars 1975-1977, 1981-1986

Box 2, Folder 1-9

Calendars 1987-1994

Box 3, Folder 1

Conversation between Lee Ann Brown and Bernadette Mayer - Typescript ca. 1993

Box 3, Folder 2

Educational Press Association of America - Distinguished Achievement Award 1989

Box 3, Folder 3

Grant applications 1987 - 1992

Box 3, Folder 4-6

Interview with Bernadette Mayer by Ann Rower - Typescripts 1984 October 18

Box 3, Folder 7

Interview with Bernadette Mayer, by Clark Coolidge? Typescript

Box 3, Folder 8

Introduction of Mayer as a speaker, by Ed Friedman - Typescript

Box 3, Folder 9

National Endowment for the Arts. Final Report - Fellowship in Poetry 1979-1980

Box 3, Folder 10

New School for Social Research - Bachelor's degree 1967

Box 3, Folder 11

Passport 1972

Box 3, Folder 12

Reading and speaking contracts 1978 - 1992

Box 3, Folder 13-14

Reading announcements

Box 3, Folder 15

Resumes

Box 3, Folder 16

Reading lists

Box 3, Folder 17

Skyline, Saint Saviour High School, Brooklyn, New York [Mayer was co-editor] 1958 - 1962

Box 3, Folder 18

Who's Who of American Women - Biographical note

Box 3, Folder 19

Zines - Addresses of small presses and literary magazines

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: The most extensive series in the collection, containing letters from a wide range of literary and artistic figures. Correspondents include including Bill Berkson, Charlotte Carter, Clark Coolidge, William Corbett, Ed Freidman, Fanny Howe, Laura Riding Jackson, Nick Piombino, Anne Waldman, and Hannah Weiner. Also included are substantial letters from Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, and others associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing; younger writers or students such as Lee Ann Brown, Lisa Jarnot and Kristin Prevallet; visual and conceptual artists such as Vito Acconci, Ed Bowes and George Schneeman; family members; and numerous personal friends. In addition to letters, the series also contains enclosures such as personal gifts or publications sent to Mayer, the most noteworthy of which is a group of Anne Waldman's notebooks dedicated to Mayer.
Box 3, Folder 20-21

Unidentified correspondents - Incoming and outgoing correspondence

Box 3, Folder 22

13th Moon 1974 - 1976

Box 3, Folder 23

A - Miscellaneous

Box 3, Folder 24

Abbott, Steve 1983

Box 4, Folder 1

Acconi, Vito 1963

Box 4, Folder 2

Adam, Helen

Box 4, Folder 3

The Alternative Press 1993

Box 4, Folder 4

Altieri, Charles

Box 4, Folder 5

Andrews, Bruce 1973 - 1976

Box 4, Folder 6

Armantrout, Rae 1989

Box 4, Folder 7

Arthurs, Meg 1991 - 1994

Box 4, Folder 8

B - Miscellaneous

Box 4, Folder 9

Baker, Peter N., Jr. 1993 - 2003

Box 4, Folder 10

Banks, Lea 1980 - 1982

Box 4, Folder 11

Banks, Russell 1980 - 1987

Box 4, Folder 12

Barg, Barbara 1981 - 1983

Box 4, Folder 13

Barnes, Susan 1990

Box 4, Folder 14

Beckett, Tom 1981

Box 4, Folder 15

Benson, Steve 1981

Box 4, Folder 16

Berkson, Bill 1980 - 1995

Box 4, Folder 17

Berkson, Lynn 1975 - 1979

Box 4, Folder 18

Berninger, Wayne 1993 - 1995

Box 4, Folder 19

Bernstein, Charles 1978 - 2004

Box 4, Folder 20

Berrigan, Ted 1969 - 1983

Box 4, Folder 21

Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei 1982

Box 4, Folder 22

Blanchard, David 1992 - 1993

Box 4, Folder 23

Borrus, Beth 1990-1995

Box 4, Folder 24

Bowes, Catch and Ed Sr. (Ed Bowes's parents) 1970 - 1972

Box 5, Folder 1

Bowes, Ed 1967 - 1979

Box 5, Folder 2

Bowes, Tom 1967 - 1993

Box 5, Folder 3

Brainard, Joe 1980 - 1992

Box 5, Folder 4

Brenner, Summer 1980 - 1984

Box 5, Folder 5

Bricken, Patsy 1990 - 1991

Box 5, Folder 6

Brody, Jim 1969 - 1985

Box 5, Folder 7

Brown, Jean 1977 - 1980

Box 5, Folder 8

Brown, Lee Ann 1985 - 1995

Box 5, Folder 9

Brownstein, Michael 1973

Box 5, Folder 10

Budenz, Julia 1985 - 1986

Box 5, Folder 11

Burckhardt, Rudy 1982

Box 5, Folder 12

Burk, Ronnie 1983

Box 5, Folder 13

Butterick, George 1986

Box 5, Folder 14

Bye, Reed 1986

Box 5, Folder 15

Bynum, Tom 1990 - 1995

Box 5, Folder 16

C - Miscellaneous

Box 5, Folder 17

Cage, John 1982 - 1989

Box 5, Folder 18

Cabiles, Claire 1979 - 1991

Box 5, Folder 19

Calas, Alex 1992 - 1995

Box 5, Folder 20

Callahan, Eileen 1978 - 1986

Box 5, Folder 21

Callahan, Robert 1978 - 1982

Box 5, Folder 22

Canter, Art 1990 - 1993

Box 5, Folder 23

Carey, Steve 1984

Box 5, Folder 24

Carroll, Paul 1971 - 1972

Box 5, Folder 25

Carter, Charlotte 1974 - 1991

Box 6, Folder 1

Chadwick, Cydney 1990 - 1991

Box 6, Folder 2

Chasnoff, Julius and Julia 1978 - 1994

Box 6, Folder 3

Chester, Laura 1987 - 1992

Box 6, Folder 4

Cleary, Beverly

Box 6, Folder 5

Codrescu, Andrei 1980 - 1994

Box 6, Folder 6

Cohn, Jim 1985 - 1991

Box 6, Folder 7

Collom, Jack 1987 - 1994

Box 6, Folder 8

Columbia Scholastic Press Association 1988 - 1989

Box 6, Folder 9

Coolidge, Clark 1973 - 1995

Box 6, Folder 10

Coolidge, Susan 1987 - 1992

Box 6, Folder 11

Coolidge, Sylvia 1985 - 1993

Box 6, Folder 12

Cooper, Dennis 1983

Box 6, Folder 13

Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines 1969 - 1983

Box 6, Folder 14

Cope, David 1988 - 1994

Box 6, Folder 15-16

Corbett, Bill 1977 - 1995

Box 6, Folder 17

Creative Artists Public Service Program 1975 - 1983

Box 6, Folder 18

Creeley, Robert 1980 - 2002

Box 6, Folder 19

Cruz, Victor Hernandez

Box 6, Folder 20

Cummings, Paul 1983 - 1995

Box 6, Folder 21

Cunningham, Merce 1992

Box 6, Folder 22

Curtis Brown Ltd. (Ellen Levine) 1977

Box 7, Folder 1

D - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 2

Davidson, Michael 1979

Box 7, Folder 3

Davies, Alan 1974 - 1983

Box 7, Folder 4

Decker, Helen 1990 - 1992

Box 7, Folder 5-6

DeCoursey, Peggy 1973 - 1997

Box 7, Folder 7

DeNoyelles, William 1983 - 1993

Box 7, Folder 8

Devennie, Diane 1975

Box 7, Folder 9

The Denver Art Museum 1979

Box 7, Folder 10

Dinsmore, Danika 1992 - 1995

Box 7, Folder 11

Donegan, Patricia 1988

Box 7, Folder 12

Donofrio, Beverly 1984

Box 7, Folder 13

Downes, Rackstraw

Box 7, Folder 14

Dreyer, Lynne 1976

Box 7, Folder 15

Durrell, Brad

Box 7, Folder 16

E - Miscellaneous

Box 7, Folder 17

Eigner, Larry 1987

Box 7, Folder 18

Einzig, Barbara 1974 - 1987

Box 7, Folder 19

Ellis, Simone (Simone O) 1979 - 1980

Box 7, Folder 20

Ellis, Stephen 1988 - 1991

Box 7, Folder 21

Elmslie, Kenward 1979 - 1989

Box 7, Folder 22

Enslin, Theodore 1989

Box 8, Folder 1-2

Ensslin, John 1969 - 1979

Box 8, Folder 3

Epoch 1986 - 1992

Box 8, Folder 4

Eshleman, Clayton 1971 - 1973

Box 8, Folder 5

F - Miscellaneous

Box 8, Folder 6

Fagin, Larry 1982 - 2002

Box 8, Folder 7

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 1987

Box 8, Folder 8

Field, Edward 1990

Box 8, Folder 9

Fischer, Norman 1980 - 1983

Box 8, Folder 10

Foley, Jack 1986

Box 8, Folder 11

Foster, Ed 1982 - 1994

Box 8, Folder 12

Fox, Elizabeth 1979 - 1986

Box 8, Folder 13

Frances, Linda 1983 - 1984

Box 8, Folder 14

Friedman, Ed 1970 - 1989

Box 8, Folder 15

Friedman, Elizabeth 1989

Box 8, Folder 16

Freilicher, Melvyn 1971 - 1992

Box 8, Folder 17

Fyman, Cliff 1982 - 1995

General

Includes photographs.
Box 8, Folder 18

G - Miscellaneous

Box 8, Folder 19

Galet, Josh 1987 - 1994

Box 8, Folder 20

Gallagher, Liam 1976 - 1984

Box 8, Folder 21

Gander, Forrest 1986

Box 8, Folder 22

Gardner, Keith 1992 - 1994

Box 8, Folder 23

Gerber, Yancy

Box 8, Folder 24

Ginsberg, Allen 1989

Box 8, Folder 25

Giorno, John 1973 - 1994

Box 8, Folder 26

Gitin, David

Box 8, Folder 27

Gizzi, Michael

Box 8, Folder 28

Gizzi, Peter 1995

Box 9, Folder 1

Good, Philip

Box 9, Folder 2

Gordon 1986

Box 9, Folder 3

Graham, Dan 1970 - 1991

Box 9, Folder 4

Greenspan, Eliot 1989 - 1994

Box 9, Folder 5

Grossinger, Richard 1989 - 2013

Box 9, Folder 6

Guest, Barbara 1994

Box 9, Folder 7

Gullo, Gary 1991 - 1993

Box 9, Folder 8

H - Miscellaneous

Box 9, Folder 9

Hackman, Neil 1972 - 1974

Box 9, Folder 10

Hall, Ree 1978

Box 9, Folder 11

Hanaoka, Makiko 1987 - 1988

Box 9, Folder 12

Hard Press 1993 - 1994

Box 9, Folder 13

Harrison, Lee 1987 - 1991

Box 9, Folder 14

Harwood, Lee 1981

Box 9, Folder 15

Hejinian, Lyn 1981 - 1989

Box 9, Folder 16

Henning, Barbara 1993

Box 9, Folder 17

Higgins, Dick 1969 - 1977

Box 9, Folder 18

Hollo, Anselm 1972

Box 9, Folder 19

Holman, Bob 1980 - 1989

Box 9, Folder 20

Hornick, Lita (Kulchur Foundation) 1973 - 1994

Box 9, Folder 21

Howe, Fanny 1980 - 1996

Box 9, Folder 22

Howe, Susan 1980 - 1981

Box 9, Folder 23

I - Miscellaneous

Box 9, Folder 24

Irby, Kenneth 1985

Box 9, Folder 25

Ivanovic, Deyan 1990

Box 10, Folder 1

J - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 2

Jackson, Laura Riding 1965 - 1986

General

Includes photograph of Laura Riding Jackson and Bernadette Mayer.
Box 10, Folder 3

Jarnot, Lisa 1992 - 1994

Box 10, Folder 4

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1981 - 1992

Box 10, Folder 5

Johns, Jasper 1969

Box 10, Folder 6

K - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 7

Kashner, Sam 1978

Box 10, Folder 8

Katz, Alex and Ada 1971 - 1992

Box 10, Folder 9

Katz, Vincent 1984 - 2009

Box 10, Folder 10

Kearney, Margaret 1975 - 1990

Box 10, Folder 11

Kidde, Katherine 1984

Box 10, Folder 12

Killian, Kevin and Dodie Bellamy 1989 - 1999

Box 10, Folder 13

Kostelanetz, Richard 1969 - 1974

Box 10, Folder 14

Kushner, Bill 1980 - 2003

Box 10, Folder 15

L - Miscellaneous

Box 10, Folder 16

Lally, Michael 1971 - 1982

Box 10, Folder 17

Lance, Jeanne 1981 - 1988

Box 10, Folder 18

Lange, Art 1976 - 1981

Box 10, Folder 19

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1982

Box 10, Folder 20

Leblond, Pauline 1992

Box 10, Folder 21

Lehman, David 1978 - 1988

Box 10, Folder 22

Lenhart, Gary 1982 - 1986

Box 10, Folder 23

Lenox Library Association 1979

Box 10, Folder 24

Levine, Steve 1978 - 1991

Box 10, Folder 25

Levitt, Annabel 1975 - 1979

Box 10, Folder 26

Levy, Andrew 1987 - 1992

Box 11, Folder 1

Lichtenstein, Roy 1969

Box 11, Folder 2

Liff, Seena 1985 - 1991

Box 11, Folder 3

Lifshin, Lynn 1981

Box 11, Folder 4

Long News: In the Short Century 1991

Box 11, Folder 5

Luster, Helen 1979 - 1983

Box 11, Folder 6

M - Miscellaneous

Box 11, Folder 7

Mac Low, Jackson 1976 - 1993

Box 11, Folder 8

Malanga, Gerard 1966 - 1989

Box 11, Folder 9

Malmude, Steve 1987

Box 11, Folder 10

Masters, Greg 1982 - 1986

Box 11, Folder 11

Matthews, Harry 1969

Box 11, Folder 12

Mattingly, George 1973 - 1974

Box 11, Folder 13-14

Mayer, Rosemary 1963 - 1980

Box 11, Folder 15

McGrath, Connell 1990

Box 11, Folder 16

Mechem, James 1976 - 1992

Box 11, Folder 17

Meltzer, David 1972

Box 11, Folder 18

Messing, Robin 1975 - 1977

Box 11, Folder 19

Metcalf, Paul 1971 - 1984

Box 11, Folder 20

Mikolowski, Ken 1984 - 1988

Box 11, Folder 21

Miller, David 1973 - 1978

Box 11, Folder 22

Monaghan, Timothy (The Ledge) 1986 - 1988

Box 11, Folder 23

Moore College of Art 1977 - 1978

Box 11, Folder 24

Moran, Judy 1979 - 1980

Box 11, Folder 25

Moxley, Jennifer 1991 - 2002

Box 11, Folder 26

Mullen, David

Box 11, Folder 27

Murphy, Grace 1976 - 1986

Box 11, Folder 28

Murphy, Mrs. (Grace's mother)

Box 11, Folder 29

Myles, Eileen 1980 - 1992

Box 12, Folder 1

N - Miscellaneous

Box 12, Folder 2

Naropa Institute 1977

Box 12, Folder 3

National Endowment for the Arts 1971 - 1991

Box 12, Folder 4

National Poetry Foundation 1985

Box 12, Folder 5

New College of California (John Effing and Louis Patler) 1985 - 1986

Box 12, Folder 6

New Directions (Barbara Epler) 1983 - 1994

Box 12, Folder 7

New School for Social Research 1973 - 1995

Box 12, Folder 8

New Wilderness Foundation 1978 - 1984

Box 12, Folder 9

New York Foundation for the Arts 1990

Box 12, Folder 10

Noel, Susan 1978 - 1988

Box 12, Folder 11

Nolan, Pat

Box 12, Folder 12

North Atlantic Books (Richard Grossinger) 1980 - 1985

Box 12, Folder 13

North Carolina Arts Council 1987

Box 12, Folder 14

North, Charles 1975 - 1985

Box 12, Folder 15

Notley, Alice 1967 - 1983

Box 12, Folder 16

Nunley, Dick 1979 - 1982

Box 12, Folder 17

O - Miscellaneous

Box 12, Folder 18

o-blek 1987 - 1988

Box 12, Folder 19

Orlovsky, Peter 1978 - 1982

Box 12, Folder 20

Owen, Maureen 1980 - 1991

Box 12, Folder 21

Owen, Robert 1980 - 1982

Box 12, Folder 22

P - Miscellaneous

Box 12, Folder 23

Packer Collegiate Institute 1990 - 1993

Box 12, Folder 24

Padgett, Ron 1973 - 1984

Box 12, Folder 25

Palmer, Michael 1976 - 1994

Box 12, Folder 26

Partisan Review 1974 - 1978

Box 12, Folder 27

Perelman, Bob 1979

Box 12, Folder 28

Perreault, John 1970 - 1973

Box 12, Folder 29

Persea Books, Inc. (Simon Schuchat) 1976 - 1977

Box 12, Folder 30

Pettet, Simon 1990 - 1995

Box 12, Folder 31

Phipps, Wanda 1986 - 1990

Box 12, Folder 32

Pindell, Howardena 1990

Box 13, Folder 1

Piombino, Nick 1972 - 1998

Box 13, Folder 2

Piper, Paul S. 1982 - 1984

Box 13, Folder 3

Poetry Center 1978 - 2001

Box 13, Folder 4

Poetry Project 1974 - 1994

Box 13, Folder 5

Pratt, Tim 1983 - 1990

Box 13, Folder 6

Prevallet, Kristin 1992 - 1994

Box 13, Folder 7

R - Miscellaneous

Box 13, Folder 8

Ratcliffe, Stephen 1982 - 1984

Box 13, Folder 9

Raworth, Tom 1990

Box 13, Folder 10

Ricereto, Danine 1989 - 1991

Box 13, Folder 11

Rizza, Gerard 1983 - 1988

Box 13, Folder 12

Robinson, Elizabeth 1984 - 1986

Box 13, Folder 13

Rodefer, Stephen 1980

Box 13, Folder 14

Rosenthal, Bob 1981 - 1982

Box 13, Folder 15

Rosenthal, Shelley 1973 - 1982

Box 13, Folder 16

Rothenberg, Jerome 1972 - 1982

Box 13, Folder 17

Rower, Ann 1974

Box 13, Folder 18

Rubinfine, David 1975

Box 13, Folder 19

S - Miscellaneous

Box 13, Folder 20

Sanders, Edward 1983 - 1998

Box 13, Folder 21

Saroyam, Aram 1965

Box 13, Folder 22

Savage, Tom 1981 - 1996

Box 13, Folder 23

Scala, Suzanne 1980 - 1992

Box 14, Folder 1

Scalapino, Leslie 1989 - 1994

Box 14, Folder 2

Schelling, Andrew 1992 - 1994

Box 14, Folder 3

Schjeldahl, Peter 1974 - 1979

Box 14, Folder 4

Schneeman, Elio 1980 - 1982

Box 14, Folder 5

Schneeman, George 1973 - 1977

Box 14, Folder 6

Schnieder, David 1981 - 1986

Box 14, Folder 7

Schuchat, Simon 1978 - 1983

Box 14, Folder 8

Selby, Spencer

Box 14, Folder 9

Sher, Gail 1982 - 1985

Box 14, Folder 10

Sherry, James 1991

Box 14, Folder 11

Shoughrue, Vaughn

Box 14, Folder 12

Sikelianos, Eleni 1989 - 1996

Box 14, Folder 13

Silliman, Ron 1973 - 1998

Box 14, Folder 14

Silverman, Herschel 1978 - 1994

Box 14, Folder 15

Simon, Meg 1978 - 1994

Box 14, Folder 16

Small Press Traffic 1986 - 1989

General note

Small Press Distribution.
Box 14, Folder 17

Smedman, Lorna 1978 - 1984

Box 14, Folder 18

Solan, Miriam 1988 - 1993

Box 14, Folder 19

Sollfrey, Stacey

Box 14, Folder 20

Sondheim, Alan 1973

Box 14, Folder 21

Soyer, Rebecca and Raphael 1973 - 1985

Box 14, Folder 22

Spahr, Juliana 1993

Box 14, Folder 23

St. Germain, Rita 1978 - 1979

Box 14, Folder 24

St. Luke's School 1988 - 1993

Box 14, Folder 25

St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery 1974 - 1982

Box 14, Folder 26

Stamos, Peter 1974 - 1979

Box 14, Folder 27

Stearns, Ethelyn 1986 - 1992

Box 14, Folder 28

Stearns, Todd 1986

Box 14, Folder 29

Strauss, David Levi

Box 14, Folder 30

Stroffolino, Chris 1990

Box 14, Folder 31

Stuart, Philip 1985

Box 14, Folder 32

Sukenick, Ron 1975 - 1977

Box 14, Folder 33

Sullivan, Gary and Marta 1991 - 1994

Box 14, Folder 34

Sullivan, Mary 1987 - 1989

Box 14, Folder 35

Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli) 1977 - 1995

Box 14, Folder 36

T - Miscellaneous

Box 14, Folder 37

Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 1991

Box 14, Folder 38

Tarn, Nathaniel 1974 - 1976

Box 14, Folder 39

Tart, Indrek 1989 - 1990

Box 15, Folder 1

Tauger, Gayle 1991

Box 15, Folder 2

Teachers and Writers Collaborative 1982 - 1994

Box 15, Folder 3

Templeton, Fiona 1980

Box 15, Folder 4

Thomas, Heather

Box 15, Folder 5

Thomson, Virgil 1972

Box 15, Folder 6

Tillman, Lynne 1988

Box 15, Folder 7

Tysh, Chris 1987

Box 15, Folder 8

U - Miscellaneous

Box 15, Folder 9

University of California, San Diego 1982 - 1993

Box 15, Folder 10

V - Miscellaneous

Box 15, Folder 11

Valoritis, Nanos 1980 - 1981

Box 15, Folder 12

Vasovic, Nebojsa 1989 - 1991

Box 15, Folder 13

Veitch, Tom 1971

Box 15, Folder 14

Vermont, Charles 1973 - 1992

Box 15, Folder 15

Viscusi, Mr. and Mrs. J. 1963

Box 15, Folder 16

Viscusi, Robert 1963

Box 15, Folder 17

W - Miscellaneous

Box 15, Folder 18

Wachtel, Andrea 1971

Box 15, Folder 19-21

Waldman, Anne 1969 - 1995

General

Includes journals and notebooks of writings by Waldman.
Box 15, Folder 22

Waldman, Frances 1970 - 1991

Box 16, Folder 1

Waldrop, Keith 1993 - 2009

Box 16, Folder 2

Waldrop, Rosmarie 1980 - 1994

Box 16, Folder 3

Warsh, Lewis 1967 - 1993

Box 16, Folder 4

Warsh, Marie 1988 - 1994

Box 16, Folder 5

Warsh, Max 1988 - 1990

Box 16, Folder 6

Warsh, Sophia 1987 - 1990

Box 16, Folder 7

Washington Review of the Arts 1982 - 1984

Box 16, Folder 8

Watkins, Ben

Box 16, Folder 9

Watten, Barrett 1974 - 1986

Box 16, Folder 10

Weigel, Tom 1983

Box 16, Folder 11

Weinberger, Eliot 1984

Box 16, Folder 12-13

Weiner, Hannah 1974 - 1992

Box 16, Folder 14

Welsh, H. 1981 - 1982

Box 16, Folder 15

Wessells, Henry W., IV 1987

Box 16, Folder 16

Whalen, Philip 1967 - 1985

Box 16, Folder 17

Wilentz, Ted 1968 - 1992

Box 16, Folder 18

Willis, Elizabeth 1992 - 1994

Box 16, Folder 19

Wilson, Edmund 1976

Box 16, Folder 20

Winch, Terence 1983 - 1988

Box 16, Folder 21

Winkfield, Trevor 1970

Box 16, Folder 22

Woolf, Doug 1978 - 1986

Box 16, Folder 23

Worsley, Dale and Elizabeth 1988 - 1994

Box 16, Folder 24

Wright, C.D. 1986 - 1991

Box 16, Folder 25

Y - Miscellaneous

Box 16, Folder 26

Yorty, Don 1986

Box 16, Folder 27

Young, Geoffrey 1983 - 1986

Box 16, Folder 28

Z - Miscellaneous

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS : Arranged in three subseries: A) Collected, B) Uncollected, and C) School Papers.
A) Collected: Manuscript and typescript drafts of Mayer's published and unpublished writings, arranged alphabetically by title. Most notable among the former are the slides and reel-to-reel tape recordings that formed the basis for Memory, and extensive notes and source materials for Utopia. Most notable among the latter are a collaboration with Alice Notley, a collaboration with Bill Berkson, longer works of Mayer's such as "Mind of Hour," and extensions of published works such as The Studying Hunger Journals. In cases where Mayer's purpose appears to be other than that of publication (as in the working folder entitled "To Type or Work On"), poems and drafts of poems have been listed and refiled in the Uncollected subseries. Original sound recordings for Memory and a floppy disk for Utopia are restricted; researchers may inquire about access in advance of their visit.
B) Uncollected: Uncollected writings filed individually and alphabetized according to title or first line. Included are drafts of individual poems and pieces of writing with typescript and holograph corrections and emendations.
C) School Papers: Mayer's academic papers from high school and college, including reading notes, early drafts and corrections. Notebooks containing college work are located at the beginning of Series 4.
 

Collected

Box 16, Folder 29-30

The Art of Science Writing (with Dale Worsley, 1989)

General

Proposal, notes, notebooks, and essays for a book on teaching science writing to grades 7-12.
Box 17, Folder 1-4

The Art of Science Writing (with Dale Worsley, 1989)

General

Drafts, notes, agreement, and copyright certificate.
Box 17, Folder 5-9

August - Draft and typescripts

Box 17, Folder 10

Bernadette Food - Typescript

Box 17, Folder 11-12

A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) - Typescript, drafts, and notes

Box 18, Folder 1-3

A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) - Bluelines, agreement, and reviews

Box 18, Folder 4-6

Bill Berkson interview, conducted by mail between 1981 and 1985

Box 18, Folder 7

Children's book with Grace

General note

Crayon, ink and pencil.
Box 18, Folder 8

Collaborations and Phil Good's poems

Box 18, Folder 9-11

Collaboration with Alice Notley

General

Poems, letters and miscellaneous writings. Includes "Outtakes and Letters," "Last Collaboration" and photographs by Monica Weigel.
Box 18, Folder 12-14

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) - Drafts

Box 19, Folder 1-4

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) - Typescript and contract agreement

Box 19, Folder 5

Dialogue

Box 19, Folder 6-7

Eruditio ex Memoria (1977) - Typescript and review 1977 - 1979

Box 19, Folder 8-9

The Formal Field of Kissing: Translations, Imitations and Epigrams (1990) - Drafts, typescripts and reviews 1990 - 1991

Box 19, Folder 10-14

The Golden Book of Words (1978) - Drafts, typescripts, galleys, poems excluded, and reviews

Box 19, Folder 15

Good Poems - Typescript and manuscript drafts

Box 19, Folder 16

The Guilford Journals of Mayer and Masters (with Greg Masters) ca. 1981

General

Drafts of a manuscript that was published in 2013 as At Maureen's.
Box 20, Folder 1

Image Sound - Typescript draft

Box 20, Folder 2

An Introduction to Reasoning - Typescript draft with letter from Harry Segessman 1973

Box 20, Folder 3

Landlord, Family, Money, and Poetry Situations - Miscellaneous drafts

Box 20, Folder 4

Leave Out (?) - List of poems and miscellaneous drafts

Box 20, Folder 5

Interpretation of Dreams

Box 20, Folder 6

Leek House (Every Other Day of Sept. 1977) - Typescript

Box 20, Folder 7

Manuscripts - [Mayer's title]

Box 20, Folder 8-15

Memory 1971 - 1976

General

Sources, typescripts, drafts, notes, contract, reviews, and slides.
Oversize FB-210, Folder 1

Memory - First draft with cut-ups, journal and audio tape transcriptions

Box 21, Folder 1-7

Memory - Slides 1971

Box 22, Folder 1

Memory - Tape 3, July 8-13: "end 13 yellow (not the end)"

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Reel-to-reel sound recording.
Box 22, Folder 2

Memory - Tape 4, July 13-19: "a bracket of folding chairs"

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Reel-to-reel sound recording
Box 22, Folder 3

Memory - Tape 5, July 24: "shines a flashlight with the other into my eyes"

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Reel-to-reel sound recording and CD listening copy
Box 22, Folder 4

Memory - Tape 6, July 24 end - 29: "why I'm not a scientist"

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Reel-to-reel sound recording
Box 22, Folder 5

Memory - Tape 7, July 29: "I can see the Cadillac"

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Reel-to-reel sound recording and CD listening copy
Box 22, Folder 6

Memory - [Mayer reading final text?]

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Reel-to-reel sound recording
Box 23, Folder 1-3

Midwinter Day (1982) - Notes, typescript and reviews 1978 - 1983

Box 23, Folder 4-9

Mind of Hour - Drafts, typescripts, and correspondence 1992

Box 23, Folder 10-12

Moving (1971) - Notes, drafts and negatives

Box 23, Folder 13-15

Mutual Aid (1985) - Drafts and typescripts

Box 24, Folder 1

Not Published Originals - Typescript drafts of poems and prose

Box 24, Folder 2

Not Sure - Typescript drafts of poems

Box 24, Folder 3

The Old Style is Finding Out Something About a Whole New Set of Possibilities - Transcript ca. 1970

Box 24, Folder 4

Ones I'm Not Sure of

Box 24, Folder 5

Peru Dream Journal

Box 24, Folder 6-7

Piece of Cake, with Lewis Warsh 1976

Box 24, Folder 8

Poem-like Things - Collaborations, others' poems, failed experiments, found things, lecture on structure published in O Anthology, and some Marie works

Box 24, Folder 9

Poems 80-82

Box 24, Folder 10

Poems for the Dead

Box 24, Folder 11-12

Poetry (1976) - Typescript and publication contract

Box 24, Folder 13-17

Proper Name and Other Stories (1996) - Typescript, correspondence, drafts, and agreement

Box 24, Folder 18

Random Words from Milton

Box 24, Folder 19

Remembering (Conclusion) - Typescript draft with postcard cover

Box 24, Folder 20

Secret Knowledge of Utopian Philosophies - A Journal of a Week in New York April 26 - May 2, 1981

Box 24, Folder 21

Selected Poems, 1965-1990 - Typescripts

Box 25, Folder 1

Selected Poems, 1965-1990 - Typescripts

Box 25, Folder 2

Sex or Suppressed Poems

Box 25, Folder 3

Skinny Sonnets - Typescript

Box 25, Folder 4-8

Sonnets (1989) - Drafts, typescripts, and reviews

Box 25, Folder 9

Sources and poems with miscellaneous drafts

Box 25, Folder 10-11

Story (1968) - Typescript drafts and notes

Box 25, Folder 12-14

Strike Anywhere(s) - Typescript drafts and cover

Box 25, Folder 15-16

Studying Hunger (1975) - Typescripts

Box 26, Folder 1-4

Studying Hunger (1975) - Journals and review

Box 26, Folder 5

Things to Use

Box 26, Folder 6

Things Written Recently and Not So - Lists of poems and miscellaneous leaves

Box 26, Folder 7

To Type or Work on - Various writings, incomplete

Box 26, Folder 8-9

Two Haloed Mourners (1998) - Typescripts and cover

Box 26, Folder 10-16

Utopia (1984) - Source material, poems, drafts, and notes

Box 27, Folder 1-12

Utopia (1984) - Index, addendum, drafts, notes, typescripts, galleys, and reviews

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply

General

Includes 8" floppy disk with fabric cover, 1983.
 

Uncollected

Box 27, Folder 13-14

Lists of poems with title cut-ups

Box 27, Folder 15

0 to 19

Box 27, Folder 16

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Box 27, Folder 17

3 X's

Box 27, Folder 18

3 Years 3 Gifts: Another Other

Box 27, Folder 19

7 Love Songs on a Dinner

Box 27, Folder 20

11 Lines

Box 27, Folder 21

12 Days till 1st School Day

Box 27, Folder 22

13 American Imitation Amatory Epigrams

Box 27, Folder 23

14-Line Poem

Box 27, Folder 24

15 Times

Box 27, Folder 25

15 1/2 Lines for Philip

Box 27, Folder 26

16 Lines for Anybody

Box 27, Folder 27

123 - With Lewis Warsh

Box 27, Folder 28

1966

Box 27, Folder 29

1979

Box 27, Folder 30

1980

Box 27, Folder 31

1981

Box 27, Folder 32

1982

Box 28, Folder 1

1988

Box 28, Folder 2

The 1992 Election

Box 28, Folder 3

Abbreviated Phrase Memory

Box 28, Folder 4

About Having to Leave Lenox

Box 28, Folder 5

The Abstractest

Box 28, Folder 6

Adult Diapers

Box 28, Folder 7

The Aeschulyeans - Includes Bill Berkson's comments

Box 28, Folder 8

Afternoons; Second Afternoon; The German, Last of Her Race; The Grandfather Orders His Tomb

Box 28, Folder 9

Against Air

Box 28, Folder 10

Agoraphobia

Box 28, Folder 11

Aid for Dependent Children

Box 28, Folder 12

Alice

Box 28, Folder 13

All Soul's Day 1985

Box 28, Folder 14

Almanac 1984

Box 28, Folder 15

The Alternative Life Combined

Box 28, Folder 16

Amatory Eclogue

Box 28, Folder 17

America

Box 28, Folder 18

America is Greed

Box 28, Folder 19

American Antiquity - Includes comments by Bill Berkson

Box 28, Folder 20

Analysis of Lions and Bears and Owls

Box 28, Folder 21

Ancient Brooklyn Talk by the Boardwalk

Box 28, Folder 22

An Ancient Degree - Includes comments by Bill Berkson

Box 28, Folder 23

And if I had to give this up, I'd give it to you

Box 28, Folder 24

And When We're Tired We're Understood

Box 28, Folder 25

Announcement Sonnet

Box 28, Folder 26

Annual Poems

Box 28, Folder 27

Another Landlord Poem

Box 28, Folder 28

Antarctic

Box 28, Folder 29

Anti-Superbowl Bleeding

Box 28, Folder 30

Anything That You Wanna Tell Me

Box 28, Folder 31

Apologia pro Vita Sua

Box 28, Folder 32

Appendix Out

Box 28, Folder 33

Apple

Box 28, Folder 34

April 19 Walk

Box 28, Folder 35

The Arcadian Shop: Your Birthday Presents

Box 28, Folder 36

As I Adam You with Blue

Box 28, Folder 37

As You Are

Box 28, Folder 38

At Arnold Eagle's tape playing

Box 28, Folder 39

At Lake Buel

Box 28, Folder 40

At least it isn't raining

Box 28, Folder 41

At the Blue Hour

Box 28, Folder 42

Attempt at a Love Song for Lack of Exactitude about Politics or Lack of a Movement Political in 1990 - With Philip Good

Box 28, Folder 43

Attention to Spring

Box 28, Folder 44

Auditoriums

Box 28, Folder 45

August 16 - September 12

Box 28, Folder 46

1983 August 23

Box 28, Folder 47

August Twenty-One

Box 28, Folder 48

Avenue A to Class

Box 28, Folder 49

Bad Ghazal Weather

Box 28, Folder 50

Bad Poems New and Old

Box 28, Folder 51

The Ballad of Theodore

Box 28, Folder 52

Be Not to Be

Box 28, Folder 53

Beach Poem, Tree Poem, Stalin Poem

Box 28, Folder 54

Bear in Mind

Box 28, Folder 55

Beech-Nut - With Peter Schjeldahl

Box 28, Folder 56

Been in NY 3 weeks today

Box 28, Folder 57

Before Sextet and After Sextet

Box 28, Folder 58

Beginning Middle End

Box 28, Folder 59

Bell Ring

Box 28, Folder 60

Bernadette Mayer - Holtsville, BM/IRS Fantasy, 1991

Box 28, Folder 61

Bernadette's Dream of Philip('s End of School) May 5th

Box 28, Folder 62

Best in acts, "itself heat light," the room repairing

Box 28, Folder 63

Bill Pledge

Box 28, Folder 64

Birds of Gloucester

Box 28, Folder 65

Birthday Song

Box 28, Folder 66

Bitter American Poem

Box 28, Folder 67

Block Island, Rhode Island

Box 28, Folder 68

Blue

Box 28, Folder 69

Blue Spots the Poet

Box 28, Folder 70

Blue veins. Blue dawn

Box 28, Folder 71

Bob the Sham and the Scaredycats, a Vicious Poem

Box 28, Folder 72

Body hurts dogfood fire mind sock smell tollbooth ring

Box 28, Folder 73

Boot-Black, an Artists' and Writers' Groucho

Box 28, Folder 74

Booze Turns Men into Women

Box 28, Folder 75

The Breadth of or Homage to a Frozen Waterfall

Box 28, Folder 76

Bring It Here

Box 28, Folder 77

Buck-Buck McFate

Box 28, Folder 78

Buy a leg of lamb or half of one

Box 28, Folder 79

But What!

Box 28, Folder 80

Bye 1980

Box 28, Folder 81

Cabin Fever a Letter

Box 28, Folder 82

The Cactus is Flowering

Box 28, Folder 83

A Calvin Cooler for Philip Justice

Box 28, Folder 84

The Capital Letters at the Beginnings of Each Line Give Importance to Them

Box 28, Folder 85

Carlton Fisk is My Ideal

Box 28, Folder 86

Carrot Poem

Box 28, Folder 87

Casional Poems and Casional Prose 1965

Box 28, Folder 88

Catapulted

Box 28, Folder 89

Catholic Harmony

Box 28, Folder 90

Celluloid and the Pie-Pot

Box 28, Folder 91

A Chair in Heaven

Box 28, Folder 92

Chased Perception

Box 28, Folder 93

Chiefly beauty is visual

Box 28, Folder 94

Christmas 1975

Box 28, Folder 95

The City is Anger

Box 28, Folder 96

Clara Olson

Box 28, Folder 97

The Clarity Version of the Enigma of Light

Box 28, Folder 98

The Classic Sloop

Box 28, Folder 99

Cleaning the Colander

Box 28, Folder 100

The Coffee Ardor - With commentary by Bill Berkson

Box 28, Folder 101

The Coffeepot Nuclear Arms

Box 29, Folder 1

Coincidence of the Three Blue Lighters Coin

Box 29, Folder 2

Coincidental Dream on the Deck of Twin Lakes

Box 29, Folder 3

Collaboration - How to dismiss the epicenter from

Box 29, Folder 4

College Poem

Box 29, Folder 5

Colors of All the Letters (This Is in Answer) 2 Beat, Love You (the Long Ago Burrito Poem)

Box 29, Folder 6

Comeback

Box 29, Folder 7

Coming back to NY on Earth Day's 20th anniversary

Box 29, Folder 8

Coming of age at the cathedral

Box 29, Folder 9

Coming Work

Box 29, Folder 10

Complete Introductory Lectures on Poetry

Box 29, Folder 11

Complete Music of Webern (a Movie)

Box 29, Folder 12

Constant Minutes

Box 29, Folder 13

Convention

Box 29, Folder 14

Counting Proofreading Errors Sonnet

Box 29, Folder 15

Country Curtains

Box 29, Folder 16

Crickets or Katydids

Box 29, Folder 17

Crops Like Coffee and Cut Flowers - Collaboration

Box 29, Folder 18

Cross-Country

Box 29, Folder 19

CSPA - Collaboration with notes

Box 29, Folder 20

Cucumbers in a Box of Snow

Box 29, Folder 21

Curl that under under the under

Box 29, Folder 22

Currency

Box 29, Folder 23

Cycloplegia at the Cyclopedia

Box 29, Folder 24

Daddy Long Legs

Box 29, Folder 25

Dairy Queen of Byrum

Box 29, Folder 26

Dangerous Solamente Sense

Box 29, Folder 27

Dante - With Bill Berkson's comments

Box 29, Folder 28

Dark the Large-Mouthed the War

Box 29, Folder 29

Dark Where the Straight

Box 29, Folder 30

The Date

Box 29, Folder 31

David

Box 29, Folder 32

Day

Box 29, Folder 33

A day a night with - Collaboration with Ethie Stearns

Box 29, Folder 34

The Dead Moth Fall

Box 29, Folder 35

Dear Amended Return Acknowledge

Box 29, Folder 36

Dear Ed

Box 29, Folder 37

Dear Marie

Box 29, Folder 38

Dearest Ethelyn Friend

Box 29, Folder 39

Death is a cambric fabric

Box 29, Folder 40

A deer knows life is awesome do you agree

Box 29, Folder 41

Definitions at the Center of a Newspaper

Box 29, Folder 42

Dentist Fiction

Box 29, Folder 43

The Desultoriness of Courtyards

Box 29, Folder 44

Did Me Seek

Box 29, Folder 45

Did You Ever See a Devil, Uncle Joe?

Box 29, Folder 46

Disorder - Travel Section

Box 29, Folder 47

Dithyramb on You

Box 29, Folder 48

Do You Have Sex in Bed of the Floor?

Box 29, Folder 49

Do You Tell Stories? Yes

Box 29, Folder 50

Dominations

Box 29, Folder 51

Don Can't Sleep - With Philip Good

Box 29, Folder 52

Don Cliff Sophie Phil Sonnet

Box 29, Folder 53

Dream

Box 29, Folder 54

The Dream: Common?

Box 29, Folder 55

Dream July 6th

Box 29, Folder 56

Dream Notes for Fanny

Box 29, Folder 57

Dream Tape Transcribed - Hypnagogic Imagery

Box 29, Folder 58

Dreamed I started to bleed - Dark red blood

Box 29, Folder 59

Dreams I Had While You Were Here

Box 29, Folder 60

Drivers

Box 29, Folder 61

E Commits A Murder

Box 29, Folder 62

Each passing hour I want no power

Box 29, Folder 63

The Earmark

Box 29, Folder 64

Early Poems One

Box 29, Folder 65

Early Poems Two

Box 29, Folder 66

Early Poems Four

Box 29, Folder 67

Ed and Ned

Box 29, Folder 68

The edge ought to stir

Box 29, Folder 69

Eels on Toast Points

Box 29, Folder 70

Electric's Time of Use

Box 29, Folder 71

Elegy

Box 29, Folder 72

Eleventh Cup

Box 29, Folder 73

Elmer Gantry

Box 29, Folder 74

Empty Chairs

Box 29, Folder 75

Encyclopedia

Box 29, Folder 76

The Enigma of Night

Box 29, Folder 77

Epithalamium for Ethel and Todd

Box 29, Folder 78

Erase it, it's easily the blue of the sky and the sea

Box 29, Folder 79

Essay - Notes by Bill Berkson

Box 29, Folder 80

Essay II - Notes by Bill Berkson

Box 29, Folder 81

Etymological Epithalamium

Box 29, Folder 82

Even among the solutions of resemblances plus dreams

Box 29, Folder 83

Everyday Life Lecture

Box 29, Folder 84

Everything Hour

Box 29, Folder 85

Eve of Angst

Box 29, Folder 86

Everyone Seemed So Laid Back in the Park

Box 29, Folder 87

Exact as what my old maid the cleaner more brotherly

Box 29, Folder 88

Ex-Communist Wins in Ukraine

Box 29, Folder 89

Exhibit

Box 29, Folder 90

Experimentation in Rubrics

Box 29, Folder 91

Explanation

Box 29, Folder 92

Failures in Infinitives

Box 29, Folder 93

Falling Cranes Low-Flying Planes

Box 29, Folder 94

Familiar Paeans of Discovery

Box 29, Folder 95

The Family Situation

Box 29, Folder 96

Famous People - A Play in Two Acts

Box 30, Folder 1

Fan

Box 30, Folder 2

Fear Sure

Box 30, Folder 3

Feast

Box 30, Folder 4

Feeling Dead of my Words

Box 30, Folder 5

Ferenczi

Box 30, Folder 6

Ferenczi and Other Stories

Box 30, Folder 7

A Fiction

Box 30, Folder 8

Fifteen Three's

Box 30, Folder 9

Five Automatic Poems and Some Hynagogic Wanderings 1966 and 1990

Box 30, Folder 10

Fjdkdirufjghty

Box 30, Folder 11

For Alice

Box 30, Folder 12

For Max on His Second Birthday

Box 30, Folder 13

Four Poems

Box 30, Folder 14

Frame

Box 30, Folder 15

Francois Villon Follows the Thin Lion

Box 30, Folder 16

Fred/Freud/Ferenczi/Frenzy/Fuck

Box 30, Folder 17

Freewriting it's it's I think it's

Box 30, Folder 18

Freewriting last class Monday May 20th

Box 30, Folder 19

Fresh Air Is Met Red

Box 30, Folder 20

The Frogs

Box 30, Folder 21

From Delirium

Box 30, Folder 22

From the workshop door

Box 30, Folder 23

Fuck Your Brains Out

Box 30, Folder 24

The Garden

Box 30, Folder 25

The General

Box 30, Folder 26

Generic Elbows

Box 30, Folder 27

The Generosity of an Ill Wind

Box 30, Folder 28

Gerard Cento

Box 30, Folder 29

Get your dose of color proving what not that proving what but

Box 30, Folder 30

Getting into the Locker Room

Box 30, Folder 31

Gin riggers my nerve

Box 30, Folder 32

Glass

Box 30, Folder 33

Go right end p 2 rte. 10A

Box 30, Folder 34

God must be hanged

Box 30, Folder 35

God Told Me To

Box 30, Folder 36

Going go spinning around the earth on your back spinning

Box 30, Folder 37

Good Friday

Box 30, Folder 38

Goshen Double-Sonnet

Box 30, Folder 39

Grave You

Box 30, Folder 40

Gray, Not Purple; Fresh Air Is Met Red

Box 30, Folder 41

Greens

Box 30, Folder 42

The Guanyin

Box 30, Folder 43

Guarding the Cake

Box 30, Folder 44

Guild

Box 30, Folder 45

Hair Law

Box 30, Folder 46

Hairless Love

Box 30, Folder 47

Hardship

Box 30, Folder 48

Hazy Day (for the New Yorker)

Box 30, Folder 49

He had an actual complaint - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 30, Folder 50

Headdress

Box 30, Folder 51

Hear the thrusts, deaths, and sighs

Box 30, Folder 52

Heart

Box 30, Folder 53

The Heat of the Sun

Box 30, Folder 54

Helena said the truth was

Box 30, Folder 55

Help

Box 30, Folder 56

Help Wanted

Box 30, Folder 57

Helpless of

Box 30, Folder 58

Hen's Teeth - With Peter Schjeldahl

Box 30, Folder 59

Here's Gold

Box 30, Folder 60

Hide the Blue Utopias

Box 30, Folder 61

High Standing

Box 30, Folder 62

Hike #72: Without the Bibliography

Box 30, Folder 63

His Tight White Pants - Collaboration with Phil Good

Box 30, Folder 64

Historic Preservation

Box 30, Folder 65

History of Violet of the Iris Family

Box 30, Folder 66

House and Bernadette

Box 30, Folder 67

House Caps

Box 30, Folder 68

How come I always feel

Box 30, Folder 69

How the People or the Men Wear Their Pants So Low

Box 30, Folder 70

A Hundred Eggs

Box 30, Folder 71

I Adorn You with Blue

Box 30, Folder 72

I always think something might come up

Box 30, Folder 73

I Am the Adriatic Sea

Box 30, Folder 74

I Am Raymond Chandler

Box 30, Folder 75

I Am Your Child No I'm Not Your Child I'm Your Girlfriend

Box 30, Folder 76

I Am Your Food I Am Your Fate

Box 30, Folder 77

I can't write a poem in a state like this

Box 30, Folder 78

I could not force

Box 30, Folder 79

I could try to write something, I really think I ought to read

Box 30, Folder 80

I Fault Love

Box 30, Folder 81

I have no faith in myself except when

Box 30, Folder 82

I have this sensation I'm not doing anything exactly right

Box 30, Folder 83

I Have Some Time Off

Box 30, Folder 84

I Knock Out a Tab to You

Box 30, Folder 85

I write my poems with my hands on my breasts

Box 30, Folder 86

I haven't got anything to work with

Box 30, Folder 87

I knew I'd dream of David on this morning

Box 30, Folder 88

I knew I wouldn't sleep this night theres too

Box 30, Folder 89

I know it's dangerous but I am going to eat it

Box 30, Folder 90

I Love You

Box 30, Folder 91

I met John jogging when Max said

Box 30, Folder 92

I Never Cooked Rice

Box 30, Folder 93

I Soaked the Now Empty Adriatic Quince Jar I Got from Bella's Store and Its Lid in Steaming Water

Box 30, Folder 94

I sweep the stones

Box 30, Folder 95

I think I've done everything but I can't stop now

Box 30, Folder 96

I, this same bear

Box 30, Folder 97

I threw away the rest of the pea soup and swept the

Box 30, Folder 98

I want my prime numbers to appear crystal clear - Collaboration

Box 30, Folder 99

I Won't Not Go

Box 30, Folder 100

I Wore a Swear in My Aperture

Box 30, Folder 101

I will wed

Box 30, Folder 102

I Wish You Were up Late, Gerard

Box 31, Folder 1

I would present an arm of her entry under the

Box 31, Folder 2

I'd Like to Practice Armed Swimming with the Republican Woman Who Has Her Eyebrows Tattooed On

Box 31, Folder 3

Ice Cube Epigram

Box 31, Folder 4

Idyll

Box 31, Folder 5

If it be true that this

Box 31, Folder 6

If My Name Was Clark I'd Open a Clark Bar

Box 31, Folder 7

Illustrated Progress

Box 31, Folder 8

I'm going to write my opinions

Box 31, Folder 9

In one second I see/green

Box 31, Folder 10

In Same Rooms

Box 31, Folder 11

In the dark sky by means of stones

Box 31, Folder 12

In the Middle of the Night

Box 31, Folder 13

In three d?

Box 31, Folder 14

The Incorporation of Sophia's Cereal

Box 31, Folder 15

The Injection of Milk as Sense of Humor

Box 31, Folder 16

Instead of Always Doing Old Things

Box 31, Folder 17

Insult Poem to Fred Jordan

Box 31, Folder 18

The Intermission

Box 31, Folder 19

International Security and Arms Control

Box 31, Folder 20

Introductions

Box 31, Folder 21

Inventing Stasis

Box 31, Folder 22

The Invisible Structure

Box 31, Folder 23

Invoking Saint Augustine

Box 31, Folder 24

Iroquois Experiment

Box 31, Folder 25

Is Lana Turner an Angel?

Box 31, Folder 26

Is Summer There?

Box 31, Folder 27

Is the work to be done in loud waiting color secrets

Box 31, Folder 28

Is This My Pen?

Box 31, Folder 29

Island

Box 31, Folder 30

The Istanbul Train

Box 31, Folder 31

It Moves Across

Box 31, Folder 32

It Was Miss Scarlet with the Candlestick in the Billiard Room

Box 31, Folder 33

It's August in the ristorante, May on 1st. Avenue, June in the trees - Collaboration

Box 31, Folder 34

I've been being very sloppy IUD..

Box 31, Folder 35

Jean Harlow in the Newspaper Room

Box 31, Folder 36

Jonas was bitten by a wasp

Box 31, Folder 37

Journal 8/6/84

Box 31, Folder 38

Juan Gave Nora a Pomegranate

Box 31, Folder 39

July 8th

Box 31, Folder 40

July 29

Box 31, Folder 41

Jumping the Tyrnstyle

Box 31, Folder 42

June

Box 31, Folder 43

June 5 for David

Box 31, Folder 44

Just a need to put some paper in the typewriter for no

Box 31, Folder 45

Justice Murder

Box 31, Folder 46

Katydid Peggy

Box 31, Folder 47

Kerouac Would

Box 31, Folder 48

Key Food

Box 31, Folder 49

Khartoum

Box 31, Folder 50

The King Wished He Was a Factory

Box 31, Folder 51

The Kingly Englanders - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 31, Folder 52

The Knicks

Box 31, Folder 53

Lake Buel Nothings

Box 31, Folder 54

The Landlord Quit to Write a Book

Box 31, Folder 55

Language Woes

Box 31, Folder 56

The Last Thing I Need to Do

Box 31, Folder 57

Late Faulkner

Box 31, Folder 58

The Late Morning Activity Obtained Colorful Postage Stamps Instead of Small Ones

Box 31, Folder 59

Laura Cashdollars

Box 31, Folder 60

Leaders Are Hanging in Outlines from the Clotheslines

Box 31, Folder 61

Let's write a poem on the very fancy folder

Box 31, Folder 62

Letter to Fifteen People

Box 31, Folder 63

The Life-saving fish was having some difficulty

Box 31, Folder 64

Lines?

Box 31, Folder 65

The lines are fallen in pleasant places - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 31, Folder 66

Little Injuries

Box 31, Folder 67

Living in Prison with Me

Box 31, Folder 68

Living in sin is fast becoming

Box 31, Folder 69

The Living Section

Box 31, Folder 70

Lollard the dull

Box 31, Folder 71

The Loop

Box 31, Folder 72

Lost Boys

Box 31, Folder 73

Love and Death

Box 31, Folder 74

Love Awry

Box 31, Folder 75

Love Poet Change World

Box 31, Folder 76

Love's Price

Box 31, Folder 77

Loveliest melodious variations

Box 31, Folder 78

Madman Beats up Nun, 74

Box 31, Folder 79

The Magical

Box 31, Folder 80

Make Noise

Box 31, Folder 81

A man on the night of January first

Box 31, Folder 82

The Management

Box 31, Folder 83

Manicatriarchic Sonnet

Box 31, Folder 84

March 15

Box 31, Folder 85

March 18

Box 31, Folder 86

1986 March 25

Box 31, Folder 87

Marie Goes out at Eight to Buy Me Flowers

Box 31, Folder 88

Marie walks out early on July 22 morning. Your description of the thunderstorm

Box 31, Folder 89

Marie You Must Meet Christina at the Music School Tomorrow and Not at Her Home

Box 31, Folder 90

Max had a dream

Box 31, Folder 91

The Measured Dissertation of Observation

Box 31, Folder 92

The Mental Aberrations Starting with O

Box 31, Folder 93

Midwinter

Box 31, Folder 94

Midwinter Day

Box 31, Folder 95

Migratory Workers on the Edge of a Frozen Field

Box 31, Folder 96

Mildred Pierce and Worse

Box 31, Folder 97

Milkweed Smithereens

Box 31, Folder 98

Milton and Enjambment

Box 32, Folder 1

Minnesota

Box 32, Folder 2

Miss Thailand

Box 32, Folder 3

The Misses Good and Hell 1985

Box 32, Folder 4

Mistranslation of a Poem in a Foreign Language Not Known by the Author or the Translator

Box 32, Folder 5

Mistresses of Ceremonies

Box 32, Folder 6

Morning Poems

Box 32, Folder 7

Most Precious Not Aluminum

Box 32, Folder 8

Mother's Both Ways

Box 32, Folder 9

Mountain Sentence

Box 32, Folder 10

Moving

Box 32, Folder 11

A Moving Boat is a Squeezed Boat: 52 Cards

Box 32, Folder 12

Mums

Box 32, Folder 13

My jaw's jagged and rugged

Box 32, Folder 14

My Machines

Box 32, Folder 15

My Parents Politics

Box 32, Folder 16

My Presidential Platform

Box 32, Folder 17

My Timer Went Off

Box 32, Folder 18

Name of the Place Is I Like It Like That (O Factum Male)

Box 32, Folder 19

Naropa Some Residue in the Glass

Box 32, Folder 20

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Box 32, Folder 21

The New Malfunctioning Buses

Box 32, Folder 22

New Paper Not Meditated On

Box 32, Folder 23

The New Yorker

Box 32, Folder 24

Night Poems

Box 32, Folder 25

No day no-car Sunday all the other children have

Box 32, Folder 26

No Fool Like a Piano

Box 32, Folder 27

No Good

Box 32, Folder 28

No More Reading

Box 32, Folder 29

No Nukes

Box 32, Folder 30

Non-Unified Field Theory of Love and Landlords

Box 32, Folder 31

North Vietnamese troops on Apbia Mountain near the Laotian border..

Box 32, Folder 32

Not knowing writing anymore

Box 32, Folder 33

Notes in Letter to L.J. about Possibility of Poetry Essay

Box 32, Folder 34

Notes on Mine - A review of Clarke Coolidge's Mine

Box 32, Folder 35

The notion to write a poem

Box 32, Folder 36

Notus Notandum in the Open-Window Kitchen Only for Two

Box 32, Folder 37

Now I can write something finally, I cannot write

Box 32, Folder 38

O Alice are you a virgin

Box 32, Folder 39

On You Whom I Often and Silently Come

Box 32, Folder 40

Obedience to Clothing

Box 32, Folder 41

The Obfuscated Poem

Box 32, Folder 42

The Obfuscated Version of the Enigma of Night

Box 32, Folder 43

October 8th

Box 32, Folder 44

October 28 New York to Buffalo on "Maple Leaf"

Box 32, Folder 45

Ode on Periods

Box 32, Folder 46

Ode to Max's Report Card: Failing, Falling in Love

Box 32, Folder 47

Of the lack of mutual aid I pawn

Box 32, Folder 48

O.K., Fiacre

Box 32, Folder 49

The Old is Finding Out Something

Box 32, Folder 50

On a Mess

Box 32, Folder 51

On Grace and Peggy Not Visiting

Box 32, Folder 52

On Re-Typing and Re-Reading My Own Works

Box 32, Folder 53

On the Biographies of a Hundred Poets

Box 32, Folder 54

On the Way

Box 32, Folder 55

On the Unknown Lavender Raspberry

Box 32, Folder 56

On top of books - Collaboration with Phil Good 1991 January 11

Box 32, Folder 56

Onan Bows

Box 32, Folder 58

Once We Breathe the Breath of Sweet Surrender

Box 32, Folder 59

One of the Animals Retires

Box 32, Folder 60

One more cup of coffee

Box 32, Folder 61

One Sentence Poem

Box 32, Folder 62

One Thing

Box 32, Folder 63

Ones

Box 32, Folder 64

Order is the marathon rain three

Box 32, Folder 65

Orgasm or Organism?

Box 32, Folder 66

Otives and intentions, public importance

Box 32, Folder 67

Our lives are so crazy

Box 32, Folder 68

Outline of Our Lives

Box 32, Folder 69

Outside the Rectangles or What Spaces of All Your Cars You Go

Box 32, Folder 70

Paid Political Advertisement to Look Slimmer

Box 32, Folder 71

Painting by Chimes

Box 32, Folder 72

Paragon

Box 32, Folder 73

Parsley

Box 32, Folder 74

Part of a Longer Poem - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 32, Folder 75

Passion in an Angel

Box 32, Folder 76

Past the Right Falling of My Hair

Box 32, Folder 77

Peach pear plum grape date fig lime prune apple orange

Box 32, Folder 78

Penguins remind me of abstract illusions

Box 32, Folder 79

Penis O'Clock

Box 32, Folder 80

People

Box 32, Folder 81

People Get Ready Blow Ups Happen, or Mikhail Gorbachev's Premature Ejaculation

Box 32, Folder 82

The People He Knows by Tom Bowes

Box 32, Folder 83

The Period of the Delaware Water Gap

Box 32, Folder 84

Philadelphia - Kansas City 1980

Box 32, Folder 85

Philip

Box 32, Folder 86

The Phils

Box 32, Folder 87

Photos

Box 32, Folder 88

A Play; I Don't Speak Well; The Blues

Box 32, Folder 89

Pleasure

Box 32, Folder 90

The Pleasures of Love

Box 32, Folder 91

Poem (A false log is burning furnished)

Box 32, Folder 92

Poem (If I were atonal and you were a monk)

Box 32, Folder 93

Poem (A surface of)

Box 32, Folder 94

Poem (We've solved the problem)

Box 32, Folder 95

Poem (You view the wrist to view)

Box 32, Folder 96

A Poem for Jimmy

Box 32, Folder 97

Poem for Max

Box 32, Folder 98

Poem for Peter Gizzi, Shall I Ever Chance to Find Him

Box 32, Folder 99

Poems in Journal

Box 32, Folder 100

The Poetry Project

Box 32, Folder 101

Poetry starts with a P - So what - Collaboration

Box 32, Folder 102

Poetry, Moths

Box 32, Folder 103

The Poet's Work

Box 33, Folder 1

Pope John

Box 33, Folder 2

The Pope Loses His Crocodile Skins

Box 33, Folder 3

Porch Items

Box 33, Folder 4

Portrait of Mabel Dodging the Village Cure

Box 33, Folder 5

Postal Patterns of Reaction

Box 33, Folder 6

Possessives and Apostrophes

Box 33, Folder 7

Postmodernism

Box 33, Folder 8

Pour Aide-Memoire

Box 33, Folder 9

Praying to the Sun

Box 33, Folder 10

Preservation of Fruit Stands in January

Box 33, Folder 11

Primitive Road

Box 33, Folder 12

Principal Stock Exchanges of the World

Box 33, Folder 13

Print

Box 33, Folder 14

Prose

Box 33, Folder 15

Prose and Mallarme

Box 33, Folder 16

The pussy's sleeping on the clipboard for the mud sculpting studio

Box 33, Folder 17

Rad: "I Think to You My Encased Fish"

Box 33, Folder 18

Rains

Box 33, Folder 19

Random Words from Anna Karenina

Box 33, Folder 20

Random Words from Milton

Box 33, Folder 21

Rape Purple

Box 33, Folder 22

Reading

Box 33, Folder 23

Reading and Relations, Art and Mathematics

Box 33, Folder 24

Reading proofs for love I've lost mostly bills

Box 33, Folder 25

Reading the unread books, I happened upon a passage which

Box 33, Folder 26

Realism, Eroticism and Nihilism

Box 33, Folder 27

The recognition of astonishing things

Box 33, Folder 28

Recommendation for Allen Ginsberg

Box 33, Folder 29

Redempt Shun Songs

Box 33, Folder 30

Redemption Song

Box 33, Folder 31

Replace Every Word

Box 33, Folder 32

Request for Telephone Contact

Box 33, Folder 33

Respected ocean of the Red Paint People

Box 33, Folder 34

Reviews by Mayer

Box 33, Folder 35

A Review of Any Book

Box 33, Folder 36

Rich Sweat

Box 33, Folder 37

Risk Left

Box 33, Folder 38

Roses That Wither Most Gracefully on Avenue A

Box 33, Folder 39

Salvation

Box 33, Folder 40

Say Goodbye to Legacy

Box 33, Folder 41

Sci-Fi notes

Box 33, Folder 42

Scifi Thank You

Box 33, Folder 43

The Screaming Cheetah Wheelies

Box 33, Folder 44

Sea

Box 33, Folder 45

Selective, a play

Box 33, Folder 46

Self-Criticism Session 1982

Box 33, Folder 47

Semi-colons

Box 33, Folder 48

September 31st

Box 33, Folder 49

Seriosity

Box 33, Folder 50

Sestina

Box 33, Folder 51

Sestina - for Ted

Box 33, Folder 52

Setting my poems out to dry

Box 33, Folder 53

Seven Lakes Drive

Box 33, Folder 54

Seventy-Nine Blues

Box 33, Folder 55

Several Events (Every One the Same)

Box 33, Folder 56

The Sexual Etiology of the Child

Box 33, Folder 57

She left me soon as it was early enough for

Box 33, Folder 58

Short History of Education

Box 33, Folder 59

She Turned

Box 33, Folder 60

Shuffle and Deal

Box 33, Folder 61

Simon, Lewis and Sophia in Front of the Curtis Hotel

Box 33, Folder 62

Simon's in China

Box 33, Folder 63

Simple Complications

Box 33, Folder 64

Sin in the Bleekers

Box 33, Folder 65

Since it is late, my primitive disdain - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 33, Folder 66

Sing sweet spell of not singing

Box 33, Folder 67

Situation Vacant

Box 33, Folder 68

Six Groups of Nine - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 33, Folder 69

Skinny Sonnets

Box 33, Folder 70

Skinny Sonnets: Hypnagogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notepads - Photocopy with manuscript note

Box 33, Folder 71

The Skylark

Box 33, Folder 72

Sleep Soup: My List of Things to Do

Box 33, Folder 73

So I Spill the Ink

Box 33, Folder 74

So I wouldn't have to hang out

Box 33, Folder 75

So much a little who's who period love

Box 33, Folder 76

So Much Depends on William Carlos Williams

Box 33, Folder 77

So We Each Worked

Box 33, Folder 78

The Social workers are asleep in Louis XIV

Box 33, Folder 79

Soma

Box 33, Folder 80

Some Other Paradise

Box 33, Folder 81

Something has to be done on the holiday

Box 33, Folder 82

Sonnet 23 degrees 47%

Box 33, Folder 83

Sonnet (I see the veins)

Box 33, Folder 84

Sonnet (a little tiny poem)

Box 33, Folder 85

Sonnet (Swell is the attribute of leisure)

Box 33, Folder 86

Sonnet (There was a man on 8th Street)

Box 33, Folder 87

Sonnet Ann Fuller

Box 33, Folder 88

Sonnet Bill DeNoyelles

Box 33, Folder 89

Sonnet for Marie

Box 33, Folder 90

Sonnet for Philip

Box 33, Folder 91

Sonnet Independent

Box 33, Folder 92

Sonnet Mothers and Fathers

Box 33, Folder 93

The Sonnet of Six Parents

Box 33, Folder 94

Sonnet: Three Bowerbirds Are Known to Be Bowerless

Box 33, Folder 95

Sonnet Water

Box 33, Folder 96

Soon Full Moon

Box 33, Folder 97

Sophia painted the rock that keeps the poems from flying

Box 33, Folder 98

Sophia's Birthday (7th)

Box 33, Folder 99

Sorry of Lightning's Not Dumb Escort

Box 33, Folder 100

Sorting Socks

Box 33, Folder 101

South Ferry

Box 33, Folder 102

Spectacle after spectacle in the conspiratorial silence

Box 34, Folder 1

Spent three months thinking

Box 34, Folder 2

Split Decision

Box 34, Folder 3

Spotted Touchwomen

Box 34, Folder 4

Spring

Box 34, Folder 5

Spring and All

Box 34, Folder 6

Spring winter weather no work good Friday

Box 34, Folder 7

St. Luke's vs. Tweed

Box 34, Folder 8

St. Paul's Index Finger - With comments by Bill Berkson

Box 34, Folder 9

Star Wars

Box 34, Folder 10

Staring Down Watching Everyone - Collaboration

Box 34, Folder 11

Steps

Box 34, Folder 12

Still Used Arms Ultra Light History

Box 34, Folder 13

Stimulus yes and answer swell so

Box 34, Folder 14

Story

Box 34, Folder 15

Story of a Woman Who Am I? Forgive Me

Box 34, Folder 16

Studying Hunger - For Bob and Elizabeth on a particular Thanksgiving

Box 34, Folder 17

Summer Vacation

Box 34, Folder 18

Sun Ideas

Box 34, Folder 19

Sunday

Box 34, Folder 20

Super Grand Food Union Caldor Town Bowl

Box 34, Folder 21

Suzie

Box 34, Folder 22

The Swan Silvertones

Box 34, Folder 23

Sweet Content

Box 34, Folder 24

Sweet smack

Box 34, Folder 25

Sweetheart no love

Box 34, Folder 26

Table

Box 34, Folder 27

Take Me to the River

Box 34, Folder 28

Talismans

Box 34, Folder 29

Talk

Box 34, Folder 30

Tapestry

Box 34, Folder 31

Teeners - With Peter Schjeldahl

Box 34, Folder 32

Telling

Box 34, Folder 33

Thanks for the Blue Lighter, George

Box 34, Folder 34

That - Soil (NYC)

Box 34, Folder 35

That New York City Earth

Box 34, Folder 36

The sun's in my eyes and

Box 34, Folder 37

There is a giant bug in my hair

Box 34, Folder 38

Thick

Box 34, Folder 39

Thin Red

Box 34, Folder 40

Things not as

Box 34, Folder 41

Things to Do in Henniker

Box 34, Folder 42

This Audience of Men

Box 34, Folder 43

This day we'd

Box 34, Folder 44

This Ink Doesn't Look Black to Me

Box 34, Folder 45

This is the first part and the first one

Box 34, Folder 46

This man/s this and this man's that

Box 34, Folder 47

This man whom I love is not good

Box 34, Folder 48

This Is a Problem Solving Dream

Box 34, Folder 49

This is the program memory

Box 34, Folder 50

This maturity is good for poetry

Box 34, Folder 51

This Morning

Box 34, Folder 52

This World's w.o. a Cap

Box 34, Folder 53

Those two unfortunate roses must've

Box 34, Folder 54

Three

Box 34, Folder 55

Three Casual Poems for Johnny Stanton

Box 34, Folder 56

Three Envelopes; Art Has Lapsed We Know; Dead Is the Dumb Ass Lover

Box 34, Folder 57

Three Mesostics for Gerard Rizza

Box 34, Folder 58

Three Stories Entitled to Tempt

Box 34, Folder 59

The Thursday Poem

Box 34, Folder 60

A Tin Dish - Will It Burn?

Box 34, Folder 61

Tirade (Not Wanted) -- to Write Is Evil

Box 34, Folder 62

Tires for Succulent

Box 34, Folder 63

To a Ballet-er: Don't Bring the Men in the Water or You Won't Be Able to Incest Mr. Bluet

Box 34, Folder 64

To a Politician

Box 34, Folder 65

To Admiral Scott About Space

Box 34, Folder 66

To be read with a midwestern accent

Box 34, Folder 67

To My Mistrusters

Box 34, Folder 68

Toadstools

Box 34, Folder 69

To All Who Will Be Home Tomorrow

Box 34, Folder 70

To Bill and Phil on Getting My Things from Massachusetts

Box 34, Folder 71

To have an eye to

Box 34, Folder 72

To Muse

Box 34, Folder 73

To Sophia

Box 34, Folder 74

To start

Box 34, Folder 75

To the Woman in the Candy Store

Box 34, Folder 76

To Walk to the Waterfall

Box 34, Folder 77

Tomorrow's tuesday another nursery school day

Box 34, Folder 78

Tract of Land, etc.

Box 34, Folder 79

The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty

Box 34, Folder 80

A Tree Grows in Padua - Collaboration

Box 34, Folder 81

Twin Plants and Dash Mystery - With Clark Coolidge

Box 34, Folder 82

Two Ghosts Embracing in a Churchyard

Box 34, Folder 83

The Typewriter Wrote This

Box 34, Folder 84

Two Dollar Bill

Box 34, Folder 85

Two girls

Box 34, Folder 86

Typing Blind So You Will Know

Box 34, Folder 87

Ugly of May

Box 34, Folder 88

Ugly Random Haircuts in the Shower Hay Fever

Box 34, Folder 89

Unrelated Couplets

Box 34, Folder 90

Untitled

Box 34, Folder 91

Vacation

Box 34, Folder 92

Valentine for

Box 34, Folder 93

Visual Room

Box 34, Folder 94

Vitamin E

Box 34, Folder 95

W Sonnet

Box 34, Folder 96

The Waltze's Waltzes

Box 34, Folder 97

Wandering Scholars

Box 34, Folder 98

The Wandering Scholars Mess

Box 34, Folder 99

Warmongers

Box 34, Folder 100

Warren

Box 34, Folder 101

War in Every Line

Box 34, Folder 102

Wars

Box 34, Folder 103

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes

Box 34, Folder 104

We are like two pears

Box 34, Folder 105

We are two long boys swimming

Box 35, Folder 1

We coexist with these cockroaches

Box 35, Folder 2

We Had Exempt a Status of Our Play Now We Shouldn't Speak This Way

Box 35, Folder 3

We must go back to school to make new metrical rules

Box 35, Folder 4

We Plow the Roads

Box 35, Folder 5

We Who Remain - Collaboration

Box 35, Folder 6

We've Solved the Problem

Box 35, Folder 7

What Reception (of Death)?

Box 35, Folder 8

What's in the Teeth of the Geometric Wind (It Was As If)

Box 35, Folder 9

What's Meant for Pleasure

Box 35, Folder 10

When a skeptic begins to sing I don't listen

Box 35, Folder 11

When finally done is not done and

Box 35, Folder 12

While absolute ending of Gerard's still

Box 35, Folder 13

Whimper

Box 35, Folder 14

White Blood

Box 35, Folder 15

Who Am I? Forgive Me

Box 35, Folder 16

Why what you say is love I see as hostile

Box 35, Folder 17

The Wild Newt

Box 35, Folder 18

Wilderness 1982 - Includes Poetry Project Newsletter

Box 35, Folder 19

Will and Dreams

Box 35, Folder 20

Windows

Box 35, Folder 21

Wing Is Living of Involved a Quiet Act

Box 35, Folder 22

The Wives of the Poets

Box 35, Folder 23

A Woman I Mix Men Up

Box 35, Folder 24

Work in Progress

Box 35, Folder 25

The Worst Journey in the World

Box 35, Folder 26

Worthless Conversation Unless It Is Going to Direct Pain

Box 35, Folder 27

Writing Science

Box 35, Folder 28

The Wrong Refrigerator

Box 35, Folder 29

X on Page 50 at Half-Inch Intervals

Box 35, Folder 30

Xerox this work often and - Collaboration with Phil Good

Box 35, Folder 31

Yellow-orange

Box 35, Folder 32

Yo - Here Are Some Neat Poems

Box 35, Folder 33

You Don't Aggressively Soothe the Butter

Box 35, Folder 34

You Get Pretty Good and Listen, Men, the B-52's

Box 35, Folder 35

You Have a Right to Utility Service During Serious Illness Interrupted Us

Box 35, Folder 36

You know there is a condition

Box 35, Folder 37

You see because I cook I am an explainer

Box 35, Folder 38

You "Shouldn't" Be Fair in Poems Love

Box 35, Folder 39

You Think Tomatoes Are Sex on (8/6/84) a Frightening Monday

Box 35, Folder 40

You, Us, Fuck It

Box 35, Folder 41

You wanted me to tell about David

Box 35, Folder 42

The young girls wished for stars instead of husbands

Box 35, Folder 43

Ziggurat; Ziggurat II

 

School Papers

Box 35, Folder 44

Book reports and miscellaneous writings from high school 1958 - 1959

Box 35, Folder 45

Note regarding papers 1981

Box 35, Folder 46

Gerontion and the Psalms 1962

Box 35, Folder 47

Grimm and American Values 1965

Box 35, Folder 48

Image and Spectacle in Blood Wedding and Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca. Also, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Words, Epiphanies, Poetry 1966

Box 35, Folder 49

Canzone I of the Canzoniere: Al Poco Giorno e al Gran Cerchio D'Ombra, by Dante. Falstaff: Logic and Language in I Henry IV. Modern Poetry Examination. Statement and Form in Mythology 1967 January

Box 35, Folder 50

20th Century Cultural History 1967 May

Box 35, Folder 51

The Allegory of the Artist. Bloom in the Modern Age. Goethe's West-Oestlicher Divan. The Owl by John Hawkes 1967 Spring

Box 36, Folder 1

Fragments and unidentified writings

Box 36, Folder 2-3

Notes, jottings, lists, and fragments

Box 36, Folder 4-5

Undated or unidentified. Includes papers on Yeats, Goethe, and Hawthorne and the title sheet from Translations of Mallarmé

Box 36, Folder 6

Unidentified drafts and miscellaneous notes

 

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) NOTEBOOKS: Mayer's notebooks, which primarily document her day-to-day activities and impressions, but often contain manuscript drafts of poems and prose-writings as well as various exercises such as freewrites and letters. Many of the notebooks also contain teaching notes and student writings. Notebooks that were not titled by Mayer have been assigned titles that refer to their general contents. Arranged in two subseries: A) Dated, and B) Undated.
A) Dated: Notebooks dated by Mayer and notebooks whose dates have been ascertained. The notebooks date from 1964 to 1993 and are arranged chronologically.
B) Undated: Notebooks that have been provided with a speculative or general date based on content or type of book.
 

Dated

Box 36, Folder 7

Latin - Manuscript and some class notes 1964 July

Box 36, Folder 8

Poem to the People Downstairs - Manuscript and typescript 1964 September

Box 36, Folder 9

Denise Levertov Poem - Manuscript 1965

Box 37, Folder 1

Silas Marner - Manuscript with typescript leaves included 1965

Box 37, Folder 2

Dreams 1966 April

Box 37, Folder 3

Story - Letter from Ed Bowes 1969 January

Box 37, Folder 4

Red Tide in Florida - Manuscript, includes notes regarding photography 1971 July

Box 37, Folder 5

Manuscript with newspaper clippings and some notes regarding photography. Includes a letter from Dan Graham 1971 July 22

Box 37, Folder 6

Tonight - Manuscript and typescript October 1971

Box 37, Folder 7

Notebook 1971 October

Box 37, Folder 8

Jean Perreault's Commune 1971 November

Oversize FB-209, Folder 1-2

Notebooks 1972 April and August

Box 37, Folder 9

I had my Amazons shout you - Manuscript with numerous bound and unbound typescript leaves 1972 October

Box 37, Folder 10

Somebody Says 1973

Oversize FB-209, Folder 3

Notebook 1973 January

Box 38, Folder 1

Manuscript with some typescript includes 22 sheets of typescript bound by safety pin into the notebook 1973 March 23

Box 38, Folder 2

House in Use - Manuscript with letters and numerous typescript leaves 1973 September

Box 38, Folder 3

This begins where morning leaves off - Manuscript and typescript, includes typescript drafts of poems 1973 September

Box 38, Folder 4

Notebook 1974 April

Box 38, Folder 5

The Subject 1974 May

Box 38, Folder 6

Notebook 1974 July

Box 38, Folder 7

An Open and Shut Case 1974 August

Box 38, Folder 8

I just wanna see all these inanimate objects 1974 September

Box 38, Folder 9

I Think 1974 October

Box 39, Folder 1

Utah Stars 1974 December

Box 39, Folder 2

Notebook 1975

Box 39, Folder 3

Notebook 1975 January 11

Box 39, Folder 4

It's the Lewis Journal 1975 March

Box 39, Folder 5

Painting is with me but another word for feeling is design - Manuscript with some typescript poems, receipts and postcards 1975 December

Box 39, Folder 6

The Ferns 1976 May

Box 39, Folder 7

Melanie - Manuscript with typescripts 1976 July

Box 39, Folder 8

Problems 1976 July

Box 39, Folder 9

Notebook 1976 August 14

Box 40, Folder 1

Notebook 1976 October - 1977 March 17

Box 40, Folder 2

Elvis Presley and the Poppies - Manuscript with some typescript poems 1977 March 18 - November 10

Oversize FB-209, Folder 4

Notebook 1977 September

Box 40, Folder 3

The Free Sixpack 1977 November 19 - 1978 February 8

Box 40, Folder 4

Notebook 1978 February 8 - March 24

Box 40, Folder 5

Book on Epic 1978 March 30 - June 5

Box 40, Folder 6

Notes for a Big Book 1978 July 14 - November 19

Box 40, Folder 7

You Planned the Disappearance of My Desire - Manuscript with typescript leaves 1978 October 31 - November 14

Box 40, Folder 8

Midwinter Day 1979

Box 40, Folder 9

Dreams - Manuscript with some typescript leaves included 1979 February

Box 40, Folder 10

Walk Around 1979 February - March

Box 41, Folder 1

Jovian Moons - Manuscript with photographs and newspaper clippings 1979 March - June

Box 41, Folder 2

Slippage 1979 November

Box 41, Folder 3

Begin Again 1980 February - April

Box 41, Folder 4

It's gonna be awhile - Manuscript with typescript drafts of poems 1980 April - June

Box 41, Folder 5

Where else am I but in New York 1980 June - September

Box 41, Folder 6

Name is the word I live - Manuscript with typescript leaves included 1980 September - 1981 February

Box 41, Folder 7

Buds 1980 August

General

Includes photographs of plants and landscapes.
Box 41, Folder 8

Another Journal Entitled - Manuscript with numerous typescript leaves included. Some children's drawings and paintings 1981 February - June

Box 42, Folder 1

This Is Mobile Knowtebook to Right in 1981 August - September

Box 42, Folder 2

This is the journal of Bernadette Mayer - Manuscript with some typescript leaves and newspaper clippings 1982 January - April

Box 42, Folder 3

Journal Most Precious - Manuscript with various unbound leaves, realia, etc. 1982 April - September

Box 42, Folder 4

I just got back from the lake 1982 September - 1983 July

Box 42, Folder 5

Delayed starting another journal - Manuscript with some typescript leaves included 1983 August - 1984 May

Box 43, Folder 1

Writing with Linda Francis - Manuscript includes collaboration with Linda 1983 November - December

Box 43, Folder 2

Had dream of corn 1984 July - 1985 March

Box 43, Folder 3

Around Spring 1985

Box 43, Folder 4

I've been meaning to begin keeping this journal 1985 November - 1986 April

Box 43, Folder 5

Wars 1986 December - 1987 February

Box 43, Folder 6

Notebooks 1989

Box 43, Folder 7

Cascade Reporter Notepad 1989

Box 43, Folder 8

Trip Book - Manuscript of summer trip to Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado 1989

Box 44, Folder 1

Notebook 1988 August - 1989 April

Box 44, Folder 2

Farm 1990

Box 44, Folder 3

A Journal of Small Cures - Manuscript includes newspaper clippings and miscellaneous realia 1990 March

Box 44, Folder 4

Notebook 1990 June

Box 44, Folder 5

Somewhere in 1990 - Manuscript with some drawings 1990 September - October

Box 44, Folder 6

New Method of Sleeping 1991 May

Box 44, Folder 7

The quiet place within yourself 1993 January

Box 44, Folder 8

Poetry and prose: Contains list of some hikes and other poems 1993 November

 

Undated

Box 45, Folder 1

Memo Book

Box 45, Folder 2

Two Nuns and a Statue of Christ - Pencil, crayon and ink drawings 1960s?

Box 45, Folder 3

Barbara Overhaul - Manuscript with drawings 1964-1965?

Box 45, Folder 4

Bataille - Manuscript with drawings 1967-1969?

Box 45, Folder 5

Thursday 5 pm Early 1970s?

Box 45, Folder 6

NYC 1970s?

Box 45, Folder 7

A police car 1970-1973?

Box 45, Folder 8

Dear David 1970-1973?

Box 45, Folder 9

There's a whole - goddammitt 1972?

Box 45, Folder 10

Buy Water - Drawings 1980s?

Box 45, Folder 11

Includes notes for Utopia index early 1980s

Box 45, Folder 12

Notebook 1980s

Box 45, Folder 13

Recorded 1989?

Box 46, Folder 1

Nijinsky's Lecture on God 1990s?

Box 46, Folder 2

Notebook 1990s

Box 46, Folder 3

Write narrative among each? 1990s?

Box 46, Folder 4

Russian art 1993?

Box 46, Folder 5

A beautiful villa 1993?

Box 46, Folder 6

Skinny Sonnets for Phil 1993?

Box 46, Folder 7

New News 1993?

Box 46, Folder 8

Girl w. Ball

Box 46, Folder 9

Notebook ca. 1990

 

WRITINGS OF OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS : Manuscripts and typescripts of writings by numerous peers of Mayer's, as well as by some of her more notable students such as Lee Ann Brown and Lisa Jarnot. Included are works by Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, William Corbett, Fanny Howe, Tom Savage, James Schuyler, Charlie Vermont, Anne Waldman, and Hannah Weiner. It is usually unclear whether a given manuscript or typescript was submitted for consideration by United Artists or 0 to 9, or whether it was submitted to Mayer for informal commentary.
Box 46, Folder 10

Acker, Kathy - Includes "A Map of My Dreams" and "Records of Daily Life" (photocopy)

Box 46, Folder 11

Ayden, Erje

Box 46, Folder 12

Barnes, Susan

Box 46, Folder 13

Berkson, Bill - Includes poems entitled "Job's Lane," "Getty" and "Women Bring Nuts"

Box 46, Folder 14-16

Berrigan, Ted - "Litany," "Bernadette Mayer," and paste-ups for The Sonnets

Box 47, Folder 1-3

Bowes, Ed

Box 47, Folder 4

Bricken, Patsy

Box 47, Folder 5

Brito, Manuel

Box 47, Folder 6

Brown, Lee Ann

Box 47, Folder 7

Brownstein, Michael - "Hi! I'm Michael Brownstein!"

Box 47, Folder 8

Bynum, Thomas

Box 47, Folder 9

Canter, Arthur

Box 47, Folder 10

Carey, Steve

Box 47, Folder 11

Carter, Charlotte

Box 47, Folder 12

Ceravolo, Joseph

Box 48, Folder 1

Cohn, Jim

Box 48, Folder 2-4

Collom, Jack

Box 48, Folder 5

Coolidge, Clark

Box 48, Folder 6

Corbett, William - Includes "Esker," "Kame," "Felled Elms," "Either/Or," "A Common Story," "Runaway Pond," and "Don't Think: Look"

Box 48, Folder 7

Crawford, Lynn and Harry Mathews

Box 48, Folder 8

DeNoyelles, Bill

Box 48, Folder 9

Dinsmore, Danika - "Observing Memory: Thought, Ritual, States of Consciousness, and the Writing Process - With a Focus on the Works of Bernadette Mayer"

Box 48, Folder 10

Dreyer, Lynne

Box 48, Folder 11

Elmslie, Kenward - Poems (photocopies) from City Junket

Box 48, Folder 12

Ensslin, John

Box 48, Folder 13

Foley, Jack

Box 49, Folder 1

Friedman, Ed

Box 49, Folder 2

Fyman, Cliff

Box 49, Folder 3

Gallup, Dick

Box 49, Folder 4

Genser, Cynthia

Box 49, Folder 5

Gerber, Yancy

Box 49, Folder 6

Giorno, John

Box 49, Folder 7

Gizzi, Michael

Box 49, Folder 8

Gizzi, Peter

Box 49, Folder 9

Goldberg, Jeff

Box 49, Folder 10

Good, Phil

Box 49, Folder 11

Gurnis, Peter

Box 49, Folder 12

Gustafson, Jim

Box 49, Folder 13

Hanaoka, Makiko

Box 49, Folder 14

Hartman, Yuki

Box 49, Folder 15

Henning, Barbara

Box 49, Folder 16

Hixon, India

Box 49, Folder 17

Howe, Fanny - Includes photocopies of "Introduction to the World," "The Lives of a Spirit," and "The Quietist"

Box 50, Folder 1

Jarnot, Lisa

Box 50, Folder 2

Jurek, Thom

Box 50, Folder 3

Kaplan, Edward

Box 50, Folder 4

Klester, Johanna

Box 50, Folder 5

Kushner, Bill

Box 50, Folder 6

Kyger, Joanne - Eight typescript poems including "Ode," "Descent," "The Blue Sword of Night," and "Poem"

Box 50, Folder 7

Lange, Art

Box 50, Folder 8-9

Lenhart, Gary

Box 50, Folder 10

Levy, Andrew

Box 50, Folder 11

Livingston, Peter

Box 50, Folder 12

Luster, Helen

Box 50, Folder 13

Mac Low, Jackson - Includes "A Vocabulary for Sharon (Belle) Mattlin," "60th Light Poem: In Memoriam Robert Duncan - 8-9 October 1988," "They Didn't Whir / He Gave No Advice," "Rebus Effort Remove Government," "He Never Relaxed for a Moment," and "Forties 16 2nd Mix"

Box 50, Folder 14

Malanga, Gerard

Box 50, Folder 15

Masters, Greg

Box 50, Folder 16

Mayer, Rosemary

Box 50, Folder 17

Moxley, Jennifer

Box 50, Folder 18

Mullen, Harryette

Box 50, Folder 19

Myles, Eileen

Box 51, Folder 1

Nemet-Nejat, Murat

Box 51, Folder 2

Noel, Susan

Box 51, Folder 3

Notley, Alice - "For My Sister: Meeting in Air" (photocopy)

Box 51, Folder 4

Owen, Maureen

Box 51, Folder 5

Pearlman, Dina

Box 51, Folder 6

Phipps, Wanda

Box 51, Folder 7

Pinney, Todd

Box 51, Folder 8

Piombino, Nick - Typescript of "The Meaning and Structure of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Brief Analysis"

Box 51, Folder 9

Prevallet, Kristin

Box 51, Folder 10

Quasha, George

Box 51, Folder 11

Ricereto, Danine

Box 51, Folder 12

Rosenberg, David

Box 51, Folder 13

Rosenthal, Bob

Box 51, Folder 14

Rubenfine, David

Box 51, Folder 15-16

Savage, Tom

Box 52, Folder 1

Savage, Tom

Box 52, Folder 2

Schjeldahl, Peter

Box 52, Folder 3

Schloss, Edith

Box 52, Folder 4

Schneeman, George

Box 52, Folder 5

Schuyler, James - "At Home With Ron Padgett" (typescript) and "Many of My Poems" (typescript)

Box 52, Folder 6

Sher, Gail

Box 52, Folder 7

Silverman, Herschel

Box 52, Folder 8

Smedman, Lorna

Box 52, Folder 9

Solan, Miriam

Box 52, Folder 10

Sollfrey, Stacey

Box 52, Folder 11

Sparrow

Box 52, Folder 12

Stearns, Ethie

Box 52, Folder 13

Stroffolino, Chris

Box 52, Folder 14

T

Box 52, Folder 15

Truitt, Samuel

Box 52, Folder 16

Tysh, Chris

Box 52, Folder 17

Upshaw, Reagan

Box 52, Folder 18

Valerio, Anita

Box 52, Folder 19

Vasovic, Nebojsa

Box 52, Folder 20

Vermont, Charlie

Box 52, Folder 21-22

Waldman, Anne

General

Includes "Crunchspot," "First Winter Days," " Vermeer," "Lovers," "El Rito," "To Roofer," "Women Their Men," "Ethnic," "Neighbors," "Roman Dream," "Smitten," "Clor Trimeton," "Estrogen," "Azalea Blooming Today," "When the World Was Steady," "Poem for the Streets of New York City!" and "Philema."
Box 53, Folder 1

Waldrop, Rosmarie - "Shorter American Memory"

Box 53, Folder 2

Warsh, Marie

Box 53, Folder 3

Warsh, Sophia

Box 53, Folder 4-6

Weiner, Hannah - Includes Spoke, "Little Book 137" and "Seen" introduction

Box 53, Folder 7

Weiners, John - "The Lanterns Along the Wall" (photocopy)

Box 53, Folder 8

Whalen, Tom

Box 53, Folder 9

Wright, C.D

Box 53, Folder 10

Yorty, Don

 

TEACHING MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) TEACHING MATERIAL: Materials relating to Mayer's career as a teacher of experimental writing. Course descriptions, handouts, reading lists, and syllabi predominate, although the series also includes some loose notes pertaining to particular courses and Mayer's collaborations with her students. Notes for The Art of Science Writing, a pedagogical work written by Mayer and Dale Worsley, are filed in Series 3A. Arranged in three subseries: A) Handouts and Assignments, B) Notes and Notebooks, and C) Miscellaneous.
A) Handouts and Assignments: Course descriptions, reading lists, and photocopied poems used by Mayer in her experimental writing classes. Topics include dreams, insults, love poems, surrealism, pantoum, sestina, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.
B) Notes and Notebooks: Mayer's notes and notebooks for classes and workshops taught at The New School for Social Research, the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, the Naropa Institute, and at public schools in New York.
C) Miscellaneous: Notes, correspondence, and drafts of writings by Mayer and her students.
 

Handouts and Assignments

Box 53, Folder 11

Course descriptions - Proposals and drafts of proposals for courses taught at The New School for Social Research and elsewhere

Box 53, Folder 12

Dictionaries and definitions

Box 53, Folder 13

Dreams - Includes a list of dream-related quotations and dream writing experiments

Box 53, Folder 14

Experiments - Lists of assigned and recommended writing experiments with some student writing resulting from those experiments

Box 53, Folder 15

Insults - Includes manuscript and photocopies of insult poems, some student work and a manuscript draft of "To a Politician"

Box 53, Folder 16

Joyce and Stein - Includes photocopied material written by or relating to James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, including essays by Stan Brakhage and Catherine R. Simpson

Box 53, Folder 17

Love poems - Photocopy selection of love poems by various poets

Box 54, Folder 1

Pantoum/Sestina - Photocopied descriptions and examples of pantoum and sestina forms

Box 54, Folder 2

Reading lists - Includes typescript and photocopy lists of recommended reading complied collectively with students and others

Box 54, Folder 3

Structure of the Prose Sentence and of the Poetic Line - Photocopy, paste-up and typescript anthology of readings gathered and titled by the poet

Box 54, Folder 4

Surrealism - Typescript, print and photocopy pages of or pertaining to surrealist writing

Box 54, Folder 5

Various - Untitled photocopy collection of readings gathered and bound by Mayer. Includes typescript, final exam, miscellaneous handouts, and assignments

Box 54, Folder 6

Visual poems - Photocopy pages of concrete and visual poems by others

 

Writings of others

Box 54, Folder 7

Miscellaneous photocopy pages of poems and writings by others gathered unbound by the poet

Box 54, Folder 8

Printed pages of poems by others gathered unbound by Mayer

 

Notes and Notebooks

Box 54, Folder 9

Notes from an unidentified course taught in 1986

Box 54, Folder 10

Notebook - Contains notes from teaching writing at various public school locations in New York City, beginning February 1986

Box 54, Folder 11

Mrs. Poetry - Notes from writing courses taught at various public schools in New York City, beginning May 1986. Includes some student writing and poems in typescript by the poet

Box 54, Folder 12

Mott Hall and MCSM - Notes from courses taught at Mott Hall and the Manhattan Center in 1986 and 1987

Box 55, Folder 1

Notebook - Includes notes from workshops taught at The New School for Social Research, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and J.H.S. 104 in NYC between December 1987 and July 1988

Box 55, Folder 2

Poetry Workshop - Notes from Poetry Workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning February 8, 1988, and other unidentified courses 1987 - 1988

Box 55, Folder 3

Lang Po Mini Lectures - Typescript and holograph notes for lectures delivered at The Poetry Project, New York City, February 24, 1989 - March 17, 1989

Box 55, Folder 4

Naropa 89 - Notes from a workshop taught at The Naropa Institute in summer 1989

Box 55, Folder 5

New School - Notes and student writing with manuscript comments by Mayer from a workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning September 1990

Box 55, Folder 6

Poetry Workshop - Notes from Poetry Workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning September 1990

Box 55, Folder 7

Notebook - Notes from unidentified course beginning November 6, 1990

Box 55, Folder 8

Notes from unidentified courses taught in 1990 and 1991

Box 55, Folder 9

Poetry Workshop - Notes from Poetry Workshop taught beginning September 23, 1991, at The New School for Social Research

Box 56, Folder 1

Experiments in Poetry - Notes from workshop taught beginning February 5, 1991, at The New School for Social Research

Box 56, Folder 2

Notes from CWR 270 taught at an unidentified location 1991 September

Box 56, Folder 3

Notes from an unidentified course taught at The College of Staten Island beginning October 1991 1991 - 1992

Box 56, Folder 4

Poetries I and II - Notes from courses taught at an unidentified location beginning February 1992

Box 56, Folder 5

Notes from workshop taught at The New School for Social Research beginning October 1994 1994 - 1995

Box 56, Folder 6

Diary JHS 104 - Typescript diary of experiences teaching at JHS 104, New York City

Box 56, Folder 7

Miscellaneous notes, unbound freewrites, class plans, etc.

Box 56, Folder 8

Lesson plan - Notes regarding math and science

Box 56, Folder 9

Social Studies Health Writing - Notes regarding writing and social studies and health

Box 57, Folder 1

Small Notebook Shared with Mott Hall - Notes regarding courses taught at the Manhattan Center

 

Miscellaneous

Box 57, Folder 2

August 2nd writing experiment

Box 57, Folder 3

Letter of resignation from New England College

Box 57, Folder 4

Miscellaneous notes

Box 57, Folder 5

Mott Hall Sestinas - Includes work by Mayer and students

Box 57, Folder 6

Naropa workshop 1987

Box 57, Folder 7

Notes from an unidentified workshop

Box 57, Folder 8

On the Ending of the Staten Island 40-Person 4-Hour Class

Box 57, Folder 9

Poetry Project Workshop

Box 57, Folder 10

Reading workshop - Includes typescript notes "On Reading"

Box 57, Folder 11

Student publications - 1987 "Blast to the Past;" 1987 "Poetry Movements of the Summer of 1987," 1988 "JHS 104M," and undated PS 154, PS 161 and PS 208

Box 57, Folder 12

Student writings - "Night Sky." Collection of poems inspired by an article in The New York Times

 

EDITING MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) EDITING MATERIALS: Correspondence, submissions, and other materials relating to Mayer's career as an editor. Arranged in four subseries: A) 0-9, B) Miscellaneous, C) United Artists, and D) Unnatural Acts.
A) 0 to 9: Correspondence, manuscripts, and a grant proposal for 0 to 9, a poetry magazine edited by Mayer and Vito Acconci from 1967 to 1969.
B) Miscellaneous: Drafts and correspondence for Mayer's entries in Handbook of Poetic Forms (Ron Padgett, editor, 1988) as well as notes and ephemera for Mayer's proofreading work and Street Work Theater.
C) United Artists: Proofreading notes, logos, and typefaces used by Mayer and Lewis Warsh in publishing United Artists Press books and its magazine, United Artists, from 1977 to 1984.
D) Unnatural Acts: Manuscripts, notes, and other materials used in editing the poetry magazine Unnatural Acts with Ed Friedman from 1972 to 1974.
 

0-9

Box 57, Folder 13

Letters to the editors

Box 57, Folder 14

Grant proposal to the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines 1968

Box 57, Folder 15

Unidentified manuscripts

 

Poetry submissions

Box 57, Folder 16

Coolidge, Clark

Box 57, Folder 17

Drummond, Phillip

Box 57, Folder 18

Higgins, Dick

Box 57, Folder 19

Rothenberg, Jerome

Box 57, Folder 20

Saroyan, Aram

Box 57, Folder 21

Smithson, Robert

Box 57, Folder 22

Weiner, Hannah

 

Miscellaneous

Box 57, Folder 23

Handbook of Poetic Forms. Teachers and Writers Collaborative. Drafts of Mayer's entries for basic poetic forms and correspondence with Ron Padgett 1986-1987

Box 57, Folder 24

Proofreading notes

Box 57, Folder 25

Street Works Theater - Ephemera, mimeograph flyers and notes 1969

 

United Artists

Box 57, Folder 26

Logos

Box 57, Folder 27

Examples of type

Box 57, Folder 28

Miscellaneous proofreaders notes

 

Unnatural Acts

Box 57, Folder 29

Manuscripts

Box 58, Folder 1

Material gathered by Mayer pertaining to Unnatural Acts magazine

Box 58, Folder 2

Magazine with notes and rewrites

Box 58, Folder 3

Miscellaneous notes

 

EPHEMERA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) EPHEMERA: Notes, drawing, and ephemera relating to Mayer's family and to Ed Bowes and Lewis Warsh.
Box 58, Folder 4

Agnes and Sally announcement. Mimeograph promotional announcement for Warsh's book

Box 58, Folder 5

Bernadette Mayer and Ed Bowes. Includes "A list of arbitrary changes agreeed to by E.F. Bowes and B.F. Mayer"

Box 58, Folder 6

Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh. Includes notes and drawings

Box 58, Folder 7

Ed Bowes biography materials

Box 58, Folder 8

Drawing

Box 58, Folder 9

Family notes

Box 58, Folder 10

Horoscope [for Bernadette] 1969

Box 58, Folder 11

Garden of Eden on Manhattan's Lower East Side

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) PHOTOGRAPHS: Arranged in three subseries: A) Prints, B) Albums, and C) Slides.
A) Prints: Primarily black-and-white images of Mayer and photographs of others taken by Mayer, including Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Ed Bowes, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh.
B) Albums: Photo albums documenting Mayer's family and friends, including Lewis Warsh, Bill Berkson, Kenward Elmslie, Joe Brainard, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, and Anne Waldman.
C) Slides: Images of Ed Bowes and Mayer's family. Slides related to Mayer's book Memory are located in Series 3A.
 

Prints

Box 58, Folder 12

Photographs of Mayer

Box 58, Folder 13

Photographs of others - Mostly images of Ed Bowes

Box 58, Folder 14

Miscellaneous photographs - Images of buildings and nature

 

Albums

Box 58, Folder 15

Photo album one. Includes images of Lewis Warsh, Bill Berkson, Kenward Elmslie, Joe Brainard, and Alice Notley

Box 58, Folder 16

Photo album two. Includes images of Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan and Bill Berkson

Box 58, Folder 17

Photo album three. Includes images of Mayer family, Bill Berkson and Anne Waldman

Box 59, Folder 1

For Bernadette from Rosemary with Love 1979

 

Slides

Box 59, Folder 2

Ed Bowes and children

Box 59, Folder 3

Miscellaneous

 

SOUND RECORDINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) SOUND RECORDINGS: Audio recordings by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh. Original media is restricted; researchers may request listening copies in advance of their visit. Arranged in two subseries: A) Lewis Warsh and B) Bernadette Mayer.
A) Lewis Warsh: Reel-to-reel audio recording of a poetry reading by Lewis Warsh at Harvard University in 1972.
B) Bernadette Mayer: Audiocassette diary recordings, including dream sequences, created by Mayer in 1976. Recordings related to Mayer's book Memory are located in Series 3A.
 

Lewis Warsh

Box 59, Folder 4

Lewis Warsh reading at the Woodbury Poetry Room, Harvard University - Reel to reel audio recording 1972 October 25

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply
 

Bernadette Mayer

Box 60, Folder 1-9

Diary recordings and dream sequences - Audiocassettes 1976 August - September

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply
 

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES: Brittle or high acid content original documents that have been photocopied. This material is restricted; researchers must use preservation photocopies found in the collection.
Box 61, Folder 1-5

Originals of preservation photocopies

Conditions Governing Access

Restrictions Apply
 

Accession Processed in 2019

 

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 12) BIOGRAPHICAL: Interview transcripts, news clippings, essays, identification cards, ephemera and curricula vitae regarding Bernadette Mayer.
Box 62, Folder 1

Bernadette Mayer ID cards, business card, and note paper 1972-1997

Box 62, Folder 2

Bernadette Mayer interviewed by Daniel Kane - Transcript 1998 October 8

Box 62, Folder 3

Bernadette Mayer interviewed by Stephanie Anderson - Transcript 2013 November 1

Box 62, Folder 4

Biographical information 1986-2013

Box 62, Folder 5

Brito, Manuel. Bernadette Mayer (1945- ): Introducción, selección de textos y traducción 1992

Box 62, Folder 6

Ephemera - Poetry reading flyers, postcards, and brochures 1994-2016

Box 62, Folder 7

Interviews with Bernadette Mayer - Clippings and correspondence 1998-2013

Oversize FB-126, Folder 11

Poetry readings - Posters 1994-2012

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 13) CORRESPONDENCE: Mayer's incoming and outgoing correspondence with poets, publishers, poetry journals, educational organizations, family, and friends. Much of the correspondence is also addressed to poets Philip Good and Lewis Warsh. The series includes drafts of poetry, photographs, ephemera, and art work. Arranged alphabetically by surname or corporate name, or by first name when the correspondent's surname is unknown.
Box 62, Folder 8

A - Miscellaneous

Box 62, Folder 9

Abrams, Sam 1994

Box 62, Folder 10

The Academy of American Poets 2002-2013

Box 62, Folder 11

Aktar, Sascha 2003-2004

Box 62, Folder 12

American Academy of Arts and Letters 1994-1997

Box 62, Folder 13

Angle (Brian Lucas) 1996-1997

Box 62, Folder 14

Annie Tinker Association for Women 1998-2003

Box 62, Folder 15

Arthurs, Madeleine Hope (Meg) 1993-2005

General note

Includes artwork by Meg Arthurs.
Box 62, Folder 16

Ashbery, John 2003

Box 62, Folder 17

Atkins, Tim 1997

Box 62, Folder 18

B - Miscellaneous

Box 62, Folder 19

Baker, Peter 1994-2017

Box 62, Folder 20

Beck, Regina 1979

Box 62, Folder 21

Benjosh Management Corporation 1985

Box 62, Folder 22

Berkson, Bill 1988-2015

General note

Includes photographs of Bill Berkson.
Box 62, Folder 23

Berlant, Tillie and George 1983-1997

Box 62, Folder 24

Brenda and Atticus 1999-2005

Box 62, Folder 25

Brilliant, Eileen 1996

Box 62, Folder 26

Brinks, Dave 1996-2012

Box 62, Folder 27

Brown, Lee Ann 1988-2017

Box 62, Folder 28

Brown University Program in Creative Writing 1998-2004

Box 62, Folder 29

Browne, Laynie 1995-2017

Box 62, Folder 30

Bugh, Rebecca 1993

General note

Includes photograph of Bernadette Mayer and Anne Waldman.
Box 62, Folder 31

Burns, Megan 2004-2012

Box 62, Folder 32

Bynum, Thomas L. 1989-1990

Box 62, Folder 33

C - Miscellaneous

Box 63, Folder 1

Cain, Sarah 2000-2016

Oversize FB-126, Folder 12

Cain, Sarah

Box 63, Folder 2

Calas, Alex 1997-1998

Box 63, Folder 3

Carcanet Press Limited 2004

Box 63, Folder 4

Carol

Box 63, Folder 5

Casline, Alan 2011-2014

Box 63, Folder 6

Champion, Miles 1994-2005

General note

Includes photographs of Bernadette Mayer.
Box 63, Folder 7

Cherry Hill Arts Festival 1998

Box 63, Folder 8

Cole, Norma 1999

Box 63, Folder 9

Collom, Jack 1994-2016

Box 63, Folder 10

Coolidge, Clark and Susan 1994-1996

Box 63, Folder 11

Corbett, William 1987-1996

Box 63, Folder 12

Court Green 2009-2013

Box 63, Folder 13

Cummings, Paul 1990-1996

Box 63, Folder 14

D - Miscellaneous

Box 63, Folder 15

Dawson, Fielding 1998

Box 63, Folder 16

Day, Russell 1993-2015

Box 63, Folder 17

Decker, Helen and Gary Gullo 1990-2001

Box 63, Folder 18

DeCoursey, Peggy 1996-2017

Box 63, Folder 19

Delany, Samuel R. 1998

Box 63, Folder 20

DeNoyelles, Bill 1997-2013

Box 63, Folder 21

Dickison, Steve 1995

Box 63, Folder 22

Dinsmore, Danika and Lee Christopher 1993-2001

Box 63, Folder 23

di Prima, Diane 1998

Box 63, Folder 24

Downes, Rackstraw 1997-2008

Box 63, Folder 25

Durand, Marcella 1999-2017

Box 63, Folder 26

E - Miscellaneous

Box 63, Folder 27

Elkin, Barbara and Herb 1983-1998

Box 64, Folder 1-3

Epler, Barbara (New Directions) 1989-2017

Box 64, Folder 4

F - Miscellaneous

Box 64, Folder 5

Farmingdale State University of New York 2004

Box 64, Folder 6

Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts 1995-1997

Box 64, Folder 7

Fourteen Hills (Nicole Stefanko) 1996-1997

Box 64, Folder 8

Freifeld, Larry 1971-1972

Box 64, Folder 9

Freind, Bill 2004

Box 64, Folder 10

Friedman, Ed 1995-2002

Box 64, Folder 11

Fry, Susanna 2003-2005

Box 64, Folder 12

Further Other Book Works 2015

Box 64, Folder 13

Futurefarmers 2011-2012

Box 64, Folder 14

Fyman, Cliff 1997-2014

Box 64, Folder 15

G - Miscellaneous

Box 64, Folder 16

Galet, Josh 1994

Box 64, Folder 17

Gardner, Keith 1996-2001

Box 64, Folder 18

The Germ (Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card) 1996-1997

Box 64, Folder 19

Gizzi, Michael and Pilar 1985-2010

Box 64, Folder 20

Gizzi, Peter and Elizabeth Willis ( The Nation) 1995-2008

Box 64, Folder 21

Good, Philip 1984

Box 64, Folder 22

Granary Books 1996-2000

Box 64, Folder 23

Grand Street 1990-2001

Box 64, Folder 24

Greenspan, Eliot 1996-1997

Box 64, Folder 25

Gregory (surname unknown) ca. 1984

General note

Letter from Bernadette Mayer regarding her ideas for a Manhattan School of Poetics.
Box 64, Folder 26

H - Miscellaneous undated

Box 64, Folder 27

Hagan, Tom 1988-1989

Box 64, Folder 28

Hale, Robert 1994

Box 64, Folder 29

Hamlin, Louise 1986-1995

Box 64, Folder 30

Harris 1972-1978

Box 64, Folder 31

Heath, Jennifer (Jenny) 1999

Box 64, Folder 32

Hedstrom, Cynthia 1981-1982

Box 64, Folder 33

Hejinian, Lyn 2001-2016

Box 64, Folder 34

Henning, Barbara 1991-2015

Box 64, Folder 35

Highfill, Mitch and Kim 1983

Box 64, Folder 36

Hoover, Paul 1992-1993

Box 64, Folder 37

Howe, Fanny 1994-1998

Box 64, Folder 38

I - Miscellaneous

Box 64, Folder 39

Iijima, Brenda 1998-2003

Box 64, Folder 40

The Institute for Writing and Thinking 1999

Box 64, Folder 41

J - Miscellaneous

Box 65, Folder 1

Jarnot, Lisa 2003-2007

Box 65, Folder 2

Jones, Jamey 1994-2017

Box 65, Folder 3

K- Miscellaneous 1999-2016

Box 65, Folder 4

Karmin, Jen 2006-2016

Box 65, Folder 5

Kiely, Aaron 1998-2000

Box 65, Folder 6

Kyger, Joanne 1999

Box 65, Folder 7

L - Miscellaneous

Box 65, Folder 8

Lehman, David 2002-2007

Box 65, Folder 9

Levy, Andrew 1996-2001

Box 65, Folder 10

Licht, Matthew 2002-2004

Box 65, Folder 11

Lloyd, Martha 2002-2008

Box 65, Folder 12

M - Miscellaneous

Box 65, Folder 13

Malone, Eric 1999-2005

Box 65, Folder 14

Mariah, Paul (Manroot)

Box 65, Folder 15

Mary P. Sears Trust - Shelley Memorial Award 2014

Box 65, Folder 16

Masters, Greg 1984-2000

General note

Contains group photograph.
Box 65, Folder 17

Mayer family 1986

Box 65, Folder 18-19

Mayer, Rosemary 1979-2016

Box 65, Folder 20

Merry 1997

Box 65, Folder 21

Messerli, Douglas (Sun and Moon Press) 1996-2001

Box 65, Folder 22

Mlinko, Ange 1995-2000

Box 65, Folder 23

Morris, Jason 2009-2016

Box 65, Folder 24

N- Miscellaneous

Box 65, Folder 25

Naropa Institute 1992-2015

Box 65, Folder 26

New Directions 2011-2013

Box 65, Folder 27

New Orleans Review 1999

Box 65, Folder 28

New School for Social Research 1992

Box 65, Folder 29

O - Miscellaneous

Box 65, Folder 30

Owen, Maureen 1999-2005

Box 65, Folder 31

P - Miscellaneous

Box 65, Folder 32

Padgett, Ron 1997-1998

Box 65, Folder 33

Palmer, Michael 1992-2002

Box 65, Folder 34

Patrick 1988

Box 66, Folder 1

PEN American Center 1998-2005

Box 66, Folder 2

Peters, Ann 1997-2012

Box 66, Folder 3

Pettet, Simon 1995-2013

Box 66, Folder 4

Phipps, Wanda 1999-2003

Box 66, Folder 5

Phoebe 1994-1997

Box 66, Folder 6

Pittelman, Karen 1995

Box 66, Folder 7

The Poetry Project 1994-2008

Box 66, Folder 8

POG 1998-1999

Box 66, Folder 9

Princeton University 2003

Box 66, Folder 10

R - Miscellaneous

Box 66, Folder 11

Radfar, India 2001-2010

Box 66, Folder 12

Raworth, Tom 1994-2002

Box 66, Folder 13

Ray 1993

Box 66, Folder 14

Reddin, Elizabeth 2002-2004

Box 66, Folder 15

River Styx 1990

Box 66, Folder 16

Romano, Tina 1993-1994

Box 66, Folder 17

Ruby, Michael 1999

Box 66, Folder 18

Rychlíková, Helena (Hela) 2001-2003

Box 66, Folder 19

S - Miscellaneous

Box 66, Folder 20

Saidenberg, Jocelyn 1994-1999

Box 66, Folder 21

Scala, Suzanne 2001-2002

Box 66, Folder 22

Shaw, Lytle 1998-2003

Box 66, Folder 23

Shively, Sharon 1988

Box 66, Folder 24

Sikelianos, Eleni 2001-2010

Box 66, Folder 25

Silverman, Hershel 1994-2013

Box 66, Folder 26

Skinner, Jonathan 1997 December

Box 66, Folder 27

Smith, Ed 1983-1991

Box 66, Folder 28

Solan, Miriam 1989-1999

Box 66, Folder 29

Spahr, Juliana (Chain) 1994-2000

Box 66, Folder 30

Sprague, Jane 2003

Box 66, Folder 31

Stavsky, Laurie 1996-1997

Box 66, Folder 32

Susan 2003

Box 66, Folder 33

T - Miscellaneous

Box 66, Folder 34

Talisman House 1995-1997

Box 66, Folder 35

Tannenbaum, Matthew 1982-1997

Box 66, Folder 36

Teachers and Writers Collaborative 1985-2017

Box 66, Folder 37

Teaching Resource Center 2000

Box 66, Folder 38

Tysh, Chris 1981-2005

Box 66, Folder 39

U - Miscellaneous

Box 66, Folder 40

Ugly Duckling Presse 2005

Box 66, Folder 41

University of California, San Diego 1984-2015

Box 66, Folder 42

University of New Orleans 1999

Box 66, Folder 43

V - Miscellaneous

Box 66, Folder 44

Valéry, Juliette 2000-2001

Box 66, Folder 45

Vermont, Charlie 2005-2015

Box 66, Folder 46

Vermont Studio Center 2011-2012

Box 66, Folder 47

Virginia 1985-1987

General note

Includes photograph of Bernadette Mayer and Anne Waldman.
Box 67, Folder 1

W - Miscellaneous 1997-2001

Box 67, Folder 2-3

Waldman, Anne 1974-2004

Box 67, Folder 4

Walker Art Center 2012

Box 67, Folder 5

Ward, Zac 1997-2012

Box 67, Folder 6

Warsh, Lewis 1985-2007

Box 67, Folder 7-8

Warsh, Marie 1998-2016

Box 67, Folder 9

Warsh, Max 1988-2013

Box 67, Folder 10-11

Warsh, Sophia 1987-2014

Box 67, Folder 12

Wilenz, Ted 1995-1998

Box 67, Folder 13

World tour correspondence 1999

Box 67, Folder 14

W.W. Norton and Company 1992-2013

Box 67, Folder 15

Y - Miscellaneous

Box 67, Folder 16

Yorty, Don 1998-2017

Box 67, Folder 17

Yvonne 1982

Box 67, Folder 18

Z - Miscellaneous

Box 67, Folder 19

Zasterle Press (Manuel Brito) 1994-2005

Box 67, Folder 20

Zen Mountain Monastery 1987-1988

Box 68, Folder 1

Unidentified correspondents

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 14) WRITINGS: Drafts, manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, cover art, photographs, and ephemera for Mayer's published and unpublished writings and editing. Drafts are included for The 3:15 Writing Experiment (with Danika Dinsmore, 1993); A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992); The Cave (with Clark Coolidge, 2008); The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994); Ethics of Sleep (2011); The Formal Field of Kissing (1990); The Helens of Troy, New York (2013); The Old Style is Finding Out Something About a Whole New Set of Possibilities (ca. 1970); Poetry State Forest (2008); Proper Name and Other Stories (1996), Scarlet Tanager (2005); The Tsatsawassans, issues #1-2 (editor, 2009-2010) and Uncle Andrew's Pile of Pads (2014). The series includes notebooks kept by Mayer, a transcript of Mayer's interview of Michael Ruby, a collaboration with Tom Savage, a handmade newsletter written and illustrated by Mayer as a teenager, and rubber stamps used in publishing poetry books and periodicals. Arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 68, Folder 2

The 3:15 Writing Experiment, with Danika Dinsmore (2001) 1993-2001

Box 68, Folder 3

Another Smashed Pinecone (1998) - Review and ephemera

Box 68, Folder 4

The Art of Science Writing (1989), with Dale Worsley - Reviews

Box 68, Folder 5

Bernadette Mayer on CD: Epigrams, Imitations and Translations - Ephemera 2000

Box 68, Folder 6-8

A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992)

Box 68, Folder 9

The Cave (2008), with Clark Coolidge 1972-1978

Box 68, Folder 10-12

The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994)

Box 68, Folder 13

Don Can't Sleep (but we will make him), with Philip Good

Box 68, Folder 14

Dreams

Box 68, Folder 15

Eruditio ex Memoria (1977) - Reviews

Box 68, Folder 16

Ethics of Sleep (2011)

Box 69, Folder 1

Food for Non-Thinkers: Geneva Starts Second Year 1959

General note

Amateur newsletter written and illustrated by Mayer.
Box 69, Folder 2-3

The Formal Field of Kissing 1990

Box 69, Folder 4

The Golden Book of Words (1978) - Ephemera and reviews

Box 69, Folder 5-7

The Helens of Troy, New York (2013)

General note

Includes photographs of Bernadette Mayer and the subjects of the book.
Box 69, Folder 8

Memory (1975) - Reviews

Box 69, Folder 9

Michael Ruby interviewed by Bernadette Mayer - Transcript 2014 March 23

Box 69, Folder 10

Midwinter Day (1982 and 1999)

General note

Includes a photograph of Bernadette Mayer, a negative of the cover art, and a holiday card with a poem from the book.
Box 69, Folder 11-13

Notebooks 1985-1992

Box 70, Folder 1

Poems - Miscellaneous 1979-2011

Box 70, Folder 2

Poetry State Forest (2008)

Box 70, Folder 3-7

Proper Name and Other Stories (1996)

General note

Includes a photograph of the cover art.
Box 60, Folder 10

Rubber stamps for The Boston Eagle, Angel Hair, United Artists, and Unnatural Acts.

Box 70, Folder 8

Scarlet Tanager (2005)

Box 70, Folder 9

Skinny Sonnets 2000

Box 70, Folder 10

Sonnets (1989 and 2014) - Reviews

Box 70, Folder 11

Studying Hunger (1975) - Reviews

Box 70, Folder 12

Studying Hunger Journals (2011)

General note

Quotes from the book compiled by Clark Coolidge.
Box 70, Folder 13

Summer Solstice 2007

Box 70, Folder 14

Tom Savage collaboration - Poems and correspondence 1984-1988

Box 70, Folder 15-16

The Tsatsawassans, issues 1-2 (editor) 2009-2010

Box 71, Folder 1

Two Haloed Mourners (1998) - Review

Box 71, Folder 2

Uncle Andrew's Pile of Pads (2014)

Box 71, Folder 3

Utopia (1984) - Reviews

Box 71, Folder 4

Works and Days (2016) - Review

Box 71, Folder 5

Writing for Ron Padgett 1985

 

TEACHING

Scope and Content of Series

Series 15) TEACHING: Correspondence, lecture notes, class handouts, course proposals, a dream seminar transcript, and ephemera for poetry classes and workshops taught by Mayer at Naropa Institute, The New School for Social Research, The Poetry Project, and other locations. Arranged alphabetically.
Box 71, Folder 6

Dream Sessions 1974 - 1998

General note

Transcript and correspondence for a seminar taught by Montague Ullman and Bernadette Mayer for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
Box 71, Folder 7

Language poetry lectures and bibliography 1989

Box 71, Folder 8-10

Naropa Institute 1978-2015

General note

Includes materials for an insults poetry workshop.
Box 71, Folder 11

The New School for Social Research 1989-1990

Box 71, Folder 12

Poetry I - Take-home final examination

Box 71, Folder 13

Rootdrinkers workshop (Beyond the Basics of Poetry) 2013

Box 71, Folder 14

Summer workshop 2003

Box 71, Folder 15-16

Whitman notes for lecture