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Lawrence McGaugh papers.
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Title:
Lawrence McGaugh papersCreator/Contributor:
McGaugh, Lawrence., creatorAbstract:
Contains a number of assorted poems (8 folders) and other writings including short stories, possible book chapters, manuscript
drafts (including Venus's Slipper), submission letters, and correspondence. Most of the material is undated and some of the
folders may have mixed contents. Also includes resume and a list of anthologies in which McGaugh's poems have appeared.
Date:
1963 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMcGaugh, Lawrence -- Archives
African American poets -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Beats (Persons) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
American poetry -- 20th century
Note:
Lawrence McGaugh papers, BANC MSS 2008/274, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Lawrence W. McGaugh (October 11, 1940-July 26, 2006) was a San Francisco Bay Area poet. He earned a BFA at the San Francisco
Art Institute in 1971, taught fine arts at several institutions around the Bay Area, and served a commissioner on the Berkeley
Civic Art Commission, 1976-1979. He is the author of A Fifth Sunday and Other Poems (Oyez Press, 1965), Vacuum Cantos and
Other Poems (Oyez Press, 1969), and Dreamheads Love Poems, 1978-83 (self-published, 1983); he also contributed poems to numerous
anthologies. At the time of his death, he was living in Berkeley, California.
Type:
Poems-California-20th century.Manuscripts for publication.
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1 box (.4 linear feet)
Language:
English