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Kizer, C. mss., 1825-2004

Papers of Carolyn Kizer at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator
Kizer, Carolyn, 1925-2014

Title
Kizer, C. mss., 1825-2004

Collection No.
LMC 2520

Extent
25,000 items

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
Consists primarily of the papers, photographs, and memorabilia of poet Carolyn Kizer.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Carolyn Kizer, 1925-2014, was born in Spokane, Washington in 1925, the daughter of activist lawyer Benjamin Hamilton and biologist/professor Mabel Ashley Kizer. After receiving her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied comparative mythologies with Joseph Campbell, et al. in 1945, she did a year of graduate work at Columbia University followed by another year at the University of Washington. In the 1950s, after three children and a divorce from first husband Stimson Bullitt, she turned to poetry and studied at the University of Washington with Theodore Roethke and his students David Wagoner, Richard Hugo, James Wright, among others. In 1959 she cofounded Poetry Northwest and served as its first editor until 1965. Kizer spent a year in Pakistan as literary specialist for the U.S. State Department, 1964-1965, and from 1966-1970 served as the first director of literary programs for the newly created National Endowment for the Arts. In 1975 she married her second husband, distinguished architect and historian John Marshall Woodbridge.

Kizer taught poetry, literature and translation courses in universities throughout the country, was poet-in-residence at the University of North Carolina and Ohio University, and was a participant in international poetry festivals in London, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Ireland and Scotland. Her publications include nearly a dozen books of poetry and contributions to many anthologies and periodicals. She translated Urdu, Chinese and Japanese poetry and edited collections of other poets. She was a four-time winner of the Governor's Prize from the state of Washington for 1965, 1985, 1995, and 1998. Honors also include the Masefield Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 1983, the Theodore Roethke prize in 1988, several honorary doctorates, and in 1985 the Pulitzer Prize for her book Yin: New Poems.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings; III. Writings by Others; IV. Teaching Materials; V. Photographs; VI. Memorabilia; VII. Printed.

Scope and Content Note

Consists primarily of papers, photographs, and memorabilia. Family papers are present throughout the collection, including papers of her father Benjamin, 1878-1978, and her mother Mabel, 1880-1955.

Note on Indexing Term - "Literature--translating": Included are her translations of numerous works as well as her lecture notes on translation.

  • Indexing Terms

  • The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

    • Names
    • Kizer, Carolyn.
    • Kizer, Carolyn--Correspondence.
    • Kizer, Carolyn--Interviews.
    • Aijaz Ahmad.
    • Bayes, Ronald H., 1932-
    • Capouya, Emile.
    • Carruth, Hayden, 1921-
    • Cartiu, Jean.
    • Conquest, Robert.
    • Corn, Alfred, 1943-
    • DeFrees, Madeline.
    • Finkel, Constance.
    • Finkel, Donald.
    • Fortas, Abe.
    • Garrett, George P., 1929-
    • Keeley, Edmund.
    • Keene, Donald L.
    • Kumin, Maxine, 1925-
    • L'Heureux, John.
    • Morris, Carl, 1911-1993.
    • Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
    • Peterson, Robert, 1925-2006
    • Pierone, Bob
    • Rabb, Margaret Y.
    • Reidel, James.
    • Rigsbee, David.
    • Robinson, Eric, 1924-
    • Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-2000.
    • Sheeks, Robert.
    • Thompson, Jan.
    • Tobey, Mark.
    • Todd, Ruthven, 1914-
    • Wagoner, David.
    • Wain, John.
    • Wheeler, Jackson.
    • Copper Canyon Press.
    • W.W. Norton & Company.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Purchase. 2005
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item] Kizer, C. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series: I. Correspondence

Organized into two subseries: Colleagues and friends, followed by family correspondence. One folder per name unless otherwise indicated.

Subseries: Colleagues and friends

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, followed by the year or range of years of the correspondence. Correspondents with only one or two letters are not listed and are filed together in a general file for each letter of the alphabet.

A - General

(2 folders)

Ackerman, Diane. 1987,  1996-1997 
Adachi, Barbara. 1996 
Adams, Alice. 1985-1996 
Adams, Léonie. 1962-1978 
Ahmad, Aijaz. 1965-1969 

(3 folders)

Ali, Agha Shahid. 1982-1998 
Ammons, A.R. 1963-1971 
Anderson, Gordon. 1961-2002 
Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina. 1988-1994 
Arnold, Robert B. 1957-1959 
Ashbery, John. 1982-2003 
Athas, Daphne. 1974-2004 
B - General

(3 folders)

Bakken, Dick. 1972-1988 
Balaban, John. 1997-2001 
Bantam Books Inc. 1974 
Barich, Bill. 1996-1998 
Barnard, Mary. 1984-2005 
Barnard College. 1971-1972,  1988 
Barnstone, Willis. 1981-1995 
Bates, Dick. 1941 
Bayes, Ronald. 1965-2003 

(3 folders)

Beddow, Reid. 1983-1985 
Bell, Margaret. 1953-1961 
Bender, Eleanor. 1979-1986 
Berge, Carol. 1973 
Berryman, John. 1962-1964 
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. 1985-1986 
Betts, Doris. 1972-1974 
Biddle, Katherine Garrison Chapin. 1973 
Birch, Cyril. 1962-1985 
Bloch, Chana. undated 
Bly, Robert. 1963-1999 
BkMk Press. 1998-2000 
Boatwright, James. 1963-1988 
Bogan, Louise to Mildred Weston. 1938-1969. Photocopies
Boisseau, Michelle. 1997-2004 
Borders, Alden. 1988-1997 
Bowen, Roger. 1979-2000 
Boyle, Kay. 1957-1961 
Brandt & Brandt. 1964-1965 
Broner, Esther. 1981-1996 
Brooks, Gwendolyn. 1995-2000 
Broughton, Irv. 1988 
Broughton, James. 1956-1994 
Broumas, Olga. 1978-1985 
Brumwell, Marcus. 1947-1961 
Brutus, Dennis. 1970 
Buckley, Christopher. 1998-2004 
Burden, Jean. 1990-1992 
Burdick, Owen. 1995-2001 

(see also: Sisk, Michael)

Burnett, Virgil. 1971 
C - General

(3 folders)

Caetani, Marguerita. 1955-1956 
Cambanis, Miranda. 1972-1986 
Campbell, Joseph. 1946-1989 
Cansler, Barbara Lynn. 1981 
Capouya, Emile. 1962-1964 

(2 folders)

Carlile, Henry. 1984-1991 
Carroll, Paul. 1958-1964 
Carroll, Stuart H. 1942-2004 
Carruth, Hayden. 1959-1961, May 

(2 folders)

Carruth, Hayden. 1959-1961, May 

(2 folders)

Box 2 Carruth, Hayden. 1961, June-2004 

(5 folders)

Cartiu, Jean. 1961-1985 

(2 folders)

Cassian, Nina. 1983,  1999 
Chappell, Fred. 1971-1999 
Chatterton, Gordon. 1943-1945 
Cheung, Dominic. 1986-1987 
Churry, Craig. 1980-1984 
Clower, Jean. 1960 
Codrescu, Andrei. 1984-2001 
Cole, William. 1980 
Coleman, Elizabeth. 1971 
Columbia University. 1945,  1971-1972 
Connell, Evan. 1960-1961 
Conquest, Robert. 1958-1980 

(3 folders)

Copper Canyon Press. 1980-2003 

(2 folders)

Corley, William Ward. 1958-1961 
Corn, Alfred. 1988-2004 

(2 folders)

Coyle, David Cushman. 1938-1949 
Creely, Robert. 1962-2003 
Crown, Bonnie. 1966-1986 
Cunliff, Mitzi (Solomon). 1954-1958 
D - General

(2 folders)

Dalisay, Yasmin. 2000-2003 
Daniell, Rosemary. 1972-2000 
Davidson, C. Girard (Jebby). 1950-1951 
Davidson, Frank P. 1943-1986 
Davis, Barbara Thompson. 1965-2002 
Davis, Carol. 1980-1983 
Davison, Peter. 1966,  1986-1999 
De Longechamps, Joanne. 1961-1966 
DeFrees, Madeline. 1961-1985 

(2 folders)

Diamond, Joan. 1979-1985 
Dickey, James. 1963-1981 
Dickie, Joan. 1965-1977 
Dimond, John. 1943 
Dionne, Pamela Moore. 1997-1999 
Doty, Mark. 1997-1999 
Doubiago, Sharon. 1985-1992 
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1965-1983 
Drama Survey. 1963-1964 
Dukes, Carol Muske. 1980-2003 
Dunn, Millard. 1982 
Dutourd, Jean. 1997-2002 
E - General
Eberhart, Richard. 1967 
Ecco Press. 1981-1995 
Edel, Leon. 1987-1993 
Edelman Jr., Gerald. 1994-2001 
Edmondson, Colin. undated 
Ehle, John. 1980-1985 
Ehret, Terry. 1993-2005 
Ellegood, Donald. 1968-1996 
Everson, William. 1982-1983 
Box 3 F - General
Faiz, Faiz Ahmad. 1966-1982 
Falk, Marcia. 1980-2003 
Faust, Johnny. 1941-1942 
Federico, Salvatore. 1987-1995 
Ferté, Thomas. 1984-2005 
Field, Edward. 1977-1999 
Finch, Annie. 1990-2001 
Finkel, Constance and Donald. 1961-2000 

(2 folders)

Fisher, David. 1980-1989 
Fitzgerald, Robert. 1946-1979 
Fitzsimmons, Thomas. 1965-1975 
Flexner, Hortense. 1945-1958 
Forché, Carolyn. 1985-1993 
Foreign Service of the United States

(see: United States Department of State)

Fortas, Abe. 1952-1980 

(6 folders)

Forté, Roland. 1993-1994 
Friedberg, Martha. 1979-1988 
Friedson, Tony. 1979-1980 
G - General

(2 folders)

Gach, Garry. 1985 
Galassi, Jonathan. 1983-1986 
Gale, Vi. 1961-1985 
Gallagher, Tess. 1983-2000 
Gallant, Mavis. 1998 
Gardner, Isabella. 1955-1973 
Garrett, George. 1959-2004 

(4 folders)

Ginsberg, Allen. 1956-1994 
Gioia, Dana. 1985-2000 
Gjuzel, Bogomil. 1970-1991 
Goedicke, Patricia. 1978-2003 
Goldstein, Larry. 1986-2001 
Gottfried, Sue Davidson. 1960 
Graves, Morris. 1961-1987 
Green, Johnny. 1975-1987 
Gregor, Arthur. 1965,  1975,  1996 
Griffin, Shaun. 1989-2000 
Gunn, Thom. 1960-1990 
Gustafsson, Lars. 1970-1986 
Guthrie, Jack. 1941-1983 
H - General

(2 folders)

H.H. Wilson Company. 1965-1966 
Haag, John. 1996 
Hacker, Marilyn. 1973-2005 
Haferd, Margaret. 1962-1965 
Haines, John. 1981-2001 
Hall, Donald. 1955-1996 
Hall, James B. 1958-1986 
Box 4 Hamburger, Michael. 1958-2001 
Hanson, Kenneth. 1963-1989 
Hard, Fred. 1962-2003 
Hardwick, Elizabeth. 1982-1991 
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. 1972-1988 
Hirschman, Jack. 1985-1988 
Hoffman, Dan. 1989-2001 
Hoffman, Robert W. 1942-1943 
Holden, Jonathan. 1986-1987 
Holland, Laura Chaney. 1991-1997 
Holland, William. 1960-2004 
Hollander, John. 1958-2003 
Holmes, John. 1959-1962 
Holton, Milne. 1973 
Hosaih, Shahdid. 1965 
Howard, Richard. undated 
Howe, Susan Elizabeth. 1997-2000 
Hubbell, Sue. 1988-1995 
Huff, Robert. 1958-1959 
Huggan, Isabel. 1995-1996 
Hugo, Richard. 1968-1984 
Humphries, Rolfe. 1956-1967 
Hunley, Tom C. 1997-2001 
Hunter, Paul. 1974-1975 
I - General
Iddings, Kathleen. 1984-1988 
Indiana University Press. 1959-1967 
Isaksson, Olov. 1968 
Isely, Jeter Allen. 1942-1943 
Ivry, Benjamin. 1988-2000 
J - General

(2 folders)

Jacobsen, Josephine. 1961-1998 
Janeway, Elizabeth. 1974-1986 
Jellema, Roderick. 1974-1975  1986 
Jenkins, Joyce. 1985-2000 
John Calder (Publishers) Ltd. 1958 
Johnson, Judith. 1987-1994 
K - General

(2 folders)

Kaplan, Robert. 1989 
Kaufman, Shirley. 1974-2000 
kayak [magazine]. 1969-1983 
Keeble, John. 1981-1997 
Keeley, Edmund (Mike). 1966-2002. 

(3 folders)

Keene, Donald L. 1943-2005 

(13 folders)

Box 5 Kermode, Frank. 1966-1972 
Kessler, Steven. 1998-1999 
Keyser, Samuel Jay. 1981,  1985 
Khan, Ghani. 1965 
Kiernan, Victor. 1965-1966 
Kinnell, Galway. 1976-2002 
Kitchell, Kaaren. 1999-2003 
Knight, Joe. 2004 
Knott, Bill. 1973,  1987 
Knowles, Lee. 1946-1947 
Kumin, Maxine. 1969-2003 

(5 folders)

Kunitz, Stanley. 1955-2001 
L - General

(2 folders)

Langland, Lois. 1968-2002 
Lapid, Ilana. 1999-2002 
Lazard, Naomi. 1964-1989 
Le Guin, Ursula K. 1984-2001 
Lehman, David. 1997-2003 
Leider, Phil. 1962-1963 
Leithauser, Brad. 1987-1999 
Levertov, Denise. 1970-1998 
Levine, Philip

(see: VI. Memorabilia. Organizations. Pulitzer Prize Poetry Jury)

Lewis, Janet. 1960-1994 
L'Heureux, John. 1960-1985 

(2 folders)

The Library of America (Geoffrey O'Brien). 1998-2003 
Lifshin, Lyn. 1982-1987 
Linney, Romulus. 1973-2002 
Little, Geraldine C. 1980-1981 
Locher, Caroline and Kaspar T. 1985-1997 
Logan, John. 1962-1985 
London, Ann. 1955-1975 
Louchheim, Katie. 1965-1978 
Lurie, Alison. 1997 
Lux, Tom. 1987-1997 
Mc - General
McAuley, James. 1979-2001 
Macauley, Robie. 1962-1963 
McCarthy, Lee. 1985-2004 
McClatchy, Sandy. 1994-2002 
McFadden, Mary Ann. 1976-1996 
McFadyean, Sir Andrew. 1947-1963 
M - General

(2 folders)

Marbrook, Djelloul and Marilyn. 1970-2006 
Marcus, Adrianne. 1967-1996 
Martinson, Tom. 1987 
Masters, Hilary. 1995-1999 
Matchett, William H. 1962-2005 
Mathews, Marthiel. 1953-1963 
Matthews, William. 1986-1995 
Meredith, William. 1967-1976 
Merwin, William S. 1983-1997 
Middleton, Christopher. 1993-2005 
Migrenne, Jean. 1993 
Miles, Josephine. 1959-1976 
Minty, Judith. 1987-2001 
Mitchelmore, Charles and Laurana. 1995-1998 
Mitford, Jessica. 1982-1983,  1994 
Montague, John. 1963-2003 
Moore, Harry T. 1960-1961 
Moore, Richard. 1967-1981 
Morgan, Frederick. 1963-1972 
Morgan, Patricia. 1990-1997 
Box 6 Morley, Hilda. 1982-1994 

(see Jennifer Moyer, Nov. 24, 1987)

Morris, Carl. 1960-1984 

(2 folders)

Morris, David Curt. 1986-1993 
Morris, Hilda. 1957-1976 
Morris, Mary. 1997 
Morton, James. 1979 
Moss, Ben Frank. 1976-1981 
Mott, Michael. 1977-1981 
Moyer, Jennifer. 1980-1987 
Mueenuddin, Barbara. 1970-1971 
Mueller, Lisel. 1995-1997 
Mueller, Robert. 1961-1965 
Mumford, Geddes. 1943-1947 
Mumford, Lewis. 1941-1972 

(2 folders)

N - General
Naumoff, Lawrence. 1971-1988 
Neff, Hadley. ca. 1941-1945, including numerous sketches concerning his service during World War II

(2 folders)

Nelson, Gwen. 1974-1982 
Nelson, Peter. 1967 
New Directions. 1956-1974,  2004 
The New Republic. 1955-1962 
The New Yorker. 1943,  1962-1983 
Nicholson, Catherine. 1973 
Noethe, Sheryl. 1994-2000 
Norse, Harold. 1967 
O - General
Oates, Joyce Carol. 1986-1998 
O'Daly, William. 1977,  1987,  2005 
Oden, Gloria. 1962-1985 
O'Donnell, Mary. 1996 
O'Hehir, Diana. 1977-1999 
Olds, Sharon. 1985-1999 
Oliveira, David. 1995-2000 
Olivier, Louis. 1987-1989 
Olsen, Tillie. 1972-1984 
Osborne, Charles. 1970-1971 
Osherow, Jackie. 1998-2000 
Ostricker, Alicia. 1983-1985 
P - General
Pagels, Elaine. 1986-1987 
Painter, Charlotte. 1982-1984 
Palmer, Jack. 1959-1984 
Pander, Henk. 1985-1987 
Parra, Nicanor. undated 
Partisan Review. 1956-1963 
Pastan, Linda. 1982-1998 
Patchen, Kenneth. 1967 
Peacock, Molly. 1987-1998 
Perez, Nola. 1993-1996 
Peters, Robert. 1980-1991 
Petersen, Paulann. 1994-2004 
Peterson, Robert. 1957-2000 

(6 folders)

Phillips, Jane. 1986-2000 

(2 folders)

Phillips, Robert. 1985-2001 
Piercy, Marge. 1985-2003 
Pierone, Bob. 1980; typescript of a tribute to Ben Kizer.

(2 folders)

Pifer, Alan. 1939-1987 
Pineda, Rafael. 1961-1962 
Pitter, Ruth. 1955-1978 
Poetry Magazine. 1944-1995 

(2 folders)

Poetry Society of America. 1980-2003 
Poets & Writers

(see: Williams, Galen)

Poets House
Box 7 Ponsot, Marie. 1997-2000 
Poulin, Al. 1974-1986 
Powell, W.H. 1973-1996 
Powell, Joe. 1996-1997 
Presfield, Christopher. 1999-2000 
Price, Reynolds. 1972-1989 
Q - General
Quinn, Mary Bernetta. 1967-1987 
R - General

(2 folders)

Rabb, Margaret. 1975,  1984-2004 

(2 folders)

Rafat, Taufiq. 1965 
Ramke, Bin. 1988-1989 
Rashed, Noon Meem. 1966 
Rawlins, C.L. (Chip). 1967-1999 
Ray, David. 1963-1999 
Reed College Library. 1966-1985 
Reidel, James. 1985-2002 

(3 folders)

Rich, Adrienne. 1973-2001 
Riding, Laura. 1970 
Rigsbee, David. 1976-1995 

(2 folders)

Roberts, Diane. 1995-1999 
Robinson, Eric. 1988-1993;  The John Clare Society Newsletter, 1989-1992 

(2 folders)

Roethke, Theodore and Beatrice. 1955-1960 
Rose, Lloyd. 1960,  1973 
Ruggles, Eleanor. 1959-1960 
Russell, Jeff. 1990-2003 
Russell, Ralph. 1969-1970 
Ryan, Kay. 1996-2000 
S - General

(3 folders)

Salim-ur-rahman, M. 1965-1966 
Salter, Mary Jo. 1997-1998 
Sampson, Dennis. 1996-1999 
Santoro, Madeline. 1964-1985 
Sarah Lawrence College. 1958-1985 
Sargent, Robert. 1980-1996 
Schain, Elliot. 1984 
Schmidt, Cynthia E. 1988-2003 
Schneider, Franz. 1988 
Schwartz, Delmore. 1961-1962 
Schwartzman, William. 1995-2003 
Seaton, Jerome. 1986-2004 
Sefaris, George. 1963 
Segal, Lore. 1985-1997 
Seidensticker, Ed. 1969-1981 
Sexton, Anne. 1959-1972 
Shapiro, Karl. 1955-1960 

(2 folders)

Sheeks, Robert. 1941-1946.  Enclosures include watercolors and photographs - some filed separately

(5 folders)

Shiffert, Edith. 1967 
Shinoda, Ayako. 1980-1985 
Simpson, Louis. 1959-2000 
Sisk, Michael. 1995-1996 

(see also: Owen Burdick)

Box 8 Skebe, Alifair. 2000-2003 
Skelton, Robin. 1961-1973 
Slavitt, David. 1996-2000 
Smith, Arthur Hall. 1957-1999 
Smith, David. 1983-1985,  1995 
Smith, Rod T. 1996-1999 
Smith, William Jay. 1970-2000 
Snyder, Gary. 1982-1991 
Solomon, Harold. 1945-1946 
Solotaroff, Ted and Virginia

(see: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.)

Stafford, William. 1970-1989 
Starck, Clemens. 1996-2001 
Steinman, Lisa. 1984-2002 
Stern, Daniel. 1995-2001 
Stoloff, Carolyn. 1961-1996 
Stuart-Smith, Stephen. 1996-2001 
Swenson, Karen. 1980-2004 
Sward, Robert. 1989-1994 
Sze, Arthur and Carol Moldaw. 1981-2004 
T - General
Taggard, Genevieve. 1943-1945 
Tagliabue, John. 1965-2001 
Taylor, Henry. 1965,  1986-2002 
Theroux, Paul. 1964-1966 
Thompson, Jan. 1951-2001 

(5 folders)

Tidyman, Susan Gould. 1983 
Tobey, Mark. 1951-1985,  1996-1998 

(2 folders)

Todd, Ruthven. 1958-1970 

(6 folders)

Trejo, Ruben and Joanne. 1985-1988 
Triem, Eve. 1961-1985 
Trinkhaus, Charles. 1969-1972 
Trotter, William. 1965,  1997-1998 
U - General
United States Department of State, 1961-1968
United States Information Service

(see: United States Department of State)

University of Arizona. 1986-1990 
V - General
Vaeth, Kim. 1980-1993 
Van Duyn, Mona. 1959-1984 
Viking Press. 1983 
Vos, Frank. 1942-1950 
W - General

(2 folders)

W.W. Norton & Company. 1982-1983,  1995 

(2 folders)

Wagoner, David. 1955-1998 

(3 folders)

Wain, John. 1957-1975 

(2 folders)

Box 9 Wakowski, Diane. 1987-2001 
Washington State University. 1964 
Watt, Jean. 1965-1967 
Weales, Gerald. 1993-1999 
Weaver, Mathew. 1981-1997 
Weigl, Bruce. 1986 
Weiss, Dan. 1956 
Weston, Mildred. 1960,  1986-1987 
Wheeler, Jackson. 1974-2004 

(2 folders)

Whisnant, Charleen. 1972 
Whitehead, Lorita. 1965 
Whiting, Bertie (B.R.) and Lorri. 1963-1996 
Whittemore, Reed. 1969-2000 
Wilbur, Richard. 1988-1996 
Williams, Charles K. 1986-2003 
Williams, Galen. 1966-2002 
Williams, Richard. 1972-1974 
Williams, William Carlos. 1954-1958,  1964 
Wilson, Robert. 1982-1985 
Winslow, Jane and Pete. 1965-1973 
Witt, Harold. 1959-1966 
Wolff, Milton. 1996-1997 
Wright, Charles and Ruth. 1977-1978 
Wright, Harold. 1967-1970 
Wright, James and Anne. 1957-1990 
Wright, Jay. 1968-1974 
XYZ - General
Yamada, Calvin. 1985 
Yang, Raymond. 1942-1944 
Zobel de Ayala, Fernando. 1975-1984 
Unidentified. Arranged alphabetically by first name followed by illegible signatures.

(4 folders)

Subseries: Family.

Arranged alphabetically by name, followed by year or range of years of the correspondence.

Box 9 Bullitt, Ashley Ann (daughter). 1954-2002 

(6 folders)

Bullitt, Charles Stimson (husband, 1948-1954). 1947-1995; 

congratulatory letters from family and friends concerning their marriage, 1948 (2 folders)

Bullitt, Crystal and Melita (grandchildren). 1982-1984 

Bullitt, Jill (daughter). 1957-2004 

(4 folders)

Bullitt, Scott (son). 1960-1980 

Bullitt children, jointly. 1956-1962 

Kizer, Benjamin. 1930-1952. 

Correspondence with and about Ezra Pound

Kizer, Benjamin and Mabel Ashley (parents). With Carolyn, 1928-1940 

(3 folders)

Box 10 Kizer, Benjamin and Mabel Ashley (parents). With Carolyn, 1941-1975 

(35 folders)

Box 11 Kizer, Benjamin and Mabel (parents). With other family members and friends. 1893-1941,   1951 

(4 folders)

Schwartzman, Emma and Walker (grandchildren). 1993-2003 
Woodbridge, John Marshall (husband, married 1975). 1974-1987 

(2 folders)

Other family members to Carolyn. 1927-1992 
Series: II. Writings

Arranged by: Books, Essays and short stories, Interviews with CK, Lectures and speeches, Plays, Poetry, Reviews, Translations, Notes, and Notebooks.

Subseries: Books.

Arranged alphabetically by title.

Box 11 American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, co-edited by CK (2000).  

Photocopy of various pages [Autobiography]. Typescript, draft pages

The Essential John Clare, edited by CK (1993).  

Notes for introduction, table of contents, various typescripts, related materials (6 folders)

Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 (1996).  

Lists of persons sent copies for review or as gifts

Hilda Morris: Recent Bronzes.

Mock-up of catalog

Knock Upon Silence (1965).  

Printer's copy, galleys, blurbs, contract (3 folders)

Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women (1984).  

Draft, blurbs

Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems (1971). 

Introduction, blurbs, lists of persons sent copies for review or as gifts

The Nearness of You: Poems for Men (1986).  

Drafts (2 folders)

One Hundred Great Poems by Women, edited by CK (1995).  

Typescripts of introduction; permissions report; lists of persons sent copies for review or as gifts (2 folders)

Picking and Choosing: Essays on Prose, edited by CK (1995).  

Draft; lists of persons sent copies for review or as gifts

Pro Femina: A Poem (2000).  

Jacket copy, press release

Proses: Essays on Poets & Poetry (1994).  

List of persons sent copies for review or as gifts

The Ungrateful Garden (1961).  

Page proofs; list of names for review copies

Yin: New Poems (1984).  

Permission-to-publish forms; list of persons sent copies for review or as gifts

Subseries: Essays and Short Stories.

Arranged alphabetically by title after Early Writings

Box 11 Early writings

(3 folders)

Early writings: Papers written for classes at Sarah Lawrence College (B.A. 1945)
Box 12 48th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum.

Draft typescript,

undated

African Genesis.

Carbon typescript,

undated

The American Disease.

Typescript,

undated

American Poetry of the Fifties: I. Elders and Betters.

Typescript; galley for Literary Annual , pub. by Calder and Boyars. Carbon typescript and galley,

undated

At Home in Austria: Hungarian Refugees.

Corrected typescript,

1958

The Book of Ruth. For The Writer's Chronicle, 1999. 

Author's proof

Careers of a Poet.

Typescript

Concerning Four Poems.

Typescript fragment

Donald Keene and Japanese Fiction. For journal Delos?

Draft and page proofs,

undated

[England and English Friends].

Typescript, itinerary and addresses, printed journals

The Expanding and Contracting Universe: Reflections on Walt Whitman and two Tokugawa Poets.

Drafts and notes,

undated

Factors affecting immediate generation of post-war novelists and poets.

Typescript fragment

The Green Man: John Clare.

Draft, page proof, notes, etc.,

undated

How to Keep a Salon.

Typescript,

Feb.? 1958

How to Write American.

Draft,

[1964]

Introduction to Volume 1 of Woman Poet , edited by CK and resignation letter, Jan. 1, 1984 
Just Leave It On the Table, for The New York Times .

Typescript and photocopies,

undated

Keys to Chaucer's House of Fame.

Typescript and notes

Kizer's Commandments
Lyric and the Art of Mildred Weston.

Tear sheet and photocopies of typescript

Margaret, Are You Grieving?

Draft,

undated

Memories! Stories!

Draft,

July 20, 1986

Mona Van Duyn, for It Starts With the Creature: Essays on the Poetry of Mona Van Duyn , ed. by Michael Burns.

Draft,

1995

Ms Browning's Heavy Heart, for The Paris Review (Spring 2000??).  

Draft, page proofs, correspondence, research material (2 folders)

A Muse.

Draft,

undated

October in Florence.

Corrected typescript,

undated

Pakistan Journal. Sept. 12-25, 1969.  

Corrected typescript

The Peking Peril.

Draft,

undated

The Poet and the Community.

Draft,

undated

Poetry at the Mermaid.

Draft,

undated

The Progress of Labor Legislation in India (A research paper for the Institute of Pacific Relations....).

Carbon typescripts,

undated

A Prose Piece.

Typescript fragment

Report on Pakistan.

Carbon typescript,

ca. Apr. 1965

Robert Peterson.

Corrected typescript.

ca. Oct. 2000

Robinson Jeffers.

Photocopy of typescript,

undated

Rubin Trejo.

Corrected photocopy of typescript,

undated;

print of painting; poster

Seattle Repertory: One Season.

Corrected carbon typescript,

undated

Seattle 2: After hearing a noted scholar speculate the history of Troy, based on archaeological findings.

Draft typescript

A Slight Mechanical Failure.

Photocopy of printed article

So Big, for The New York Times .

Corrected typescript and photocopies, notes

Some of My Best Friends.

Typescript and photocopy

Stories My Mother Taught Me.

Typescript

Summer Festivals 1970.

Typescript fragment

Theodore Roethke.

Typescript

Theodore Roethke as Teacher.

Three typescript drafts

To the Editors [The New York Review]. June 5, 1990.  

Photocopy of typescript, clippings

Vachel Lindsay, for P.S.Q. Bulletin, Summer '79.  

[Venus]

Draft pages,

undated

Western Space, for Calapooya Collage .

Reprint,

undated

What Can I Do For You?

Typescript and photocopy,

undated

What Can I Say?

Corrected typescript,

undated

Where Are the Slurs of Yesteryear? For The New York Times.

Print out and photocopies

Who is Sylvia, What is She? Or He, Or It or Them?

Corrected typescript,

undated

Why a Western Art Magazine?

Corrected carbon typescript,

undated

Why I Don't Write Nature Poetry.

Corrected typescript,

undated

Why I Write.

Typescript fragment

William Carlos Williams.

Corrected typescript, carbon typescript, poem, notes

The Worm Race.

Two typescripts,

undated

The Writer As Subversive in the Academy.

Holograph,

undated

Unidentified fragments
Subseries: Interviews with CK.

Arranged alphabetically by interviewer

Box 12 Bidart, Frank. Aug. 22, 1983. 

Corrected computer print-out

Broughton, Irv. 1987.  For book on writer interviews.

Typescript

Davis, Barbara Thompson. May 19, 1993.  For Art of Poetry series, The Paris Review.

Page proofs and corrected typescript

Hongo, Garrett. "Garrett Hongo in Conversation with Carolyn Kizer," The American Poetry Archives News , vol. 8, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1991.  

2 copies

Janus, Pat. undated. For Valley.

Clipping

Just, Ward. Mar. 1992.  For The Paris Review.

Various typescripts and computer printouts; two 3" computer discs

Kitaj, Karma. Jan. 31, 2000.  

Typescript

Matthews, William, with Elizabeth Lerner and David Crag Austin. 1987. For Columbia, A Magazine of Poetry & Prose .

Typescript

Miller, Gail. Kutztown University. undated 
Millett, Kate. Feb. 1972.  

Corrected typescript of tape

O'Connell, Nicholas. For At the Field's End: Interviews with 20 Pacific Northwest Writers . (Seattle, WA: Madrona Publishers, 1987).

Photocopy of printed article

Price, Reynolds. Apr. 22, 1972.  

Typed transcript of tape

Rigsbee, David and Steven Ford-Brown. Apr. 4, 1987.  

Typed transcript of tape

Sherwin, Judy. 1972.  

Typed transcript of tape

Silver, Phyllis. Oct. 17, 1984.  

Corrected typescript

Tarkington, Tim. undated.  

Photocopy

Whisnant, Charleen. Feb. 15, 1972.  

Typed transcript of tape

unidentified (3). 1. undated.  Concerns poems about women.

Corrected typescript; 2. "for Q9." incomplete photocopy of printed version; 3. For Voyages. vol. l, no. 1, Fall, 1967. Photocopies of printed version, one with corrections. (2 folders)

Subseries: Lectures and speeches.

Arranged alphabetically by title. Mostly typescripts, notes, etc.

Box 12 Chinese Poetry and the American Imagination.

Panel discussions,

Apr. 21-23, 1977

Commencement Address. Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, June 9, 1989 
The Commonwealth Club of California as recipient of California Book Awards Silver Medal for Poetry, May 7, 2002.  
The Craft To Be Simple. Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, Washington, July 12, 1977 

The Humanities speech. Eugene, Oregon, Feb. 1984 
Is Poetry Necessary? The Poetry of Social Concern. undated 
The Library Lover. Mills Commencement address, 1990  
Picking Poems by Women. undated 
Poetry, Sex and Pornography. For The Friends of Duke University Library, 1972 

Trends in American Poetry. Karachi, Oct. 6, 1964  
Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of Northwest Watercolors. Seattle Art Museum, Mar. 1963 

Women Writers of the West. Modern Language Association, Dec. 26, 1975  
Miscellaneous notes. Possibly for opening of art exhibit(s) for Mark Tobey and Richard Gilkey
Subseries: Plays.

Arranged alphabetically by title

Box 13 As the Sun Sinks Slowly in the West.

Two photocopies

Euripides: Iphigenia in Taurus.

Drafts,

1997-1998

(2 folders)

Golden Friends I Had.

Draft,

1943-1944

Man Without a World.

Drafts,

ca. 1946-1947

The Nobody.

Holograph draft,

June 1933

They Flee From Me.

First draft,

undated

Untitled.

Portions of two plays

Subseries: Poetry.

Mostly holograph and/or typescripts. One poem per folder. Untitled poems complete this section. Titles in brackets were taken from CK's folder labels. These may reflect the subject of the poem or group of poems, or a tentative title.

Single poems, arranged alphabetically by title after Early poetry.

Box 13 Early poetry.

Includes volume of poems bound in a vellum manuscript - contract, dated Apr. 14, 1636 - given to Carolyn's mother for her birthday, Sept. 28, 1939. (3 folders)

The Acropolis
Admonition, To Be Unheeded
Afternoon Happiness
Against Adults
Aerial Flight; Eagle
An American Beauty
Amusing Our Daughters
The Animal Master
Another Year to Heaven, for D[enise] L[evertov]'s Birthday
Antique Father
[Aphorisms, haiku, etc.]
Application for a Policy
Arms and the Girl
The Ashes
The Bay of Manila
Being Good
Bitch
The Blessing
Blonde
Blood of a Poet
The Buried Life
Children
Children of Maille
A Child's Guide to Central Ohio
[Chile, Allende, Neruda: October, 1973]
Christmas, 2000
Colescott
Coming of Age in Venezuela
Communion
Condemned Loft Near Pearl Street
Semele Recycled (The Confessions of Dionysus)
Conquistador
Copulating Gods

(3 folders)

Counting the Ways
Courting
A Cup of Sorrow for Mrs. Clifton
Cultural Revolution
Dangerous Games
Days of 1986
The Death of a Public Servant
Death of My Uncle
Declarative
Deirdre
A Dream of a Large Lady
A Dream of Ann London and Abe
Dryden
Election Day, 1984
Eleutheria
The Erotic Philosophers
Exodus
The Fall of a Year
Fanny
February Elegy
Fin du siecle Blues
The Final Decree or Genesis Restored
Final Meeting
For Haydon Carruth
For Ingeborg Bachman
For Jan, As the End Draws Near
For Jan, In Bar Maria
For Joanne
For Louis MacNeice
For My Daughter (Ashley's 25th Birthday)
For Sappho / After Sappho
For the Boys of Bar Maria
For the Inheritors
For the Prince in Exile (Li Chin, 750 A.D.)
For the Relief of Certain Faculties
For Zbigniew Herbert
[Geddes and Castelfiorentino]
Gerda
The Gift
Girls, Girls, Girls: Three Delicious Flavors
Girl's Song (lyrics)
Give Me Back My Life
Goethe Grown Old
Graph
Gulf War
A Hairline Crack
Halation
Have a Chair, Lachaise, and So On...
Heine Poems: Dream-Cities
Heine Poems: Exegesis
Heine Poems: A Night on the [Strand?]
Heine Poems: Tying One in Vienna
Home to Stay
Hongkew
Horseback
Hotel
The House in Brown's Addition
House of Fame; Glass Mountain
How It Passes
How We Define Ourselves
I Dreamed I Was Saint Augustine
The Imprisoned Poetess
In My Solitude
In the First Stanza
In the Night
Index, a Mountain
Ingathering
Jill's Toes
John: Tools
Kenneth Hanson and Han Yü
Box 14 Lady Macbeth in the Freak Show
Leader (The Josef V. Dzugashvili Centennial Poem)
Leaving Idlewild
Letter Retrieved with the Aid of a Stomach Pump
Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
Listening to Hilary
Lost in Translation
[Love poems]
The Lover
Man Teaching Cuckoo to Say 'Cuckoo'
Marriage Song
Married To the Muse
Medicine
Men
[Moghul Poems]
A Month of My Life
The Moose on the Runway
Mud Soup
A Muse of Water
[Muse Poems]
Mutters in Battersea
My Home Town
New Bedford
New York: 1945; Anniversaries
Night Sounds
The Night the Poetry Burned Down
Norman Dubie Poem
On a Line from Julian
On a Line from Theodore
On a Line from Valery
On Burning Love-Letters
On Closing a Wartime Notebook
The Oration
Order and Middle-Aged Gladness
Orpheus in Missoula
Our Leaders
Parent's Pantoum
Pearl
The Play of Light After Midnight
[Poetry and the Goddess]
Postcards From Rotterdam
Pro Femina
Promising Author
Q
Race Relations
Reading Your Poems in Your House While You Are Away
Rebellion
Recurring Dream of a Hair Stylist
Reunion
Richard Gilkey
A Rune for the Jilted
Running Away from Home
Second Time Around
Shalimar Gardens
The Silent Man
Singing Aloud
The Skein
The Solitary Player
A Song for Muriel
Sonnet for Stanley Kunitz
The Soul and the Sight
Stars Through the Perilous Night

(6 folders)

Streets of Pearl and Gold
Sunday
Tanka
Tenor
Thinking About My Mother
Thrall
Threatening Letter
A Time of Love
To a Novelist
To a Poet
To an Unknown Poet
To My Brother Writers of Lahore
To My Home Town [Spokane]
To My Mother
To the Shade of Richard Selig
Trio
Twelve O'clock
The Unbelievers (aka Dixit insipiens)
[Unfinished Business]
Union of Women
Urdu on the Arno
Valentine Haiku
The Valley of the Fallen
Verses to be Sung to the Tune of a Reed Lute
A Virgin World
Vita Nuova
The Voyagers
W.H. Auden: A Communist to Others
The War in the West: A Cantata (lyrics). Includes "The Story of a Cantata," by CK

(2 folders)

The Way We Live Now
We All Write Seagull Poems: This is Mine
Weeping at that Big Tomb
When I Cried Your Name Aloud
Where I've Been All My Life
Winter Song
With Unmoistened Foot
The Wolf at the Window
Wolf, wolf
A Word to Young Mothers
The Wounded and the Maimed
unpublished/unfinished poems
untitled book of poems? "(of Carolyn's 40's poems)"
Page proofs of group of poems for unidentified anthology
List of unpublished poems
Subseries: Reviews.

Book reviews, unless otherwise indicated. Mostly typescripts.

Arranged alphabetically by author and title of the book or exhibit reviewed by CK. Publication information given where known

Box 14 Brownstein, Rachel M. Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels. Washington Post Book World, Dec. 12, 1982 
Canetti, Elias. Crowds & Power
Conrad, Peter. Behind the Mountain: Return to Tasmania. New York Times Book Review
Corman, Cid. The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker
Hillyer, Robert. The Relic and Other Poems
Holloway. The Minute and Longer Poems; Logue, Christopher. Devil, Maggot and Son; Amis, Kingsley. A Case of Samples; Singer, Burns. Still and All
Humphries, Rolfe. Poems Collected and New; Green Armor on Green Ground
Box 15 MacDiarmid, Hugh. Collected Poems
Mack, Maynard. Alexander Pope: A Life
Mariani, Paul. Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden
Olson, Stanley. Elinor Wylie: A Life Apart, A Biography
Peterson, Robert. Lone Rider
Ponsot, Marie. The Bird Catcher; Finch, Annie. Eve; Ackerman, Diane. I Praise My Destroyer; Ivry, Benjamin. Paradise for the Portuguese Queen
Sexton, Anne. Live or Die
Shapiro, Karl. Reports of my Death
Smith, Arthur Hall. Landscape (art exhibit)
Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
Swados, Harvey. Standing Fast
Williams, C.K. Tar; Bidart, Frank. The Sacrifice
Subseries: Translations.

Arranged alphabetically by author or genre

Box 15 Dante's Inferno, Canto XVII
Gjuzel, Bogomil
Ivanor, Binyo
Khan, Ghani
Korn, Rachel
Maunick, Edouard J.
Mei Lan-Feng
Mir, M. Safdar
Shu Ting
Tollas, Tibor
Tu Fu
Poem from Latin
Various poems from Chinese
Various poems from Urdu, by CK and others

(3 folders)

Subseries: Box 15 Notes.

Notes for various prose pieces and poetry (3 folders)

Subseries: Notebooks.

Arranged by date. Page numbers represent number of pages in notebook that were used.

Box 15

1940.

New York.

Diary. 72 pp.

1953, Autumn.

"Poetry Notebook."

Original work by Kizer and copies of poetry by others, including Bogan, Kunitz, Roethke, Dylan Thomas, Yeats. ca. 100 pp.

1953-1954?

As Carolyn Stimson Bullitt, Seattle. Roethke's class?

Metrics; typed essays, notes on writers, memorable lines, essay "The Woman Within," drafts of poems. ca. 70 pp.

1954, Spring.

"Poetry Notebook."

Original work by Kizer and copies of poetry by others, including Robert Lowell Patricia Coombs, Anthony Hecht, Rene Char, et al. ca. 100 pp.

1954.

Notes on English History;

reading list for History 272 (Winter 1954). ca. 60 pp.

1955, Fall.

Stanley Kunitz poetry workshop.

Notes, poems laid in

1955, Dec. 10-1958, May 8.

Mostly poetry, several items laid in. 162 pp.

1955.

Drafts of poems, drafts of poetry laid in. 70 pp.

ca. 1955?  

Notes on Blake's poetry, miscellaneous items laid in. 47 pp.

ca. 1956.

Sketch of spider web: The Imagination: Mallarine's image of the sacred spider...";

poetry drafts, extracts of reviews, notes. 52 pp.

ca. 1957-1958.

. "American Poetry of the Fifties,"

notes on other poets including notes on personal encounters with them and private opinions of their work. Student papers and critiqued poems; section on Chinese history. (2 folders)

ca. 1958.  

Poetry drafts. 83 pp.

1958-1959.

"Poetry Notebook," Seattle.

Mostly poetry, includes drawings, addresses and notes, typescript of poem laid in. 34 pp.

Box 16

1961-1962.

London address.

Poetry drafts and notes, miscellaneous items laid in including oil pastel sketch by Ashley Bullit. 98 pp.

1963.

"Portland 503," Seattle.

Poetry and analysis, additional items pasted or laid in. 54 pp.

1964-1969.

1964 desk diary.

Poetry fragments, notes, engagements, many diary entries concerning trip to Pakistan for XI F.I.L.L.M. Congress in Islamabad in 1969, miscellaneous items laid in including two small notebooks from 1969 Congress

ca. 1966.  

Notes and poems, mostly concerning other writers, several printed items laid in. 7 pp.

ca. 1966-1970?  

Poetry, notes, miscellaneous items laid in. 42 pp.

1969.  

Drafts of poems, texts and authors for study and teaching. 30 pp.

1960s?  

Diary entries, list of poems to be read, notes on Louise Bogan. 30 pp.

1970.  

Drafts of poems, a serial poem [multiple authors?]; drawing of a cat. 29 pp.

1970-1974.  

Poetry drafts, several typescript poems and clippings laid in. 89 pp.

ca. 1971-1974.  

Drafts of poems, reading notes, addresses, several items laid in. 34 pp.

1973.  

Poetry drafts, notes, some journal writing, opens to Nabokov quotation, miscellaneous items laid in. 76 pp.

1975.  

Draft of poem, notes on Robin Skelton, Yeats, metrics, several items laid in. 10 pp.

1975-2004.  

Mostly drafts of poems, miscellaneous items pasted or laid in. 21 pp.

1977.  

Poetry drafts, notes, letters, extracts, poems laid in. 22 pp.

1978, February,

Centre College of Kentucky, Danville, Kentucky.

Subjects for study and teaching, drafts of poems, several items laid in. 46 pp.

1980.  

Names and addresses, substantial quotations, notes, several items laid in. 55 pp.

1983.  

Notes on particular women and other historical figures, drafts of poems, list of members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. ca. 90 pp.

1988.  

Diary entries concerning trip to Greece, draft of the poem "The Middle Class," several items laid in.

1980s.  

Notes, poetry drafts, extracts, miscellaneous items laid in. 51 pp.

1991?  

Canto draft XVII-XVIII (humorous), language notes, clippings laid in. 20 pp.

1992-ca. 1996, Paris.  

Drafts of poems, notes, clippings pasted or laid in. 51 pp.

1994-1995?  

Poetry, notes, prose, clippings pasted or laid in. ca. 20 pp.

1990s?  

Drafts of poems, notes concerning Eleanor Clark, Pope, Ondaatje, John Clare, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Mew, Zhen Min. 39 pp.

1990s.

Sonoma, CA.

Mostly notes concerning John Clare, several items pasted or laid in. 27 pp.

Undated.  

Chinese verse, poems laid in. 13 pp.

Undated.  

Draft of poem and two short prose pieces. 3 pp.

Undated.  

Ink drawings. 9 pp.

Undated.  

Mostly drafts of poetry. 32 pp.

Undated.  

Notes, including: "Poems Hughes suppressed in ARIEL"; quotations/notes on Bob Creeley, Goethe, Stanley, Yeats and miscellaneous items laid in. 33 pp.

Box 17 Undated.  

Notes on Brecht, critiques of artwork, several items laid in. 11 pp.

Undated.  

[Notes on] Czech verse. 1 p.

Undated.  

[Notes on] Sapho. 2 pp.

Undated.  

Poetry and general ideas. 14 pp.

Undated.  

Poetry: "Gerda," "Pearl"; notes on women poets: HD, Plath, clipping laid in. 27 pp.

Undated.

"WOMEN WRITERS The feminine Sensibility"

List of women writers, themes in women's writing indexed against writers' names. 6 pp.

Undated.  

various loose leaves

Blank notebooks (2) made by CK's mother, Mabel. One with inlaid inscription "To C.A.K. on her sixteenth birthday..."
Series: III. Writings by Others

Includes holographs, typescripts, carbon typescripts, or photocopies.

Arranged alphabetically by author followed by a brief description of contents. One folder per author unless otherwise indicated.

Box 17 Adams, Rick.

Various poems

Alegria, Claribel and Manlio Agueta.

Various writings

Alexander, Floyce M. "Stalin"
Ali, Sophia. Glass Bracelets
Altizer, Nell. "What is the Text, Anyway?"
Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina. New and Selected Poems.
Ashanti, Baron James.

Various poems

Ashbery, John. "Three Notes of Henry Green"
Ashley, Raymond. The Swamper (novel); The Swamper (screen play); various writings

(3 folders)

Athas, Daphne.

Introduction to talk by CK

Atkins, Dorothy Faye. "First Time at Aunt Braskie's Well"

poem

Bakken, Dick. "True History of the Eruption"

Barnstone, Aliki. "Bathing Jesus"

poem

Bartlett, Sharon. "George Seferis"

Beck, Art. Translation of Luxorius's Simple to See.
Berkbigler, Shaun.

Poems

Bloch, Chana and Chana Kronfeld.

Translations of various poems by Yehuda Amichai

Brown, Rosellen. Cora Fry.
Brown, Sharon. "Poem"

Brunot, James.

"Ten Bird Haikus for Ashley"

Bullitt, Crystal.

Various poems

Cavafy, Constantine Peter.

Various poems

Childers, David C.

Various poems

Coleman, Elliot.

Various poems

Connolly, Geraldine.

Various poems

Corn, Alfred. "The Impact of Character on Character" and related materials
Diamond, Barbara. Reaching for the Rose

(3 folders)

Ferguson, Chris.

Various poems

Finkel, Donald. The Road Back;

various poems; translations of various Chinese poems (3 folders)

Flaubert, Gustave.

Various quotes

Foley, Jack. Review of CK's Harping On
Forché, Carolyn. Blue Hour
Fortas, Abe.

Various writings

Fourtouni, Eleni. Translation of Victoria Theodorou's Aryan Sleep
Fortas, Abe.

Various writings

Forté, Roland.

Various poems

Gilbert, Sandra and Diana O Hehir. Quick Bread: Poems of Food and Cooking
Gjuzel, Bogomil.

Untitled play, various poems and writings (3 folders)

Box 18 Greeley, Robert. "Bub and Sis"
Gu Cheng.

The City, translated by John Rosewald and Chen Yanbing; Sea of Dreams, translated by Joseph R. Allen

Gullans, Charles.

Translation of Leconte de Lisle's "Noon"

Gustafsson, Lars.

Various poems

Haines, John. New Poems, 1980-88

Hanson, Ken.

Various poems

Heilman, Robert B.

Introduction of CK for 22nd annual Roethke Memorial Reading

Henderson, H.G.

Various translations of haikus

Herbert, George.

Various poems

Herbert, Zbigniew.

Various translated poems

Hoffman, William and Anthony Holland. Cornbury: The Queen's Governor
Holmes, John.

Various poems

Howe, Susan E.

Various poems

Jacobson, Josephine.

Various poems

Janeway, Elisabeth. Bad Dream: On Orders and Disorders of Power
Jeffers, Robinson. "Dostoevsky and Parracide"
Jellema, Rod.

Various poems

Kazan, Francesca. "Site of Remembrance"
Keeley, Edmund.

Various writings (2 folders)

Kemble, Frances.

Various writings

Kepner, Susan. The Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction about Women.

Excerpts

Khan, Ghani.

Various pieces

Kirkpatrick, Pamela Johnston.

Various poems

Kirkpatrick, Robert. "What's Lost in Translation"
Kizer, Benjamin H. Autobiography; "The Institute of Pacific Relations";

ten essays; printed (7 folders)

Kizer, Mabel.

Notebook; printed items (2 folders)

Kloof, Roy.

Various poems

Knox, Heléne Margrethe. "The Alien Dimension: A Study of Metaphor and Metonymy in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson"

PhD thesis

Kunitz, Stanley.

Various poems

Lau, Carolyn. Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking)
Lefkowitz, Mary R. "Classical Mythology and the Role of Women in Modern Literature"
Li, Pin. "A Critique on the Translation of Han Shan"
Linney, Romulus. Ave Maria; Klonsky and Schwartz; Komachi at the Holy Tree

(3 folders)

Logan, John. "Saturday Afternoon at the Movies"
Lucie-Smith, Edward.

Introduction to an exhibition opening

Macdonald, Cynthia.

Various poems

McElroy, Collen J. As the Moon Advised
McKean, Thomas. The Angel of the Mind: Unpublished Poems by Ruth Pitter ;

typescript of interview with Ruth Pitter

Mairs, Nancy. "House Love"
Marbrook, Del.

Review of CK's Harping On

Marshall, Jack.

Various poems

Martinez, Valeria. "To Carolyn With Love"
Maunick, Edouard.

Transcript of interview

Box 19 Meyers, Bert. Twenty Poems
Middleton, Christopher. Tableaux I-XX
Miller, Ruth.

Various poems

Mitford, Jessica. "Introduction to 1994 Project Censored Yearbook";

photocopies of clippings

Montague, John.

Blurb about CK

Montale, Eugenio.

Various poems translated by Glauco Cambon, Charles Wright and James Merrill.

Moore, Richard.

Various poems

Morley, Hilda.

Various poems; writings about her poetry

Noethe, Sheryl. "The Dream Doctor;" "Ghost Openings"

(2 folders)

Oden, Gloria. "Covenant";

various writings (2 folders)

O'Donnell, Mary. A Bright Pulse
O'Hehir, Diana. Spells for Not Dying Again; Witness; "Once I Was This, Now I Am That"

(3 folders)

Peters, Robert. Crunching Gravel
Peterson, Robert. Waiting for Garbo ;

various writings (2 folders)

Phillips, Jane. "La nouvelle Eloisa"
Phillips, Robert. "Larger than Life: Mythology and Carolyn Kizer"
Pitter, Ruth.

Various poems

Polaski, Sandi, et al. "An Apology to and for Sylvia Plath"
Potter, Peggy Rabb.

Various poems

Poulin, Al.

Translations of various Rilke poems

Pratt, Linda Ray. "The Abuse of Eve by the New World Adam"
Ramanujan, A. K. "Form in Classical Tamil Poetry"
Ramke, Lloyd Binford.

Various poems

Rashed, N. M.

Various poems

Rawlins, C. L. Lost; "Solvay Trona Mine, June 30, 1994"; "White Butterflies"
Reidel, Jim.

Translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's "The Good God of Manhattan;" Translations of Ingeborg Bachmann (2 folders)

Rigsbee, David. The Hopper Light;

various poems (2 folders)

Robert, David.

Translations of Guillaume Apollinaire

Roethke, Theodore.

Various poems

Rose, Lloyd.

Various writings

Russell, Ralph. "On Translating Ghalib" and "The Pursuit of the Urdu Ghazal"
Sampson, Dennis. "The Passionate Life: A Review of Harping On by Carolyn Kizer";

introduction to talk by CK

Schain, Eliot. The Magic Frontier; Westering Angels

(2 folders)

Schiff, Laura.

Translations of Károly Bari, Nina Cassian, Amy Karolyi

Schwartzman, William.

Various poems

Sherwin, Judith Johnson. "Voyages of a Mile-High Fille de Joie"
Simic, Charles.

Translation of A Wake for the Living, by Radmila Lazic

Skelton, Robin.

Various poems

Smith, Adam.

Various poems

Smith, Arthur Hall. "The Oxford Book of Diet-Free Verse"
Snyder, Gary. Hanging Out with Ravens
Soldofsky, Alan. "A Bright Logic: Metaphorical Invention and the Vernacular of Compression in Hart Crane's Early Poetry"
Solomon, Barbara.

Various writings

Sowards, Carol. "Marina Tsvetayeva"
Stalker, Douglas.

Various poems

Svare, Richard.

Various writings

Szymborska, Wislawa.

English translations of various poems by various translators

Box 20 Tagliabue, John.

Various poems

Timon.

English translation of various poems

Tobey, Mark.

Various writings

Triem, Eve.

Various poems

Tsao, Lionel. "Written Chinese: Three Related Research Projects"

Application for a grant

Ueda, Makoto. "Bashō and the Poetics of Haiku"
Ungaretti, Giuseppe.

Translated by Glauco Cambon and Lowry Nelson

Wagoner, David. The Spinning Ladies ;

various writings (3 folders)

Wang, Yun.

Various poems

Warwick, Joanna.

Translations of Stanislaw Grochowiak, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, and Wislawa Szymborska

Webster, Brenda.

untitled piece concerning Chinese women writers

Weelkes, Thomas.

Copy of 1608 "Ayeres or phantasticke spirites"

Weidaw, Desirée.

Various writings

Weston, Mildred.

Various poems

Whittemore, Reed.

Translations of Urdu works

Wiegman, Leo.

Translations of poems by Ingeborg Bachmann

Witt, Harold.

Various poems

Various poets/authors:
American Academy of Poets contest submissions
Fanny Faye Wood contest submissions
Northwest Review submissions
"Poets I Like"
"Women Poets"
Miscellaneous poems and prose pieces
Various translators:
Bengali poetry
Eastern European poetry
Yugoslavian poetry
Miscellaneous poems
Unknown authors:
"A Comic Epic Proem in Pose"
Poems
Translations

(4 folders)

Printed and photocopies of printed works.

Arranged alphabetically. Not listed.

Series: IV. Teaching materials

Materials used by CK for teaching various classes and workshops.

Includes correspondence, notes, syllabi, photocopies of poems used for class/workshop, essays and poems by her students.

Arranged chronologically, followed by general materials.

Box 20

1972.

Barnard College, lecturer

(3 folders)

1975.

Ohio University, Athens, workshop

1975-1976.

University of Maryland, visiting poet

(4 folders)

1980.

Santa Cruz Writer's Conference

1981. Nov.

University of California-Berkeley extension class

1981.

University of Cincinnati, lecturer
Box 21

1982.

Columbia School of Arts, New York, lecturer or poet-in-residence

1983. Aug. 30-Sept. 4.

Poetry workshop, Napa, CA

1985?

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, lecturer

1995.

Santa Fe, NM, lecturer

undated.

Poems used for unidentified workshop.
"Forms and Metres" Poems used for topic
Student work. Arranged alphabetically by student

(18 folders)

"Student work for Paul Carroll Anthology" 1971 
Translation lectures. Mostly poems used for topic
Miscellaneous teaching materials

(3 folders)

Series: V. Photographs
Box 21 Kizer, Carolyn. 1924-1975  and many undated. 

Includes professional portraits and snapshots; wedding pictures with Stimson Bullitt, 1948 and with John Woodbridge, 1975 (20 folders) (see also: Box 29 and Box 30)

Box 22 Family:
Ashley family

(5 folders)

Bullitt, Ashley Ann (daughter)

(see also: Box 30)

Bullitt, Jill (daughter)

(see also: Box 30 and Box 31)

Bullitt, Scott (son)

(see also: Box 30)

Bullitt, Stimson (husband)

(see also: wedding pictures under CK, 1948)

Bullitt family (CK, Stimson and children)
Kizer, Benjamin (father)

(2 folders) (see also: Box 30)

Kizer, Mabel

(3 folders) (see also: Box 30)

Kizer family

(3 folders)

Woodbridge, John (husband)

(see also: wedding pictures under CK, 1975)

Miscellaneous snapshots

(2 folders)

Negatives and transparencies

(6 folders)

Friends and colleagues.

Arranged alphabetically by name (7 folders) (see also: Box 30) James Wright Poetry Festival transparencies

Pakistan.

Removed from scrapbook, 1964-1965, when CK was Poet--in-Residence in Lahore Miscellaneous. Scenery, buildings, etc.

Box 29 Kizer, Carolyn.

Scrapbook, Sept. 1964 to Apr. 1965. Documenting CK's stay in Lahore, Pakistan as Poet-in-Residence

Box 30: Oversize Kizer, Carolyn
Family
Bullitt children
Kizer, Benjamin
Kizer, Mabel
Friends and colleagues
Box 31: Oversize folio Family: Bullitt, Jill, Sept. 1968 
Series: Box 23 VI. Memorabilia
Biographical.

Includes bios for various reference sources, birth certificate, vitae, lists of anthologies which include works by CK, etc.

Addresses.

Six address books and various slips with addresses

Art:
Artwork - original.

Two watercolor sketches by CK; two watercolor sketches by Richard Gilkey; watercolor sketch by Hilda Morris; various water colors, pencil, and pen and ink sketches by unknown artists (see also: Box 31)

Artwork - copies.

Mostly photographs and slides of paintings and sculptures by various artists (8 folders)

List of artwork owned by CK

Loan agreement of Mark Tobey paintings, 2004 

Mock-up of Hilda Morris exhibition catalog, Portland Art Museum, 1973 
Awards.

Includes certificates, correspondence, plaques and related materials (see also: Box 28, Box 30 and Box 31)

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters literary award. May 15, 1985 
The Arts Commission of San Francisco...for distinguished work and achievement in literature

(see: Box 31)

California Book Award, The Commonwealth Club of California silver medal. 1996,  2001 
Fred Cody Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, Mar. 15, 2000 
Governor's Writers Award, State of Washington, Sept. 19, 1997 
Mills College honorary doctorate, Feb. 15, 1990 
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 1985 
San Jose Poetry Center Award of Special Merit. June 20, 1987 
St. Andrews Presbyterian College honorary doctorate. May 14, 1989 

(see also: Box 31)

State of Washington certificate of recognition

(see: Box 31)

Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize, Sept. 20, 1988 
Washington State University honorary doctorate. May 11, 1991 

(see also: Box 30)

Whitman College honorary doctorate. May 25, 1986 
Various awards, mostly for Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000
Calendars: 1946 (fragment only),  1961-1962,  1964-1966,  1968-1971,  1972-1974,  1976,  1984-1987 

(6 folders) (see also: Box 30)

Conferences/symposia.

Includes correspondence, programs, etc.:

1969, Sept. 12-27.

11th International Congress of International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, F.I.I.L.M.

1970, Apr. 13-15.

International Poetry Festival, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

1970, Aug. 25-28.

Soirée de Poési de Struga, Struga, Yugoslavia

1970, Sept. 3-7.

Biennale Internationale de Poésie, Knokke-Le Zoute, Belgium

1973, Mar. 7.

"Glasgow Program" Tape transcripts of CK, et al.

1982, June.

Indiana University Writers' Conference, Bloomington, IN

1986, May 6-9.

U.S.-Chinese Writers Conference, UCLA

1992, Apr. 23.

The Academy of American Poets Symposium. "Asian American Literature: Questions of Identity"

1997, Jan. 26-Feb. 15.

Atlantic Center for the Arts
Box 24 Education:

Class notes, programs, grades, exam, etc. from Sarah Lawrence, Columbia University and University of Washington (3 folders)

Family

(see also: Box 28, Box 30 and Box 31; and, Writings by Others)

Ashley, Raymond Thornton (uncle).

School-related material, poem

Ashley, William, Jr. (grandfather).

Arithmetic notebook, 1825

Bullitt, Ashley Ann (daughter).

Childhood memorabilia, report cards and class notes

Bullitt, Crystal (niece).

Materials relating to suicide and memorial

Bullitt, Jill.

Childhood drawings, report cards

Bullitt, Scott.

Childhood memorabilia, report cards

Bullitt children.

Unsigned artwork

Kizer, Benjamin.

Cashbook, 1898-1902; three diaries, 1944-1945, 1944-1946, 1949-1950; inventory of papers; printed materials about Kizer; miscellaneous (7 folders) (see also: Box 31)

Kizer, Mabel.

Drawing of G.B. Shaw by MK; University of Colorado materials; miscellaneous (5 folders) (see also: Box 28 and Box 31)

Kizer, Benjamin and Mabel.

Marriage certificate; wedding announcement, March 19, 1921; congratulatory letters on wedding in 1921 and birth of CK in 1925 (2 folders)

Kizer family history
Warren/Ashley family history

(3 folders)

Woodbridge, John M.

Business cards, vitae, drawing by Pam [Woodbridge (daughter?)], etc. (see also: Box 30 and Box 31)

Miscellaneous
FBI file, 1985 

Financial.

Includes various receipts, insurance papers, royalty statement, etc.

Grant application.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1964

Hair.

Lock from first haircut

Last Will and Testament. 1973 and  1976 
Lecture services.

Agreements and correspondence concerning appearances

Marriage announcements and certificate. 1948,  1975 
Medical.

Includes meal and weight plans and files on tuberculosis

Organizations.

Contains correspondence, clippings, printed materials:

The Academy of American Poets, 1965-1999 
Amnesty International, 1971 
Arts International, 1986 
Associated Writing Programs, 1979-1999 
Association of Literary Magazines of America, undated 
Box 25 Organizations (cont.)
Institute of Pacific Relations, 1942-1945 
International Poetry Forum. 1973/74-1974/75 
Modern Language Association of America
National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, 1966-1969 
New York Public Library, 1988,  1990 
P.E.N., 1966-1988 
The Poetry Center of the YM and YWHA. 1958-1972 
Poetry Northwest. 1961-1966 
The Poetry Society of America, 1971-1972,  1988 
Pulitzer Prize Poetry Jury, 1985-1987 
Watershed Foundation, 1986-1987 
Quilt

(see Box 28)

Passports
Scrapbook

(see: Box 29)

Travel.

Includes itineraries, clippings, etc. (2 folders)

Video

(see: Box 28)

Miscellaneous

(3 folders)

Box 28: Realia Awards:
Eastern Washington University President's Award, June 9, 1989.  

Silver-plated, bronze medallion

Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2001.  

Acrylic trophy

International P.E.N. Congress, 1966, June 12-18.  

Bronze medallion

Sarah Lawrence College Alumnae/I Citation for Achievement, 1997.  

Engraved glass trophy

Quilt. "Alphabet quilt begun by Gerda Johnson"

Quilt block patterns clipped from newspaper and assorted fabric pieces

Family.

Scrapbook of Mabel Kizer. Montrose, Colorado, 1883-1890

Video. Broadcast tape, "R's Poetica #19, Apr, 23, 1966, EOC, Humphries, Kizer 1 hr."; three VHS tapes, "Joan Merrill Doc[umentary], Poet of Character"
Box 29: Realia Scrapbook, Sept. 1964 to Apr. 1965. 

Documenting CK's stay in Lahore, Pakistan as Poet-in-Residence

Box 30: Oversize materials Awards
Washington State University honorary doctorate, May, 11, 1991. 

Diploma

Calendar: 1983 
Family
Woodbridge, John.

Drawing by daughter Diana, Dec. 6, 1974

Box 31: Oversize materials Artwork: Bullitt, Jill. Artist's proof of flower-pot etching. Inscribed "for Mother, with deep love on your birthday." 12/10/70. 
Awards:
The Arts Commission of San Francisco...for distinguished work and achievement in literature, undated 
St. Andrews Presbyterian College honorary doctorate, May 14, 1989 
State of Washington certificate of recognition: June 26, 1966;  May 11, 1985 
Family:
Kizer, Benjamin.

Awards: Citizenship...Spokane, Washington,...Community Chest Campaign, 1928; American Society of Planning Officials Award, Mar., 1957

Kizer, Mabel.

The State of Nevada, Department of Public Instruction, Life Diploma, Jan. 27, 1911

Woodbridge, John.

American institute of Architects Certificate of Fellowship, May 20, 1974

Series: VII. Printed

Clippings make up the bulk of this section, followed by additional printed materials.

Subseries: Clippings.

Arranged by those pertaining to CK, those pertaining to her family, followed by various subjects.

Box 25 Articles by CK, 1982-1999 

(3 folders)

Poems by CK, 1947-1995 

(2 folders)

Articles about CK, 1943-2002 

(11 folders)

Ads for books by CK
Reviews of books written by CK.

Arranged alphabetically by title (13 folders)

Family

(2 folders)

Box 26 Art
Artists

(2 folders)

Book reviews

(2 folders)

Obituaries
Poetry and writing
Poets and writers

(7 folders)

Social/political

(5 folders)

Women writers
Miscellaneous

(3 folders)

Subseries: Printed materials:
Box 26 Art.

Mostly announcements of upcoming art exhibitions

Art - exhibition catalogs
Catalogs.

Contain ads for CK's books

Copper Canyon Press.

Mostly catalogs and ads for CK's books

Journals.

Contain articles about CK

Box 27 Readings.

Includes programs, fliers, press releases, etc. for readings by CK. Arranged in chronological order (8 folders) (see also: Box 31)

Writings by others.

Includes tear sheets and photocopies (19 folders)

Miscellaneous
Box 31: Oversize Readings.

Includes programs, fliers, press releases, etc. for readings by CK

Series: VIII. 2018 Additions
Subseries: Correspondence
Box 32 Adams, Alice
Awards and publications, 1993-2003
Bakken, Dick
Bernstein, Jeremy
Carruth, Hayden
Cassian, Nina
Doubiago, Sharon
Edel, Leon and Marjorie Sinclair
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Gardner, Isabella
Hanson, Kenneth O.

(2 folders)

Howes, Barbara
Janeway, Elizabeth
Johnson, Judith
Keene, Donald
Knott, Bill (aka St. Geroud)
Kunitz, Stanley
Lazard, Naomi
Lewis, Janet
Montague, John
Morris, Carl
Perchan, Bob
O'Brien, Mark
O'Daly, Bill
Peterson, Robert III
Price, Reynolds
Quinn, Sr. Bernetta
Schafer, Edward, 1974
Schwabacker, Ethel
Seaton, Jerome
Shapiro, Karl
Shelton, Richard (and Lois)

(2 folders)

Sklarew, Myra
Soichi, Furuta
Sze, Arthur
Tate, James
Yamada, Calvin
Weiss, David
Whiting, Lorri
Wright, Annie
Unidentified
Subseries: Printed
Clippings, 1965-1990
Reviews, awards, and publicity, 1965-1990
Subseries: Writings
Prose, 1965?
Poetry, 1968
Subseries: Poet of Character
VHS copy and unedited footage

Includes 4 tapes

Box 33 Unedited footage (3/4 inch videotape)

Includes 19 tapes

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