| Creator: | Modern Poetry Association |
| Title: | Poetry mss. |
| Collection No.: | LMC 2405 |
| Dates: | 1954-2002 |
| Quantity: | Quantity: 160 Boxes |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 1 folio Quantity: oversize |
| Abstract: | Consists primarily of the correspondence, individual issue make-ups and proofs of Poetry (formerly called Poetry: A Magazine of Verse ) published in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Location: | ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility); ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility) - OVFlat |
| Language: | Materials are in English . |
| Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@indiana.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
The official owner and publisher of the magazine is the Modern Poetry Association. Editors of the magazine include poet Karl Jay Shapiro (1913-2000) in 1954-1955; poet Henry Rago (1915-1969) from October 1955 until Fall 1968; Canadian poet Daryl Hine from 1968-1977. Poet and translator John Frederick Nims (1913-1999) served as editor immediately following Hine through 1983 and Joseph Parisi, succeeding Nims in 1983, served through Spring 2003. The files of Poetry magazine from its founding in 1912 through 1960 are located at the University of Chicago Libraryâs Department of special Collections. The records of Poetry held by The Lilly Library, Indiana University, date for the most part from 1962 and the library continues to acquire the journal's correspondence and publication files on a yearly basis.
The correspondence comprises the letters sent to Poetry and replies thereto by Henry Rago and by others who have been members of the editorial staff or the official Board: Wallace Fowlie, Donald Gallup, Hugh Kenner, J. Patrick Lannan, Helen Lothrop, Karl Jay Shapiro, Julie McLauchlin, Donald H. Merwin, Robert Mueller, John Frederick Nims, Ann Peyton, Maryanne Schaefer, Joseph Wiley, and Elizabeth (Van Valkenberg) Wright. Occasionally poems sent in by a writer have been retained in the correspondence. Those letters marked with an "x" and initialed "HR" indicate that the poem was rejected by Henry Rago for inclusion in Poetry and was returned to the writer.
The Business and Financial series includes "Rate Books" wherein the amounts paid to the authors for their works are noted.
The Writings series consists of the manuscripts of poems, galleys, page proofs, and author proofs of the monthly issues of Poetry for the years 1962-2002. Included is the printer's manuscript of the poems of seventeen poets, whose works appeared in the fiftieth anniversary issue of October-November, 1962: Conrad Aiken, John Berryman, Louise Bogan, John Ciardi, James Vincent Cunningham, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Stanley Kunitz, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Charles Franklyn Plomer, Kathleen Raine, Henry Rago, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Jay Shapiro, Stephen Spender, Vernon Watkins, and William Carlos Williams. Printed materials consist of a scrapbook of poetry clippings assembled by Daniel B. Rumpf of Topeka, Kansas.
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Business and Financial; III. Writings.
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[Item], Poetry mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Purchase. 1962-
Scope and Contents: Some correspondence files concerning the Poetry Festival, Poetry Prizes and Daryl Hine were received separately. The editorial correspondence follows and is arranged chronologically through 1967. A complete list of names for this period is available. Consult Manuscripts Index in the Lilly Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents. Subsequent years are arranged alphabetically by correspondent within each year and are not indexed.
Physical Description: (16 folders)
Physical Description: (6 folders).
General: Personal correspondence
Scope and Contents: These names only represent correspondents through 1967 (Boxes 3-9). Consult Manuscripts Index in the Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents.
General: Mostly unarranged
Physical Description: (36 volumes)
Physical Description: (5 folders)
General: Miscellaneous
General: Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents: Arranged chronologically by year and issue month following the printer's manuscript for the fiftieth anniversary issue and the scrapbook of clippings.