A Guide to the Papers of Charles Wright ca. 1890-1998 Wright, Charles. 11437

A Guide to the Papers of Charles Wright ca. 1890-1998

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Accession number 11437

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Accession number

11437

Title

Papers of Charles Wright ca. 1890-1998

Physical Characteristics

38 Hollinger boxes, ca. 16 linear shelf feet

Language

English

Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of American poet and University of Virginia English professor, Charles Penzel Wright (1935 - ), ca. 5,000 items (38 Hollinger boxes, ca. 16 linear shelf feet), ca. 1890-1999, including manuscripts, poetry and translation notebooks kept by Charles Wright, professional and personal correspondence, photographs, printed material, news clippings, artwork, interviews, book reviews, and tape recordings.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The collection is without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Papers of Charles Wright, Accession # 11437, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was acquired by the University of Virginia Library from Charles Wright, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, on October 5, 1998, and is unrestricted.

Biographical/Historical Information

Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee on August 25, 1935, to Charles Penzel and Mary Castleman (Winter) Wright, and was educated at Davidson College (B.A., 1957), the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop (M.F.A., 1963) and the University of Rome (1963-1964). He served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps, 1957-1961, where he studied at the Army Language School, Monterey, California, the first year. He spent the remaining three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.

Since 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He married Holly McIntire in 1969, and published his first book of poems, The Grave of the Right Hand , in 1970. Other titles of poetry include: Hard Freight (1973); Bloodlines (1975); China Trace (1977); The Southern Cross (1981); Country Music: Selected Early Poems (1982); The Other Side of the River (1984); Zone Journals (1988); The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 (1990); Chickamauga (1995); Black Zodiac (1997) and Appalachia (1998). During his entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his poetry. Several of these awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets for Bloodlines (1976), the National Book Award in poetry for Country Music: Selected Early Poems (1983), the Ruth Lilly Poetry prize (1993), the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Chickamauga (1996), and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Black Zodiac (1998). He has also received awards for his work in translation, notably the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Things . Wright has also published translations of the Italian poet Dino Campana ( Orphic Songs , 1984).

For more complete biographical and professional information consult the Gale Literary Database on Contemporary Authors and the web site for the Pulitzer Prizes on the Internet, Wright's essay in The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series , the essay about Wright by George F. Buttrick in The Dictionary of Literary Biography , the volume The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright collected and edited by Tom Andrews, and the biographical folder in Box 36. Also helpful are the two collections of critical essays and interviews about Wright published in Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews , 1977-1987, University of Michigan Press (1988) and Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews , University of Michigan Press (1995).

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of the papers of American poet and University of Virginia English professor, Charles Penzel Wright (1935 - ), ca. 5,000 items (38 Hollinger boxes, ca. 16 linear shelf feet), ca. 1890- 1999, including manuscripts, poetry and translation notebooks kept by Charles Wright, professional and personal correspondence, photographs, printed material, news clippings, artwork, interviews, book reviews, and tape recordings.

The correspondence files with other poets and literary persons and family, have been arranged by the last name of the correspondent (Boxes 1-17). The more frequent correspondents and correspondence with some of the other Pulitzer Prize winners in poetry have been placed in separate folders with the total number of letters noted in the guide.

Correspondence with persons who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry include: John Ashbery (1 item), Louise Gluck (6 items), Jorie Graham (13 items), Anthony Hecht (1 item), Richard Howard (4 items), Donald Justice (142 items), Galway Kinnell (3 items), Yusef Komunyakaa (1 item), Maxine Kumin (1 item), Philip Levine (207 items), William Meredith (3 items), W.S. Merwin (11 items), Lisel Mueller (1 item), Charles Simic (31 items), James Tate (27 items), Robert Penn Warren (2 items), and Richard Wilbur (2 items).

Other types of correspondence are arranged chronologically in a separate subseries B (Boxes 17-21). This includes correspondence about awards, conferences, workshops, poetry readings and other professional engagements, poems submitted to or accepted by poetry magazines and anthologies, and requests for Wright to judge poetry contests, write recommendations or evaluate candidates for academic positions; greeting cards; post cards; and invitations and announcements.

Of special interest in series two containing manuscripts by Charles Wright are the twelve volumes of hand-written poetry kept by Wright in bound notebooks, from 1968 until the present. These contain his autograph poems in chronological order as they were written. When the poems were used in his published books, Wright would mark through them in pencil. The manuscript series also has an autograph volume for Wright's translation work and one called "Halflife ( A Commonplace Notebook)," where he has recorded quotes or his own thoughts about poetry and related subjects.

Also present in a second subseries and arranged according to the title of the book, are typescripts, setting copies, page proofs, and galleys, for many of his published works, although some typescripts of early manuscripts had already been sold to private collectors in the early eighties prior to the acquisition of these papers by the Library.

A third subseries contains copies of miscellaneous manuscripts by Charles Wright, including: a copy of his Masters Thesis submitted at the University of Iowa, typescripts and galleys of individual poems published in magazines such as The New Yorker , and miscellaneous other manuscripts by Wright.

A third series contains manuscripts by other authors sent to Wright for his comment or enjoyment and are arranged by the last name of the author. Most are not complete manuscripts of books by other authors, but when they are and the title of the book is known, it is included in the guide. Some are accompanied by letters from the authors, often discussing their work.

Series four contains miscellaneous papers including: interviews and essays about Charles Wright, artwork by other people, biographical entries about Wright, contracts and publication agreements, a dissertation chapter about Wright, news clippings and printed, photographs, programs, reviews of books by Wright, royalties and honorariums, student papers about Wright, translations of Wright's poetry into Italian and German, interviews and poetry readings by Wright on audio tape, and oversize photographs, artwork, news clippings, dust jackets, and a Winter family genealogical chart.

Organization

This collection has been arranged in the following series and subseries:
Series I: Correspondence:
Subseries A: Alphabetical Correspondence arranged by last name of correspondent (Boxes 1-17)
Subseries B: Chronological Correspondence arranged by date (Boxes 17-21)
Series II: Manuscripts of Works by Charles Wright
Subseries A: Bound Volumes of Poetry & Translation Notebooks kept by Charles Wright (Boxes 21-23)
Subseries B: Poetry Manuscripts Arranged by Title of Book (Boxes 24-29)
Subseries C: Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Box 29)
Series III: Manuscripts by Other Authors arranged by the name of the author (Boxes 30-35)
Series IV: Miscellaneous Papers (Boxes 36-38)

Contents List

Series I

Correspondence 1967-1998, n.d.

Box 1-21

Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent

Box 1-17
A: Alphabetical Correspondence 1967-1998, n.d.
- Box 1
  A 1984-1997
  
  19 items
  
  including: Brian J. Adams, Elizabeth Adams, W. Howard Adams, Dr. Nicoletta Alegi, Allen Anderson, Paul Anderson, Dyerval Angelini, Bim Angst, Philip Appleman, John Ashbery, Jan Austin-Hicken
- Box 1
  Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947-) 1970-1985
  
  15 items
- Box 1
  Correspondence, Debra Allbery (1957-) 1994-1998
  
  8 items
- Box 1
  Michael Anania (1939-) 1975-1996
  
  8
- Box 1
  Tom Andrews (1961-) 1984-1994
  
  35 items
- Box 1
  Ralph Angel (1951-) 1976-1990
  
  13 items
- Box 1
  Ba-Be 1975-1998
  
  including: Lea Baechler, Dr. William J. Bailey, David Baker, Rosetta Baker, Samuel M. Baker, Jr., [?] Banks, Katherine A. Barham, Jim Barnes ( The Chariton Review ), Virginia Meadors Barrett, Amy Bartlett, Rick Bass, Joan Baum, Bruce Beasley, Vereen M. Bell, Pam Beck, Pinckney Benedict, Donna Bennett, Steve Benson, Kimber Bentley, Steve Berg, David Berman
- Box 1
  Bi-By 1975-1996
  
  including: S. Bishop, Randy Blasing, Laurel Blossom, Joe Bolton, Philip Booth, David Bottoms, Lucius H. Bracey, Jr., Bob Bradley, Dr. Ben B. Braude, Robert Bringhurst, Bunt Britton, Robert Broadway, Anne Brockenbrough, Olga Broumas, David Brown, Sharon Bryan, Heather Burns, S. Burris, Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Box 1
  Calvin Bedient 1980-1996
  
  15 items
- Box 1
  Marvin Bell (1937-), 48 items (2 folders) 1967-1998
  
  48 items (2 folders)
- Box 2
  Don Bogen 1987-1998
  
  7 items
- Box 2
  Ken Botnick 1985-1987
  
  10 items
- Box 2
  James Brasfield 1981-1996
  
  11 items
- Box 2
  Lucie Brock-Boido 1984-1995
  
  12 items
- Box 2
  Christopher Buckley 1980-1997
  
  22 items
- Box 2
  Julia Budenz 1989-1996
  
  6 items
- Box 2
  Franco Buffoni 1996-1997
  
  9 items
- Box 2
  Ca 1984-1997
  
  including: Christopher Cahill, Scott Cairns, Paul W. Carmen, Julie Carr, Keith Cartwright, Raymond Carver, Crysta Casey, John Casteen
- Box 2
  Ch-Cu 1972-1998
  
  including: Stacey Chase, Alan Cheuse, Dale Chihuly, Mike Chrisman, Ian Clarke, Karen Clark, Kevin Clark, William Clark, Vince Clemente, Brian Clements, Joshua Clover, Henri Cole, Katie Coles, Michael Collier, Douglas Collins, Floyd Collins, D. Steven Conkle, Jan Conn, Matthew Cooperman, Bonnie Costello, Stephen Coyner, Nancy Crampton, Sybil Crawford, Brad Crenshaw, Cheryl Cross, Pat Cutting
- Box 2
  Karen Cangialosi 1980-1990
  
  21 items
- Box 2
  Paul Carroll (1927-) 1971-1972, 1981
  
  7 items
- Box 3
  Michael Chitwood 1990-1997
  
  7 items
- Box 3
  Nicholas Christopher 1982-1988
  
  11 items
- Box 3
  Killarney Clary 1977-1995
  
  8 items
- Box 3
  Jeff Cobb 1983-1984, 1995
  
  5 items
- Box 3
  Alfred Corn (1943-) 1976-1987
  
  9 items
- Box 3
  Tony Crunk 1994-1997
  
  4 items
- Box 3
  Michale Cuddihy 1973-1978
  
  9 items
- Box 3
  D 1977-1997
  
  including: Mack C. Dagenhart, Robert Dana, David Daniel, Daniel D'Arezzo, Chalmers Davidson, Lisa Davies, William Virgil Davis, Peter Davison, Sara Dawson, S.R. Day, Thomas Day, Phil Deaver, Gene DeGruson, Chip Delffs, Annie Dillard, Fred Dings, Simone DiPiero, Jim Dissette, Lynn Dow, Lynn Doyle, Becky Dunham, Sharon Dunn, Stephen Dunn
- Box 3
  Jordan Davies 1983-1986
  
  11 items
- Box 3
  Wayne Dodd (1930-) 1986-1997
  
  8 items
- Box 3
  E 1973-1997
  
  including: Carol Ellis, Jon Enfield, John Engels, Hualing Engle, John Erickson, George Estreich, Pete Everwine
- Box 3
  F 1977-1998
  
  including: Robert Fagles, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., Ruth Feldman, Casey Finch, Reed Finlay, Michael Fitzgerald, Ryan Flaherty, Mary [Flinn?], Harry Ford, Thomas Foster, Linda Jones Foster, Alastair Fowler, Bob Freedman, Terry Freeman, Philip Fried
- Box 3
  Benson Fenn 1987-1990
  
  9 items
- Box 3
  Carolyn Forche 1972-1996
  
  5 items
- Box 3
  Richard Ford (1944-) 1974-1978
  
  5 items
- Box 3
  Antonella Francini 1985-1997
  
  9 items
- Box 3
  David Freed 1979-1997
  
  11 items
- Box 3
  Stuart Friebert (1931-) 1983-1988
  
  18 items
- Box 4
  Ga 1974-1997
  
  including: Gale Research Company re Contemporary Authors , Tess Gallagher, Jim Galvin, Mark Gamble, Forrest Gander, John W. Garden, George Garrett, Joseph M. Garrison, Jr.
- Box 4
  Ge-Gu 1970-1997
  
  including: Alessandro Gentili, Margaret Gibson, Stephen Robert Gibson, Dana Gioia, Steven Clay, Michele Glazer, Greg Glazner, Dave Godfrey, Anne Goodman, Steve Goodwin, Linda Gregerson, Arthur Gregor, Maxine Groffsky, Lollie Groth, Chuck Guilford, Thom Gunn, Carol Gunther
- Box 4
  Jonathan Galassi 1976-1992
  
  34 items
- Box 4
  Elton Glaser 1972-1996
  
  71 items (3 folders)
- Box 4
  Louise Gluck (1943-) 1971-1993
  
  6 items
- Box 4
  Arnie & Betty Goldstein 1985-1998
  
  13 items
- Box 4
  Jorie Graham (1951-) 1978-1993
  
  13 items
- Box 4
  Loren Graham (1958-) 1994-1995
  
  7 items
- Box 5
  Frank Graziano (1955-) 1978-1983
  
  17 items
- Box 5
  Ha 1971-1997
  
  including: Rachel Hadas, Charles Hagenah, John Haines, Jim Hall, Daniel Halpern, Colin Hamilton, David Hamilton, Melissa Hammerle, Archie Hardy, James L. Harmon, William Harmon, Michael S. Harper, David Harris, Jeffrey Harrison, Henry Hart, Jim Hartz, William Hauser, John E. Hawkes, Tom Hawks
- Box 5
  He-Hy 1973-1998
  
  including: Anthony Hecht, David Heimer, Barbara Heizer, Jim Hejna, Gregory Hengesbaugh, Graham Hettlinger, George Hitchcock, Kells Hogan, Gill Holland, Henry Hollenberg, John Clellon Holmes, Charles Hood, Kathy R. Howard, Richard Howard, Cyrus Hoy, Robert A. Hueckstedt, Harry Humes, Stanley H. Hyman
- Box 5
  Donald Hall (1928-) 1983-1988
  
  10 items
- Box 5
  Oakley Hall 1967-1978
  
  14 items
- Box 5
  Michael Hannon 1984-1994
  
  10 items
- Box 5
  Kevin Hart (1954-) 1995-1998
  
  7 items
- Box 5
  Peter Henry 1995-1997
  
  6 items
- Box 5
  William Heyen (1940-) 1983-1996
  
  8 items
- Box 5
  Tedd Higgs 1985-1990
  
  8 items
- Box 5
  Brenda Hillman 1975-1994
  
  37 items
- Box 5
  Edward Hirsch 1985-1992
  
  7 items
- Box 5
  Garrett Hongo (1951-) 1978-1996
  
  22 items
- Box 6
  I 1984-1994
  
  including: Priscilla Ineff, Earl Ingersoll, Mark Irwin
- Box 6
  J 1978-1996
  
  including: Robert H. Jacob, Leland S. Jamieson, Rod Jellema, Elizabeth Jenkins, Jonathan Johnson, Judy Jordan, Lawrence Joseph, Don Junkins
- Box 6
  Mark Jarman (1952-) 1975-1997
  
  44 items (2 folders)
- Box 6
  Donald Justice (1925-) 1969-1990
  
  142 items (5 folders)
- Box 7
  Correspondence K 1973-1997
  
  including: Justin Kaplan, Judy Karasik, Deborah Keenan, John Keene, Hunter Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, Jennifer Key, Thomas N. & Carol B. Key, Kerry Shawn Keys, Mary Kinzie, Karl Kirchwey, Melissa Kirsch, Janet Knepper, Joseph Knittle, Damon, Sharon Kubasak, Maxine Kumin, John W. Kuykendall
- Box 7
  Edmund Keeley (Mike) 1974-1997
  
  11 items
- Box 7
  James Kimbrell (1967-) 1994-1998
  
  8 items
- Box 7
  Doug King 1986-1997
  
  5 items
- Box 7
  Galway Kinnell (1927-) 1971 & 1980
  
  3 items
- Box 7
  Susan Kinsolving 1986-1990
  
  10 items
- Box 7
  Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-) 1987
  
  1 item
- Box 7
  La-Le 1970-1997
  
  including: Andy Lakritz, Linda Lappin, Philip Larkin, Carolyn Lau, Steve Lautermilck, Sydney Lea, Kristy Lee, Rolf Leeman, Margitt Lehbert, Daniel G. Leidig, Graham Leonard, Larry Levis
- Box 7
  Li-Lu 1984-1998
  
  including: Carl Little, Robert Hill Long, James Longenbach, Robert Longoni, Jon Loomis, John Lord, James Lott, Emily Lu
- Box 7
  John Lang 1991-1998
  
  11 items
- Box 7
  Deborah Larsen 1984-1994
  
  24 items
- Box 7
  James Laughlin (1914-) 1996
  
  5 items
- Box 7
  David Lehman (1948-) 1984-1995
  
  7 items
- Box 8
  Phil Levine (1928-) 1968-1997
  
  207 items (9 folders)
- Box 9
  Tom Lux (1946-) 1970-1980
  
  19 items
- Box 9
  Mc 1975-1997
  
  including: Elizabeth McBride, Davis McCombs, James McCorkle, David W. McCullough, Cynthia McDonald, Marty McGovern, Rex McGuinn, Michael McGuire, John McIntire, Louis McKee, Virginia McKee, Anne McKeithen, John McKernan, Leigh McLellan, Sandy McPherson
- Box 9
  J.D. McClatchy "Sandy" (1945-) 1975-1996
  
  46 items
- Box 9
  Michael McFee 1985-1991
  
  6 items
- Box 9
  Lynne McMahon 1983-1997
  
  12 items
- Box 9
  James McMichael 1970-1984
  
  31 items
- Box 9
  Ma-Mi 1976-1997
  
  including: Mark Madigan, M. Maggi, John Malcolm, Irving Malin, Marianna Manclossi, Coretta Marshall, Mike Martin, William Maxwell, Loredana May, Sue Ann Mead, William Meredith, Kim Merker, Anne Michaels, C. Wolfram Swetz von Middhlar, Jane Miller, Joseph C. Miller, Judy K. Miller, Michael Miller, Amy Minett, Ana Mitric
- Box 9
  Mo-Mu 1984-1997
  
  including: Paul Monette, Lorne Mook, Hugh Moorhead,Pedro Escudero Moreno, Berry Morgan, Elizabeth Morgan, John Morgan, Vance Morgan, Edward Morin, Albert F. Moritz, Mary Morris, John H. Morrison, Craig Mueller, Jenny Mueller, Maureen Mulhern, Rick Mulkey, Michael Murphy
- Box 9
  Gerald Malanga (1943-) 1971-1996
  
  9 items
- Box 9
  Jackie Marcus 1988-1990
  
  9 items
- Box 10
  Lynn Martin 1984-1988
  
  14 items
- Box 10
  William Matthews (1942-) 1972-1995
  
  9 items
- Box 10
  Bill Merwin (1927-) 1975-1981
  
  11 items
- Box 10
  Robert Mezey (1935-) 1969-1989
  
  6 items
- Box 10
  Lenny Michaels (1933-) 1976-1984
  
  6 items
- Box 10
  Susan Mitchell (1944-) 1984-1989
  
  5 items
- Box 10
  Robert Morgan (1944-) 1984-1998
  
  45 items
- Box 10
  Howard Moss (1922-1987) 1979-1986
  
  16 items
- Box 10
  Lisel Mueller (1924-) 1982
  
  1 item
- Box 10
  Carol Muske-Dukes (1945-) 1976-1996
  
  27 items
- Box 11
  N 1984-1997
  
  including: Shelly Nameroff, Peter Nijmeijer, Heidi Lynn Nilsson, Denis Noel, Howard Norman
- Box 11
  O 1978-1994
  
  including: Joyce Carol Oates, Robert J. Oberg, Daniel S. Ogbe, Steve Orlen, Greg Orr, Linda Orr, Antonio Lopez Ortega, Victor Ourin
- Box 11
  Ingrid O'Brien 1974
  
  6 items
- Box 11
  Pa-Pi 1972-1998
  
  including: Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Suzanne Paola, Greg Pape, Jay Parini, Joseph Parisi, Charlie Parish, Kelli R. Patton, Frank H. Pearl, Lu Peck, Michael Peich, Heather Pendergraft, Sam Pereira, Marjorie Perloff, William Phillips, Marge Piercy, L. Piller, Robert Pinsky, Giancarlo Piscione
- Box 11
  Pl-Pz 1984-1998
  
  including: Don Platt, Russell Platt, Marise A. Pokorny, Luke Ives Pontifell, Al Poulin, Jr., Gaetano Prampolini, Clifford W. Price, Bill Pritchard, Wyatt Prunty
- Box 11
  Eric Pankey (1959-) 1995-1997
  
  18 items
- Box 11
  Stan Plumly (1939-) 1975-1995
  
  19 items
- Box 11
  Q 1988-1994
  
  including: Isa de Quesada, Alice Quinn, Ricardo J. Quinones
- Box 11
  Ra-Ri 1974-1997
  
  including: Larry Raab, Jim Randall, Robert Randolph, Random House, Inc., Bob Rees, Richard Reeve, Melanie Rehak, James Reiss, David Remnick, Paige Rense, Jan Richman, John Ridland, Dan Rifenburgh, Mrs. J.W. Richel
- Box 11
  Ro-Ry 1972-1997
  
  including: Eunice Robeck, Ellen Roberson, Janet Roberts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Joseph Rodrigues, Jr., William Pitt Root, Paul B. Roth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., William Ruddy, Mark Rudman, A. Ellison Rumsey, Lex Runciman, Eleanor Rutledge, Peter Russell, Michael Ryan
- Box 11
  Robert Caudle Rogers 1987-1998
  
  6 items
- Box 12
  Maggie Ross 1986-1994
  
  14 items
- Box 12
  Sa-Si 1973-1997
  
  including: Patrick Samway, Stephen Sandy, Sarabande Books, Molly Schen, Grace Schulman, Robert Schultz, D.J. Schwichow, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Jim Seay, Joseph Secondi, David W. Sedgwick, Julianne Seeman, Barry Seiler, Mary Serpico-Lay, Bill Sheppard, Rosa Shand, Rukmini M. Sichitiu, Christine A. Sikorski, Alex Silberman, Gary Silva, Merle Singer, P. Singh
- Box 12
  Sk-Sp 1979-1997
  
  including: David A. Skeel, Jr., Jeffrey Skinner, Tom Sleigh, Arthur Smith, Dean Smith, Gibbs M. Smith, Random Smith, Todd Smith, Ellison A. Smyth, Ross J. Smyth, Ann Snodgrass, Ted Solotaroff, Gary Soto, Marcia Southwick, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Amy Spanel
- Box 12
  St-Sw 1972-1997
  
  including: Bill Stafford, George Starbuck, George M. Steele, Rene Steinke, Lisa Stending, Gerald Stern, Amy Stewart, Gale Stewart, Jody Stewart, Stride Publications, Dabney Stuart, Adrienne Su, Ron Sukenick, David Summers, Dorothy Sutton, Mary Swander, Joan T. Swenson, Tree Swenson, David Swerdlow
- Box 12
  Ira Sadoff (1945-) 1974-1981
  
  8 items
- Box 12
  Mary Ann Samyn (1970-) 1995-1997
  
  9 items
- Box 12
  Sherrod Santos (1948-) 1979-1994
  
  23 items
- Box 12-13
  David St. John (1949-) 1975-1992, n.d.
  Physical Location: 1975-1977 (25 items) Box 12
  1978-1992, n.d. (42 items) Box 13
  67 items (3 folders)
- Box 13
  Harold Schimmel 1972-1997
  
  31 items
- Box 13
  Charles Seluzicki 1979-1992
  
  43 items
- Box 13
  Charles Simic (1938-) [1970]-1996
  
  31 items
- Box 13
  Maurya Simon 1983-1997
  
  28 items
- Box 13
  Dave Smith (1942-) 1972-1994
  
  27 items
- Box 14
  Marcia D. Smith, "Marky" 1984-1996
  
  54 items (3 folders)
- Box 14
  Willard Spiegelman 1991-1995
  
  6 items
- Box 14
  Peter Stitt 1983-1995
  
  21 items
- Box 14
  Mark Strand (1934-) 1968-1994, n.d.
  
  37 items (2 folders)
- Box 14
  Larissa Szporluk 1994-1995
  
  6 items
- Box 14
  Mary Szybist 1994-1997
  
  10 items
- Box 15
  T 1983-1998
  
  including: John Tagliabue, Indrek Tart, Phillip Taylor, Ross Taylor, Mac Test, Libby Thayer, Mike Theune, Stephen Thomas, Frances Thronson, Ann Townsend, Danielle Truscott
- Box 15
  James Tate 1967-1990, n.d.
  
  27 items
- Box 15
  Alexander Thorburn 1984-1995
  
  16 items
- Box 15
  Richard Tillinghast (1940-) 1979-1991
  
  6 items
- Box 15
  Chase Twichell 1976-1993
  
  26 items
- Box 15
  U 1987-1996
  
  including: University of Michigan Press, University of Tennessee Lupton Library
- Box 15
  Unidentified 1969-1998
  
  39 items
- Box 15
  V 1976-1997
  
  including: Jean Valentine, Corinna Vallianatos, Nance Van Winckel, Greg Varner, Reetika Vazirani, Helen Vendler, Richard F. Venezia, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Hans Christian von Baeyer
- Box 15
  Wa-We 1977-1997
  
  including: David Walker, Rosanna Warren, Patricia Waters, Watershed Foundation, Julia Watson, Miles G. Watson, Richard J. Weekley, Bruce Weigl, Ken Weisner, Barry Weller, Ingrid Wendt
- Box 15
  Wi-Wy 1972-1998
  
  including: Allen Wier, Dara Wier, Ann Williams, John Willson, Joseph Wilmott, Robert A. Wilson, Sam Witt, Tibor Wlassics, C.D. Wright, Barbara Wuest, Edith Wylder
- Box 16
  Sidney Wade 1983-1997
  
  9 items
- Box 16
  Diane Wakoski (1937-) 1970-1982
  
  8 items
- Box 16
  Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) 1978 & 1981
  
  2 items
- Box 16
  Wesleyan University Press 1983-1996
  
  37 items
- Box 16
  Betsy Tice White 1983-1997
  
  24 items
- Box 16
  Richard Wilbur (1921-) 1974 & 1977
  
  2 items
- Box 16
  C.K. Williams (1936-) 1972-1992
  
  38 items (2 folders)
- Box 16
  Franz Wright (1953-) 1977-1996
  
  16 items
- Box 16
  Jay Wright (1935-) 1988-1997
  
  26 items
- Box 17
  Stuart Wright (9 items) 1983-1986, n.d.
  
  9 items
- Box 17
  Wright Family & Related 1970-1997
  
  43 items (2 folders)
- Box 17
  X-Z 1973-1998
  
  including: Max Yeh, Al Young, Dale Young, Gary Young, John A. Yount, Chris Yu, Corda Zajac, Bill Zander, Mary Zeppa
- Box 17
  David Young (1936-) 1975-1993, n.d.
  
  63 items (3 folders)
- Box 17
  Yiheng Zhao 1982-1983
  
  5 items
Box 17-21
B: Chonological Correspondence 1970-1998, n.d.

arranged by date
- Box 17
  Correspondence re Awards 1980-1998
- Box 17
  Correspondence--Greeting Cards [ca. 1980-1997]
- Box 18
  Correspondence re Invitations & Announcements 1982-1998
- Box 18-19
  Correspondence re Invitations to Conferences, Workshops, Poetry Readings, etc. 1970-1998, n.d.
  Physical Location: 1970-1989 (7 folders) Box 18
  1990-1998, n.d. (4 folders) Box 19
  11 folders
- Box 19-20
  Correspondence re Poetry Magazine Publications and Anthologies 1972-1998, n.d.
  Physical Location: 1972-1994 (4 folders) Box 19
  1995-1998, n.d. (7 folders) Box 20
  6 folders
- Box 20
  Correspondence--Postcards [ca. 1970-1990]
  
  2 folders
- Box 20
  Correspondence re Requests to Judge Poetry Competitions 1974-1997
  
  2 folders
- Box 20-21
  Correspondence re Requests for Recommendations and Evaluations 1983-1998
  Physical Location: 1983-1986 (1 folder) Box 20
  1987-1998 (5 folders) Box 4
  5 folders

Series II

Manuscripts of Works by Charles Wright 1963-1999, n.d.

Box 21-29

Box 21-23
A: Bound Volumes of Poetry & Translation Notebooks kept by Charles Wright 1968-1999
- Box 21-23
  Poetry Notebooks, AMsS, containing original poetry by Charles Wright 1968 Nov-1999 Feb
  Physical Location: 1968 Nov-1974 Jan (2 volumes) Box 21
  1974 Jan-1985 Oct (6 volumes) Box 22
  1985 Oct-1999 Feb (4 volumes) Box 23
  12 volumes
- Box 23
  Poetry Notebook--Translations, etc., by Charles Wright 1983 Jul-1993 Oct
- Box 23
  "Halflife (A Commonplace NoteBook)" 1977-1990
Box 24-29
B: Poetry Manuscripts Arranged by Title of Book ca. 1968-1994
- Box 24
  Appalachia Page Proofs, with corrections 1998 Apr
- Box 24
  Appalachia Page Proofs 1998 Jun
- Box 24
  Black Zodiac TMs (Setting Copy) 1996
- Box 24
  Black Zodiac Page Proofs, with corrections 1996
- Box 24
  Black Zodiac Page Proofs (Author's Copy), with corrections ca. 1996
- Box 24
  Black Zodiac Page Proofs, Master Pages First Pass 1997
- Box 24
  Black Zodiac Master Pages 1997
- Box 24
  Chickamauga TMs ca. 1994
- Box 24
  Chickamauga TMs (Setting Copy) ca. 1994
- Box 25
  Chickamauga TMs 1994 Dec
- Box 25
  Chickamauga TMs (Setting Copy) 1994 Dec
- Box 25
  China Trace TMs ca. 1977
- Box 25
  Country Music Selected Early Poems TMs ca. 1982
- Box 25
  The Grave of the Right Hand and The Dream Animal TMs ca. 1968-1970
- Box 25
  Halflife Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987 , chiefly printed sources previously published in various jounals and used in the compilation of the book ca. 1977-1987
- Box 25
  Halflife Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987 TMS, with corrections ca. 1988
- Box 26
  Halflife Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987 TMS ca. 1988
  
  2 folders
- Box 26
  Quarter Notes Improvisations and Interviews , TMs & printed sources previously published in various journals and used in the compilation of the book ca. 1989-1994
- Box 26
  Translation Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets Canto XIII TMs & Galley 1992 Nov
- Box 26
  Translation Motets by Eugenio Montale TMs, with corrections [1981]
- Box 26
  Translation Orphic Songs by Dino Campana TMs ca. 1984
- Box 26
  Translation The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale, TMs, with heavy corrections ca. 1978
- Box 26
  Translation The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale, TMs, with corrections ca. 1978
- Box 26
  Translation The Storm and Other Things by Eugenio Montale, TMs, with notations by Vinio Rossi ca. 1978
- Box 26
  The World of the Ten Thousand Things TMs, with corrections ca. 1990
- Box 27
  The World of the Ten Thousand Things Master Galleys 1990 Apr
- Box 27
  The World of the Ten Thousand Things Author's Galleys 1990 Apr
- Box 27
  The World of the Ten Thousand Things Page Proofs, Master Pages 1990
- Box 27
  Zone Journals TMs ca. 1987
- Box 27-28
  Zone Journals TMs, 9 Electrostatic Copies ca. 1987
  
  5 folders
- Box 28
  Zone Journals TMs (Setting Copy) 1987
- Box 28
  Zone Journals Master Galleys, with cover sample 1987 Jun
- Box 28
  Zone Journals Author's Galleys, with corrections 1987 Jun
- Box 28
  Zone Journals Galleys (2 Sets) 1987 Jun
- Box 29
  Zone Journals Page Proofs, Master Pages 1987 Aug
- Box 29
  Zone Journals Page Proofs [1987 Aug]
Box 29
C: Miscellaneous Manuscripts 1963-1998, n.d.
- Box 29
  Brief Introductions and Discussions re Giacomo Leopardi, Larry Levis, Eugenio Montale, Charles Simic, and Peter Taylor; and notes re "Coda" ca. 1996-1998, n.d.
- Box 29
  Contemporary Authors Autobiography Essay AMs ca. 1988
- Box 29
  Contemporary Authors Autobiography Essay 4 TMs ca. 1988
- Box 29
  Correspondences Masters Thesis submitted to the State University of Iowa 1963 Jun
- Box 29
  Foreword to The Gatehouse Heaven: Poems by James Kimbrell & TMs [1997 Apr]
- Box 29
  Gettysburg Review Essays 1992 & 1994
- Box 29
  "Poems rejected for The Grave of the Right Hand and The Dream Animal (and forever)" TMs ca. 1968-1970
- Box 29
  Poems--Miscellaneous ca. 1988-1998
  
  , including: "After Rereading Robert Graves, I Go Outside to Get My Head Together," "American Twilight," "Citronella," "Disjecta Membra," "Jesuit Graves," "A Journal of One Significant Landscape," "Looking Around II," "St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear," "3 January 1993," and untitled
- Box 29
  The New Yorker Poetry Galleys 1977-1991
- Box 29
  Poetry published in Magazines (Galleys) 1989-1997
- Box 29
  Questions about "A Journal of the Year of the Ox" n.d.
- Box 29
  "Remarks at the 4th Sino-American Writer's Conference, Leshan, Sichan Province, China" 1988 Apr 12
  
  including text from Barry Lopez

Series III

Manuscripts by Other Authors 1974-1998, n.d.

Box 30-35

arranged by the name of the author

Box 30
Gale Acuff [1994]
Box 30
Ai (Florence Anthony) ca. 1979-1982
Box 30
Pam Alexander 1988
Box 30
Tom Andrews 1989
Box 30
David Berman n.d.
Box 30
Don Bogen 1994
Box 30
Robert Bradley [1990]
Box 30
James Brasfield 1996
Box 30
Lucie Brock-Broido, Trouble Child and A Hunger 1986-1987
Box 30
Julia Budenz, "Umbra," Chapter 1 of Umbrageous Vision 1989
Box 30
Franco Buffoni 1996-1997
Box 30
Heather Burns 1994
Box 30
Stuart Calderwood 1988
Box 30
Mike Chitwood 1990
Box 30
Nicholas Christopher, Desperate Characters & Other Poems 1987
Box 30
Leonard Cirino 1991
Box 30
Killarney Clary, October Play 1993
Box 30
Brian Clements 1994
Box 30
Stephen Conkle 1978, 1984
Box 31
Alfred Corn, The West Door 1987
Box 31
Tony Crunk, New Covenant Bound 1992
Box 31
Philip Deaver 1986
Box 31
Annie Dillard, "The Land Nobody Knows [North Yemen]" [1984 Jun 8]
Box 31
Robert Fagles 1983-1987
Box 31
Aaron Fischer, Hansel in Recovery 1989
Box 31
Scott Ellsworth Francis 1987
Box 31
Sarah Gambito 1996
Box 31
Dana Gioia 1986-1987
Box 31
Rebecca Givens 1997
Box 31
Elton Glaser 1975-1977, 1997
Box 31
Michele Glazer, It is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We'd Come to See 1997
Box 31
Loren Graham, Mose 1992
Box 31
Frank Graziano [1983]
Box 31
Donald Hall, The One Day 1988
Box 31
Colin Hamilton, "The Memory Palace" 1997
Box 31
Michael Hannon 1989-1993
Box 31
David Harris n.d.
Box 31
Brian Henry, "Exquisite Disjunctions, Exquisite Arrangements: Jorie Graham's 'Strangeness of Strategy'" 1997
Box 31
Brenda Hillman, Death Tractates 1989
Box 31
Garrett Hongo, The River of Heaven 1987, n.d.
Box 32
Garrett Hongo, Volcano Journal 1993
Box 32
Laura Jensen, Walking Tour 1994
Box 32
Donald Justice 1982-1992
Box 32
Hunter Kennedy 1997
Box 32
Kerry Shawn Keys, Bones and Buzzards 1994
Box 32
Damon Krukowski, "Lyrical Misgivings," & "Poems Four to Six" [1989], n.d.
Box 32
Jo Ellen Kwiatek, Eleven Days Before Spring 1994
Box 32
Carolyn Lau, Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking) 1987 & 1989
Box 32
Jon Loomis 1994-1996
Box 32
J.D. McClatchy, Scenes from Another Life & Essay re Poetry 1979, 1988
Box 32
Lynne McMahon, Faith [1986] & n.d.
Box 32
J. Michael Martin 1983
Box 32
Bill Matthews 1976
Box 32
Paul Monette, Love Alone [1987]
Box 33
Eugenio Montale, Collected Poetry 1926-1956 , translated from Italian by Jonathan Galassi 1992

2 folders
Box 33
Rochelle Nameroff, Runaway 1984
Box 33
Paul Nelson, The Hard Shapes of Paradise [1987]
Box 33
Marlon Ohnesonge-Fick 1985
Box 33
Sophia Orr n.d.
Box 33
Eric Pankey, The Late Romances 1996
Box 33
John Piller, Blossom in the Blood 1994
Box 33
Don Platt, Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns 1993
Box 33
Gaetano Prampolini, "Robert Lowell's Dante" n.d.
Box 33
John Ridland 1996
Box 33
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Fresh Beginnings , translated by David Young ca. 1994
Box 33
Maggie Ross 1992
Box 33
Peter Russell 1996
Box 33
David St. John 1979-1989
Box 33
David St. John, Terraces of Rain 1987
Box 34
Rod Santos 1987-1995
Box 34
Rod Santos, The Southern Reaches ca. 1989
Box 34
Nathan A. Scott, Jr. 1989
Box 34
William A. Sessions 1984
Box 34
Charles Simic 1989-1998
Box 34
Maurya Simon, The Golden Labyrinth: Poems 1994
Box 34
Jeffrey Skinner 1984
Box 34
Dave Smith 1988
Box 34
Marcia Southwick 1997
Box 34
Mark Strand 1987-1993
Box 34
Mary Szybist 1994
Box 35
James Tate, Viper Jazz 1974
Box 35
Richard Tillinghast 1994
Box 35
Unknown Authors n.d.
Box 35
Bruce Weigl, Song of Napalm 1988
Box 35
Dana White 1984
Box 35
Sam Witt n.d.
Box 35
David Young 1977-1992, n.d.

2 folders
Box 35
David Young, The Planet on the Desk Selected & New Poems 1960-1990 [1989 Aug 16]

Series IV

Miscellaneous Papers ca. 1890-1998, n.d.

Box 36-38

Box 36
Artwork 1985, n.d.
Box 36
Artwork--J.M. Martin 1992
Box 36
Artwork--Maurya Simon 1984-1997
Box 36
Artwork--Heather Spears 1988
Box 36
Artwork--David Summers n.d.
Box 36
Biographical Entries 1983-1998
Box 36
Contracts & Publication Agreements 1977-1998

2 folders
Box 36
Dissertation Chapter "Charles Wright's Dora Markus " by Antonella Francini 1985
Box 36
Essay "New Son of Imagism Gone Baroque" by Peter Stitt 1986
Box 36
Essays concerning Charles Wright by Annie Finch, Mark Strand, Andrew Zawackie, David Swerdlow, David St. John, Pat Cutting, Dorothy Barresi, and David Young 1986-1997
Box 36
Essay "The Pragmatic Imagination and the Secret of Poetry" by Mark Jarman about Charles Wright, C.K. Williams, and Philip Levine, published in Gettysburg Review 1988
Box 36
Essay "Charles Wright's Invention" by Stephen Coyner 1990
Box 36
Essay "A Wright-er's Landscape of the Impersonal" by Tori Rowan in The Declaration 1990 Nov
Box 36
Essay "Cryptography: Photography and Quotation in Charles Wright's Poetry and Poetic" by Michael Theune 1997
Box 36
Essay "Poetry and Silence at the End of the Century" by Calvin Bedient n.d.
Box 36
Interview "Charles Wright on Eugene Montale and Dino Campana" by Mary Zeppa in Poet News 1985 Oct
Box 36
Interview "The Metaphysics of the Quotidian" A Conversation with Charles Wright edited by Earl Ingersoll and Stan Sanvel Rubin 1986 Apr 3
Box 36
Interview with Carol Ellis, published in Iowa Journal of Literary Studies 1986
Box 37
Interview with Sherod Santos (1987), published in Halflife 1986-1987
Box 37
Interview--Oberlin College Creative Writing Program Guest Writer Questions 1987
Box 37
"An Interview with Charles Wright" by J.D. McClatchy, published as "The Art of Poetry XLI, Charles Wright" in The Paris Review 1988
Box 37
Interview "The Impossibility of Salvation A Conversation with Poet Charles Wright" by Miriam Marty Clark 1989 Feb
Box 37
Interview & Essay from the 10th Annual Literary Festival honoring Charles Wright at Emory & Henry College and published in The Iron Mountain Review 1991 Oct
Box 37
Miscellaneous ca. 1969-1988, n.d.
Box 37
News Clippings & Printed 1976-1997, n.d.
Box 37
Photographs ca. 1890-1997, n.d.

2 folders
Box 37
Programs for Awards, Readings, etc. ca. 1975-1998

2 folders
Box 38
Reviews-- Bloodlines 1975-1976
Box 38
Reviews-- China Trace 1977-1978
Box 38
Reviews-- Country Music 1984-1985
Box 38
Reviews-- The Dream Animal [1968]
Box 38
Reviews-- The Grave of the Right Hand 1970
Box 38
Reviews-- Halflife 1990
Box 38
Reviews-- Hard Freight 1973-1974
Box 38
Reviews-- Orphic Songs by Dino Campana, translated by Charles Wright 1985
Box 38
Reviews-- The Other Side of the River 1984
Box 38
Reviews-- The Southern Cross 1982-1983
Box 38
Reviews-- The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 1990
Box 38
Reviews-- Zone Journals 1987-1990
Box 38
Royalties & Honorariums ca. 1977-1997
Box 38
Slides of Artwork by David Freed and Ferrara, Italy 1985, n.d.
Box 38
Student Papers re Wright's Work ca. 1976-1997
Box 38
Translation of The Other Side of the River by Charles Wright into Italian by Gaetano Prampolini 1998
Box 38
Translations of the Poetry of Charles Wright into Italian & German 1991-1995, n.d.
Box 38
Virginia Writers of Distinctions: Charles Wright "Notes to Help in the Study of Charles Wright and Chickamauga " [ca. 1997]
Other Othertype: Audiotape 0001
Recording of Charles Wright, mailed to him by Professor Janet E. Dunleavy, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1973 Nov 2

Reel-to-reel tape recording
Other Othertype: Audiocassette 0017 no. 1 & no. 2
Interview of Charles Wright at Oberlin College; an edited transcript of the interview was printed in Field , no. 17, and in 1976 Nov

Cassette tape recording

Part One covers from page 59-74 in Halflife
Part Two covers from page 74-88 in Halflife
Other Othertype: Audiocassette 0017 no. 3
Interview of Charles Wright by Robert Peters at the University of California at Irvine, discussing China Trace as the completion of his trilogy of poem books 1978 Feb 2

Cassette tape recording
Other Othertype: Audiocassette 0017 no. 4
Poetry Reading by Charles Wright at the Poetry Center, SFSU, including "Homage to Paul Cezanne" and discussing and reading from China Trace 1980 Apr 16

Cassette tape recording
Other Othertype: Audiocassette 0017 no. 5
Watershed Tapes Recording of Charles Wright Poetry, Side One 32:00 Minutes, Side Two 31:37 Minutes "Approval Copy" 1985

Cassette tape recording
Drawer Box-folder: Mini-Tray 45
Identification Pin of Charles Penzel Wright, Sr., an engineer at the United States Tennessee Valley Authority Pickwick Dam, No. 11 ca. 1935
Drawer Box-folder: Mini-Tray 45
Identification Pin of Charles Penzel Wright, Jr., for the the Port Townsend Writers Conference 1984
Drawer Box-folder: Mini-Tray 45
Three Wood Blocks, with the letters X, Y, and Z n.d.
Oversize OS Box P-24
"Berkeley 1962" Study for Charles and Holly from Carlo [1962]
Oversize OS Box P-24
Photograph of Charles Wright by Gerard Malanga 1975
Oversize OS Box P-24
Pen & Ink Drawing, "Pilgrims (After Michaux)" by Charles Seluzicki for Charles Wright 1982 Dec 17
Oversize OS Box P-24
Four Calendars illustrated by [Elio Schneeman] 1994-1997
Oversize OS Box P-24
Artist's Proof "My Right Hand Aches For You" by R. Fredrikhelson 1987 Oct
Oversize OS Box P-24
Reprint of "Walking in the Mad Space" by Elio Schneeman 1998 May 16
Oversize OS Box P-24
Photograph of Charles and Luke Wright n.d.
Oversize OS Box P-24
Photograph of Charles Wright n.d.
Oversize OS Box P-24
Prints of Charles Wright, Philip Levine, and unidentified by David Freed n.d.
Oversize OS Box P-24
Five Prints, "Like the Old Songs," "As Love Is . . .," "The Red Clay Below Him," "That Stalk," and "Are You Here?" n.d.
Oversize OS Box P-24
Newsclippings re Charles Wright and the winning of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize 1993
Oversize OS Box M-22
Dust Jackets for Appalachia , Bloodlines , Chickamauga , The Grave of the Right Hand , The Other Side of the River , and The World of the Ten Thousand Things Poems 1980-1990 ca. 1970-1998
Oversize OS Box M-22
Genealogical Chart for the Winter family n.d.
Drawer Box-folder: OS Tray 17
A Rubbing of Oriental Artwork; a man is seated in a one-horse chariot and followed by a servant with an umbrella n.d.