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The Steven Ford Brown Papers consist of materials related to the publication of "Heart's Invention: On the Poetry of Vassar Miller." This includes correspondence, typescript drafts, and galley proofs.

Scope and Contents This collection contains printed materials broadly chronicling the professional and personal relationship between author Bruce Kellner and Houston-based poet Vassar Miller. Materials include correspondence between Kellner and Miller spanning close to thirty years; poems and other creative works by Miller; critical essays about Miller's work; articles and photocopied newspaper clippings; and a typescript of Kellner's play about Miller, "Swimming on Concrete."Also included is...

Scope and Contents The collection contains typed and handwritten drafts of poems and other writings, as well as correspondence, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia related to Cynthia Macdonald’s life and work as an accomplished poet and co-founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. In addition to the extensive accumulation of multiple drafts of her writings, Macdonald’s trove of correspondence is of particular interest, featuring letters to and from writing friends, colleagues,...

Scope and Contents The Vassar Miller Papers contain material pertaining to Miller's writings, career, and personal life, and materials pertaining to the editing and publication of the anthology "Despite This Flesh: The Disabled in Stories and Poems." Materials range in date from circa 1937 to 1992, with most of the material falling between the years 1960 to 1986.The series relating to Miller's own work and life contain correspondence, poems, short stories, plays, miscellaneous works, drafts and...

Scope and Contents The Kenneth Patchen Collection contains correspondence, photographs, publicity and promotional materials, books, picture-poems, sound recordings, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous items.The collection was received with chronological item descriptions composed by Ronald Dunkin, the original collector of the materials. In order to facilitate access, the items in the collection were categorized according to type of material and placed by date within category. The books,...