Lewis Turco Collection

Donated by Lewis Turco
Finding aid prepared by Daniel Jergovic
Updated and revised by Matthew Cook

Finding Aid began by Daniel Jergovic June 1, 2005. and updated by Matthew Cook April 19, 2007. Description is in English. Finding Aid prepared using Rules for Archival Description, 2005. This finding aid is also available as an XML document.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview of the Collection
  2. Series 1: Cleveland Poetry Center Correspondence
    1962-2004
  3. Series 2: Journal, Bibliography and Press Materials 1942-1996
  4. Series 3: Personal Belongings
  5. Series 4: Professional Career & Accomplishments
  6. Series 5: Publications

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Overview of the Collection

Descriptive Summary
Finding Aid for Lewis Turco Collection, 1962-2004 Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
Access
Access to this collection is unrestricted.
Copyright
Requests for permission to publish materials from this collection should be discussed with the Special Collections Department at the Cleveland State University Library.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated to Cleveland State University Library by Lewis Turco in July, 2004.
Biographical History
The majority of the Lewis Turco Collection constitutes letters addressed to Lewis Turco by poets and writers associated with the Cleveland Poetry Center. Many of Turco's replies to these letters are also included. The letters and replies were written between 1962 and 2004. Poets and writers associated with this collection and the Cleveland Poetry Center include:
Russell Atkins, John Malcolm Brinnin, Hale Chatfield, Donald Finkel, David C. French, Stuart Friebert, Mac Hammond, H. Collister Hutchinson, d.a. levy, Nicholas (Vachel) Lindsay, Robert McGovern, William McLaughlin, Robert Mezey, William A. Patterson, Raymond Roselip, Harry Roskolenko, Russell Salamon, Wilbert Snow, Mark Strand, Julie Sak, Alberta Turner, Robert Wallace, James L. Weil, and Loring Williams.

Series 1: Cleveland Poetry Center Correspondence
1962-2004

Scope and Content
Organized alphabetically
This series contains letters written to Lewis Turco from 1962 to 2004. The letters were written by poets and writers associated with the Cleveland Poetry Center. Many of Turco's replies to the letters are also included with this series.
  1. Atkins, Russell 1962-1989
    1. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to the local Cleveland poet Russell Atkins, co-editor of Free Lance Magazine, a Black Ohio publication, inviting him to participate in the Ohio Versewriters Conference to be held at Fenn College on April 26th and 27th. This was to be one of the first programs of the Cleveland Poetry Center, which was officially founded on April 14, 1962, thirteen days earlier, with a reading by the British novelist William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies. {REFERENCE: Lewis Turco, A Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs, Scottsdale: Star Cloud Press, 2004, “Meters and Missiles,” p. 141.} “The tentative program would be as follows: Friday evening an opening tea; a reading by three area poets - yourself, Mac Hammond, and Alberta Turner. Saturday: a panel consisting of Irving Feldman of Kenyon College, James T. Crenner of St. Vincent College, Miller Williams of Louisiana State University; luncheon for everyone; a talk by Judson Jerome of Antioch College; and, in the evening, a reading by X. J. Kennedy.” Etc.27 December 1962
    2. One-page typed letter unsigned to Lewis Turco at the Poetry Center of Cleveland, Fenn College, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, replying to the preceding item, “I received your communication regarding the Ohio Versewriters Conference, and I would be happy to take part in the program.” Etc. REFERENCE: A copy of the program of the Conference, which took place at Fenn College from April 26-27, 1963, accompanies. Also accompanying: a copy of the postcard announcing the “Fine Arts & Lectures at Fenn College,” and a newspaper clipping about Russell Atkins from the Plain Dealer of Sunday, February 5, 1967. Late 1962-Early 1963
    3. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco at the Poetry Center of Cleveland, Fenn College, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Received the announcement for the conference and your note. Biogra[p]hical material is as follows...:” Early 1963
    4. One-page typed letter signed. 19 November 1963
    5. One-page typed letter unsigned to Lewis Turco at the Poetry Center of Cleveland, Fenn College, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine. 1962-1964
    6. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Have not attended any Forums at Fenn yet. Hope to next time.” - “Sorry to hear about the death of Alice Crane Williams.” (Wife of Loring Williams, aunt of Hart Crane.) Etc. 1964-1965
    7. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Odd that I should receive a letter from Russ Salamon on exactly the same day as your letter arrived.” Etc. 19 January 1966
    8. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Well, I suppose you might have heard that d. a. levy and some of the group here have become objects of the police, FBI and narcotics agents. Much cause célèbre in the making here.” Etc. Late 1966-Early 1967
    9. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Russell Atkins replying to the preceding item. 7 February 1967
    10. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “I talked briefly with Dave French after our short talk on the phone.” Etc. January 1966
    11. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Russell Atkins replying to the preceding item and scheduling readings by Atkins and French in the Spring 1966 Writing Arts Festival on February 19th, 1966. 4 February 1966
    12. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “I wish to thank you for an enjoyable visit to Oswego - my first departure from Cleveland in ten years - and for asking me to participate in the festival.” - “Enclosed is Jau Billera’s PODIUM. He will probably send you one himself….” Etc. Copy of Podium accompanies. {REFERENCE: “Cleveland State University Poetry Center” by Jau Biullera in Podium, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1965, p. 23.} March 1966
    13. One-page mimeographed letter from Casper L. Jordan, Editor of Free Lance, soliciting a poem for a memorial issue for Langston Hughes [“Parenthetics for Langston Hughes”] to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, with a typed, signed P. S. from Russell Atkins, “Just a line or two if you feel disposed to do so. Hope you are well.” A signed copy of the poem used in Free Lance accompanies. {REFERENCE: Lewis Turco, Poetry: An Introduction Through Writing, Reston: Reston Publishing Company, 1973, p. 39.} November 1967
    14. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Reading your Awaken, Bells Falling. Saw it out on the tables at Main Lib.” Etc. 10 September 1972
    15. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Just a note to inquire whether there will be a ‘contributor’s’ copy of [Lewis Turco’s new book] Poetry: An Introduction [Through Writing]…,” etc. 29 January 1973
    16. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco [in Oswego, New York], datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “I enclose Maleficium, one of my latest….” Spring 1973
    17. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco [in Oswego, New York], datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Poetry: An Introduction [Through] Writing arrived. I note a sizable bit of D. A. and Russ Salamon. Brings back memories. My letters to Russ never get through.” Etc. Spring 1973
    18. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “I really have been reading a lot of your work lately. Your control never gets in the way of the life of the poem.” Etc. 27 April 1973
    19. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco [in Oswego, New York], datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “Enclosed, my latest….” December 1973
    20. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “I’m thrashing around again to see if I can’t get a book of poems [published].” Etc. 14 September 1974
    21. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine. 1 January 1976
    22. Two-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “…sending you my latest, Here in The. I felt I should have been on the ‘big’ series, but, for some reason, Alberta [Turner] thought I should be on the ‘Cleveland’ series. (Not ‘big’ enough for other series?)” “Poetically, it’s not too bad here right now, and certainly your starting the poetry center was one of the good things that happened here.” Etc. October 1976
    23. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Russell Atkins replying to the preceding item, “I’m glad to see the Poetry Center doing books now, and publishing some of the old gang. Not long back I had a letter from Julie Suk asking me to write a blurb for her book, which was to have come out from the North Carolina Review Press. I wrote it, sent it in, and got back a stricken letter from Julie saying that the press had folded. Your sending me your book caused me to remember the Center series, and I’ve written her today to send her ms. to Alberta. I heard this past summer from Russell Salamon as well, and got a copy of his new book.” Etc. 13 October 1976
    24. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland. 17 May 1977
    25. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “I have just turned over some of Loring Williams’ letters to my collection at Atlanta U.’s archives….” - “Did the news of Jau Billera’s suicide reach you?” Etc. 9 May 1984
    26. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Russell Atkins replying to the preceding item, “No, I hadn’t heard about Jau’s suicide - I hear very little from Cleveland these days, but that’s not surprising - it’s been twenty years since I’ve been back there! I do hear from Alberta and Bob Wallace on occasion, and Bill McLaughlin sent me his book a while back. Actually, it’s kind of nice that I still have so many friends in town.” Etc. 28 May 1984
    27. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland. 20 September 1984
    28. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, Free Lance Magazine, “A number of things have kept you on my mind of late: Russell Salamon came through town with a friend[,] a poet named David Ross. They spent a day or two - came by the house here. I think Russ said he was going to visit you…,” - “Also, I was invited to the dedication of the Cleveland State University Poetry Room (some may have been less than happy with my invitation). At any rate, I talked to Donald Justice…. I had no sooner mentioned to Justice that I remembered him from the Western Review and your days of the Forum when the dedication began, and, surprisingly, the ceremony was a tape of your introduction of Collister Hutchinson at one of the Fenn Forums. Further, the room, (the idea was advanced by a member of the Poets League here) was named after Hutchinson!!” Etc. 18 February 1985
    29. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, “Thanks for Xmas greeting. Lovely poem.” Etc. 10 January 1986
    30. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Russell Atkins replying to the preceding item, “Yes, there’s a good chance that I’ll be coming back to Cleveland in the Fall. Alberta has invited me to participate in the 25th anniversary celebration of the Poetry Center.” Etc. 25 January 1986
    31. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Russell Atkins confirming Turco’s return to Cleveland in the following fall. “Forgive my depression. This spring everyone is dying around me, from suicide to heart attack. I’ve been to five funerals in the last two months. Now my next-door neighbor is going fast of liver cancer.” REFERENCE: The Book of Forms, Third Edition, Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2000, “The Shadowman,” pp. 133-5 8 May 1986
    32. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York, datelined Cleveland, “…some distortions of chronology seem to have developed regarding my work[,] some of which is now forty years old (even my copyrights have run out). Writers ten and twenty years behind me (who may have been influenced by me instead of the other way around) used to make comparisons! Nonsense! ¶ At any rate, I’m enclosing an article on me from one of two mags trying to set some of the record straight. ¶ Well, it seems Alberta Turner will be retiring next year - at least from the Poetry Forum CSU.” Etc. Article accompanies. 16 January 1989
  1. Brinnin, John Malcolm 1962-1982
    1. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Cleveland datelined 100 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass., "Your letter was waiting for me..." October 2, 1962
    2. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Cleveland datelined St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, "I can understand your disappointment..." November 27, 1963
    3. One-page a.n.s. to Lewis Turco in Oswego datelined Duxbury, Mass., "Thanks for the book..." 6-12-68
    4. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego, no dateline, "Good to Hear." February 8, 1974
    5. One page a.n.s. to Lewis Turco in Oswego w/ accompanying holograph envelope stamped Brockton, Mass., "Many thanks for that handsome trio..." 5-3-82
  1. Chatfield, Hale 1974-1981
    1. One-page typed letter signed to Roger Dickinson-Brown at S.U.N.Y. Oswego datelined Hiram Poetry Review, Hiram, Ohio, w/long-hand autograph note in reply signed by D.-B. written at bottom of page and on verso. 28 January 1974
    2. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Hale Chatfield, “I just received my copy of CSU’s Whiskey Island Magazine, long after its publication, and after several inquiries. Almost the first thing I noticed in it was your poem “Ann Arbor,” which I was delighted to see was written in stanzas that are parenthetics. ¶ I was delighted because it was published in a CSU magazine, and it was at CSU (then Fenn College) that the form was invented by my student Russell Salamon in the early ‘60’s. ¶ He published from d. a. levy’s Renegade Press a book of them, Parenthetical Poppies - actually, a chapbook. And so the whole thing comes full circle, which is almost too appropriate - a perfect circle.” 30 September 1981
    3. One-page typed letter signed to Lewis Turco in Oswego datelined Hiram Poetry Review, Hiram, Ohio, replying to the above item, “I first became acquainted with the form through your textbook on prosody, so of course I was aware that the form had been invented by Russell Salamon (in addition, Grace Butcher is a good friend and former student of mine) - but I hadn’t been aware that Salamon invented the form when he himself was a student.” Etc. 28 October 1981
    4. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Hale Chatfield replying to the above item. 30 October 1981
  1. Finkel, Donald 1962-1963
    1. Carbon copy of one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Donald Finkel in St. Louis asking him to make a tape for The Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors. 6 August 1962
    2. One-page typed letter signed from Donald Finkel to Lewis Turco at Fenn College in Cleveland agreeing to make a tape recording of his poetry. 22 August 1962
    3. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Donal Finkel in St. Louis thanking him for agreeing to make the tape recording. 24 August 1962
    4. Signed Fenn Series form from Donald Finkel. 3 November 1962
    5. One-page typed letter signed from Donald Finkel to Lewis Turco at Fenn College in Cleveland asking about the possibility of reading at the Poetry Center. 14 October 1963
    6. Carbon copy of a one-page unsigned typed letter from Lewis Turco to Donald Finkel in St. Louis to work out the details of a Finkel reading in Cleveland. 23 October 1963
    7. One-paged typed letter signed from Donald Finkel to Lewis Turco at Fenn College in Cleveland saying that things aren't to work out for him on the date proposed. 2 November 1963
  1. French, David C. Undated [1986]
    1. Holograph note signed on a Christmas card, to Lewis and Jean Turco, "How did the trip to Cleveland go?" Etc. Undated [1986]
  1. Friebert, Stuart 1962-1966
    1. A folder full of twenty-one (21) signed letters all written between 1962 and 1966, but undated as to year, plus poems and some carbon replies from Turco. 1962-1966
  1. Hammond, Mac 1961-1972
    1. A folder of seven (7) signed letters and cards dated between 8 December 1961 and 10 January 1972. 8 December 1961-10 January 1972
  1. Hutchison, H. Collister 1962-1973
    1. A folder containing a signed form for the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors dated 27 February 1962; a Christmas card [1962] to Lewis Turco containing an autograph note signed; an autograph letter signed by Hutchison to Lewis Turco, and a carbon copy of a letter replying to the latter item by Lewis Turco dated 28 December 1973. 27 February 1962-28 December 1973
  1. Levy, D. A. 1964-2003
    1. An Internet print-out of a biographical essay by Mark S. Kuhar. 2003
    2. A framed copy of a print by levy. Verso: "'The Angel of Death Rides the Van Aiken Local' d.a. levy - 1964 -- 51prints" 1964
  1. Lindsay, Nicholas (Vachel) 1962-1989
    1. A folder containing two signed Fen Series forms, 17 signed letters of various kinds, some dated, some not, but probably all written between 15, November 1963 and 1967 or 1968, plus some dated carbon copies of letters from Lewis Turco to Lindsay (who was Vachel Lindsay's son). 1962-1968
  1. McGovern, Robert 1964-1993
    1. A folder containing letters written by McGovern to Turco w/replies between 17 April and 12 April 1993. McGovern attended the Fenn College Poetry Center programs while he lived in Cleveland and worked on his Ph.D. at John Carroll University. Subsequently he taught at Radford College in Virginia, and for many years at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. Turco was a visiting writer in 1991 at Ashland which granted him an honorary L. H. D. in 2000. 1964-1993
  1. McLaughlin, William 1998-2003
    1. A folder containing replies to various McLaughlin letters by Turco. The McLaughlin originals are evidently in Turco's Iowa archive.
      1998-2003
  1. Mezey, Robert 2002
    1. One-page typed letter signed without dateline (Claremont, California) to Turco, "What a good surprise." Etc. Mezey, who was a graduate student at Iowa with Turco for one year, taught at Western Reserve for one year while Turco was in Cleveland. Other Correspondence is in Turco's Iowa archive. 17 August, 2002
    2. One-page a.l.s. with accompanying envelope to Turco datelined Pomona College, Claremont, California, "I realize, with a bit of shock, that it's been a whole month since I got your letter...." 25 October, 2002
  1. Patterson, William A. 1964
    1. Journal entry copy of a t.l.s. of 4pp. single-spaced from Lewis Turco at Fenn College in Cleveland to "Pat" Patterson, Provost of the College, regarding the situation of Turco and the Poetry Center. Late August-early September 1964
  1. Roseliep, Raymond 1962
    1. A folder containing a tls datelined Loras College, 12 June 1962, to the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, a tls datelined Loras College, 20 July 1962, to Lewis Turco, a signed Fenn Series form of the same date, and a carbon copy of a letter from Turco to Roseliep dated 20 June 1962. 1962
  1. Roskolenko, Harry 1963
    1. A folder containing a signed Fenn Series from dated May 24, 1963, and a carbon copy of a letter from David C. French, Director, Audio-Visual Education at Fenn College dated June 18, 1963. 1963
  1. Salamon, Russell 1965-2005
    1. An a.n.s. on ruled paper asking Lewis Turco for a contribution to the Fenn Literary Omnibus. 1965
    2. One page t.l.s. from Russell Salamon to Lewis Turco (or is it a poem?). 19 February, 1965
    3. Two-page (recto & verso) a.l.s. datelined New York to Lewis Turco in Oswego, New York. 3 pp. excerpted from Salamon's Descent Into Cleveland accompanies. 7 March, 1967
    4. Three-page (rectos only) a.l.s., evidently from New York, to Lewis Turco. 13 March, 1967
    5. One-page a.l.s. to Turco enclosing a ms. version of Descent Into Cleveland which he asks to have returned after it has been read. 20 May, 1967
    6. One page a.l.s. to Turco asking what's become of his ms. 31 July, 1967
    7. One-page carbon copy of a tls from Turco in Oswego, New York, to Salamon explaining his not yet having read the Descent. 10 August, 1967
    8. One-page carbon copy of a tls from Turco in Oswego, New York, to Salamon, evidently back in Cleveland, saying he could not set up a reading for him that spring. 17 February, 1968
    9. Undated two-page (recto & verso) als from Salamon, evidently in Cleveland, to Turco in Oswego saying he had received Turco's story, which he liked. ca. February, 1968
    10. One-page a.l.s to Turco in Oswego rejecting Turco's story for The Fenn Literary Omnibus. 23 February 1968
    11. Two-page (recto & verso) als from Salamon, evidently in Cleveland, to Turco in Oswego asking him to send back the old version of Descent as it was obsolete. 13 March, 1968
    12. Three-page, two-sheet als from Salamon, evidently in Atlanta, to Turco in Oswego, thanking him for his last letter which had been written "in the style of Gabby Hayes." 9 April, 1968
    13. Three-page, two-sheet als from Salamon in Rome, Italy, to Turco in Oswego. 2 September, 1968
    14. Carbon copy of a 1p. tls from Turco in Potsdam, New York, to Salamon in Rome, Italy c/o an address in NYC.
      11 September, 1968
    15. 1 p. tls from Salamon in Los Angeles to Turco in Oswego, "I had a pleasant surprise the other day as I was looking through the reference copy of Poetry: An Introduction Through Writing at the Los Angeles Public Library. I had seen the book earlier and was pleased you used D. A. Levy, but this time on page 75, far out! One of my parenthetical poppies! Thank you very much. Then I noticed the dedication and I take Russ means me and D. A . means Levy and Fay, Fay Fox. I was pleased and honored. Thank you for that too. 11 June, 1976
    16. Carbon copy of a 2 p. tls from Turco in Dresden, Maine, to Salamon in Los Angeles replying to the previous item. 1 July, 1976
    17. 1 p. als from Salamon in L.A. replying to the previous item. 7 July, 1976
    18. 1 p. tls datelined L. A. to Turco in Oswego, "It is great to see such interest in levy. As a matter of fact, not long ago a film-maker from Ohio, Constantine Petrochek, came by to interview me about levy and took 45 minutes of voice tape and 15 minutes of film. I was delighted to recall some of that period. You were one of its delights and I was happy to note your note." Etc. 3 May, 1980
    19. 1 p. tls datelined L. A. to Turco in Oswego, "Thank you very much for the Poetic License." -- "Sometime within the next 6 months I want to take a trip to the East Coast. OK if I look you up?" Flyer for "a sheaf of recent poetry" enclosed. 26 June, 1982
    20. A photocopy of a ms. titled Notes Toward a Universe inscribed on the tp by Salamon to Turco during a visit to Oswego. 1 November, 1984
    21. 2 p. als *1 sheet recto & verso) from Salamon in NYC to Turco in Oswego giving the news of the rest of his trip through New York (visiting A. R. Ammons in Ithaca, Stanley Kunitz, and others). A ms. titled The Hello Book is Enclosed. 13 November, 1984
    22. 2 p. als (1 sheet, recto & verso) from Salamon to Turco talking about the published The Hello Book, which he had enclosed, and the visit of four years previous. 27 January, 1988
    23. 1 p. tls from Turco in Oswego to Salamon in L. A., "many thanks for sending me those wonderful haiku. I really am delighted with many of them. I think you've written some real Haiku in English, a feat which very few other poets have managed. It's truly an enjoyable collection to read, and my congratulations to you. I think they're the best things of yours I've seen. 17 February, 1988
    24. 1p. t.l.s. from Salamon in North Hollywood to Turco in Oswego enclosing a copy of his published Descent into Cleveland. Spring 1995
    25. Signed copy of a 2 p. tls from Turco in Oswego to Salamon in North Hollywood, "Thanks very much for sending me a copy of Descent into Cleveland, which I read right away. I think it's fascinating, but why do you call it a 'novel' in your letter? There's no narrative, no real characterization, no plot. Lots of atmosphere, of course , and there's a theme. The people you have in it are actual people, you even use their real names. There's nothing 'fictive' in it that I can see. It is, as you rightly call it late in the book, a 'requiem.' It's a long prose elegy.I knew you and d.a. were good friends, but I had no idea his death had affected you so strongly. I think of him quite often myself. His 'The Angel of Death Rides the Van Aiken Local' hung on my wall for years, and I guess you have a copy, too." Etc. 25 May, 1995
    26. 1 p. tls from Salamon in No. Hollywood to Turco in Oswego replying to the preceding item. 1 October, 1995
    27. E-mail messages between Salamon in Cal. And Turco in Maine. 3 March, 2000
    28. 1 p. als from Salamon in No. Hollywood to Turco in Dresden, Maine, "Thanks for the Book of Lit. Terms." 8 May, 2000
    29. E-mail messages between Salamon in Cal. and Turco in Maine 22 March, 2001
  1. Snow, Wilbert 1962-1963
    1. Carbon copy of a 1 p. tls from Turco in Cleveland to Snow in Middletown, Conn., asking him if he would be willing to make a taped reading for the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors. 25 July, 1962
    2. Photocopy of a 1 p. tls from Snow replying to the previous item. Brochure and blurbs sheet accompanies. 9 July, 1962
    3. Carbon copy of a 1 p. tls from Turco replying to the above item inquiring about Snow's fees. 2 August, 1962
    4. Photocopy of a 1 p. tls from Snow replying to the previous item. 7 August, 1962
    5. Carbon copy of a 1 p. tls from Turco replying to the previous item. 10 August, 1962
    6. Photocopy of a 1 p. tls from Snow replying to the previous item. 3 January, 1962 [1963]
    7. Carbon copy of a 1 p. tls from Turco replying to the previous item. 8 January, 1963
  1. Strand, Mark 1962
    1. Signed release from for the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors. 11 October, 1962
  1. Suk, Julie 2003-2004
    1. 1 p. tls from Suk datelined Charlotte NC to Turco in Dresden, "How nice to hear from you," etc. August, 2003
    2. 2 pp. tls copy from Turco in Dresden to Suk answering the previous letter. 8 September, 2003
    3. Photocopy of material later published by Suk in Steven E. Swerdfeger's Lewis Turco and His Work: A Celebration 2004
  1. Turner, Alberta 1962-2003
    1. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (2 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Cleveland talking about family troubles in the Turner household including husband Arthur's breaking his leg. She asks about Randolph Randall, chair of English at Fenn: "How is 'Dolph? Still in the hospital? I'm almost afraid to ask." REFERENCE: Turco, A sheaf of Leaves, op. cit., p. 165. 10 July, 1962
    2. Signed release for the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors. 10 July, 1962
    3. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (2 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Cleveland accepting an invitation to read her poetry at the Poetry Center during hte Ohio Versewriters Conference in the spring. 2 January, 1963
    4. A.l.s. of 3 pp. (3 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Cleveland giving him biographical information for the Conference and including a photo (included here). 3 March, 1963
    5. Carbon copy of a 1 p. als from Turco in Cleveland to Turner in Oberlin regarding an apparent non-payment of a check due her for the Conference the previous spring. Turco tracked it down and found that it had in fact been issued and cashed. 9 December, 1963
    6. A.c.s. in red ink from Turner in Oberlin to Turco in Cleveland saying that the rumor had been wrong, she had received the check, and the check she hadn't gotten was for a contest she had judged for the Ohio Poetry Society. 10 December, 1963
    7. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (2 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Cleveland saying that she had never heard from Loring Williams about a manuscript she had sent him and wondering if Turco had heard anything about it. "P.S." Just got the prospectus for the next Oberlin Quarterly. Excellent, don't you think?" NOTE: Publications of this student-edited little magazine which issued two numbers containing Turco's "Odds Bodkin's Strange Thrusts and Ravels" would become a bone of contention among some Oberlin faculty, including Stuart Friebert. 20 January, 1964
    8. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Cleveland to Turner in Oberlin saying he had talked with Loring Williams about her ms. who said that Clarence Farrar of Golden Quill Press had it. Turco also told her that she had not received her check from the Ohio Poetry Society, but rather from the Ohio Poetry Day celebration, which is not affiliated"This is my last year at Fenn. Dolph saw fit not to recommend my promotion with tenure which he must do if I'm to remain. His reason, evidently, is based on my refusal to get a Ph.D., although nothing in policy or precedent here indicates that I must. I want to stress the 'evidently' though. There's quite a bit more here than meets the eye. Right at the moment both faculty and students are in an uproar. Petitions are circulating among the kids, and the A. A. U. P. has formed a committee to look into it.
      "Coincidentally, Robert Mezey was fired last week at Western Reserve, and there's a furor up there, too, complete with a projected sit-in." Etc. 22 January, 1964
    9. A.l.s. of 3 pp. (3 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Cleveland, "What's the matter with Fenn anyway? Doesn't it want to be put on the map? Or doesn't it want to be famous as a poetry center? I'm puzzled. -- But Fenn can fend for itself. For us, your departure will be a personal loss. 13 February, 1964
    10. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (2 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Dresden, Maine, "Guess what -- they've asked me to take over the poetry center for next year. I accepted, but with trepidation. No one could give it the vitality you gave, and I'm certainly not you. But they told me you had put me on a list of possibilities, and the department committee [Douglas] Neiss and [Williams] Cherubini seem more than friendly." Etc. REFERENCE: See "The Cherub" in Turco's A Sheaf of Leaves, op. cit., p. 161 ff. 26 June, 1964
    11. A.l.s. of 3 pp. (3 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, "Friend, will you lay on hands and give me your blessing? I've been asked to direct the Poetry Center next year -- and I accepted. The department had already decided to cut down the number of the Center's activities (primarily colloquium reviews and taped readings), as you know, but I've been asked to continue the Forums and the readings by live poets and the lectures on poetry." Etc. But I'm worried about the Forums. Dolph and Loring had a misunderstanding, and Loring, as you know, withdrew. If he plans to resume his previous program at The Cleveland Public Library, the Center's would be seriously weakened. I'd like to ask him back for ours, but under the circumstances, that might look insulting. Can you suggest something? Or had I better keep my mouth shut?" Repeated a good bit of the previous item. 2 July, 1964
    12. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Hillsdale, "I talked with [Dean of Arts & Sciences] Ken Jenkins about your program for next year. We both felt that it would be best to wait a quarter or two until things here cool off a bit." [It would be 22 years (66 quarters) before Turco returned to Cleveland.] 15 July, 1964
    13. A.l.s. of 3 pp. (3 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, "Your name is now on the mailing list -- a shameful oversight. "Your plans for the Hillsdale Conference [The Conference of Midwester Poets at Hillsdale College] sound wonderful." Etc. A program for the Conference accompanies. 14 October, 1964
    14. A.l.s. of 3 pp. (3 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, discussion programs and events at both Oberlin and Fenn, "Something will have to be done about those forums, by the way. Russ Salamon and Co. made teh last forum so disagreeable that four members walked out before it was over. I've never seen so much naked vanity on display. The whole atmosphere was hostile, condescending, and confused. No hints nor jokes on my part served to shut him up, so I guess I'll just have to call him into the office for a private talk." 24 November, 1964
    15. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (2 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin, Ohio, to Turco in Hillsdale, "I'll note be able to get to your poetry festival next weekend." Etc. 3 April, 1965
    16. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (2 sheets, rectos only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, New York, "I'm sending this to Oswego, in hopes that by now you are all settled and the nightmare of Hillsdale forgotten, or at least dimmed." Etc. 20 September, 1965
    17. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Would you be willing to judge the Poetry Forum Contest again this year?" Etc. 11 March, 1966
    18. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Here are the finalists for the Poetry Center Contest [that Turco is to judge]. I'm having the Finance Office mail you check under separate cover." 2 May, 1966
    19. A.l.s. of four pp., folio from Turner to Turco, "Bless you for the prompt selection." -- "And I am looking gleefully forward to reading the 'Hillsdale Epistles.' Etc. 7 May, 1966
    20. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "I can't answer you for sure yet [evidently concerning a Turco reading at the Poetry Center]. I'll have to feel things out. Dolph is still chairman, and Pat, as you may have heard, had a nervous breakdown and gave up the provost's job to go back to teaching." Etc. 24 January, 67
    21. A.l.s. of 1p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "I sniffed around, and, much to my disappointment, found that it's not quite time for a Turco reading at C.S.U. yet. I wish it were." Etc. 6 February, 1967
    22. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "It was to be expected. Ken & Deri Jenkins stopped here for lunch last Saturday on their way up to ski in Montreal. Ciardi asked me the other day to do the S[aturday Review] poetry roundup for April-June.... Walter Keller, who is now in Syracuse, phoned me the other night to try to talk me into coming out to Cleveland next Friday (10th) to participate in a d.a. levy poetry reading, but I am declining on several grounds. That's a pretty sad little mess. I see the W[estern] R[eserve] Polemic is out. Had a note from Russ Atkins, too." 1934-1940
    23. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "The Omnibus is rolling again." -- Would you be willing and able to judge the short stories and poetry and decide who is to receive the prizes?" Etc. 4 March, 1968
    24. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "The Omnibus editors yearn for a contribution from you: a poem or prose (preferably the latter -- they're short on prose." Etc. 21 March, 1968
    25. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin to Turco in Oswego, "I just got back from Alaska..." Etc.28 July, 1968
    26. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Dresden, Maine, to Turner in Oberlin, "So you were in Alaska too!" "I'm now poetry editor (just appointed) for Readers & Writers magazine. How about sending me something? "We visited Loring yesterday [in South Berwick, Maine]. Etc. 31 July, 1968
    27. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Dresden, "Hope these [poems by Turner] don't chase you to Bread Loaf and back, just to your new winter address." Etc. 28 August, 1968
    28. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Is this the picture you mean?" Etc. 11 November, 1969
    29. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Dresden Maine, "At long last our anthology is about ready to go to press. We received literally a bushel of poems. We four local editors agrees on so few of them initially that we spend every Friday evening for a whole quarter haggling over which 130 to send to Stafford -- our outside guest editor. We and he all agreed on your poems "Words for White Weather" [for d.a. levy) and "Scarecrow," the latter minus the subtitle [for 'Dolph], of course." Etc. Copy of Poetry Cleveland, Cleveland: Poetry Center, 1971, included. 6 July, 1970
    30. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Dresden, Maine, to Turner in Cleveland, "[you've been promoted to] Assistant professor! Good god, old 'Dolph hated that center, didn't he? I'm really sorry, now, to find how long you've been put down because of it -- obviously, you have. I've been assuming all these years that he'd gotten even by hiring a poet Ph.D., and would reward the new director appropriately. I had no idea how deep was his spleen. The old bastard." Etc. 9 July, 1970
    31. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Darn! Your letter came too late. We've already signed up for Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Mark Strand, and Anthony Hecht, as well as Paul Zimmer and a couple of lesser lights for next season." Etc.10 August, 1970
    32. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Dresden, Maine, to Turner in Cleveland, "You told me you'd like to have me write this fall...," etc. 11 November, 1970
    33. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner at Field in Oberlin to Turco in Oswego: "your book, The Inhabitant, has been sitting on my desk for several months...." -- "Did y ou hear that Stuart Friebert published two books of his own poems last year: one in German and one in English! He sends you his best, by the way." Congratulations on the full professorship. It's almost a mythical rank at C.S.U. -- at least in the English Dept." Etc. 15 June, 1971
    34. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco at Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "I'm truly pleased you like The Inhabitant. It's different from my earlier work, but it itself is 3 years old -- finished in 1968. I haven't written that way since. Right now I'm working on a book called Seasons of the Blood." Etc. 23 June, 1971
    35. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Dresden, Maine, to Turner in Cleveland, "You asked me to let you know about a year ago if I'd like a reading at Cleveland State." Etc. 8 July, 1971
    36. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin to Turco in Oswego, "I've thought long and hard about getting C.S.U. on your tour next fall, but two things are in the way: we are already scheduled to have Mark Strand in October and are dickering for John Silkin in November, and two poets are about all we can get audience for in one quarter. Also I'm a bit leery of reviving old animosities. 'Dolph is officially retired now, but still retains mailbox and office space. He strongly objected every time I suggested having you here, so strongly that I finally gave up asking. For all his whim, inconsistency, and plain unfairness to you and more recently to me, I'd rather let him phase out in peace, and not reopen old wounds." Etc. 16 July, 1971
    37. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "A thousand thanks for sending me the four CSU Poetry Booklets." Etc. 21 January, 1972
    38. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (recto & verso of one sheet), from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "A little delay while the library searched for Miss [I. Elizabeth] Beam's research guide, but they finally found it." Etc. 4 March, 1973
    39. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "I see by the Friebert pamphlet that you have a new poetry series going. Would you have any objections to my submitting the enclosed manuscript, Seasons of the Blood, for you to look over?" Etc. 5 August, 1974
    40. A.l.s. of 1 p. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "This [manuscript] didn't work out for us." Etc. 19 October, 1974
    41. Christmas card signed from the Turners to the Turcos w/autograph verse by Turner. December, 1975
    42. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "Sorry you didn't like Seasons of the Blood, but perhaps you'll like this one better. 3 January, 1975
    43. A.l.s. of 1 p. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "A cluster of good manuscripts, including yours, made the selection of the next book for the Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Center's series a difficult one. -- But thank you for submitting to us." 25 April, 1975
    44. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin to Turco in Oswego, "I'm engaged in a hot new project which I hope you'll want to be part of. Your work as a successful and highly articulate teaching poet makes it a real necessity that you be part of the book [Poets Teaching, The Creative Process edited by Turner for New York: Longman, 1980, included. 26 March, 1977
    45. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Oberlin, "I'm unsure of the logistics of the thing, but you're handling that, so, sure, I'll be happy to do whatever it is you want me to do." Etc. 28 March, 1977
    46. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Yes, send me a [student] poem which you yourself would like to work on. I'll send you two others from the other members of your group." Etc. 19 May, 1977
    47. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Thank you for the poem. I wonder what the other two teacher poets and you will find to say about it that will improve it. (It's so good to start with!)" -- "I include the two otehr poems for your group...," etc. 17 June, 1977
    48. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs to Turner in Oberlin or Cleveland, "here's the article you asked me for. I got here yesterday and wrote it today -- I'd been saving it to get me started here, and it's done that, but I had hoped I could stretch it out a bit longer: the last time I was here [in 1959] I was so bored after a month that I left early. However, I've saved other projects, too, so maybe they'll take up some stretches." "When the hell are you going to ask me back to give a reading, Alberta? It's been thirteen years. Isn't that long enough exile? Etc. 2 July, 1977
    49. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner in Oberlin to Turco in Saratoga Springs: "Thank you for the good essay. It compares and contrasts beautifully with the only other contribution I've so far had from your group (Bill Stafford's)." -- "About readings at C.S.U., we've shrunk them pretty drastically in the last four years and put the money mostly into publishing." Etc. 23 July, 1977
    50. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs to Turner in Oberlin or Cleveland, "Sure, go ahead and use the sestina, However, I don't approve (not that you'll care) of using the students' poems anonymously. I think, for one thing, that they ought to get the credit for appearing in a national anthology, and I don't think they'd mind their poems being knocked. I remember one of my early pieces was used that way in an anthology, and I was pleased. The other reason is that I don't allow any of my students to submit their poems anonymously on the grounds that they ought to get used to critics saying things about their work, and they ought (in class) to defend their methods." "I can't get through my head that people in Cleveland, including CSU students, don't come to readings. Amazing. And classes of 40 students? Jesus Christ. Too bad about your chairman and your dean. Linguistics? Do they get 40 students into linguistics courses?" When I started here [at Oswego] we were getting only a few students into creative writing courses, but I fought my way into putting onto the books 22 Writing Arts Courses (not counting graduate courses), the basic ones being very technical. Everyone told me it wouldn't work. We now have 75 writing arts majors in the English Dept., and next year it will be over 100; we run at least 15 W.A. sections each semester, and we run 450-500 students through W.A. courses in a year (classes are held, alas, to 25, which is too many, but the advanced classes are smaller -- about a dozen students in the top-level courses). At first people were hostile to use (we used to have seven teaching writers, but now we're down to five, though we've just hired a new fiction writer for this coming fall, which will bring it back to six), but with shrinking English enrollments, the Department has discovered we're helping it hold the line because we're pulling students from all over New York State. On the other hand, our linguistics courses are teensy. Is your chairman pulling undergraduate linguistics majors from all over Ohio? I'll believe it when I see it." Etc. 29 July, 1977
    51. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "As for the anonymity of the students poets, I don't care either way. "Congratulations on the size and drawing power of your writing program. It would have been the same with any writing program you chaired. I have to face the fact that I have neither your energy nor your administrative talent." Etc. 20 August, 1977
    52. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to the Turcos in Oswego, "Two days before Christmas," etc. 3 December, 1979
    53. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco at Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "This note is long overdue. Forgive me. This has been a very busy spring, and I've almost spend more time off campus than on - meetings in Albany to help plan the SUNY University-Wide Writers' Festival for next fall (which, it appears, will be held in Oswego this time)...," I saw the query for material on d.a. levy in the TBR last Sunday and sent Hopkins what I had. Is there anything in the old Center files that he might be able to use?" 20 April, 1980
    54. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Thank you for the kind words on Poets Teaching. It did turn out well, didn't it -- thanks to some dear people I could name." -- "I believe I got a query on d.a. levy. I hope it was from the same person you mentioned. We haven't much, but anyone is welcome to study the old worksheets, etc." 24 May, 1980
    55. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Thank you for Seasons of the Blood. It's a beautiful and terrifying book. All the monsters come alive in it, yet the wise fool is never fooled. Neat -- and tight." NOTE: See the letter for 19 Oct 74 above. Copy of the published chapbook accompanies. 10 March, 1981
    56. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco at Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "I'm very pleased you liked Seasons." -- "I'm glad you've got a writing major going at CSU. There are remarkably few undergraduate majors around. And I could have told you [in fact, he did] the students would respond eagerly, but try selling that to your colleagues. Now, when the program expands over the years, you can look forwards to considerable jealousy and nit-picking." Etc. 13 March, 1981
    57. A.l.s. of 1 p. (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "I hope I'm not too late to thank you for the copy of American Still Lifes...." Etc. Copy of the book accompanies. 28 September, 1982
    58. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco at Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "never too lat to get such a nice note. Thanks. Glad you enjoyed ASL." Etc. 1 October, 1982
    59. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "Congratulations on your new book, which I thought was charming." Etc. 31 December, 1983
    60. T.l.s of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "On October 23 to 26, 1986, the Cleveland State University Poetry Center plans to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary with a jubilation of Poets.... Would you be free at that time?" Etc. 6 May, 1985
    61. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "What a kind and thoughtful thing for you to ask me! I would of course be more than delighted to do as you request." Etc. 11 May, 1985
    62. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, I just got back from the Faroe Island to find The Compleat Melancholick among the bills and brochures. What a relief! Burton would be pleased. How do you do it?" Etc. Copy of the book accompanies. 5 October, 1985
    63. A.c.s. from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego confirming the time and date of his panel. 4 March, 1986
    64. T.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Plans for Jubilation of Poets are progressing well." Etc. Copy of a flyer for the Jubilation, an announcement of the poets to appear, and a tentative program accompanies. 4 March, 1986
    65. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "there is something I don't understand: In the photocopy of the announcement you sent me it lists the 'Participating poets' and below that it says, 'Readings by all participating poets. "However, your schedule shows that I am the only 'participating poet' who is not scheduled for a reading. -- I trust this is merely an inadvertency in a complicated program and not a deliberate insult." 19 April, 1986
    66. T.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Neither an insult nor an accident!" Etc. 21 April, 1986
    67. Carbon copy of a 2 pp. t.l.s. (rectos only) from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "You're my friend, and I'll do for you whatever you ask of me. But if it seems odd to me that, after an absence from Cleveland of 21 years, I won't be reading my poems to a Poetry Center audience, it's going to seem odd to others as well. As odd, perhaps, as it seemed to some when my voice and Don Justice's presence inaugurated the Collister Hutchison Poetry Room." Etc. 25 April, 1986
    68. A.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "I'm very sorry about your bad sabbatical." -- "I too would have liked to read at the festival, but we have scheduled so many readings that all the big names that usually rate a whole 'concert' to themselves are having to share their time with one or two others. The committee just doesn't see its way to scheduling any more. Perhaps you and I could regale the 'survivors' on Sunday morning with our light verse. "Donald Justice was asked to read first; the Collister Hutchison thing was tacked on at the last minute. He had no part in it. It didn't seem important enough to have a Jubilation for. After all, she was strictly local person and her poetry not the best, nor widely known outside of Cleveland. One of her friends played the tape. I had not remembered that we had one of you and her." Etc. 30 April, 1986
      A.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "The Poetry Center wishes to invite you to a reception in your honor to be given by Arnold Tew at his home on Sunday, October twenty-sixth, at 4:00 p.m." 29 August, 1986
    69. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. (recto only) from Turco in Oswego to turner in Cleveland, "I'd be delighted to be guest of honor at a reception at Arnold’s house." -- "(I wrote a story once about Bill [Cherubini] but it's never been published: "The Devotee of Melancholy." NOTE: See "The Cherub" in A Sheaf of Leaves, op. cit. 30 August, 1986
    70. "Orotund," a 37-page, double spaced lecture-reading, with one page of notes, given at Case Western Reserve University as the first event in the "Jubilation of Poets" celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Cleveland Poetry Center at Cleveland State University. 22 October, 1986
    71. T.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "Now that we've crawled out from under the debris of the Jubilation, there's time really to jubilate." -- "Your presence was essential, and you filled it tirelessly. You started something that will outlive us both, and no one but you could have done it at that time and in that depressing place. I love you for it." Etc. 10 November, 1986
    72. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. (recto only) from Turco in Oswego to Turner in Cleveland, "Thanks for your good letter. From my point of view the Jubilation went off practically without a hitch, an amazing feat for such a large enterprise. -- The only time I got annoyed was when Denise Levertov arrived and began to order me around like a hired hand. I I had to tell her I was a guest of the Center, like herself, and hadn't been a factotum for twenty-two years. -- "You have my sincere congratulations. You did all the hard work, Alberta, picking up the ball and running with it all these years. I thank You. If you hadn't kept things going there'd be nothing to celebrate." Etc. 13 November, 1986
    73. T.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "I haven't heard from you since the 'Jubilation...," etc. 8 December, 1986
    74. A.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Turner in Cleveland to Turco in Oswego, "You may indeed have my permission...," etc. 31 July, 1989
    75. Undated hand-made Christmas card with ans from Turner to Turco. ca. 1986
    76. Computer copy of a t.l.s. of one page (recto only) from Turco in Dresden Maine, to Al Cahen in Moreland Hills, Ohio: "Thanks for the article about Alberta and for your note, but I'd already heard about her death from Larry Smith of Bottom Dog Press who e-mailed me to get information about d.a. levy whom he is researching for some project. The other day I also heard from Russell Salamon who sent me a new edition of his book Descent into Cleveland, and earlier in the year I heard from Bill McLaughlin, old as the hills, who wrote to tell me that the Poetry Center had died, which Smith denies (it even has a web page). -- "I continue to write and publish. I'll enclose a complete list of my books to date, but I have two others coming out soon, one of them titled A Sheaf of Leaves, Literary Memoirs, which includes my time in Cleveland, of course." 1934-1940
  1. Wallace, Robert ca. 1962
    1. Christmas card signed. The rest of the Wallace material is in the Iowa archive. ca. 1962
  1. Weil, James L. 1962-1965
    1. Signed release form for the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors. NOTE: The Poetry Center was born out of Lewis Turco's classes to which local poets and those visiting Cleveland were invited from 1960-1962. James L. Weil, a friend of Loring Williams, was one of those. A photograph exists, and was posted on the Fenn College web site by William Becker, CSU Archivist, of a Turco class being visited by Loring and Weil. This photo is certainly the earliest record of the beginnings of the Center. 2 March, 1962
    2. T.l.s. of one p., recto only, from Weil at the Elizabeth Press in New Rochelle, New York, to Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, "Thanks for the Conference [of Midwestern Poets] circular...," etc. 10 March, 1965
    3. T.l.s. of one p., recto only, from Weil at the Elizabeth Press in New Rochelle, New York, to Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, "I guess I am sort of down -- thanks for bucking me up." NOTE: mention of "Dick" is probably Richard Frost, at SUNY Oneonta; "Sternlicht" is Sanford Sternlicht, of SUNY Oswego; "Shure" is Robert Shure, playwright, of Oswego. 19 March, 1965
  1. Williams, Loring 1962-1981
    1. Photocopies of the cover and first three pp. of American Weave, vol. xxvi, no. 2, "Accent on Fenn College" issue. Autumn-Winter 1962
    2. A signed form for the Fenn Series of Contemporary Authors, undated Early 1962
    3. T.n. unsigned of 2 pp. (recto & verso of one sheet) from Loring Williams in University Heights, Ohio, to Lewis Turco in Dresden, Maine, "Since you'll probably be taking off for Maine tomorrow...," etc. Mentions of David French, Stuart Friebert, Al Cahen, Julie Suk, Clarence Farrar (publisher of Golden Quill Press which published Turco's First Poems, also mentioned, as is The Sketches, published by Williams in 1962), Jim Rinker, Raymond Swain, and the State of Maine Writers' Conference at Ocean Park: "Be seeing you in Maine." 14 July, 1964
    4. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (recto and verso of one sheet) from Williams in University Heights to Turco in Oswego, "Sorry I caused you such a dismal time at Ocean Park." -- "Had a two-page letter from Alberta Turner: hoping that I wouldn't let my feelings toward the Poetry Center keep me from coming to the Forums, and asking me to make a paid appearance in March. I'll tell her, of course, that any ill feelings I have are toward Dr. Randall, not the Poetry Center nor Fenn College. Whether I'll accept the date or not, I haven't made up my mind. I probably will. I suspect that she thinks my appearance might help Forum attendances, for her letter said, 'this would be especially satisfying to your friends in the Poetry Forum'. Perhaps, too, she would like to have the Versewriters Conference. She also said, 'As you may know, Lew suggested my name after yours, as a possible successor at the Poetry Center." Etc. Early September, 1964
    5. Carbon copy of a t.l.s. of one p. from Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, to Williams in University Heights, Ohio, "Hillsdale will hold a Conference of Midwestern Poets the weekend of April 9-10 [1965]..., etc. 26 November, 1964
    6. T.n.s. of 1 p. (recto of one sheet) from Loring Williams in University Heights, Ohio, to Lewis Turco in Hillsdale, Michigan, "Sorry to have caused you the expense of a phone call...," -- "If you were in Cleveland, you would be getting the calls that have come to me inquiring about the Poetry Center, particularly the Forums. -- It looks as though interest had survived the summer." 3 October, 1964
    7. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (recto and verso of one sheet) from Williams in University Heights to Turco in Hillsdale: "Ordinarily, as you know, I would be glad to do the Christmas cards for you; but I am just now emerging from a state of numbness, and all of my problems seem magnified...a great accumulation of mail before me...the magazine at a standstill...and I at sea as to how things are to be worked out. "Alice [Crane Williams] passed away last Saturday and her funeral was on Tuesday afternoon." -- "I had intended to write you before this to report on the Forums...but probably you've had reports from others. Anyway, I was proud of the turnout. Alberta did very well, although she lost control for the first third of the time when Russ [Salamon] took over with a very long poem. The members were disappointed that the forum ended at 9:00, so that Alberta could get the 9:30 bus to Oberlin. She said we might stay and yak if we wished to, but no one did. Someone suggested that I take over after she left...but that, of course, was unthinkable." Etc. 29 October, 1964
    8. T.n.s. of 2 pp. (recto & verso of one sheet) from Loring Williams in University Heights to Lewis Turco in Hillsdale, "Sorry you had such a tough time with viruses over the holidays." Etc. 6 January, 1965
    9. T.n.s. of 1 p. (recto only of one sheet) from Williams in University Heights to Turco in Hillsdale, "This won't be much of a letter...," -- "Just had a note from [Peter] Corodimas." -- "You seem to vacillate in your feelings about Hillsdale. If you should go to Dayton, I've got lots of good friends thereabouts." Etc. ca. 1965
    10. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (recto and verso of one sheet) from Williams in University Heights to Turco in Hillsdale, "Sorry the registrations [for the Conference of Midwestern Poets] are not coming in faster." -- "As to [Fred] Wickham's poem [a Hillsdale College student of Turco,]: I think the laugh is on me...," etc. 15 March, 1965
    11. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in Univ Hts. to Turco in Hillsdale, written on the back of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Irene Warsaw in Bay City, Michigan, on 23 March, "This letter answers the question of why one person I was sure would come to Hillsdale won't be there. I hope that Palm Sunday won't interfere with any others." Etc. Late March, 1965
    12. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos only) from Williams in Univ Hts. to Turco in Oswego, New York, "Have I had a madhouse of conference adventures this summer." Etc. 9 September, 1965
    13. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in Univ Hts. to Turco in Hillsdale, "The 'conference adventures' are too long and complicated to attempt in a letter: they have to do with phonies infiltrating, people being 'fired' right and left...," etc. 14 September, 1965
    14. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick, Maine, to Turco in Oswego, "I thought I had reached the manufacturing place of winter when I arrived at Portsmouth in the midst of a New England blizzard, with head-high banks of snow along all the highways; but I have been reading of the snows at Oswego, and have been wondering how you three are faring through it all." [At the end of January and beginning of February 1966 Oswego underwent a 3-day blizzard that left 102 inches of snow on the ground.] Etc. 10 February, 1966
    15. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick, Maine, to Turco in Oswego, "I wondered how the Cleveland boys would make it up to Oswego, with all the winter you were having. I am glad that all went well. Al and Dave are two dependable characters and Russell [Atkins] is at his best, apparently, on the platform. I doubted that Russell would go. I'm glad he did." 11 March, 1966
    16. T.n.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick, Maine, to Turco in Oswego, "I'm finally getting used to seeing my Cleveland furniture in its new setting." Etc. 22 April, 1966
    17. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (recto & verso of one sheet) from Williams in South Berwick, Maine (but written on a new American Weave stationery with David French and Al Cahen as editors), to Turco in Oswego, "Al and Dave sent me a few sheets of their new stationery, so I'll try it out on you." -- "The proposed collaboration with Thom Seawell really IS fantastic, but I hope these prints won't be priced out of reach of your friends and admirers. $50.00 for each print is pretty steep for most of us. Etc. NOTE: A copy of the Seawell-Turco poem-print of 1966, "My Country Wife," is included. -- "...I wonder if Hillsdale is too much different from many other. But publication of 'The Hillsdale Epistles' may relieve you of something you need to get off your chest." REFERENCE See "The Hillsdale Epistles" in Turco's A Sheaf of Leaves, op. cit. 9 May, 1966
    18. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick, Maine, to Turco in Oswego, "Here's my check to help keep up the good work. I would like to frame the print, but don't know just where I would put it." Etc. 18 May, 1966
    19. Photocopy of an article, "Editor-Publisher Back at South Berwick WILLIAMS IS HOME TO STAY AND WORK," from the Portland Sunday Telegram 22 May, 1966
    20. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick, Maine, to Turco in Oswego, "Jesus, but you're getting expensive!" Etc. 31 May, 1966
    21. T.c.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick, Maine, to Turco in Oswego, (forwarded to Dresden, Maine), "Just up from the 'lower forty' where I've been breaking up clods in my vegetable garden all morning." Etc. 24 June, 1966
    22. Carbon copy of a t.l.s. of 1 p. from Turco in Oswego to Williams in South Berwick, "Sorry not to have written sooner, but things have been fiendish around here since school began...," etc. 4 October, 1966
    23. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (recto & verso of one sheet) from Williams in South Berwick to Turco in Oswego, "Thanks for yours of the fourth." Etc. 11 October, 1966
    24. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick to Turco in Oswego, "This card doesn't look like Maine in December of 1966." Etc. 9 December, 1966
    25. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick to Turco in Oswego, "Thank you for your Christmas remembrance." Etc. 5 January, 1967
    26. Carbon copy of a 1 p. t.l.s. from Turco in Oswego to Williams in South Berwick, "We're glad you like the ceramic duck. We saw it in a shop in Maine last summer, just after we'd visited you, and we thought it would be fine in your house." -- "Ken Jenkins at CSU sent me a projection of what the campus will look like in downtown Cleveland. It's fantastic. He's coming through here n ext weekend, and I look forward to yakking at him." Etc. 20 January, 1967
    27. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick to Turco in Oswego, "Well, I've been in Maine a full year, and am still quite content...," etc. -- "I suppose your Cleveland correspondents are keeping you up-to-date on the Jim Lowell - d.a. levy scandal. Perhaps 'scandal' isn't the right word...but it has to do with d.a.'s publishing and Lowell's selling of 'pornographic' literature [in his Asphodel Bookshop]. I never thought his (and his satellite's) ravings were 'pornographic'...but merely the scribblings of little boys on shit-house walls." Etc. 30 January, 1967
    28. T.l.s. of 2 pp. (rectos of two sheets) from William in South Berwick to Turco in Oswego, "Congratulations are in order for you all the way around. I am glad for you for the Associate Professorship, and share in some small way your elation over acceptance of The Book of Forms." -- "One thing about this printer, he is no procrastinator: 10 days after I sent my manuscript, I had the galley proofs. I am expecting the finished book in a few days." Etc. 17 May, 1967
    29. Some time after the last item, t.c.s. from Williams in South Berwick to Turco, probably in Dresden, Maine, "My Brother Crow was published early in the summer, and I have your name on my list of friends to whom copies were sent." REFERENCE: Loring Williams , Brother Crow, South Berwick: American Weaver, 1967. 1st edition. Orange cloth, 55 pp. AMERICAN / LITERATURE / POETRY/ 20TH CENTURY / MAINE AUTHOR. ASSOCIATION COPY: INSCRIBED by the author on recto halftitle to the poet Lewis Turco whose ink sig. is on front pastedown and embossed stamp on tp. FINE in dj. NOTE: This copy is included here. ca. 1967
    30. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick to Turco, in Dresden, Maine, "I guess this is the isssue of AW you wanted." Etc. 4 July, 1968
    31. Carbon copy of a t.l.s. of 1 p. from Turco in Dresden to Williams in South Berwick, "Thanks for Sending the magazine, and for your letter. How come you're turning into such a hermit? I'm told you have stopped writing to anyone, and now you say you've dropped out of the State of Maine Writers Conference. Gad, that's no way to do." Etc. 8 July, 1968
    32. T.l.s. of 1 p. from Williams in South Berwick to Turco, in Dresden, "Your letter of the eighth seems to put me on the defensive on all counts." Etc.11 July, 1968
    33. Carbon copy of a t.l.s. of 1 p. from Turco in Dresden to Williams in South Berwick, "Yes, there's a caste system of sorts [at Bread Loaf], two castes: no, make it four: the staff, the fellows and scholars, the students and serious writers, and the folks who want a two-week vacation where they can hob-nob with writers." Etc. 12 July, 1968
    34. Internal memo of 1 p. from Bruce Turner at Oswego to Turco at the same regarding Williams' volumes in the library. 3 February, 1981

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Series 2: Journal, Bibliography and Press Materials 1942-1996

Scope and Content
This series includes Lewis Turco's journal entries from 1962, a bibliography of his poetry, and press materials associated with Turco or the Cleveland Poetry Center.
  1. Journal 1962 April 14, 1962-December 25, 1962
  2. Lewis Turco Poetry: A Bibliography 1962-2004
  1. Envelope addressed to Lewis Turco from Russell Salamon 1943
    1. Letter addressed to Lewis Turco from Russell Salamon, November 30, 2003 November 30, 2003
    2. Input, Volume 1, Number 4, December 1964 1945
    3. Cleveland's Poetry Surge, The Plain Dealer, June 13, 1965 1946, no date
    4. Fenn College Poetry Center: Worksheets for Forum of March 12, 1965 1945-1946
    5. The Cleveland Scene, Books, Volume 1, Number 11, December 1964 1944-1946

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Series 3: Personal Belongings 1964-1975

Scope and Content
This series is comprised of Lewis Turco's personal belongings, specifically, a photograph and a personal scrapbook.
  1. A Scrapbook Owned by Lewis Turco Volume One November 22, 1964-December 31, 1975
  2. A photograph of Lewis Turco from 1968 1968

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Series 4: Professional Career & Accomplishments 1989-1994

Scope and Content
The contents of this three folder set encompass the years 1989-1994 and include a few samples of Turco's yearly faculty evaluations, a curriculum vitae with bibliography attached, various reviews of his work, flyers of events in which he participated, examples of awards he has won and a selection of his poetry.
  1. Faculty Data File 1989-1992
    1. Lewis Turco's faculty activity summary for the academic activity for the academic years 1990-1992 1990-1992
    2. Lewis Turco's faculty activity summary for the academic activity for the academic year 1989-1990 1989-1990
    3. Lewis Turco's curriculum vitae with bibliography 1992
  1. Turco, Lewis SUNY Oswego faculty reviews and student evaluations 1992-1994
    1. "Enclosure B" is student course evaluations for three sections of English that Turco taught 1994
    2. "Enclosure B" includes a Special Merit Award for Poetry that was presented to Turco and a student, Jennifer Petrie, as well as a several correspondences from some of Turco's former students. 1992-1994
  1. Turco, Lewis Eng. 1992-1994
    1. This is a document titled Speakers in the Humanities and includes Lewis Turco's entry. 1992-1995
    2. This is a document taken from the May 1992 issue of The Connecticut Alumnus titled "Distinguished Alumni Award bestowed upon exceptional alumni." Among the three recipients listed is Lewis Turco. May 1992
    3. This document consists of a Meriden Hall of Fame program from 1993 with Lewis Turco among the listed inductees in the area of literature. Also included certificate with a short biography and a photograph of Turco. 31 October, 1993
    4. This item is an article from the spring 1992 issue Voices in Italian Americana: a literary and cultural review titled "The Mirror Image: A Retrospective View of Lewis Turco." The article is a review of Turco's 1989 work The Shifting Web: New and Selected Poems. Spring 1992
    5. This item is an article by Patricia Hart from the Fall 1992 issue of Voices in Italian Americana: a literary and cultural review reviewing Lewis Turco's work "Dialogue: How to Get Your Characters Talking to Each Other in a Way that Vividly Reveals Whho They Are, What They're Doing, and What's Coming Next in Your Story." Fall 1992
    6. This item is a review by H. R. Coursen from The New Review titled "Ghosts of Blinn's Hill" which covers Lewis Turco's work Voices in An Old House. September-October, 1992
    7. This item is a review by Diane Raptosh from Voices in Italian Americana of Lewis Turco's work A Family Album. Spring 1993
    8. This is a review written by Sarah Wider from the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin about Turco's work Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters: Poems and Centos from Lines in Emily Dickinson's Letters. May-June, 1993
    9. This is a review by Gertrude M. White from The Bridge about Turco's work Murmurs in the Walls. Summer-Fall 1993
    10. This item is a review by Sarah Wider from the Poet Magazine about Turco's Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters: Poems and Cantos from Lines in Emily Dickinson Letters Fall-Winter 1993-1994
    11. This is an entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography written by Lewis Turco about the poet Dana Gioia. 1992
    12. Included in this document are 15 excerpts written by Lewis Turco from The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. 1994
    13. This document is a contribution by Lewis Turco to the AWP Pedagogy Forum in April of 1994 in Tempe, Arizona. April, 1994
    14. This document is an excerpted from The Best American Poetry 1992 of Lewis Turco's poem, "Kamelopard" and a short biographical description of the author. 1992
    15. This document is an excerpted from a publication from the National Juried Visual Art and Poetry Exhibition entitled Imagination. The excerpted is a poem written by Lewis Turco called "Voices In An Old House: Williams Mason 1952-19__." 1 March, 1993 - 2 April, 1993
    16. This document is an excerpted from a publication from the National Juried Visual Art and Poetry Exhibition entitled Passion. The excerpted is a poem written by Lewis Turco called "Jason Pullen 1920-1943."
      28 February, 1994 - 1 April, 1994 and 1 May, 1994 - 31 May, 1994
    17. This document consists of five poems by Lewis Turco from the book, Scarecrow Poetry: The Muse in Post-Middle Age. 1994
    18. This document is an excerpted called "Blues Sonnet" written under Lewis Turco's pseudonym, Wesli Court, taken from the One Reel publication Yo Words. 1994
    19. This document is a review of Vern Rutsala's Selected Poems written by Lewis Turco excerpted from the Summer 1992 edition of the publication Lake Effect. Summer 1992
    20. This document is a review of John Ashbery's Handbook Forms written by Lewis Turco excerpted from the Spring 1992 edition of the publication New Orleans Review.
    21. This document is a copy of the October 1992 edition of The Hollins Critic that includes a piece written by Lewis Turco entitled "The Progress of Donald Justice." October, 1992
    22. This document is a review written by Lewis Turco titled "Williams' Prosody" excerpted from the 1992/93 edition of The Cloverdale Review. 1992/93
    23. This document is a copy of the June, 1993 edition of The Hollins Critic that includes a piece written by Lewis Turco entitled "The Poetics of W.D. Snodgrass." June, 1993
    24. This document is a piece written by Lewis Turco titled "The Abstract Poetry Movement" excerpted from issue #51 of The New York Quarterly. 1993
    25. This document is a piece written by Lewis Turco titled "Books in Brief" excerpteded from the December, 1993 edition of The Hollins Critic. December, 1993
    26. This document is a copy of the June, 1994 edition of The Hollins Critic that includes a piece written by Lewis Turco entitled "Amiri Baraka's Black Mountain." June, 1994
    27. This document is a piece written by Lewis Turco titled "Howard Nemerov's Cosmos of the Ordinary" excerpted from the Summer 1994 edition of ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum: A Quarterly of Contemporary Literature.
    28. This document includes two pieces written by Lewis Turco titled "Phalacrophobia: The Fear of Balding" and "Postmodernist Academic Style" excerpteded from the July/August/September 1994 edition of The Poet's Page. July/August/September 1994
    29. This document is a piece by Lewis Turco titled "Burns: A Memoir" excerpted from the spring 1992 edition of Lake Effect v.7 no.1. Spring 1992
    30. This document includes 2 pieces written by Lewis Turco titled "Ray" and "Contemplation Blues Sonnet" excerpted from the February-March 1993 edition of The New Review. v.1 no.3.
    31. This document is a piece written by Lewis Turco titled "The Little God's Eye" excerpted from the dual publication The New Review and Poetry Digest issue no. 5. 1992
    32. This document is a set of three short poems written by Lewis Turco titled "Sapphic Stanzas in Falling Measures," "A Glose of Many Hues," and "A Nocturne in Season" excerpted from the Kansas Quarterly. 1992
    33. This document consists of a poem titled "The Migration" and an editorial response written by Lewis Turco excerpted from issue number 48 of The New York Quarterly. 1992
    34. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "Ennuiophobia: The Fear of Boredom" excerpted from The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry v.3 iss.2. 1992
    35. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "Elegy on Eight Lines by Conrad Aiken" excerpted from The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry v.4 iss.1. 1993
    36. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "Papyrophobia: The Fear of Paper" excerpted from issue number 50 of The New York Quarterly. ca. 1990
    37. This document consists of two poems written by Lewis Turco titled "Aelurophobia: The Fear of Cats" and "Catoptrophobia: The Fear of Mirrors" excerpted from the Spring 1993 edition of Wordsmith: A Journal of Poetry and Art. Spring 1993
    38. This document consists of 2 poems written by Lewis Turco titled "Zelophobia: The Fear of Jealousy" and "Nomatophobia: The Fear of Names" excerpted from the Summer 1993 edition of Abiko's Literary Quarterly Rag issue number 12. Summer 1993
    39. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "The Shadowman" excerpted from The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry v.4 iss.2. 1993
    40. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "Arachnophobia" excerpted from the Fall 1993 edition of SHR: Southern Humanities Review v. XXVII no. 4. Fall 1993
    41. This document is a poem by Lewis Turco titled "The Oxymoronic Blues" excerpted from the October, 1993 edition of Blue Unicorn: A Tri-Quarterly of Poetry v.XVII no.1. October, 1993
    42. This document consists of 3 short poems written by Lewis Turco titled "Frances Pullen, 1744-1779," "Patience Pullen, 1880-1885" and "Patience Cobb PUllen, 1749-1789" excerpted from The Bridge: a journal of fiction and poetry v.3 no.2. 1993
    43. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "Michael Pullen 1861-1919" excerpted from the publication Defined Providence v.2 no.1. Fall/Winter 1993
    44. This document is a poem by Lewis Turco titled "Canzone" excerpted from Italian Americana v. XII no.2. Summer 1994
    45. This document consists of two poems written by Lewis Turco titled "Ambiguphobia: The Fear of Puns" and "Amnesiaphobia: The Fear of Forgetting" excerpted from American Literary Review: A National Journal of Poems and Stories. ca. 1993
    46. This document is a poem written by Lewis Turco titled "Deja-Vu: On four lines by Vern Rutsala" excerpted from The New York Quarterly issue number 53. 1994
    47. This document is an original card containing the poem "Villanelle of the First Day" by Lewis Turco and an original work of art by George O'Connell ca. 1993
    48. This document consists of three flyers announcing Lewis Turco's participation in workshops, events, and readings as well as a letter from David Kaminski detailing the directions to Clarkstown High School North. October, 1992
    49. This document is course packet for English 302: Early Modernism with Dr John Daniel and Dr. Tony Lopez listed as the teaching staff. 1993-4
    50. This document is a flyer announcing Lewis Turco as a guest speaker at the Wallingford Public Library. ca. 1993
    51. This document is a flyer announcing Lewis Turco's visit for a poetry reading at Case Western Reserve University. 1992
    52. This document is a flyer announcing Lewis Turco's visit for readings and workshops at Cleveland State University. 1993
    53. This document is a flyer announcing Lewis Turco as a guest of the University of Connecticut's English department. 1993
    54. This document is a flyer announcing Lewis Turco's visit to the Charles M. Bailey Public Library to speak on his book Emily Dickinson: Woman of Letters. 1993
    55. This document is a schedule of a symposium titled "Quest" at SUNY Oswego (the State University of New York at Oswego). 31 March, 1993
    56. Writing Arts Festival Flyer for Spring of 1994. Spring 1994
    57. This document is a schedule of a symposium titled "Quest" at SUNY Oswego (the State University of New York at Oswego). 1994
    58. This booklet includes a schedule of events at the Rockland Community college, titled Cultural Affairs. 1992-1993
    59. This is a flyer for the Festival of Religion and the Arts at the Chapel & Cultural Center in Troy, New York announcing Lewis Turco as a guest poet. 20 October, 1993
    60. This document is a press release by the Sage Junior College of Albany announcing the National Juried Visual Art and Poetry Exhibition. Lewis Turco is announced as one of the guest poets. 1 May, 1995 - 31 May, 1995
    61. This document is a letter addressed to Lewis Turco from Ruth Iodice thanking him for his participation as judge for the annual Blue Unicorn contest. 25 April, 1993
    62. This document is a letter addressed to Lewis Turco thanking him for his participation as a judge in a poetry contest on Rockland's Community College of the State of New York letter head written by "Jack"? 16 April, 1993
    63. This document is an excerpt from Poet Magazine, volume 5, number 2, that includes a listing of the winners of The American Chapbook Awards. Lewis Turco is listed as the consulting editor and judge. Fall/Winter 1993-1994
    64. This document is an excerpt of the acknowledgements page from The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, that lists Lewis Turco as one of the contributors. 1993
    65. This document is a flyer for the 25th Anniversary Writing Arts Festival sponsored by the Program in Writing Arts of the Department of English at The State University of New York College at Oswego. Fall 1993

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Series 5: Publications 1999-2000

Scope and Content
The 2000 Poetry Desk Calendar contains a published and signed poem by Lewis Turco on May 2, 2000 entitled, "May, Merely". The box containing the calendar has a typed letter inside from the editor, thanking him for his contribution.
  1. "May, Merely" by Lewis Turco listed on May 2, 2000.
  2. One-page typed letter to Mr. Turco from Kris Bigalk Keeney, Editor, 2000 Poetry Desk Calendar. "Enclosed you will find your 2000 Poetry Desk Calendar. I would like to thank you again for submitting your poetry for inclusion in the calendar, and I hope you enjoy reading the daily entries..."

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