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Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library)

 Organization

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of visual material relating to the Woodberry Poetry Room

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3147
Scope and Contents:

Drawings and photographs portraying the Woodberry Poetry Room and its staff and other significant figures received from various sources at various times.

Frederick C. Packard, Jr. sound recordings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3065
Overview:

Approximately 2,500 sound discs created, commissioned, or produced by Frederick C. Packard, Jr.

Galway Kinnell recordings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3277
Overview:

Approximately 365 audio and visual recordings created and/or collected by the poet Galway Kinnell.

Merrill Moore letters and ephemera sent to the Woodberry Poetry Room

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume 1Identifier: MS Am 3476
Overview:

Letters and ephemera sent by American psychiatrist and poet Merrill Moore to John Lincoln Sweeney, Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room.

Woodberry Poetry Room audiotapes and phonograph records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2005MT-12

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of broadsides

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3190
Overview:

Poetry broadsides, predominantly in English, published in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of paintings and drawings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3120
Overview:

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of artwork.

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of photographs of poets

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2753
Overview:

Photographs of poets and others associated with poetry, collected by the staff of the Woodberry Poetry Room of the Harvard College Library.

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of poems

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 1641.1
Overview:

Contains poems and letters by various poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Thom Gunn, Patrick Kavanagh, Keidrych Rhys, Jon Silkin, Jean P. Valentine, and Edward Weismiller.

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of posters for Harvard and Boston-area literary readings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3419
Overview:

This collection includes over 600 publicity posters from a range of Harvard University and Boston-area literary reading series and venues.

Woodberry Poetry Room records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3170
Overview:

Records of Woodberry Poetry Room including correspondence and administrative files.