Joanne Kyger Papers, 1875-2018 (bulk 1960-2017) (MSS 730)

Restrictions: Original material too fragile to handle from boxes 35 and 47 has been restricted; photocopies must be used instead. Original sound recordings are restricted; listening copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 74 Linear feet (165 archives boxes, 1 record carton, 6 shoe boxes, 8 flat boxes, 10 map case folders and 1 film), + approx. 28 GB of digital files

View OnlineFiles originally stored on digital media such as floppy disks and compact discs may be requested through the UC San Diego Digital Collections website, or by using the request boxes embedded in this finding aid in the DIGITAL MATERIALS series.

The papers of Joanne Kyger (1875-2018), an important member of the 'post-beat' West Coast poetry community. The papers document Kyger's life and writing as she traveled through San Francisco, Japan, New York, and Bolinas, California. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1957 through 2017 and includes correspondence, poetry manuscripts and typescripts, journals, ephemera, photographs, and sound recordings. Also included is a series of Kyger and Lamont family history materials.

Joanne Elizabeth Kyger was a West Coast poet who emerged as the Beat movement was beginning to wane in the 1960s. The daughter of Jacob and Anne Kyger, she was born November 19, 1934. Her father's career as a navy officer led to a peripatetic early life: by the time she was fourteen she had lived in Vallejo, Ca. (where she was born), China, Washington, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Illinois. Her father retired in 1949, and the family settled permanently in Santa Barbara, California.

Kyger attended the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1952 to 1956, where she took classes with Hugh Kenner and Paul Wienphal, both of whom were important to the development of her poetry. She left the university one unit short of her degree, and the following year moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Kyger soon got a job working at Brentano's Bookstore in San Francisco's North Beach, and she usually spent her nights sharing poems with friends at poetry bars. In 1957 she met John Wieners at The Place, one of the poetry bars, and through him met Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer; it was also during this time that she first met Gary Snyder. Duncan and Spicer were the doyens of a group of poets who would gather on Sundays to read and discuss each other's work. Kyger said of those meetings: "They (Duncan and Spicer) would read what they had written, and everybody else would read what they had written. And you would be severely criticized. A lot of people would be so heavily criticized that they wouldn't come back."

Later Kyger moved to the East West House, where such writers as Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, and Jack Kerouac were occasional residents. In 1960 she moved to Japan, where she and Snyder were married on February 23. There were two ceremonies: one by the American consul and another at the Daitoku ji monastery in Kyoto. Her life with Snyder in Kyoto and later in India is the subject of The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 (1981). Following her divorce from Snyder in 1964 Kyger returned to the Bay Area. She has said about this time, "I just took off on this big energy cruise. I had lots to say to everybody, and it wasn't like playing second fiddle anymore." The following year Donald Allen published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web (1965).

In 1966 Kyger married the painter Jack Boyce, and together they travelled through Spain, France, Italy, and England. Upon their return Kyger and Boyce stayed briefly in New York, and then in 1967 returned to the San Francisco area where they spent the next year. In 1968 the two traveled to Bodega Bay, then to Bolinas in 1969, where Kyger continued to live (she and Boyce separated in 1970). In the 1970s Bolinas was known for being a center for wandering poets, as well as a home for Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, Donald Allen, Tom Clark, and others. Kyger lived with artist Donald Guravich from 1978 until her death in 2017; they were married in 2013. She maintained an active presence in the community, and was particularly concerned with environmental issues. She continued to travel extensively, including several trips to Mexico, while continuing to publish her poetry. Kyger died March 22, 2017 in Bolinas, California.

Selected Bibliography: The Tapestry and the Web (1965), Joanne (1970), Places to Go (1970), Desecheo Notebook (1971), Trip Out and Fall Back (1974), All This Every Day (1975), The Wonderful Focus of You (1980), Up My Coast (1981), The Japan and India Journals 1960-64 (1981), Mexico Blonde (1981), Going On: Selected Poems 1958-80 (1983), Again: Poems 1989–2000 (2001), As Ever: Selected Poems (2002), The Distressed Look (2004), God Never Dies (2004), About Now: Collected Poems (2007), On Time: Poems 2005-2014 (2015), and There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera (2017).

The Joanne Kyger Papers document Kyger's career as a poet and important member of the West Coast poetry community. Materials include correspondence with prominent poets, artists, and editors; manuscript and typescript drafts of Kyger's poetry; journals; photographs; and sound recordings of spoken word events.

Accession Processed in 2010

Arranged in eight series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 5) OTHER PROJECTS, 6) SUBJECT FILES, 7) IMAGES, and 8) SOUND RECORDINGS.

Accession Processed 2019-2021

Arranged in twelve series: 9) JOURNALS/DIARIES, 10) BIOGRAPHICAL, 11) CORRESPONDENCE, 12) WRITINGS, 13) WORKS BY OTHERS, 14) SUBJECT FILES, 15) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 16) BOLINAS MATERIALS, 17) PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEGATIVES, 18) VIDEO AND FILM, 19) KYGER FAMILY PAPERS, and 20) DIGITAL FILES.

Joanne Kyger Correspondence, MSS 8. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Container List

Accession Processed in 2011

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Award and grant information; newspaper clippings about Kyger's life and work; personal papers including calendars, biographies, and notes; and interviews with Kyger for various publications and projects. Materials related to Kyger's marriage to Gary Snyder include photographs of their wedding and reception, a photocopy of the marriage certificate, and newspaper clippings about the event.

Box 1 Folder 1
Awards and grants, 1987-2005
Box 1 Folder 2
Bibliographies
Box 1 Folder 3
Calendars, 1965-1968 (incomplete)

Interviews

Box 1 Folder 4
1977-2007 and undated
Box 1 Folder 5
Interviewed by Michael Price and Dale Smith, 1997
Box 1 Folder 6
Interviewed by Anne Waldman
Box 1 Folder 7
Interviewed by John Suiter - Two interviews, 2000-2003
Box 1 Folder 8
Interviewed for Rain Taxi by Eric Lorberer, 2001
Box 1 Folder 9
Bolinas Museum Oral History Project, 2006

Marriage to Gary Snyder

Box 1 Folder 10
Photographs and ephemera
Box 1 Folder 11
Newspaper clippings, 1960
Box 1 Folder 12
Newspaper clippings about Kyger, 1974-2007
Box 1 Folder 13
Miscellaneous material

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Letters, cards, email, and postcards from friends, family, colleagues, editors, and publishers, ranging in date from 1950 to 2008. Correspondence details Kyger's life in San Francisco, Japan, New York, and Bolinas, California, as well as her working relationships with various publishers and magazine editors. Notable correspondents include Donald Allen, Ebbe Borregaard, Joe Brainard, Robert Creeley, Nemi Frost, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, and Philip Whalen. Also of interest are a small number of typescript carbons of letters written by Kyger to friends and family describing her time in Japan. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Unidentified correspondents are arranged chronologically at the end of the series.

Box 1 Folder 14
A - Miscellaneous
Box 1 Folder 15
Abrams, Sam, 1979-2000
Box 1 Folder 16
Accurso, Richard, 1984-2003
Box 2 Folder 1
Acevedo, Susanna, 1976-1991
Box 2 Folder 2
Acevedo, Susanna and Arthur Okamura, from Bali, 1979-1980
Box 2 Folder 3
Adnan, Etel, 1997-2006
Box 2 Folder 4
Alexander, Paul, 1975-2008
Box 2 Folder 5
Allen, Donald, 1959-1990
Box 2 Folder 6
Amandi, Jocelyn, 1978-1990
Box 2 Folder 7
Anderson, Jim, 1980-2006
Box 2 Folder 8
Antler, 1997-2003
Box 2 Folder 9
Arnold, Bob, 1987-2006
Box 2 Folder 10
Aronowitz, Al, 1992-1995
Box 2 Folder 11
Avec, (Cydney Chadwick, ed.), 1988
Box 2 Folder 12
B - Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 13
Bachy, (Leland Hickman, ed.), 1977-1980

Bacon, Joe

Box 3 Folder 1
1975-2007
Box 3 Folder 2
Copies of letters written by Bacon to various people, 1975-1986
Box 3 Folder 3
Baldwin, Gordon, 1973-2007
Box 3 Folder 4
Baldwin, Mado (Gail), 1973-1996
Box 3 Folder 5
Ballard, Micah, 2000-2005
Box 3 Folder 6
Batki, John, 1993-2003
Box 3 Folder 7
Baude, Dawn-Michelle (Kolokithas), 1985-2007
Box 3 Folder 8
Belforti, Rose Marie, 1987-1991
Box 3 Folder 9
Beltrametti, Franco, 1974-1997
Box 3 Folder 10
Benedetti, David, 1990-2007
Box 3 Folder 11
Benton, William, 1977-1994
Box 3 Folder 12
Berg, Peter, 1978-2003
Box 4 Folder 1
Berkson, Bill, 1971-2008
Box 4 Folder 2
Berkson, Lynn O'Hare, 1979-2007

Includes paste-ups of the Bolinas Hearsay News, with Lynn's column "Notes from a Broad."

Box 4 Folder 3
Berlandt, Herman, 2006
Box 4 Folder 4
Berlin, Lucia, 1997-2003
Box 4 Folder 5
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei, 1979-1981
Box 4 Folder 6
Bertholf, Robert, 1975-2001
Box 4 Folder 7
Beyond Baroque Foundation Literary/Arts Center, 1975-1999
Box 4 Folder 8
Black, Noel, 1998-1999
Box 4 Folder 9
Blackall, Simon, 1966-1969
Box 4 Folder 10
Black Sparrow Press, 1992-2002
Box 4 Folder 11
Blakebrough, Les, 1961-2002
Box 4 Folder 12
Bombay Gin, 1992-1999
Box 4 Folder 13
Borregaard, Ebbe, 1960-2006
Box 4 Folder 14
Boughn, Michael, 1988-2000
Box 4 Folder 15
Boyce, Jack, 1964-1972

Includes letters to Kyger re. Boyce's death.

Brainard, Joe

Box 4 Folder 16-17
1971-1993
Box 4 Folder 18
Letters about Brainard, including correspondence with Ron Padgett about possible book, 1994-2001
Box 4 Folder 19
Brandi, John, 2005-2008
Box 4 Folder 20
Briggs, Eleanor, 1974-1983
Box 4 Folder 21
Briggs, Robert, 1994-2001
Box 4 Folder 22
Brill, Kastle, 1984-1985
Box 5 Folder 1
Brodecky, Bill, 1966-1983
Box 5 Folder 2
Brown, Bill, 1966-1994
Box 5 Folder 3
Brown, Maggie, 1978-2008
Box 5 Folder 4
Brown, Rebecca, 1975-1988

Brunner, Jon

Oversize MC-011-19
ca. 1978
Box 5 Folder 5
1988-1995
Box 5 Folder 6
Burk, Ronnie, 2000-2002
Box 5 Folder 7
Bye, Reed, 1979-2005
Box 5 Folder 8
C - Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 9
Café Review, (Steve Luttrell, ed.), 1992-2000
Box 5 Folder 10
Caldwell, Christopher, 2000-2004
Box 5 Folder 11
California College of Arts and Crafts, 1977
Box 5 Folder 12
Cantor, Margery, 1985
Box 5 Folder 13
Charters, Ann, 1981-2000
Box 5 Folder 14
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, 2000-2003

Includes an interview of Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer's interview of Philip Whalen.

Box 5 Folder 15
Clark, Tom and Angelica, 1966-2007
Box 5 Folder 16
Clorfeine, Stephen, 1975-1997
Box 5 Folder 17
Coffey, Dan, 2000-2001
Box 5 Folder 18
Collom, Jack, 1994-2007
Box 5 Folder 19
Congdon, Kirby, 1967
Box 5 Folder 20
Connor, Julia, 1992-2006
Box 5 Folder 21
Coordinating Council of Literacy Magazines, 1979
Box 5 Folder 22
Corman, Cid, 1962-1991
Box 5 Folder 23
Creeley, Robert, 1966-2003
Box 6 Folder 1
D - Miscellaneous
Box 6 Folder 2
Dahi, Soheyl, (ed. Sore Dove Press), 2004-2008
Box 6 Folder 3
Dahme, Dorothy, 1999
Box 6 Folder 4
Daley, Debora, 1976-1979
Box 6 Folder 5
Daley, John, 1978-2007
Box 6 Folder 6
Daley, Patrice, 1986-2001
Box 6 Folder 7
Daniel, Darrin, 1990-1999
Box 6 Folder 8
Davidson, Michael, 1976
Box 6 Folder 9
Davies, Alan, 1975-1999
Box 6 Folder 10
De Ferreccio, Jazmin Aminian, 2000
Box 6 Folder 11
Degli Esposti, Rita and John Gian Pozzi, 1979-2001
Box 6 Folder 12
Demers, Robin, 2005-2007
Box 6 Folder 13
DeSilver, Albert, 1996-2005
Box 6 Folder 14
DeVore, Trane, 2005-2006
Box 6 Folder 15
Dharmadhatu Berkeley, 1976-1977
Box 6 Folder 16
di Prima, Diane, 1976-2006
Box 6 Folder 17
Donlon, Helen, 1987-1997
Box 6 Folder 18
Dorn, Ed and Jennifer, 1974-2003
Box 6 Folder 19
Dorsky, Nathaniel, 2000-2006
Box 6 Folder 20
Doss, Margot Patterson and John, 1966-2002
Box 7 Folder 1
Drees, Mahina, 1975-1979
Box 7 Folder 2
Dull, Dora, 1959-1963
Box 7 Folder 3
Dunn, Annalee, 2002-2006
Box 7 Folder 4
Dunn, James, 2002-2008
Box 7 Folder 5
E - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 6
East West House - Kyger's letters to friends at East West House detailing her trip to Japan, ca. 1960
Box 7 Folder 7
Edwards, Ernesto, 1986-2008
Box 7 Folder 8
Eigner, Larry, 1986
Box 7 Folder 9
Ellingham, Lewis, 1975-2007
Box 7 Folder 10
Elmslie, Kenward, 1974-1999
Box 7 Folder 11
E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1985
Box 7 Folder 12
Everyman Publishers, PLC, 2002
Box 7 Folder 13
Exquisite Corpse, (Andrei Codrescu, ed.), 1992-1995
Box 7 Folder 14
F - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 15
Fagin, Larry, 1967-2004

Includes Lettre de Paris by Kyger and Fagin.

Box 7 Folder 16
Falk, Jane, 1999-2007
Box 7 Folder 17
Fattal, Simone, 1996-2007
Box 7 Folder 18
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1979-2006
Box 7 Folder 19
Ferlinghetti, Selden "Kirby", 1988-2001
Box 7 Folder 20
Ferraris, Fred, 1997
Box 8 Folder 1
Field, Tom, ca. 1959-1995
Box 8 Folder 2
First Light Films, re. film Women and the Beats, 1993-1994
Box 8 Folder 3
Fitzgerald, Dora, 1978-2003
Box 8 Folder 4
Follet, CB, ed. Beside the Sleeping Maiden: Poets of Marin, 1996-1997
Box 8 Folder 5
Fox, Hugh, 1967-1968
Box 8 Folder 6
Frost, Nancy Drew, 1962-2007
Box 8 Folder 7-9
Frost, Nemi, 1957-2007

Frost, Robert T. M. "Robin"

Oversize MC-011-20
1957
Box 8 Folder 10
1957-1958
Box 8 Folder 11
Frumkin, Kathleen, 2002-2007
Box 8 Folder 12
Frym, Gloria, 1990-2006
Box 8 Folder 13
G - Miscellaneous
Box 8 Folder 14
Gach, Gary, 1988-2007
Box 8 Folder 15
Gallup, Dick, 1978-1981
Box 8 Folder 16
Gare du Nord, (Douglas Oliver and Alice Notley, eds.), 1997-1998
Box 8 Folder 17
Gas, (Kevin Opstedal, ed.), 1991-1998
Box 8 Folder 18
Gitin, Maria, 1976
Box 8 Folder 19
Goldfarb, Sidney, 1999-2007
Box 8 Folder 20
Grace, Nancy, 2001-2002
Box 8 Folder 21
Greene, Anne, 1976
Box 8 Folder 22
Grenier, Robert, 1975-1999
Box 8 Folder 23
Grimm, Mary - Correspondence regarding Nancy Drew Frost's death, 2007
Box 9 Folder 1
Guravich, Donald and family, 1999-2007
Box 9 Folder 2
Gustafson, Jim, 1981-1984
Box 9 Folder 3
H - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 4
Hailey, Deborah, 1993-2000
Box 9 Folder 5
Halper, Jon, 1988-1989
Box 9 Folder 6
Harmon, Harvey S., 1958
Box 9 Folder 7
Haselwood, Dave, 1990-2002
Box 9 Folder 8
Hastings, Lee Adair, 1961-2006
Box 9 Folder 9
Hatch, Annie, 1960-1963
Box 9 Folder 10
Hatch, Jim, 1990-1993
Box 9 Folder 11
Hawkins, Bobbie Louise, 1980-2007
Box 9 Folder 12
Heath, Jenny, 1991-2007
Box 9 Folder 13
Heijinian, Lyn, 1995-2003
Box 9 Folder 14
Heilig, Steve, 2000-2007
Box 9 Folder 15
Heineman, Lydia, 1999
Box 9 Folder 16
Hemensley, Kris, 1976-1984
Box 9 Folder 17
Hennessy, Lois, [Gary Snyder's mother], 1961
Box 9 Folder 18
Hickman, Leland, 1966-1991
Box 9 Folder 19
Hollo, Anselm and Jane, 1981-2007
Box 9 Folder 20
Holt, Jessica, 2006-2007
Box 9 Folder 21
Hoogstraten, Harry, 1978-1980
Box 9 Folder 22
Hoyem, Judy, 1968-2006
Box 9 Folder 23
Hriskos, Jim and Virginia, 1965-1967
Box 9 Folder 24
Hunt, Byron Alton, ca. 1979-1980

Hyner, Stefan

Box 9 Folder 25-26
1983-2000
Box 10 Folder 1
2001-2008 and undated
Box 10 Folder 2
I - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 3
Intersection, Center for the Arts and Religion, 1976-1989
Box 10 Folder 4
Irby, Kenneth, 1989-2008
Box 10 Folder 5
J - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 6
Jarnot, Lisa, 1988-2006
Box 10 Folder 7
Jenkins, Dora, 1998-2005
Box 10 Folder 8
Johnson, Diane, 1977-1979
Box 10 Folder 9
Johnson, Kent, 1988-1989
Box 10 Folder 10
Johnson, Maile, 1987-2006
Box 10 Folder 11
Johnson, Ron, 1984-1998
Box 10 Folder 12
Johnson, William J. (Bill), 1976-1997
Box 10 Folder 13
Johnston, Alastair and Dawn, 1976-2006
Box 10 Folder 14
Jones, Jamey, 1994-2007
Box 10 Folder 15
Joy, Joan, 1962-2001
Box 10 Folder 16
K - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 17
Kahn, Lloyd, 2006-2008
Box 10 Folder 18
Kahn, Paul, 1977-2006
Box 10 Folder 19
Kapleau, DeLancey, 1962-1963
Box 10 Folder 20
Kearney, Margaret, 1978-2005
Box 10 Folder 21
Kervin, Brian, 2000-2007
Box 10 Folder 22
Killian, Kevin, 1991-1997
Box 10 Folder 23
Kite, Mary, 2004-2005
Box 10 Folder 24
Koller, Jim and Maggie Brown, 1966-2006
Box 10 Folder 25
Kowit, Steve, 1987-1988
Box 11 Folder 1
Krafft, Charles, 1977-2004
Box 11 Folder 2
Kundawala, Ish, 1988-1998
Box 11 Folder 3
Kush (Steven Kushner), undated
Box 11 Folder 4
Kyger, Anne [Kyger's mother], 1960-1986
Box 11 Folder 5
Kyger, Jacob [Kyger's father], 1960-1961
Box 11 Folder 6
L - Miscellaneous
Box 11 Folder 7
La Alameda Press, 1999-2004
Box 11 Folder 8
Lally, Michael, 1975
Box 11 Folder 9
Lamont, Kimberly M., 1991-1993
Box 11 Folder 10
Lampe, Keith (aka Ro-Non-So-Te, Ponderosa Pine), 1971-1995
Box 11 Folder 11
Lance, Jeanne, 1973-2004
Box 11 Folder 12
Larsen, Nicolai, undated
Box 11 Folder 13
LaVoie, Steven, 1976-1987
Box 11 Folder 14
Lawless, Gary, undated
Box 11 Folder 15
Laws, Judy, 1967
Box 11 Folder 16
Lazzeri, Simone, 1978-1990
Box 11 Folder 17
Lerner, Steve, 1985-2005
Box 11 Folder 18
Levi, Louise Landes, 1991-2007
Box 11 Folder 19
Lifshin, Lyn, undated
Box 11 Folder 20
Loewinsohn, Ron, 1963-1968
Box 11 Folder 21
Lowell, Douglas, 1986
Box 11 Folder 22
Lowry, Thea [Gary Snyder's sister], 1961-1962
Box 11 Folder 23
M - Miscellaneous
Box 11 Folder 24
MacAdams, Lewis, 1967-2007
Box 11 Folder 25
MacAdams, Ocean Lee, 1978-2001
Box 12 Folder 1
MacAdams, Phoebe, 1975-2005
Box 12 Folder 2
Main, Alvin and June, 1960
Box 12 Folder 3
Mallman, Jerome, 1958-2007
Box 12 Folder 4
Malone, Eric, 2003-2004
Box 12 Folder 5
Marin Arts Council, 1987
Box 12 Folder 6
Marin Poetry Center, 1996-2003
Box 12 Folder 7
Marsh, Kate, 1981-2003
Box 12 Folder 8
Marshall, Tom, 1980-1995
Box 12 Folder 9
Martin, Richard, 2000-2002
Box 12 Folder 10
Mayo, Gui, 1999-2006
Box 12 Folder 11
Mazer, Ben, 2004-2008
Box 12 Folder 12
McClure, Michael, 1971-2004
Box 12 Folder 13
McIntyre, Joan, 1975-1980
Box 12 Folder 14-15
McNaughton, Duncan, 1975-2008
Box 12 Folder 16
McNaughton, Genie, 1989-1994
Box 12 Folder 17
McNeill, William (Bill), ca. 1960-1981

Includes a small, undated notebook of McNeill's, describing Kyoto.

Box 12 Folder 18
McQuaid, Diana, 1978-2003
Box 12 Folder 19
Meier, Barbara, 1978-1994
Box 12 Folder 20
Meltzer, David and Tina, 1975-2007
Box 12 Folder 21
Mikolowski, Ken, 1978-1999
Box 13 Folder 1
Miller, Margaret Kyger, 1960-2006

Includes correspondence regarding Margaret's death.

Box 13 Folder 2
Mills, Susannah, 1978-2006
Box 13 Folder 3
Mills College, 1999
Box 13 Folder 4
Millward, Pamela, 1966-1967
Box 13 Folder 5
Money, Peter, 1992-1999
Box 13 Folder 6
Montgomery, John, 1982-1994
Box 13 Folder 7
Moore, Alvin William, 1986-2007
Box 13 Folder 8
Morgan, Bill, 1983-2008
Box 13 Folder 9
Morris, Virginia, 1979-1989
Box 13 Folder 10
N - Miscellaneous
Box 13 Folder 11
Naropa Institute, 1975-2004
Box 13 Folder 12
The National Poetry Series, 1982-1992
Box 13 Folder 13
Navero, Bud, 1978-2006
Box 13 Folder 14
Nevada County Poetry Series (NCPS), 2004
Box 13 Folder 15
Newton, Ryan, 2003-2006
Box 13 Folder 16
Nicosia, Gerald, 1977-1994
Box 13 Folder 17-18
Nisbet, Jim, 1978-2007

Includes correspondence regarding Sweetie's Bar and Café readings.

Box 13 Folder 19
Noel, Susan, 2000
Box 13 Folder 20
Nolan, Pat, 1975-2007
Box 13 Folder 21
Northup, Harry, 1994-2008
Box 13 Folder 22
Notley, Alice, 1986-2001
Box 13 Folder 23
O - Miscellaneous
Box 13 Folder 24
O'Donnell, Joshua, 2003-2007
Box 13 Folder 25
Okamura, Arthur, 1978-2002
Box 13 Folder 26
Olin, Jeni, 1998-2001
Box 13 Folder 27
Opstedal, Kevin, 1993-2008
Box 13 Folder 28
Ostriker, Alicia, 1991-1994
Box 13 Folder 29
Oswald, Ernest, 1983-1984
Box 14 Folder 1
P-Q - Miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 2
Patterson, Ron, 1998
Box 14 Folder 3
Peabody, Richard, ca. 1996
Box 14 Folder 4
Pearl, (Gregory Stephenson, ed.), 1977-1991
Box 14 Folder 5
Penguin Books, 1966-2001
Box 14 Folder 6
Persky, Stan, 1960-1971
Box 14 Folder 7
Pettet, Simon, 1982-2007
Box 14 Folder 8
Phillips, Lynn, 1975-1982
Box 14 Folder 9
Pirtles, Rebecca Bush, 1992-1998
Box 14 Folder 10
The Poetry Center, 1975-2003
Box 14 Folder 11
Poetry Flash, 1997-2001
Box 14 Folder 12
The Poetry Project, 1976-2004
Box 14 Folder 13
Pohlman, Edward, 1983-2006
Box 14 Folder 14
Powell, Donald, 1979-1982
Box 14 Folder 15
Prevallet, Kristen, 1995
Box 14 Folder 16
Price, Michael, 2001-2003
Box 14 Folder 17
R - Miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 18
Raderman, Marlene, 1984-1990
Box 14 Folder 19
Rain Taxi, 2001-2005
Box 14 Folder 20
Ratcliffe, Steven, 1998-2005
Box 14 Folder 21
Raworth, Tom, 1961-2006
Box 15 Folder 1
Reddan, Jerry, 2003-2006
Box 15 Folder 2
Reeves, Anne and Francis, 1985-2004
Box 15 Folder 3
Rogoff, Marianne, 1995-2006
Box 15 Folder 4
Romano, Denise, 1995
Box 15 Folder 5
Ross, Charlie and family, 1985-1993
Box 15 Folder 6
Rothenberg, Michael, 1986-2007
Box 15 Folder 7
Rowan, Leslie and Peter, 1976-1993
Box 15 Folder 8
Rubenstein, Carol, 1977-1988
Box 15 Folder 9
Russo, Linda, 1999-2009
Box 15 Folder 10
S - Miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 11
Safdi, Joe and Sara Schrom, 1978-2007
Box 15 Folder 12
Salazar, Deborah, 1992-1997
Box 15 Folder 13
Sanchez, Ernesto, 1995-2002
Box 15 Folder 14
Sand Dollar Booksellers (Jack Shoemaker), 1975-1978
Box 15 Folder 15
Sanders, Ed and Miriam, 1974-2008
Box 15 Folder 16
Saroyan, Aram, 1998-2002
Box 15 Folder 17
Scalapino, Leslie, 1979-2007
Box 15 Folder 18
Schelling, Andrew, 1993-2006
Box 15 Folder 19
Schiemann, Philipp, 1999-2002
Box 16 Folder 1
Schneider, David, 1983-2007
Box 16 Folder 2
Sears, Loren, 1985-2007
Box 16 Folder 3
Shambhala Sun, 1993
Box 16 Folder 4
Shekeloff, Mertis, 1960-2006
Box 16 Folder 5
Sigo, Cedar, 1998-2007
Box 16 Folder 6
Simpson, Steve, 1999-2005
Box 16 Folder 7
Singh, Rani, 1992-2007
Box 16 Folder 8
Skinner, Jonathan, 2001-2007
Box 16 Folder 9
Skold, Annie, 1960-1963
Box 16 Folder 10
Slack, Jane [Jack Boyce's sister], 1966-1967
Box 16 Folder 11
Small Press Distribution, 1996-2001
Box 16 Folder 12
Small Press Traffic, 2001
Box 16 Folder 13
Smith, Dale and Hoa Nguyen, 1996-2006
Box 16 Folder 14
Smith, Willie, 1994-2002
Box 16 Folder 15
Snell, Roger, 2004-2006
Box 16 Folder 16
Snyder, Gary, 1959-2007
Box 16 Folder 17
Snyder, Harold and Mathilde, 1959-1964
Box 16 Folder 18
Stanley, George, 1958-2003
Box 16 Folder 19
Sugioka, Kimi, undated
Box 16 Folder 20
Suiter, John, 2001-2008
Box 16 Folder 21
T - Miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 22
Thomas, Jimo, 1987-1999
Box 16 Folder 23
Tills, Steve, 1995
Box 16 Folder 24
Todd, Glenn, 1981-2006
Box 16 Folder 25
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, 1994-1996
Box 16 Folder 26
U - Miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 27
University of California Press, 1993-2007
Box 16 Folder 28
Upton, Charles - Photocopies of "open letters" to Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and the poets of Naropa Institute, undated
Box 16 Folder 29
V - Miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 30
VanDeWetering, Janwillem, 2003-2007
Box 16 Folder 31
Van Gogh's Ear, (Ian Ayres, ed.), 2001
Box 17 Folder 1
Vincent, Stephen, 1980-2008
Box 17 Folder 2
Vogel, Shelly, 1980-1991
Box 17 Folder 3
W - Miscellaneous
Box 17 Folder 4-5
Waldman, Anne, 1967-2008
Box 17 Folder 6
Warsh, Lewis, 1982-2001
Box 17 Folder 7
Warshall, Peter, 1974-2007
Box 17 Folder 8
Watsky, Paul, 2006-2007
Box 17 Folder 9
Watts, Richard, 1977
Box 17 Folder 10-11
Weigel, Evelyne Kyger, 1958-1987
Box 17 Folder 12
Weishaus, Joel, 1987-2007

Whalen, Philip

Box 17 Folder 13
1960-1991
Box 17 Folder 14
1959-1965 - Photocopies. Originals are located at Reed College
Box 18 Folder 1
Whaling City Review, (John Landry, ed.), 1995
Box 18 Folder 2
Whitefield, Chris, 2003-2006
Box 18 Folder 3
Whitefield, Nancy Breedlove, 1976-1997
Box 18 Folder 4
Wieners, John, 1963-2002
Box 18 Folder 5
Whole Earth Magazine, 1998-1999
Box 18 Folder 6
Wienpahl, Paul, 1960-1961
Box 18 Folder 7
Wilmarth, Richard, 1992-1998
Box 18 Folder 8
Wolfe, Michael, 1980-1986
Box 18 Folder 9
Wolff, Joe, 2007-2008
Box 18 Folder 10
Women-In-Literature, Inc., 1997
Box 18 Folder 11
World Bout Poetry Association, 1992-2003
Box 18 Folder 12
The Writer's Almanac, 1999-2002
Box 18 Folder 13
Wyrick, Claudia, 2003-2004
Box 18 Folder 14
Y - Miscellaneous
Box 18 Folder 15
Yardas, William, 1985-2008
Box 18 Folder 16
Young, Nicole, 2000-2002
Box 18 Folder 17
Z - Miscellaneous
Box 18 Folder 18
Zeno, Karly and Jim, ca. 1970-2008
Box 18 Folder 19
Zoland Books, 1999

Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 18 Folder 20
Notes for Kyger while staying at the Hotel Boulderado, 1978
Box 18 Folder 21
Notes, poems and artwork for Kyger's birthdays

Unidentified correspondents

Box 18 Folder 22
David, 1990
Box 18 Folder 23
Mayra, 1988
Box 18 Folder 24
Michael and Katie, 2000-2001
Box 18 Folder 25
Micah, 1988-2001
Box 18 Folder 26
1950-1969
Box 18 Folder 27
1979-1979
Box 18 Folder 28
1982-1989
Box 18 Folder 29
1991-2006
Box 18 Folder 30
Undated

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS: Handwritten and typescript poetry and writings - completed works as well as fragments of work in progress. Arranged in two subseries: A) Chronological Files and B) Collaborations.

A) Chronological Files: Handwritten and typescript manuscripts and drafts; scrapbooks of Kyger's work on school newspapers; journals and manuscripts for published works, including books where Kyger was a contributor; and, in the case of published projects, correspondence, contracts, galley copies, and page proofs. Of particular interest are the original bound journals Kyger kept in while in Japan and used to create Japan and India Journals published in 1981. The files, ranging in date from 1951 to 2007, are arranged chronologically and in most cases retain Kyger's original folder titles.

B) Collaborations: Arranged chronologically, contains pieces written by Kyger with friends and fellow writers. One unusual piece is a typescript on toilet paper, which Kyger wrote with Stan Persky in 1959. Titled In the Tunnel, the typescript is extremely fragile and a copy has been made for patron use.

Chronological Files

Box 19 Folder 1
Scrapbook - Newspaper clippings of JK's articles for school paper, 1951-1952
Box 19 Folder 2
Scrapbook - Newspaper clippings of articles written by JK for paper El Gaucho, 1954

Early poetry

Box 19 Folder 3
1952-1956
Oversize FB-515 Folder 01
1956
Box 19 Folder 4
Early writing and school assignments, 1954-1955
Box 19 Folder 5
Miscellaneous notes and writings, ca. 1957-1958
Box 19 Folder 6
Duncan poetry workshop notebook, 1958-1959
Box 19 Folder 7-11
Writing, 1958-1959
Box 20 Folder 1
Early spring, 1959
Box 20 Folder 2
In progress and fragments, ca. 1959-1961
Box 20 Folder 3
Writing, 1959-1961
Box 20 Folder 4
Copies of "notebook" poems, 1959-1964
Box 20 Folder 5
Poems from Japan, 1960-1964
Box 20 Folder 6
Miscellaneous poems, 1962-1963

Writings

Box 20 Folder 7
1964
Oversize FB-515 Folder 02
1964
Oversize MC-011-25
The Odyssey Poems, 1964
Box 20 Folder 8
Imaginary Apparitions, 1965

The Tapestry and the Web (1965)

Box 20 Folder 9-13
1965
Oversize FB-515 Folder 03
1965
Box 20 Folder 14
Writing, 1965-1966
Box 20 Folder 15
Unpublished manuscripts, 1965-1966
Box 20 Folder 16
The Throned Boy, 1966
Box 20 Folder 17
Poems from Rome, 1966
Box 20 Folder 18
Travels in Europe, 1966 February-September
Box 21 Folder 1
New York City, 1966 September-December

The Fool in April (1966)

Box 21 Folder 2
1966
Oversize FB-515 Folder 04
1966
Box 21 Folder 3
Three Days, 1967

NYC writing, mostly unpublished

Box 21 Folder 4
1967
Oversize MC-011-21
1967
Box 21 Folder 5
NYC, 1967
Box 21 Folder 6
San Francisco/Bolinas, 1967-1968
Box 21 Folder 7
Buchanan Street, 1968
Box 21 Folder 8
This Other Thing, 1968
Box 21 Folder 9
Journals, 1968-1969
Box 21 Folder 10
Salmon Creek, Bodega Bay, 1968-1969
Box 21 Folder 11
Bodega Bay Cosmic News, ca. 1968-1969
Box 21 Folder 12
Bodega Bay Cosmic Revolution, 968-1969 winter

Handwritten copies of poems

Box 21 Folder 13
1968 - ca. 1970
Oversize FB-515 Folder 05
1968
Box 21 Folder 14
Bolinas, 1969
Box 21 Folder 15
Ganesha, March 1969
Box 21 Folder 16
The Tent, 1969 spring - summer
Box 21 Folder 17
Writing, 1969-1974
Box 21 Folder 18
Walk with Arthur O. to Secret Lake, ca. 1970
Box 22 Folder 1-6
Places to Go (1970)
Box 22 Folder 7
Joanne (1970)
Box 22 Folder 8
Cliff House, 1970 fall
Box 22 Folder 9
Lynne's house, 1970 winter - spring
Box 22 Folder 10
Downtown Brighton Avenue, 1970 fall - 1971 spring

Desecheo Notebook (1971)

Box 22 Folder 11-13
1971
Oversize MC-011-22
1971
Box 22 Folder 14
On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing (1971), ed. Joel Weishaus - Correspondence and contracts
Box 22 Folder 15
New house on Evergreen, Poetry Medicine Show, 1971
Box 23 Folder 1
Miscellaneous writing, ca. 1972
Box 23 Folder 2
Writing, 1972
Box 23 Folder 3
Writing, 1972 spring - winter
Box 23 Folder 4
Writing, 1973
Box 23 Folder 5
Baul, produced by Lewis MacAdams, etc., 1973
Box 23 Folder 6
Keep it Together, 1973-1974
Box 23 Folder 7
Writing, 1973-1974
Box 23 Folder 8
Trip Out and Fall Back (1974)
Box 23 Folder 9
And So On, 1974 summer
Box 23 Folder 10
Writing, 1974-1977
Box 23 Folder 11
Older poems to be rescued, ca. 1974-1985
Box 23 Folder 12-16
All This Every Day (1975) - Includes bound typescript with edits
Box 23 Folder 17
Miscellaneous copies of typescripts - Out the Window, Up My Coast, etc., 1975-1977
Box 24 Folder 1-2
Writing, 1977
Box 24 Folder 3
Bolinas and Boulder, 1977-1978 fall - winter
Box 24 Folder 4
Bolinas Soap Opera, for Radio Free Bolinas, 1978
Box 24 Folder 5
Pretty contemporary summer, 1978
Box 24 Folder 6
Writing, 1978-1978
Box 24 Folder 7
The Wonderful Focus of You (1979)
Box 24 Folder 8
Writing, January-October 1980
Box 24 Folder 9
The Oral Tradition of the Garden of Eden, 1980
Box 24 Folder 10
Bolinas, 1980-1981
Box 24 Folder 11-14
Japan and India Journals (1981) - Includes original journals, bound
Box 25 Folder 1-2
Japan and India Journals (1981)
Box 25 Folder 3-5
Up My Coast (1981)
Box 25 Folder 6
Calligraphic wonders, inspired brushstrokes, 1981
Box 25 Folder 7
Writing, 1982-1983
Box 25 Folder 8-10
Going On: Selected Poems 1958-1980 (1983)

Restrictions Apply

Box 25 Folder 11-13
Writing, 1983-1986
Box 25 Folder 14-17
The Dharma Committee (1986)
Box 25 Folder 18
Man & Women (1987) - Written with Michael Rothenberg
Box 25 Folder 19
Kwan Yin, 1987 summer
Box 25 Folder 20
Writing, 1987-1988
Box 26 Folder 1
Writing, 1988
Box 26 Folder 2-3
Phenomenological (1989)
Box 26 Folder 4
Writing, 1989
Box 26 Folder 5
At John's house, 1989
Box 26 Folder 6
Writing, 1990
Box 26 Folder 7-10
Just Space: Poems, 1979-1989 (1991)
Box 26 Folder 11
Writing, 1991
Box 26 Folder 12
Naropa, 1991 fall - winter
Box 26 Folder 13
Boulder, 1991 fall
Box 27 Folder 1
Joanne Kyger, 1934-. Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, 1991-1992
Box 27 Folder 2
Writing, 1992
Box 27 Folder 3
Journals, typed, 1992
Box 27 Folder 4
Poems by Joanne Kyger. The New Censorship, vol. 4, no. 10, January 1994
Box 27 Folder 5
Writing, 1993
Box 27 Folder 6
Working manuscript, 1993
Box 27 Folder 7
Journals, typed, January-March 1993
Box 27 Folder 8
Writing, 1994
Box 27 Folder 9
Miwok workings, 1994
Box 27 Folder 10
The Brown Thrasher, 1994
Box 27 Folder 11
Journal, typed, 1994
Box 27 Folder 12
Introduction for Paul Elliott's book, 1994
Box 27 Folder 13
Writing, 1995
Box 27 Folder 14
Journal, typed, 1995
Box 27 Folder 15
Buddhism and the Beat Generation, for Tricycle, 1995
Box 27 Folder 16-17
Some Sketches from the Life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1996)
Box 27 Folder 18
The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation (1996), ed. Anne Waldman
Box 27 Folder 19
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (1996), pub. Conari Press

Restrictions Apply

Box 28 Folder 1
Writing, 1996
Box 28 Folder 2
A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation (1997), ed. Richard Peabody
Box 28 Folder 3
Writing, 1997
Box 28 Folder 4
Eine Neue Landkarte (1998)
Box 28 Folder 5
Writing, 1998
Box 28 Folder 6-8
Pátzcuaro (1999) - Includes original journal
Box 28 Folder 9
Writing, 1999
Box 28 Folder 10
Article on Bobbie Louise Hawkins for Lee Christopher's book, 1999
Box 28 Folder 11
Autobiographical, poetics and the Beats, 1999-2004
Box 29 Folder 1
Some Life (2000)
Box 29 Folder 2-3
Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 (2000)

Restrictions Apply

Box 29 Folder 4
The Real News, pub. in webzine Big Bridge (2000)
Box 29 Folder 5
Writing, 2000
Box 29 Folder 6
Memorial tribute to Edward Dorn, February 2000
Box 29 Folder 7
Introductions and blurbs, by Kyger for work of others, 2000-2010
Box 29 Folder 8-13
Again: Poems, 1989-2000 (2001)
Box 30 Folder 1-3
Again: Poems, 1989-2000 (2001)
Box 30 Folder 4
Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Hair: The Angel Hair Anthology (2001), eds. Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh
Box 30 Folder 5
Writing, 2001 January-August
Box 30 Folder 6
Writing, 2001 September-December
Box 30 Folder 7
Ten Shines (2002)
Box 30 Folder 8-10
As Ever: Selected Poems (2002)
Box 31 Folder 1-8
As Ever: Selected Poems (2002)
Box 32 Folder 1-3
As Ever: Selected Poems (2002)
Box 32 Folder 4-5
Writing, 2002-2003
Box 32 Folder 6
Pomegranate Syrup, 2003-2006
Box 32 Folder 7
The Distressed Look (2004)

Includes Coyote Books chapbook.

Box 32 Folder 8
God Never Dies: Poems from Oaxaca (2004)
Box 32 Folder 9
Detektivgeschichten der Leidenschaft (2005)
Box 32 Folder 10
Anne Waldman: The Early Years. Jacket Magazine (2005)
Box 32 Folder 11
"Thanks to David" and "Historic Afterglows", 2005
Box 32 Folder 12
Night Palace (2006)

Includes chaplet series broadside.

Box 32 Folder 13
Page proofs and correspondence from New, 2006
Box 32 Folder 14
Writing, 2006
Box 32 Folder 15
"Again," printed on a bookmark for Poetry Flash, 2006-2007
Box 32 Folder 16
Not Veracruz: Poems, January-March 2006 (2007)
Box 33 Folder 1
Not Veracruz: Poems, January-March 2006 (2007)
Box 33 Folder 2-9
About Now: Collected Poems (2007)
Box 34 Folder 1-10
About Now: Collected Poems (2007)
Box 34 Folder 11
Miscellaneous papers by Kyger, undated
Box 34 Folder 12
Miscellaneous blurbs written by Kyger, undated
Box 34 Folder 13
Poems - Italian translations, undated
Box 34 Folder 14
Notes

Collaborations

Box 47
In the Tunnel. Novel - Original typed on toilet paper, 1959

Written with Stan Persky.

Restrictions Apply

Box 34 Folder 15
In the Tunnel. Novel - User copy printed from scan
Box 34 Folder 16
The Current Fall Social World - Written with David Hazelwood, 1965
Box 34 Folder 17
1968-2005 and undated
Box 34 Folder 18
8 by 3 - Kyger with Lewis MacAdams and Anne Waldman, ca. 1970
Box 35 Folder 1
1971, December
Box 35 Folder 2
Fair to the Dragon - Written with Lewis MacAdams, 1976
Box 35 Folder 3
Naropa radio play, 1978
Box 35 Folder 4
Amsterdam Memoirs or The Sex Life of Lewis MacAdams - Written with Bill Berkson, 1978
Box 35 Folder 5
1982
Box 35 Folder 6
1998, September-October
Box 35 Folder 7
1999
Box 35 Folder 8
2001
Box 35 Folder 9
2003
Box 35 Folder 10
Full moon eclipse, October 27, 2004

The Other Side of the News, for Bob Grenier

Box 35 Folder 11
2005
Oversize FB-515 Folder 06
2005

WRITINGS OF OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) WRITINGS OF OTHERS: Poetry, reviews, essays, and articles, written about Joanne Kyger and her work. In most cases, files contain typescript drafts, annotated by Kyger, along with correspondence between Kyger and the author. The series includes a 1964 article published in Kado: Japanese Floral Art, that mentions Joanne Kyger's time learning flower arranging in Japan and includes an image of her work. Arranged alphabetically.

Box 35 Folder 12
Clark, Tom, 1968-1976

Keilty, James

Box 35 Folder 13
Script for play Ways of Spending Money. [Kyger played Elinor at Poetry Center Performance], ca. 1959

Restrictions Apply

Box 35 Folder 14
Script for play Honest Men, undated

Restrictions Apply

Box 35 Folder 15
Falk, Jane. Daily Practice, Writing Practice: Zen and the Poetry of Joanne Kyger, undated
Box 35 Folder 16
Levin, Nancy. Too Much Soy Sauce in This Recipe: A Study of Joanne Kyger, 1993-1994
Box 35 Folder 17
Morgan, Tom and Tyler Doherty. For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals, 2005-2006
Box 35 Folder 18
Olson, Kirby. Joanne Kyger and the Tradition of Zen Beatitude, 2001
Box 35 Folder 19
Opstedal, Kevin. A Literary History of the San Andreas Fault: Bolinas Section, 1986-2001
Box 35 Folder 20
Penton, Jonathan. Untitled - [Describes a visit to Bolinas and meeting Joanne Kyger], ca. 2002
Box 35 Folder 21
Russo, Linda. Various papers on Kyger, some annotated by Kyger, undated
Box 35 Folder 22
Smith, Dale. Various articles written about Kyger, undated
Box 36 Folder 1
Wagnon, Drew. Handmade book for Joanne and Jack Boyce, 1966
Box 36 Folder 2
Westerfield, Lauren. Exploding the Walls Against the Pattern: Conversations and Consensus in Joanne Kyger's The Tapestry and the Web, 2007
Box 36 Folder 3
Unidentified author. Foreign Students Studying at the Training Center of the Ikenobo Headquarters. Article in Kado: Japanese Floral Art, no. 5, 1964
Box 36 Folder 4
Various authors. Writings about Joanne Kyger, ca. 1979-2000
Box 36 Folder 5
Introductions and blurbs about Joanne Kyger, 1969-2007
Box 36 Folder 6
Poems written for or about Joanne Kyger, 1973-1989
Box 36 Folder 7
Miscellaneous book reviews, 1966-2003

OTHER PROJECTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) OTHER PROJECTS: The series pulls together Kyger's activities outside of, but often still related to, writing. Arranged in three subseries: A) Readings, B) Teaching, and C) Miscellaneous Projects.

A) Readings: Correspondence, notes, posters, announcements, programs, and ephemera related to conferences and spoken word events Kyger participated in between 1965 and 2007. The folders are arranged chronologically with undated material filed at the end of the subseries.

B) Teaching: Material related to classes and workshops taught by Kyger on writing, journaling, and poetry from 1967-2003. Arranged chronologically, materials include class notes, correspondence, reference material, and ephemera.

C) Miscellaneous Projects: Materials documenting art, poetry, and editing projects in which Kyger participated. Editing projects include issues of the poetry journals Wild Dog and Turkey Buzzard Review, as well as local newspaper the Bolinas Hearsay News. Also contains materials related to the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET). Kyger created the video piece Descartes (1968) while working at the NCET as an artist in residence.

Readings

Box 36 Folder 8
Various readings, 1965-1999
Box 36 Folder 9
Berkeley Poetry Conference, July 12-14, 1965
Box 36 Folder 10
The KPFA Poetry Festival, UC Berkeley, May 14, 1977
Box 36 Folder 11
Poetry Tonight! Everyone's Bosom Buddies from Bolinas, October 21, 1977
Box 36 Folder 12
P78 One World Poetry, Amsterdam, September 11-16, 1978
Box 36 Folder 13
Bisbee Poetry Festival, August 24-26, 1979
Box 36 Folder 14
Intersection Poetry and Prose Series, "Projectivist Sources: A Panel Discussion", September 19, 1983
Box 36 Folder 15
Poets on Poetry at the Boise Gallery of Art, June 6, 1984
Box 36 Folder 16
Bolinas Library poetry readings, ca. 1984-1988
Box 36 Folder 17
Taos Poetry Circus, 1985-1994
Box 36 Folder 18
Eco-Poetry Round Up: Benefit Reading to Save the Blue Coral Reef of Shiraho, Okinawa, 1988 June 3
Box 37 Folder 1
Friends of the KU Poetry Collection, First Annual Reading Series, 1989 March 29
Box 37 Folder 2
Festival of Literary Arts, Bolinas, CA, 1989 April 1 - May 31
Box 37 Folder 3
Sacramento Poetry Center Writers' Conference, 1993 October 15-16
Box 37 Folder 4
The Beat Generation: Legacy and Celebration, 1994 May 17-22
Box 37 Folder 5
The Recovery of the Public World: A Conference and Festival in Honour of Robin Blaser..., 1995June 1-4
Box 37 Folder 6
Fast Speaking Women: A Celebration of the Women of the Beat Generation, 1997November 6-7
Box 37 Folder 7
Northwest Spokenword LAB, 1998 March 6
Box 37 Folder 8
European Reading Tour, 1998
Box 37 Folder 9
Beat and the Spiritual Quest, Walker Art Center, 1999 October 24
Box 37 Folder 10
SUNY Buffalo and Queens College, 1999
Box 37 Folder 11
Various readings, 2000-2007
Box 37 Folder 12-13
Reading tour in Italy, 2001
Box 37 Folder 14
Bumbershoot Literary Arts Program, 2002 August
Box 37 Folder 15
Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States, 2002 October 10-12
Box 37 Folder 16
Miami Book Fair International, 2002 November
Box 37 Folder 17
8th Annual Books by the Bay, 2003 July 19
Box 37 Folder 18
Transatlantic Howl: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, 2004 October 14
Box 37 Folder 19
Sixth Annual Allen Ginsberg Memorial Open Mic Poetry Marathon, 2004 April 3-4
Box 37 Folder 20
Is Poetry Enough? Poetry in a Time of Crisis - Panel discussion, 2004 April 17
Box 37 Folder 21
The Heart is a Quarter Pounder: A Tribute to Jeffrey Miller, 2005 July 29
Box 37 Folder 22
Willits, California, 2005 August 19
Box 38 Folder 1
A Poet in Buffalo: A Community Celebration of the Life and Work of Robert Creeley, 2006 May 20-21
Box 38 Folder 2
Robert Creeley: A Symposium on His Poetry and His Place in American Letters, 2005 November 5
Box 38 Folder 3
Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, 2006 September 8-10
Box 38 Folder 4
University of California, Berkeley Lunch Poems reading series, 2007 April 5
Box 38 Folder 5
Reading at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM, 2007 May 10
Box 38 Folder 6
California State University, San Marcos, 2007 November 15

Various readings

Oversize MC-011-23
undated
Box 38 Folder 7
undated

Teaching

Box 38 Folder 8
Poets in Residence Program, New York, 1967
Box 38 Folder 9
Indian Stories, ca. 1980-1982
Box 38 Folder 10
Compassion for Place, Naropa, 1981
Box 38 Folder 11
Poetics Workshop, New College, 1990 fall
Box 38 Folder 12
Independent studies instructor, New College, 1997 October-December
Box 38 Folder 13
Journal class, Mesa House, 2001 May
Box 38 Folder 14
The Journal as Home: Keeping the World in a Notebook, Zen Mountain Monastery, 2003
Box 38 Folder 15
Historical writing workshop, Boulder, CO, undated

Miscellaneous Projects

Box 38 Folder 16
Wild Dog, co-edited by Kyger, 1965

The National Center for Experiments in Television

Box 38 Folder 17-18
Notes and writing, 1967-1968
Box 39 Folder 1
Flip Poem Garden, KQED, 1967
Box 39 Folder 2
Articles and ephemera, 1968-2000
Box 39 Folder 3
Pacific Film Archive - Correspondence and notes, 2000
Box 39 Folder 4
Correspondence with Jane Falk - Includes Falk's paper, 2005-2006
Box 39 Folder 5
California Video exhibit at the Getty, 2007-2008
Box 39 Folder 6
Miscellaneous materials
Box 39 Folder 7
Bolinas Hearsay News, 1975-2004
Box 39 Folder 8
Turkey Buzzard Review, ca. 1978-1979
Box 39 Folder 9
Stories from the Land project, Bolinas Museum, 1990
Box 39 Folder 10
Poetry group, Bolinas, 1998
Box 39 Folder 11
Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions, 1954-2004 - Exhibit at the California Historical Society, 2005 December 11 - April 16
Box 39 Folder 12
Recent Visitors: Poets and Publishing on the Bolinas Scene in the Seventies - Exhibit at the Book Club of California, 2006 January 30 - March 30

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) SUBJECT FILES: Newspaper clippings and ephemera. Subjects include poets Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen, as well as the Beat Generation and Bolinas, California. Miscellaneous ephemera is filed chronologically at the end of the series. The ephemera illustrates Kyger's life and interests over the years, from peace marches in the 1960s to poetry readings by friends. Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Box 39 Folder 13
Adam, Helen, 1967
Box 39 Folder 14
Beat Generation, 1960-2002
Box 39 Folder 15
Berrigan, Ted - Includes writing with and about Berrigan, 1982-1983
Box 39 Folder 16
Black Sparrow Press, ca. 1968-1977
Box 39 Folder 17
Bolinas, California, ca. 1969-1976
Box 39 Folder 18
Boyce, Jack, 1963-1966
Box 46
Burroughs, William "Billy," Jr. - Notes and beret, ca. 1977
Box 40 Folder 1
Creeley, Robert - Includes memorial poems and obituary, 2005
Box 40 Folder 2
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1996-1999

Ginsberg, Allen

Box 40 Folder 3
Clippings and ephemera
Box 40 Folder 4
Memorial tributes, 1997-1998
Box 40 Folder 5
Naropa Institute, 1975-1988
Box 40 Folder 6
Smith, Harry, 1991-2002

Snyder, Gary

Box 40 Folder 7
Clippings, ca. 1959-2007
Oversize FB-515 Folder 07
Ephemera, 1962
Box 40 Folder 8
Ephemera, 1962-1985
Box 40 Folder 9
Weird stories

Whalen, Philip

Box 40 Folder 10
Writings by Whalen
Box 40 Folder 11
Ten Titanic Etudes - Includes Kyger's introduction
Box 40 Folder 12
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (2007) - Includes Kyger's endorsement and reader report
Box 40 Folder 13
Writings of others, about Whalen
Box 40 Folder 14
Ephemera, ca. 1965-2007
Oversize FB-515 Folder 08
Ephemera, 1978-2002
Box 40 Folder 15
Posthumous material - Includes correspondence regarding Whalen's health, obituaries and memorial poems, 2000-2003
Box 40 Folder 16
Notes for memorial piece in Poetry Project Newsletter, 2002

Miscellaneous ephemera

Box 40 Folder 17
ca. 1958-1959
Box 40 Folder 18
Ephemera collected in Japan, ca. 1960-1963
Box 41 Folder 1-4
1960-2005 and undated
Oversize FB-515 Folder 08
Undated
Oversize MC-011-24
Undated

IMAGES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) IMAGES: Arranged in two subseries: A) Artwork and B) Photographs.

A) Artwork: Drawings and sketches made by Joanne Kyger and friends. The subseries includes work by Bill Berkson, Tom Field, Nemi Frost, and Arthur Okamura, as well as collaborative drawings and sketchbooks comprised of work by several artists. One drawing of particular interest is a pen and ink drawing depicting Blabbermouth Night at The Place in San Francisco. The drawing has no identified artist and is located with the oversize, unidentified artwork.

B) Photographs: Images include snapshots of Joanne Kyger and other poets including Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. Also includes slides taken in 1972 by Roy Kiyooka labeled "A Day in Bolinas and San Fran. with Friends."

Artwork

Berkson, Bill

Box 41 Folder 5
Includes a graphite portrait of Joanne Kyger, undated
Oversize MC-011-26
1973
Box 41 Folder 6
Field, Tom, 1977

Frost, Nemi

Box 41 Folder 7
1958
Oversize FB-515 Folder 09
1958
Box 41 Folder 8
Hastings, Lee Adair, 1958
Box 41 Folder 9
McNeill, William, undated

Okamura, Arthur

Box 41 Folder 10
undated
Oversize MC-011-27
Silkscreens by Okamura and Kyger, undated
Box 41 Folder 11
Whalen, Philip, 1964-1965

Sketchbook collaborations

Box 41 Folder 12
Undated
Oversize FB-515 Folder 10-11
Undated
Box 41 Folder 13
Dinner table collaborations, undated
Box 41 Folder 14
Rabbits and tigers, by Arthur O., Don, Jack, etc., 1984-1987
Box 45
New Year's Eve collaboration at Robert Grenier's, 1993

Rolled banner

Box 41 Folder 15
Miscellaneous collaborations, undated
Box 41 Folder 16
Miscellaneous and unidentified drawings
Oversize FB-515 Folder 12-13
Miscellaneous and unidentified drawings

Photographs

Box 41 Folder 17
Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich, 2000
Box 41 Folder 18
Ginsberg, Allen, 1977-1997
Box 41 Folder 19
Various poets, including Antler, Jeff Poniewaz and Gary Snyder, ca. 1977-1997
Box 41 Folder 20
Kyger and friends in Bolinas and San Francisco - Slides, 1972 summer

SOUND RECORDINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) SOUND RECORDINGS: Arranged in two subseries: A) Reel-to-Reel, and B) Cassettes. Original audiovisual media is restricted; researchers may request listening copies in advance of their visit.

A) Reel-to-Reel: Poetry readings by Joanne Kyger and other poets from 1966 to 1973. Many of the recordings have minimal descriptions.

B) Cassettes: Poetry readings and spoken word events by Joanne Kyger, Robert Duncan, Lewis MacAdams, Gary Snyder, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and many other poets from 1971 to 2002.

Reel-to-Reel

Box 42 Folder 1
Berkeley Poetry Conference. Ron Loewinsohn, Joanne Kyger, Lew Welch, 1966 July 24

Restrictions Apply

Box 42 Folder 2
Joanne [Kyger], "kitchen, dialogue, ramblings", 1967 Fall

Restrictions Apply

Box 42 Folder 3
Practice reading, 6/29; Koller and Cassandra, evening, 1968 October

Restrictions Apply

Box 42 Folder 4
Jack Spicer reading, [Ebbe reading ?], 1969

Restrictions Apply

Box 42 Folder 5
Lewis [?], 1970 May

Restrictions Apply

Box 42 Folder 6
Joanne Kyger, 1971 December 21

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Box 42 Folder 7
Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger, Ed Dorn. San Francisco, 1973 August 31

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Box 42 Folder 8
Joanne's experimental Boukla [?], July

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Box 42 Folder 9
John Wieners' Asylum Poems, October 29

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Box 42 Folder 10-26
Unidentified recordings, undated

17 sound recordings with illegible, blank, or very minimal container description.

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Cassettes

Box 43 Folder 1
Joanne, Arthur, Brody, and Tom Clark, ca. 1971

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Box 43 Folder 2
Anaïs Nin - The Art of Creative Writing. Kentfield, 1974

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Box 43 Folder 3
Jim Gustafson, Bolinas, 1975 July 8. Jim Gustafson and Robert Creeley, 1975 July 22

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Box 43 Folder 4
Bobbie Louise Hawkins, 1975 September 15

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Box 43 Folder 5
Jim Carroll, Lewis MacAdams, Duncan McNaughton, 1975 October 11

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Box 43 Folder 6
Wolfe, Carroll, Fox, Hawkins. Group reading, Bolinas, 1975 December 9

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Box 43 Folder 7
Robert Duncan, Naropa, 1978

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Box 43 Folder 8
Poltroon Press Benefit, S.F. Art Institute, 1982 July 10

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Box 43 Folder 9
Kyger/Bromige/Grenier - Projectivist Sources, Intersection, 1983 September 19

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Box 43 Folder 10
Joanne Kyger reading at Simon Fraser University, 1985 February 26

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Box 43 Folder 11
Joanne Kyger, Bolinas Library, 1985 May 16

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Box 43 Folder 12
Championship Poetry Bout, Taos, New Mexico, 1985

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Box 43 Folder 13
Reading of No Difference Here. Book party, 1986

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Box 43 Folder 14-15
Eco-Poetry Round Up [2 cassettes], 1988 June 3

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Box 43 Folder 16
Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Nanao Sakaki, Naropa Institute, 1990 July 9

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Box 43 Folder 17
Collom, Kyger, MacAdams. Reading, Naropa Institute, 1990 July 3

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Box 43 Folder 18
Steve Taylor, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Peter Rowan, Jerome Rothenberg, Anne Waldman. Reading, Naropa Institute, 1990 July 27

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Box 43 Folder 19
Angela Coon, Kimi Sugioka, Marilyn T. Collaboration, Cedar Alley, 1991 March 19

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Box 43 Folder 20
Kyger, Collom, Mac Low. Reading, 1991 July 6

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Box 43 Folder 21
Kyger, Guravich, Salazar, Hernandez Cruz. Naropa Summer Reading Series, 1992

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Box 44 Folder 1
Joanne Kyger and Bobbie Louise Hawkins, 1992 January

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Box 44 Folder 2
Bill Berkson, Duncan McNaughton. Bolinas Poetry Project, 1992 May 23

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Box 44 Folder 3
Kyger, Guravich, Cruz, Salara. Reading, 1992 July 21

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Box 44 Folder 4
Lewis MacAdams, Bolinas, 1993 December 9

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Box 44 Folder 5
Ken Irby, Berkeley, CA, 1999 August 1

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Box 44 Folder 6
Sidney Goldfarb and Philip Whalen. Reading, 1999 August 2

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Box 44 Folder 7
Ed Dorn: Radio Homage, 2000

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Box 44 Folder 8
Joanne Kyger, 2001 April 4

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Box 44 Folder 9
Joanne Kyger and Janine Pommy Vega, 2002 April 10

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Box 44 Folder 10
Robert Creeley and Larry Kearney, undated

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Box 44 Folder 11
David Bromige, undated

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Box 44 Folder 12
Larry Fagin, undated

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Box 44 Folder 13
Joanne Kyger and John Daly

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Box 44 Folder 14
Joanne Kyger/Poetics, undated

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Box 44 Folder 15
Duncan McNaughton, undated

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Box 44 Folder 16
Joanne Kyger, practice reading from On Time, undated

Accession Processed in 2021

JOURNALS/DIARIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) JOURNALS/DIARIES: Arranged in three subseries: A) General, B) Japan Journals and C) Mexico Journals. Arranged chronologically within the subseries, journals date from 1944 through Kyger's death in 2017. These journals span the breadth of Kyger's writing life and include her daily musings, poems, record keeping and artwork. Also included are her travel journals from Japan, India and Mexico.

General

Box 48 Folder 1
Diary, 1946-1951

"From Aunt Joe."

Box 48 Folder 2
Journal and diary pages, 1957-1959

Includes some correspondence and other notes related to "The Dharma Committee."

Box 48 Folder 3
Notebooks, 1956-1959

Includes reflection on peyote (three loose pages) and a birthday note.

Box 48 Folder 4
Calendar and reading list, 1959
Box 48 Folder 5-6
Notebooks, 1959

Includes draft letters to Gary Snyder and notes.

Box 49 Folder 1
Pocket notes, 1959-1960
Box 49 Folder 2
"Hideously important notebook full of rebellious facts", 1960 March - May
Box 49 Folder 3
Notebooks - Amusements and Important Notations, 1960
Box 49 Folder 4
Sketch book, 1960
Box 49 Folder 5
Journal pads, 1960 August - November
Box 49 Folder 6-7
Household expenses and cash book, 1960-1962
Box 49 Folder 8
Address books, ca. 1960-1970
Box 49 Folder 9
Journal pad, 1961 August
Box 50 Folder 1-2
Journals, 1963 January-October
Box 50 Folder 3
Calendars, 1963-1965
Box 50 Folder 4
Journal, 1964 September - 1965 June
Box 50 Folder 5-6
Journal pages, 1964-1965

Scrapbook materials including photographs, clippings, writing on dreams, poetry, and correspondence.

Box 50 Folder 7
Journal, 1966 February-September
Box 51 Folder 1-2
Journal, 1966-1968
Box 51 Folder 3
3 Days, New York City, 1966-1967
Box 51 Folder 4-5
Copies of Kyger's personal letters, 1966-1968

New York City and San Francisco.

Box 51 Folder 6
Expenses, 1967-1968
Box 51 Folder 7
Journal pages, 1967-1969
Box 51 Folder 8
"October effluvia", 1967-1968
Box 51 Folder 9
Journal - "Beach travel notebook", 1967-1969
Box 52 Folder 1
Drawing pad, 1969 March - September
Box 52 Folder 2
Journal, 1969 April-November
Box 52 Folder 3
Appointment book, 1969
Box 52 Folder 4
Composition notebook, 1969 December - 1970 March
Box 52 Folder 5-6
Calendars and address books, ca. 1970-1980

Includes some loose-leaf and hand-drawn calendars.

Box 52 Folder 7
Journal - "Text for Joanne", 1970
Box 53 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1970-1972

Includes drawings and sketches.

Box 54 Folder 1
Journal and pocket notebook, 1971-1972
Box 54 Folder 2
"A New England Journal", 1972

Includes poster artwork for a poetry reading and includes collage-like material.

Box 54 Folder 3
Chiapas journal, 1972 December - 1973 April

Includes pressed leaves and flowers.

Box 54 Folder 4
Journal and pocket notebook, 1972-1976

Includes 1976 material from San Cristobal.

Box 54 Folder 5
Journals, 1973-1974
Box 55 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1974-1976
Box 55 Folder 6
Arizona/Bolinas journal, 1976
Box 55 Folder 7
Journal pages, 1977
Box 56 Folder 1
Calendars, 1977-1978
Box 56 Folder 2-5
Journals, 1977-1979
Box 57 Folder 1-2
Journals, 1978-1980
Box 57 Folder 3
Book list and People's Store, ca. 1980-1990
Box 57 Folder 4
Appointment books, 1980 - 1984
Box 58 Folder 1-6
Journals, 1980-1981

Includes Davis trip.

Box 59 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1982-1983
Box 60 Folder 1-6
Journals, 1983-1984

Includes "After Yucatan" notes.

Box 61 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1984-1986

Includes notes from journal.

Box 62 Folder 1-4
Journals, 1986-1989

Includes "Our Trip to Laytonville," from 1987.

Box 62 Folder 5
Salt Point Collaboration drawing pad journal, 1988-1989

Jim Nesbit, Kate Dezina, Donald Guravich, and Joanne Kyger.

Box 63 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1988-1990

Includes Naropa, travel notes, and expenses, and "Camping with David" notes.

Box 64 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1990-1992

Includes some pocket notebooks.

Box 65 Folder 1-7
Journals, 1991-1992

Includes travel journal pages for Santa Barbara trip.

Box 66 Folder 1-4
Journals, 1992-1993

Includes travel journal on Klamath Mountains and various trips.

Box 67 Folder 1-4
Journals, 1993-1994
Box 68 Folder 1-4
Journals, 1994-1995

Includes "For Cass's Eyes Only: An Account of the Vancouver Visit."

Box 69 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1995-1996
Box 70 Folder 1-4
Journals, 1996-1997

Includes Bodega Bay diary.

Box 71 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1997-1998

Includes trip to Germany, Switzerland and Italy diary.

Box 72 Folder 1-5
Journals, 1998-1999
Box 73 Folder 1-6
Journals, 1999-2000
Box 74 Folder 1-5
Journals, 2000-2002

Includes journal entitled "Sunday" and travel journals.

Box 75 Folder 1-7
Journals and sketchbooks, 2000-2001

Includes desert trip, Boulder and "New Borders" journals.

Box 76 Folder 1-7
Journals, 2001-2002

Includes Canada, New York City, Seattle and "two trips" journals.

Box 77 Folder 1-6
Journals, 2002-2003
Box 77 Folder 7
Appointment book, 2003
Box 78 Folder 1-5
Journals, 2003-2004

Includes trip to Milwaukee diary and Humboldt Redwoods sketchbook.

Box 79 Folder 1-6
Journals, 2004-2005

Includes trip to Humboldt Redwoods sketchbook and diary, Naropa and trip to Utah pocket notebook.

Box 80 Folder 1-8
Journals, 2005-2006

Includes "Joko Dave" and "Trip South" journals and sketchbooks.

Box 81 Folder 1-6
Journals, 2006-2008

Includes artwork and clippings 2006-2008.

Box 82 Folder 1-7
Journals, 2007-2009

Includes Hollister trip notes.

Box 83 Folder 1
Address book, 2009
Box 83 Folder 2-5
Journals, 2009-2010
Box 84 Folder 1
Address book, ca. 2010-2015
Box 84 Folder 2-5
Journals, 2010-2011

Includes Salt Point, Fort Brigg and Santa Barbara trips sketchbook.

Box 85 Folder 1-6
Journals, 2011-2013

Contains excerpt from "Homage to Etel Adnan."

Box 86 Folder 1-7
Journals, 2013-2015

Includes Santa Barbara trip notebook.

Box 87 Folder 1-6
Journals, 2014-2016
Box 88 Folder 1-4
Journals, 2016-2017

Includes "Daily Important Items and notes" pocket notebook.

Box 88 Folder 5
Journals, undated

Includes pocket notebooks.

Box 89 Folder 1-4
Miscellaneous journals, ca. 1985-2005 and undated

Nature journals, handmade journal, pocket notes and sketches in Tiffany catalog.

Box 90 Folder 1-4
Sketchbooks, 1987-2000

Large drawing pads of artwork, cartoons, and notes.

Box 91 Folder 1-8
Sketchbooks, 2001-2005

Large drawing pads of artwork, cartoons, and notes.

Japan Journals

Box 90 Folder 5
Kyoto notebooks, 1960-1962

3 original notebooks from Kyger's time in Japan.

Box 90 Folder 6
Flower arranging lessons and sketches, 1960

Includes brief correspondence.

Box 90 Folder 7
Japan wedding to Gary Snyder - Journal entries and publicity, 1960

Contains newspaper clippings and copy of marriage certificate.

Box 90 Folder 8
"Mother of the Buddha, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Sun", 1962

Hand lettered poem by Kyger.

Box 90 Folder 9
Journal pages - Dreams, 1963
Box 90 Folder 10
Japanese ephemera, undated

Includes calligraphy sample.

Box 90 Folder 11
Notes - Folk art in Japan, undated
Oversize MC-011-28
Rubbings from India and Japan, some with Kyger's seal/chop, ca. 1960-1964

Mexico Journals

Box 92 Folder 1-6
Chiapas, Mexico City, and Veracruz, 1997-2007
Box 92 Folder 7-8
Oaxaca, 1981-1985
Box 93 Folder 1-8
Oaxaca, 1997-2011
Box 94 Folder 1-5
Oaxaca, 2011-2014
Box 94 Folder 6-12
Oaxaca - Ephemera, artwork, poems and research, 1997-2014

Includes ephemera, artwork, notes, poems and travel correspondence.

Box 95 Folder 1-9
Patzcuaro and Yucatan, 1984-1990

Includes script titled "Evenings in Progreso," typed copies of the journal entries, Spanish lessons and "Adventures of the Kidos."

Box 96 Folder 1-9
Patzcuaro and Yucatan, 1990-2000
Box 97 Folder 1-3
Patzcuaro and Yucatan, 2000-2001
Box 97 Folder 4
"Mexico Journal", 1993

Journal by Bill Scheffel.

Box 97 Folder 5-7
Mexico notes, ephemera, and artwork, 1986-2000

Includes a 1998 copy of Hearsay News that was written and edited in Patzcuaro.

Box 97 Folder 8
Luminous Details workshop (presented by Great River Arts Institute), 1999-2000

Includes schedule, correspondence and works for "17 Ibarra," an anthology of writing from the workshop.

Box 97 Folder 9
"Mi Canto es Sincero", 2000

Poem with drafts, possibly for "17 Ibarra."

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) BIOGRAPHICAL: Arranged alphabetically, materials document Kyger's private and professional life. Includes Kyger's baby book, juvenilia, writings and mementos from her early school life, various certificates and awards, and memorial materials.

Box 98 Folder 1
Autobiographical statements, 1981-2015
Box 98 Folder 2
Awards - Small Press Traffic Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005
Box 98 Folder 3-4
Baby book and childhood ephemera, 1932-1942
Box 98 Folder 5
Certificates - Birth certificate, citizenship and marriage certificates, divorce papers, 1934-1966
Box 98 Folder 6
Clippings - School achievements, ca.1945-1957
Box 98 Folder 7
Drawing of Kyger - Portrait in charcoal, signed Spetsas [?], undated
Box 98 Folder 8
High School diploma, 1952
Box 98 Folder 9
I.D. cards, 1934-2014
Box 99 Folder 1
School certificates, 1950-1956
Box 99 Folder 2
School event programs, 1947-1056
Box 99 Folder 3-6
Junior High and High School newspaper articles written by Kyger, 1947-1952

Selected issues of "The Junior Post" and "The Forge" featuring Joanne Kyger's early writings.

Box 99 Folder 7-9
School papers and notebooks, 1949-1952
Box 100 Folder 1-11
School papers and notebooks, 1953-1956
Box 100 Folder 12-13
School friends - Photographs and notes, 1945-1955
Box 101 Folder 1-2
Yearbooks, high school - Santa Barbara High School, 1951-1952
Box 101 Folder 3-5
Yearbooks, college - UC Santa Barbara, 1954-1956
Oversize FB-562 Folder 8
Joanne Kyger: A Celebration of her life and work - Album/guestbook, 2017 July 22
Oversize FB-562 Folder 10
Joanne Kyger astrology chart, undated

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged in two subseries: A) Alphabetical, and B) Printed Emails.

A) Alphabetical correspondence includes cards and letters from friends, family and member of the poetry community. Correspondence is arranged by last name of correspondent and chronologically within folders and range in date from 1958-2018. Highlights include letters and cards from Bill Berkson, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Ann Waldman, Philip Whalen and others. Also included is a selection of cards, printed emails and letters of condolence to Kyger's husband Donald Guravich.

B) Printed Emails comprises of copies of email exchanges between Kyger with family and friends. These materials are arranged chronologically and date from 2008-2017.

Alphabetical

Box 102 Folder 1
A - Miscellaneous
Box 102 Folder 2
Adam, Helen, undated
Box 102 Folder 3
Adnan, Etel, 1997-1998
Box 102 Folder 4
Alcalay, Ammiel, 2005-2012
Box 102 Folder 5
Alexander, Paul, 2006-2013
Box 102 Folder 6
Alsup, Kelly, 2011
Box 102 Folder 7
Anderson, Jim, 2005
Box 102 Folder 8
B - Miscellaneous
Box 102 Folder 9
Bacon, Joe, 2008
Box 102 Folder 10
Baker, Deborah, 2006-2008
Box 102 Folder 11
Ballard, Micah, 2012
Box 102 Folder 12
Baude, Dawn-Michelle, 2008
Box 102 Folder 13
The Beat and the City, 2001

Production by Oswego State University of New York. Correspondents include Tom Kee and the actors. Also includes newsletter and production information.

Box 102 Folder 14
The Beat Generation Symposium, 2008 October 10-11

Regarding Joanne Kyger and Diane di Prima, keynote speakers.

Box 102 Folder 15
The Beats in India Symposium, 2008 June 14

Regarding poetry event presented by The Asia Society.

Box 102 Folder 16
Bedouin Books (M. D'Alessandro, Editor), 2004
Box 102 Folder 17
Beltrametti, Franco, 1992-1995
Box 102 Folder 18-21
Berkson, Bill, 1973-2011

Includes handmade birthday books.

Box 103 Folder 1-3
Berkson, Bill, 1973-2011

Includes handmade birthday books.

Box 103 Folder 4
Berkson, Lynn O'Hare, 198-2014
Box 103 Folder 5
Berrigan, Sandra, 1993-2013
Box 103 Folder 6
Boldt, Lindsey, 2015-2016
Box 103 Folder 7
Boren, Greg, 2013

Regarding Irene Taverner.

Box 103 Folder 8
Borregaard, Ebb, 2016
Box 103 Folder 9
Botto, Ken, 1967-2005

Includes memorial materials, photographs and artwork, including drawing of Joanne Kyger.

Box 103 Folder 10
Boyce, Jack, 1972-1973

Regarding his estate.

Box 103 Folder 11
Brandi, John and Renee, 2013
Box 103 Folder 12
Brazil, David and Sara Larsen, 2015-2016
Box 103 Folder 13
Brownstein, Michael, 198, 2017
Box 103 Folder 14
Buckmaster, Linda, 2008
Box 103 Folder 15
C - Miscellaneous
Box 103 Folder 16
Callahan, Bob, 1978
Box 103 Folder 17
Castree, Genevieve, 2012-2013
Box 103 Folder 18
Clark, Tom, 2007
Box 103 Folder 19
Clarke, Cass, 1988-2003
Box 103 Folder 20
Clarke, John (Jack), 1980-1990
Box 103 Folder 21
Collom, Jack, 2011-2014
Box 103 Folder 22
Columbia Poetry Review, 2008
Box 103 Folder 23
Columbia University Press, 2016
Box 103 Folder 24
Corson, Madeleine, 2009
Box 103 Folder 25
Creeley, Robert, 1988, undated
Box 103 Folder 26
D - Miscellaneous
Box 103 Folder 27
Delbos, Stephan, 2014

Regarding Donald Allen and New American Poetry Anthology.

Box 103 Folder 28
Dewhurst, Robert, 2012

Regarding research on John Wieners.

Box 103 Folder 29
Dia Foundation, 2017

Regarding readings in Contemporary Poetry Anthology.

Box 103 Folder 30
Dill, Morgan, 2008
Box 103 Folder 31
Dimitrov, Alex, 2016
Box 103 Folder 32
Di Prima, Diane, 2006, 2009

Includes two poems, signed.

Box 103 Folder 33
Dorn, Jennifer, 2011
Box 103 Folder 34
Doss, John and Steve Dickinson, 2004-2005

Regarding Donald Allen.

Box 103 Folder 35
Duncan, Robert, 1958-1965

Typed transcriptions of letters to Duncan from Kyger.

Box 103 Folder 36
Du Plessis, Klara, 2010-2011
Box 103 Folder 37
E - Miscellaneous
Box 103 Folder 38
Earnheart-Gold, Tobi, 2014

Regarding library poetry reading.

Box 103 Folder 39
Edwards, Ernie, 2005
Box 103 Folder 40
Ellingham, Lewis, 1983-2014
Box 103 Folder 41
Eshelman, Clayton, undated

Draft of letter by Kyger.

Box 103 Folder 42
F - Miscellaneous
Box 104 Folder 1
Fagin, Lawrence, 2013
Box 104 Folder 2
Fass, Deborah, 2012-2013
Box 104 Folder 3
Fattal, Simone, 2005-2014
Box 104 Folder 4
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 2007

Postcards.

Box 104 Folder 5
Fisher, Catherine, 2009

Regarding Café Review submission.

Box 104 Folder 6
Fleming, David and Jeanne Lance, 2006
Box 104 Folder 7
Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Chelsea Keys), 2014
Box 104 Folder 8
Franklin, Neshama, 2013-2014
Box 104 Folder 9
Fraser, Alison, 2014
Box 104 Folder 10
Friedland, Susan, 2009
Box 104 Folder 11
Friedman, Amy, 1998-2008

Includes "Joanne Kyger, Beat Generation Poet," "A Porcupine traveling at the Speed of Light," and "Being Here as Hard as I Could." Articles by Friedman about Kyger.

Box 104 Folder 12
G - Miscellaneous
Box 104 Folder 13
Gach, Gary, 2013
Box 104 Folder 14
Gander, Forrest, 2014
Box 104 Folder 15
Garland, Peter, 2008-2017
Box 104 Folder 16
Gilman, Josh, 2008
Box 104 Folder 17
Ginsberg, Allen, 1969-1990

A small selection of cards and letters.

Box 104 Folder 18
Ginsberg, Allen, 1960

Copies of letters to Bill Morgan.

Box 104 Folder 19
Golden, Alissa, 2014
Box 104 Folder 20
Goldfarb, Sidney, 2012-2014
Box 104 Folder 21
Goodyear, Dana, 2008
Box 104 Folder 22
Greenlight Press (Kaye McDonough), 1978
Box 104 Folder 23
Grenier, Robert, 2010-2013
Box 104 Folder 24
Guravich, Donald, 2017-2019
Box 104 Folder 25-30
Guravich, Donald - Letters of condolence, A-F, 2017-2018

Includes copies of email correspondence to Guravich's friends and family.

Box 105 Folder 1-15
Guravich, Donald - Letters of condolence, G-Z, 2017-2018
Box 106 Folder 1
Gustafson, Jim, 1978
Box 106 Folder 2
H - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 3
Hagin, Bowie, 2012-2013
Box 106 Folder 4
Hans [?], 1982
Box 106 Folder 5
Hastings, Lee, 1960-1962

Includes airmail letters from Kyger and Gary Snyder.

Box 106 Folder 6
Heilig, Steve, 2008-2013
Box 106 Folder 7
Higdon, Hailey, 2016-2017
Box 106 Folder 8
Hill, Owen, 2013
Box 106 Folder 9
Hollo, Anselm, 1990
Box 106 Folder 10
Hollo, Anselm and Jane Dalyrymple-Hollo, 2013
Box 106 Folder 11
Hyner, Stefan, 2010-2016

Includes art and ephemera.

Box 106 Folder 11
I - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 12
Irby, Kenneth, 2001
Box 106 Folder 13
J - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 14
Jacobsen, Colter, 2014
Box 106 Folder 15
Jennings, Christopher, 2015-2016
Box 106 Folder 16
Jones, Jamey, 1996-1997
Box 106 Folder 17
K - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 18
Killian, Kevin, 1998
Box 106 Folder 19
Killion, Tom, 2014-2015
Box 106 Folder 20
Klein, Lucas, 2014

Regarding translation of Burton Watson.

Box 106 Folder 21
Koller, Jim, 1983-2013
Box 106 Folder 22
Kuhn, Ryan, 1997

Includes interview with Kyger and a few poems from his self-published chapbook.

Box 106 Folder 23
L - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 24
Lawless, Gary (Blackberry Books), 2008

Regarding the Nanao Sakai collection.

Box 106 Folder 25
Lee, Joe, undated

Includes photos of Bob Le Vigne and copy of Hope Savage drawing by Bob La Vigne.

Box 106 Folder 26
Liu, Waverly, 2014

Regarding the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance exhibit.

Box 106 Folder 27
M - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 28
MacAdams, Lewis, 2008-2013
Box 106 Folder 29
MacAdams, Phoebe, 2013
Box 106 Folder 30
Malone, Eric, 2012

Regarding Scrambda #3.

Box 106 Folder 31
Mallmann, Jerome, 2006-2013
Box 106 Folder 32
Manson, Jeffrey, 2013
Box 106 Folder 33
Martin, C. J., 2015 July 31
Box 106 Folder 34
McCune, Marianne, 2015

Regarding Beat Poets walking tour.

Box 106 Folder 35
McNaughton, Duncan, 2005-2013
Box 106 Folder 36
McNaughton, Genie, 2008, 2013
Box 106 Folder 37
McQuaid, Diana, 1984-2008
Box 106 Folder 38
MillAr, Jay (Toronto New School of Writing), 2011-2012
Box 106 Folder 39
Mills, Suzie, 2008
Box 106 Folder 40
Montgomery, John and Laura Peterson, 1991-1994
Box 106 Folder 41
Moore, William (Bill) and Bill Berkson, 1996

Regarding the paintings of Tom Field.

Box 106 Folder 42
Morgan, Ted, 1985
Box 106 Folder 43
Morgan, William (Bill), 2008-2016

Regarding The Letters of Allen Ginsberg.

Box 106 Folder 44
Morgan, William (Bill), 2014

Regarding Peter Orlovsky reading at City Lights Bookstore.

Box 106 Folder 45
Moxley, Jennifer, 2010
Box 106 Folder 46
Mythos Fine Arts Gallery, 2011
Box 106 Folder 47
N - Miscellaneous
Box 106 Folder 48-52
Naropa University, 2000-2014

Various correspondence regarding: blog on Lew Welch, Richard Brautigan, and Lost and Found Series; poem in celebration of the Jack Kerouac School's 40th Anniversary; Summer Writing Program; workshop on Writing the Body/The Body Politic/Feminism and Gender; and the Audio Archive Project.

Box 106 Folder 53
National Endowment for the Arts, 1979
Box 106 Folder 54
Nelson, Paul, 2013-2014

Regarding Cascadia Poetry Festival.

Box 107 Folder 1
Nguyen, Hoa, 2008-2012
Box 107 Folder 2
Nichols, Miriam, 2014

Regarding Robin Blaser poetry.

Box 107 Folder 3
Nicosia, Gerald, 2012-2013
Box 107 Folder 4
Nightboat Books (Stephen Motika), 2014-2015

Regarding publication of Kyger's Japan and India journals.

Box 107 Folder 5
Nisbet, Jim, 2008-2013
Box 107 Folder 6
Nolan, Pat, 2011-2014
Box 107 Folder 7
O - Miscellaneous
Box 107 Folder 8
O' Donnell, Joshua, 2019
Box 107 Folder 9-10
Okamura, Arthur, 1980-2009

Includes correspondence about Okamura from others, artwork and ephemera.

Box 107 Folder 11
Okamura, Kitty, 2013
Box 107 Folder 12
Olin, Jeni, 199, undated

Includes poetry by Olin.

Box 107 Folder 13
Olson, Charles, 1968 September 27

Includes typescript of handwritten letter and copy of "A Curriculum of the Soul," by Olson.

Box 107 Folder 14
O'Malley, Matthew, 2010
Box 107 Folder 15-16
Opstedal, Kevin, 2004-2013
Box 107 Folder 17
Ozuma, Phoebe, 2011-2016
Box 107 Folder 18
P - Miscellaneous
Box 107 Folder 19
Palau, Charles, 2008-2013
Box 107 Folder 20
Patori, Jonathan, 2002

Includes "Visit to Nowhere."

Box 107 Folder 21
Peake, Channing, 1986
Box 107 Folder 22
Pettet, Simon, 1999-2016
Box 107 Folder 23
Plymell, Charles, 2010-2011

Includes ephemera and copies of poem "Santa Cruz."

Box 107 Folder 24
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 2013

Regarding Nanao Sakaki poetry event.

Box 107 Folder 25
The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), 2014
Box 107 Folder 26
The Poetry Foundation (Michael Slosek, Assistant Editor), 2014
Box 107 Folder 27
Point Reyes Bookstore (Steve Costa), 2011-2014
Box 107 Folder 28
Poniewaz, Jeff, 2008
Box 107 Folder 29
Porter, William, 2012
Box 107 Folder 30
Queens College of the City University of New York, English Language Institute, 1966-1967
Box 107 Folder 31
R - Miscellaneous
Box 107 Folder 32
Rashkis, Suzie, 2007-2008
Box 108 Folder 1
Ratnawati, Nani, 2008
Box 108 Folder 2
Reilly, J. N., 2008
Box 108 Folder 3
Rogers, Julie, 2013
Box 108 Folder 4
Rothenberg, Michael, 2002-2015
Box 108 Folder 5
Russo, Linda, 2010-2014
Box 108 Folder 6
S - Miscellaneous
Box 108 Folder 7
Safdie, Joe, 2003-2014
Box 108 Folder 8
Safdie, Sara, 2008-2012
Box 108 Folder 9
Saijo, Laura, 2011

Regarding Albert Saijo.

Box 108 Folder 10
Sakaki, Nanao, 1989
Box 108 Folder 11
Sand Dollar Books, 1976
Box 108 Folder 12
Sanders, Ed, 2008-2014
Box 108 Folder 13
Sardines Press (Roger Snell), 1999
Box 108 Folder 14
Sarsgard, John, 2013-2014
Box 108 Folder 15
Sasaki, Ruth Fuller, 1959

Letter to Gary Snyder.

Box 108 Folder 16
Schelling, Andrew, 2008-2015
Box 108 Folder 17
Schlesinger, Kyle, 2011-2012
Box 108 Folder 18
Schneider, David, 2010-2011
Box 108 Folder 19
Serendipity Books, 1972
Box 108 Folder 20
Shimoda, Brandon, 2012
Box 108 Folder 21
Sigo, Cedar, 1996-2016
Box 108 Folder 22
Simon Fraser University, 1972
Box 108 Folder 23
Simpson, Steve, 2008
Box 108 Folder 24
Skinner, Jonathan, 2003, 2013
Box 108 Folder 25
Smith, Dale, 2008-2012

Includes "A Personal Bibliography on Bolinas, CA" for Wave Books.

Box 108 Folder 26-27
Snyder, Gary, 1964-2016

Includes email, a few handwritten letters and copies of letters.

Box 108 Folder 28
Sottsass, Fernanda Pivano, 1980
Box 108 Folder 29
Spangler, Bud and Gwen, 2006-2007
Box 108 Folder 30
Spicer, Jack, undated

Copy of poem for "Kids" [Joanne Kyger].

Box 108 Folder 31
Stanley, George, 1999
Box 109 Folder 1
Steve [?], 2001-2004

Includes poems for Joanne and Donald, some intended for Heresay News publication.

Box 109 Folder 2
Suiter, John, 2002-2013
Box 109 Folder 3
T - Miscellaneous
Box 109 Folder 4
Takahashi, Ayako, 2009-2013

Includes interview and translations.

Box 109 Folder 5
Tinfish Press, 2014
Box 109 Folder 6
Unger, Brian, 2012

Regarding Philip Whalen.

Box 109 Folder 7
Valley-Fox, Anne, 2011-2012
Box 109 Folder 8
Van Aver, Philip, 2015
Box 109 Folder 9
W - Miscellaneous
Box 109 Folder 10
Wagstaff, Christopher and Glenn Todd, 2010-2011
Box 109 Folder 11-13
Waldman, Anne, 1983-2016

Includes correspondence regarding Waldman's 70th birthday and poem "Poetry Will Keep the World Safe," by Kyger.

Box 109 Folder 14
Warren, Kenneth, 1997
Box 109 Folder 15
Warsh, Lewis, 1972-1983
Box 109 Folder 16
Warshall, Peter, 1970-2012
Box 109 Folder 17
Wassef, Mirabelle, 2016
Box 109 Folder 18
Watsky, Paul, 2006-2013
Box 109 Folder 19
Weishaus, Joel, 2013
Box 109 Folder 20
Wesleyan University Press (Stephanie Elliott, Publicist), 2008
Box 109 Folder 21-26
Whalen, Philip, 1973-

Includes correspondence between Kyger and Whalen, copies of Whalen's correspondence with others, materials relating to the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen and correspondence regarding the Whalen Celebration.

Box 110 Folder 1
Wheeler, Jo, 2015
Box 110 Folder 2
Whitefield Breedlove, Nancy, 1998

Regarding memorial.

Box 110 Folder 3
Whittington, Nicholas James, 2011-2012

Regarding Oaxaca Journals.

Box 110 Folder 4
Wieners, John "Pip", 1958
Box 110 Folder 5
Wolfe, Michael, 1984
Box 110 Folder 6
Wright, C. D., 2014
Box 110 Folder 7
X, Y, Z - Miscellaneous
Box 110 Folder 8
Yardas, Mark, 2014-2015

Regarding Bill Yardas.

Box 110 Folder 9
Zeno, Jim, 2013
Box 110 Folder 10
Unidentified correspondents, 2008-2010
Box 110 Folder 11
Unknown correspondent from Germany, 2008-2010
Box 110 Folder 12-15
Birthday cards, 2011-2016
Box 110 Folder 16-19
Christmas cards, 2011-2016
Box 111 Folder 1
Christmas cards, 2016-2017

Printed Emails

Box 111 Folder 2-6
2008-2009

Printed copies of Kyger's email correspondence with colleagues and friends. Arranged chronologically.

Box 112 Folder 1-7
2010-2011

Printed copies of Kyger's email correspondence with colleagues and friends. Arranged chronologically.

Box 113 Folder 1-7
2011-2012

Printed copies of Kyger's email correspondence with colleagues and friends. Arranged chronologically.

Box 114 Folder 1-6
2013-2015

Printed copies of Kyger's email correspondence with colleagues and friends. Arranged chronologically.

Box 115 Folder 1-5
2015-2017

Printed copies of Kyger's email correspondence with colleagues and friends. Arranged chronologically.

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 12) WRITINGS: Arranged in two subseries: A) Chronological Files and B) Collaborations. Includes manuscript poems dated 1990–2017, including handwritten and typescript drafts, some with edits, notes and related correspondence. Highlights includes a selection of earlier examples of Kyger's writing from the late 1990s and multiple folders of Kyger's book On Time: Poems 2005–2014. Kyger's collaborations with other artists include Donald Guravich, Lewis MacAdams, Bob Grenier, Ken Botto, Arthur Okamura and others, dated from 1970-2017.

Chronological Files

Box 115 Folder 6
Naropa's Story, 1990-1999

Includes draft of "The Life of Naropa, for Ted Berrigan," and "Replacement Buddhas" published in Again: Poems 1989-2000. Includes drafts other short poems on Naropa and Buddhism.

Box 115 Folder 7
Anglos Part I and II, 2000-2001

Includes Patzcuaro trip writings.

Box 115 Folder 8
New Smell in the Writing Room (broadside from Moe's Books), 2001

Original poem copyright 1991.

Box 115 Folder 9
Day of the Dead, 2001
Box 115 Folder 10
Writings and artwork, 2002-2003

Mostly political in nature.

Box 115 Folder 11
Writing - Revisions of some 2003 poems, and various handwritten and typescript poetry drafts, 2003-2004
Box 115 Folder 12
Writing, 2005
Box 115 Folder 13
Writing, 2006
Box 116 Folder 1
Loose Renditions: Poems 2006-2007, 2007
Box 116 Folder 2
Round Ups, 2007

Short entries that reflect on events of the year.

Box 116 Folder 3-5
Lo & Behold: Household and Threshold on California's North Coast, 2009

Published as part of Voices from the American Land, Vol 1 Number 1, Winter 2009. Typescript drafts with edits, correspondence with editors, proofs.

Box 116 Folder 6
Permission By The Horns, 2008

Includes drafts and correspondence. Printed by Ungovernable Press (online).

Box 116 Folder 7
Seventy Seven Beautiful and Adorable Things - For Arthur Okamura's 77th birthday, 2009
Box 116 Folder 8
Writing, 2009
Box 116 Folder 9
Writing, 2010
Box 116 Folder 10
Writing, 2011

Includes poems and correspondence for The Poetry Project's publication, The Recluse. Includes a "round up" of the year. Includes writings describing a road trip taken to Hollister, CA.

Box 117 Folder 1
Peter Berg: An Excellent Lizard Man, 2011-2014

Contribution to The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg. Includes drafts and correspondence with editor, Cheryll Glotfelty.

Box 117 Folder 2
Writing, 2012

Includes "Sounds Abroad at Lassen," with correspondence from 2012 and handwritten draft from 1997. Also includes correspondence and poems for the Auerhahn Café Review.

Box 117 Folder 3
Fredericton Novel, 2012

Typescript draft of introduction and chapter outlines. Includes one poem by Donald Guravich.

Box 117 Folder 4
2012, 2013

Published by Blue Press. Includes typescript draft and correspondence.

Box 117 Folder 5
9 Spring Poems 2013, 2013

Published in Jung Journal. Includes drafts and correspondence.

Box 117 Folder 6
Field Work: Joanne Kyger, 2013

A chapbook of poetry, organized by Frank Smigiel and Kevin Killian, hand-produced by Andrew Kenower and Lara Durback. Also includes correspondence with Megan Brian and Andrew Kenower. Includes drafts for three selections of poems: Long Ago, Flash Forward, and Great Exceeding.

Box 117 Folder 7
Born Old: Joanne Kyger on Bruce Connor, 2013

Contribution to SF MOMA's Open Space Beyond Belief exhibit.

Box 117 Folder 8
Writing, 2013

Includes poems included in On Time.

Box 117 Folder 9
Writing, 2014
Box 117 Folder 10
Writing, 2015
Box 117 Folder 11
Eight Poems by Joanne Kyger in Slow Poetry in America, Issue #4, 2015-2016

Includes Joanne's copy of the publication, draft with edits, and correspondence with Dale Smith and Mike Cavuto.

Box 117 Folder 12
On Time: Poems 2005-2014, 2015

Includes publishing contracts with City Light Books.

Box 118 Folder 1-5
On Time: Poems 2005-2014, 2015

Includes correspondence, typescript drafts with edits and book layout notes.

Box 118 Folder 6
Writing, 2016
Box 118 Folder 7
Year of the Ram, 2016

Published by Omerta Publications. Includes typescript draft copy, correspondence and color proof.

Box 118 Folder 8
Writing, 2017
Box 118 Folder 9-10
There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, 2017

The inaugural book of Wave Book's interview series. Edited by Cedar Sigo. Includes drafts, notes, and correspondence.

Collaborations

Box 119 Folder 1
Short Plays, ca. 1970-1985

Includes works with Donald Guravich, Lewis MacAdams, and others.

Box 119 Folder 2
Christmas Day, 1996

With Bob Grenier, Donald Guravich and Ken Botto [?].

Box 119 Folder 3-4
Collaborations with Karly and Jim Zeno, 2000-2015

Handwritten and typescript drafts with artwork.

Box 119 Folder 5
News Bulletin from Sunday Afternoon, 2000

With Diane [Di Prima?]

Box 119 Folder 6
With the Day After the Beach, 2002

Written after a day at the RCA Beach in Bolinas with Cedar, Johnny, Ginger, and Rachel.

Box 119 Folder 7
Cucumber Dreaming of Tomato, 2002

Unsigned collaboration.

Box 119 Folder 8
Untitled booklet collaborations, 2002 May-September

Includes two collaborative booklets with sketches and writing.

Box 119 Folder 9
Sight Unseen, 2002 September

Unsigned collaboration.

Oversize FB-562 Folder 6
Collaboration - "Arthur on Evergreen"- Joanne Kyger and Arthur Okamura, 2003 May
Box 119 Folder 10
O.K. There We Are, 2003 November

Collaboration at Phoebe MacAdam's house.

Box 119 Folder 11
Short collaborations, 2004-2006

Includes work done on the Spring Equinox, Martin Luther King Day, and at Cedar Sigo's book party.

Box 119 Folder 12
Untitled booklet collaborations, 2008
Box 119 Folder 13
How Do We Start Again When We Can't Even See the Screen?, 2008 June

Collaboration at Phoebe MacAdam's house.

Box 119 Folder 14
Tremendulate #7, 2009

Published by Eric Malone. Typescript draft.

Box 119 Folder 15
Birthday week, 2010

With Simon Pettet.

Box 119 Folder 16-17
Collaborative journal entries, 2010-2011

Daily entries on sheets of paper, done with friends. These include drawings and writings.

Box 120 Folder 1-4
Collaborative journal entries, 2012-2016

Daily entries on sheets of paper, done with friends. These include drawings and writings.

Box 120 Folder 5
Amsterdam Souvenirs, 2016

Collaboration with Bill Berkson, originally created in 1978 during a trip to the One World Poetry Conference. Includes republications from 2016 and correspondence.

WORKS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 13) WORKS BY OTHERS: Arranged alphabetically, includes draft manuscripts by artists such as Bill Berkson, Joe Brainard, Robert Grenier, Frank O'Hara, Kevin Opstedal, Anne Valley-Fox, Anne Waldman and others. Also includes Peter Garland's Field Work: Encounters with Mexican Musics, 1997-2005 dedicated to Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich. Materials are dated ca. 1960-2016.

Box 120 Folder 6
Adamson, Robert - Poems for Joanne Kyger, 2007
Box 120 Folder 7
Armstrong, John - Notebook and photograph, ca. 1960-1970
Box 120 Folder 8
Ballard [?], Micah - Patzcuaro and Ecuador journals, 1985-1988
Box 120 Folder 9
Berkson, Bill - Serenade Poems and Prose: 1975-1989, 2000
Box 120 Folder 10
Berkson, Bill - Japan Notebook and Invisible Oligarchs, 2006
Box 120 Folder 11
Berkson, Bill - Memorial tributes, 2016
Box 121 Folder 1
Botto, Ken - The Little Book of Renaissance Painters, 2006

Chapbook published by Blue Press, with Introduction and notes by Donald Guravich.

Box 121 Folder 2
Brainard, Joe - Bolinas Journal, 1971

Kyger's copy.

Box 121 Folder 3
Bye, Reed - Join the Planets (blurb), 2004
Box 121 Folder 4
Falk, Jane - The Beats and Independent Film: A Different Cast of Characters, 2015

Draft and correspondence.

Box 122 Folder 1-6
Garland, Peter - Field Work: Encounters with Mexican Musics, 1997-2005, 2005

Dedicated to Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich.

Box 123 Folder 1-7
Garland, Peter - Field Work: Encounters with Mexican Musics, 1997-2005, 2005

Dedicated to Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich.

Box 121 Folder 5
Gogue, Barrett - Fingers in the Sawgrass or American Moon-Pie Blues, 2014
Box 121 Folder 6
Grenier, Robert and Stephen Ratcliffe - On Natural Language, 2011
Box 121 Folder 7
Grenier, Robert - Blurbs, 2012
Box 121 Folder 8
Holmes Bradley, Jon - An Evening With Big Joe and the Boys, 2006-2007
Box 121 Folder 9
Hoyem, Judith - Miura Issh? R?shi and The Wordless Teaching, 1995-2004
Box 121 Folder 10
Laughlin, Robert - Poem and drawing, undated
Box 121 Folder 11
MacAdams, Phoebe - Reading Joanne: Response to Joanne Kyger's On Time, 2015
Box 121 Folder 12
McClure, Joanna - Catching Light; Collected Poems, 2013

Includes blurb, correspondence, and table of contents only.

Box 121 Folder 13
O'Hara, Frank and Bill Berkson - Hymna of St. Bridget and Other Writings, 2001
Box 121 Folder 14
Opstedal, Kevin - World at Large, Poems: 1971-1978, 2010

Includes drafts of introduction to the book written by Kyger.

Box 121 Folder 15
Opstedal, Kevin - Pacific Standard Time, 2016
Box 124 Folder 1
Petroff, Stephen - Wild Gods Live Known and Selected Sightings of James Koller, 2007-2015
Box 124 Folder 2
Ratnawati, Nani - Sleep Poem Series and an Interview with Joanne Kyger, 2001, undated
Box 124 Folder 3
Rothenberg, Diane - Far East Journal, 1990
Box 124 Folder 4-7
Rothenberg, Michael - Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story, In Memory of a Banyan Tree, Real and False Journals, and Wildflowers for the Bullies, 2003-2016

Indefinite Detention includes correspondence and Kyger's drafts for a blurb. The Real and False Journals folder includes notes, correspondence, and introductory pages (not the full manuscript).

Box 124 Folder 8
Schelling, Andrew - Michoacan Journal, 1997
Box 124 Folder 9
Shaw, Judith - Relinquishing Immortality and Taking Chances (stories), ca. 2010-2015

Includes correspondence. Relinquishing Immortality was a working title.

Box 124 Folder 10
Sigo, Cedar - Stranger in Town, 2010

Includes drafts of blurb for the book written by Kyger.

Box 124 Folder 11
Smart, Christopher "Kit" - Of Jeoffry, His Cat" from Jubilate Agno, undated

Typed by Philip Whalen for Joanne Kyger.

Box 124 Folder 12
Stanley, George - A Tall Serious Girl, 2002

Correspondence regarding blurb.

Box 124 Folder 13
Terrill, Mark - Memo From Stonehouse, 2005

Includes correspondence and notes only.

Box 124 Folder 14
Valley-Fox, Anne - Nightfall, 2016

Includes drafts of blurb for the book written by Kyger.

Oversize FB-562 Folder 7
Waldman, Anne - Broadside, 2008
Box 124 Folder 15
Weiner, John - Poem and letter, 1984
Box 124 Folder 16
Zeno, Karly - Poems, 2002, undated
Box 124 Folder 17
Poetry written for Joanne Kyger in World Literature Today, 2006

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 14) SUBJECT FILES: Arranged alphabetically by topic, includes notes, newspaper clippings and ephemera. Subjects include poets Joe Brainard, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Notley, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Philip Whalen, and others. Also includes Kyger's notes and research on her lifelong interested in Buddhism and the practice of journal writing.

Box 125 Folder 1
Adam, Helen, 2004
Box 125 Folder 2
Adnan, Etel, 1993
Box 125 Folder 3
Alexander, Paul, 1989-2015

Includes a booklet of drawings by Alexander.

Box 125 Folder 4
Beltrametti, Franco, 1992-2002

Includes copies of Beltrametti's publication, "Mini."

Box 125 Folder 5
Berkson, Bill, 1992-2010
Box 125 Folder 6
Blaser, Robin, 1995

Includes copy of Mirage #43.

Box 125 Folder 7
Botto, Ken, 2008
Box 125 Folder 8
Boyce, Jack, 2010-2012

Includes correspondence with Christopher Wagstaff about Boyce research.

Box 125 Folder 9
Brainard, Joe, 2013

Contains correspondence with Joe Safdie concerning an article about Brainard.

Box 125 Folder 10
Brautigan, Richard, 2004-2005
Box 125 Folder 11
Brodey, Jim, 1993-1996

Contains poetry and memorial information.

Box 125 Folder 12
Brown, Bill - Tree planting and ashes ceremony, 1994

Contains booklet written by Kyger for the event.

Box 125 Folder 13
Buddhist history - Notes and research, 2006-2010
Box 125 Folder 14
Burroughs, William S., 1990, undated

Includes prompt for final paper for "Beat Class."

Box 125 Folder 15
Clark, Tom, 2+F29
Box 125 Folder 16
Corso, Gegory, 1979, undated

Includes writings about Corso by Burroughs, Ginsberg and Gordon Messing.

Box 125 Folder 17
De Angulo, Jaime, 1995-1996
Box 125 Folder 18
Dodge Luhan, Mabel and Jaime de Angulo - "Lawrence in Taos" research, 1996
Box 125 Folder 19
Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.), 1986-1991
Box 125 Folder 20
Dorn, Ed, 1975-2000

Includes issue of W'ORCs/ALOUD ALLOWED, Vol 14. #1, January/February, 2000.

Box 125 Folder 21
Dull, Harold and Spicer's Circle, undated
Box 125 Folder 22
Duncan, Robert, 2004
Box 125 Folder 23
Dunn, Joe, undated
Box 125 Folder 24
Everson, William, undated

Includes short biographical note on James Broughton.

Box 126 Folder 1
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1990-2004
Box 126 Folder 2
Field, Tom, 1886-1996

Contains artwork, an interview and photograph of ashes ceremony.

Box 126 Folder 3
Ginsberg, Allen, 1970-2003
Box 126 Folder 4
Hyner, Stefan, 2003
Box 126 Folder 5
Kaufman, Bob, 1991
Box 126 Folder 6
Kerouac, Jack, 1997, undated

Includes materials for the "Beat Class."

Box 126 Folder 7
Koller, James (Jim), 2007-2015

Includes correspondence, memorial materials, interview questions, and biographical works by Peter Garland.

Box 126 Folder 8
Lamantia, Philip, undated
Box 126 Folder 9
Levertov, Denise, 1991
Box 126 Folder 10
Lowell, Amy, undated
Box 126 Folder 11
Loy, Mina, 1991

Includes "Mina Loy and the Hot Cross Bum," by Hedy Berger.

Box 126 Folder 12
Mayo, Gui d' Angulo, 2000-2005

Includes correspondence.

Box 126 Folder 13
McClure, Michael, undated
Box 126 Folder 14
McNeill, William (Bill), 1977, undated

Includes photographs from an exibit of McNeil's artwork.

Box 126 Folder 15
Moore, Marianne, undated
Box 126 Folder 16
Neidecker, Lorine, undated
Box 126 Folder 17
Notley, Alice, 2000-2004
Box 126 Folder 18
O'Connor, Mike, undated

Includes information on poet Chia Toa whose works were translated by O'Connor.

Box 126 Folder 19
O'Hara, Frank, undated
Box 126 Folder 20
Okamura, Arthur, 2009
Box 126 Folder 21
Ortiz, Simon, 2005
Box 126 Folder 22
Porter, Bill, 1987-2004
Box 126 Folder 23
Practice of writing - Materials on Buddhism and journaling, 1997-2014
Box 126 Folder 24
Rexroth, Kenneth, ca. 1990
Box 126 Folder 25
Rukeyser, Muriel, undated
Box 126 Folder 26
Sabina, Maria, undated
Box 126 Folder 27
Saijo, Albert, 1996-1997

Includes correspondence from Saijo and "Last Days of Lew Welch."

Box 126 Folder 28
Sanders, Ed, 1991-2001

Includes "A Tribute to Sappho," and "Green Economics," by Sanders.

Box 127 Folder 1
Sims, Michael - Memorial, 1996
Box 127 Folder 2
Snyder, Gary, 1991-2014
Box 127 Folder 3
Spicer, Jack, 1970-1999

Includes teaching files with Jack Spicer.

Box 127 Folder 4
Stein, Gertrude, undated
Box 127 Folder 5
Waldman, Anne, 1970-2004

Includes "Sangha House: A Week in Verse."

Box 127 Folder 6
Welch, Lew, 1991-2004
Box 127 Folder 7
Whalen, Philip, 1990-2015
Box 127 Folder 8
Wieners, John, undated
Box 127 Folder 9
Williams, William Carlos, 1991-2004

Research focuses on Williams' books on Paterson, New Jersey.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 15) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Arranged in three subseries, include A) Readings, Poetry Events, and Interviews, B) Teaching and C) Miscellaneous.

A) Readings, Poetry Events, and Interviews include materials documenting Kyger's poetry readings and her participation in other professional events.

B) Teaching materials include syllabi and lecture notes, in-house publications and background research for Kyger's classes. Kyger taught at the Naropa Institute from 1977–2015, New College from 1998–2007 and Mills College in 2004.

C) Miscellaneous includes materials documenting art, poetry, and editing projects in which Kyger participated.

Readings, Poetry Events, and Interviews

Box 128 Folder 1
White Rabbit Press Symposium and Jack Spicer Conference, 1986

Includes notes and correspondence.

Box 128 Folder 2
Wedding speech - Officiating the wedding of Shannon Dawdy and Dan McNaughton, 1993
Box 128 Folder 3
Six Gallery, Jack Spicer reading, 1995
Box 128 Folder 4
The Bancroft Library Symposium - Ferlinghetti, City Lights, and the Beats in San Francisco, 1996
Box 128 Folder 5
Miscellaneous poetry readings, 1999-2016
Box 128 Folder 6
Material for Beat Generation panels, ca. 2000-2007
Box 128 Folder 7
Anne Waldman and Joanne Kyger poetry reading, 2002
Box 128 Folder 8
Beyond Baroque - Reading/workshop, 2003
Box 128 Folder 9
Nevada City poetry series, 2003
Box 128 Folder 10
Miscellaneous poetry readings, 2003-2004
Box 128 Folder 11
Watershed: Environmental Poetry Festival, 2005
Box 128 Folder 12
Robert Creely reading, 2006

Includes notes and correspondence with Colin Still.

Box 128 Folder 13
City Lights Bookstore, readings from "About Now", 2007
Box 128 Folder 14
Ed Dorn celebration readings, 2007
Box 128 Folder 15
Myokyo at Montreal - Zen Poetry Festival, 2008
Box 128 Folder 16
Miscellaneous poetry readings, 2008
Box 128 Folder 17
Introduction to Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye - Small Press Traffic poetry event, 2008
Box 128 Folder 18
The Pacific Rim Review of Books - "Collecting Kyger," interview by Trevor Carolan, 2008-2016

Includes ongoing correspondence with Trevor Carolan and draft interview.

Box 128 Folder 19
Beyond Baroque Summer Program - Poetry reading, 2008

Evening with Phoebe MacAdams and Joanne Kyger.

Box 128 Folder 20
Berkeley Public Library - 7th Annual Heaven Authors Dinner, 2008-2009
Box 128 Folder 21
Duende Poetry Series reading - Placitas, New Mexico, 2008-2009
Box 128 Folder 22
Poetry reading at the Otis College of Arts and Design, 2008-2009
Box 128 Folder 23
Poetry reading in Vancouver, 2009

Includes correspondence.

Box 128 Folder 24
Illuminating landscape series - Garden reading, 2009
Box 128 Folder 25
Reading with James Koller - Forest Books, 2009
Box 128 Folder 26
PEN Award, speaking engagement, 2009
Box 128 Folder 27
Anasazi Fields Winery, Evening with Joane Kyger and Donald Guravich, 2009
Box 129 Folder 1
Interview on Buddhist practice and writing by John Whalen-Bridge, 2009-2010
Box 129 Folder 2
Gary Snyder documentary film project and book tie-in, interview with Kyger, 2009-2010
Box 129 Folder 3
Interview with Jane Falk, 2009

Included in Falk's essays, "Two Takes on Japan," (which discussed both Kyger and Whalen, and "Joanne Kyger's 'Descartes and the Splendor of.'"

Box 129 Folder 4
Miscellaneous poetry readings, 2009-2010
Box 129 Folder 5
Poetry reading at Moe's Books, includes, 2010

Includes correspondence with Anne Valley Fox.

Box 129 Folder 6
Painters of The San Francisco Renaissance - interview with Paul Alexander, 2010
Box 129 Folder 7
Bolinas Library readings, 2010-2011
Box 129 Folder 8
Gallery 111 reading with Clive Matson, 2010-2011
Box 129 Folder 9
Reading/potluck with friends, 2011
Box 129 Folder 10
Interview by Alastair Johnson - "The Wonderful Focus of Joanne", 2011
Box 129 Folder 11-12
San Francisco MOMA: Living Room, reading - The Dharma Committee, 2011
Box 129 Folder 13
Poetry in Sausalito with Joanne Kyger and Clive Matson, 2011
Box 129 Folder 14
Interview with Zachary Clark, Where Magazine, 2011
Box 129 Folder 15
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Celebration - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2011-2012
Box 129 Folder 16
The Poetry Foundation - Creation of online poetry archive, 2011-2012

Includes correspondence.

Box 129 Folder 17
Homage to Etel Adnan, 2011-2012

Regarding website tribute to Adnan.

Box 129 Folder 18
Memorial reading for Peter Warshall, 2011-2013

Includes correspondence.

Box 129 Folder 19
Interview by Andrew Schelling, 2011-2014

Includes draft of introduction, questions and correspondence.

Box 129 Folder 20
Reading for Lew Welch's "Ring of Bone" release, 2012

Includes copy of Kyger's reading, correspondence, and "Out Looking for Lew: Bioregional Poetics and the Legacy of Lew Welch," article by Jerry Martien.

Box 129 Folder 21
The Poetry Center reading (with Lewis MacAdams and Kevin Opstedal), 2012

Includes correspondence and flyer for the event.

Box 129 Folder 22
The Poetry Project, New York City, reading, 2012
Box 130 Folder 1
An evening with Rufus Wainwright with a reading by Joanne Kyger, Henry Miller Memorial Library, 2012
Box 130 Folder 2
"Artists of the Buzz Gallery" reading - Mythos Gallery, 2012
Box 130 Folder 3
Big Sur poetry reading, 2012
Box 130 Folder 4
Naropa Institute reading notes, 2012
Box 130 Folder 5
Marin Poets Live, 2012-2013

Moderated by Neshama Franklin.

Box 130 Folder 6
Harriet Reading Series, Chicago, 2012-2013

Featuring poets from The Poetry Foundation's blog. Includes correspondence with Michael Slosek and John Suiter.

Box 130 Folder 7
Interview by Paul Watsky, 2013

Includes correspondence.

Box 130 Folder 8
"Robert Duncan in San Francisco", 2013
Box 130 Folder 9
Reading for Anselm Hollo's memorial, 2013

Includes poems requested for a memorial issue of Pallaksch poetry journal.

Box 130 Folder 10
Words and Places: Etel Adnan, exhibition opening, 2013
Box 130 Folder 11
Ed Dorn celebration readings: New Collected Poems, 2013
Box 130 Folder 12
Readings in Contemporary Poetry Series - Dia Art Foundation (New York City), 2013-2015

Includes correspondence with Vincent Katz and Megan Witko. Also includes small notebook.

Box 130 Folder 13-14
Richard Brautigan mini-symposium and memorial event, 2014
Box 130 Folder 15
Reading for Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems 50th Anniversary - The Poetry Center, 2014

Kyger was unable to attend, but annotated and prepared selections from "Lunch Poems" read by Gloria Frym.

Box 130 Folder 16
Seattle Cascadia Workshop, 2014
Box 130 Folder 17
Serpentine Galleries - Marathon event, 2014

Kyger was unable to attend, but contributed poetry read by Etel Adnan.

Box 130 Folder 18
Poetry reading notes, various, 2014
Box 130 Folder 19
Interview for Cascadia Poetry Festival, 2014-2015

Email interview conducted by Jeffrey Kahrs for the Cascadia Poetry Festival Website.

Box 130 Folder 20
Reissuing of The Japan and India Journals - Reading at Diesel Bookstore, 2015 January
Box 130 Folder 21
San Francisco Public Library, readings from "On Time", 2015
Box 130 Folder 22
Release, readings, reviews, and correspondence regarding "On Time", 2015
Box 130 Folder 23
San Francisco Weekly interview profile series (exchanges with Evan Karp), 2015
Box 130 Folder 24
Where Magazine (City Lights) interview, 2015
Box 130 Folder 25
The Poetry Center reading with Robert Adamson, 2015
Box 130 Folder 26
Interview of Kyger by David Chadwick, rewritten and edited by Kyger, 2015

Original interview took place in 1995.

Box 130 Folder 27
Commonweal interview, 2015
Box 130 Folder 28
Memorial reading for Joko Dave Haselwood, 2015
Box 130 Folder 29
Reading with Hoa Nguyen at Sonoma State University, 2015-2016
Box 131 Folder 1
Miscellaneous poetry readings, list of titles, 2015-2016
Box 131 Folder 2
Pompidou exhibition - The Beat Generation, reading, 2015-2016

Kyger completed an interview for the exhibition and contributed photographs and a letter for display. She was invited to do readings for the event in Paris but was unable to attend.

Box 131 Folder 3
Bolinas Poet's Portrait Show, 2015-2016
Box 131 Folder 4
Edits and blurb for From Almost Everywhere, Poetry at Bolinas Library event, 2015-2016
Box 131 Folder 5
"A Rangy Sense of Self: An Interview with Joanne Kyger," by Andrew Schelling, 2016

For inclusion in the Quo Anima Anthology, includes publishing agreement with Akron University Press.

Box 131 Folder 6
Commonweal 40th Anniversary - Thoreau event, 2016

Kyger read an excerpt from Thoreau's journals.

Box 131 Folder 7
PoemTalk (Al Filreis), 2016

Includes correspondence regarding an episode of PoemTalk and the poet Philip Whalen.

Box 131 Folder 8
Reading with Julien Poirier at Book Passage, 2016
Box 131 Folder 9
Beats and Beyond: A Gathering, 2016

Includes correspondence. Kyger was not able to attend the event.

Box 131 Folder 10
Broadside production for "Wild at Home: California Natives in the Garden a Celebration of Place", 2016
Box 131 Folder 11
Vegas Valley Book Festival, 2016
Box 131 Folder 12
New College of California, interview, 2016
Box 131 Folder 13-14
Poetry readings, Kyger's lists and notes, 1980-2016
Box 131 Folder 15
Poetry readings and events - Flyers and ephemera for various events, 1999-2016
Box 131 Folder 16
Poetry events, miscellaneous notes, 2003-2010
Box 131 Folder 17
Interview questions on feminism for Jess Holt, undated
Box 131 Folder 18
Gary Snyder events and poetry readings, flyers and promotion, undated

Teaching

Box 132 Folder 1
Naropa Institute, list of classes taught by Kyger, 1977-2015
Box 132 Folder 2-3
Lineage into the Pacific, Naropa Institute, 1977-1978
Box 132 Folder 4
University of Colorado Writers Conference, 1977
Box 132 Folder 5
Compassion for Place, Naropa Institute, 1981
Box 132 Folder 6
Lectures on Native People, New College, 1982
Box 132 Folder 7
Miscellaneous class materials, Naropa Institute, 1986
Box 132 Folder 8
Performance as Everyday Life, Naropa Institute, 1989
Box 132 Folder 9
How They Did It, Naropa Institute, 1990
Box 132 Folder 10
Pan-American Conference, 1990
Box 132 Folder 11
Miscellaneous class materials Naropa Institute, 1991
Box 132 Folder 12
Ephemera and calendars, Naropa Institute, 1991
Box 132 Folder 13
American Women in the Experimental Tradition, Naropa Institute, 1991
Box 132 Folder 14
Course on the Beats, Naropa Institute, 1991
Box 132 Folder 15
Chinese Poetry (Independent Studies), 1991
Box 132 Folder 16
Collected Poetics, Naropa Institute, 1991
Box 132 Folder 17
The Literary Tradition of Journal and Notebook Writing and Counter Poetics, Naropa Institute, 1992
Box 132 Folder 18
Journals of the New American Mythology Workshop. Pacific Arts Center/Naropa Institute, 1993
Box 132 Folder 19-23
Journal Writing Class, Naropa Institute - Includes student produced group journal, 1992-1993
Box 133 Folder 1-15
Journal Writing Class, Naropa Institute - Includes student produced group journal, 1994-2005
Box 134 Folder 1
Naropa 20th Anniversary Summer Program - Correspondence and ephemera, 1994
Box 134 Folder 2
Practice of Autobiographical Writing, Naropa Institute, 1994
Box 134 Folder 3
Dharma and Eco Poetics: Nature Writing, Naropa Institute, 1995-1998
Box 134 Folder 4
Naropa Institute Summer Writing Program - Correspondence, 1995-2010
Box 134 Folder 5
Narrations of Literary History, Naropa Institute, 1996
Box 134 Folder 6
Traveling class, Naropa Institute, 1997
Box 134 Folder 7
Poetry Writing Seminar, New College of California, 1998
Box 134 Folder 8-10
The Beats and Buddhism, Naropa Institute, 1998-1999
Box 134 Folder 11
Naropa Institute, 25th Anniversary - Correspondence and ephemera, 1999
Box 134 Folder 12
Journal Writing Class, Bolinas, 2000
Box 134 Folder 13
Writing Your Life: Journals and Notebooks, Naropa Institute, 2000
Box 134 Folder 14
Poems in Sequence/Sequential Writing, New College of California, 2000
Box 135 Folder 1
Poems in Sequence/Sequential Writing, Naropa Institute, 2001
Box 135 Folder 2
Travel Writing workshop, Mexico, 2001
Box 135 Folder 3
Poems in Sequence/Sequential Writing, New College of California, 2002
Box 135 Folder 4
20th Century Women Poets in the Experimental Tradition, Naropa, 2002
Box 135 Folder 5
Writing the Body/The Body Politic/Feminism and Gender, Naropa Institute workshop, 2003
Box 135 Folder 6
Panel on Cultural Activism, Naropa Institute, 2003
Box 135 Folder 7
The San Francisco Renaissance, New College of California, 2004
Box 135 Folder 8
Borders: Where the Moment Counts, Naropa Institute workshop, 2004
Box 135 Folder 9
Creative Writing graduate class, Mills College, 2004
Box 135 Folder 10
Journal Writing Class, Bolinas, 2005
Box 135 Folder 11
Journal Notes From Emptiness is Full of Everything, Naropa Institute workshop, 2005
Box 135 Folder 12
East/West: Poetics of Attention, New College of California, 2006-2007
Box 136 Folder 1
Journal Writing Class, Naropa Institute, 2008
Box 136 Folder 2-3
A Curriculum of the Soul, Naropa Institute, 2012
Box 136 Folder 4
Journal Writing Class, 2013
Box 136 Folder 5
Writing in Empty Space, Naropa Institute, 2014
Box 136 Folder 6
Dharma Gaze: Buddhist and Native World View panel, Naropa Institute, 2014
Box 136 Folder 7
Writing in Dream Time, Naropa Institute, 2015
Box 136 Folder 8
Philosophy panel, Naropa Institute, 2015
Box 136 Folder 10
New College course material - Carobeth Laird and Theodora Kroeber, undated
Box 136 Folder 9
New School of California - Syllabi and class notes, undated
Box 136 Folder 10
A Summer Day, workshop on making folio books with words and images, undated

Miscellaneous

Box 137 Folder 1
VideoSpace Program - Mentions Kyger's "Descartes", 1968

List for the National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) program.

Box 137 Folder 2-3
Living Creatures Associates, San Francisco, 1970-1974

Includes correspondence from Keith Lampa (Ro-Non-So-Te.) Also includes Earth Read Out Newsletter.

Box 137 Folder 4
Notes and questions for Simon Ortiz, ca. 1970-1979
Box 137 Folder 5
Archive for New Poetry, UC San Diego Newsletter, 1976 April 2
Box 137 Folder 6
Calendar, 1976
Box 137 Folder 7
Sand Dollar Booksellers - New titles lists, 1978-1979
Box 137 Folder 8
All Species Day, San Francisco, 1979

Contains ephemera, correspondence, newsletter from the San Francisco Ecology Center, and announcement from Mayor Dianne Feinstein.

Box 137 Folder 9
Buddhism events - Guru Dudjom Rinpoche, ca. 1979
Oversize FB-562 Folder 3
Calendars, 1980-2000
Box 137 Folder 10
"The Poetry of Joanne Kyger, A Personal Appreciation." Statement by Michael Rafferty, 1986
Box 137 Folder 11
Deep Bioregional Action-Examiner, 1987
Box 137 Folder 12
Talking Poetics - Statement for The Naropa Institute, 1991
Box 137 Folder 13
Six Poets at Six Gallery, notes on exhibition, 1995
Box 137 Folder 14
Poetics statement, "and other grubby stuff", 1997
Box 137 Folder 15
Some Thoughts on Poetry Writing and Buddhism, 1997 November 14
Box 137 Folder 16
Notes, ca. 1997 June
Box 137 Folder 17
"One Word" booklet with drawings, 1999 December 4
Box 137 Folder 18
"Brought to You By the Current Dharma Committee," drafts with edits, 2008 May 24
Box 137 Folder 19-21
Reviews of Kyger's work, ca. 2000-2017
Box 138 Folder 1
Beat Generation/Beats in America, note and exhibit, 2004
Box 138 Folder 2
Zen Master: Gary Snyder and the Art of Life, from The New Yorker, 2008 October 20
Box 138 Folder 3
Submission requests, 2008-2011
Box 138 Folder 4
Introduction for Ed Sander's book, Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War, 2009

Includes drafts and correspondence.

Box 138 Folder 5
The Slogan Series - Postcards by Sore Dove Press, 2009 October
Box 138 Folder 6
Blurb for Renee Claire's "Drenched", 2009
Box 138 Folder 7
Marin County Community Foundation - Grant materials, 2010
Box 138 Folder 8
Court Green Magazine, 2011

Includes poems for inclusion and correspondence.

Box 138 Folder 9
Poetry Professional Development Program - Mills College, 2011
Box 138 Folder 10
Blurb for Lewis MacAdams' "Dear Oxygen", 2011
Box 138 Folder 11
Spoon River Poetry Review, 2011

Includes correspondence.

Box 138 Folder 12-15
Buzz Gallery, album materials, 2012

Includes Buzz Time essay by Kyger and correspondence with Cedar Sigo.

Box 139 Folder 1
Milk #3, literary magazine (Abel Debritto), 2013
Box 139 Folder 2
Materials for The Quiet American, 2016
Box 139 Folder 3
National Poetry Foundation, contracts, 2016
Box 139 Folder 4
"The Time of Your Life," anonymous written account on San Francisco art scene, undated
Box 139 Folder 5
Flower Power Day, disarmament protest flyers, undated
Box 139 Folder 6
Bibliographies - List and cards, undated
Box 139 Folder 7
India notes, undated
Box 139 Folder 8
Shivastan Press ephemera, undated
Box 139 Folder 9
Renku, for Poetry Weather, undated
Box 139 Folder 10
Zephyrus Image Press - Ephemera, undated
Box 139 Folder 11
San Francisco Renaissance reading lists, undated
Box 139 Folder 12
Frances Rich postcards, undated
Box 139 Folder 13
Artwork - Paul Alexander, undated
Box 139 Folder 14
Artwork - Tom Field drawings, undated
Box 139 Folder 15
Artwork - Arthur Okamura, undated
Box 139 Folder 16
Small handmade chapbooks by Kyger, 1992
Box 139 Folder 17-18
Artwork - Joanne Kyger, includes miscellaneous sketches and drawings, some with words, ca. 1985-2010
Box 140 Folder 1-2
Artwork - Joanne Kyger, includes miscellaneous sketches and drawings, some with words, ca. 2000-2012
Oversize FB-562 Folder 5
Joanne Kyger various artwork/journaling, 2002-2008
Box 140 Folder 3
Artwork - Earth Dragon, collaboration, 1988
Box 140 Folder 4
Artist book - "Philip's Flower Books. High Sierra" by Philip Whalen, 1959
Box 140 Folder 5
Artist book - "The Best of It" by Philip Whalen, 1964
Box 140 Folder 6
Artwork - Unidentified drawings, sketches, etc., undated
Oversize FB-562 Folder 9
Joanne Kyger, color portrait on fabric, undated

BOLINAS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 16) BOLINAS MATERIALS: Arranged in three sections: Bolinas History, Art and poetry community and Bolinas Heresay News . These materials comprise of primary documentary material and ephemera dated from the early 1960s to 2015 relating to the town of Bolinas, California and its vibrant art and poetry community. Kyger moved to Bolinas in 1969 and lived there until her death in 2017. Also included is a selection of paste-ups of Bolinas Heresay News , a community newsletter, of which Kyger was an editor of the Wednesday paper from 2008-2011.

Bolinas history

Box 140 Folder 7
Bolinas Historical Society - Meeting minutes and ephemera, 1962-1980
Box 140 Folder 8-11
Clippings and ephemera, 1971-1985
Box 141 Folder 1-12
Clippings and ephemera, 1986-2006
Box 142 Folder 1
Bolinas ephemera - Environmental activism and Bolinas Mesa septic materials, 1988-1989
Box 142 Folder 2
Bolinas Timeline - Booklet compiled by Kyger, 1992
Box 142 Folder 3
Bolinas land survey, 1993
Box 142 Folder 4
Bolinas-Stinson Beach Library Improvement Society, 1993-1997
Box 142 Folder 5
Bolinas Community Directory, 2011
Box 142 Folder 6
Bolinas Museum - Oral history project, undated

Art and poetry community

Box 142 Folder 7
Bolinas friends - Miscellaneous photographs, ca. 1970-1980
Box 142 Folder 8
Bolinas Poetry Reading Group, 1990-1994
Box 142 Folder 9-10
"At Bolinas - A Literary History of the San Andreas Fault: Bolinas Section, 1967-1980" by Kevin Opstedhal, 2001-2007

Drafts with Kyger's edits. Includes correspondence.

Box 143 Folder 1-4
Annual Poultry Conventions, 2000-2003, 2008
Box 143 Folder 5
Miscellaneous flyers for Bolinas poetry, art and music events, undated
Box 143 Folder 6
Friends of the Coyote Bush - Pamphlets and promotional materials, undated

Includes poetry submitted by Kyger.

Heresay News

Box 143 Folder 7
Chronology (list of editors through the years) and editor certificate, 1974-1988
Box 143 Folder 8
Event flyers, 1984-1987
Box 143 Folder 9
Layout and notes, includes Ocean Wind Zendo, 1990-1994
Box 143 Folder 10
Correspondence, art and notes, 1999-2003
Box 143 Folder 11
Board meeting minutes, 1999-2003
Box 143 Folder 12
Board meeting minutes, includes Mesa Park, 2002-2011
Box 143 Folder 13
The Coon, column reprints, 2005
Box 143 Folder 14
Wednesday Heresay News materials, 2004-2008
Box 143 Folder 15
Artwork - Drawings by Christine Whitefield, 2008-2009
Box 143 Folder 16
Artwork - Drawings and poems by Ariana Hooper, 2008
Box 143 Folder 17
Artwork - Rat drawings by Kyger, 2008
Box 143 Folder 18
Artwork - Drawings by Charlie Docherty, 2008
Box 143 Folder 19
Artwork - Drawings by John Batki, 2008
Box 144 Folder 1
Board meeting minutes, 2008
Box 144 Folder 2
Museum show, 2010-2011
Box 144 Folder 3-4
Correspondence with contributors, 2011
Box 144 Folder 5
Heresay News interviews, 2013-2015
Box 144 Folder 6-7
Heresay News - Layout and designs, various, undated
Box 144 Folder 8
Poems by Scott Hannan, undated
Oversize FB-562 Folder 11
Arthur Okamura artwork "Heresuck News", undated

PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEGATIVES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 17) PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEGATIVES: Arranged by type and range in date from the 1950s until 2014, photographs include both formal portraits and informal snapshots of Joanne Kyger during her travels, from poetry events and other gatherings, and some childhood and school portraits. Some photographs and negatives also include other poets including Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg. Highlights include Joanne Kyger and Gary Snyder's wedding album and her mother's scrapbook of their wedding, both dated 1960, as well as photograph albums from Kyger and Snyder's Japan and India trips dated 1960-1964.

Box 145
Negatives, 1958-1992

Informal photographic negatives of Kyger and friends and family. Includes negatives from vacation and poetry events.

Box 146
Negatives, 1993-1999
Box 147
Negatives, 2000-2002
Box 148
Negatives, 2002-2012
Box 149
Photographs, 1982-1998

Informal photographs of Kyger and friends and family. Includes some vacation and poetry event photos.

Box 150
Photographs, 1998-2014
Box 151 Folder 1-2
Photographs and scrapbook album, ca. 1950-1970
Box 151 Folder 3
Joanne Kyger and Gary Snyder - Wedding album, Japan, 1960 February 28
Box 151 Folder 4
Joanne Kyger and Gary Snyder - Anne Lamont Kyger's scrapbook of daughter's wedding in Japan, 1960

Includes photographs, clippings and ephemera.

Box 151 Folder 5
Joanne Kyger - India, Japan and Ceylon, ca. 1960-1962
Box 151 Folder 6
Joanne Kyger - Japan, ca. 1960-1968
Oversize FB-562 Folder 1
Joanne Kyger and Gary Snyder photographs by Allen Ginsberg, 1963
Box 152 Folder 1
Joanne Kyger portraits by Jerome Mallman, 1965

Includes photographs of Kyger, John Wieners and others, and letter from Mallman dated 1999.

Box 152 Folder 2
Contact sheets - City Lights and other events, 1966-1967
Box 152 Folder 3
Joanne Kyger portraits, 1967-2006
Box 152 Folder 4
Purple Gate Foundation reading, ca. 1970
Oversize FB-562 Folder 2
Joanne Kyger photographs by Bill Berkson, 1970s, 2011-2014
Oversize FB-562 Folder 4
Joanne Kyger portraits by John Doss, Chris Felver and Eleanor Lewis, 1981, undated
Box 152 Folder 5
Joanne Kyger portraits by Allen Ginsberg, 1989 Novemeber
Box 152 Folder 6-7
Joanne Kyger childhood and school portraits, undated
Box 152 Folder 8
Donald Guravich, undated
Box 152 Folder 9-10
Miscellaneous photographs, 1968-1982
Box 152 Folder 11
Slides, 1968-1982
Box 153
Photo albums - Japan I and II, 1960-1964
Box 154
Photo albums - India I Hong Kong to Mahabalipuram and India II Bhubaneswar to Khajuraho, 1962
Box 155
Photo albums - India III Gwalior to Dharamshala: The Fair and India IV Dharamshala to Bombay, 1962

VIDEO AND FILM

Scope and Content of Series

Series 18) VIDEO AND FILM: Includes a small selection of VHS tapes and two 8mm films. Topics of recordings include poetry readings and events, an interview of Kyger from 2004, and two recordings of The Sanders Report which feature Joanne Kyger.

Oversize FS-183
Donald Guravich (8mm film), undated
Box 156 Folder 12
Film sent to Gary Snyder (8mm), 1962
Box 156 Folder 1
Descartes - Joanne Kyger in collaboration with Robert Zagone, Loren Sears, Walt Bjerke, NCET experimental film, 1968
Box 156 Folder 2
Eco Poetry Round Up - Peter Coyote, Master of Ceremony, 1988 June 3

Includes Joanne Kyger reading, with Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Nanao Sakaki.

Box 156 Folder 3
Stand-up Women and a Few Good Men - Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1989 November 30

Includes unedited footage of interview with Joanne Kyger followed by a poetry reading.

Box 156 Folder 4
Naropa Institute Summer Performing Artists Series - Joanne Kyger reading, 1992
Box 156 Folder 5
The Sanders Report #7 - On Bolinas, includes image of Kyger from 1963, 1993
Box 156 Folder 6
The Sanders Report #30 - "The Kyger Factor," from Ed Sanders, 1994, June 18
Box 156 Folder 7
Joanne Kyger and Gerrit Lansing - St. Mark's tree planting memorial for Allen Ginsberg, 1999 April 21

Includes Philip Lamantia reading.

Box 156 Folder 8
Joanne Kyger at UCSC - Many Floating Realities reading and birthday celebration, 1997 Novemeber 18
Box 156 Folder 9-10
Overtime I & II - "In Love of Philip Whalen," Cloud House poetry archive recording, 1999 August 21
Box 156 Folder 11
Joanne Kyger interview - The D. T. Suzuki documentary video project (unedited), 2004 September 16

KYGER FAMILY PAPERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 19) KYGER FAMILY MATERIALS: Arranged in four subseries: A) Correspondence, B) Scrapbooks, Journals and Albums, C) Photographs and Negatives, and D) Lamont and Kyger Families - Miscellaneous. Materials range in date from approximately 1875 to 1995 and include Kyger and Lamont family memorabilia, historical and genealogical documents, scrapbooks, family portraits and photographs, and journals and correspondence. Highlights include Joanne Kyger's correspondence between her mother and siblings, and correspondence between her parents Jacob Holmes Kyger and Anne Lamont Kyger primarily from the early 1930s to 1960s.

Correspondence

Box 157 Folder 1-9
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Letters to Jacob Holmes Kyger, 1930-1963
Box 158 Folder 1-9
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Letters from friends and family, 1916-1928
Box 159 Folder 1-11
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Letters from friends and family, 1929-1994 and undated
Box 160 Folder 1
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Letters to her mother, Margaret Emily Lamont, 1933
Box 160 Folder 2
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Letters and cards to daughter Joanne, ca. 1960-1967
Box 160 Folder 3-13
Kyger, Jacob Holmes - Letters to Anne Lamont Kyger, 1929-1944
Box 161 Folder 1-8
Kyger, Jacob Holmes - Letters to Anne Lamont Kyger, 1944-1963
Box 161 Folder 9-10
Kyger, Jacob Holmes - Family correspondence to daughters Joanne, Margaret and Evelyn, 1945-1969
Box 161 Folder 11
Kyger, Jacob Holmes - Miscellaneous correspondence, 1953-1961
Box 162 Folder 1-9
Kyger, Joanne - Letters to her mother, Anne Lamont Kyger, 1941-1996
Box 162 Folder 10
Kyger, Joanne - Letters to Evelyn (Kyger's sister), 1953-1966
Box 162 Folder 11
Lamont, Margaret Emily Callin (Joanne's grandmother) - Letters to William Alexander Lamont, 1892-1941
Box 162 Folder 12-14
Lamont, Margaret Emily Callin (Joanne's grandmother) - Letters to daughter Anne Kyger, 1923-1942
Box 163 Folder 1-2
Lamont, Margaret Emily Callin (Joanne's grandmother) - Letters to daughter Anne Kyger, 1943-1944
Box 163 Folder 3
Lamont, Reginald Sanders - Letters to family, ca. 1914-1945
Box 163 Folder 4-5
Lamont, William Alexander - Letters to daughter Anne Kyger, 1922-1939
Box 163 Folder 6
Lamont family - Miscellaneous cards and correspondence, 1929-1945
Oversize FB-562 Folder 12
Handmade birthday card to Joanne from her grandmother, undated

Scrapbooks, Journals and Albums

Box 163 Folder 7
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Pocket diaries and journals, 1923-1939
Box 164 Folder 1-7
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Pocket diaries and journals, 1971-1987
Box 165 Folder 1-6
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Pocket diaries and journals, 1987-1995
Box 166 Folder 1-2
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Diaries, weekly planners, & scrapbooks, 1974-1995
Box 166 Folder 3
Kyger, Anne Lamont - Photograph album, 1956-1969
Box 167 Folder 1
Shanghai and Beijing souvenir photograph album, ca. 1935-1949
Box 167 Folder 2-3
Kyger family photograph albums, 1935-1940
Box 167 Folder 4
Kyger family photograph album - Japan and China, ca. 1930
Box 168 Folder 1
Souvenir photographs and other travel ephemera from China (Shanghai, Beijing) and Japan, ca. 1940
Box 168 Folder 2
Lamont, William Alexander - Scrapbook, ca. 1908-1939
Box 168 Folder 3
Lamont family photograph album - Primarily from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1917-1928

Photographs and Negatives

Box 169 Folder 1
Callin family portraits, ca. 1880-1940
Box 169 Folder 2
Callin family photographs - Tintype photographs of Margaret Emma Callin and Tom Callin, ca. 1875
Box 169 Folder 3
Kyger, Anne Lamont, 1905-1955
Box 169 Folder 4-9
Kyger, Jacob Holmes - Photographs and scrapbook album, ca. 1920-1960s
Box 170 Folder 1-7
Kyger, Joanne - Childhood photographs with sisters Margaret and Evelyne, and parents, ca. 1934-1950
Box 170 Folder 8
Kyger, Joanne - Photographs with mother and husband Donald Guravich, 1984
Box 170 Folder 9
Kyger, Joanne - Studio portraits, undated
Box 170 Folder 10
Kyger, Margaret [sister], undated
Box 170 Folder 11
Kyger family portraits, 1935-1960
Box 171 Folder 1-10
Kyger family photos - Miscellaneous, ca. 1870-1950

Includes miscellaneous and unidentified family and friends - Cabinet cards, portraits, carte de visite.

Box 172 Folder 1-6
Kyger family photos - Miscellaneous, ca. 1960-1998
Box 173 Folder 1-29
Kyger family - Negatives, ca. 1945-1969
Box 174 Folder 1-10
Lamont family photographs, ca. 1860-1930

First folder includes tintype specimens.

Oversized photographs

Oversize FB-131 Folder 5
Joanne Kyger and sisters Margaret and Evelyn
Oversize FB-131 Folder 6
Misc. portraits, Callin family, and others
Oversize FB-131 Folder 7
Kyger, Jacob Holmes (Kyger's father)
Oversize FB-131 Folder 8
Kyger, Anne Lamont (Kyger's mother)
Oversize FB-131 Folder 9
Lamont, William Alexander (Kyger's grandfather)

Lamont and Kyger Families - Miscellaneous

Box 175 Folder 1-10
Jacob Holmes Kyger materials, 1922-1963

Navy records, writings (Abbreviated Bridge for Two), ephemera, and funeral announcement and service book.

Box 175 Folder 11
Jacob Holmes Kyger - Voice recordings on records, ca. 1946-1947

Evelyne Kyger materials

Box 176 Folder 1
Artwork and childhood drawings, ca. 1947-1965
Box 176 Folder 2
Baby book - Journal on Evelyn's childhood, 1940-1947
Box 176 Folder 3
Correspondence - Cards and letters to/from parents, ca. 1952-1988
Box 176 Folder 4-6
Juvenilia and school writings, ca. 1945-1957

Includes drafts of her short story, "Rene Rabbit and his Wonderful Beret."

Box 176 Folder 7
Memorial service materials, 1988 February 1

Includes a reading by Joanne Kyger.

Box 176 Folder 8-9
Photographs - Portraits and snapshots with family members, ca. 1940-1988
Box 168 Folder 4-7
Lamont, Kyger and Callin family genealogies, 1893-1963, undated

DIGITAL FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 20 ) DIGITAL MATERIALS: This addition to the Joanne Kyger Papers was acquired by the Library in 2019, and included approximately fifty 3.5" floppy disks and several compact discs. All of the floppies were imaged (copied) in an attempt to preserve and access their content. Only twenty-one disks were found to have readable files that could be restored--the rest were degraded due to age and bit rot. Kyger crafted her digital files using a Smith Corona word processor. Most of the original files on the disks were created using a 1992 version of Personal Word Processor software, which is not readable in a modern Office or Mac environment. The text content was restored using a script that interpreted the bits in the files that demarcated formatting such as line breaks, emphasis, and punctuation, and was normalized for user access as PDFs. Accordingly, most of the files are legible and render similarly to how they were displayed when they were created, but some may exhibit formatting or text quirks that may differ from Kyger's original version.

The compact discs included some scanned photographs and audiovisual recordings, including poetry readings and three memorial services held in tribute to Kyger's legacy following her death. All of those files are included in this online collection.

Digital files may be requested and consulted by registered library users via the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website (see the View Online link at the top of this finding aid), or via the request checkboxes in the finding aid container list, below.

Floppy disks - Text Files

Digital file bb9019745b
Kyger floppy disk - Course materials, Naropa Summer Workshop, 1995 June
Digital file bb0589651w
Kyger floppy disk - Material from "The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement" by Sylvia Cranston, ca. 1993-1996
Digital file bb48217663
Kyger floppy disk - Letters, poetry, journal entries, and selected quotes from Pablo Neruda, 1997 August-December
Digital file bb7313240f
Kyger floppy disk - Draft letters, talks, diary entries and poems from July 1998-December 1999, 1998 July-1999 December

Includes drafts of poem to Bill Berkson and draft article on Bobbie Louise Hawkins.

Digital file bb2603325m
Kyger floppy disk - Poetry, letters, journal entries, and other writings, 1999

Includes Kyger's introduction to Michael Rothenburg's Paris Journals.

Digital file bb5333714f
Kyger floppy disk - Poetry and journalistic entries, 1995
Digital file bb0726176c
Kyger floppy disk - Draft letters, poetry, journal entries and other writings, 1998 February-May

Includes a review by Kyger of "Gardening with a Wild Heart, Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home."

Digital file bb5163058r
Kyger floppy disk - Poems, musings, and draft letters, 1996 September-1997 March

Includes family letters regarding the estate of Kyger's mother, Anne Lamont Kyger, and typed poems by Raymond Carver.

Digital file bb5606765h
Kyger floppy disk - Poetry, letters, journal entries, and other writings, ca. 2000

These files were originally stored on a 3.5" floppy disk with data decay (bit rot) corrupting the integrity of the data stored on the original disk. These digital files may include some stray characters, unintended paragraph breaks, and/or loss of content, rendering some sections only partially readable.

Digital file bb8166500m
Kyger floppy disk - Poems, musings, and draft letters, 1994-1996

Includes writings regarding the Beat legacy; draft letters to family regarding the estate of Anne Lamont Kyger; dated draft poems.

Digital file bb2227876t
Kyger floppy disk - Journalistic entries and poems, Patzcuaro, Mexico, 1995 January 25-February 23
Digital file bb33200320
Kyger floppy disk - Poems and journal entries, 1998 November-1999 January
Digital file bb0316610v
Kyger floppy disk - New College [?]; draft writings about Bolinas; Kyger interview with "Mike and Dale", 1998 June-November
Digital file bb6835446f
Kyger floppy disk - Poetry, journal entries, and other writings, 1998-2000

Includes draft of "Living a Spiritual Life in the 'Woods' for Alice and Douglas," and poems and musings relating to Naropa.

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Kyger floppy disk - Materials on Spicer's Circle for Kyger's Naropa Summer Poetry Workshop, ca. 1999
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Kyger floppy disk - Draft writings on Japan recollections and Zen Buddhism, 1995 May

Includes Kyger's draft writings about Allen Ginsberg.

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Kyger floppy disk - Journalistic entries and dreams, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1997 January 11-February 8
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Kyger floppy disk - Journal entries and poems, Patzcuaro, Mexico, 1997-1998
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Kyger floppy disk - Poetry and journalistic entries, 1994-1997
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Kyger floppy disk - Draft letters, talks, diary entries and poems from January-April 1999, 1999 January-April
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Kyger floppy disk - Writings on Lawrence in Taos, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Jaime de Angulo, 1996

Optical Media - Images & Recordings

Photographs

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Tom Field at Black Mountain, 1954-1955
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Harry Jacobus at Stinson Beach, 1957
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Jack Spicer, Ebbe Borregaard, and Joanne Kyger on Halloween, 1957 October
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Tom Field outside John Barrow's house, 1959 January
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William McNeill, circa 1960

Kyger's friend Bill McNeill, whom Kyger describes as having been a "painter, poet, and student at Black Mountain College when Charles Olson was teaching there."

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Harry Jacobus with portrait of Tom Field, 1965
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Buzz Gallery group portrait, San Francisco, 1964-1965

Recordings

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Question and answer session with Joanne Kyger, between 2000 and 2015

Questions from the audience cannot be heard; Kyger's answers touch on reminencing about Buddhism, traveling, and the San Francisco poetry scene. Event date and venue unknown.

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Joanne Kyger reading at Cloud House, San Francisco, circa 2003

Introductions by Kevin Killian, David Hazelwood, and Michael Rothenberg, followed by a reading by Kyger.

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Joanne Kyger at a reading for The Distressed Look, Cody's Books, Berkeley, 2004
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Joanne Kyger reading in Willits, Calif., 2005 August 19

Poetry reading, with comments. Introduced and interviewed by William J. Ray; filmed and edited by Andy Wright.

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Donald Guravich and Joanne Kyger read at the Anasazi Fields Winery, 2009 September 13

This reading was part of the 2009 Duende Reading Series, distributed on compact disc. Recorded in Placitas, NM. Edited by Bruce Holsapple.

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Joanne Kyger memorial service, 2017
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Joanne Kyger memorial event, Commonweal Retreat Center, Bolinas, 2017 July 22

Introduction by Steve Heilig. Part 1: Diana Middleton-McQuaid. Part 2: Anne Waldman, Anne Valley-Fox, Michael Rothenberg, and Duncan McNaughton. Part 3: Lewis MacAdams. Part 4: Michael Wolfe, Gloria Frym. Part 5: Cedar Sigo, Simone Fattal, and Bill Porter. Part 6: Michael McClure.

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Joanne Kyger memorial reading, The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, 2017 November 6

Beginning of Part 1 includes a scan of the event program, and speakers.