Southern Poetry Review Records, 1962-1978.

Collection Number: 04023

Collection Title: Southern Poetry Review Records, 1962-1978.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size	6.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 6,800 items)
Abstract	Southern Poetry Review is a journal dedicated to the publication and promotion of poetry in and of the American South. The collection includes correspondence, financial materials, circulation and advertising files, and other business records, typed originals of poems, and related records of Southern Poetry Review (and its forerunner Impetus) for the years 1962-1978, during which the journal was edited by Guy Owen, poet, novelist, and teacher at North Carolina State University. Letters from writers and editors discuss writing and publishing poetry; among correspondents are poets A. R. Ammons, Charles Edward Eaton, and Robert Morgan.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access: No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Southern Poetry Review Records, #4023, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Additional Descriptive Resources: A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, November 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Southern Poetry Review is a journal dedicated to the publication and promotion of poetry in and of the American South. The first issue of Impetus, forerunner of Southern Poetry Review, was published by Guy Owen (1925- ) in Deland, Fla. Owen created the magazine out of frustration at the lack of a local outlet for the creative work of his students at Stetson University. Soon Impetus began publishing faculty work as well as that of students, and the work of poets with whom Owen was familiar. Owen moved to North Carolina State University in 1963, and continued to publish the journal there. In 1964, with its ninth issues, Impetus became Southern Poetry Review. Southern Poetry Review continued under Owen's editorship until 1978. As of 2009, the journal was still in publication, edited by Robert Parham of Augusta State University and hosted by Amstrong Atlatic State University, both in Georgia.

Among poets featured in Southern Poetry Review during Owen's tenure were A. R. Ammons, James Dickey, Fred Chappell, William Harmon, Wendell Berry, Van K. Brock, and Heather Ross Miller.

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The collection includesorrespondence, financial materials, circulation and advertising files, and other business records, typed originals of poems, and related records of Southern Poetry Review (and its forerunner Impetus) for the years 1962-1978, during which the journal was edited by Guy Owen, poet, novelist, and teacher at North Carolina State University. Letters from writers and editors discuss writing and publishing poetry; among correspondents are poets A. R. Ammons, Charles Edward Eaton, and Robert Morgan. Finanical material, circulation files, and communications about advertising and reprinting largely constitute the business records included in these papers. There is also a group of printed material, which includes items illustrating the printing stages of Southern Poetry Review and information about other literary magazines, manuscript versions of much of the material which appeared in Impetus and Southern Poetry Review, and an incomplete run of issues of Impetus and Southern Poetry Review.

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1. Correspondence, 1962-1978.
2. Business Records, 1964-1977.
3. Manuscript Versions of Material that Appeared in Southern Poetry Review, 1960-1975.
4. Printed Material, 1960-1977.
5. Copies of Impetus and Southern Poetry Review

Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1962-1978.

About 2000 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by last name of letter writer.

Correspondence of Guy Owen with scholars, teachers, poets, and writers chiefly related to the publication of Southern Poetry Review. Some letters from personal and professional correspondence discuss their careers and the experience of writing poetry. Notable correspondents include Alice Moser Claudel, Julia Fields, Heather Ross Miller, Paul Ramsey, Leslie Phillabaum, David Howell Jones, Gordon Weaver, Norman McLeod, David Madden, Miller Williams, John Foster West, A. R. Ammons, Charles Edward Eaton, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, William Harmon, Wendell Berry, and Jesse Stuart.

Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1-3

Folder 1

Folder 2

Folder 3

Correspondence, A

Folder 2 contains letters from A. R. Ammons.

Folder 4-9

Folder 4

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

Folder 8

Folder 9

Correspondence, B

Folder 6 contains lettes from Ron Bayles.

Folder 10-18

Folder 10

Folder 11

Folder 12

Folder 13

Folder 14

Folder 15

Folder 16

Folder 17

Folder 18

Correspondence, C

Folders 12-16 contain letters from Alice Moser Claudel.

Folder 19-24

Folder 19

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Folder 23

Folder 24

Correspondence, D

Folders 20-21 contain letters from Victor Dalmas.

Folder 25-26

Folder 25

Folder 26

Correspondence, E

Folder 26 contains letters from Charles Edward Eaton.

Folder 27-29

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Correspondence, F

Folder 29 contains letters from Warren French.

Folder 30-32

Folder 30

Folder 31

Folder 32

Correspondence, G

Folder 33-39

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

Folder 37

Folder 38

Folder 39

Correspondence, H

Folder 39 contains letters from Ralph W. Hyde.

Folder 40

Correspondence, I

Folder 41-42

Folder 41

Folder 42

Correspondence, J

Folder 42 contains letters from David Howell Jones.

Folder 43-44

Folder 43

Folder 44

Correspondence, K

Folder 45-46

Folder 45

Folder 46

Correspondence, L

Folder 47-57

Folder 47

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

Folder 52

Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

Correspondence, M

Folder 50 contains letters from Norman McLeod; Folder 55 contains letters from Heather Ross Miller; Folder 57 contains letters from Robert Morgan.

Folder 58-60

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Correspondence, N-O

Folder 59 contains letters from Paul B. Newman.

Folder 61-64

Folder 61

Folder 62

Folder 63

Folder 64

Correspondence, P

Folder 64 contains letters from Leslie E. Phillabaum.

Folder 65-69

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Folder 69

Correspondence, R

Folder 66 contains letters from Paul Ramsey.

Folder 70-76

Folder 70

Folder 71

Folder 72

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

Folder 76

Correspondence, S

Folder 77-80

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

Folder 80

Correspondence, T

Folders 78-79 containing letters, from William E. Taylor, are located in Box 13.

Folder 81

Correspondence, U-V

Folder 82-90

Folder 82

Folder 83

Folder 84

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

Folder 89

Folder 90

Correspondence, W

Folder 84 contains letters from Gordon Weaver; Folder 89 contains letters from Miller Williams. Folders 85-86, containing letters from John Foster West, are located in Box 13.

Folder 91-92

Folder 91

Folder 92

Correspondence, Y-Z

Folder 91 contains letters from Jack Zucker.

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About 900 items.

Includes circulation files, business communications, records of day-to-day financial transactions, information about grants, and other items. The bulk of this material consists of files, established by the Southern Poetry Review office, which pertain to the distribution of Southern Poetry Review. For each letter of the alphabet there are two folders, one marked "Subscription," containing material pertaining to institutional subscribers, and one marked "Membership," containing material pertaining to individual subscribers. The latter category also includes letters from subscribers with personal discussions and comments about poetry and publishing.

Business correspondence is principally concerned with finances, printing, reprinting, and advertising; only a small number of copies of communications from the Southern Poetry Review office are included. Some office and inter-departmental memoranda discuss financial difficulties.

Other business material includes bills and receipts, records of deposits and withdrawals, information about grants pursued and received by Southern Poetry Review and copyright certifications.

Folder 93-95 Folder 93 Folder 94 Folder 95	Business Correspondence
Folder 96	Office and Interdepartmental Memoranda
Folder 97-144 Folder 97 Folder 98 Folder 99 Folder 100 Folder 101 Folder 102 Folder 103 Folder 104 Folder 105 Folder 106 Folder 107 Folder 108 Folder 109 Folder 110 Folder 111 Folder 112 Folder 113 Folder 114 Folder 115 Folder 116 Folder 117 Folder 118 Folder 119 Folder 120 Folder 121 Folder 122 Folder 123 Folder 124 Folder 125 Folder 126 Folder 127 Folder 128 Folder 129 Folder 130 Folder 131 Folder 132 Folder 133 Folder 134 Folder 135 Folder 136 Folder 137 Folder 138 Folder 139 Folder 140 Folder 141 Folder 142 Folder 143 Folder 144	Circulation Files
Folder 145	Information about Exchange Subscriptions
Folder 146	Contributors Payment Lists
Folder 147	Copyright Certificates
Folder 148	Deposit Records
Folder 149	Withdrawal Records
Folder 150	Account Statements
Folder 151	Bills and Receipts
Folder 152	Cash Book, 1964-1973
Folder 153	Varitype Records
Folder 154-155 Folder 154 Folder 155	Grants: Coordinating Council for Little Magazines
Folder 156	Grants: National Endowment for the Arts
Folder 157-158 Folder 157 Folder 158	Grants: North Carolina Arts Council

Expand/collapse Series 3. Manuscript Versions of Material that Appeared in Southern Poetry Review, 1960-1975.

About 800 items.

Includes original typescripts of many of the poems published in Southern Poetry Review and of some of those published in Impetus. In some cases editorial emendations and comments have been added. A copy of the typescript version of Paul Ramsey's In an Ordinary Place is also included.

Folder 159	Impetus, 5
Folder 160	Southern Poetry Today
Folder 161	Impetus, 7
Folder 162	Impetus, 8
Folder 163	In An Ordinary Place
Folder 164	Southern Poetry Review, VII, 2
Folder 165	Southern Poetry Review, VIII, 1
Folder 166	Southern Poetry Review, VIII, 2
Folder 167	Southern Poetry Review: A Decade of Poems
Folder 168	Southern Poetry Review, XI, 2
Folder 169	Southern Poetry Review, XII, 1
Folder 170	Southern Poetry Review, XII, 2
Folder 171	Southern Poetry Review, Special Raleigh Issue
Folder 172	Southern Poetry Review, XIII, 1
Folder 173	Southern Poetry Review, XIII, 2
Folder 174	Southern Poetry Review, XIII, 3
Folder 175	Southern Poetry Review, Special Women's Issue
Folder 176	Southern Poetry Review, XIV, 1
Folder 177	Southern Poetry Review, XIV, 2
Folder 178	Southern Poetry Review, XV, 1
Folder 179	Southern Poetry Review, Special Issue, North Carolina Poetry: The Seventies

Expand/collapse Series 4. Printed Material, 1960-1977.

About 500 items.

Includes printed material about the Southern Poetry Reivew, received as correspondence, a sample of material illustrating stages of printing Southern Poetry Review, and miscellaneous printed material. Printed material about Southern Poetry Review includes clippings and articles, an announcement, and an advertisement.

The printed material received as correspondence by the Southern Poetry Review office includes circulars, form letters, newsletters, and press releases, many about other magazines. Some, especially those from Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) are annotated. The miscellaneous material consists of articles and clippings making no direct reference to Southern Poetry Review.

Folder 180	Impetus, 5
Folder 181	Impetus, 7
Folder 182-183 Folder 182 Folder 183	Southern Poetry Review, VIII, 1
Folder 184	Southern Poetry Review, XII, 1
Extra Oversize Paper Folder X-OPF-4023/1	Printing examples Includes items illustrating printing stages of Southern Poetry Review.
Folder 185-191 Folder 185 Folder 186 Folder 187 Folder 188 Folder 189 Folder 190 Folder 191	Printed Material Received as Correspondence
Folder 192-194 Folder 192 Folder 193 Folder 194	Other Printed Material

Expand/collapse Series 5. Copies of Impetus and Southern Poetry Review

About 30 items.

Includes copies of about three-fourths of the issues of Impetus and Southern Poetry Review published before 1978. Also includes a copy each of Southern Poetry Today (1962); In An Ordinary Place, by Paul Ramsey (1965); and Southern Poetry Review: A Decade of Poems (1969).

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Collection Number: 04023 Collection Title: Southern Poetry Review Records, 1962-1978.