Berkson, Bill, 1939-2016
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1939-08-30 - 2016-06-16
Biography
Bill Berkson (1939-2016), American poet, art critic, curator, and educator
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Larry Fagin papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 330
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Larry Fagin, stemming from his individual and collaborative work as a poet and editor, and, as well as his work as a teacher, filmmaker, artist, choreographer, and journalist. It also documents his personal and working relationships with other poets and writers associated with the New York School. Material includes correspondence, printed material, typescripts of poems, essays, translations, and film scripts, publicity material...
Dates:
circa 1880-2017, bulk 1950-2017
Letter and poem, [1970]
Part of Collection — Box 46: [Barcode: 39002137170552], Folder: GROUP 911, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
One ALS from Berkson to Ted Berrigan, with envelope, and draft, typescript, of the poem "Sweet Lord," corrected and decorated with watercolor and portrait photograph of Berkson. Inscribed: "to Ted, happy birthday, from shore to shore, love, Bill."
Dates:
[1970]
Ron Padgett papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 721
Abstract:
The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Ron Padgett in the course of his work as a poet, translator, and editor. Material includes extensive correspondence with other poets and writers; manuscripts for Padgett's books of poetry and prose, as well as some juvenilia and early writings; manuscripts for Padgett’s English translations of works by French-language poets including Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Valery Larbaud, Paul Morand, and Pierre Reverdy;...
Dates:
1922-2019
Tony Towle papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 745
Abstract:
Collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers documenting the life and literary activities of New York City poet Tony Towle. Towle spent his life in New York City and, after training with Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara, was associated with the second generation of the New York School. In addition to Koch and O'Hara, Towle corresponded with numerous poets, artists, and editors based in the city, including John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Rob Hershon,...
Dates:
1960-2017