Maggie Anderson, Poet, Papers

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West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Maggie Anderson, Poet, Papers, A&M 3956, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Extent:
42.6 Linear Feet Summary: 42 ft. 7 1/4 in. (18 record cartons, 15 in. each); (13 record cartons, 12 in. each); (12 document case, 5 in. each); (1 index card box, 6 in.); (1 document cases, 4 in.); (2 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (1 large flat storage box, 5 in.); (2 small flat storage boxes, 1 1/2 in.); (1 rolled storage tube, 2 in.); (1 poster, 1/4 in.) and 2.64 Gigabytes 88 files, formats include .doc, .jpg, .tif, .wav, .pdf
Creator:
Anderson, Maggie and Anderson, Maggie
Abstract:
Papers of Maggie Anderson (born September 23, 1948, in New York City), an Appalachian poet and professor. She has been affiliated with organizations such as Kent State University (KSU) and its Wick Poetry Program, the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA), and others. Collection includes mainly professional papers pertaining to her writing and teaching careers. Formats include manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and others. Subjects include awards, professional activities (readings, workshops, etc.), teaching materials, editorial projects, and other material. Editorial projects include Learning By Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School, A Space Filled with Moving, Years that Answer, and other publications. See Historical Note for more information about Anderson.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Maggie Anderson, Poet, Papers, A&M 3956, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of Maggie Anderson (born September 23, 1948, in New York City), an Appalachian poet and professor. She has been affiliated with organizations such as Kent State University (KSU) and its Wick Poetry Program, the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA),Youngstown State University (YSU), the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), and West Virginia University (WVU).

Collection includes chiefly professional papers pertaining to her writing and teaching careers. Formats include audio cassettes, artifacts, typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, motion pictures, printed material, broadsides, photographs, slides, and others.

Subjects include awards, professional activities (readings, workshops, etc.), student writings, teaching materials, material for publications, and Maggie Anderson's graduate school work. Material for publications includes submissions, notes, contracts, and other material for editorial projects and single author projects, including Learning By Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School, A Space Filled with Moving, Years that Answer, After the Bell, The Next of Us Is About to Be Born, and other publications.

Addendum of 2017-12-19 contains correspondence, poems in anthologies, reviews, articles, clippings, posters, project files, etc. This addendum is minimally processed.

See Historical Note for more information about Anderson. For folder-level description, see contents list.

This series includes audio cassette tapes of poetry readings, workshops, interviews, conferences, and other events related to Maggie Anderson and her work.

This series includes information on Anderson's poetry, teaching, and alumni awards from organizations like KSU and WVU. Additional material related to her awards can be found in Series 11, Professional Activities and Series 8, Oversize.

This series includes Maggie Anderson's calendars for almost every year between 1987 and 2012.

This series includes materials on two projects on which Maggie Anderson collaborated with other artists. In 1990-1991, she worked with Jude Tallichet to create an art exhibit called "A Change of Wings," a group of collaborative poems and drawings (ink and oil on paper), exhibited as a work-in-progress at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, in October 1990, and at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, in November 1991. Included are photos, slides, and a typescript from that collaboration. For related broadside, see Series 8, Oversize. In 1993-1995, Anderson worked with Robyn Selman to create a book proposal titled American Poets on World War II; included are book proposal materials and a typescript. For material on other collaborative projects, see Series 11, Professional Activities.

This series includes mailing list material and Anderson's correspondence with students, authors, and others about her work, their work, and other personal and professional matters. For additional correspondence, see Series 11, Professional Activities.

This series contains VHS tapes regarding poetry readings and a memorial for Louise McNeill.

This series includes poetry and other writings authored by people other than Maggie Anderson. For additional material, see Series 11, Professional Activities, and Series 12, Publications. There may be overlap between this series and Series 11, Professional Activities -- Student Writings. Includes two subseries, General and Wick Poetry.

This subseries includes edited manuscripts and other material from the Wick Poetry First Book Series and the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series for Ohio Poets (Kent State University Press, 1993-2011), which Anderson founded and edited.

This series includes awards received from various institutions, such as WVU and KSU; Anderson's diplomas; and broadsides related to poetry readings and the "A Change of Wings" exhibit. For additional awards material, see Awards series. For additional material regarding "A Change of Wings," see Collaborative Projects series.

This series includes publicity photo prints of Maggie Anderson. For photographs related to Anderson's "A Change of Wings" exhibit, see Collaborative Projects series. Additional photographs can be found in the Professional Activities series.

This series includes typescript drafts of Maggie Anderson's poems, as well as other related material. Many of these poems were published in Anderson's A Space Filled with Moving, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992 (for the book proof, see Publications series). Other works by Anderson can be found in the Professional Activities and Publications series.

This series includes typescripts, correspondence, printed material, ephemera, audio recordings, and other materials collected or created by Maggie Anderson documenting her professional life. Topics include readings, workshops, publications, festivals, grants, fellowships, residencies, publicity, reviews, and more. Highlights include multiple versions of Anderson's curriculum vitae (1985-2010); material pertaining to an interview of Maggie Anderson by Matthew Cooper (2001-2010), which was eventually published in the magazine New Letters; and material on the Danish Resistance Movement, Danish poetry, and travel in Denmark (1989-1992, undated). Also includes three subseries, General, Student Writings, and Teaching.

This subseries includes typescript portfolios, honors and MFA theses, chapbooks, printed material, and other formats of writings created by Maggie Anderson's students. These writings were created in the course of Maggie's teaching in graduate classes (institutions include University of Pittsburgh, University of Oregon, and Kent State University), workshops, and during her time as poet-in-residence in various West Virginia counties. Writers include elementary through high school students in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including Marshall, Mercer, and McDowell Counties in WV and Allegheny County in PA; graduate students; and prisoners at the State Correctional Institution - Pittsburgh and State Correctional Institution - Muncy. There may be overlap between this series and Others' Works.

This subseries includes typescripts, photocopies, printed material, and other material pertaining to lectures, workshops, graduate courses, etc. taught by Anderson, as well as teaching evaluation material. Topics include Anderson's courses on poetry and place; image in poetry; women in poetry; Appalachian literature; contemporary poets; poetry as therapy; and other topics. Also included are issues of The Poem Popper Teacher Newsletter, made by Maggie Anderson while serving as Marshall County poet-in-residence. Additional teaching materials can be found in the Professional Activities series.

This series includes proofs and typescripts of A Space Filled with Moving (see also Poem Drafts and Notes series), as well as published books of poetry authored, edited, or coedited by Anderson. Also includes six subseries, described below. Additional publications may be found in the Professional Activities series.

This subseries includes material pertaining to After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School (sometimes abbreviated ATB) a book of prose edited and with an introduction by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler, published in 2007. Includes material regarding permissions, authors, publisher, submissions, and a draft copy, among other material.

This subseries includes material pertaining to Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School (sometimes abbreviated LBH), a book of poems edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler, first published in 1999. Includes material regarding authors, submissions, marketing, correspondence with the publisher, permissions, and proofs of the book, among other materials.

This subseries includes material pertaining to The Next of Us Is About to Be Born, an anthology of fifty-five poets published in the Wick Poetry Series celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, edited by Maggie Anderson, published in 2009. Includes correspondence, notes, contracts, author information, an electronic draft, and other material.

This subseries includes material pertaining to Trellis: A Magazine of Poetry and Poetics, co-founded and edited by Anderson. Includes legal papers, correspondence, and other business papers for Trellis Press; contributor information; and editorial proofs.

This subseries includes galley proofs and an edited typescript of Years that Answer, a book of poems written by Anderson, published in 1980.

This series includes typescripts of Maggie Anderson's writings from her days as a student.

Biographical / historical:

Maggie Anderson (born September 23, 1948, in New York City) is an American poet, editor, and professor with roots in Appalachia, having moved to West Virginia when she was 13 years old.

She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1966-1968. She then attended West Virginia University, earning a bachelor's degree in English with high honors in 1970, an MA in English (Creative Writing) in 1973, and a Masters of Social Work in 1977.

Beginning in 1978, Anderson worked as poet-in-residence for ten years in schools, prisons, and libraries in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. She has served as visiting writer at several universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Oregon, and West Virginia University. She has also lived in Denmark (1992-1993) and traveled in western and eastern Europe, Russia, and Scandinavia.

In 1989, Anderson began teaching creative writing at Kent State University and was appointed coordinator of the Wick Poetry Program in 1992. In 2004, she was named director of the Wick Poetry Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. Anderson was on the founding committee of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program and remained involved in various capacities through 2009.

Anderson is the author of several poetry collections and the founder and editor of the Wick Poetry First Book Series and the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series for Ohio Poets (Kent State University Press, 1993-2011). In 1971, she co-founded the poetry journal Trellis with Winston Fuller and Irene McKinney, and served as editor until 1981. Her essays and poems have been published in poetry journals, and her work has appeared in more than 50 anthologies and textbooks.

Anderson's awards and honors include two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, various awards for distinguished writing and teaching, and grants.

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