Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

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 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.