EDWARD L. NELSON
PRESIDENT
1360 BUSHWICK AVENUE
BROOKLYN 7, N. Y.

CHARLES S. PULLEY
TREASURER
P. O. BOX 121, ALBION, N. Y.

New York State Association
I. B. P. O. E. of M.

OFFICE OF THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY

EARL CHAPMAN

245 WEST 137TH STREET
NEW YORK 30, N. Y.

PHONE AUDUBON 6-4292

August 6, 1963

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 E. 127th Street
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The New York State Association of Elks I.B.P.O.E. of W. in
ist support of the fight for Civil Rights and in its support
of President Kennedy's Civil Rights Legislation now before the
Congress is sponsoring the "On To Washington Rally". This
rally is to be a giant mass Civil Rights demonstration for full
equality, freedom and democracy NOW.

The On To Washington Rally is to be held at the Polo Grounds
in New York City, Sunday August 25, 1963 at 3 PM.

As an outstanding artist and a devotee in the struggle for Civil
Rights we invite you to make your contribution by participating
on our program. The fight for Civil Rights is at a point today
where we need the help of every artist to dramatize to the Am-
erican people the moral issues involved.

All proceeds will be donated to the March On Washington Com-
mittee. Will you join our cavalcade of artists appearing on
this program?

An early reply confirming your desire to participate will great-
ly expedite preparation for the biggest civil rights rally
the nation has ever seen.

Thank you for your support and cooperation.

August 25, 1949

Mr. Lee Gingold
Civil Rights Congress
23 West 26th Street
New York 10, New York

Dear Mr. Gingold:

I have your letter of August 23, and thank you
very much for your kind invitation to appear at
the Penthouse. Unfortunately, I am unable to
set a date myself, since my lecture agency, W.
Colston Leigh, Inc., 521 Fifth Avenue, New York
City, is in complete charge of my speaking time
during the season, and so I am never sure just
when I am in or out of the city. I would sug-
gest that you communicate with Mrs. Beatrice
Grant at the Leigh agency.

Usually in public appearances I simply read my
poems and talk about them under some such title
as, THE POETRY OF NEGRO LIFE OR AN EVENING WITH
LANGSTON HUGHES AND HIS POEMS.

LH:HHS

PAUL M. SCHROEDER
President

WILLIAM W. GIBSON
Treasurer

GEORGE W. WALKER
Secretary

THOMAS C. BROWN

Chairman, Board of Trustees

BENJAMIN E. SHOVE
Counsel

THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, INC.

Including by Merger the New York State Sunday School Association, Inc.

ROOM 701, 75 STATE STREET, ALBANY 7, NEW YORK

Vice Presidents
W. EARL LEDDEN
MRS. LEON M. ADKINS
A. K. GETMAN
A. W. HENSHAW
MALCOLM E. PEABODY
DUTTON S. PETERSON
HENRY SHERWOOD

Staff

WILBUR T. CLEMENS
General Secretary

MARION A. COWLBECK
Assistant to General Secretary

HELEN U. BAKER
Educational Assistant
and Librarian

WILLIAM LLOYD IMES
Director of Field Service, Adult
and Social Education

MARY ESTHER McWHIRTER
Director of Christian Education
of Children

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Director of Rural Work and
the Rural Institute

STANLEY E. SKINNER
Associate Director of Rural Work
and the Rural Institute

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Director of Public Relations

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Director of Radio News Service

Board of Directors

MRS. WILLIAM T. ANDERSON
ARCHIE B. BEDFORD
GEORGE Y. BENTON
RALPH M. CARMICHAEL
WALTER D. CAVERT
A. MERRIT DIETTERICH
ANDREW L. DILLENBECK
PAUL G. FRANKENFELD
EDWARD E. FRANKLIN
G. SHUBERT FRYE
MRS. G. SHUBERT FRYE
FRANK L. GOSNELL
LAURENCE T. HOSIE
JOHN N. HUBER
R. LEWIS JOHNSON
JOHN PAUL JONES
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ADDISON J. KEIM
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CASSIUS J. MILLER
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JAMES A. G. MOORE
MRS. ELMER W. K. MOULD
TARRANCE F. OGDEN
L. ERNEST OTTER
W. NORRIS PAXTON
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ALFRED L. TAYLOR
FRANCIS W. TRIMMER
JOHN W. VAN OLST
JOHN W. WARREN
JERRY B. WILSON

March 23, 1949

Mr. Langston Hughes
c/o Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
501 Madison Ave.
New York 22, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Here at our Council we issue a NEWS SHEET for children's leaders in the church school. It is produced on a non-profit basis, as a service bulletin. As you will see by the enclosed copy, it is done by the photo-offset process.

May we please have permission to use the following lines which were written by you:

"When a man starts out to build a world
He begins first with himself,
And the faith that is in his heart,
And the strength there, and the will to build.
First in his heart is a dream,
Then the mind starts seeking a way...
Then the hands seek other hands ---
A community of hands to build so that a dream
Becomes not one man's dream alone, but a
community dream.

Can you also tell me the volume in which this appeared, and the publisher?

Thank you for your prompt attention to this request.

MEM/mcv
Enc.

March 31

1949

Miss Mary Esther McWhirter
New York State Council of Churches, Inc.
75 State Street, Room 701
Albany 7, New York

Dear Miss McWhirter:

I have just arrived in town from Chicago, where I am serving
as poet-in-residence at the University of Chicago Laboratory
School, and found your letter awaiting me. Since I shall be
in the city but a short while to attend the opening of my opera,
TROUBLED ISLAND, which premieres at the City Center tonight, I
am taking a moment to answer your note of the 23rd.

You have my permission to use the lines you mention and I am
glad to be of help to you in this manner. For your conven-
ience I am sending along under separate cover a copy of the
publication in which the lines appear. It is taken from
FREEDOM'S PLOW, Musette Publishers, Inc., Steinway Hall, New
York, N. Y., 1943.

With all good wishes for the success of your work, I am

LH&HHS

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

September 14, 1966

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th Street
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

The New York State Council on the Arts has arranged with the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA to administer a program of providing support to communities and schools throughout the state that wish to have readings and seminars with poets of merit and distinction. In order for the Council to determine what poets should be included in the program, we would greatly appreciate it if you would serve on an evaluation panel for the Council.

Nelson A. Rockefeller
*Governor*

Seymour H. Knox
*Chairman*

Henry Allen Moe
*Vice-Chairman*

We would like to have a meeting of the panel at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 4th, at the Council's offices on the 26th floor of 250 West 57th Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). Either Miss Mauser of the Council staff or I will be contacting you within the next few days to see whether it is possible for you to serve on this panel and to answer any questions you may have regarding it.

Mrs. Harmar Brereton
Angus Duncan

Theodore M. Hancock

August Heckscher

Louis Clark Jones

David M. Keiser

Eric Larrabee

Mrs. David Levene

Frederick W. Richmond

Mrs. Richard Rodgers

Mrs. Aline Saarinen

Frank Stanton

Hale Woodruff

We can offer you an honorarium of $200 for the year, and we anticipate there will probably not be more than four meetings of the panel in any one year.

In addition, we have found it best to keep the membership of the panel anonymous so that you are not harrassed by groups or individuals who feel they deserve support.

We hope you can find the time to do this for us. We look forward to meeting you and working with you.

JBH/sm

cc: Eric Larrabee
Harold Ober

JOHN B. HIGHTOWER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 250 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019 JUDSON 6-2040

WILLIAM HULL ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 121 E. GENESEE ST., HANOVER SQUARE, SYRACUSE, N. Y. 13202 422-5323

September 14, 1966

Dear Mr. Hughes:

JBH/sm

cc: Eric Iarrabee
    Harold Ober

THE ACADEMY OF

AMERICAN POETS

1078 MADISON AVENUE

NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028

YUkon 8-6783

13 December 1965

DEC 16 1965

Dear John:

According to your request for a list of poets, the cut-off
would be their willingness "to subject themselves to this sort of
treatment," which would eliminate the following handful:

W. H. Auden
Stanley Kunitz
Robert Lowell
Marianne Moore
Delmore Schwartz
John Hall Wheelock

Most of the remaining poets in New York (I assume you wish
to confine the list to New York poets) presumably would be willing
at some time to make a tour under the auspices of the New York
State Arts Council, at least judging from the requests that we receive.

Your request for a "representative" list I interpret as
meaning a list of those poets most in demand, hence perhaps repre-
sentative because of frequency of appearance. The following are
indeed well-known, consequently more popular and have already
extensively toured:

Alan Dugan
Anthony Hecht
David Ignatow
Galway Kinnell
Allen Ginsberg
Denise Levertov
Robert Sward

(Dugan, Hecht, Kinnell and Levertov have toured the upstate
New York Circuit; and Dugan and Kinnell have toured the Mid-
Hudson. I am under the impression that Sward has fulfilled
individual engagements in New York. He and Ignatow are
scheduled to tour the New England Circuit, and their names
will soon come up, I predict, for the New York circuits.
Ginsberg gives many readings.)

Already tiny, this list becomes disproportionately so if
compared to the list of available poets. To give you some inkling
of the potential numbers of this group, I should like to show two

SMALL MAGAZINES (New York City)

Theodore Enslin
Rochelle Owen
David Antin

Jerome Rothenberg
George Economou
Diane di Prima

et al

Although, of course, we do have accurate biographies, at the moment I am only able to enclose some recent programs on which are checked biographies.

I should, of course, be interested to know whether the scheme of The New York State Council on the Arts can fit into that of the circuits. The New York circuits bring poets from the West, from England, and from all points. Circuits in other parts of the country are also importing poets from the opposite coasts and faraway points. I should like very much to show you the apparatus we have developed to serve the various circuits. Of course, each circuit is autonomous, with its own selection committee, director, etc. I have never quite approved of a centralized New York City agency, and I should like to argue against the idea when there is more leisure.

THE POETRY CENTER

92nd St. YM-YWHA • Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, N. Y. 10028 ATwater 9-2400

1. Paul Blackburn

Most recent book is *The Nets* (Trobar Press); was 1962 Poetry Editor of *Nation*; and poet-in-residence at the Aspen Writers Workshop (Summer of 1965 and 1966)

Address: 19 East 7th Street, New York, New York OR 3-3179

2. Philip Booth

His third and most recent book is *Weathers and Edges* (Viking 1966); poet-in-residence, Syracuse University

Address: English Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (315) GR 6-5571

3. Richard Eberhart

Has published many books of poetry and has been awarded many prizes; poet-in-residence, Dartmouth College

Address: 5 Webster Terrace, Hanover, New Hampshire

4. Jack Gilbert

1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Series for *Views of Jeopardy*; travels extensively throughout the world

Address: c/o Jean McLean, 1837 Oak Street, San Francisco, California

5. Michael Goldman

A young poet whose book, *First Poems* (Macmillan), has received wide critical acclaim; instructor in English at Columbia University

Address: 425 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10025 866-0923

Edward Albee
W. H. Auden
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Robert Bly
Philip Booth
John Malcolm Brinnin
Richard Burton
Truman Capote
Joyce Cary
John Cheever
John Ciardi
Padraic Colum
E. E. Cummings
Peter Davison
Babette Deutsch
James Dickey
Isak Dinesen
John Dos Passos
Alan Dugan
Robert Duncan
Richard Eberhart
T. S. Eliot
George P. Elliott
James T. Farrell
Robert Fitzgerald
Kimon Friar
Robert Frost
Jean Garrigue
Sir John Gielgud
Jacob Glatstein
Gunter Grass
Robert Graves
Arthur Gregor
Sir Alec Guinness
Donald Hall
Anthony Hecht
John Hollander
Aldous Huxley
Christopher Isherwood
Randall Jarrell
Alfred Kazin
Galway Kinnell
Thomas Kinsella
Denise Levertov
C. Day Lewis
John Logan
Mary McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Bernard Malamud
Thomas Mann
James Merrill
Arthur Miller
Marianne Moore
Alberto Moravia
Howard Moss
Vladimir Nabokov
Ogden Nash
Howard Nemerov
Frank O'Connor
Ned O'Gorman
Robert Pack
Dorothy Parker
Katherine Anne Porter
Reynolds Price
James Purdy
John Crowe Ransom
Sir Herbert Read
Alastair Reid
I. A. Richards
Theodore Roethke
Muriel Rukeyser
Carl Sandburg
Nathalie Sarraute
Anne Sexton
Karl Shapiro

John Simon
Louis Simpson
I. B. Singer
Dame Edith Sitwell
Sir Osbert Sitwell
William Jay Smith

W. D. Snodgrass
Susan Sontag
Stephen Spender
William Stafford
Wallace Stevens
May Swenson

Allen Tate
Dylan Thomas
Lionel Trilling
Mark Van Doren
John Wain
Robert Penn Warren

Theodore Weiss
John Hall Wheelock
Richard Wilbur
Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams

THE POETRY CENTER

Edward Albee
W. H. Auden
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Robert Bly
Philip Booth
John Malcolm Brinnin
Richard Burton
Truman Capote
Joyce Cary
John Cheever
John Giardi
Padraic Colum
E. E. Cummings
Peter Davison
Babette Deutsch
James Dickey
Isak Dinesen
John Dos Passos
Alan Dugan
Robert Duncan
Richard Eberhart
T. S. Eliot
George P. Elliott
James T. Farrell
Robert Fitzgerald
Kimon Friar
Robert Frost
Jean Garrigue
Sir John Gielgud
Jacob Glatstein
Gunter Grass
Robert Graves
Arthur Gregor
Sir Alec Guinness
Donald Hall
Anthony Hecht
John Hollander
Aldous Huxley
Christopher Isherwood
Randall Jarrell
Alfred Kazin
Galway Kinnell
Thomas Kinsella
Denise Levertov
C. Day Lewis
John Logan
Mary McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Bernard Malamud
Thomas Mann
James Merrill
Arthur Miller
Marianne Moore
Alberto Moravia
Howard Moss
Vladimir Nabokov
Ogden Nash
Howard Nemerov
Frank O'Connor
Ned O'Gorman
Robert Pack
Dorothy Parker
Katherine Anne Porter
Reynolds Price
James Purdy
John Crowe Ransom
Sir Herbert Read
Alastair Reid
I. A. Richards
Theodore Roethke
Muriel Rukeyser
Carl Sandburg
Nathalie Sarraute
Anne Sexton
Karl Shapiro

6. Anthony Hecht

His most recent book is *The Seven Deadly Sins (Macmillan)*; recipient
of many awards; poet-in-residence, Bard College

Address: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (914) 758-8275
or
240 East 82nd Street, New York, New York RE 7-6245

7. Sandra Hochman

1963 winner, Yale Younger Poets Award for Manhattan Pastures; latest
book, *The Vaudeville Marriage* (Viking, 1966)

Address: 3 East 78th Street, New York, New York 988-7825

8. Galway Kinnell

Latest book of poetry is *Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (Houghton-Mifflin); author of a novel, Black Light (Houghton-Mifflin, 1966);*
has taught extensively in America, the Near East and Europe

Address: 28 Bethune Street, New York, New York 675-4785

9. Denise Levertov

Latest of many books is *O Taste and See* (New Directions); has written
and taught widely

Address: 277 Greenwich Street, New York, New York RE 2-3197

10. Robert Pack

Latest book is *Guarded by Women* (Random House); poet-in-residence,
Middlebury College

Address: Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

THE POETRY CENTER

11. Anne Sexton

Most recent book is *All My Pretty Ones* (Houghton-Mifflin); winner
of several grants and prizes

Address: 90 Clearwater Road, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts
(617) DE 2-0101

Maxine Rumin

12. William Jay Smith

Has written several books of poetry for children as well as adults; is
also an editor and anthologist; poet-in-residence, Hollins College

Address: 3009 P. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. (202) 234-1676

13. May Swenson

Most recent book is *To Mix With Time* (Scribners); writes and reads
throughout the nation frequently

Address: 23 Perry Street, New York, New York CH 2-7203

14. Jean Valentine

A young poet; winner of 1964 Yale Younger Poets Award for *Dream Barker*

Address: 520 West 110th Street, New York, New York MO 3-8816

15. Theodore Weiss

Most recent book is *The Medium* (Macmillan, 1965); a poet-in-residence
at Bard College; editor of *Quarterly Review of Literature*

Edward Albee
W. H. Auden
James Baldwin
Saul Bellow
Robert Bly
Philip Booth
John Malcolm Brinnin
Richard Burton
Truman Capote
Joyce Cary
John Cheever
John Ciardi
Padraic Colum
E. E. Cummings
Peter Davison
Babette Deutsch
James Dickey
Isak Dinesen
John Dos Passos
Alan Dugan
Robert Duncan
Richard Eberhart
T. S. Eliot
George P. Elliott
James T. Farrell
Robert Fitzgerald
Kimon Friar
Robert Frost
Jean Garrique
Sir John Gielgud
Jacob Glatstein
Gunter Grass
Robert Graves
Arthur Gregor
Sir Alec Guinness
Donald Hall
Anthony Hecht
John Hollander
Aldous Huxley
Christopher Isherwood
Randall Jarrell
Alfred Kazin
Galway Kinnell
Thomas Kinsella
Denise Levertov
C. Day Lewis
John Logan
Mary McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Bernard Malamud
Thomas Mann
James Merrill
Arthur Miller
Marianne Moore
Alberto Moravia
Howard Moss
Vladimir Nabokov
Ogden Nash
Howard Nemerov
Frank O'Connor
Ned O'Gorman
Robert Pack
Dorothy Parker
Katherine Anne Porter
Reynolds Price
James Purdy
John Crowe Ransom
Sir Herbert Read
Alastair Reid
I. A. Richards
Theodore Roethke
Muriel Rukeyser
Carl Sandburg
Nathalie Sarraute
Anne Sexton
Karl Shapiro

A. B. Spellman (The Beautiful Days)
290 Elizabeth Street, N.Y.C.

Ishmael Reed - 261 West 21st St,
605 East 6th Street
29 Second Avenue, N.Y.C.

Frank O'Hara
791 Broadway, N.Y.C.

Barbara Guest
1148 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Denise Levertov
277 Greenwich Street, N.Y.C.

John Wieners

Boston, Massachusetts

Gil Sorrentino
541 East 13th Street
New York, New York

Leroy Jones
c/o Mrs. H. Jones
27 Cooper Square
New York, New York

Paul Blackburn
19 East 7th Street
New York, New York

Charles Olson
28 Fort Square
Gloucester, Massachusetts

Louis Zukofsky
77 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York

Bob Kelly
c/o Bard College
Annondale on Hunson
New York

Ed Sanders
2861 Elcho
New York, New York

Allen Ginzburg

New York, New York

Robert Creeley - Buffalo
Placitas, New Mexico

~~Robert Duncan~~

Robert Duncan

San Francisco, Cal.

Philip Whalen

San Francisco, Cal.

Gary Snyder

San Francisco, Cal.

Edward Dorn
"Weavers" 187 Lexden Rd.
Colchester, Essex, England-

Joel Oppenheimer
317 East 4th Street
New York, New York

April 6, 1967.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Here's a rundown on the March 15th meeting. I'm so sorry the weather prevented you from being here. You were missed!

Seymour H. Knox
*Chairman*

Accepted for inclusion in Fall 1967 program: Jean Garrigue, Arthur Gregor, Howard Nemerov, James Merrill, Galway Kinnell, Robert Penn Warren, William Meredith, Barbara Howes, Charles Olson, Naomi Lazard, Ned O'Gorman, Diane Wakowski.

It has been suggested since the meeting that Louis Simpson be added to this group. He will be teaching at SUC Stonybrook next year. How do you feel about this?

Max Arons
Mrs. Harmar Brereton

Hy Faine

August Heckscher

Louis Clark Jones

David M. Keiser

Eric Larrabee

Mrs. David Levene

Frederick W. Richmond

Mrs. Richard Rodgers

Mrs. Aline Saarinen

Frank Stanton

Hale Woodruff

Not accepted for inclusion: Tom Kinsella, Clayton Eshleman, Jane Mayhall, Bruce Berlind, Ken Chandler, W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Bagg, Lewis Turco, Milton Kessler, Natalie Robins, Jerome Mazzaro, Carol Berge, Kathleen Fraser, Robin Morgan, Mike Silverton, Ted Joans, Julia Field, Mac Hammond, Saul Touster, Harriet Zinnes, Ralph Pomeroy, Ellen Tifft, Paul Roche, James Schevill and Robert U. Huff.

Poets to read for possible inclusion next semester: Maxine Kumin, James Emmanuel, John Pauker, Audre Lourd, Oliver Pitcher, Jay Wright, David Shapiro, Theodore Holmes, Samuel Abrams, David Slavitt, Bink Noll, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Jim Brody, Jo Ann Kyger, Charles Stein.

To consider at a later date: Robert Hazel, Kenneth Pitchford, Joel Sloman.

May I hear from you for a final OK and a vote on Simpson?

Many thanks,

Susanna Mauser
for Special Programs

SM:tim

JUDSON 6-2040

ans. by phone

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POETS SUGGESTED BY PANEL MEMBERS FOR INCLUSION
IN FALL LISTING, 1967

1. Jean Garrigue

2. Arthur Gregor, author of three books; most recent, Basic Movements, 1966. In September, Doubleday will publish his fourth book.

3. Howard Nemerov

4. James Merrill - Won't he be back from Greece?

5. Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. for three years. Will be east in October; author of Paenis & translations (Atheneum).

6. Galway Kinnell - returns from Reed College next year.

7. Maxine Kumin, two books, most recent The Privilege (Harpur & Row). Fine poet, good reader, beautiful girl.

8. Robert Penn Warren

9. Charles Olson

10. William Meredith

11. James Meredith

12. Barbara Howes

13. Howard Moss

14. Jane Mayhall

15. Bruce Berlind, English Department, Colgate University. Nice guy.

16. John Pauker, in Washington area, at U.S.I.A.

17. Len Chandler, poet, folksinger, guitarist

18. James A. Emanuel, included in New Negro Poets: U.S.A. (Indiana University Press. Poems published in N.Y. Times, editorial page.

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19. Audre Lorde, children's librarian. Work included in *New Negro Poets: U.S.A.*

20. Oliver Pitcher, published in *New Negro Poets: U.S.A.*

21. Jay Wright, works included in *New Negro Poets: U.S.A.*

22. Theodore Holmes

23. Naomi Lazard, first volume published this year by Harcourt, Brace

24. David Shapiro, author of *January* (Holt, 1965). A Junior at Columbia College--shows great promise

25. W.D. Snodgrass

26. Robert Bagg, author of *Madonna of the Cello* (Wesleyan, 1961)

FEB 27 1967

THOSE POETS WHO HAVE THEMSELVES REQUESTED THAT THEY
BE CONSIDERED BY THE NEW YORK STATE
POETRY PANEL FOR INCLUSION IN
THE 1967-1968 COUNCIL
LIST

These books can be ordered from either Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47th Street, PL 7-0367 or Eight Street Book Shop, 17 West 8th Street, GR 7-8539.

1. Lewis Turco, English teacher at State University of New York, Oswego, N.Y. Author of *First Poems* (1960), *The Sketches* (1962); has taught at several universities.

2. Milton Kessler, book *A Road Came Once* (Ohio State 1963), teacher at Harpur College Binghamton, N.Y.

3. Natalie Robins, poet in N.Y.C., *My Father Spoke of His Riches* (Alan Swallow 1966)

4. Jerome Mazzaro, teacher at State University of Buffalo, author: *Changing the Windows*, (Ohio State University Press 1966), translated *Juvenal's Satires* and *The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell* (University of Michigan Press 1965).

5. Carol Berge, included in *Four Women Poets*; no book of her own

6. Diane Wakowski, P.O. Box 4786, Grand Central Station 10017, book out by Doubleday. However, will be in England next year.

7. Kathleen Fraser, young poet around N.Y.C. A book published by Kayack Press.

8. David Slavitt, lives in Mass. most recent book of poetry *The Carnivores*.

9. Kenneth Pitchford, several books, a new one coming in April from University of Northern Carolina, Press.

10. Robin Morgan, wife of Kenneth. In addition to poems of her own in anthologies (like the Leary-Kelly), she is editing a book of poems from Viet-Nam.

11. Michael Silverton, privately published book, available at Eight Street Book Shop.

12. Ted Joans in *Beyond the Blues*, Negro poets edited by Rosey Pool-(Hand & Flower Press, England.

13. Julia Fields, also in *Beyond the Blues*.

POETS REQUESTING INCLUSION IN 1967-1968 POETRY LIST: 2

14. Mac Hammond, at Buffalo University, has written *The Horse Opera* (Ohio State).

15. Saul Touster, written *Still Lives and Other Lives* (University of Missouri Press) winner of Devins Memorial Award, 1966.

16. Harriet Zinnes, written one book

17. Ralph Pomeroy, two books from small presses: *Stills and Movies* (San Francisco 1961) *The Canaries as They Are* (Charioteer Publication Prize).

18. Ellen Tifft, Crane Road, East Hill, Elmira, N.Y. has published small book *A Door in a Wall* (Itors Commerce Press, Calif.) and also has published individual poems in various magazines.

19. Paul Roche, written *The Rank Obstinacy of Things* (Sheed & Ward); new book, *All Things Considered* (published in London by Duckworth). Recipient of Bollingen Fellowship, and the first Alice di Castagnola prize of the Poetry Society of America.

20. James Schevill, director of The Poetry Center, San Francisco State College. Author of poems, plays, biographies. Latest work, *Off The Sea Into The Merchant's Life* (poems), published by Alan Swallow, Denver. Winner of many prizes and commissions.

21. Robert Huff, Writer-in-residence at University of Arkansas, on leave from Western Washington State College. Books of poems, *Colonel Johnson's Ride* and *The Course* published by Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit.

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HBA148 NBA633 SYE598 =

1962 JUN 4 PM 9 47

SY HEA618 PD AR HEMPSTEAD NY 4 914P EDT =

LANGSTON HUGHES =

20 EAST 127 ST NYK =

NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU FOR THEIR SEPTEMBER 26TH CONFERENCE THE TOPIC THE NEGRO CONTRIBUTION TO OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE WOULD YOU BE AVAILABLE CALL IVANHOE 9-2336 OR IVANHOE 9-1688

WILLIAM J TRENT JR REFERRED US TO YOU SINCERELY =

HELEN M SCHUMACHER PROGRAM CHAIRMAN

THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE

LANGSTON HUGHES

634 ST. NICHOLAS AVENUE
NEW YORK 30, NEW YORK

November 15, 1946

Dear Miss Detraz:

Thank you very much for your note of November 11. For a student audience I would prefer to read my own poems of "Negro Life." Since I shall have the whole day of December 5 in Plattsburgh (As it appears that the earliest train on which I can return to New York is 10:45 in the evening), I would be happy to meet with any class or smaller group in the afternoon who might want to discuss specialized aspects of writing, or the American Race problem, or further aspects of Negro poetry.

My agency lists for me a train leaving New York at 1:30 in the afternoon and arriving in Plattsburgh at 10:22 P.M. This would be the most convenient train for me to take, and I could go directly to the Hotel Cumberland upon arrival, as I gather a reservation has been made for me there. If I take this train, as I expect to, I will arrive too late to have dinner with the students on Wednesday evening, but I am delighted to accept for luncheon on Thursday.

I am looking forward with great pleasure to my first visit to Plattsburgh.

Sincerely,

June 19, 1945

Dear Mr. Weiss:

I have just returned from an extended lecturing tour and find your letter here, which my secretary acknowledged during my absence.

I regret that my own writing commitments will not allow me to undertake collaboration with anyone else, although I am sure the material which you have is most interesting.

With my regrets, I am

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

ELEVEN WALL STREET

EMIL SCHRAM
PRESIDENT

June 23, 1943

Mr. Langston Hughes
634 St. Nicholas Ave.
New York City

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Mr. Lindsay Bradford, I understand, has invited you to join us as a Founder of the New York Committee of the National War Fund, and to attend the Founders' Meeting on Wednesday, June 30th, at four o'clock, in the Council Chamber at City Hall.

The National War Fund, as you know, is a consolidation of sixteen war-related organizations serving the home front, the military front and the United Nations front. By welding these agencies into one common cause, the National War Fund imparts to each agency the strength that comes from unity of leadership and action. It meets the public demand for the merging of these vital war philanthropies into a single fund-raising campaign conducive to the highest possible degree of economy and efficiency. It should also result in adequate funds with which to meet the urgent demands upon these essential war service agencies.

By accepting Mr. Bradford's invitation to serve as a Founder of the New York Committee and attending the Founders' Meeting at the City Hall Council Chamber on June 30th, you will be rendering a very real service to the National War Fund.