CAROLINE MARSHALL:
An Inventory of Her Papers Relating to Minnesota Poetry Organizations at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Marshall, Caroline, 1943-, creator. | |
| Title: | Papers relating to Minnesota poetry organizations. | |
| Dates: | 1973-1978. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, grant applications, news clippings, flyers, poet biographies, and broadsides documenting Marshall's involvement in the Women Poets of the Twin Cities, and Minnesota Poetry Outloud and its Smith Park Poetry Series. | |
| Quantity: | 0.35 cubic feet (1 box and 1 folder in a partial box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Caroline Marshall was born in 1943 and lived most of her life in Minnesota. She attended Abbot (later Andover) Academy and Vassar College. She worked as a journalist and as a funding and public relations consultant; taught in the Minnesota Writers-in-the-Schools program; co-founded and performed with the Minnesota Poetry Outloud tour troupe; and was vice president of Maysack and Marshall/Organizational Counsel, inc., of Minneapolis.
Minnesota Poetry Outloud was a troupe of writers, poets, and musicians who visited parks, rest homes, libraries, and other venues reading their own and others' stories and poems, making music, and telling stories in order to spread an appreciation of serious literature.
Women Poets of the Twin Cities was a group of women who met, read poems, and offered each other criticism, advice, and support. Membership was open to any woman who wrote poems.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Marshall, Caroline, Papers relating to Poetry Organizations. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,701
Processing Information:
Processed by: David B. Peterson, December 2012
Catalog ID number: 990076122190104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| P2754 | 1 | Minnesota Poetry Outloud: | |||||||||
| Correspondence and papers, 1974-1978. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes correspondence, artwork, clippings, poet biographies, flyers, and miscellaneous papers. | |||||||||||
| Smith Park Poetry Series, 1973-1975. | |||||||||||
| Includes publicity, programs, flyers, grant applications, artist biographies, and correspondence. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 129.F.3.8F-1 | 2 | Smith Park Poetry Series broadsides, circa 1973-1974. 1 portfolio (35 broadsides). | |||||||||
| Spoon song / Jenné Andrews; [illustrated by] Julia Marshall -- Thaxted / Carol Bly; [illustrated by] Ellen Kennedy -- Buffalo / Robert Bly; [illustrated by] Ellen Kennedy -- Song for a widow's marriage / Franklin Brainard; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- Piano / Michael Denny Browne -- Tunneling deep iron / John Caddy; [illustrated by] J. C -- The coral strand / Kathleen Cox; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- Louise Nevelson wood sculptures / Judy Daniel; [illustrated by] Karen Starr -- Your human being / Mike Finley -- Death / Madelon Gohlke; [illustrated by] K. S -- Suicide because of war / Patricia Hampl; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- Duluth, Minnesota, 1937 / Phebe Hanson; [illustrated by] Anne Hayes -- E uni que a the hi a tho, father / Roberta Hill; [illustrated by] K. S -- Confessional poem / Louis Jenks; [illustrated by] K. S -- Founding (a nursery rhyme) / Jan Johnson -- The sparrow poem / Patricia Kirkpatrick; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- The place going to / Wendy Joan Knox -- Rites of ancient ripening / Meridel Le Sueur; drawing by Judith Roode -- A poem about the country / David Luhn -- Projected view of 2000 / Freya Manfred -- There is no map / Dawnine Martinez; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- My other lover / David Martinson; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- 3 a.m. and the quarter moon had just risen / James Moore; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- Winter / Michael Moos; [illustrated by] Anne Hayes -- Comet seeker / Alvin Greenberg; A poem without you / Wendy Parrish -- Waiting for spring / Joe Paddock; [illustrated by] Ellen Kennedy -- If you ever remember me loving you / John Calvin Rezmerski; [illustrated by] M. K. O'L. -- Venery / Martha Roth; [illustrated by] C.M.V. -- Glass falling / Mary Ellen Shaw -- The bookmark / Caroline Vogel; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- Parsley / Jeanette Wagner; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- The teacher / Cary Waterman; [illustrated by] A. Hayes -- 6/14/73 / Charles Waterman -- Four horse songs / James L. White -- A love poem: Minneapolis, 1974 / Susan Zeni. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| P2754 | 1 | Women Poets of the Twin Cities, 1973-1975. | |||||||||
| File includes correspondence, grant applications, news clippings, and lists of poets. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Poetry.
- Poets.
- Women poets.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota Poetry Outloud (Organization).
- Women Poets of the Twin Cities (Organization)
- Meetings:
- Smith Park Poetry Series.
- Document Types:
- Broadsides.
- Poems.
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