Bernadette Mayer Papers, 1958-2017 (MSS 420)

Restrictions: Original audiovisual media and unprocessed digital media are restricted. Viewing/listening copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 30.0 Linear feet (70 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize file folders)

Papers of Bernadette Mayer, writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. Most often associated with the New York School, Mayer uses compositional methods such as chance operations, collage and cut-up. Materials include correspondence with writers, artists, publishers, and friends; manuscripts and typescripts; notebooks and loose notes; teaching notes; audio recordings and photographs; and biographical materials such as calendars, datebooks and ephemera.

Bernadette Mayer was born on May 12, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. from the New School for Social Research in 1967, shortly after which she began teaching there on a part-time, semi-permanent basis. From 1967-1969, Mayer and conceptual artist Vito Acconci edited the experimental journal 0 to 9, which published work from experimentalists in a range of genres and media. In the early 1970s, Mayer lived with film-maker Ed Bowes, with whom she collaborated on numerous projects. In 1975, Mayer married writer and publisher Lewis Warsh, with whom she had three children. Warsh and Mayer collaboratively edited United Artists press, which published a number of seminal books of poetry, including Ted Berrigan's Sonnets and Mayer's own Utopia.

Throughout the 1980s, Mayer was director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York where, as well as teaching writing workshops, she produced the Poetry Project's reading series. Mayer's position made her a central figure in the community of artists and writers gathered at that time in New York City's Lower East Side, and many of her students from this period—Lee Ann Brown and Lisa Jarnot among them—have gone on to become writers themselves.

As a writer, Mayer is most often associated with the New York School, a rubric which refers to composers, painters, visual artists, conceptual artists, and choreographers in addition to writers. Mayer's use of compositional methods such as chance-operation, collage, and cut-up identify her as an artist pursuing concerns similar to those of John Cage, Jackson Mac Low or Frank O'Hara—central figures in the New York School—as well as more contemporary figures associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing. But Mayer's work is also significantly influenced by modernist figures such as James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, as well as by her background in classical studies, evident in her syllabi, reading lists and in her informal translations of Catullus.

Mayer's publications include: Ceremony Latin (1964), Story (1968), Moving (1971), Memory (1975), Studying Hunger (1975), Poetry (1976), Eruditio ex Memoria (1977),The Golden Book of Words (1978), Midwinter Day (1982), Utopia (1984), Sonnets (1989), The Formal Field of Kissing (1990), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), Proper Name and Other Stories (1996), Another Smashed Pinecone (1998), Two Haloed Mourners (1998), Scarlet Tanager (2005), The Cave (with Clark Coolidge, 2008), Poetry State Forest (2008), Ethics of Sleep (2011), The Helens of Troy, New York (2013), and At Maureen's (2013).

The Bernadette Mayer Papers document Mayer's career as a writer and teacher and, to a lesser extent, her career as a publisher and editor. Additionally, the papers reflect the broader community of artists and writers known as the New York School. Materials include correspondence from writers, artists, publishers, and friends; notebooks and loose notes; manuscripts and typescripts of Mayer's works; teaching notes; audio recordings and photographs; and biographical materials such as calendars, datebooks and ephemera.

Accession Processed in 1998

Arranged in eleven series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WRITINGS, 4) NOTEBOOKS, 5) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 6) TEACHING MATERIAL, 7) EDITING MATERIAL, 8) EPHEMERA, 9) PHOTOGRAPHS, 10) SOUND RECORDINGS, and 11) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.

Accession Processed in 2019

Arranged in four series: 12) BIOGRAPHICAL, 13) CORRESPONDENCE, 14) WRITINGS, and 15) TEACHING MATERIALS.

Bernadette Mayer. Letters to Rosemary Mayer, MSS 520. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Bernadette Mayer. Moving typescript, MSS 480. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Bernadette Mayer. United Artists records, MSS 12. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Container List

Accession Processed in 1998

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL: Mayer's calendars and datebooks for the years 1975-1994, address books, biographical abstracts, interviews with Mayer, and grant applications. Additional biographical material may be found in Series 4, 8, 9, and 10.

Box 1 Folder 1
Address books
Box 1 Folder 2-10
Calendars, 1975-1977, 1981-1986
Box 2 Folder 1-9
Calendars, 1987-1994
Box 3 Folder 1
Conversation between Lee Ann Brown and Bernadette Mayer - Typescript, ca. 1993
Box 3 Folder 2
Educational Press Association of America - Distinguished Achievement Award, 1989
Box 3 Folder 3
Grant applications, 1987 - 1992
Box 3 Folder 4-6
Interview with Bernadette Mayer by Ann Rower - Typescripts, 1984 October 18
Box 3 Folder 7
Interview with Bernadette Mayer, by Clark Coolidge? Typescript
Box 3 Folder 8
Introduction of Mayer as a speaker, by Ed Friedman - Typescript
Box 3 Folder 9
National Endowment for the Arts. Final Report - Fellowship in Poetry, 1979-1980
Box 3 Folder 10
New School for Social Research - Bachelor's degree, 1967
Box 3 Folder 11
Passport, 1972
Box 3 Folder 12
Reading and speaking contracts, 1978 - 1992
Box 3 Folder 13-14
Reading announcements
Box 3 Folder 15
Resumes
Box 3 Folder 16
Reading lists
Box 3 Folder 17
Skyline, Saint Saviour High School, Brooklyn, New York [Mayer was co-editor], 1958 - 1962
Box 3 Folder 18
Who's Who of American Women - Biographical note
Box 3 Folder 19
Zines - Addresses of small presses and literary magazines

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: The most extensive series in the collection, containing letters from a wide range of literary and artistic figures. Correspondents include including Bill Berkson, Charlotte Carter, Clark Coolidge, William Corbett, Ed Freidman, Fanny Howe, Laura Riding Jackson, Nick Piombino, Anne Waldman, and Hannah Weiner. Also included are substantial letters from Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, and others associated with L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing; younger writers or students such as Lee Ann Brown, Lisa Jarnot and Kristin Prevallet; visual and conceptual artists such as Vito Acconci, Ed Bowes and George Schneeman; family members; and numerous personal friends. In addition to letters, the series also contains enclosures such as personal gifts or publications sent to Mayer, the most noteworthy of which is a group of Anne Waldman's notebooks dedicated to Mayer.

Box 3 Folder 20-21
Unidentified correspondents - Incoming and outgoing correspondence
Box 3 Folder 22
13th Moon, 1974 - 1976
Box 3 Folder 23
A - Miscellaneous
Box 3 Folder 24
Abbott, Steve, 1983
Box 4 Folder 1
Acconi, Vito, 1963
Box 4 Folder 2
Adam, Helen
Box 4 Folder 3
The Alternative Press, 1993
Box 4 Folder 4
Altieri, Charles
Box 4 Folder 5
Andrews, Bruce, 1973 - 1976
Box 4 Folder 6
Armantrout, Rae, 1989
Box 4 Folder 7
Arthurs, Meg, 1991 - 1994
Box 4 Folder 8
B - Miscellaneous
Box 4 Folder 9
Baker, Peter N., Jr., 1993 - 2003
Box 4 Folder 10
Banks, Lea, 1980 - 1982
Box 4 Folder 11
Banks, Russell, 1980 - 1987
Box 4 Folder 12
Barg, Barbara, 1981 - 1983
Box 4 Folder 13
Barnes, Susan, 1990
Box 4 Folder 14
Beckett, Tom, 1981
Box 4 Folder 15
Benson, Steve, 1981
Box 4 Folder 16
Berkson, Bill, 1980 - 1995
Box 4 Folder 17
Berkson, Lynn, 1975 - 1979
Box 4 Folder 18
Berninger, Wayne, 1993 - 1995
Box 4 Folder 19
Bernstein, Charles, 1978 - 2004
Box 4 Folder 20
Berrigan, Ted, 1969 - 1983
Box 4 Folder 21
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei, 1982
Box 4 Folder 22
Blanchard, David, 1992 - 1993
Box 4 Folder 23
Borrus, Beth, 1990-1995
Box 4 Folder 24
Bowes, Catch and Ed Sr. (Ed Bowes's parents), 1970 - 1972
Box 5 Folder 1
Bowes, Ed, 1967 - 1979
Box 5 Folder 2
Bowes, Tom, 1967 - 1993
Box 5 Folder 3
Brainard, Joe, 1980 - 1992
Box 5 Folder 4
Brenner, Summer, 1980 - 1984
Box 5 Folder 5
Bricken, Patsy, 1990 - 1991
Box 5 Folder 6
Brody, Jim, 1969 - 1985
Box 5 Folder 7
Brown, Jean, 1977 - 1980
Box 5 Folder 8
Brown, Lee Ann, 1985 - 1995
Box 5 Folder 9
Brownstein, Michael, 1973
Box 5 Folder 10
Budenz, Julia, 1985 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 11
Burckhardt, Rudy, 1982
Box 5 Folder 12
Burk, Ronnie, 1983
Box 5 Folder 13
Butterick, George, 1986
Box 5 Folder 14
Bye, Reed, 1986
Box 5 Folder 15
Bynum, Tom, 1990 - 1995
Box 5 Folder 16
C - Miscellaneous
Box 5 Folder 17
Cage, John, 1982 - 1989
Box 5 Folder 18
Cabiles, Claire, 1979 - 1991
Box 5 Folder 19
Calas, Alex, 1992 - 1995
Box 5 Folder 20
Callahan, Eileen, 1978 - 1986
Box 5 Folder 21
Callahan, Robert, 1978 - 1982
Box 5 Folder 22
Canter, Art, 1990 - 1993
Box 5 Folder 23
Carey, Steve, 1984
Box 5 Folder 24
Carroll, Paul, 1971 - 1972
Box 5 Folder 25
Carter, Charlotte, 1974 - 1991
Box 6 Folder 1
Chadwick, Cydney, 1990 - 1991
Box 6 Folder 2
Chasnoff, Julius and Julia, 1978 - 1994
Box 6 Folder 3
Chester, Laura, 1987 - 1992
Box 6 Folder 4
Cleary, Beverly
Box 6 Folder 5
Codrescu, Andrei, 1980 - 1994
Box 6 Folder 6
Cohn, Jim, 1985 - 1991
Box 6 Folder 7
Collom, Jack, 1987 - 1994
Box 6 Folder 8
Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 1988 - 1989
Box 6 Folder 9
Coolidge, Clark, 1973 - 1995
Box 6 Folder 10
Coolidge, Susan, 1987 - 1992
Box 6 Folder 11
Coolidge, Sylvia, 1985 - 1993
Box 6 Folder 12
Cooper, Dennis, 1983
Box 6 Folder 13
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1969 - 1983
Box 6 Folder 14
Cope, David, 1988 - 1994
Box 6 Folder 15-16
Corbett, Bill, 1977 - 1995
Box 6 Folder 17
Creative Artists Public Service Program, 1975 - 1983
Box 6 Folder 18
Creeley, Robert, 1980 - 2002
Box 6 Folder 19
Cruz, Victor Hernandez
Box 6 Folder 20
Cummings, Paul, 1983 - 1995
Box 6 Folder 21
Cunningham, Merce, 1992
Box 6 Folder 22
Curtis Brown Ltd. (Ellen Levine), 1977
Box 7 Folder 1
D - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 2
Davidson, Michael, 1979
Box 7 Folder 3
Davies, Alan, 1974 - 1983
Box 7 Folder 4
Decker, Helen, 1990 - 1992
Box 7 Folder 5-6
DeCoursey, Peggy, 1973 - 1997
Box 7 Folder 7
DeNoyelles, William, 1983 - 1993
Box 7 Folder 8
Devennie, Diane, 1975
Box 7 Folder 9
The Denver Art Museum, 1979
Box 7 Folder 10
Dinsmore, Danika, 1992 - 1995
Box 7 Folder 11
Donegan, Patricia, 1988
Box 7 Folder 12
Donofrio, Beverly, 1984
Box 7 Folder 13
Downes, Rackstraw
Box 7 Folder 14
Dreyer, Lynne, 1976
Box 7 Folder 15
Durrell, Brad
Box 7 Folder 16
E - Miscellaneous
Box 7 Folder 17
Eigner, Larry, 1987
Box 7 Folder 18
Einzig, Barbara, 1974 - 1987
Box 7 Folder 19
Ellis, Simone (Simone O), 1979 - 1980
Box 7 Folder 20
Ellis, Stephen, 1988 - 1991
Box 7 Folder 21
Elmslie, Kenward, 1979 - 1989
Box 7 Folder 22
Enslin, Theodore, 1989
Box 8 Folder 1-2
Ensslin, John, 1969 - 1979
Box 8 Folder 3
Epoch, 1986 - 1992
Box 8 Folder 4
Eshleman, Clayton, 1971 - 1973
Box 8 Folder 5
F - Miscellaneous
Box 8 Folder 6
Fagin, Larry, 1982 - 2002
Box 8 Folder 7
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1987
Box 8 Folder 8
Field, Edward, 1990
Box 8 Folder 9
Fischer, Norman, 1980 - 1983
Box 8 Folder 10
Foley, Jack, 1986
Box 8 Folder 11
Foster, Ed, 1982 - 1994
Box 8 Folder 12
Fox, Elizabeth, 1979 - 1986
Box 8 Folder 13
Frances, Linda, 1983 - 1984
Box 8 Folder 14
Friedman, Ed, 1970 - 1989
Box 8 Folder 15
Friedman, Elizabeth, 1989
Box 8 Folder 16
Freilicher, Melvyn, 1971 - 1992
Box 8 Folder 17
Fyman, Cliff, 1982 - 1995

Includes photographs.

Box 8 Folder 18
G - Miscellaneous
Box 8 Folder 19
Galet, Josh, 1987 - 1994
Box 8 Folder 20
Gallagher, Liam, 1976 - 1984
Box 8 Folder 21
Gander, Forrest, 1986
Box 8 Folder 22
Gardner, Keith, 1992 - 1994
Box 8 Folder 23
Gerber, Yancy
Box 8 Folder 24
Ginsberg, Allen, 1989
Box 8 Folder 25
Giorno, John, 1973 - 1994
Box 8 Folder 26
Gitin, David
Box 8 Folder 27
Gizzi, Michael
Box 8 Folder 28
Gizzi, Peter, 1995
Box 9 Folder 1
Good, Philip
Box 9 Folder 2
Gordon, 1986
Box 9 Folder 3
Graham, Dan, 1970 - 1991
Box 9 Folder 4
Greenspan, Eliot, 1989 - 1994
Box 9 Folder 5
Grossinger, Richard, 1989 - 2013
Box 9 Folder 6
Guest, Barbara, 1994
Box 9 Folder 7
Gullo, Gary, 1991 - 1993
Box 9 Folder 8
H - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 9
Hackman, Neil, 1972 - 1974
Box 9 Folder 10
Hall, Ree, 1978
Box 9 Folder 11
Hanaoka, Makiko, 1987 - 1988
Box 9 Folder 12
Hard Press, 1993 - 1994
Box 9 Folder 13
Harrison, Lee, 1987 - 1991
Box 9 Folder 14
Harwood, Lee, 1981
Box 9 Folder 15
Hejinian, Lyn, 1981 - 1989
Box 9 Folder 16
Henning, Barbara, 1993
Box 9 Folder 17
Higgins, Dick, 1969 - 1977
Box 9 Folder 18
Hollo, Anselm, 1972
Box 9 Folder 19
Holman, Bob, 1980 - 1989
Box 9 Folder 20
Hornick, Lita (Kulchur Foundation), 1973 - 1994
Box 9 Folder 21
Howe, Fanny, 1980 - 1996
Box 9 Folder 22
Howe, Susan, 1980 - 1981
Box 9 Folder 23
I - Miscellaneous
Box 9 Folder 24
Irby, Kenneth, 1985
Box 9 Folder 25
Ivanovic, Deyan, 1990
Box 10 Folder 1
J - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 2
Jackson, Laura Riding, 1965 - 1986

Includes photograph of Laura Riding Jackson and Bernadette Mayer.

Box 10 Folder 3
Jarnot, Lisa, 1992 - 1994
Box 10 Folder 4
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981 - 1992
Box 10 Folder 5
Johns, Jasper, 1969
Box 10 Folder 6
K - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 7
Kashner, Sam, 1978
Box 10 Folder 8
Katz, Alex and Ada, 1971 - 1992
Box 10 Folder 9
Katz, Vincent, 1984 - 2009
Box 10 Folder 10
Kearney, Margaret, 1975 - 1990
Box 10 Folder 11
Kidde, Katherine, 1984
Box 10 Folder 12
Killian, Kevin and Dodie Bellamy, 1989 - 1999
Box 10 Folder 13
Kostelanetz, Richard, 1969 - 1974
Box 10 Folder 14
Kushner, Bill, 1980 - 2003
Box 10 Folder 15
L - Miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 16
Lally, Michael, 1971 - 1982
Box 10 Folder 17
Lance, Jeanne, 1981 - 1988
Box 10 Folder 18
Lange, Art, 1976 - 1981
Box 10 Folder 19
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 1982
Box 10 Folder 20
Leblond, Pauline, 1992
Box 10 Folder 21
Lehman, David, 1978 - 1988
Box 10 Folder 22
Lenhart, Gary, 1982 - 1986
Box 10 Folder 23
Lenox Library Association, 1979
Box 10 Folder 24
Levine, Steve, 1978 - 1991
Box 10 Folder 25
Levitt, Annabel, 1975 - 1979
Box 10 Folder 26
Levy, Andrew, 1987 - 1992
Box 11 Folder 1
Lichtenstein, Roy, 1969
Box 11 Folder 2
Liff, Seena, 1985 - 1991
Box 11 Folder 3
Lifshin, Lynn, 1981
Box 11 Folder 4
Long News: In the Short Century, 1991
Box 11 Folder 5
Luster, Helen, 1979 - 1983
Box 11 Folder 6
M - Miscellaneous
Box 11 Folder 7
Mac Low, Jackson, 1976 - 1993
Box 11 Folder 8
Malanga, Gerard, 1966 - 1989
Box 11 Folder 9
Malmude, Steve, 1987
Box 11 Folder 10
Masters, Greg, 1982 - 1986
Box 11 Folder 11
Matthews, Harry, 1969
Box 11 Folder 12
Mattingly, George, 1973 - 1974
Box 11 Folder 13-14
Mayer, Rosemary, 1963 - 1980
Box 11 Folder 15
McGrath, Connell, 1990
Box 11 Folder 16
Mechem, James, 1976 - 1992
Box 11 Folder 17
Meltzer, David, 1972
Box 11 Folder 18
Messing, Robin, 1975 - 1977
Box 11 Folder 19
Metcalf, Paul, 1971 - 1984
Box 11 Folder 20
Mikolowski, Ken, 1984 - 1988
Box 11 Folder 21
Miller, David, 1973 - 1978
Box 11 Folder 22
Monaghan, Timothy (The Ledge), 1986 - 1988
Box 11 Folder 23
Moore College of Art, 1977 - 1978
Box 11 Folder 24
Moran, Judy, 1979 - 1980
Box 11 Folder 25
Moxley, Jennifer, 1991 - 2002
Box 11 Folder 26
Mullen, David
Box 11 Folder 27
Murphy, Grace, 1976 - 1986
Box 11 Folder 28
Murphy, Mrs. (Grace's mother)
Box 11 Folder 29
Myles, Eileen, 1980 - 1992
Box 12 Folder 1
N - Miscellaneous
Box 12 Folder 2
Naropa Institute, 1977
Box 12 Folder 3
National Endowment for the Arts, 1971 - 1991
Box 12 Folder 4
National Poetry Foundation, 1985
Box 12 Folder 5
New College of California (John Effing and Louis Patler), 1985 - 1986
Box 12 Folder 6
New Directions (Barbara Epler), 1983 - 1994
Box 12 Folder 7
New School for Social Research, 1973 - 1995
Box 12 Folder 8
New Wilderness Foundation, 1978 - 1984
Box 12 Folder 9
New York Foundation for the Arts, 1990
Box 12 Folder 10
Noel, Susan, 1978 - 1988
Box 12 Folder 11
Nolan, Pat
Box 12 Folder 12
North Atlantic Books (Richard Grossinger), 1980 - 1985
Box 12 Folder 13
North Carolina Arts Council, 1987
Box 12 Folder 14
North, Charles, 1975 - 1985
Box 12 Folder 15
Notley, Alice, 1967 - 1983
Box 12 Folder 16
Nunley, Dick, 1979 - 1982
Box 12 Folder 17
O - Miscellaneous
Box 12 Folder 18
o-blek, 1987 - 1988
Box 12 Folder 19
Orlovsky, Peter, 1978 - 1982
Box 12 Folder 20
Owen, Maureen, 1980 - 1991
Box 12 Folder 21
Owen, Robert, 1980 - 1982
Box 12 Folder 22
P - Miscellaneous
Box 12 Folder 23
Packer Collegiate Institute, 1990 - 1993
Box 12 Folder 24
Padgett, Ron, 1973 - 1984
Box 12 Folder 25
Palmer, Michael, 1976 - 1994
Box 12 Folder 26
Partisan Review, 1974 - 1978
Box 12 Folder 27
Perelman, Bob, 1979
Box 12 Folder 28
Perreault, John, 1970 - 1973
Box 12 Folder 29
Persea Books, Inc. (Simon Schuchat), 1976 - 1977
Box 12 Folder 30
Pettet, Simon, 1990 - 1995
Box 12 Folder 31
Phipps, Wanda, 1986 - 1990
Box 12 Folder 32
Pindell, Howardena, 1990
Box 13 Folder 1
Piombino, Nick, 1972 - 1998
Box 13 Folder 2
Piper, Paul S., 1982 - 1984
Box 13 Folder 3
Poetry Center, 1978 - 2001
Box 13 Folder 4
Poetry Project, 1974 - 1994
Box 13 Folder 5
Pratt, Tim, 1983 - 1990
Box 13 Folder 6
Prevallet, Kristin, 1992 - 1994
Box 13 Folder 7
R - Miscellaneous
Box 13 Folder 8
Ratcliffe, Stephen, 1982 - 1984
Box 13 Folder 9
Raworth, Tom, 1990
Box 13 Folder 10
Ricereto, Danine, 1989 - 1991
Box 13 Folder 11
Rizza, Gerard, 1983 - 1988
Box 13 Folder 12
Robinson, Elizabeth, 1984 - 1986
Box 13 Folder 13
Rodefer, Stephen, 1980
Box 13 Folder 14
Rosenthal, Bob, 1981 - 1982
Box 13 Folder 15
Rosenthal, Shelley, 1973 - 1982
Box 13 Folder 16
Rothenberg, Jerome, 1972 - 1982
Box 13 Folder 17
Rower, Ann, 1974
Box 13 Folder 18
Rubinfine, David, 1975
Box 13 Folder 19
S - Miscellaneous
Box 13 Folder 20
Sanders, Edward, 1983 - 1998
Box 13 Folder 21
Saroyam, Aram, 1965
Box 13 Folder 22
Savage, Tom, 1981 - 1996
Box 13 Folder 23
Scala, Suzanne, 1980 - 1992
Box 14 Folder 1
Scalapino, Leslie, 1989 - 1994
Box 14 Folder 2
Schelling, Andrew, 1992 - 1994
Box 14 Folder 3
Schjeldahl, Peter, 1974 - 1979
Box 14 Folder 4
Schneeman, Elio, 1980 - 1982
Box 14 Folder 5
Schneeman, George, 1973 - 1977
Box 14 Folder 6
Schnieder, David, 1981 - 1986
Box 14 Folder 7
Schuchat, Simon, 1978 - 1983
Box 14 Folder 8
Selby, Spencer
Box 14 Folder 9
Sher, Gail, 1982 - 1985
Box 14 Folder 10
Sherry, James, 1991
Box 14 Folder 11
Shoughrue, Vaughn
Box 14 Folder 12
Sikelianos, Eleni, 1989 - 1996
Box 14 Folder 13
Silliman, Ron, 1973 - 1998
Box 14 Folder 14
Silverman, Herschel, 1978 - 1994
Box 14 Folder 15
Simon, Meg, 1978 - 1994
Box 14 Folder 16
Small Press Traffic, 1986 - 1989

Small Press Distribution.

Box 14 Folder 17
Smedman, Lorna, 1978 - 1984
Box 14 Folder 18
Solan, Miriam, 1988 - 1993
Box 14 Folder 19
Sollfrey, Stacey
Box 14 Folder 20
Sondheim, Alan, 1973
Box 14 Folder 21
Soyer, Rebecca and Raphael, 1973 - 1985
Box 14 Folder 22
Spahr, Juliana, 1993
Box 14 Folder 23
St. Germain, Rita, 1978 - 1979
Box 14 Folder 24
St. Luke's School, 1988 - 1993
Box 14 Folder 25
St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, 1974 - 1982
Box 14 Folder 26
Stamos, Peter, 1974 - 1979
Box 14 Folder 27
Stearns, Ethelyn, 1986 - 1992
Box 14 Folder 28
Stearns, Todd, 1986
Box 14 Folder 29
Strauss, David Levi
Box 14 Folder 30
Stroffolino, Chris, 1990
Box 14 Folder 31
Stuart, Philip, 1985
Box 14 Folder 32
Sukenick, Ron, 1975 - 1977
Box 14 Folder 33
Sullivan, Gary and Marta, 1991 - 1994
Box 14 Folder 34
Sullivan, Mary, 1987 - 1989
Box 14 Folder 35
Sun and Moon Press (Douglas Messerli), 1977 - 1995
Box 14 Folder 36
T - Miscellaneous
Box 14 Folder 37
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 1991
Box 14 Folder 38
Tarn, Nathaniel, 1974 - 1976
Box 14 Folder 39
Tart, Indrek, 1989 - 1990
Box 15 Folder 1
Tauger, Gayle, 1991
Box 15 Folder 2
Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1982 - 1994
Box 15 Folder 3
Templeton, Fiona, 1980
Box 15 Folder 4
Thomas, Heather
Box 15 Folder 5
Thomson, Virgil, 1972
Box 15 Folder 6
Tillman, Lynne, 1988
Box 15 Folder 7
Tysh, Chris, 1987
Box 15 Folder 8
U - Miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 9
University of California, San Diego, 1982 - 1993
Box 15 Folder 10
V - Miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 11
Valoritis, Nanos, 1980 - 1981
Box 15 Folder 12
Vasovic, Nebojsa, 1989 - 1991
Box 15 Folder 13
Veitch, Tom, 1971
Box 15 Folder 14
Vermont, Charles, 1973 - 1992
Box 15 Folder 15
Viscusi, Mr. and Mrs. J., 1963
Box 15 Folder 16
Viscusi, Robert, 1963
Box 15 Folder 17
W - Miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 18
Wachtel, Andrea, 1971
Box 15 Folder 19-21
Waldman, Anne, 1969 - 1995

Includes journals and notebooks of writings by Waldman.

Box 15 Folder 22
Waldman, Frances, 1970 - 1991
Box 16 Folder 1
Waldrop, Keith, 1993 - 2009
Box 16 Folder 2
Waldrop, Rosmarie, 1980 - 1994
Box 16 Folder 3
Warsh, Lewis, 1967 - 1993
Box 16 Folder 4
Warsh, Marie, 1988 - 1994
Box 16 Folder 5
Warsh, Max, 1988 - 1990
Box 16 Folder 6
Warsh, Sophia, 1987 - 1990
Box 16 Folder 7
Washington Review of the Arts, 1982 - 1984
Box 16 Folder 8
Watkins, Ben
Box 16 Folder 9
Watten, Barrett, 1974 - 1986
Box 16 Folder 10
Weigel, Tom, 1983
Box 16 Folder 11
Weinberger, Eliot, 1984
Box 16 Folder 12-13
Weiner, Hannah, 1974 - 1992
Box 16 Folder 14
Welsh, H., 1981 - 1982
Box 16 Folder 15
Wessells, Henry W., IV, 1987
Box 16 Folder 16
Whalen, Philip, 1967 - 1985
Box 16 Folder 17
Wilentz, Ted, 1968 - 1992
Box 16 Folder 18
Willis, Elizabeth, 1992 - 1994
Box 16 Folder 19
Wilson, Edmund, 1976
Box 16 Folder 20
Winch, Terence, 1983 - 1988
Box 16 Folder 21
Winkfield, Trevor, 1970
Box 16 Folder 22
Woolf, Doug, 1978 - 1986
Box 16 Folder 23
Worsley, Dale and Elizabeth, 1988 - 1994
Box 16 Folder 24
Wright, C.D., 1986 - 1991
Box 16 Folder 25
Y - Miscellaneous
Box 16 Folder 26
Yorty, Don, 1986
Box 16 Folder 27
Young, Geoffrey, 1983 - 1986
Box 16 Folder 28
Z - Miscellaneous

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS : Arranged in three subseries: A) Collected, B) Uncollected, and C) School Papers.

A) Collected: Manuscript and typescript drafts of Mayer's published and unpublished writings, arranged alphabetically by title. Most notable among the former are the slides and reel-to-reel tape recordings that formed the basis for Memory, and extensive notes and source materials for Utopia. Most notable among the latter are a collaboration with Alice Notley, a collaboration with Bill Berkson, longer works of Mayer's such as "Mind of Hour," and extensions of published works such as The Studying Hunger Journals. In cases where Mayer's purpose appears to be other than that of publication (as in the working folder entitled "To Type or Work On"), poems and drafts of poems have been listed and refiled in the Uncollected subseries. Original sound recordings for Memory and a floppy disk for Utopia are restricted; researchers may inquire about access in advance of their visit.

B) Uncollected: Uncollected writings filed individually and alphabetized according to title or first line. Included are drafts of individual poems and pieces of writing with typescript and holograph corrections and emendations.

C) School Papers: Mayer's academic papers from high school and college, including reading notes, early drafts and corrections. Notebooks containing college work are located at the beginning of Series 4.

Collected

Box 16 Folder 29-30
The Art of Science Writing (with Dale Worsley, 1989)

Proposal, notes, notebooks, and essays for a book on teaching science writing to grades 7-12.

Box 17 Folder 1-4
The Art of Science Writing (with Dale Worsley, 1989)

Drafts, notes, agreement, and copyright certificate.

Box 17 Folder 5-9
August - Draft and typescripts
Box 17 Folder 10
Bernadette Food - Typescript
Box 17 Folder 11-12
A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) - Typescript, drafts, and notes
Box 18 Folder 1-3
A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992) - Bluelines, agreement, and reviews
Box 18 Folder 4-6
Bill Berkson interview, conducted by mail between 1981 and 1985
Box 18 Folder 7
Children's book with Grace

Crayon, ink and pencil.

Box 18 Folder 8
Collaborations and Phil Good's poems
Box 18 Folder 9-11
Collaboration with Alice Notley

Poems, letters and miscellaneous writings. Includes "Outtakes and Letters," "Last Collaboration" and photographs by Monica Weigel.

Box 18 Folder 12-14
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) - Drafts
Box 19 Folder 1-4
The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994) - Typescript and contract agreement
Box 19 Folder 5
Dialogue
Box 19 Folder 6-7
Eruditio ex Memoria (1977) - Typescript and review, 1977 - 1979
Box 19 Folder 8-9
The Formal Field of Kissing: Translations, Imitations and Epigrams (1990) - Drafts, typescripts and reviews, 1990 - 1991
Box 19 Folder 10-14
The Golden Book of Words (1978) - Drafts, typescripts, galleys, poems excluded, and reviews
Box 19 Folder 15
Good Poems - Typescript and manuscript drafts
Box 19 Folder 16
The Guilford Journals of Mayer and Masters (with Greg Masters), ca. 1981

Drafts of a manuscript that was published in 2013 as At Maureen's.

Box 20 Folder 1
Image Sound - Typescript draft
Box 20 Folder 2
An Introduction to Reasoning - Typescript draft with letter from Harry Segessman, 1973
Box 20 Folder 3
Landlord, Family, Money, and Poetry Situations - Miscellaneous drafts
Box 20 Folder 4
Leave Out (?) - List of poems and miscellaneous drafts
Box 20 Folder 5
Interpretation of Dreams
Box 20 Folder 6
Leek House (Every Other Day of Sept. 1977) - Typescript
Box 20 Folder 7
Manuscripts - [Mayer's title]
Box 20 Folder 8-15
Memory, 1971 - 1976

Sources, typescripts, drafts, notes, contract, reviews, and slides.

Oversize FB-210 Folder 1
Memory - First draft with cut-ups, journal and audio tape transcriptions
Box 21 Folder 1-7
Memory - Slides, 1971
Box 22 Folder 1
Memory - Tape 3, July 8-13: "end 13 yellow (not the end)"

Reel-to-reel sound recording.

Restrictions Apply

Box 22 Folder 2
Memory - Tape 4, July 13-19: "a bracket of folding chairs"

Reel-to-reel sound recording

Restrictions Apply

Box 22 Folder 3
Memory - Tape 5, July 24: "shines a flashlight with the other into my eyes"

Reel-to-reel sound recording and CD listening copy

Restrictions Apply

Box 22 Folder 4
Memory - Tape 6, July 24 end - 29: "why I'm not a scientist"

Reel-to-reel sound recording

Restrictions Apply

Box 22 Folder 5
Memory - Tape 7, July 29: "I can see the Cadillac"

Reel-to-reel sound recording and CD listening copy

Restrictions Apply

Box 22 Folder 6
Box 23 Folder 1-3
Midwinter Day (1982) - Notes, typescript and reviews, 1978 - 1983
Box 23 Folder 4-9
Mind of Hour - Drafts, typescripts, and correspondence, 1992
Box 23 Folder 10-12
Moving (1971) - Notes, drafts and negatives
Box 23 Folder 13-15
Mutual Aid (1985) - Drafts and typescripts
Box 24 Folder 1
Not Published Originals - Typescript drafts of poems and prose
Box 24 Folder 2
Not Sure - Typescript drafts of poems
Box 24 Folder 3
The Old Style is Finding Out Something About a Whole New Set of Possibilities - Transcript, ca. 1970
Box 24 Folder 4
Ones I'm Not Sure of
Box 24 Folder 5
Peru Dream Journal
Box 24 Folder 6-7
Piece of Cake, with Lewis Warsh, 1976
Box 24 Folder 8
Poem-like Things - Collaborations, others' poems, failed experiments, found things, lecture on structure published in O Anthology, and some Marie works
Box 24 Folder 9
Poems 80-82
Box 24 Folder 10
Poems for the Dead
Box 24 Folder 11-12
Poetry (1976) - Typescript and publication contract
Box 24 Folder 13-17
Proper Name and Other Stories (1996) - Typescript, correspondence, drafts, and agreement
Box 24 Folder 18
Random Words from Milton
Box 24 Folder 19
Remembering (Conclusion) - Typescript draft with postcard cover
Box 24 Folder 20
Secret Knowledge of Utopian Philosophies - A Journal of a Week in New York, April 26 - May 2, 1981
Box 24 Folder 21
Selected Poems, 1965-1990 - Typescripts
Box 25 Folder 1
Selected Poems, 1965-1990 - Typescripts
Box 25 Folder 2
Sex or Suppressed Poems
Box 25 Folder 3
Skinny Sonnets - Typescript
Box 25 Folder 4-8
Sonnets (1989) - Drafts, typescripts, and reviews
Box 25 Folder 9
Sources and poems with miscellaneous drafts
Box 25 Folder 10-11
Story (1968) - Typescript drafts and notes
Box 25 Folder 12-14
Strike Anywhere(s) - Typescript drafts and cover
Box 25 Folder 15-16
Studying Hunger (1975) - Typescripts
Box 26 Folder 1-4
Studying Hunger (1975) - Journals and review
Box 26 Folder 5
Things to Use
Box 26 Folder 6
Things Written Recently and Not So - Lists of poems and miscellaneous leaves
Box 26 Folder 7
To Type or Work on - Various writings, incomplete
Box 26 Folder 8-9
Two Haloed Mourners (1998) - Typescripts and cover
Box 26 Folder 10-16
Utopia (1984) - Source material, poems, drafts, and notes
Box 27 Folder 1-12
Utopia (1984) - Index, addendum, drafts, notes, typescripts, galleys, and reviews

Includes 8" floppy disk with fabric cover, 1983.

Restrictions Apply

Uncollected

Box 27 Folder 13-14
Lists of poems with title cut-ups
Box 27 Folder 15
0 to 19
Box 27 Folder 16
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Box 27 Folder 17
3 X's
Box 27 Folder 18
3 Years 3 Gifts: Another Other
Box 27 Folder 19
7 Love Songs on a Dinner
Box 27 Folder 20
11 Lines
Box 27 Folder 21
12 Days till 1st School Day
Box 27 Folder 22
13 American Imitation Amatory Epigrams
Box 27 Folder 23
14-Line Poem
Box 27 Folder 24
15 Times
Box 27 Folder 25
15 1/2 Lines for Philip
Box 27 Folder 26
16 Lines for Anybody
Box 27 Folder 27
123 - With Lewis Warsh
Box 27 Folder 28
1966
Box 27 Folder 29
1979
Box 27 Folder 30
1980
Box 27 Folder 31
1981
Box 27 Folder 32
1982
Box 28 Folder 1
1988
Box 28 Folder 2
The 1992 Election
Box 28 Folder 3
Abbreviated Phrase Memory
Box 28 Folder 4
About Having to Leave Lenox
Box 28 Folder 5
The Abstractest
Box 28 Folder 6
Adult Diapers
Box 28 Folder 7
The Aeschulyeans - Includes Bill Berkson's comments
Box 28 Folder 8
Afternoons; Second Afternoon; The German, Last of Her Race; The Grandfather Orders His Tomb
Box 28 Folder 9
Against Air
Box 28 Folder 10
Agoraphobia
Box 28 Folder 11
Aid for Dependent Children
Box 28 Folder 12
Alice
Box 28 Folder 13
All Soul's Day 1985
Box 28 Folder 14
Almanac 1984
Box 28 Folder 15
The Alternative Life Combined
Box 28 Folder 16
Amatory Eclogue
Box 28 Folder 17
America
Box 28 Folder 18
America is Greed
Box 28 Folder 19
American Antiquity - Includes comments by Bill Berkson
Box 28 Folder 20
Analysis of Lions and Bears and Owls
Box 28 Folder 21
Ancient Brooklyn Talk by the Boardwalk
Box 28 Folder 22
An Ancient Degree - Includes comments by Bill Berkson
Box 28 Folder 23
And if I had to give this up, I'd give it to you
Box 28 Folder 24
And When We're Tired We're Understood
Box 28 Folder 25
Announcement Sonnet
Box 28 Folder 26
Annual Poems
Box 28 Folder 27
Another Landlord Poem
Box 28 Folder 28
Antarctic
Box 28 Folder 29
Anti-Superbowl Bleeding
Box 28 Folder 30
Anything That You Wanna Tell Me
Box 28 Folder 31
Apologia pro Vita Sua
Box 28 Folder 32
Appendix Out
Box 28 Folder 33
Apple
Box 28 Folder 34
April 19 Walk
Box 28 Folder 35
The Arcadian Shop: Your Birthday Presents
Box 28 Folder 36
As I Adam You with Blue
Box 28 Folder 37
As You Are
Box 28 Folder 38
At Arnold Eagle's tape playing
Box 28 Folder 39
At Lake Buel
Box 28 Folder 40
At least it isn't raining
Box 28 Folder 41
At the Blue Hour
Box 28 Folder 42
Attempt at a Love Song for Lack of Exactitude about Politics or Lack of a Movement Political in 1990 - With Philip Good
Box 28 Folder 43
Attention to Spring
Box 28 Folder 44
Auditoriums
Box 28 Folder 45
August 16 - September 12
Box 28 Folder 46
1983 August 23
Box 28 Folder 47
August Twenty-One
Box 28 Folder 48
Avenue A to Class
Box 28 Folder 49
Bad Ghazal Weather
Box 28 Folder 50
Bad Poems New and Old
Box 28 Folder 51
The Ballad of Theodore
Box 28 Folder 52
Be Not to Be
Box 28 Folder 53
Beach Poem, Tree Poem, Stalin Poem
Box 28 Folder 54
Bear in Mind
Box 28 Folder 55
Beech-Nut - With Peter Schjeldahl
Box 28 Folder 56
Been in NY 3 weeks today
Box 28 Folder 57
Before Sextet and After Sextet
Box 28 Folder 58
Beginning Middle End
Box 28 Folder 59
Bell Ring
Box 28 Folder 60
Bernadette Mayer - Holtsville, BM/IRS Fantasy, 1991
Box 28 Folder 61
Bernadette's Dream of Philip('s End of School) May 5th