Carol Bergé - Judson Crews
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The Carol Bergé - Judson Crews paper consists of correspondence between
both poets from 1978 to 1986. The correspondence consists of both personal matters
and business matters between the poets. The correspondence includes letters,
postcards, manuscripts of Bergé and Crews, published materials, and photographs.
Carol Bergé (1928- ), a New York poet and author of several books of
poetry and prose: The Vulnerable Island (1964), An American Romance (1969), Alba
Genesis (1979), and Fierce Metronome (1981). Her work has appeared
in several anthologies: Partisan Review , Poetry , Kayak ,
T riquarterly , Iowa Review, and etc. She attended New York
University and New School for Social Research studying writing, editing, and
magazine production.
She was involved in the avant-garde New York poets group
and attended the Vancouver poetry seminary at the University of British Columbia
in 1962 writing The Vancouver Report (1964) in response. In 1970 she
founded Center magazine until 1980. She also taught creative writing
at Grand Valley State University (1975-1976), Goddard College (1976), University
of California Berkeley (1976-1977), University of Southern Mississippi (1977-1978),
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1978-1979), Wright State University (1979),
as well as teaching several writing workshops.
Judson Crews (1917 - ), southwestern poet and publisher attended Baylor University,
receiving his BA in 1941 and an MA in 1944. He also studied Fine Arts there as
well from 1946 to 1947. He has worked at Wharton Country Junior College (1967-1970),
University of New Mexico-Gallup (1971-1972), and the University of Zambia (1974-1978).
He was first published in 1935, since then he has been published over 600
times in over 350 journals such as Poetry Now , Wormwood Review ,
and Southwestern American Literature. He has published several books
of poetry including Psalms for a Late Season (1942), Hermes Past
the Hour (1963), The Clock of Moss (edited by Carol Bergé,
1983), and Henry Miller and My Big Sur Days (1992). His poetry also
appears in several anthologies as well such as City Lights Anthology (1974).
He edited and published several avant-garde magazines: Motive , The
Flying Fish , The Deer and Dachshund , and Poetry Taos among
others.
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