Besmilr Brigham-William Inman Collection
Besmilr Brigham-William Inman Collection consists of an archive box of correspondence
between Besmilr Brigham (1913-2000) and William Inman from 1972-1978. Besmilr
Brigham, born Bess Miller Moore in Pace, Mississippi was part Choctaw Indian.
Though she had been writing poetry since her girlhood, it was not until the 1950's
that she began to study writing at the New School for Social Research and was
a student of the poet Robert Duncan. She and her husband Roy resided in a wide
variety of locations including Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Canada,
France, Mexico, and Nicaragua. She wrote three volumes of poetry: Agony Dance:
Death of the Dancing Dolls (1969), Heaved from the Earth (1971),
and Run Through Rock (2000) and has been published in countless journals
and magazines such as: El Corno Emplumado , Harper's Bazaar , Atlantic
Monthly , The New York Times , in New Directions annuals,
and in poet Thomas Merton's Monk's Pond among other college and independent
magazines.
William Inman (1923- ), born William Archibald McGirt, legally changed his
name in 1973 to Inman. He was both a poet and an editor, a graduate of Duke University
(1943), he published and edited Kauri (1964-1971), a newsletter. He
was also a faculty member of Montgomery College, associated with Free University
of New York, and an artist in residence at the American University in Washington
D.C. His poetry and correspondence appears in other archives, serials, and books
such as: The Fire and the Serpent (1967), Surfing the Dark Sound,
Sacred Chaff, Center Walking (1998), and A Resonance of Begetting (2001).
Finding Aid Besmilr Brigham-William Inman
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