March 4, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Conservation, Digital CollectionsThinking outside the (tux) box: A novel solution to preserving the quirky diaries of the Guy Davenport collection Last year, Ransom Center archivist Richard Workman brought to my attention some journals that he was cataloging as part of the Guy Davenport Papers. Guy Davenport (1927–2005) was an American author, literary critic, and artist. Throughout his adulthood, he regularly kept journals of his day-to-day life and activities (including his… read more
February 24, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, CatalogingDear Guy: Letters in the Guy Davenport collection Here’s the plot of a story a writer told me he had joked about writing with Guy Davenport: For about two days in the 1970s, Queen Elizabeth, the Dalai Lama, and Thomas Merton were within twelve miles of one another in central Kentucky, about a mile from Lincoln’s birthplace. Merton… read more
February 23, 2016, Filed Under: AuthorsCaroling Dusk, An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets This is the last of a three-part series of posts highlighting the influence and work of Countée Cullen, a poet and editor during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen used the special issue of Palms as a springboard for a book-length anthology. Caroling Dusk, An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, was… read more
