A House of Dust
A House of Dust, a poetry project created by Alison Knowles and James Tenney
in 1967, an early example of a computer generated poem,
creating stanzas by working through iterations of lines with
changing words from a finite vocabulary list.
Matter
Four issues of a deluxe poetry, art, and music magazine, Matière,
published in Zurich, 1952-53.
Martha Becker Finney
New works by writer/artist/designer/architect/sculptor Martha Becker Finney.
The Beinecke Library holds an extensive collection of her hand-made limited editions and prints.
Poets’ Portraits
Photographs of poets by poet, editor, and photographer Jonathan Williams (collection record in Orbis: Jonathan Williams Photographs; view additional images from this collection).
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Jonathan Williams (self portrait)
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Modern Poetry in Review
Modernist Little Magazines & Poetry Reviews
Little Review, September 1917
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Blast, June 20, 1914 (more images from this issue)
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Harlem, November 1928
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The Egoist, January-February 1919 (more images from this issue)
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Broom, January 1922
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Transition, 1928
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Poetry, 1912
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New York Dada, April 1921 (more images from this issue)
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These and other literary magazines can be located in Orbis, Yale’s catalog for books; related manuscript collections can be located in the Yale Finding Aid Database.
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Corrections
Poets’ corrected manuscripts and working drafts
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Helios” (YCAL MSS 24)
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Langston Hughes, “Portrait of a Woman: Harriet Tubman” (JWJ MSS 26)
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Ezra Pound, “Canto 98” (YCAL MSS 43)
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Gertrude Stein, “Objects” (YCAL MSS 76)
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Jean Toomer, poems (JWJ MSS 1)
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Robert Penn Warren, “The Corner of the Eye” (YCAL MSS 51)
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A Poem by Phillis
Phillis Wheatley, An Elegiac Poem: on the Death of that Celebrated Divine and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield…, [Boston: Ezekeil Russel, 1770]. (JWJ Zan W56 +77OE; view all images in this set)
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The people’s court
Six issues of a poetry pamphlet series published in Lisbon, Portugal just prior to the revolution of 1910.
[The title translates roughly as “The people’s court”.]
The Future of the Future
A complete run of Futura, a visual poetry broadsheet
published by Hansjorg Mayer, 1965-1968.
With contributions by Edward Lucie Smith
Diter Rot
and Frieder Nake
Goliard Press
A selection of publications (which brings Beinecke’s collection to near completeness) from the press run by Tom Raworth and Barry Hall in the late 1960s.
Jeremy Reed, extraordinaire
A few poems from the latest group of archives from the prolific poet, biographer, critic and chronicler Jeremy Reed, whose writings cover an expanse of 20th and 21st century culture and whose mission, in his own words, is “to rehabilitate the dispossessed” [An in-depth interview can be found here]
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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