Guide to the Second Aeon Archive 1967-1974 Second Aeon Archive

The Second Aeon Archive is comprised of all the correspondence and manuscript material that created Second Aeon's issues, such as: magazine layouts, page proofs, letters to the editor, illustration layouts, and original manuscripts.

Guide to the David Trinidad Papers ca. 1970-2002 MSS 106

Born in California in 1953, David Trinidad is a poet and teacher. He studied under Ann Stanford, Allen Ginsberg and Joan Larkin, and early in his career, he was the editor and publisher of Sherwood Press which published titles by such poets as: Dennis Cooper, Amy Gerstler, Tim Dlugos, and Alice Notley. Trinidad's own books of poems include: Pavane (1981); Monday, Monday (1985); Living Doll (1986); November (1987); Three Stories (1988); A Taste of Honey, with Bob Flanagan (1990); Answer Song (1994); Plasticville, (2000). He has been associated with the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California and has an M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College. Currently Director of the Graduate Poetry Program at Columbia College in Chicago, he was previously on the Core Faculty of the M.F.A. Program at the New School in Manhattan. He has also taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and Antioch (Los Angeles).

Guide to the Ghost Dance Archive 1967-1969 MSS 14

The Ghost Dance Archive is a collection of correspondence and manuscripts sent to and/or written by the editor of Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, Hugh Fox. Though this little magazine would exist well beyond the 1960's, this collection reflects the early years of its existence and the writings of some of its notable contributors. The collection also includes issues 1 and 2 of Ghost Dance.

Guide to the Ed Smith Papers 1974-2005 (Bulk 1978-2004) MSS 177

Ed Smith was a poet, active in the 1980's in the scene centered around the Beyond Baroque/Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles. His papers cover the period 1978-2005, when Smith lived in Los Angeles and New York City. The materials include, but are not limited to, journals, notebooks, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, flyers, photographs, monographs and periodicals.