Paper advertisement for consultants' reunion, a poetry reading hosted by the library of congress on March 6, 1878. The poets involved included Smith, James Dickey, Howard Nemerov, Richard Eberhart, Karl Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, Daniel Hoffman,…
Invitation to "The Cost of Everything," an adaptation of a section of The Tunnel, by the Highline Readers, at Highline Community College in Des Moines, WA. Inscribed by the director, C.M. Sandifer.
Advertisement for "David Wagoner Poetry Reading" sponsored by the Moscow Arts Commission, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the University of Idaho English Department, November 11, 1981.
Published inBraving the Elements,"Days of 1935" was a fantasy narrative about being kidnapped as a boy, à la the "Lindbergh baby," reflecting a real fear the wealthy had after the kidnapping and death of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, in…
Published in Late Settings, "Days of 1941 and '44" recalls Lawrenceville School and Merrill using his diaries to become a "poet of memory." The poem is dedicated to David Mixsell, his arch-nemesis at Lawrenceville, who would die in Europe in World…
"Days of 1964" was published in Nights and Days. Included here are two typescript draft pages (of a total thirty-two manuscript pages) with holograph corrections, drafts, and sketches. The poem documents his life in Greece and love for Strato…