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"Editor Bill Gass Waxes Baconian With an Essay...On Reading," essay by William H. Gass for his high school newspaper, The Cauldron, circa 1942.

Autograph draft of "Eight" from Pieces by Robert Creeley, circa 1968.

Autograph draft of "Eight" from Pieces by Robert Creeley, circa 1968.

Program for "Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker" sponsored by the St. Louis Poetry Center and Special Collections, Washington Univeristy Libraries, October 23, 2011.

A three-page draft of an unfinished, untitled poem from winter 1992 addressing Elizabeth Bishop. It is an "uncharacteristically awkward" but powerful poem about "raw life" prevailing over "graceful art."

Program for "Endgame" performed by the Cherry Lane Theatre and directed by Alan Schneider, January 28, 1958. This was the American premiere of "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett.

Typescript and autograph drafts of "Endings: For Howard Nemerov" by Mona Van Duyn. Collected in Firefall.