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Leading Contenders Announced for National Book Award clipping - Isabella Gardner contender for "The Looking Glass". Her book of poetry was one of twelve volumes of poetry chosen as leading contenders for the National Book Awards.

Brandeis Gives Awards to 9 in the Creative Arts clipping. Article features Kenneth Burke, a literary critic, as one of the 9 recipients of a medal and $1000 from Brandeis University for "notable creative achievement". The article then states the…

Question, New York Times Book Review, January 2, 1955. Swenson's poem "Question" -published by Charles Scribner's Sons) is featured on the verso of the front page.

Newspaper clipping featuring "Doubles and Opposites" discussing May Swenson's play, The Floor, from the New York Times, May 8, 1966.

Ann Stanford, May Swenson: The Art of Perceiving, The Southern Review, January 1969. There is an essay by Ann Stanford "May Swenson: The Art of Perceiving". There are also poems by Robert Lowell, and Marco Antonio Montes de Oca.

Program for a dramatic reading featuring James Merrill, Leah Doyle and Peter Hooten sponsored by The Library of Congress, April 9, 1993.

Program for "Howard Nemerov Reading Selections From His Poem" at the Library of Congress, April 16, 1962.

Program for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sponsored by The Lakewood Players of the Duncan Summer School and Camp at Newport, Vermont, August 17, 1939. James Merrill plays the character Puck.

Program for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sponsored by The Lakewood Players of the Duncan Summer School and Camp at Newport, Vermont, August 17, 1939. James Merrill plays the character Puck.