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Uneasy Fame For a Reclusive Soul, Newsday, July 14, 1987. May Swenson won $135,000 from the MacArthur Foundation. Hartocollis was able to track Swenson to her home Sea Cliff, Long Island for an interview.

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

“The Long Island Poetry Collective, Inc. invites you to a poetry reading by May Swenson," October 10, 1980.

MacDowell Colonists, The Peterborough Transcript, July 31, 1952. The photo is of members of the MacDowell Colony for artistis. May Swenson is among them.

Advertisement for "Bread Loaf Writers' Conference" featuring workshops led by May Swenson, Mona Van Duyn, Marvin Bell, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, John Irving, Donald Justice, Edward A. Martin, William Meredith, Toni Morrison, Robert Pack, Lore…

Christmas Day, The Grizzly, December 6, 1929. May Swenson wrote a prize winning essay for a Christmas Story contest hosted by the Grizzly of Logan, Utah.

Haymaking, Rocky Mountain Review, Winter 1938-1939. A poem titled "Haymaking" by May Swenson on page seven of the Rocky Mountain Review Winter, vol 3,number 2, 1938-39.

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.

Clipping from magazine for the 10th annual National Book Awards. May Swenson's book "A Cage of Spines" was nominated for the poetry award along with 5 other poets.

Brief review of May Swenson's book "A Cage of Spines" by May Swenson written by Richard Wilbur.