GUIDE TO THE KENTUCKY STATE POETRY SOCIETY RECORDS
1966-1986


Compiled
by
Sharon Brown McConnell
Archival Assistant
Eastern Kentucky University
1988

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction    
Historical Sketch       
Series
     Publication Series
     Subject Series
     Scrapbook Series




INTRODUCTION

The Kentucky State Poetry Society records were housed at the Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University from 1975 until 1988. At this time they were moved to the University Archives. The collection consists of five boxes of publications, one box of business papers, and eight scrapbooks containing photographs and clippings. The collection was transferred in good condition. Even the alphabetical sequence of the publications was maintained. Papers have been arranged by subject and then filed chronologically. Scrapbooks were measured and wrapped. Cards for the material had been typed previously and were sent with the collection. Items will be added to the collection from time-to-time by the historian and the curator of the society.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

The Kentucky State Poetry Society (KSPS) grew out of a meeting of the Eastern Kentucky Poetry Society in Ashland, Kentucky in 1965. In 1966, KSPS was accepted by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. The first annual meeting was at the Henry Clay Hotel in Ashland on October 14, 1967. In 1976 Governor Julian Carroll proclaimd October 15th as National Poetry Day. In 1966, the first Pegasus was printed. At that time the publication consisted of four pages. By 1970 it grew to a larger periodical and has been issued from two to four times a year.

Membership in KSPS is not restricted to Kentuckians nor is age a barrier. In the early seventies there were over five hundred members. An annual contest is held each year containing more than thirty categories. In addition a book fair is held each year by L. B. Dalton book store in Oxmoor Center in Louisville. KSPS continues to prosper and grow. The collection of publications generated by members is housed in University Archives.

*Publication Series*

Description: The Publication Series is filed in five boxes. The first three boxes contain volumes of verse by members of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. These are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name. The fourth box contains anthologies and a few periodicals in which the works of members are published. The fifth box holds copies of Pegasus printed in the years 1971-2.

Inventory

Box 1

Adams, Eunice
Auxier, Sylvia Trent
Barnes, Mary Jane
Beam, Ernie
Berg, Viola Jacobson
Butler, Ronald
Chaffin, Lillie D.
Chandler, Rose 
Cohen, William Howard 
Cook, Ramona Graham 
Davis, Ann Pence 
De Bolt, William Walter 
Downs, Mattie Proctor
Dunbar, Ida
Evans, Virginia Moran
Faulconer, Mary Goodnow
Francis, Robert
Giammarino, Jaye

Fragments
The Grace of the Bough
Love-Vine
Meadow Rue
No Stranger to the Earth
Naomi and Ruth
Home Folks
The Heart of Things
Season of Falling Stars
Appalachian History and Other Poems
Rainbows
Waiting for Love; Lyrics of
the Past, Present, Future,
and a Land of the
Imagination
We be Warm Till Springtime Comes
Moonlight Mystique
The Hill Way Home
A Merry Heart
So Swift The Stone
Gates and Trails
Songs Under Stars
Finding Love
Let There Be Light
To Seek the Sun
Angel song
Immortal Moments
The Orb Weaver
A Certain Hunger
Moon Age Poets
Sun of Reflection
Wine in a Gold Cup

Box 2

Goddard, Hazel Firth
Howard, Rev. Fielding T.
Kherdian, David
Lacy, Elsie Halsey

Chestnuts and Autumn Leaves
Scattered Stars
Shadow and Sunbeam
Traveling America
From Cumberland Hills
From Kentucky Hills
Peaceful As a Dove Is My America
Poetized Musings
Thoughts Voiced in Poems

Box 3

Liebknecht, Henrietta
MacIntyre, Gordon and Virginia
Modglin, Nel
Moor, Elizabeth Ann M
Oliphant, Genieve Locke
Perlam, Jess
Proctor, James W.
Reed, Mabel Henderson
Reed, Rufus M.
Reid, William Hill
Salyers, Paul
Seese, Ethel Gray
Sexauer, Arwin F.B
Srinivas, Dr. Krishna
Solvin, Lois C.
Spears, Woodridge
Thomas, Rudy
Vanover, Grace Lee
Wallace-White, Daniel
Wheeler, Marjorie Benjamin
Wiley, Vivian
Winsett, Marvin Davis
Woolfolk, Miriam L.
Wood, Audrey and Miriam

Childhood's Sweet Enchantment
The Stranger and Other
Stories
Under Western Skies
Music at Sunrise
The Rhymer
The Stones Would Cry
Where Love is..
Among Thorns
Candles in the Dark
Out Of My Head...
Shirttail Fork
Selected Poems
Looking-Glasses
I Can't Unwish the Night
Since Yesterday
The Green Bough
Twelve Months to Sing
Blessed Be the Damned
Corkscrews Of My Mind
Kentucky Canes
My Native Land
The Passing Day
Through My Eyes
Voice of the Hills
Psychic Hinge

Box 4

SONGS FROM LA CASA de PAZ (1963-1985)
The tastevin
Great American World Poets
Forecast
River Island
The Ground of Memory
TORNADO and Other Poems
A Bit of Clay
Telling It Like It Is
ye on the Dawn
A Spring Tide Bouquet
Remembered Earth
For the Birds
SUNSHINE AND THUNDER
One plus One

Askins, Donald and David Morris
Cyclo Flame
First Flight
Haiku Highlights and Other
Short Poems

New Ground
Summer 1966
Autumn 1966
Winter 1966
Autumn 1968
A Collection

Halley, H.H.
Jernigan, Jack

The Long Way Home
New Earth Review
Reaching
Reaching 1978
Reaching
Spirit
The Undiscovered and
Other Poems

Halley's Bible Handbook
The Forever Beau
A Collection
Vol. 2, Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4
Vol. 2, No. 1 (2 copies)
Issue 5. - Lexington Poets.
1982-1983.
Gift of Miriam Wool folk
Lillie D. Chaffin
#2 Reaching 1979-80
1985-86
A Magazine of Poetry

Upward Bound Students at
Southeast Community
College

Box 5

Pegasus 1971-72

*Subject Series*

Description: The Subject Series consists of one box of papers relating to the Kentucky State Poetry Society. Each folder contains papers arranged alphabetically under the title of the folder and chronologically thereunder. Very little correspondence has been gathered. The constitution of the Society is included. Random contests are accounted for. While this material is valuable, it is by no means complete. These items cover the years 1966-1986.

Inventory

Academy of American Poets
Clippings and Notices  ca.
Contest Sheets and Winners
Constitution  1974
Correspondence  1972-1986
Cross-Currents  1966-1967
KSPS Newsletter  1974-76
Membership Lists  1968-72
Poetry Pilot  1969-1977
Treasurer's Notes  1966-68
Winning Poems in 1967 contest  1967
Winning Poems in 1971 contest  1971

*Scrapbook Series*

Description: Eight parcels are included in this series. Many are a mixture of photographs of members and clippings about members or of the annual meetings of the Society. One volume contains photographs of members and holograph poems by members. It was the effort of the group at one time to have a picture and poem by each member. The goal fell far short. Most of the items are not dated; the first is from 1967. Emphasis is definitely on the late sixties and the early seventies.

Inventory

Wrapped Parcel 1   Scrapbook:  1966-1970 

This item contains articles and clippings about the finding of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. Some photographs are included. There are a few newsletters from the Eastern Kentucky Poetry-Society.

Wrapped Parcel 2   Scrapbook:  1971-1976. 

This scrapbook contains clippings about poets and published poems by members of the Society. A letter from Lou Dell McIntosh of the Department of Parks in Frankfort is included.

Wrapped Parcel 3   Scrapbook:  1965-1984 

This scrapbook contains clippings about poets and published poems.

Wrapped Parcel 4   Scrapbook:   1974. 

This scrapbook is comprised of articles about poets and published poems. A list of contest winners from 1974 is included.

Wrapped Parcel 5   Scrapbook:  1967-1976. 

This book contains a photograph, biographical sketch, and holograph poem of certain poets in KSPS. There are a few loose items.

Wrapped Parcel 6   Scrapbook:  1967-1974 

This scrapbook contains photographs of poets including Jesse Stuart and Jim Wayne Miller.

Wrapped Parcel 7   Scrapbook:  1971-1978 

This collection consists of photographs of members taken during the annual meetings.

Wrapped Parcel 8   Broadsides:  1966-85-
   Kentucky Is My Land
   37, avenue sanson, Cimitiere Montmarte. 1985.  
   A Stop In The Desert.  Josif Beodsky.  1966.