Guide To The Kentucky State Poetry Society Records 1966-1990 Compiled by Sharon Brown McConnell Archival Assistant Eastern Kentucky University 1990
R.G. 186
Kentucky State Poetry Society, 1966-
3.25 cubic feet
9,750 items
4 boxes
90A6
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Historical Sketch
I. Publication Series
II. Subject Series
INTRODUCTION
The second acquisition of material from the Kentucky State
Poetry Society was made in 1988. This collection consists
primarily of publications. One box of papers were acquired with
the collection. While much of this updates the existing
collection, some unique items appear.
This collection was in good order when received. All items
were transferred to acid free containers and newsclippings were
photocopied. Items were arranged first in alphabetical and then
chronological sequence. Undated items were filed at the back of
each folder. Publications were arranged alphabetically by the
poet's name. Periodicals were arranged alphabetically by title.
Additions to these records will be made as they are received.
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 16, 1967. Since
that time the annual meeting has been held during October at
various sites in Kentucky. In 1976 Governor Julian Carroll
proclaimed 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 much
larger periodical and has been issued from two to four times a
year. Members also receive a bi-monthly newsletter giving news of
publications and various markets for members' poetry.
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 at 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 at Eastern Kentucky
University.
*Publication Series*
Description: The Publication Series fills three boxes. These are filed alphabetically by the author's name. Anthologies and periodicals are interfiled with monographs using the organization or title under which they were published as main entries. Inventory Box 1
A.R.E. Journal Summer 1968
Adams, Debbi Looking For Heroes
Adams, Eunice Souvenir
Adams, Lee The Three Of Me
American Farmer Series Breadbasket With the Blues
American Poetry League Bulletin 1968
Amyx, Katherine McClure The Changing Hills
Eastward In Eden
The Girl For Jerry
My Kentucky
Nazereth
The Tree of Peace
Words Falling
Falling Approaches
February 1965
August 1965
February 1966
May 1966
August 1966
November 1966
February 1967
May 1967
May 1968
August 1968
November 1968
May 1969
February 1970
August 1970
May 1970
November 1970
February 1971
May 1971
Summer 1971
Winter 1971
Spring 1972
Winter '72-'73
Spring 1973
Summer-Autumn 1973
Winter 1974
Spring 1974
Auxier, Sylvia Trent The Green of a Hundred Springs
Balof, Ted A Little Verse
Barnes, Mary Jane Another View of Paradises
Delta Portraits Images
Look East of the Mountain
Naomi And Ruth
A Puff of Smoke
Rising Tides of Splendor
Shadows On April's Hills
Songs From An Islander
Barrett, William M. Lopsided Halo
Beam, Ernie Blue Air and Wheels
Boyce, Monica Gurgling Fountains
Centennial Verse of West VA. 1962
Chaffin, Lillie D. 8th Day 13th Moon
First Notes
In My Backyard
A Stone for Sisyphus
A World of Books
Chandler, Rose Wiley A Gypsy's Delight
Moonlight Mystique
Clarke, Kenneth Backyard Birds And Other Verse
Clarke, Kenneth, and Mary Clarke A Concise Dictionary of Folklore
Clendenning, Ann Crumbs For The Birds
Darling Beast
Cohen, William Howard To Walk In Seasons
Coppinger, Verna Sunshine And Sand
Davis, Ed Haskell
Downs, Mattie Proctor Comes The Thought
Finding Truth
Eastern Kentucky Poetry Society First Flight
Second Flight
Echoes of the West Virginia Poetry Society
Engle, John D. Jr. The Charm
Cycle of Beauty
Laugh Lightly
Modern Odyssey
Present Perfect
Sea Songs
Evans, Virginia Moran To Seek The Sun
Falkowski, Edwin A. Selected Poems
Flatwoods Poetry Society Looking Out-Looking In
Friendship Trails 1968
Fugate, Roberta The Faces of Liza
Fuqua, Carolyn Wilford Three Days In March
Fuson, Daisylee McClure My Life Is Still The Poem
Gardner, Isabella Birthdays From the Ocean
Gibbs, Dot White Violets and Purple Mice
The Wild Sweet Smell of Morning
Goode, James B. Poets of Darkness
Box 2
Gray, May Between Ourselves
The Echo of Your Song
In His Hands
In Love With Life
In The Garden
Moment Before Summer
The Voice of the Sea
Hall, Aileen Candlelight
Hall, Blaine R. From These Hills
Probing the State of Consciousness
Reflections And Moods
Howard, Quentin R. Down A Dusty Road
Tell Me No Sad Tale
Huffman, Ro Earth Song
In the Night Garden
Hughes, Earl Grandpa Lives Again
Hunt, Helen Life Is But a Journey
Ode To Jesse Stuart
Intersphere 1975
James, Dorothy Back To The Hills
Johnson, Juanita April Is Forever
In Search of Eden
A Palm Full of Dust
Quiet Interludes
Wind in the Willows
Joyce, Joseph Albion, Jr. Mr. Albion's Joy'Ems
Judd, Kirk Field of Vision
Karns, Esther Gano La Veta
A Lesson From the Trees
A Mother's Book of Poetry
Music
Keaton, Sara Webb Poetry to Remember
Kentucky State Poetry Society The Forever Bear
Kirby, J.C. I Am Two From Kentucky
Retrospect
Knight, Wallace E. Out of Wilderness
Lamppa, William R. The crucial point (and other poems)
In Familiar Fields With Old Friends
Law, L. Bradley Tracks of Gypsy Angels
Logan, Louise Potter A Crumbling Dark
Porch Poems
McKay, Kathryn Evans Space of Silence: talaria
Maddix, Janet O. Spirit Wings
Markham, Lucia Clark Christ Through the Ages
Sonnets To The Beloved
Sonnets of the Long Return
Mather, Kitty Faces of the Muse
Maynard, Wendell H. Bannack And Other Poems
Meacham, Harry M. The Caged Panther
Meade, Joseph Davis Spirit of the Mountains In Rhyme
Meyer, Emma Voorhees Children Keep His Image Whole
Miller, Cecilia Parsons Peculiar Honors
Miller, Doris and Jane Stuart Srimitar and Song
Miller, Jim Wayne Copperhead Cane
The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same
Sideswipes
Modglin, Nel To Light A Flame
Reaching Other Rooms
Murray State University 2nd Summer
Murton, Jessie Wilmore Grace Notes
Nevison, Lena Along The Way
Echoes of the Wind
Oliphant, Genevieve Locke Selected Poems
Palmer, Irene H. The Closing Door And Other Poems
They Keep Living
Wellspring
Paulk, William The Beholder Hills
Pegasus 1985
Pennington, Lee Appalachia, My Sorrow
In the Moon of Falling Leaves
Wildflower...Poems For Joy
Box 3
Perlman, Jess Bus to Chapingo
This World, This
Looking-Glass And Other Poems
Piatt, Garret Jackson A Few More Seasons
Poems For Pennies 1982
Poet January 1967
June 1973
August 1979
October 1979
Porter, J. Marshall Come Unto Our Hills
Proctor, James W. I, A Stranger
I Can't Unwish the Night
No Crying Stones
Westside Wind
Quillen, Rita Sims October Duck
Ramsey, Patricia Shoring Up
Reaching 1979-80
Reed, Rufus Mitchell Conquerors of the Dark Hills
Forever To Sing
Songs of the April Hills
The Valley of Vye-Vye
Richards, Liz Carter Blossoms And Thorns
Lo-High 1984
Lo-High #2 1985
Lo-High #3 1985
Lo-High #4 1985
Lo-High #5 1985
Winds of the Mind
Rogers, Jack And Mary Bee Rogers Matchmates
Rogers, Mary Bee Tapestry House
The Saint Fall 1966
Salyers, Paul Daisies Will Suffice
Hounds On the Hill
I'd Thought You'd Never Ask
Mountains And Neighbors
Pardon Me, Emily
Poems From Genesis to Revelation
Sap With a Sproutin' Hoe
Thoughts Behind a Plow
Salyer, Louise Sparks Scroll of Memories
Sawitzky, Susan Clay The Circling Thread
Seese, Ethel Gray The Listener
Semones, Charles Witch Cry
Shaw, Roud All About Me
Thunder In the Night
Shirley, Patricia Pearl
Sieshottz, Gertrude Williams My Treasured Thoughts
Skeen, Reginia October Child
Skeen Mountain Memories
Smith, Ann Richards Jesus Loves Me
Southeast Community College The Long Way Home
Spears, Deborah Hale Rain Dancers and Earth Blankets
Spears, Woodridge Concord
Srinivas, Krishna Great American World Poets
Stone, Jeanette I Wish For You
Somewhere Between Dreams
Summers, Hollis The Peddler and Other Domestic Matters
Sit Opposite Each Other
Start From Home
Swain, Alice Mackenzie Pennsylvania Profile
Tackett, Arnett The Hearthside Scrapbook
Ten 1968
1969
Toledoth Seven 1966
Tomorrow's People 1968
Tremble, Stella Craft Prairie Poet
Twigs II. 1966
Vogel, Don Let Him Be Poet
W-Hollow Harvest February 1967
April 1967
May 1967
June 1967
July-August 1967
September 1967
October 1967
November 1967
December 1967
January-February 1968
April 1968
June 1968
July-August 1968
October 1968
Waller, Alma R. Thoughts In Rhyme
Time For Rhymes
Ward, R.E. Balance
Weaver, Mary Boykin Art of Communication
West Virginia Poetry Society November 1982 Bulletin
Wheeler, Eskie M. Chips From The Backwoods
Kentucky In A Nutshell
Pebbles of Faith
Whitt, Charles The Free-Est Man
Working Steel
Wilburn, Mary Jane Amber Valleys
Wiley, Vivian Spradlin A Mountain of Hope
Wilson, Robert L. Practicing For Death
Wood, Audrey Butterfly Wings
Wood, Audrey and Miriam Woolfolk One Plus One
Young, David P. Sweating Out the Winter
*Subject Series*
Description: The Subject Series consists of eight folders and one tape recording. Included are contest rules and winners, correspondence, financial records, miscellaneous information, newsclippings, newsletters, and a folder of poems by Richard F. Hay. The tape recording contains the funeral service of Jesse Stuart. Included dates of the Subject Series are 1966-1990. Inventory Box 4
Contest Rules 1967-1987 Contest Winners 1966-1988 Correspondence 1967-1990 Financial 1981-1985 Miscellaneous 1967-1972 Newsclippings 1975-1985 Newsletters 1973-1990 Richard F. Hay 1989-1990 Tape of Stuart's Funeral 1984
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