Records, 1982-2004. This collection contains materials relating to the Tucson Poetry Festival, an annual festival dedicated to promoting poetry as a medium for artistic expression. The collection is comprised primarily of correspondence with poets and the administrative materials pertaining to Tucson Poetry Festival coordination, such as grant writing. Newspapers and festival ephemera(TPF programs, flyers, and posters) are also included.
Collection Number:
MS 510
Language:
Materials in English
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
The Tucson Poetry Festival(TPF) is one of the oldest poetry festivals in the United States. The TPF has been part of the Tucson creative writing landscape since its inception in 1981 by founding president, John Hudak. However, the first Tucson Poetry Festival was held in 1983. TPF has exposed renowned poets to Tucson for over 30 years and is still in existence. Some of the most renowned poets include: Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, W.S. Merwin, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sherman Alexie, Diane di Prima, Wanda Coleman, N. Scott Momaday, Gary Snyder, and many more greats.
Scope and Content Note
This collection spans the entirety of the Tucson Poetry Festival’s existence from 1982-2004. The bulk of the collection is administrative materials pertaining to TPF committee coordination. Administrative materials include committee minutes and agendas, poet-organization correspondence, and grant applications. Newspapers and ephemera such as TPF posters, flyers, and program trifolds are also included. Users will be able to investigate the relationship with poets and the organizational structure that the TPF has constructed throughout their history as a venue for artistic expression.
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Series is sorted by year. This series contains committee minutes and agendas, handwritten notes, handwritten media revisions, reference materials, volunteer information, venue agreements, contracted services, organization synopsis, treasury reports, donations, memorandums, preparatory notes on TPF programs, and correspondence. Correspondence is between the TPF, the public, and business partnerships.
Series is sorted by year of annual poetry festival. Within each year, each poet is alphabetically arranged by surname. Poets were invited and participated, declined, or construed as prospects. Series contains correspondence between poets and TPF, biographies, profile pictures, and sample poetry produced by poets.
Series contains three different types of contests: Statewide Poetry Contest, Bilingual Poetry Contest, and Pima County Adult Education Poetry Contest. Series is sorted by contest type, then by year within annual contest. These contests run concordantly with the Tucson Poetry Festival. Materials within include correspondence with amateur poets and high school students who submitted poetic works for critique by TPF designated guest judge. Contains bounded collections of poetry as the contest final product.
Series is sorted alphabetically by foundation, then by year. Materials contained in series pertain to descriptions of budget, grant proposal, festival history and past participants, foundation ‘how-to’ guides for grant writing criteria, committee member list intended for grant foundational assessment and liaison. There are included some TPF committee- grant foundation correspondence.
Series is sorted as types: newspaper clippings and oversize whole papers, then by date of publication. Newspapers primarily range from local press to University press, but national press is included (American Poetry Review, The Daily Wildcat, Tucson Citizen, Tucson Weekly) pertaining to the TPF program as review.
Series is sorted by year. This series contains flyers, posters, TPF program trifolds, ticket stubs that describe TPF main events, poetry contests, and other peripheral events (workshops, open mic). Oversize Posters are from the first anniversary to TPF XXII.