Greenfield Review Press records (MS.2016.006)

The collection is divided into four series. Series 1 and Series 2 include materials related to the Greenfield Review Press and its publishing activities. Series 3 and Series 4 contain materials related to the COSMEP Prison Project as well as its variety of prison outreach programs, including both the publication of single works and anthologies by incarcerated writers and the distribution of third-party literary materials to prisons.

Series 1: The Greenfield Review Press Publication Files (1970-1985) The majority of Series 1 is made up of files detailing the publication history of The Greenfield Review, beginning with issue 1 (1970) and continuing through volume 13, numbers 1 and 2 (1985). Included in these files are correspondence with printers, authors, and other presses, author submissions and typed manuscripts, production notes, galley and page proofs, as well as artwork and photography. Also included in this series are files on other works of primarily poetry published by the Greenfield Review Press during the period from 1970 to 1985, including The Light from Another Country: Poetry from American Prisons; Aftermath: An Anthology of poems in English from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean; Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets; Songs from Earth on Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry; and Words from the House of the Dead: An Anthology of Prison Writings from Soledad. Also included are files on volumes by Kofi Anyidoho, Alvin Aubert, Mei Berssenbrugge, Stephen Todd Booker, Ossie Onuora Enekwe, Sandra Maria Esteves, Janet Campbell Hale, Linda Hogan, Geraldine Kudaka, Gary Kizer, Mark McCloskey, Tanure Ojaide, Leslie Silko, Ronald Tanaka, Barry Targan, and Ron Welburn. These files contain production notes, correspondence, promotional materials, manuscripts, galley and page proofs, newspaper clippings, as well as photographs and original artwork.

Series 2: The Greenfield Review Press Author Files (1966-1984) Series 2 is organized alphabetically into individual author files relating to the publication of single-author monographs by The Greenfield Review Press. These files contain correspondence between the press and the author, published and unpublished manuscripts, marketing materials, legal agreements, galley and page proofs, photographs, original artwork, and sometimes the printed work.

Series 3: COSMEP and Prison Writing Review publication (1973-1985) The first part of series 3 contains materials relating to the publication of the COSMEP Prison Project Newsletter, beginning with volume 1, number 1 in 1976. This newsletter was renamed The Prison Writing Review beginning with volume 7, number 1 in 1983. The series contains materials up to and including volume 9, number 1 published in 1985. The files contain copies of each newsletter, correspondence regarding the newsletter, submissions, photographs, and galley and page proofs. The series also contains grant applications and materials related to money received by the COSMEP Prison Project, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, which were used to fund the project and its outreach activities, including writing workshops held inside of prisons.

The second part of series 3 contains correspondence with publishers, prisoners, and government agencies regarding the COSMEP Prison Project, especially its mailings of literary materials to individual prisons. This material is organized by date.

Series 4: Prison writer author files (1973-1986) Series 4 is composed of individual author files for incarcerated writers arranged alphabetically. These files contain materials both related to the COSMEP Prison Project, as well as materials that were collected from small third-party publishers by Joseph Bruchac. The files primarily feature correspondence between Bruchac and individual incarcerated writers, but they also include printed works, published and unpublished manuscripts, and newspaper clippings. Of particular note is an extensive collection of published and unpublished materials by the Maine poet James Lewisohn. Also well documented are the works of William Aberg, Pancho Aguila, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Nick DiSpoldo, Michael Hogan, Michael Knoll, J.J. Maloney, John P. Minarik, George Mosby Jr., John Natkie, and Paul Shiplett.