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stricklandstephanie Preliminary Inventory of the Stephanie Strickland Papers, 1955-2012 Processed by: Meghan Lyon; machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghan Lyon David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

Aleph Number: 004182423

Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: June 2009Processed by Meghan Lyon, June 2009; finding aid encoded by Meghan Lyon, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, June 2009 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Preliminary Inventory of the Stephanie Strickland Papers, 1955-2012 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Strickland, Stephanie. Stephanie Strickland Papers, 1955-2009 Material in English 12.9 Linear Feet 5550 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Stephanie Strickland is a poet and born-digital writer whose works range from paper to interactive websites. She also teaches and serves on the board of the Electronic Literature Organization. The accessions include journals and anthologies featuring Strickland's poetry; TechnoPoetry Festival materials; schoolwork, college, and graduate papers; posters and programs from events; proofs and drafts of her writings; and audio recordings. A data CD-ROM has been separated from the collection for migration to Duke's electronic server. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stephanie Strickland Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Provenance

The Stephanie Strickland Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2009.

Processing Information

Accessioned by Meghan Lyon, June 2009

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, June 2009

Updated by Meghan Lyon, July 2009, August 2009, December 2009, and January 2012

This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

Biographical Note

Stephanie Strickland is a poet and digital writer whose works range from paper to interactive websites. She also teaches and serves on the board of the Electronic Literature Organization.

Strickland's books are among the first examples of printed text being published in conjunction with electronic media. During her career, Strickland's work has included interactive poetry CDs; hypertext disks; poems in printed journals and anthologies; and articles about literature and cyberspace.

Collection Overview

Accession (2009-0158) (200 items; 4.5 lin. ft.; dated 1979-2008) includes printed journals and anthologies featuring Strickland's poetry, as well as 1 audio CD. A data CD-ROM (Conversing with Mystery: Poetry for Transition and Loss) has been separated from the collection for migration to Duke's electronic server.

Accession (2009-0172) (700 items; 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1950s-2009) includes programs and posters from Strickland's publications and performances; school materials from high school to graduate school; articles and anthologies; electronic media (removed); videotapes; and other miscellaneous materials.

Accession (2009-0195) (700 items; 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1955-2008) includes files, proofs, and drafts from Strickland's V : Vniverse, True North, Zone : Zero, Red Virgin, Give the Body Back, etc., along with some high school materials, cassette tapes, and a videotape.

Accession (2009-0267) (700 items; 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1959-2009) includes college papers and essays from her time at Harvard; source materials from works such as Zone : Zero, True North, Sand Soot, and Vniverse; conference programs; journals; and gallery catalogs and other sources used in her work.

Accession (2011-0171) (2250 items; 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1970s-2012) includes notes, drafts and variants of works such as True North, The Red Virgin, V : WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una, and other Strickland poems, essays, and compilations. Also includes a small amount of correspondence and event material. Electronic media has been separated from the accession and housed on Duke's electronic records server.

This collection has not been processed. Materials are arranged and described as received. Consult the Collection Control File for more information about materials in Accession (2009-0172) and Accession (2009-0267).

Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Strickland, Stephanie. Electronic Literature Organization. Hypertext poetry. Poetry, Modern--20th century. Poetry, Modern--21st century. CD-ROMs Contents of Collection Accession (2009-0158), 1979-2008 (3 boxes)

The accession (2009-0158) (200 items; 4.5 lin. ft.; dated 1979-2008) includes printed journals and anthologies featuring Strickland's poetry, as well as 1 audio CD. These journals have been listed below, with volume and date where available. A data CD-ROM (Conversing with Mystery: Poetry for Transition and Loss) has been separated from the collection for migration to Duke's electronic server.

1Controlled Burn 1, Winter 1995 Connecticut Review 12.1, Spring 2000 Indiana Review 27.1, 2005 Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers, 1982 Barrow Street 2.1, Fall 1999 Tendril: A Poetry Magazine 13, Summer 1982 Tendril: A Poetry Magazine 19-20 Prairie Schooner, 1985 (2), 1987, 1990, and 1994 West Branch 7-8, 1980 West Branch 14, 1984 West Branch 26, 1990 American Letters and Commentary 5, 1993 Voices in Italian Americana, 1995 Ironwood 16, 1980 Ironwood 23, 1984 Ironwood 25, 1985 The Agni Review 14 and 20 Chain 5, 1998 Ploughshares 27.1, Spring 2001 The Paris Review 132, Fall 1994 Tin Fish 3, 1996 Big Allis 8, 1998 Salt Hill 6, 1998 State Street Reader, 1990 Southern Poetry Review, Spring 1986 Soundings East 8.2, 1985 Pequod 14, 1982 Kenyon Review 13.3, 1991 Kenyon Review 15.4, 1993 Kenyon Review 17.1, 1995 Poets and Writers, 2001

Includes an article on literature and cyberspace.

Iris: A Journal About Women 14, 1985 America, 15 June 1991 The Mad Hatter's Review (online journal), 4 May 2008 Poetry New York 12, Spring 2001 Audio CD: Conversing with Mystery: Poetry for Transition and Loss 2The Chowder Review 20/21, Summer 1985 Seneca Review 30.2, Fall 2000 Pomegranate Series 4, 1983 Ploughshares 10.1, 1984 Iowa Review 9.3, 1978 Iowa Review 12.2-3, 1981 New World Poetry Bi-Monthly, December 2003 Samizdat 1, 1998 Dark Horse 18, 1979 Synaesthetic 2 Boston Review 24.5, 1999 Poetry Now 5.1, 1979 Small Moon Calapooya Collage 12, 1988 Calapooya Collage 17, 1993 The Epistolary Form and the Letter as Artifact 17, 1991 Poets on Nourishment 9.1, Winter 1985 Poet Love 90.3, Fall 1995 Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Summer 1987 Chelsea 70/71, 2001 Porch 4.1, 1980-1981 Isotope 4.1, 2006

Includes an article on poetry and science.

Calyx, February 1980 Ekphrasis 1.2, 1997-1998 Verse and Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics, 1998 Voices from the River, 1990 American Letters and Commentary 10, 1998 American Letters and Commentary 12, 2000 American Letters and Commentary 13, 2001 Notre Dame Review 11, Winter 2001 Notre Dame Review 12, Summer 2001 Jubilat 4, 2002 How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Past? The Life and Writings of Muriel Rukeyser, 1999 Search And You Will Find, 1998 NC 2, 2003 Songs for Our Voices, 1993 The Muse Strikes Back, 1997 Open Door (Poet Love Anthology), 1999 The Little Magazine 16, 1990 Best of Prairie Schooner, 2001 3The Breast: An Anthology, 1995 Divided Again: Poems About Designing People, 1999 Columbia Poetry Review 18, Spring 2005 Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, 2008 Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, 1995 New Poetry: The Extraordinary Tide by American Women, 2001 Lit 2, Winter 2000 The American Voice 12, Fall 1988 The American Voice 21, Winter 1990 In a Field of Words: A Creative Writing Text, 2003 Conditions 7, 1981 Fence 2.1, 1999 New Virginia Review 6, 1988 New Virginia Review 9.1, 1992 Bellingham Review 19.1, 1996 Notre Dame Review 2, Summer 1996 Many Mountains Moving 8.1, 2007-2008 Lumina, 2003 Columbia 3, 1979 Image 23, Summer 1999 Image 31, Summer 2001 Meridian 6, Fall 2000 Mid-Atlantic Review 23.1, 2002 Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile, 1990 The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science, 2001 Doubletake 2.4, Fall 1996 Croton Review 7, 1984 5:AM, Winter 1988 Black Buzzard Review 1, 1988 Accession (2009-0172) (5 boxes)

The accession (2009-0172) (700 items; 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1950s-2009) includes programs and posters from Strickland's publications and performances; school materials from grade school to graduate school; articles and anthologies; electronic media (removed); videotapes; and other miscellaneous materials.

This accession has not been processed, and materials have not been arranged into series. Researchers should consult the Collection Control File for Strickland's annotated inventory of this accession to learn more about the significance of certain materials.

4TechnoPoetry Festival symposiums 1-3 videotapes, 2002 Eastgate Systems guides True North materials TechnoPoetry Festival materials, 2002 Susanne Shimak thesis 5New Media and Literature syllabus and materials Multimedia Boot Camp Convergence Conference, 1994 ISAMA proceedings, 2009 Marble Springs, by Deena Larson (teaching materials, correspondence, text) Cyberpoets Guide to Virtual Culture, by John Frost Internet Poetry Sources notebook, 1995 Link structure for To Be Here as Stone Is True North workbook and links Publisher materials Hyperpoetry articles by Stephanie Strickland and others Walls That Were a Garden Correspondence and ephemera (including souvenir ID cards) 6Schoolwork College notes, 1960s Graduate work: Pratt, Sarah Lawrence Programs, articles, brochures, leaflets, 1980s-1990s Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot Awards and ceremony programs, 1990s-2001 Book covers Errand Upon Which We Came Programs, posters, letters, announcements, photographs Salt Hill (6) bound volume Grand Street bound volume 7Publications Strickland's resume/CV, 2009 Diplomas 1 Rubix cube poem by a student Interview with Authors, guest: Stephanie Strickland, videotape, 1992, Mar. 25

Use Copies: DVD use copy available

Denise Duhamel and Stephanie Strickland poetry reading, videotape 1997, Oct. 22

Use Copies: DVD use copy available

Euclid, Slow.Time, and Knoebel, videotape, 1999 8 bound volumes 8Harvard diploma Program/exhibit posters Accession (2009-0195), 1955-2008 (2 boxes)

The accession (2009-0195) (700 items; 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1950s-2008) includes files, proofs, and drafts from Strickland's V : Vniverse, True North, Zone : Zero, Red Virgin, Give the Body Back, etc., along with some high school materials, cassette tapes, and a videotape.

This accession has not been processed, but folders arrived numbered. That schema has been reflected below with Strickland's descriptions of each folder's content.

91Folder of V : Vniverse source materials; visual sources and inspiration; notes and correspondence from 2000 92V : Vniverse correspondence and initial notes 93V : Vniverse constellations; some materials about generative version 94Give the Body Back early materials, reactions; MFA thesis evaluation 95V : Wave Son.nets/Losing L'una proofs, 2002 96V : Wave Son.nets/Losing L'una third proof, 2002 97True North proof and other materials 98Red Virgin quote sources, in order 99The Red Virgin commentary and reviews 10Proceedings of the CyberMountain Colloquium 911Zone : Zero proof, 2007 1012Zone : Zero final proof, 2007 1013V : Wave Son.nets/Losing L'una proofs; Reader's Report and other reviews and interviews 1014Vniverse installation plans: never executed 1015High school papers 1016Assorted miscellany, including some early e-conferences programs and ISAMA 2009 program 10P-Queue issue 102 small Press Center audiocassettes from radio broadcasts (Give Body Back and Red Virgin) 10Labor and Women audiocassette, 1993 10Sisyphus Ho videotape (for Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot), 1999 102 audiocassettes: appearances on <emph render="doublequote">To the Best of Our Knowledge,</emph>Wisconsin public radio, to talk about Simone Weil, 1993, Aug. 25 and 1993, Dec. 27

Use Copies: CD use copies available

Accession (2009-0267), 1959-2009 (2 boxes)

The accession (2009-0267) (700 items; 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1959-2009) includes college papers and essays from her time at Harvard; source materials from works such as Zone : Zero, True North, Sand Soot, and Vniverse; conference programs; journals; and gallery catalogs and other sources used in her work.

[Preservation reformatting of some college papers may be required before use by researchers.]

11College papers, Harvard, Fall 1959-Spring 1963 (3 folders) Gallery catalogs that influenced Strickland's work, 1988-1989 YLEM, 1998-2007 (not a complete set) Volt, 2008-2009 Experimental Literary Education, 2009 Montfort Rettberg, Implementation project Edwin Barlow (high school calculus teacher) article Adrienne Dodt thesis on Strickland, 2009 Bound volumes The Measured Word, edited by Kurt Brown WSQ: Technologies, 2009 P-Queue, 2009 12&Now Awards, 2009 Jaishree K. Odin interview versions about True North and V, 2002 Reviews and publicity, 2002-2009 Conferences TP21CL pieces, 1999 Digital Arts and Culture, 2000-2001 Society for Literature and Science, 2003-2004 &Now, 2009 ePoetry, Barcelona, 2009 Writings and works Writing from the Workplace, 1995 Text One Zero, 2001 Source materials for slippingglimpse NEH Seminar and True North, 1995-1997 (2 folders) Zero : Zero source and marketing materials Vniverse working materials Sand Soot materials Accession (2009-0271) (2 DVDs)

This small accession consists of a 2-DVD set of Humans, by David Daniels. It has been removed from the collection and cataloged separately.

Accession (2011-0171), 1970s-2012 (6 boxes, 1 oversize folder)

The accession (2011-0171) (2250 items; 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1970s-2012) includes notes, drafts and variants of works such as True North, The Red Virgin, V : WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una, and other Strickland poems, essays, and compilations. Also includes a small amount of correspondence and event material. Electronic media has been separated from the accession and housed on Duke's electronic records server.

13Writings True North So Far From Home... (early version of True North) Notebooks, 1986 and undated Drafts, 1987-1988(2 folders) Drafts, from RV binder(2 folders) Draft, 1987 (early version with plans) 14Variant, July 1988(2 folders) Organization notes and spec sheets 14V : WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una WaveSon.nets/MacDowell long scroll printouts, August 12 and 15, 1997 WaveSon.nets/MacDowell printouts, August 28, 1997 The Woman Who Cannot Do Without (early L'una draft) Saying Simone/Simone Says (early L'una draft) Saying Simone (early Losing L'una), April-June 1997 15There is a Woman in a Conical Hat Draft, December 16, 1997 Draft, July 6, 1998 Draft, June 1999 Drafts 15"V": includes Losing L'una and There is a Woman in a Conical Hat 15Various drafts(2 folders)

Including True North and V : WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una variations, as well as student work.

15Various drafts from binder 15Conversation Between Women draft 15The Birds draft 16Untitled draft about apples 16To Be Here as Stone Is drafts 16Flame-Retention Head draft 16Give the Body Back Milk in Glass Bottles draft (early version of Give the Body Back) Milk in Glass Bottles draft The Fault of the Body draft with edits The Fault of the Body MFA thesis Living on Air (early version of Give the Body Back) Galleys, 1991 17The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil Notes, 1978-1982 The Simone Weil Poem draft with edits, 1985 The Simone Weil Poem bound draft, 1985 The Only Rival: Simone Weil drafts(3 folders) The Truth Which Bites: Simone Weil draft and correspondence, 1989-1994 The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil (bound version), 1993 17Essays, Speeches, Presentations 17Writing the Hungry Body: The Red Virgin paper, April 1997 18Hypertext for Poets essays, etc., 1995 Poetry in Transition: The Electronic Word essays, etc., 1995 Women's Biography Seminar, 1997 Moving Through Me as I Move version of talk, 2001-2002 Making the Vniverse, 2003 People's Poetry Panel talks, April 2003 18Correspondence 18Assorted, 1984-2001 Joe Tabbi, re: True North, 1998 Cynthia Lawson, 2003-2004 18Events and Publicity 18Events and organization handouts, 2000-2011 Event programs, 2009-2012 Student work from Georgia Institute of Technology's TechnoPoetry Festival, 2002 Visionary Landscapes participants, 2008 Personal mementoes, undated Various book reviews 18Journals and Publications Beyond This Silence chapbook, 1985 Dandelion Magazine: The Mapping Issue, 37.1 Ironwood 25, 1985 Western Humanities Review 65.2, Summer 2011 1913 A Journal of Forms 3, 2009 1Posters Accession (2012-0185), 1986-2012 (1 box)

Writings by Stephanie Strickland as well as journal appearances and events she has participated in. Also, pieces of work written by authors about Strickland, posters of events, and artwork.

19Works by Others 19Raine Koskimaa thesis, 2000 19Deena Larsen thesis, 1986 19Catalog Codings, 2012 19Papers written by Marjorie Luesebrink 18Letters from Kate Hayles to Howard Foundation, 2003 19Howard Foundation Application: Print, also disk 19Razor Smile 2, 2003 19Hyper Text by Odin 19Materia Sztuki by Ostrowicki 19Writings 19Journals 19Vlak 1.1, 2010 19Notre Dame review: The First Ten Years, 2009 19Rhythm of Structure, 2011 19Dandelion Mapping 37.1, 2011 19Barrow Street, 2011-2012 19Chicago Review 56:2/3, 2011 19Dandelion v.36, Chapter 1&2, 19Zoland Poetry, no. 5, 2011 19Western Humanities Review, v.65 no.2, Summer 2012 19American Book Review v.32 no.6, 2011 19Readings, Conferences, and Lectures 19The Kitchen Reading, 2011 19Electronic Reading Exhibit, MLA 2012 19Poster: Reading with Judd Morrissey 19Electronic Literature Organization Conference, 2012 19Program for Bridges, 2012 19& Now Program, 2011 19Simone Weil: Dream of Grace in the Gravity of Contemporary Society 19Interrupt Program, 2012 19Grand Valley Writers Series, 2011 19Electronic Literature Collection v.2 19Books 19A chapter written in: A Broken Thing 19Artwork 19"Stand Under," 2009