Arielle Greenberg Zine collection, 1973-1995 bulk 1993-1995

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Summary

Creator:
Greenberg, Arielle (collector)
Abstract:
Arielle Greenberg is a poet, editor, and assistant professor in the English department at Columbia College, Chicago, Ill. This collection consists of 367 zines dated from 1973 to 1995, likely collected by the donor from 1992-1995. The collection primarily includes personal zines by women (though some are by men) that focus on the riot grrrl scene, feminism, punk music, and progressive political causes. Many of the zines include correspondence from the authors. The collection also includes personal correspondence and correspondence from zine authors between 1987 and 1995, with the bulk dating from 1993 to 1995.
Extent:
5.4 Linear Feet
3,375 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00477

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of 367 zines dated from 1973 to 1995, likely collected by the donor from 1992-1995. The collection primarily includes personal zines by women (though some are by men) that focus on the riot grrrl scene, feminism, punk music, and progressive political causes. Many of the zines include correspondence from the authors. The collection also includes personal correspondence and correspondence from zine authors between 1987 and 1995, with the bulk dating from 1993 to 1995. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Biographical / historical:

Arielle Greenberg is a poet, editor, writer, and assistant professor in the English department at Columbia College, Chicago, Ill. She is the author of the poetry collections My Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005) and Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbooks Shake Her (Dusie Kollektiv, 2009) and Farther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). Her poems have been included the 2004 and 2005 editions of Best American Poetry and a number of other anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers (Sarabande, 2006), and she is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship and other awards. A translated volume of her selected poetry is out in German from LuxBooks. She authored the zine "William Wants a Doll" beginning in 1993.

Acquisition information:
The Arielle Greenberg Zine Collection were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2005.
Processing information:

Processed by Valeda Stull, Melanie Rowell, and Alexandra Krensky, May 2010

Encoded by Alexandra Krensky, July 2010

Accession 2005-0031 is described in this finding aid.

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[Identification of item], Arielle Greenberg Zine Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University