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Table of Contents

Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3

Biographical/Historical note .......................................................................................................................... 3

Scope and Contents note ............................................................................................................................... 4

Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4

Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6

Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 7


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Summary Information

Repository: Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation

Creator: Körte, Mary Norbert, 1934-

Title: Mary Norbert Korte papers

ID: D.408

Date [inclusive]: 1966-2010

Physical Description: 10 boxes

Language of theMaterial:

English

Preferred Citation

(Name of item, if applicable), Mary Norbert Korte Papers, 1966- 2010. Dept. of Rare Books,Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.

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Biographical/Historical note

Born in 1934, Mary Norbert Korte grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. Her younger years wereheavily influenced by her Catholic family and when she graduated high school in 1952 she joined the St.Rose Convent in San Francisco (Korte, Knight 257). During this period in her life she earned a master’sdegree in Silver Latin but continued to strictly practice her faith (Knight 258).

Her life changed forever when she attended the Berkley Poetry Conference in 1965. She was the onlynun in attendance but was deeply moved. “She [had] found her true calling (Knight 258).” Excited by hernew found love, she stole food from the Convent to give to her starving poet friends and started writing adifferent, more unconfined type of poetry (Knight 258-9).

In 1968, Korte realized that her religious community did not share her penchant for political activism andwriting. She left the convent the same year and moved to Berkeley. Obtaining a job in the psychologydepartment at the University of California, Korte was able to explore herself as a writer and an activist(Knight 258).


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In the fall of 1972, Korte was nominated for a National Endowment award and later that year moved toher current residence in the redwood forest in Mendocino County, California. Along with her writing andactivism she took up a new project, that of being an environmentalist (Knight 259-260).

Before 1997, Korte had spent most of her life teaching. She was one of the original Poet/Teachers forthe California Poets in the Schools program. Thirty years of her life was devoted to this program (KurtRaw Data). In 1997 she stopped teaching to be the Environmental Director for Coyote Valley Tribe(Biography). To support herself she teaches at a college on an Indian reservation, bringing the joys ofwriting to students.

Her own publications include Beginning of Lines (1968), Hymn To The Gentle Sun (1967), andMammals of Delight (1978) including many anthologies such as Remember Our Fire: Poetry by Women(1969) and Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace & Gladness (1966). Today she lives quietly and writesextensively in the Redwood Forest in Mendocino County (260-261).


Scope and Contents note

The Mary Norbert Korte Papers consists of 10 boxes of Korte's personal papers, includingcorrespondence, manuscript and printed material, works by other authors, printed material and ephemera,biographical documents and materials.


Administrative Information

Publication Statement

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Restrictions on Access

The Mary Norbert Korte Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the RareCollections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be askedto fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.

Restrictions on Use

In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publishmaterials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible fordetermining any copyright questions.


Related Materials

Related Archival Materials noteSelected Bibliography Korte, Mary Norbert. For Gertrude Stein: Notes on the Statewide Conference.[Mendocino County, California]: Everybody Knows Press, 1960. Korte, Mary Norbert. For theDiggers--: A Perhaps Poem. San Francisco: Communications Corp, 1960. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. Le Jeune David. Detroit, Mich: Detroit Artist's Workshop, 1966. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. Adam: A Poem for Michael McClure. Berkeley: The Author], 1966. Korte, Mary Norbert.Hymn to the Gentle Sun: Poems. [Kensington, Calif.]: Oyez, 1967. PS3561.K78h Korte, Mary Norbert.The Beginning Is the Life Is the Word. [Berkeley, CA]: Oyez, 1967. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert.The Jester Is Not Always Volunteer. Berkeley, Calif: Oyez, 1967. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert &Kenneth Patchen. Beginning of Lines: Response to Albion Moonlight. Berkeley [Calif.]: Oyez, 1968.Korte, Mary Norbert. The Sign of the Fool: Poems. [S.l.]: Pacifica-Middle Earth Press, 1968. Korte,Mary Norbert, Jess Villalva, and Clayton C. Barbeau. The Generation of Love. New York: Bruce Pub.Co, 1969. Korte, Mary Norbert. My Day Has Been Beautiful, How Was Yours?; The Going: TwoPoems. [Berkeley? Calif.]: Oyez, 1969. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. Two Poems. [Berkeley]:Oyez/White Rabbit, 1969. Korte, Mary Norbert. While We Slept, America. San Francisco: [CraniumPress], 1969. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. A Breviary in Time of War. San Francisco: CraniumPress, 1970. Korte, Mary Norbert. 4th of July. [S.l.]: Hermes Free Press, 1970. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. A Grammar of War. San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1970. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert.The Midnight Bridge. Berkeley [Calif.]: Oyez, 1970. PS3561.K78m Korte, Mary Norbert, and CliffordBurke. Reading from the I Ching. S.l: s.n.], 1970. Korte, Mary Norbert, Clifford Burke, and AllenSay. This Room Within My Self Wants Light. Berkeley, Calif: Oyez], 1970. Korte, Mary Norbert.Fourth Annual Protest Poem against War. San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1971. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. The Window: Poem for the Death of Kenneth Patchen. Santa Cruz, Ca: The Lime Kiln Press,1972. Broadside. Hitchcock, George, Mary Norbert Korte, Peter Veblin, Naomi Clark, John Skinner,and William Everson. West to the Water; Six Poets: a Santa Cruz Portfolio; George Hitchcock, MaryNorbert Korte, Peter Veblin, Naomi Clark, John Skinner [and] William Everson. [Santa Cruz, Calif.]:


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The Lime Kiln Press, 1972. Six broadsides. Korte, Mary Norbert. Any Day Now, Any Day Now BobDylan: A Collection of Contemporary Female Poets. California?: s.n, 1973. Korte, Mary Norbert.Lines Bending. [Berkeley, Calif.]: Oyez, 1978. Korte, Mary Norbert. Mammals of Delight. Berkeley:Oyez, 1978. Korte, Mary Norbert. Finally When You Have To. [Mendocino, Calif.]: Everybody KnowsPress, 1982. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. The Generation of Teachers Like Fire: A Poem to HonorCecile Scully Korte. Mendocino, Calif: Black Bear Press, 1983. Korte, Mary Norbert. Stalking theWild Beatles. London: British Museum, 1986. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. Greenham WomenAre Every Where. S.l: Rainyday Women Press, 1987. Korte, Mary Norbert. My Mother & Gaia & theMole. Willits, [Calif.]: Rainy Day Women Press, 1989. Korte, Mary Norbert. When She Hides. [Willits,Calif.]: Rainy Day Women Press, 1989. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert, and Henry Massie. In the Riverthe Roar of a Train: Poems of the Noyo. Willits, Calif: Rainy Day Women Press, 1990. Korte, MaryNorbert. Throwing Firecrackers Out the Window While the Ex-Husband Drives By. Willits, Calif: RainyDay Women Press, 1991. Korte, Mary Norbert. Sesquicentennial Anniversary. 2000. An anniversaryquestionnaire. Sanctuary Station, Mendocino County. Korte, Mary Norbert. An Edited Biography. Rawdata. Willits, California. This is a piece of information that she wrote and edited. This is one of theoriginal versions but we are also in possession of other versions. Compilations: Black, Gordon Leon.Low Tech in the Great Northwest. Albion, Calif: Pygmy Forest Press, 1990. Bohn, Dave, and JohnCarpenter. The Authorized Checklist. Oyez. Berkeley: [White Rabbit and Oyez?], 1997 Bovarney, Dot,and Jodi Gehrman. Small Mirrors: (2007). Ukiah, Calif: Friends of the Mendocino College Library,2007 Cregg, Magda. Hey Lew: Homage to Lew Welch. Bolinas, Cal. (Box 964, Bolinas 94924): M.Cregg, 1997. Rhees Stacks PS3573.E45 Z6 1997 Di Prima, Diane. Seminary Poems. Point Reyes Station[Calif.]: Floating Island Publications, 1991. Palmer, Doug, and Tove Neville. Poems Read in the Spiritof Peace & Gladness. Berkeley, Calif: Peace & Gladness Co-op Press, 1966. Weiss, Ruth. For TheseWomen of the Beat. S.l.: 3300 Press, 1997. Aldebraran Review Berkeley Poetry Conference Blue MoonEverything Irish Hollow Orange 3 Manhattan Review Or, Oar, Ore #1 Phantasm Quarterly News-LetterRemember Our Fire The The Three Poems for Christmas Way Poems See also: Knight, Brenda. "MaryNorbert Korte: Redwood Mama Activist." Women of the Beat Generation: the Writers, Artists, andMuses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Conari, 1996. 257-61. Print. PS508.W7 W585 1996


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Collection Inventory

Title/Description Contents List

Box 1: Poems By Date, 1966 - 2009


1. 1966 - 1976


grows within me slippery..., 1966.

Sharp Moving Grace, 8 January 1966

For senses are made..., 1967

A Quality of Woman, 9 March 1967

My Divine Deed..., 5 April 1967

Among the Lions Night is Still, 3 May 1967

have seen you by the blind..., 20 August 1967

Letter 60, 17 October 1967

Hymn for Death and Resurrection, 6 October 1967

To tell you what it's like..., 9 October 1967

Lightfall, 28 November 1967

The Fire of Resurrection, Easter 1968

Let me make you song..., Easter 1968

The road is wrong..., Easter 1968

A Poem for the Resistance, 3 April 1968

The Labyrinth, Spring 1969


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Letter 24, 2 September 1969

Ecology Action, 11 November 1969

Pineapple (for Yoko Ono), 1970

Natural and Acquired Politeness, 26 May 1970

Fragment in the Manner of a Lament, 5 June 1970

The Window: For the Death of Kenneth Patchen, 8 January 1972

Keep It Up, 13 January 1971

Letter to Alta, 20 January 1971

Love Poem, 28 January 1971

Report - 6 February 1971, 6 February 1971

Of Patience and Doors, 23 February 1971

We Have No Waterbed, 23 February 1971

Sundayafternoon Paper, 7 March 1971

Sundaymorning Paper, 7 March 1971

Fourth Annual Protest Poem Against War, 24 April 1971

The Westerly Movements, 27 May 1971

Sonnet for the Hostage, 9 June 1971

Saying I Want You is a Dance, 27 June 1971

Moving, 28 October 1970, 27 June 1971, 24 August 1971

A Smile / Or Anything Else of Value, September 1971

When Light Picked Out Importance of the Windowframe, 30 September 1971


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Everybody's Making Love or Else Expecting Rain, 1972

Letter Fifty: The Drowned Phoenician Sailor, 8 January 1972

Every Time Some Thing Happens Some Goddam Poem Will Come of it, 16February 1972

We covered the last place we came down..., 6 April 1972

The Great Blue Heron is Not a Beautiful Bird, May 1972

Thursday, 25 May 1972

Wednesday, 31 May 1972

I M A G E, 19 June 1972

Just Like in the Movies, 6 September 1972

The Rose is a Symbol of Rage, 7 December 1972

American Cradle, 1973

The Violational Heroine, 15 February 1973

The Ten Things I Look For..., 28 February 1973

For Peter When it is Cold, 2 March 1973

For Peter Who is Away, 30 July 1973

Letter 53: Paradigm to Shirley Kaufman, August 1973

Letter 55: To Peter and Fruud, 18 November 1973

Every Day Shaggy Mane Mushroom, Fall 1974

On the Death of Anne Sexton, 11 October 1974

All Their Precious Time, 19 November 1974


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Letter 60, 1975

Letter Sixty-One: Dear Mama, 1975

Owl In Cloisonne, 3 January 1975

Winterbirds in Woods, 3 January 1975

What a Catch..., 14 March 1975

Prescription for the Feast of All Fools, 1 April 1975

In the Woods, 25 May 1975

Summit Meeting - Ft Bragg Willits Road - 1756 Feet Elevation, October-April-November 1974-5

Journal / Aubade, April - November 1975

Wood Ducks, April 1976

Greek Road Dust is Our Bones, 4 May 1976

Poem For My Mother On My Forty*Second Birthday, 7 June 1976

I Love You She Says, 15 June 1976

And the Deer Came to be With Its Neck Broken, Fall 1976

Armageddon, 2 September 1976

Poem Instead of Putting in A Window, 5 November 1976

2. 1976- 1979


The Fault is Like Closed Hands, 1977

Finishing a Book in Berkeley, 1977

The skin the tip clipped..., 1977


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Turning 40 in Willits, 1977

Boiling Point, 15 January 1977

Thunderheads and Menageries, 24 January 1977

Letter on the First Day of Spring, 20 March 1977

Reading Ferlinghetti in an Outdoor Bathtub One Week Into Spring, 7 April1977

Sonnet, 25 April 1977

Sanctuary Station Wildlife and Artists’ Refuge, May 1977

Jumping into the American River, 21-24 September 1977

Tour De Force, 25 October 1977

Letter Sixty-Two: Other Lives, 10 December 1977

The Cat, 1978

The Mole, 13 October 1978

Seeing Through the Hole in the Sky, December 1978

Feet Of Cable/Feet of Steel, 1979

Last Winter We Wanted to Take That One Down, 1979

Keeping Still Mountain, 1979

If you do not see me dancing about shadow boxing..., 26 February 1979

Forest of Quaking Aspen, 10 December 1979

3. 1980 - 1989


The Don Quixote Memorial Woodlot, 1980


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Relax You Fool Enjoy the Mystic Countryside, 1980

This Room of Trees And Moving Earth This Room Where No One Knows HowSky Begins, 1980

Poem to Give a House Direction, Fall 1981

A Bear Came Into My Heart, 3 December 1981

After a Winter of Drowned Mushrooms, 1982

When we had covered the last place we came down..., 1982

The Exercise is About Blood, 26 February 1982

So you come out..., 29 April 1982

Finally When You Have To, 29 April 1982

Closer Than Hawks, 30 July 1982

O Mama You Dance Now Your Poor Feet Fly, 3 August 1982

The fruit flies will go away as soon as the table's been washed..., 6 August 1982

Tools, 19 August 1982

Quetzacotl, 19 August 1982

Machismo, 1 September 1982

O God (For John Lennon) A Day in the Life, 28 November 1982

Behind a Burger King Truck, 5 December 1982

Waxing Moon, 28 December 1982

Down the Highway to Hopland Where it Floods Out Every Year Slides heSaidLookit That Slides, January 1983

No Mattresses Over 20 Feet in Length, 2 January 1983


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The Generation of Teachers Like Fire, February 1983

Neurotic Light, May-July 1983

Incantation While Sharpening the Chain Saw, August 1983

The List of House, 20 August 1983

Fugitive Ink, 22 November 1983

Fugitive Ink: A Progress over Many Miles, 1984

The Little Lame Balloonman, 1985

Chasing Down the Muse, 29 September 1984

A Day in the Life in the Day, 1986

Stalking the Wild Beatles, 13 January 1986

Greenham Women Are Everywhere, 1987

Eddie Mae the Cook Dreamed Sister Mary Ran off With Allen Ginsberg, 1988

The Story of Uncle Guido, 9 March 1988

My Mother Gaia The Mole, 14 May 1989

Living On The Edge, 17 October 1989

Grandmother To Me at My Father's Grave, 16 December 1989

4. 1990 - 1994


Sometimes Golden Eagles, 1990

Country bars are the best she thinks..., 16 December 1991

Engraved Announcement, 1992


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Dangerous Lines, 16 January 1992

A Breviary in Time of Drought: Preface, 16 January 1992

Full Moon of the Albion Nation, 15 June 1992

Wooden Woman With Hair, 22 September 1992

Well remember God remember, 8 October 1992

Lines in the Dark, Midwinter 1992

At the Wolf Summit, 19 January 1993

Her sisters brothers crossing roads person..., 11 August 1993

She Hears that the FBI Once Spent 2 Years Investigating the Song Louie Louie,11 August 1993

Twelve, 22 November 1993

She knew it was only the refrigerator door..., 31 October 1994

5. 1995 - 1999


This year will be the..., 1 January 1995

More than you being a Nice Catholic Boy me..., 1 January 1996

Promise to the headwaters forest Promise to a Mother Redwood Tree, 5 March1996

Rehearsal, May 1996

The Noyo Ridge Rabbit, 7 May 1996

Episode in which She Explains Why She Likes Art That Moves, Midsummer1996

Falling in to the Burn Pile, September 1996


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They Are All Singing, 15 September 1996

Falling in to the Burn Pile, 23 September 1996

Listening to the Radical Political Figure While Doing Dishes, 24 September1996

Letter to Lew Welch, 6 October 1996

That Point (Exactly In The Middle), 6 October 1996

Visit, 6 October 1996

Election Night, 5 November 1996

The Cape Buffalo Among Us, 6 November 1996

A Day of Action for Headwaters Forest, 15 November 1996

...the world of sisters brothers..., 1 January 1997

John Muir Welcomes Judi Bari Into Heaven, 2 March 1997

Do Not Touch the Rain Stick, 20 March 1998

Anna Abraham, 2 April 1997

Jerry and Judi the Spotted Owl, 5 August 1997

Meet Me in Carlotta, 14 September 1997

Workingman's Weed, 11 October 1997

6:30 AM PDT: Bill Clinton's Checkers Speech, 11 September 1998

Election Night is at the Full of the Moon, 27 October 1998

17th Annual Willits Library Poetry Marathon, 14 November 1998

Divorce, 22 November 1998


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You Pull Roadkill Off Highways to Make a Safe Place for the Crows, 1December 1998

Justice, 1 January 1999

In Those Days, 16 February 1999

Why The Hero, 17 April 1999

A Good Life as in God's Country, 29 April 1999

But To Wildflowers, 30 April 1999

Domestic Cat Is Not A Subsistence Hunter (Why We Do Not Need AnotherWar), 3 May 1999

Heli Campcommet Copter Logging, 5 May 1999

Let Me Know, 28 May 1999

We Persist in Building Roads Next to Water, 7 July 1999

Wellness: A Little Poem for EPA Youth, 12 August 1999

2 Poems: Outback and Musics on Car Radios, 19 August 1999

Once there was a fellow named Ray..., 7 December 1999

6. 2000 - 2001


How Dominican Prepared Me For Life, 2000

Still as water, we can hear the land tell us of what is to come..., 1 January 2000

The Redwood Valley Oaks, 25 January 2000

I am the woman who lives in the woods..., 13 March 2000

Industrial boss..., 14 June 2000


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RUNNING DREAM: Sometimes it's the dead sometimes it's landed UFO's, 20June 2000

Elegy for Wild Sage Poetry, 5 September 2000

Small Thanksgiving Poem, 23 November 2000

Fishing in the Waters of Heaven, 2001

G Stein's Ghost: I want to go to Fairy Godmother School, 20 February 2001

Sitting in a Hole at the Bottom of the World, 21 February 2001

Aluta Continua: A Box of Chocolate Bars for Judi Bari and the Rainbow Ridge500, 24 May 2001

Prescriptions for a Ritual Exorcism, 25 July 2001

Golden Jubilee, 28 July 2001

Offering It Up, 1 October 2001

Speechless Light, 10 December 2001

7. 2002 - 2003


Hawthorn Court (Spring II), 2002

Weather Station, 2002

How We Look, 15 March 2002

Magic Road, 7 June 2002

A Few Open Lines About The Current Situation, 8 August 2002

North Woods Rain Listening to Songs from Africa, December 2002

Living With Paul Blake's Dragon Boat Other Works of Art, 5 December 2002


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Haven't Heard Kingfisher Lately, 12 December 2002

For You I Would Leave Flowers, 13 January 2003

Undo the Knot of War, 18 January 2003

A True Unspoiled By Sordid Politics Valentine for the U.N. Security Council,14 February 2003

It's Her Truck, 25 March 2003

Technology, 18 July 2003

Psychology, 25 July 2003

How Come There's No Vermont, 13 August 2003

The Noyo Ridge Rabbit, 22 August 2003

You Done Good Dear, Fall 2003

He's Got Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes, 2 September 2003

Theology, 5 September 2003

Doxology, 7 September 2003

Biology, 8 September 2003

Felinology, 8 September 2003

A Really Really Really Good Man, 12 October 2003

This Go-Round, 13 October 2003

8. 2004 - 2006


This is a Poem About Computers How a Lot of People Tell Me They Needn'tDrive Me Crazy But They Do, 15 January 2004


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He's Got Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes, 15 April 2004

Life the World Are the Same in Irish, 15 May 2004

For the Jubilarians, 31 July 2004

Today is the kind of day..., 28 August 2004

Poem Beginning With the Name of My Favorite Grocery Store, 6 September2004

Betha's Kitty Boutique, 17 September 2004

Harvest Time Blues, October 2004

Chugging Down the EA Road, 14 October 2004

Bible History I, 26 October 2004

The Government Guru, 2 November 2004

Get A Gun Get A Dog, 1 January 2005

She's Got Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, 6 May 2005

Giant Magnets, 25 May 2005

For Marilyn-- I speak for more than myself, 30 July 2005

Hiroshima, 5 August 2005

They Say Light Will Come Back, 21 December 2005

Hang Out Long Enough in One Place You Get From Time to Time to See SomeAwesome Things, 17 May 2006

In the Time of Green Berries, 21 June 2006

You See Some Strange Things When You Work For a Tribal Government, 30June 2006


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9. 2007 - 2009


Bible History II, 1 January 2007

Winter Disappointment Haiku, 28 February 2007

Rooted In The Vernal Equinox, 21 May 2007

Thanksgiving for Delma, 27 March 2007

no George I failed to file not out of some civil disobedience action but because Ifailed to file I just failed to file, 12 April 2007

Rain stick sits..., 2 April 2007

Redneck Bling, 3 August 2007

Sasquatch, 9 August 2007

Redneck Bling, 3 August 2007

A Thank-you Note, 10 July 2007

Hot Running Water A Fridgerator, 16 June 2007

Down In the Hole, 12 November 2007

The Big Seven-Oh For My Brother His Buddies, 20 October 2007

Bad Luck Trees, 21 September 2007

Now is the age when memory is warmest..., 12 September 2007

When the great Thunder God comes..., 2008

Walking on Eggs, 1 January 2008

Travelin', 14 February 2008

Persephone Gets to Come Into the Light, 12 March 2008


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White Bread Blues, 15 March 2008

In Praise of Magic Realism, 13 May 2008

Romantic Notions Hit the Brick Wall, 22 May 2008

Country Wedding, 31 August 2008

Root Canal, 26 September 2008

There Is a There There Gertrude, 9 November 2008

(Faux) Farewell To Doggie Diner, 18 November 2008

The Last Cowboy, 18 January 2009

Utterly Cool, February 2009

(Always In the Woods), 14 February 2009

Feng Shui Firewood, 15 April 2009

Dangerous Lines, Summer 2009

All The Ways All the Things an Morrison, 7 June 2009

When You Live Alone, 10 June 2009

Box 2: Alphabetized Poems


1. Poems, A - C


A Roof over One's Head

After the Death of Gavin Arthur

All The Ways All The Tings Van Morrison

Always the Woods


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And The Deer Came To Be With Its Neck Broken

Artistic Statement

ALTUA CONTINUA: A Box of Chocolate Bars for Judi Bari and the RainbowRidge 500

The Bathroom Mirror

Blue Spirit The Phantasma

books of redwood douglasfir pine...

Critical Mass

A Certain Anger

The Cat

The Cat The Ghost She

To Come Out of the Warrior Class is to Come out of a 1000-Year-Habit

Chasing Down the Muse

Childhood East

It Is Chickenshit...

Conversation Overheard

2. Poems, D - F


Dangerous Lines

Do You Want Me to Call the Po-Lice

Documentation in the Form of Delirium

The Dog


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Down the Highway to Hopland Where it Floods Out Every Year Slides He SaidLookit That Slides

Did I Make a Poem For my Brother Sister On Your 40th Birthdays

Dream

Eleanor Madeline's Last TrickorTreat

Elegy For Wild Sage Poetry

The Endless Poem

Enough Basta No More Fini Seldom Fini

Eulogy

Farewell to the Giant Sequoia

Fifty Lives a Day At Camp Anguish

Fiona Perkins speaks eloquently of those secret places, full of wonder...

For Carmille David

For My Dear Companion

For Travellers

Foreword

Fourth Annual Poem Against War

Fragment In the Manner of a Lament

3. Poems, G - K


Giant Magnets

Goddess of Night and Morning


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The Going

Going to Jail with the Lesbians

The Grammar of War

Greenham Women Are Everywhere

Have You Noticed

He Said/There is a Sparrowhawk

Hooking Up The Heartmachine

How Dominican Prepared Me For Life

How I would be some night-creature of God...

How is this Lucida Calligraphy And This is the Lowercase for CopperplateGothic

How You Go About Putting off the Time of Dying

Hundreds of years ago...

I used to think...

In Praise for Magic Realism

In the Garden of the Years

In the Long Long Time

In the story that is always...

In the years of little rain...

In This Country in This Time

Indian Summer


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Into the Long Long Time

Jerry Judi The Spotted Owl

Jesus Saves in Northern California

Journal / Aubade

Jumping into the American River

Just as you Said Love It's A Death

4. Poems, L - Q


The Ladies Breakfast League

LEARNING CURVE: Response to the Atomic Clock

The Length of Loyalty

Letter 7

Letter 56: To Morton Marcus

Letter of the First Day of Spring

The Little Lame Balloonman

Living in the woods...

Living the Dream

Magic Potion

Manifesto

No Mattresses Over Twenty Feet in Length

Mary worries at her words so...


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Meanwhile Back at Family Christmas

Meet Me in Carlotta

In Memoriam: A History of Great Affairs of the World In Rain

Millennium Trees

Mirror on the Vanity Table

Moon For Mothers Ireland

Neurotic Light

Notes on Talking

The Noyo Ridge Rabbit

O God (For John Lennon) A Day in the Life

O Mama You Dance Now Your Poor Feet Fly

In the Orchard Afternoon Sun Cold

Of Patience and Doors

The Permission

The Permission / The Reading / The Road

Persephone Gets to Come Into the Light

Pileated woodpecker movies in 9AM...

Pineapple

Poem

Poem Beginning with the Name of My Town

Poem for Marco and Peter


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Poem to go With a Bottle of Yukon Jack

The Poet

Poltergeist

Portrait of My Mother

In Praise of Magic Realism

Process

Promise to Judi Bari Promise to Headwaters Forest Promise to a MotherRedwood Tree

5. Poems, R - S


It is raining there is...

Recipe for Ecology

Redneck Bling

Redwood trees call forth...

A Roof Over One’s Head

This Room of Trees and Moving Earth This Room Where No One Knows HowSky Beings

Root Canal

The Rose is a Symbol of Rage

See! Another Spring

Seeing Through the Hole in the Sky

Seldom: Because the FBI Investigated Louie-Louie


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A Seldom Used Line/ Often Profession

She has earnest conversations with...

She knew it was only the refrigerator door...

She Said

She Was Buried in a Nieman-Marcus Box

Sisypha: Running Dream

The Sixth Year of Drought

So One Enters the Woods

Song for the Long-Ago Lover

Sonnet

Sometimes a great ship slides...

Sometimes Golden Eagles

Spring/Summer Bed

Standing

6. Poems, T - Z


To tell you what it's like...

Then speak no stars...

It is them as steals...

Theology: Breathing

There Are Ya-yas Everywhere


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They say if you live next to a river long enough...

This Room of Trees Moving Earth This Room Where No One knows How SkyBegins

To Those Women From My Mother to Mother Superior to Mother Earth

Throwing Firecrackers Out the Window While the Ex-Husband Drives By

Thunderheads Menageries

Tirade I: In the Seasons of Little Rain

Tirade II: Cafe Woman

Tirade III: Germ Theory

Tools

Turning 40 in Willits

Twenty Thousand Lawyers

Variations

Vietnam You Bombed Us All

Vivian's Ghost

Voice II

Water The Key to it All

Weather Jealous

We covered the last place...

We're Getting There- Just Wait

We Wood


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What is a catch...

When You Left me I Began to Dream of Crowds

Who is Mel Lawson and Why is He Writing Such Shit

The Window: For the Death of Kenneth Patchen

Wooden Woman With Hair

You Are My Planet

Box 3: Miscellaneous Poems


1. Misc. First pages of poems

2. Misc. Second pages of poems

3. Published Poems, A - T


American Cradle

Bible History

Country Wedding

Down the Highway to Hopland Where it Floods Out Every year Slides He SaidLookit That Slides

Election Night is at the Full of the Moon

Epithalamion

Fourth Annual Poem Against War

Funeral at Sea

A Grammar of War


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The Generation of Teachers Like Fire

Hawthorne Court (Spring II)

How Dominican Prepared Me for Life

Letter Twenty-Three

My Mother Gaia The Mole

Poem to Give a House Direction

Promise to Headwaters Forest Promise to a Mother Redwood Tree

Reading From I Ching

Seldom: Because The FBI Investigated Louie-Louie

Turning 40 in Willits

Sonnet

4. Published Poems, T - Z


Thanksgiving for Delma

They Say Light Will Come Back

This Year will be the winter spring the summer...

Tools

Two Poems

Walking on Eggs

Utterly Cool

While We Slept America


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5. Manuscripts


Hymn to the Gentle Sun

Beginning of Lines

Mammals of Delight

Box 4: Correspondence


1. Personal Correspondence, from A - B


Aldwell, Julie (Jules), 3 letters, 24 December 1979 - 3 June 2008 (See Wood,Tera)

Ball, Betty, 28 June 2004

Barry, Joe, George, Bart, October 20, 2007

Big Eagle, Duane Katherine, 10 letters, 31 July 1979 - 21 October 1982

Black, Ray, 2 letters, ND 21 May 1983

Bosque, Gloria, ND 9 March 1979

Bruneau, Betsy family, 1 January 2005 14 January 2008

Burgess, Steve Carolyn, 15 December 1982

Burke, Clifford, ND

Burkhardt, Hanna, 4 letters, 29 August 29 2001 - 14 December 2004

2. Personal Correspondence, from C - E


Canan, Janine, from MNK, 31 July


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Carr, David, 3 letters, 10 March 1973 - 5 April 1982

Cowan, David, 2 March 1980

Craig, Edward, 3 letters, 17 August 1979 - 19 December 2001

Cummins, Kathy, 2 letters, 20 July 1977 13 May 1980

DeBar, Janet, 6 June 2009

Di Prima, Diane - from MNK, ND (never sent)

Dorbin, Sandy, ND

Doty, Mark, 9 October 2007

Earley, Beth, 5 letters, 7 February 1978 - 13 March 1980

Edell, Hally, 11 October 1979

Elliott, Therica, 2 letters, 2 May 1979 18 December 1979

3. Personal Correspondence, from F - H


Frank, Diane, 2 letters, 17 September 2007 15 September 2008, letter fromMNK, 21 September 2007

Gallo, Kate, 25 August 1979

Grapes, Jack, 17 June 1980 21 June 1981

Griffith, E.V., 28 October 1978

Griggs, Kari (Kari Temple), ND

Guenther, Allanya, 2 letters, 17 March 1981 - 8 April 2002

Hassler, Scott, 31 March 1982

Hayden, Wayne, from MNK, 1 June 1980


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Hellman, Steve, 5 June 2007

Hiatt, Ben L., 9 letters, 8 February 1981 - 22 June 1983, with undated responsefrom MNK

Hiatt, Juliene, 24 August 1982

Higgins, Ellen and Mary Ellen Jones, 6 letters, 29 March 1976 - 20 July 1981

Hopkins, Lib, 25 September 1978

Hunt, Nan, 1980

Hunt, Jean, ND

Hunter Family, ND [1996?]

4. Personal Correspondence, from J - M


Jones, Mary Ellen, 4 letters, 20 July 1981 - ND (See Higgins, Ellen)

Kaufman, Shirley, 1 January

Kirchoff, Terry ( Martha and Paul), 8 letters, 1978 - December 2007

Kirkpatrick, Don, 29 May 2007

Krebs, Al, 2 January 1981

Korte, George, 26 June 1998

McCarthy, Randy, 14 December 1978

McMann, Cindy, 3 letters, ND - 8 October 2008

Mears, Darla, 3 August 1979

Mendocino Litfest - Dot Brovarney (see also Cindy McMann), 31 August 2007

Miller, Rose, 3 January 2009


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Milne, Sharon, 31 October 1981

Morgan, Michele, 3 November 2001

Muchowski, Val - from MNK, ND

5. Personal Correspondence, from N - R


Neruda, Pablo, 22 February 2008

Nye, Naomi Shihab, 5 November 2007

O'Brien, James Edward, 9 October 1978

Parks, Annette, 5 September 1979

Parks, David, 5 September 1978

Patch, Ray, 19 May 1983

Patchen, Kenneth - from MNK, 14 September 1967

Peals, P. [?], May 1983

Pendell, Dale (Kuksu journal), 19 March 1981

Pred, Noah (birth announcement), March 12, ND

Phantasm - Jackson, Larry S., 3 letters, 28 April - 30 September 1980

Rain, Patricia, 5 June 1978

Rath, Paula G., 3 letters, 21 June 1980 - 20 July 1981

Ray, William (Bill) J., 27 May 2007

Rose, Sharon, 29 September 1982

Ross, Cliff, 21 July 1979


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Ross, Neil W., 17 May 1999, with undated response from MNK

Rule, Robin, 2 letters, ND

Rule-Gustafson, Ari and Kate, 31 December 2008

6. Personal Correspondence, from S - Z


S., Karen Wilbur, 4 September 1978

Sides, Lora Sue, 8 June 2007

Simon, John Oliver, 8 letters, 13 September 1978 - 2 January 1982

Simpson, Sister Patricia, December, c.2008

Pano Stephens [Law Office], 14 December 2007

Stroud, Joseph, 24 April [c.1998?]

Suntree, Susan, 5 letters, 16 April 1979 - 2 August 1982

Tannenbaum, Judith, 4 March 1979

Vane, Paul, 14 22 September 1977

Vecchione, Patrice, 16 June 1982

Volz, Jory, 28 July 2007

Walsh, Eileen, 15 August 1979

Warde, Valerie, ND

Weiss, Ruth, 7 June 2009

Wells, Judy, 2 letters, 12 April 2005 9 May 2008

Wheatwind, Mimi, 2 letters, August 1982 ND


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Wood, Tera Julie (Jules) Aldwell, 3 letters, 24 December 1979 - 3 June 2008

Zier, Alison, December 1979 - 24 March 1980

7. Personal Correspondence, First Name Only, from A - J


Alicia, ND

Anna, 5 April 1979

Arthur (Signature not legible), ND

B, ND

Sister Bernetta, 18 July 1968

Betsy George, 3 letters, 1998 - 2002

Big, 3 letters, 15 January 1980 - 17 August 2001

Bobette, 2 letters, ND

Cindy David, ND

Derry/Barry, ND

Deni, 25 April 1979

Don, ND

Ellen, 20 September 1977

Eva, 6 August 1982

Hal (Signature not legible), ND

J[...] J[...] (Signature not legible), ND

Jamie and Irene, 4 letters, 28 September - 14 November 1978


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Jeff, 5 November 1978 ND

Jetta, 20 July 1979

Joanna George [MNK's nephew], ND

John, Janet, and Darren, [December 1975?]

8. Personal Correspondence, from MNK to First Name Only


Alicia

Anne

George

Howard

Jack

Jason

Laurie

Mary

Unnamed

9. Personal Correspondence, First Name Only, from K - Z Unnamed


Karin, ND

Laurel and Bob, 13 October

Lu, 15 June 1980

M[...] (Signature not legible), ND

Mallory, 13 May 1979


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Marcelino, ND

Mary, 25 April 1979

Melissa, [1982]

Michelle and Miguel, ND

Mike (Walnut Creek), 23 August

Missy, 25 April 1979

Newman, ND

Noelle, 27 October 2002

Natale, ND

P R, 1995

Robin, June 1983

Shelley, ND

Ted and Cathy, ND

Toby, 8 August 1981

Wanda, 15 May 1978

Unnamed

10. Professional Financial Correspondence, A - M, to and from MNK


Anderson Valley Advertiser

Bottomfish Magazine

California Arts Council


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California Poets in the Schools

Conari Press

Continuing Presences - Koolish, Lynda (Stanford University)

Coyote Valley Tribal Council

Diocese of Oakland (California)

D-Q University

Friends of the Noyo (see also William Ray correspondence)

Inez Foster Elementary School, San Antonio, TX

John Swett Unified School District, Crockett, CA

Kennedy High School, Sacramento, CA

Little Magazine

Mendocino College

Mendocino County Courthouse

Mendocino County Library

Mendocino County School District

Merlin Press

11. Professional Financial Correspondence, N - Z and Miscellaneous, to andfrom MNK


National Endowment for the Arts

National Institute for Mental Health

P.E.N. American Center


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Performing Tree

Pot Shard Press

Prairie Home Companion

Redwood Nation Earth First!

San Francisco Oracle

San Francisco Public Library

Shell Oil Company

Sonoma State University

Thurston Auto Plaza

Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research andImprovement

University of Rochester

Who's Who in Poetry 1978

Willits Art Commission

Writers Read

Miscellaneous Professional Financial Correspondence

12. Professional Correspondence, to Oyez - Hawley, Robert (Bob) and fromMNK

Box 5: Public appearances; Activism materials; Awards


1. Public appearances, Activism materials and Awards


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2. Coyote Valley Reservation

3. California Poets in the Schools

4. Teaching

5. Dominican Sisters

6. Sanctuary Station

7. MNK's activist activities. Includes songs, rally fliers, speeches, letters, andother misc.

8. Activism, continued

9. Awards and Honors

Box 6: Miscellaneous manuscripts; Biographical information; Personal Ephemera


1. MNK's Notebooks

2. Pieces from manuscripts and compilations of MNK's work and MNK's workwith other people.

3. Miscellaneous of handwritten poems, prose, notes and drawings by MNK.

4. Poetry by Others

5. Articles Reviews

6. Rainy Day Women Press

7. Biographical Information, written by MNK and others.

8. MNK's accident, February 5, 1970

9. Personal Ephemera

10. Miscellaneous Ephemera


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Box 7: A/V Materials


1. Judi Bari Medical Benefit, Willits, CA, February 2, 1997


The Noyo Ridge Rabbit

Jump Into the American River

Because the FBI Investigated Louie Louie

Meet Me in Carlotta on Sept. 15

2. Miscellaneous Files


Have Seen You By the Blind

Drawing by MNK

Poem for Joan Baer

Pg. 2, Letter to Patchens

Pg. 1, Letter to Mr. Mrs. Patchen

Poem, A New Flower

Patchen Tribute I

Patchen Tribute II

3. Five Poets of Willits Read "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman, October 28,2006

4. Mary Norbert Korte, Luck and Love, Mendecino, February 13, 2009

5. Mary Norbert Korte: Poetry 2004

6. Mary Norbert Korte, Willits, CA, April 2008


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7. Mary Norbert Korte, 2005

8. Richard Peek Mary Norbert Korte; dialogue of the collection

Box 8: Photographs and surrogate images


1. CDs of photographs

2. Photographs of Mary Norbert Korte

3. Photographs of other subjects

4. Surrogate images, computer printouts, photocopied items, and newspaperclippings

5. Negatives

Box 9: Miscellaneous Ephemera - T-shirt, California Poets Society

Box 10: Oversized Ephemera


1. Matted poem about MNK's father with a photograph of him, 2006-2007

2. Photograph of MNK as a child

3. Four posters for public appearances, 1990-2010

4. Three miscellaneous broadsides:


Repeated on Rainbows Dancing, compiled at random, San Hedrin High Schoolstudents in Poetry Workshop, 1983-1984 (2 copies)

Magic Chant, by Maria Cockroft, California Poets in the Schools Workshop,1982

War is not healthy...

5. Six broadsides of MNK's poems:


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The Big Five-Oh (2 copies, one signed with inscription)

Incineration (in 3 pieces, signed)

The jester is not always volunteer (1 copy, signed)

Noyo Redwoods Jubilee, 16 October 2010 (1 copy, signed with inscription)

Utterly Cool, February 2009 (3 copies, 1 signed)

Jumping into the American River, 18 May 1984 (2 copies, 1 signed)

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