Add MS 88998/2/14

30 communications from William Corbett.

• (1). 17 February 2006. Autograph postcard. 'Just got word that Barbara Guest has died.' Would like Harwood to obtain a copy of Christopher Logue, Prince Charming.
• (2). 16 March 2006. Autograph postcard. 'Thanks for book'.
• (3). Boston, Mass., 10 April 2006. Autograph postcard, with envelope, enclosing typed poems (4 sheets).
• (4). [Boston, Mass.], 16 April 2006. Autograph postcard (Pressed Wafer) and colour flyer (1 sheet) for reading 13 April by Robert Adamson at MIT. Postcard refers to Adamson, and to John Ashbery.
• (5). 27 April 2006. Autograph gallery card (Rudy Burckhardt, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York), and similar card (Trevor Winkfield) without message.
• (6). [Greensboro], 31 May 2006. Autograph postcard. 'New Seamus Heaney is very strong.'
• (7). 26 June 2006. Autograph postcard. 'In NYC overnight Wednesday & will see huge DADA show at MOMA.'
• (8). [Greensboro], 18 August 2006. Autograph folding card. 'Hope you still plan to come here in October/November.'
• (9). [Greensboro], 25 August 2006. Autograph folding card. 'We'll expect you night of the 19th (October).'
• (10). 13 November 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (11). 18 December 2006. Two autograph postcards. 'I'm interviewing August K[leinzahler] for Paris Review! La, Ti Da!'
• (12). [Boston, Mass.], 5 January 2007. Two continuous autograph postcards. 'I knew you'd be disappointed in the [Charles] Reznikoff letters.' Corbett is making notes for his interview of Kleinzahler: 'Will begin it in his New Jersey hometown on the 26th of this month. Then work via email & then meet again in late March. Let me know if there's a question or two you want to ask him.'
• (13). [Boston, Mass.], 10 January 2007. Autograph postcard (Samuel Palmer). 'Just decided that Pressed Wafer will publish Joe Torra's memoir of his years as a waiter.' [Call Me Waiter, Pressed Wafer, 2008].
• (14). [Boston, Mass.], 29 January 2007. Autograph postcard. Thanks Harwood for his questions for Kleinzahler: 'you'll have to wait until the interview appears to read what he says'. The interview took place in 'the living room of his childhood house where his 90 year old mother still lives'. That evening, Corbett met poets Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk (poetry reading).
• (15). [Boston, Mass.], 7 March 2007. Autograph postcard. 'Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere wants Bill Berkson, Clark Coolidge and I to appear there for a big Guston poem-pictures drawing show.'
• (16). [Boston, Mass.], 10 March 2007. Autograph postcard. 'Have finished the A.K. interview & will send in the coming week.'
• (17). [Boston, Mass.], 28 March 2007. Autograph postcard. 'Paris Review won't publish the A.K. interview you've read. I've been told they will edit heavily. What they print will be, I'm guessing, half the length of original.'
• (18). [Boston, Mass.], 3 May 2007. Autograph postcard. 'I'll be in Grasmere June 1-3'. Also, Hove and London. Might fly to Dublin for a night.
• (19). [Boston, Mass.], 18 May 2007. Autograph note on the verso of promotional e-mail for a reading in London (6 June) by Corbett, Coolidge and Berkson. 'I'm flying to Dublin (to see Seamus H.) Monday June 4th.' Returning to London on 6 June for the reading - 'can we meet'.
• (20). [Greensboro], 13 June 2007. Autograph postcard.
• (21). Greensboro, 2 July 2007. Autograph card and envelope ('from a great Yeats show in Dublin'). With outer postal envelope.
• (22). [Greensboro], 11 July 2007. Autograph postcard, with Andrew Duncan, 'Styles of British Poetry 1945-2000' (bifolium insert from Chicago Review, Spring 2007, a diagrammatic mapping of schools and styles): 'silly in itself & sillier because you're not on it but then you must be doing something right to be off that map.'
• (23). [Greensboro], 14 July 2007. Autograph postcard. Seeking a copy of John Osborne, A Patriot for Me (1965).
• (24). [Greensboro], 31 July 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with two typed poems (2 sheets).
• (25). [Greensboro], 15 August 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with typed poems ('The Whalen Poems' - 8 sheets). 'There's a huge new Collected Philip Whalen about to appear here. I've been reading it in order to write a review.'
• (26). [Greensboro], 28 August 2007. Autograph postcard, with cutting (2 sheets) from The New York Times (27 August 2007), an article on Ashbery ('80-Year-Old Poet for the MTV Generation').
• (27). [Boston, Mass.], 16 October 2007. Autograph card announcing birth of Siri Jane Davis (granddaughter) with black and white photograph (3 children).
• (28). [Boston, Mass.], 6 November 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'A. K. interview out in Paris Review'.
• (29). 20 November 2007. Autograph postcard. With typed poem ('Clear November Morning' - 1 sheet).
• (30). [Boston, Mass.], 30 December 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with colour photograph (2 children), and flyer for Martin Puryear show at MOMA.