Marita Garin papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Marita Garin papers
- Date
- 1940s-2016, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.45 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Appalachian authors
- Authors -- Correspondence.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format.
- Preferred Citation
- 2012ms078: [identification of item], Marita Garin papers, 1940s-2016, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Marita Garin (b. 1936, Missoula, Montana) is a poet and teacher of writing. She has spent the majority of her adult life in Appalachia, including Johnson City, Tenn., Henderson, N.C., and Black Mountain, N.C. She received her BA in English Literature from Auburn University (1959), her MA in English from Lamar State College of Technology (1962), and her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College (1979). She was awarded an Arts Fellowship by the Tennessee Arts Commission and a Writers Fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Council. She is the editor of Southern Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 27 Poets (McFarland and Co., 2008).
- Scope and Content
- The Marita Garin papers (dated 1940s-2016, undated; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) consists of autobiographical information, correspondence, manuscripts, publications, awards, contracts, and photographs relating to the education and creative writing career of Appalachian poet Marita Garin. The papers primarily consists of correspondence between Marita Garin and various publishers and drafts of poems submitted for publication. Additionally, the papers contain information relating to her Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship and her North Carolina Arts Arts Council Fellowship; her Masters of Fine Arts at Goddard College; and contain her two theses Dogwood Tree: a Collection of Poems (MFA, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vt., 1979) and Leo Tolstoy and Existentialism (MA, Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont, Tx., 1962). Also includes photos of Garin and an autobiographical essay.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Collection contains materials redacted due to privacy concerns, such as social security numbers or personal health information. Access to the original documents is restricted.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Biographical information, 1979-1995, undated
Autobiographical information, undated
Awards and honors, 1979-1995
List of poems, undated
Psychic reading, 1985
- Box 1, folder 25
Scope and Contents
Part of a psychic reading of Marita Garin, conducted by Rhiannon Jones, following the end of Garin's marriage. The entire reading was not kept by Garin (originally 8 pages), but Garin kept the pages she found meaningful (4 pages).
Correspondence, 1976-2012
General correspondence, 1976-1996
General correspondence, 2006-2011
The Hang Glider, 2005-2012
- Box 1, folder 6
Scope and Contents
Book II, unpublished manuscript. Contains emails pertaining to acceptance in journals and acknowledgements section of manuscript.
Love and Solitude, 2008-2009
- Box 1, folder 7
Scope and Contents
Book III unpublished manuscript. Contains emails pertaining to acceptance in journals. The anthology of Transform was never published, but included in the collection is correspondence regarding its acceptence. Also includes acknowledgements (to date) for the manuscript.
A Tenuous World, 2006-2012
Education, 1962-1986, 2016
Master's of Arts thesis Leo Tolstoy and Existentialism, 1962
Goddard College, Masters of Fine Arts program, 1977-1979
Goddard College, Masters of Fine Arts program, masters project Dogwood Tree, 1979
Goddard College diploma, 1979
Articles mentioning Goddard College MFA, 2016
Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship, 1981
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 1986
Manuscripts and publications, 1975-1987, undated
Articles by or containing poetry by Marita Garin, 1980-1981, undated
Dry Spell acknowledgements, undated
"Prowlers Again", undated
"Solitude", 1987
"Why We Write" address, 1985
Sketches of grasses used as inspiration for the poem "Summer Grasses", circa 1975
Notes and quotations used as inspiration, undated
Photographs, 1940s-2006
Marita Garin (Schrader), Johnson City, Tennessee, 1978
The Schrader family (Kevin, Jack, Karla, Marita) Johnson City, Tennessee, 1980s
Marita Garin, Lake Osceola, Hendersonville, North Carolina, 1986
Jack Schrader, Lake Osceola, Hendersonville, North Carolina, 1986
Marita Garin, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 2006
Canyon de Chelly, 1940s
Window Rock, Arizona, 1940s
Biblical verse carved in sandstone at a natural bridge in Arizona, 1940s
Marita Garin, age 9, in Arizona, 1940s
Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont graduation, 1979 January
- Box 1, folder 19
Scope and Contents
From left to right: Stephen Dobyns, Michael Ryan, Donald Hall, Geoffrey Wolff, Raymond Carver Faye Kicknosway, Marita Garin, Toby Wolff, Bob Hass, Barbara Greenburg, Louise Gluck, Linda Foster, Gloria Still, Heather McHugh, Janet Bloom, Jane Shore, Deborah Tall, Anne Blackmer, Lisel Mueller.
Publishing contracts, 1981-1987
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