Jane Gentry Vance papers
Abstract
The Jane Gentry Vance papers (dated 1890-2015, undated; 21.25 cubic feet; 29 boxes) comprise the correspondence, event records, family and history research, manuscripts, photographs, publications and teacher files of Kentucky Poet Laureate and University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College professor, Jane Gentry Vance.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Jane Gentry Vance papers
- Date
- 1890-2015, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 21.25 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Authors, American -- Kentucky.
- American poetry -- Women authors.
- Athens (Ky.)
- Authors.
- Education -- Study and teaching.
- Manuscripts, American -- Kentucky.
- Poetry.
- Poets laureate
- Publishers and publishing -- Kentucky.
- Publishers and publishing -- United States.
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty.
- Women authors.
- Women poets.
- Kentucky Authors Collection
- University of Kentucky. Department of English
- University of Kentucky. Lewis Honors College
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format in eight series: Audiovisual; Athens history and family genealogy; Education; Events, readings, and workshops; Personal papers; Publicity and news clippings; Teaching records; Manuscripts and other works.
- Preferred Citation
- 2018ms020: [identification of item], Jane Gentry Vance papers, 1891-2015, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Jane Gentry Vance was born on February 9, 1941 to Charles Blanding Gentry and Dixie Walker Gentry and grew up on the family farm in Athens, Fayette County, Kentucky. She attended Tates Creek High School in Lexington before matriculating to Hollins College in Virginia from 1959-1963. At Hollins College she studied under the founder of Hollins' Creative Writing Program, Louis D. Rubin, and he remained her mentor and friend until his death in 2013. Vance also attended Brandeis University (M.A.), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.). In 1971, she returned to live in the Lexington, Kentucky area and began teaching at Georgetown College and then at the University Of Kentucky. She taught classes for UK's Department of English and Honors Program until her retirement after forty years. In addition to her role as professor, Vance led many writing workshops around the country, wrote reviews for journals and newspapers, published articles, and participated in church events at St. John's Episcopal Church in Versailles, Kentucky. She published two collections of her poetry, A Garden in Kentucky (Louisiana State University Press, 1996) and Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig (Louisiana State University Press, 2006). Jane Gentry Vance served as Kentucky Poet Laureate from 2007-2008, a position which required her to speak and give readings throughout the commonwealth nearly everyday.
- Vance had an interest in her family genealogy and the region, which led her to write with a fellow Athenian, Babe Lamb, a history of Athens, Kentucky printed in 1986. Vance inherited photographs and keepsakes of her paternal grandmother's sister, Tommie House Kane, 1886-1980, the first female licensed pilot in Kentucky and author. Jane Gentry Vance had two daughters, Lucy and Susannah, and raised them in Versailles, Kentucky. Vance died from cancer on October 2, 2014.
- Resources: "Jane Gentry Vance Obituary (1941 - 2014)", Courier-Journal, Legacy.com, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/louisville/name/jane-vance-obituary?id=8756159, accessed 2021 November 2.
- "Poet Laureate sees both mystery and clarity as hallmarks of her works", Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, 2007 April 22, page 14; https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81821821/jane-gentry-vance-bio-laureate/, accessed 2021 November 2.
- "Tommie Kane dies; Was Woman Pilot", Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY, 1980 December 22, page 22; Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85852615/obituary-for-tommie-h-kane-aged-84/, accessed 2021 November 2.
- Scope and Content
- The Jane Gentry Vance papers (dated 1890-2015, undated; 21.25 cubic feet; 29 boxes) comprise the correspondence, event records, family and history research, manuscripts, photographs, publications and teacher files of Kentucky Poet Laureate and University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College professor, Jane Gentry Vance. A significant portion of the collection contains contact and promotional content from special events, interviews, readings, and workshops Vance attended and gave throughout the commonwealth as Kentucky Poet Laureate during 2007-2008. Another large portion of the collection includes manuscripts, drafts, revisions, and publications of articles, poems, and reviews authored by Vance. Also present are handouts, letters, papers, notes, and syllabi from Vance's years as a student, as well as her long career as a professor. While most of the collection represents her life as an author and teacher, it also includes personal letters, journals, and family keepsakes. Of note is a scrapbook containing photographs from the beginning of the twentieth century of Vance's aunt, Tommie House Kane's life as an artist in Lexington and Athens, Kentucky.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- 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
Audiovisual, 1890-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
The Audiovisual series (1890-2011, undated) comprises photographs, computer floppy disks, microfilm, audio cassettes, and videos. The photographs primarily contain images of Jane Gentry Vance at events, family pictures, and Athens, Kentucky. Of note is a photo album with photos of Jane's aunt, Tommie House Kane, Kentucky's first female pilot, author from the 1920's.The 3½-inch floppy disks and microfilm primarily contain University English honors class handouts, records, and the department's creative writing journal. The audio cassettes and video tapings of interviews, presentations, and poetry readings. Also included are computer disks of Vance's 1989 paper with Louis Rubin and a DVD film of Hollins University tribute to Louis Rubin in 2011.
Photographs, 1890-2007, undated
A Garden in Kentucky book signing at Joseph-Beth bookstore, Lexington, 1995
Athens Crossroads, 1981
Athens Elementary School, 1995
Athens Interstate 75 sign, circa 1976
Aunt Mag and Aunt Lucy next to Cassidy gravesite, 1956
Barker, Aunt Grace's house, circa 1976
Blythewood west wing, Old Gentry home near Richmond, Kentucky, 1981 February
Blythewood, built 1840, Gentry-Blythe home, 1981 February
Blythewood, Madison County, Laureate Road, C. Coy, undated
Blythewood, Old Gentry home near Richmond, Kentucky, 1981 February
Boone family memorial stone, 1728-1819, circa 1976
Brumagen House, Athens-Boonesboro Road, 1981 July
Christian Store, William Gentry, Flannery's grocery, John Dulin, 1976
Dulin, Aunt Mabel Gentry and Kane, Tommie House's body [torn picture], circa 1905
Dulin, Thomas W. and son, Tom G. Dulin, on front porch at Cliffview, early 1930's
Dulin, Tom Gentry Kentucky River at Hunters Ferry, Garrard County, 1989 June
Family at picnic, circa 1950
Family in front yard, circa 1950
Flannery, Bill and Mary Tip's old grocery in Athens, circa 1966
Gentry, Charles Blanding in Florida, undated
Gentry, Richard empty grove, 1981 February
Group of men by store, Athens, circa 1980
Guilford house, Athens-Boonesboro Road, 1976
Hollins College students around campus, includes Jane Gentry and Judy Treadwey, circa 1960
House Family: Barn burned in Hunters Ferry, 1989 June
House in Athens, 1976
House, Lucy, undated
House, Mittie in her casket, 2 years old, circa 1900
"House where Dad and Granny married and where Martha Short House died, w/ Tom Gentry, Hunter's Ferry, near Giles, Garrard County", 1989 June
Hunters Ferry store building, 1989 June
Hunters Ferry with Tom Gentry, [building] where May House Gentry and Charles Hanson Gentry married, where her mother, Martha M. Short House died [2 pictures], 1989 June
Hunters Ferry, Garrard County, with Tom Gentry, 1989 June
Icki's peacock, circa 1976
Kane, Tommie House, circa 1890's
Kane, Tommie House, circa 1910
Kane, Tommie House, circa 1920
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Kane, Tommie House and her monkey, circa 1960
Kane, Tommie House in front of car, circa 1930
Kane, Tommie House with cat, circa 1960
Kane, Tommie House with two cats, circa 1960
Kane, Tommie House with two terrier dogs, circa 1960
Kentucky River at Hunters Ferry, Tom Gentry Dulin, Garrard County, 1989 June
Lamb, Babe Boone's Creek, Old Place (Dulin's), 1982 June
Lamb, Babe with old Athens jail at Buckman's on Richmond Road, 1976
Mullins, kin to Martha Short House, man in uniform, circa 1880
Old Barker house on northside of Athens-Boonesboro Road on Main Street in Athens, undated
Old Providence Church historical marker, 1981 February
Old Providence Church near Winchester, Kentucky, 1981 February
Open casket of Margaret Ann House, Shyrock, Hillsboro, Illinois, 1884-1968
Pate, Hiram died in Athens, 11 years old, buried at White's station, undated
Person kneeling to pet dog, undated
Prewitt, Elizabeth House and Frank, 1956
Robertson Airplane Service, where Aunt Tommie kept her plane, circa 1935
Shyrock, Margaret Hillsboro, Illinois, 1967 May
Spurr House on Gentry Farm, Athens-Boonesborough Road, 1976
Stivers, F.B. house, 1983
Stivers, Lit Gentry house and Aubrey's tavern, circa 1976
Two men in front of church, circa 1950
Vallandingham House, Jack's Creek Pike, Babe Lamb, 1976
Vallandingham House, Jack's Creek Pike, slave cabin on left, 1976
Vallandingham House, Jack's Creek Pike, Thompson's place, 1976
Vallandingham House, White's Lane off Jack's Creek Road, since razed by Bob Thompson, 1976
Vance, Jane Gentry with unidentified man, circa 1995
Vance, Lucy, circa 1890
Vance, Lucy and Susannah, circa 1992
Vance, Susannah, circa 1992
Whilehall, home of Cassius M. Clay, Richmond, Kentucky, 1981 February
Woman sitting on porch, circa 1900
A Garden in Kentucky book signing at Joseph-Beth bookstore, Lexington, 1995
Barker, Milton house, burned in 1928, photo courtesy of Bessie Brackett Barker, undated
Bio pic, 2006 September 20
Cliffview fence and road, undated
Cliffview house, undated
Cliffview, Dulin mailboxes, undated
Family records in Jeremiah Bush family Bible, undated
Flowers in front of house, undated
Gentry farm, 1995
Group of nude women, photographer Niki Berg, 1993
Group of schoolchildren including Icky and two teachers, Athens, circa 1910
Harvey's Grocery Store, Athens, circa 1980
Hollins University 50th Anniversary of the creative writing program and tribute to Louis D. Rubin, 2009 November 30
House baby that died (Mittie?), circa 1900
House, Albert, Mary House Gentry's brother, circa 1910
House, Albert, Tommie House at State Penitentiary with his dog, circa 1935
House, Albert, uncle, Sanders Ferry, undated
House, Cousin Ben, Aunt Mollie's boy, Calvin photography, Columbus, Kansas, 1891
Kane, Aunt Tommie, "graduated from Caldwell High School, Richmond, Kentucky on June 7, 1910", circa 1910
Kane, Kenneth, Tommie House Kane, Taylor House, Jr., Albert House, circa 1940
Kane, Tommie House, circa 1910
Kane, Tommie House, circa 1920
Kane, Tommie House, circa 1930
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Kane, Tommie House and Flotsy, a terrier dog, circa 1920
Kane, Tommie House and Flotsy, a terrier dog, circa 1930
Kane, Tommie House at French Lick Spring, Indiana, circa 1940
Kane, Tommie House in front of house, circa 1935-1945
Kane, Tommie House in her plane, circa 1935
Kane, Tommie House stretching, circa 1925
Kane, Tommie House wearing a swimming suit, circa 1920
Kane, Tommie House wearing jodhpurs, undated
Kane, Tommie House wearing wool coat, circa 1940's
Kane, Tommie House, Taylor House, Jr., Albert House, Elizabeth House, Lucy House, circa 1940
Man with thoroughbred horse, undated
Photographs for Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig, taken by Bill [William Hall Strode III], 2005 September
Poet Laureate inauguration, Frankfort, copies made for thank you cards, 2007
Poet Laureate induction, Frankfort, copies, 2007
Portraits of Jane Gentry Vance selected by partner Bill [William Hall Strode III], 2007
Toll house on Sulphur Well Road, 2005
Two girls: Aunt Mabel Gentry Dulin and Kane, Tommie House, circa 1905
Unidentified cemetery, undated
Unidentified field and buildings, circa 1930's
Unidentified house, circa 1930's
Unidentified house, circa 2005
Vance, Jane Gentry poised at gate, circa 2006
Vance, Jane Gentry pop party by Becky and Ann, 2006 October
Vance, Jane Gentry portrait used for A Garden in Kentucky, 1995
Vance, Jane Gentry speaking to people in restaurant, 2007 July 6
Vance, Jane Gentry with friends at Hollins College with their ice sculpture, 1962
Negatives: Kane, Tommie House wearing a swimming suit, undated
"Papa's dog, Hugh. He laid here until he died waiting for Papa. He would not eat. He loved him.", circa 1968
Brother Clarence Walker, pastor of Ashland Avenue [Baptist Church] for fifty years, circa 1968
Glorenna Bush Walker (Mrs. Clarence Walker), circa 1968
Child in rocking chair, "Aunt Nellie", circa 1898
Group of men in shop, Athens, undated
Group of older women in parlor with Santa Claus, including Aunt Emma, 1972
Group of people, Vance, Jane Gentry top left, circa 1994
Group of professors including Louis D. Rubin, sitting second left, circa 1960
House, Albert and Taylor, brothers of Mary House Gentry, undated
House, Thomas, open casket, Milward Furneral Home, 1929
Kane, Kenneth, circa 1960
Kane, Kenneth and Tommie House on their wedding day, 1924 February 14
Kane, Tommie House at French Lick Spring, Indiana, undated
Kane, Tommie House and Alberta Kane, circa 1900
Man holding young child, circa 1898
Older woman holding young child, 1898
Poet Laureate induction, Frankfort, copies made for thank you cards, 2007
Sanders Ferry house, Thomas, Martha, Tommie, Bet, Emma, and Taylor, circa 1900
Students and teachers in front of the new school on Potato and Onion Day, circa 1916
Vance, Jane Gentry ad Lucy Steele N., circa 2005
Vance, Jane Gentry at 50 portrait by Linda Butler, 1995
Vance, Jane Gentry portrait by Mark Cornelison, Lexington Herald-Leader, 1995
Vance, Jane Gentry, James Baker Hall, Joe Survant, Kentucky Poet Laureates, circa 2007
Vance, Jane Gentry with Senator Dan Kelly, Poet Laureate induction, 2007
Young boy, circa 1900
Ambrose Gholson Bush II family picture, from William Clayton Rutledge, circa 1899
Unidentified group of young men, circa 1890
Manual Training Class for young men, Athens, Kentucky, circa 1914
Benge place (?), Man with children near house, circa 1910
Group of teachers and students, circa 1910
Aunt Tommie's photo album, 1926-1929, undated
Two terrier dogs held up by woman, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
7 of Time, man with horse, undated
Swimbunny, man with horse, undated
Afinstrin, man with horse, undated
S & S, man with horse, undated
Horse and foal, circa 1927
Women in field with horses, undated
Mad Hatter and Snow Drop, undated
Kane, Tommie House next to front porch, undated
Horses in a field, undated
Kane, Tommie House in field with horses, undated
Fair Play, Perfect Peach, and trainer, undated
Mad Hatter and Jon, undated
Fair Play, Perfect Peach, and trainer, undated
Spion Kop, Minerva, and trainer, undated
Fair Play Perfect Play, and trainer, undated
Swimbuni and trainer, undated
Man and foliage, undated
Horse barn with note on back to Ken from Walter, undated
Hazy Dawn-Craigendower, 92 days, undated
Lifa, Gay Crusader, 85 days, 1926 June 20
Group of horses, undated
Man with horse and foal, undated
Sir Martin Beacon (horse), undated
Man with horse and foal, undated
Horse with foal, undated
Dominion, Annarella, and trainer, undated
Young black girl and a white girl, undated
Young black girl, puppy and a white girl's arm, undated
Two horses and man, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Martha Washington and trainer, undated
Prattle and trainer, undated
Lankin-Zip Lightly with trainer, undated
Eldorado, undated
Cienta, undated
Tryster-Entanglement, undated
Mad Hatter-Greenery, undated
Paragon-Ponty Pridd, undated
Fair Priscilla, undated
Mad Hatter-Rosedrip, undated
Cienta and man, undated
Tryster-Snow Captain and trainer, undated
Small girl and lion statue, undated
Man facing horse, undated
Horses in field, undated
Horses near tree in field, undated
Horses next to fence, undated
Man with horse, undated
Snowda[foy?], undated
7 of Time and man, undated
Ladkin Butterflies and man, undated
Swimbuni and man, undated
Waygood, Lydia Languish, undated
Mad Hatter, Snow Drop, undated
Horses near fence, undated
Man O'War, Quarantine, undated
Mad Hatter, Panoply, undated
Spion Kop, Minerva, and trainer, undated
Man, horse, and foal, undated
Man and horse, undated
Man, horse, and foal, undated
Fair Priscilla, Black Toney, 47 days, 1926 June 20
Eldorado, Light Brigade, 12 days, 1926 June 30
Perfect Peach, Westward Ho, 92 days, 1926 June 20
Beacon, Dunboyne, 93 days, 1926 June 20
Quarantine, Fair Play, 98 days, 1926 June 20
Lifa, Gay Crusader, 85 days, 1926 June 20
Panoply, Man O'War, 25 days, 1926 June 16
Man in suit near snow covered ground, 1926 June 20
Man and two horses, 1926 June 30
Man with horse and foal, 1926 June 16
Road to barn, undated
Toddle, Light Brigade, 69 days, Cicunta-Black Toney, 76 days, 1926 June 16
Careful, Fair Play, 39 days, 1926 June 30
Cherry Court, North Star III, 91 days, 1926 June 20
Road near farm, undated
Horses, undated
Foal, undated
Lucy Neal horse, undated
Webb, man and horse, undated
German sheperd, undated
Terrier dog on road, undated
Kane, Tommie House with puppies, undated
Man with two puppies, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier and flowers, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Man picking up puppies, undated
Kane, Tommie House in town, 1926 June 16
Kane, Tommie House in argyle coat, undated
Man with horse and foal, undated
Terrier dog, Flotsy, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Quarantine and foal by Man O'War (Battleship), 1927
Rosed Rap and foal by Mad Hatter, circa 1929
Tommie House Kane, undated
Perfect Penel and foal by Fair Play, undated
Two men in horse drawn carriage, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Two men working on barn roof, undated
Two men wearing work aprons, Kane, Tommie House, and terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House wearing jodhpurs, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House with horse, undated
Man, woman, terrier and dead rats, undated
Kane, Tommie House and terrier next to gate, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House and foliage, undated
Man and foliage, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House sitting in wicker rocking chair, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Display (horse) and trainer, undated
Horse and man, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Man with horse and foal, undated
Kane, Tommie House and terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House and terrier's tail, undated
Man with horse and foal, undated
Terrier dog, undated
Kane, Tommie House stretching, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Man holding kitten next to car with terrier in driver's seat, undated
Kane, Tommie House standing in body of water, undated
Horses in a field, undated
Horses next to fence, undated
Rural road, undated
Kane, Tommie House's backside, undated
Kane, Tommie House next to bird bath fountain, undated
Kane, Tommie House next to Model T car, undated
Kane, Tommie House on front porch steps, undated
Man with two puppies, undated
Man with terrier and two puppies, undated
Kane, Tommie House with kittens, undated
Cows in field, undated
Kane, Tommie House sitting on log bench, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Kane, Tommie House next to Model T car, undated
Kane, Tommie House with terrier, undated
Terrier in field, undated
Man, woman, german shepherd, and puppies, undated
Two men, two shepherds, and puppies, undated
Two men and puppies, undated
Woman and puppies, undated
Puppies, undated
Kane, Tommie House, man, and puppies, undated
Kane, Tommie House, undated
Kane, Tommie House wearing a swimming suit, undated
Negatives
Computer disks and microfilm, 1973-2008, undated
3½-inch floppy disk: A Garden in Kentucky (set by Betty Pasley, Classics), poetry manuscript Vance, Jane Gentry, 1994 April
3½-inch floppy disk: Class handouts, Syllabi, Exams, Study Questions, Handouts, Writing Assitant, undated
3½-inch floppy disk: Correspondence, including Golden Key, Writing Assistant, undated
3½-inch floppy disk: ENG 207, 407, 507 Book list and syllabus, circa 1990
3½-inch floppy disk: Hunchback, Honors Faculty Minutes 95, II. Recommendation (begun 11-20-96), 1995-1996
3½-inch floppy disk: Letters of Recommendation, Writing Assistant, circa 1991-1992
3½-inch floppy disk: Research, Resume, Poems, Writing Assistant, undated
3½-inch floppy disk: start: 12-11-97, Letters of Recommendation, 407SYL98, BrianMcCall.doc, Cullens, 1997
3½-inch floppy disk: untitled, undated
3½-inch floppy disk: Yaddo June 1993, VCCA letters Oct. 93, Boj Poem Collection Fall 93 [Disk is in envelope with note: Jane- I'm sorry, the Disk Doctor pronounced the patient dead... -MA], 1993
8-inch floppy disk: Jane's Louis Rubin paper Disk I, 1989 May
8-inch floppy disk: Jane's Louis Rubin paper Disk II, 1989 June
CDR: Sporting Words, 3rd National Gathering of Poets Laureate, circa 2008
Positive microfilm: JAR; a Creative Writing Journal (formerly titled Laurel). Published by the Honors Program, University of Kentucky., 1973-1977
Audio and video, 1988-2011, undated
Audio cassette tape: (side A) Vance-Kelly interview, (side B) Benson Interview side 1, undated
Audio cassette tape: Jane Gentry Vance reading at least one poem by Aunt Mabel Dulin, undated
Audio cassette tape: Ruth interview with for Jane, 1988 June 16
Audio cassette tape: Shakertown Colloquy, 2000 September 14
Audio cassette tape: untitled, undated
VHS: Television news clip of P.T. Vance at Woodford County High School and other tapings from tv, circa 1989
VHS: Vance, Jane Gentry appearance on Comment on Kentucky, 2007 April 27
DVD: Hollins University Tribute to Louis Rubin, 2011
Athens history and family genealogy, 1890-2013, undated
Scope and Contents
The Athens history and family genealogy series (1890-2013, undated) contains correspondence, research for and drafts of A Short History of Athens, Kentucky and Looking Back at Athens, two books written by Vance with William M. Lamb during the 1980's. The series also includes genealogical research conducted by Vance of her family, primarily farmers who lived in Athens, Kentucky.
A Short History of Athens, Kentucky, 1987
A Short History of Athens, Kentucky, preliminary draft, 1986-1987
Against the Tower, Historical Perspective, Athens-Boonesboro, 2002 October 25
Ancestry, 1981, 2007
Athens, 1981-1992
Athens and genealogical notes and records, 1986, undated
Athens article by Iroquois Hunt Club, 1996
Athens: drafts, undated
Athens Elementary School A Garden in Kentucky reading, 1995
Athens: history notecards, circa 1985
Athens: intros, 1986
Athens: note cards, undated
Athens notes, undated
Athens notes, 1981-1985
Athens: notes, to type, undated
Athens research materials from Kentucky Heritage Commission, 1987 March 19
Athens-Boonesborough, 1986
Athens, John Barclay memories, undated
Athens Kentucky genealogy research, 1987
Athens: notecards, undated
Athens: Aunt Mabel Gentry, Dulin, 1936, undated
Athens: description and notes, undated
Athens: Draper papers notes, undated
Athens: First Kentucky (orphan) Brigade in Bardstown list, 1980
Athens: Lexington Herald and Commercial Tribune clippings, 1896, undated
Athens: Looking Back pictures, 1981
Athens: maps, pictures of houses, log cabin data, undated
Athens: Memorial Day Service, Athens Community Churches, 2012 May 28
Athens: Photo of old Athens schoolhouse, circa 1900
Athens: The Trumpeter, Athens school newsletter, 1951, 1987
Athens: William Lamb, co-author from T.W. Dulin, 1989 March
Aunt Tommie's French papers from Caldwell High School, circa 1890
Aunt Tommie's school art work, circa 1890
Babe Lamb's World War II movements, 1976
Babe's violent Athens stories (copy), undated
Barkley family pedigree charts, undated
Bingham family genealogy materials, circa 1988
Bush and related families, 1979, 2003, undated
Bush family grandmother journal about her childhood, 1980-1983
Bush family pedigrees, 2011
Bush, Jeremiah burial ground and other material from Rich Johnson, circa 2011
Cemetery preservation, 1986, 2007
Church at Athens, 1973
Clarence Walker obituary and funeral sermon, 2013
Corrected Looking Back at Athens manuscript, undated
Credo by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, ARIF Press, Berkeley, 1978
Descriptions of photographs, undated
Dixie Walker Gentry's memoir and clippings paste in Maggie's Bible that Aunt Jean gave Jane Gentry Vance in 1993 (copy), 1981, undated
Draft: A Short History of Athens, Kentucky, 1986 May-July, 1987
Early draft of Looking Back at Athens, 1985
Family group sheets, 1982
Genealogy records, 2000-2008, undated
Genealogy research records, 2012, undated
Genealogy: Athens research and Boone County, 1987 February
Genealogy: Bush cemetery materials, undated
Genealogy: Bush church visit, 2011
Genealogy: David Ravencraft letter, 1987
Genealogy: Diary of Reverend George G. Boon of Athens (Ann Penn's resting place), undated
Genealogy: Dr. Blanding, undated
Genealogy: Family research, Mary Ann Larson, 2011
Genealogy: Gentry family, 1989, 2013
Genealogy: Gentry family, cousin in Oklahoma, from Sammy Cundiff, 2007
Genealogy: Icky's things taken from grandma Jane, 1976
Genealogy: Interviews with Elizabeth House Prewitt, 1981 December 31
Genealogy: Jim C. Gentry letter, 1981
Genealogy: John Dulin's Historical Research, 2008
Genealogy: Mary Clark letter, photographs, ration card, circa 1944-1966
Genealogy: Payne, Spurr, Moses, 1981-1982
Genealogy: Ruben Gentry, 1981
Genealogy: Thaddeus Dulin, undated
Genealogy: Thomas House account books, House moves, House pictures, Aunt Bet's comments, 1981
Genealogy: White's Station, 1891, 1975
Genealogy: "Who They Were", re: Gentry family, undated
Gentry and Vallandingham families, undated
Gentry Family Gazette and Genealogy Exchange, undated
Gentry Family Gazette newsletters, 1993
Gentry Family in America book order, 1978
Gentry family notes, undated
Gentry family record books, undated
Historic Athens Neighborhood Association newsletter, 1995 April
History of Athens by Anna Short Cooke, undated
History of Athens cover examples, undated
History of Athens draft, circa 1986
House and Short family, 1921, 1982, undated
House family pedigrees, undated
House family pedigrees, 1981-1986
Datebook, 2013
Diary, 1970
Journal, 1995-1996
Journal, 1999-2002
Journal, 1996-2000
Notes book, 2004
Notes book dedicated to her daughters, 2001
Poems and notes to self, 1963-1965
Journal pages about family history (copies), undated
Speech for daughter's, Susannah, wedding, 2003 August 23
Josh Dulin Athens files, undated
Katie Jo Cox poem drafts, undated
Later draft of Looking Back at Athens, 1985
Lexington Herald-Leader editorial draft re: Commissioner Alben Barkley, 1981
Looking Back at Athens manuscript, undated
Looking Back at Athens manuscript, 1986
Mabel Gentry and Athens High School girls basketball team, 1915
Manuscript layout examples and work order, 1986
Missouri Gentry family notes, undated
"My Farm" poem by Mabel Gentry Dulin, undated
Notes re: Charles Hanson Gentry (1860-1940), undated
Pages copied from Geneva Taylor House's scrapbook and family Bible, 1988
Planning Study for Athens, Kentucky, conducted College of Architecture, 1976 September
Poems by and about Jane Gentry Vance's family, undated
Poems by Mabel Gentry Dulin (photocopies), 1936
Research records given to the Filson Historical Society with Bush Family Bible, undated
Richmond Grammar School graduation program, 1910 June 7
Running copy of Looking Back at Athens, 1985
Sarah Mitchell Poem from Colonel Arthur Kelly, Frankfort, Kentucky, 2007 October
Scottish Heritage Weekend, Midway College, 1986
Scrapbook clippings, undated
Seen and Heard at Cliffview Farm by Mabel Gentry Dulin, 1936
Society of Boonesboro State Park yearbooks and newsletter, 1979-1983
Stivers family, Athens, 1988
"Stop Trucker Tower" campaign, Athens Boonesborough Road, 2002
Stories from Athens collected and written down, 1977-1985
Talk at church in Athens, circa 1973-1974
"The Death of a Baby: or what happens when an infant dies?" by Pastor Clarence Walker, 1949
Thelma Boone Sellards re: Athens, 1982 June 28
Thomas House family movements, 1986
Thomas Templin's historical materials, 1980
Tommie House Kane's daily diary, 1949
Tommie House Kane's poetry book, 1928
Tommie Lee Kane composition book, circa 1920's
Vance Family Association Newsletter, 1989 January
Vote for Charles B. Gentry, Republican Candidate for Sheriff, card, 1945
Walker family genealogy, undated
Watercolor painted roses on notebook paper (possibly by Tommie Lee Kane), undated
Athens history manuscript, first draft, 1986
Church at Athens Inc. solicitation letter by Jane Gentry Vance, president, 1973 May
Lamb, Babe original manuscript on Athens history, circa 1985
Looking Back at Athens, circa 1985
Notes on Jane Gentry's ancestor charts, 2011
Program for Clays Ferry Bridge Opening (copy), 1946 August 17
Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (possibly collected by a House family member)
Three stories by George Short, 1891 May 5
Education, 1960-2014, undated
Scope and Contents
The Education series (1960-2014, undated) contains notes, readings, papers, and records from Jane Gentry Vance's time as a student from high school through to her doctoral degree and in English. Also included are letters and papers edited by or collaborated with Vance's lifelong mentor, professor and author, Louis D. Rubin.
50th Anniversary of Hollins Creative Writing program, 2009 November 6
Abstract, notes, and page five of Vance's dissertation under the direction of Louis Rubin, circa 1971
Activity Passivity notes, undated
Beanstalks reunion, Hollins University, 2007
Brandeis University addresses and memo, 1964
Brandeis University alumni magazine, 1996 Winter
Brandeis University letter to University of North Carolina, 1970
Privett, Brian, Kentucky Educational Television internship evaluation, 1995
Classics notes, student composition book, circa 1962
Communicating with professors class, 1992 November 18
Computer classes, Woodford Library, 2007 August 27
Creating writing: sonnets (samples), circa 1970s
Creative writing - fiction: examples of bad stories, undated
Creative Writing class groups, instructions for Chaucer imitation, Georgetown College, 1968
Creative Writing class test, circa 1968
Creative Writing story: Herb Brock's good Fishes, undated
Creative Writing student poems, 1968
Creative Writing student stories, circa 1968
Creative Writing: reading lists and classroom materials, undated
Eudora Welty short story, L. Pannill's class with Suzanne, undated
First personal essay topics, freshman first semester, 1966
Freshman theme topics - exam, 1968
Georgetown College summer study grant, 1967
Henry Clay High School Class of 1959 Reunion, 2009
Henry Clay High School Hall of Fame, 2009
Hollins Alumni magazine, 1995 Fall
Hollins College, 1961
Hollins College, 1969
Hollins College 25 Years Reunion, 1988
Hollins College alumna correspondence, 1988
Hollins College Committee on Alumnae Giving memorandum, 1971 September
Hollins College newsletters, 1974-1977
Hollins College years story, undated
Hollins College, 25th Reunion Book, 1988 May 27-29
Hollins University, 50th Reunion book, 2013 May 30-June 2
Inscription for Hollins and Louis Rubin dedication draft, undated
Iona College, 1987
Literature notes, student composition book, circa 1962
Louis Rubin celebration at Hollins University travel arrangements, 2009 November
Louis Rubin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill memorial, 2014 February 9
Louis Rubin essay, undated
Louis Rubin essay, finished version, 1989 July
Louis Rubin essay, revised version sent to Louis and Shannon, 1989 June 4
Louis Rubin instructive letters and his poems, 1985
Louis Rubin letters, 1962
Louis Rubin letters, 1974-1983
Louis Rubin letters, 1981-1989
Louis Rubin letters, 1990-1999
Louis Rubin letters, 1990, 1992
Louis Rubin letters, 2001-2009
Louis Rubin obituaries, 2013
Louis Rubin on my current poems, 2008 August
Louis Rubin paper, 1989
Louis Rubin paper draft and notes, 1989 February
Mark Twain Seminar, taught by Rubin, papers, 1969-1970
McClatchey, J.D., Princeton University, Poetry writing class syllabus and readings, 1987
Notes for Orals, American Literature, undated
Paper drafts: tragedy, undated
Paper: A Cooking Egg poem by T.S. Eliot, 1965 December
Paper: Aesthetic Object and the Preconscious Mode, 1968 December 15
Paper: Andrew Marvell's The Nymph complaining for the Death of her fawn, 1969 April 21
Paper: Antonio, The Merchant of Venice, 1969 November 10
Paper: John Keats Chief Intensity, 1970 May 14
Paper: Teaching Women Creative Writing: The Other Half of the Sky, undated
Paper: The Ungentle Order of King John, 1970 January 15
Philological Association of the Carolinas publication including program for meeting at Meredith College where Vance honored Louis Rubin, 1989
Philosophy 242 Metaphysics reading list, Professor Zoldin, 1961 Spring
"Poetic Fiction of Louis Rubin" paper, 1989
Sophomore year at Hollins College, student composition book, circa 1960
"Stylistic and Thematic Development in the Poetry of Howard Nemerov: 'Verbs of Glass and Nouns of Stone" , University of Chapel Hill, dissertation, 1975
"Stylistic and Thematic Development in the Poetry of Howard Nemerov: 'Verbs of Glass and Nouns of Stone" , University of Chapel Hill, dissertation, 1975
Tribute to Louis D. Rubin, Jr. tribute program, Hollins University, 2009 November 6
Trip to the United Kingdom with Louis D. Rubin, 2011
Uneeda Review by Louis Rubin and William Harmon book announcement, 1985
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill graduate school correspondence, 1969-1970
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill graduate school forms, 1968-1970
University of North Carolina - Vance PhD student records, 1969-1971
Events, readings, and workshops, 1961-2013, undated
Scope and Contents
The Events, readings, and workshops series (1961-2013, undated) comprises fliers, correspondence, and other ephemera from engagements Jane Gentry Vance attended, led, and/or participated in. The majority of the series consists of materials related to readings Vance gave as Kentucky poet laureate to schools, libraries, clubs, and other social gatherings during 2007-2008. Also included are promotional events for published works like book signings, conferences, the Kentucky Book Fair.
A Garden in Kentucky autographing event, circa 1995
A Garden in Kentucky special presentation at Katherine Timoney's home, circa 1995
Accents, WRFL, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer interview, 2009
Acceptance speech for honor from College of Art and Sciences, University of Kentucky, undated
Adult Literacy Forum, Carnegie Center, 2008
Agriculture building piece, 1983 Spring
Annual Poetry Weekend, Kentucky State Poetry Society, 2008
Annual Tri-State Book Festival, 1996 April 10
Arnow Conference on Appalachian Literature and Culture workshop and reading, Somerset Community College, 2009 April 3
Arnow Conference, Pulaski County Public Library, 2008-2009
Art and the Meaning of Life speech for Starving Artist Conference, University of Kentucky, 2009 April 8
Art at Noon series, University of Kentucky Art Museum, 2009 February 4
Art exhibit booklets, Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead, Kentucky, 2005-2006
Artcroft Fundraiser, 2009 March 1
Artcroft writers group, Millersburg, Kentucky, 2008 September 7
Arts Council Reimbursement Forms, 2007
Arts Forum, Women's College of the University of North Carolina, 1961
Astrid's book group, 2009
Author and reading events, 2006
Barclay, Dr. John funeral bulletin and eulogy, 1989
Barnes and Noble, Florence, 1996 April 27
Barren County High School workshop, 2007 November 9
Belles, Melissa book club, 2007
Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia workshop, 1983
Big Sandy Community and Technical College, 2008 April 30
Big Sandy Community and Technical College, National Poetry Month, 2008
Black Barns, new work by Jeff Hensley postcard, Art Craft Creative Center, 2009 April 5
Black Swan Books book signing, Lexington, 1995 December 8
Bob Edwards inventory, 2007 July 23
Bob Rabel Gaines Center Reading, Exhibit of Kentucky Painters, University of Kentucky Museum, 2008 September 12
Bobbie Ann Mason Governor's Award, 2012
Book Club in Versailles, 2007
Book Fest, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2007 April 20-21
Book Junkies readers group, 2007
Book-In-Common, Spalding University, 2008 November 21
Boxley Bunch, Henry Clay High School reunion, 2008
Brandeis University alumni authors, 2007
Carnahan House panel discussion, University of Kentucky, 1978
Carnahan House workshop info, 1988
Carnahan House workshop, University of Kentucky, 1981
Carnahan House, poems on poetry workshop, 1975
Carnegie Center 15th Anniversary Celebration, 2007 October 26
Carnegie Center Adult Literacy luncheon, 2008 April 18
Carnegie Center Community Arts Award, 2010 March 1
Carnegie Center fundraiser, Lawana Privett's house, 2008 October 14
Carnegie Center Supporter Update, 2009
Carnegie Center talk, 2007 April 14
Carnegie Center, Lexington Kentucky Literature Academy, 2007
Carroll County Public Library (Bedford) Ghent Women's Club creating the soul of Kentucky: Kentucky poetry, 2007 October 11
Celebration honoring Raymond F. Betts Luncheon, 1998 April 17
Celebration of National Poetry Month, Big Sandy Community and Technical College, 2008 April
Center for the written word at Cardonne, Georgetown, undated
Central Kentucky Radio Eye, Inc., Celebrity Reader Week, 2009 September 14-20
Centre College, Danville, 2007 November 27
Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature book fair, 2007
Chandler, Elizabeth correspondence, 2008
Chapter of P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization), Midway College, 2008 April 21
Christmas Program, Western Hills High School, Frankfort, Hospice of the Bluegrass, 2009
Class of '59 Henry Clay High School Reunion, 2009 July 31
Clay County Reading Celebration, 2008 May 9
Clear Creek writers group, Shelbyville, Gail Chandler (Joy Wilson's sister), 2008 April 24
Coffee Tree Books, Morehead, name plate, undated
College Writers Conference, William Jewell College, Kansas City, 1980-1981
Commonwealth Institute for Teachers meetings, 1986-1987
Conference in Kansas City, 1981 October 1
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines regional meeting, Lexington, 1973
Craft lecture, Spalding Master's of Fine Art program, 2008 May 27
Creating the Soul of Kentucky: Kentucky Poems, Laurel County Library, 2008 April 28
Creating the Soul of Kentucky: Kentucky Poems, McCracken Public Library, 2008 April 10
Cynthiana Arts Council, Maysville Community and Technical College, Licking Valley Campus, 2008 April 6
Danforth Foundation Conference, Lake Barkley State Park, 1982 April 15-18
Danville reading group, 2008 January 17
Diane Dehoney, Paul Sawyier Library, 2009 March 24
Donovan Forum, What is a Poem Good for?, University of Kentucky, 2009 March 10
Donovan Workshop, University of Kentucky, 1994
Dr. Leonard M. Sci[sic], Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980
Dramatizations of Myths and History, Kentucky Humanities Council proposal, 1999 June 19
Dual readings with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall and Jane Vance flier, circa 1996
University of Kentucky University Summer Residential Program information packet for "Tater" Susannah, 1989
Eastern Kentucky University Writers Conference, 2007 June 5-6
Eastern Kentucky University Awards banquet, 2008 April 22
Eastern Kentucky University Libraries Book Fest, 1996
Eastern Kentucky University Summer Writing Conference, 2007-2008
Eastern Kentucky University Summer Creative Writing Conference, Poetry workshop handout, 2007 June 6
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Poetry reading, 2008
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College reading, 2008 January 24
English Awards Day, 2008 April 23
Estill County Reading Celebration, Cindy Hensley, 2009 May 22
Event announcements, 2007
Finding the writer within, Woodford county library workshop, 2009
First Annual Kentucky Writers Conference, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1982
Five Year Anniversary of Iraq Invasion reading, Eric Sutherland, Al's Bar, 2008
Founders Day Convocation reading, Hollins University, 2009 February 26
Fourth Annual Messenger-Inquirer Tri-State Book Festival, 1998 September 26
Frankfort Arts Foundation poetry competition, 1985
Frederick Smock book signing, Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville, 2008 September 13
Friends of Shelby County Library book fair, 2006
Gallery 104, Arts Association of Oldham County, 2007
Gallery 104, LaGrange, Arts Association of Oldham County, undated
General program, Workshop II, Richmond, Virginia, 1978
Georgetown College Co-Curricular program speaker, 1983 April 19
Georgetown College readings, 2008 February 14
Ginny May, Christ Church, Kentucky writers discussion, 2010 March 28
Golden Key International Achievement Awards, 1999
Governor's School for the Arts, Louisville, 2007-2008
Grade school workshop talk materials, 2007, undated
Greenup County High School, 2008 March 3
Greenup County High School, What are Poems Good for?, 2008 November 6
Gurney Norman Poet Laureate inauguration, 2009
Hands and Hearts for Arts, Poetry-Writing Workshop, Carnegie Center, 1997 May 20
Harmony Landing Reading group, 2008 October 2
Harrodsburg Workshop on Writing History, 1982 May 22
Hazard Community College writing workshop, 2003 April 17
Henry Clay Hall of Fame inductees, 2009
High School Awards Presentation, Woodford County, 2009 June 2
High school workshop materials, undated
Hollins 32nd Literary Festival and Creative Writing Reunion program, 1992
Hollins College alumni reunion, undated
Holly Hill luncheon, Ouita Michel, 2007 June
Homily for Advent, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Paris, 2010 December 5
Hopie's wedding, reading from The Prophet, 2008 September 29
Huntertown Elementary graduation speech, 2007 May 24
I. Creative process from my experience, Richmond, Virginia, 1977 August
II. Development of setting in narrative writing, Richmond, Virginia, 1977 August
III. Development of character in narrative writing, Richmond, Virginia, 1977 August
In Performance At the Governor's Mansion invitation, 1998 October 1
Inky Reading, Rudyard Kipling, Louisville, 2007 October
Institute for Independent Study, Radcliffe College, various Cambridge materials, 1978
Invoice for two poems, Hollins College corporation, 1966 February 4
Jane Gentry Vance, J. Mason, Art Museum, Cadiz, Kentucky, 2008 August
Jazz & the Spoken Word, The Jazz Factory, Clint Morehead, 2008
Jessamine County Public Library, Winter Festival, 2008
Jo Shoop's Women Symposium, Georgetown College, 2007 February 14
Joseph-Beth bookstore reading, 2006 October 29
Kentucky 58th Inauguration program, Steven Beshear, 2007 December 11
Kentucky Art Fair, 2005 November 12
Kentucky Arts Commission awards program for literary magazines letter, 1975 March 26
Kentucky Arts Council, 2007
Kentucky Arts Council FY07 Annual Report, 2008 July 17
Kentucky Arts Council meeting, 2008 December 12
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, 2007 November 10
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, 2008 November 15
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, 2007 June
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, 2008
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, 2006
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, 2006 November 11
Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort Convention Center, 2005 November 12
Kentucky Book Fair, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, 1995 November 18
Kentucky Crafted reading, Louisville, 2009
Kentucky Crafted: The Market, Louisville, 2009 February 21-22
Kentucky Crafted: The Market, Louisville, 2008 March
Kentucky Humanities Council catalog, 2009-2010
Kentucky Humanities Council correspondence, 2007-2008
Kentucky Humanities Council Featured Speakers letters, 2006-2008
Kentucky Humanities Council speaker reports, 2009
Kentucky Humanities Council speakers bureau, 1988-1990
Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Series, 1989, 1991, 2008
Kentucky Humanities Program, Tates Creek Lexington Public Library, 2010
Kentucky Literary Newsletter activities list, 2008 March 15
Kentucky Literature Academy, Carnegie Center, 2007 July 30
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft exhibition, 2007
Kentucky National Society of Arts and Letters poetry competition, 2003
Kentucky Philological Association meeting, 2009 March 6-7
Kentucky Philological Society conference, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, 2009 March 6-7
Kentucky Philological Society conference, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, 2009
Kentucky Playwright Contest and Production, Richmond Area Theatre, Kentucky Humanities Council, 1993
Kentucky Poet Laureate recognition, Carnegie Center, Lexington, circa 2009
Kentucky Poets program, Holly Hill Inn newsletter, 2007
Kentucky Reading Association Conference, Poet Laureate Panel, Lexington, 2010
Kentucky Reading Association Panel (Poets Laureate), 2010 October 29
Kentucky Retreat for Women Writers postcard, Wesleyan College, 2008 July 25-28
Kentucky Retreat for Women Writers, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky, 2008 July 25-27
Kentucky Retreat for Women Writers, Wesleyan College, 2008
Kentucky State Board of Agriculture meetings, 1980-1981
Kentucky State Poetry Society adult contest, 2007-2008
Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest, 2008
Kentucky Wesleyan College, Kentucky Retreat for Women Writers handouts, 2008 January 25-27
Kentucky Women Writers Conference, 2011 September 15-18
Kentucky Women Writers Conference "Teaching Women Creative Writing" panel,, 1998 November 14
Kentucky Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky, 1982, 1999
Kentucky women writers notes, resources, writings, 1987
Kentucky Women Writers, Versailles Philanthropic Educational Program, 2008 April 14
Kentucky Writers Conference, Pine Mountain State Resort Park, 2007
Kentucky Writers Day, Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort, 2008-2013
Kentucky's Retreat for Women's Writers, Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, 2008
KET(Kentucky Educational Television) Kentucky Literature Task Force, 2007 August 23
King Library Press reading, 1996 April 19-20
King Library Press Workshop, Margaret I. King Library, 2008 March 29
Lamplighter Book Club, Danville, 2008
Larkspur Press poetry reading with Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, and Richard Taylor invitation, 1975 April 19
Laurel County Public Library, 2008
Laurel County Public Library, Creating the Soul of Kentucky: Kentucky Poems, 2008 April 28
Lecture and Performance Series, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky, 2008 February 26
Lexington Colloquy, Marriott Hotel, 2007 January 12
Lexington Seminar colloquium, Shakertown, 2008
Lexington Seminar schedule Northeast Harbor, Maine, 2008 June 12-17
Lexington Seminar, Leadership Colloquium, Marriott Hotel, 2008 January 10-13
Lexington Theological Seminary Shakertown Colloquy, 2000 November 9
Lexington Theological Seminary, Poetry and Ministry Colloquy, 2000
Library of Congress Kentucky poets reading, 2008 November 18
Library of Congress Poetry at Noon reading, 2008 November 18
Library Power Summer Institute, Lexington, 1996
Lincoln poems reading, Scott County Historical Society Museum, 2009 February 12
Lincoln program, First United Methodist Church, 2009 February 14
Lindsey Wilson College presentation, 2008 February 26
Lindsey Wilson College reading, Columbia, Kentucky, 2008 February 26
Lou Gordell's book group, Bowling Green, 2008 November 11
Louisville 20th Century Literature Conference, 1981 February 27
Louisville 20th Century Literature Conference, 1982 February 24-27
Louisville 20th Century Literature Conference, 1978 February 23-24
Louisville Free Public Library, 2007
Louisville Rotary Club reading, 2009 January 15
Louisville Women's Club, Big Springs Country Club, 2008 April 21
Luther Luckett Correctional Complex, LaGrange, 2008 April 1
M.W. Weldon Public Library, Glasgow, 2007 November 8
Mary Lee Settle colloquium, Emory and Henry College, 1989-1990
McCracken Public Library, Creating the Soul of Kentucky: Kentucky Poems reading, 2008 April 10
Mercer County Library Reading with Charles Semones, 2008 April 14
Messenger Inquirer Tri-State Book Festival, Owensboro, 1996 June 15
Midway College, 2000
Montgomery County Historical Society, 2008 November 14
Morehead State University, Crystal Wilkinson, 2007 December 6
My good talk on what poetry is, state of contemporary poetry, 1976
Natasha Trethewey introduction, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, 2008 September 12
National Collegiate Honor Council (NCHC), 1983
National Honors Society State Convention, 1982
National Society of Arts and Letters - Kentucky Chapter, Sunday Salon discussing Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig, 2006 November 12
New Books by Great Writers Series, Carnegie Center, 2007 October 17
Ninth Annual Literary Festival, honoring Mary Lee Settle, Emory and Henry College, 1990 October 25-26
Northern Kentucky University Library Reading with Ron Ellis, 2009
Northern Kentucky Writers Reading Series, 1997
Notes for South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) paper from Linda Pennil, 1982 November 4
Notes on being Poet Laureate, Carnegie Center, 2007 July 30
Odd extra materials for workshop, Owensboro, undated
Ohio County High School Evening of Poetry, 2008 April 15
Oldham County Middle School Art Fest, Charles Norderer, 2008
OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) University of Kentucky Donovan Scholars Forum, Lexington Senior Center, 2009 March 10
One Man's Lincoln by Wade Hall playbill, undated
Open Ground, 2009
Opera House Lincoln Saxton's Cornet Band programme, undated
Our Lincoln event program, Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. University of Kentucky Singletary Center, 2008 February 10
Our Lincoln Performance, Kentucky Arts Council, 2008
Our Lincoln, Kentucky Humanities Council, 2008 February 10
Our Lincoln program Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., 2009 February 2
Paul Sawyier Public Library discussion group, Frankfort, 2008 March 24
Paul Sawyier Public Library Gathering of Authors, Frankfort, 2009 August 15
Pen Women, Women's poetry in contemporary poetry talk, 1976 February
Photograph and play program from Wade Hall, 2009 February
Photograph of Lincoln reading, Kentucky Historical Society, State Capitol Rotunda, 2009 February 12
Pike County High School reading and workshop, 2008 March 27
Pine Mountain and Eastern Kentucky University original handouts, 2007 March 29-31
Pine Mountain Writers' Conference, 2007 March 30-31
Pink Door Reading Series, Louisville, 2008
Poems as a Way of Knowing, Lexington Public Library Tates Creek Branch, 2010 April 29
Poems: Images: "The Craft of Making Poems", 2007 March 30
Poet Laureate appointment, 2007 April 24
Poet Laureate congratulations letters, 2007
Poet Laureate correspondence, 2007-2008
Poet Laureate Induction ceremony program and invitation, 2007 April 24
Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance visits Luther Luckett correctional complex, Growing Home newsletter, 2008 January-March
Poet Laureate of Kentucky induction speech, 2007 April 24
Poet Laureate Selection Committee, 2008-2011
Poet Laureate thank you postcards, 2007 June 9
Poet Laureate upcoming events list, 2007
Poet Laureate event, Barren County High School, 2008 February
Poetry and Visual Art series, University of Kentucky Art Museum, 2009 February 4
Poetry under the Stars, Longway Planetarium, University of Michigan - Flint, 2009 April 21
Poetry workshop led, circa 2008
Poetry writing workshop, Second Presbyterian Church, Lexington, 1997 May
Portrait of an Artist as a Pig events and invitation lists, 2006
Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig readings, 2006
Professional Women's Forum, Lexington, 2009 October 7
Solo Flight, quotes for, undated
Reading at Kentucky Crafted, Louisville, 2009 February 21
Reading in Georgetown, Kentucky, 1994 February 24
Readings (various), 1995-1997
Report on the sixth Women Writers Conference, 1984
Retired teachers, Bourbon and Fayette Counties, Stoner Creek Country Club, 2007 September 12
Rhode Island Poet Laureate Gathering, 2009 April 17-24
Richard Taylor poetry reading at Vance's home, undated
Riverstone Gallery reading, Somerset, 2007 September 15
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) creative writing discussion circle, 1982
Sarabande Press Reading Series, Louisville, 2009 September 28
School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) poet laureate visit, 2008 October 7
Scott County Historical Society, Spindletop, 2008 April 4
Second Presbyterian Church, Lexington, 2007
Second Seniors, Second Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky, 2007 April
Second Women Writers Conference, 1980
Settle Festival, Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, 1990
Shakertown Colloquy, 2000
Solo Flight at Kanuga, National Episcopal Conference for adults who are single, 2001-2010
Somerset reading at art gallery, 2007 November 4
Southern Festival of Books program, Nashville, 1996 October 11-13
Southern Festival of Books reception, Tennessee Humanities Council, 1996 September-October
Southern Kentucky Book Fest, Bowling Green, 2006-2008
Spalding University Masters of Fine Arts Book-In-Common discussion program and craft talk, 2008 May 27
Speaking engagements list as Poet Laureate, 2007-2009
Speech building materials, 2007-2008
Speech from the Carnegie Center literary reception, 2007 April 14
Spindletop Hall Club, Lexington, 2010
Sporting Words, Third National Gathering of Poet Laureates, Indianapolis, 2007 June 22-28
Starving Artist Conference, University of Kentucky Gaines Center for Humanities, 2009 April 8
Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University, 2009 April 28
Summer Environmental Writing Program, University of Kentucky English Department, 2008
Sylvia Wilkinson biographical and workshops information, 1971-1979
Talk to Lou Tipton's study club, The usefulness of poetry, circa 1970s
Talk to Lucy's 5th grade class at Simmons, 1981
Talk: Calling to Poetry, to Ministry, undated
Tamara Coffey Poet Laureate projects: Literary Trail and Kentucky Crafted, 2008
Tennessee Humanities Council, Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, 1996
The Art of Poetry, Indianapolis, Joy Brinkman, 2009 October 1-3
The Shape of Kentucky Literature, Kentucky Literature Academy, Carnegie Center, 2007 July 30
Third Women Writers Conference, 1981
Three Crazy Poems: Some Ways In, colloquium with Jane Gentry Vance, 2011 September 9-10
To Jane and Dan from Katherine, re: undergraduate contest, undated
Transylvania Poetry Reading Series, undated
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, 1980-1981
University of Kentucky Art in Healthcare for Chandler Hospital, 2008
University of Kentucky Great Teachers Awards, 1999
University of Kentucky Honors Program Banquet, 1982
University of Kentucky Honors/English Department, 1978-1997
University of Kentucky Libraries Gallery Series, undated
University of Kentucky Writing Workshop for People Over 57, 1979 August 5-10
University of Kentucky Writing Workshop for People Over 57, 1977 August 7-13
University of Kentucky Writing Workshop for People Over 57, 1975 August 3-9
University of Kentucky Winter College, Fort Myers, Florida, 2009 January 8-13
University of Louisville, College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Studies distinguished scholar lecture, Donald Kagan, 2007 March 23
Uses of Poetry, Georgetown College, 1983 April 19
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts readings, 1995-1997
Versailles Presbyterian Church, A Portrait of Lincoln reading, 2009 February 18
Versailles study group, 1981
Veterans Park Elementary School, Lexington, 2008 March 21
Warfield, Malcolm L., Lexington Theological Seminary, undated
Washington D.C. "get together", 2008 November
Western Kentucky University, Renee Beasley Jones journalism class, undated
"What Are Poems Good For?" workshop, Midway College, 2008 April 21
"Where Do Poems Come From, Where Do Poems Go?"Book Fest, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2007 April 20-21
William T. Young 10th anniversary poem, 2008 May 13
Winter Festival, Jessamine County Public Library, 2008 February 3-9
Western Kentucky University (Western Kentucky University (WKU)) School of Journalism and Broadcasting class, 2008 November 11
Western Kentucky University (WKU) workshop The Poem and the Story, 2008 January 3-6
Western Kentucky University (WKU) workshop Vision and Revision, 2008 January 3-6
Western Kentucky University (WKU) workshop Voice in Poems, 2008 January 3-6
Western Kentucky University (WKU) workshop, Images: The Craft of Making Poems, 2008 January 3-6
Western Kentucky University (WKU) workshop, The Nature of Poetry, 2008 January 3-6
Western Kentucky University (WKU) Writer's Workshops, 2007-2008
Western Kentucky University (WKU) Writing Workshop handouts and exercises, 2008 January 3-6
Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky, 1987
Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky, 1998
Women's Club of Central Kentucky, 2007 December 1
Women's Club of Central Kentucky, Dorothy Bowman Cassada, 2007-2008
Women's Club, Louisville, 2008
Women's History Month, Georgetown College, 2008
Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky, 1980
Woodford and Barren county's high schools originals and extras, undated
Woodford County High School, 2007 November 13
Woodford County Homemakers, Troy Presbyterian Church, 2008 May 8
Woodford County Junior Miss pageant program, 1989
Woodford County Library reading and workshop, 2009 April 25
Woodford County Library workshop, 1989 April 25
Woodford County Public Library talk, 2007 November 16
Woodford County Retired Teachers, Xian Church, 2008 December 11
Woodford County Women's Club, 2008 March 5
Workshop in Poetry Writing, New Iberia, Louisiana, 1994 February 3-4
Workshop outlines: Carnahan House (a week's worth), undated
Writers in Our Midst, St. Matthews Public Library, PeeWee to introduce reading, 2007 October 4
Writers' Retreat, Yaddo, New York, 1978
Writers Workshop grant, 2008
Writers' Retreat, Yaddo, New York, 1993
Writing competition judge, Mississippi Arts Festival, Jackson, 1973-1974
Writing Workshop for People Over 57, University of Kentucky, 1976-1981
Writing Workshop for People Over 57, University of Kentucky, 1988 July 31-August 5
Writing Workshop for People Over 57, University of Kentucky, 1977 August 7-13
Wurtland Middle School, Greenup County Schools, 2008 March 4
You Have Stories to Tell, Southside Elementary, Versailles, 2007 September 18
10th Annual Clay County Reading Celebration, Goose Rock Elementary, 2008 May 9
16th Annual Dinner for Friends of the Museum Georgetown and Scott County, Spindletop Hall, Lexington, 2008 April 4
25th Anniversary Kentucky Book Fair program, 2006 November 11
"Arts Forum Corradi", Women's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1962
ArtsPlace reading, 1998
Sporting Words, 3rd Gathering of Poets Laureate, Sports Poetry Anthology Trading Cards
Manuscripts and other works, 1958-2011, undated
Scope and Contents
The Manuscripts and other works (1958-2011, undated) comprises books and poems by Jane Gentry Vance's contemporaries, as well as the drafts, revisions, printings of books, reviews, papers, and many poems by Vance. The series contains the drafts for Vance's two books, a collection of poems, A Garden in Kentucky (1995) and Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig (2006). Also included is correspondence with editing boards and publishers.
By other authors, 1964-2007, undated
Barbara Mabry book announcement, 2007
Book reviews: Take with Me Now that Enormous Step by Eric Pfeiffer, 1964
Book: Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson, Vintage International, New York, 1992
Book: Civil War Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman, Dover Thrift Edition, 1995
Dan Diaz poems, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, undated
Essays and poems about Jane Gentry Vance poems, Barry George, Barbara Sabol, 2008
Joseph E. Burkhead, Jr. poems, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, 1967-1968
Lawyer poem, undated
Mary Lee Settle essay by George Garrett, University of South Carolina, 1988
Miller Williams: poems on exams, undated
Miller's Pond, volume 9, number 1, poetry journal, 2006
Orpheus: The Literary Journal of Lindsey Wilson College, 2007 Spring
Others' poems, copied or cut out, 2002, 2004, undated
Paper: by Lucy Vance, undated
Planned utopian communities in Appalachia by Europeans during the early 1800's by Thomas J. Nieman, University of Kentucky professor of Landscape Architecture, undated
Poem: Dial Tone by Howard Nemerov, undated
Poems by other authors, undated
Poems by others, mostly famous authors, undated
Poems "I like to give to others", undated
Poems on poetry packet, undated
Poems: A good and a bad, Plutzik's Red Oyster Dogwood, undated
Poems: by other writers, undated
Poems: by writers in poetry groups, undated
Poems: Cold feet collection by William Heath, undated
Poems: Jarrell's Nestus Gurley, undated
Poems: sonnet examples, circa 1970's
Poems: Spoon River Anthology, undated
Poems: Visions and Revisions (to duplicate), circa 1970s
Poems: Wendell Berry, undated
Poems: Yeats Sailing to Byzantium, undated
Poet examples, undated
Poetry chapbooks by Grex Press, 1989-2008
Poetry chapbooks by Grex Press, 1989-2008
Richard Raymond, Poet, Author, Historian, business card, undated
Ruby Lee Norris student poems and articles, circa 1970s
Sunflower on Market Street, book by E. Gail Chandler, Dismas Charities, 2003
Susan Gilbert's essays on Joan Didion, 1980
The Civil War: A Book of Quotations, edited by Bob Blaisdell, Dover, 2004
The Search for Origins in the Twentieth-century Long Poem: Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon, book by Joe Moffett, West Virginia University Press, 2007
"4 extra poems", 1997, undated
By Jane Gentry Vance, 1960-2011, undated
A Critical Evaluation of the The Waste Land, early 1960's
A Different Drumming, The Lyric, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1982 Winter
A Garden in Kentucky (Louisiana State University) manuscript, 1994 May
A Garden in Kentucky advance corrected proofs, 1995
A Garden in Kentucky correspondence, 1996
A Garden in Kentucky galley proof, undated
A Garden in Kentucky galley proof, uncorrected, 1995 March 2
A Garden in Kentucky galley proofs, corrected, 1995 March 2
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript, circa 1996
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript, undated
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript, 1994
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript with corrections, 1994
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript with editing notes, 1994 June
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript with edits from Jeff, 1994 August
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript with edits from Linda Butler, Gates Mills, Ohio, 1994 May 22
A Garden in Kentucky manuscript with edits, sent to Marcia Hurlow, Lexington, Kentucky, 1994 June
A Garden in Kentucky review by Larry McGeshen, Wofford College, 1995 September
A Garden in Kentucky typed manuscript, 1993
A Garden in Kentucky, photographs, 1998
A Human House, Lexington Colloquy, 2006
A Rock, A Tree and A Star, a nativity play, circa 1990
A Year in Kentucky chapbook , 22/200, 2005
Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky chapbook, 2009
Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky with Kentucky Poet Laureates, Kentucky Arts Council chapbook, 2008
Adena, Kentuckian Metroversity, University of Louisville, 1980 Fall
Algonquin books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1985-1989
Alone with Honesty/Living with Ambivalence, 2010
American Voice journal retirement, Hopscotch Annual, Louisville, 1999
"An Interview with Ruth Whitman" , The Kentucky Review, 1982
"An Interview with Sylvia Wilkinson" by Jane Vance, The Kentucky Review, 1981
"Approaches": poems by Kentuckians, Elizabethtown, 1975 Spring
Ariel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1963 Spring
Artists group poems and others, 1992-1993
Artists group poems and others, 1994-1995
At Auction draft, 2002 July-August
At Harmony Landing poem, 2002 July 25
"Bad poems which might be useful (not all bad, but good examples)", undated
Beanstalk Series, Hollins University, undated
"Being Kentucky Poet Laureate" Carnegie Center, 2007
Beulah Quintet MLA (Modern Language Association) bibliographies, 1987, undated
Beulah Quintet draft, undated
Beulah Quintet essay draft, undated
Beulah Quintet is a major achievement of contemporary literature draft, circa 1986
Beulah Quintet, notes on novel, 1987
Bibliography for imaginative writing, circa 1977
"Big packet of additional poems", undated
Bill Poem: In Isolation, 2007 Summer
Bill Poem: The Blessing, 2007
Bill section of total collection to take to Bill's, undated
"Bill Strode's illness", article in Reflections: a bereavement publication of Hospice of the Bluegrass, 2009 Spring
Bluegrass Woman magazine, Lexington, Kentucky, 1976 Summer
Bluegrass Woman magazine, Lexington, Kentucky, 1976 Winter
Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood, review, 1981
Bone Kin manuscript, undated
Bone Kin publisher letter, 1977 August 26
Book Review: Bizarro, Patrick, ed. "Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell", ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (copy), 2000 Winter
Book review: Hardwick's by Grex Press Sedition and Betrayal, Courier-Journal, 1974 June 30
Book: Aftershocks: the Poetry of Recovery for Life-shattering Events, Ed. Lombardo, Tom, Saint Lucia Books, 2008
Book: Hero's Way: Contemporary Poems in the Mythic Tradition, ed. John Alexander Allen, Hollins College, 1971
Books acknowledging Jane Gentry Vance, undated
British Library research notes re: Mary Lee Settle's Beulah, 1984-1985
Car game, undated
Cargoes v19 n10, Hollins College, 1963 Spring
Catherine Radair's comments and edits on my poems, 2005
Center for Writers in Mississippi, 1982 August 16
Charges for literary services, 1977
Chaucer paper, Papers on Language and Literature rejection, 1982
Christmas carols, undated
Christmas play, 1981
Clausen review, circa 1982
Coffee Talk Quarterly, 2005 Winter/2005 Summer
Collection of poems with edits, undated
Collection of poems, titles, and arrangement possibilities, undated
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1971
"Copies I took Mary Ann for clean copies", 1987 November
Copies of current best versions of 3 new poems added to Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, 2005
Copies of poems, 1962, 1971, undated
Copies of poems to submit to publishers, undated
Copies of reviews, undated
Copies of work sent to Louis D. Rubin, 1985 Summer
Copies to submit, unpublished poems, undated
Copy of Contract, Louisiana State University, Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, undated
Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South, edited by Ron Lundy, A Garden in Kentucky, 2005
Corriandi, Women's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1961 March
"Creating the Soul of Kentucky," best version, 2008 February 26
Creating the Soul of Kentucky drafts, undated
"Creating the Soul of Kentucky"" other poems to use in suitable locations, undated
Critical Survey of Long Fiction contribution re: Sylvia Wilkinson, Salem Press, 1983 October
Crows , Pegasus, Kentucky State Poetry Society, 2008 Summer/Autumn
Dead poems: never finished, undated
Desire, Limestone: a literary journal, University of Kentucky, 2000
Digest of a Novel Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, Writing Workshop for People over 57, 1991
Discover Art in Kentucky, Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort, 2010
Discovering Your Voice in Poetry, paper revised version, undated
Discovering Your Voice in Poetry paper, undated
Paper: Discovering Your Voice in Poetry, 1981, undated
Down the Chimney prose, 1993, 1996
Draft of a late poem, undated
Dream workshop, 2004, 2006-2007
Early poems, 1970-1977
Early poetry manuscript, 1969
Eating a Pear drafts, 2003 October 31
Editor correspondence, 2005-2007
Epiphany 1992, The Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1993 April
Essay: Ruth Whitman's Tamsen Donner poems, 1983
Essay: Discovering your voice in poetry, undated
Essay: O Beulah draft, 1990 September 27
Essay: Teaching Women Creative Writing: the Other Half of the Sky draft, undated
Essay: What is Poetry, undated
Facing toward Mecca, 2011 September 12
Fat Like Mama, Mean Like Daddy: the fiction of Sylvia Wilkinson, The Southern Literary Journal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 1982
Fiction to work on, circa 1985
First clean copies from Mary Ann, 1987 November
Five Kentucky Poets Laureate: An Anthology, edited by Jane Gentry Vance and Frederick Smock, 2008
Folio volume 2, number 1, Brandeis University, 1963 Fall
Folio volume 2, number 2, Brandeis University, Ten poems, 1964 Spring
For David Kendig, Director of Poverty, The Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1966 June
For My Father poem, 1985 Summer
For My Father:.., The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, 1987
Good Night, Axis Mundi, "...arrow from the Almighty's bow.", Cargoes Sesquicentennial Anthology Issue, Hollins College, Virginia, 1992
Granddaddy Lights the Gas Heater drafts, undated
Green House, by Jane Kenyon and Joyce Peseroff, 1977
Green River Review, Green River Press Inc, Owensboro, 1973 Fall
Handwritten poems and notes, undated
Historical Voices in Mary Settle's Prisons: Too Far In Freedom, The Mississippi Quarterly, 1985 Fall
Historical Voices in the Beulah Quintet: Too Far in Freedom essay draft, undated
Home by Dark manuscripts, 1993-1994
Home by Dark manuscript, 1990
Home by Dark poetry manuscript, 1993 September
Houghton Mifflin Library Fellowship, undated
Humanities in the South, Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1974 Fall
Hungry Fire poem draft, 1990-1991
Hunting for a Christmas Tree, 2000 December
I'll Fly Away by Dory L. Hudspeth postcard with quote, 2008
Imitations: Chaucer, Georgetown College students, 1968
In A Landscape, 1985 January-March
In The Garden reviews (copies), 1995
Interesting drafts, Suzanne's group, undated
Intro #3, edited by R.V. Cassill, McCall Publishing Co, New York, 1970
Jane Gentry: A Garden In Kentucky, Southern Seen, writeup, 1995 September
Poems, 1961-1965, undated
Jim Peyton interview, circa 1988
Kentucky Humanities Council, classics era plays, Janice Cortez, circa 1980
Kentucky Renaissance, edited by Jonathan Greene, circa 1976
La Plume, Sigma Tau Delta, 1966 Spring
Larkspur Press, Gray Zeitz correspondence, 2007
Lesser poems that might be re-worked, undated
Letter drafts to editors of poetry periodicals, 1972-1973
Letters from book editor for The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, circa 1980
Letters from Dave Jeffrey, Southern Humanities Review, 1977-1978
Letters from publishers, 1972
Letters from publishers, 1977-1989
Letters from publishers, undated
Letters of congratulations for A Garden in Kentucky, 1995-1997
Like a Snake Loves a Mouse, Freshman Metamorphosis, Hollins College, 1960
Lillie D. Chaffin, editor of Poetry Press, Pikeville, Kentucky, note, undated
Lincoln poem materials, 2008
Lincoln poems, 2008
Lincoln poems drafts, 2008
List of journal submissions, 1974
List of poems published, circa 1975
Literary journal submission correspondence, 1993-1994
Literary journal and magazine letters, 1972-1974
Literary journal addresses, 1977-1978
Looking Back at Athens by William M. Lamb with Jane Gentry Vance, 1986-1987
Looking Back at Athens. possible covers, undated
Louisiana State University marketing questionnaire, 2005
Louisiana State University permissions, Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig, 2005
Louisiana State University Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig promotional copy correspondence, 2006
Louisiana State University Press and other reviews and ads for A Garden In Kentucky, 1995
Louisiana State University Press author questionnaire, 2004
Louisiana State University Press Book News, 1996
Louisiana State University Press catalog, 1995 Spring/Summer
Louisiana State University Press catalog, 2006 Fall
Louisiana State University Press contacts, 2007
Louisiana State University Press correspondence, 1994-2009
Louisiana State University Press invoice, 2005
Louisiana State University Press invoice, 2007
Louisiana State University Press invoice, 1995
Louisiana State University Press poetry marketing questionnaire, 2005 October
Mae Woodford poem, 2008 June 17
Margaret Atwood introduction and review, undated
Mary House Gentry poem drafts, 1995-2003
Mary Lee Settle article to complete on Blood Tie and Celebration: Beulah Quintet, 1987 August 5
Mary Lee Settle articles, 1983, 1985
Mary Lee Settle Issue, The Iron Mountain Review, 1991 Spring
Mary Lee Settle Memory: Ambiguity of Steel, revised version, 1987 September 4
Mary Lee Settle papers, 1985, undated
Mary Lee Settle presentation topics, 1990 October
Mary Lee Settle prison essays, 1985 March
Mary Lee Settle research and finished essays, 1985-1990
Mary Lee Settle, Old Wives Tale, Lucinda Mackethan, Scribbling Writers Project, 2008
Mary Lee Settle: Ambiguity of Steel, American Women Writing Fiction, Mickey Pearlman, editor, University Press of Kentucky, 1989
"Mary Lee Settle Memory: Ambiguity of Steel" draft, 1987 August 5
Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet: Freedom's a Costly Thing and Rare drafts, undated
Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet: History Inherited, History Created, The Southern Literary Journal, 1984 Fall
Mary, Big Cat poem, 1981-1983
Mathes, Jamey poems, undated
Mickey Pearlman, Iona College, More Contemporary American Women Writers, correspondence, 1987
Miscellaneous notes, undated
Mountain Review, Appalshop, Whitesburg, Kentucky, 1978 June
My Grief and How it Grew, Hospice Memorial Service, 2011 May 24
My Life Story, undated
My Mother's Clothes, The American Voice, No. 34, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, Inc., 1994
"My new poems", 2010
Mythic section of total collection, all poems due, to take to Bill's, undated
NCHC (National Collegiate Honor Council ) Publication Board letter, undated
"New poems", undated
New poems (not in Garden), 1999, undated
New poems, Berry College, 1983 February 28
New poems, since 1993, that I feel are more or less finished, 1993-2003
New poems, since 1993, that I'm not sure are finished, 1993-2003
Note about absolute power, undated
Notes, undated
Notes and stories on family, undated
Notes on books sold, 2006
Notes on morality and meaning in literature, undated
O Beulah Land draft and research, 1990
O Beulah Land notes, 1990 August 2
O Beulah Land: The Yaller Vision of Jeremiah Catlett, The Iron Mountain Review, 1991 Spring
Oakes, Elizabeth, 2005
Ocarina, International, Madras, India, Friendship Federation, 1979
Older versions of poems revised between October 1993 to May 1994, 1993-1994
One is a Wholish Number draft, 2010
One is a Wholish Number with corrections, 2010
One is a Wholish Number poems for Solo Flight, Roslyn Retreat Center, Richmond, Virginia, 2010
One Summer in the Life of My Mother poem drafts, 2003 November 10
Organizing readings and workshops checklists, undated
Original poems, undated
Other places section of total collection, to take to Bill's, undated
Paper: for Carolyn Who is that over there?, undated
Paper: written in high school, 1958
Pearlman, Mickey, Iona College, More Contemporary American Women Writers, correspondence, 1987
Pikeville Review, Humanities Division, Pikeville College, Kentucky, 1994
Pine Mountain Paper: The Vision and Revision of Poems, 2007 March 31
Play script: Housewarming, undated
Poem drafts, 1991, 2003, undated
Poem drafts, 1980-1989
Poem drafts, undated
Poem drafts, early 2000's
Poem drafts, undated
Poem revisions, mostly of poems in A Garden In Kentucky, 1993
Poem: A March Wind, undated
Poem: Andy's Breath, 2011
Poem: Boone's Station 1779 and playwright fragment, undated
Poem: Crows, undated
Poem: Diana of Times Square, undated
Poem: Duties of the Old, 2010 March
Poem: Grandfather Lights the Gas Stove , New Virginia Review, Richmond, Virginia, 1988 November
Poem: Having a Coke with You, undated
Poem: He's off to the MLA (revisions), 2005 June
Poem: Hera Talks to Me, 2007 February
Poem: Hungry Fire, 1993
Poem: In the Darkness, 1992
Poem: Indiana Shootout, 2007 Summer
Poem: Jack's House, undated
Poem: Legacy, undated
Poem: My Ease, undated
Poem: My Fireplace print, undated
Poem: On Don Pedro Island, undated
Poem: Pickledy Bear, undated
Poem: Returning from Providence to Newport, 2007
Poem: Riddle, 2001 June 20
Poem: Sleeping in the Bed with 3 year-old Jake, undated
Poem: Tantalus, 2007 September
Poem: The Cherry Bowls, 2007 May
Poem: The Dream of the Body, 1993
Poem: The Fall, in Similes, undated
Poem: The Lamp, new poems, 2007
Poem: The Owl, 1982 April 4
Poem: The Toes by Raymond Carver, undated
Poem: The Yellowwood, undated
Poem: Things that Fly overhead at Lake Malone, 1987
Poem: To Let, undated
Poem: To my Father, various versions, 1985-1987
Poem: Two Flowers for Father, 1987
Poem: Versailles House, 1983
Poem: Zero, 1987
Poems, 1982-2003, undated
Poems (3): good, fair, bad (several sets), circa 1970s
Poems accepted but not yet published, undated
Poems and talks notes, undated
Poems are not position papers by Helen Vendler, Harvard Magazine, 2008 January-February
Poems as a Way of Knowing, 2007
Poems brought to work groups, 1993-2001
Poems, circa 1968-2006, undated
Poems by Vance with other people's comments, 1990's
Poems, "Finished, but lesser, poems", 1990's
Poems, "New poems already placed", 1990's
Poems: "Poems which I don't yet know which version is best", 1990's
Poems by other authors, 1993, undated
Poems for talks, circa 2012
Poems in process 1996 (Still some questions about these. 2-2004), 1996, 2004
Poems printouts, undated
Poems published in the 1980's, 1980's
Poems reader number one suggests omitting, 2005
Poems: ready to send out, 1990's
Poems: returned from the Frankfort Arts Foundation, 1994
Poems: sent to Frankfort Arts Foundation, 1991, 1993
Poems still going, 1989-1990
Poems: submitted, 2001, undated
Poems: clean copies, 1990s
Poems: most eliminated from Portrait, to work on, 2004-2007
Poems: Bill (9), undated
Poems, 1960-1964
Poems, 1987 September
Poems: by Vance and others, 1987 May
Poems: drafts, early 2000's
Poem: Eden, undated
Poem: Ferlinghetti, undated
Poems: Home by Dark manuscript, 1996-1998
Poems: Incipient, in progress by Vance, undated
Poems: sent to David Keridan, 1976
Poems: sent to M. Sewell, 1975
Poems: Yaddo, 1993
Poet Lore: A Quarterly of World Literature order form, undated
Poet Lore: World Literature and Drama, volume 60, number 3, 1965 Autumn
Poetry competitions announcements, 1992
Poetry publishers correspondence, 1998-2005
Poetry readings and talks notes, 1995-1997
Poetry sample, 1992
Poetry submission for Al Smith fellowship, 1992
Poetry submissions, 1985-1986, undated
Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig correspondence, 2006
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, undated
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig binder one, undated
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig description, undated
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig last edited version, 2005 Fall
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig review by Matthew Duffus, 2006-2007 Winter
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig with edits, 2004
Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, The Hollins Critic, Hollins University, Virginia, 2004 February
Press release list, Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, circa 2006
Promotional materials originals, 1979-1991
Prose: His Dusty Shirt, 1992
Prose: The Walled Town, 1993
Prose: The White Dog, undated
Prose: Voices Out of the Dark, 1992
Publications board meeting notes and recommendations, 1983 June 2-3
Publisher acceptance letters, 1962-2008
Publisher correspondence, 1981
Publisher correspondence, 1977-1985
Publisher letters, 1964, 1974-1976
Publisher rejection letters, 1960-1975, undated
Re-set of A Garden in Kentucky manuscript, 1994 June
Records of submissions of reviews, critical papers, and poems, 1982-2007
Remembered Spring: Selected Poems by William Moody, Faith House, Lexington, Kentucky, 1970
Review: Girty by Richard Taylor, Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1978 December
Review: The Natural Man by Ed McClanahan, Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1983 December
Review: Barbara Kingsolver's Hide Tide in Tucson, Lexington Herald-Leader, 1995 November 5
Review: Jane Smiley's Moo, Lexington Herald-Leader, 1995 April 16
Review: Jim Peyton's Zion's Cause, Lexington Herald-Leader, 1987 October
Review: A Part by Wendell Berry, undated
Review: Bodily Harm published in Plainswoman, 1983
Review: G.E. Lyon Dont You Remember draft, undated
Review: Girty, Eudora Welty, eye of story view, undated
Review: Letters from Africa: 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, undated
Review: Permanent Address New Poems, 1973-1980 by Ruth Whitman, undated
Review: Southern Women Writers, The Southern Literary Journal, University of North Carolina Press, 1987 Spring
Review: Surface of a Diamond by Louis Rubin, Louisiana State University Press, undated
Review: Tamsen Donner by Ruth Whitman, undated
Review: The Blaze Within by Fesmere, 1981
Review: The Natural Man by Ed McClanahan, 1983
Review: The Place of Poetry by Christopher Clausen, 1983 February
Review: The Place of Poetry: Two Centuries of an Art in Crisis , Southern Humanities Review, Auburn University, 1985 Winter
Review: The Sharp and Real Complexities of Omar Kohn, Pembroke Magazine, Pembroke State University, 1983
Review: Thomas D. Clark with Bill Cunningham, McClanahan Publishing House, undated
Review: Time's Unfading Garden: Anne Sexton's Life and Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Auburn University, 1980 Spring
Review: Vance's poems by Philip Brashear, 1993
Reviews of American women writing fiction with praise for Vance's essay on Mary Lee Settle, 1989, 1990
Reviews published in the mid 1980's, 1983-1987
Reviews: Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig and A Garden in Kentucky, 2007
Reviews: Portrait of an Artist as a White Pig sent by Louisiana State University Press, 2006 August 29
Revised poems for Portrait manuscript, 2005 June 18
Revision sheets, undated
Revisions of poems in Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig, 2005 June-July
Ruth Whitman interview, after 1978
Ruth Whitman, "Material she gave me", circa 1980
Second Opinion by Leatha Kendrick cover with quote by Jane Gentry Vance, 2008
Second Sylvia Wilkinson interview, undated
Secondary poems, 1990s
Settle paper, 1985
Several poems, Cargoes, Hollins College, Virginia, 1963 Winter
Shakertown Colloquy transcript, 2000 November 9
Short poems, circa 2010
Simias: Axe, and Robert J. Rabel, The Classical Outlook, 1982 October-November
Simple Blessings song composition, words from Washing Sheets in July, 2001
Sleet, Inscape, official publication of Eta Alpha chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, Georgetown College, Georgetown, 1972 Spring
Snow in the Cemetery poem draft, 1993
South Atlantic Review, v48 n1, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1983 January
Southern and Appalachian writers' excerpts, 2005-2006
Southern Poetry Review, English Department, North Carolina State University, 1973
Southern Women's Review, volume 1, issue 1, an online journal, 2009 Summer/Fall
Sparrow 17, Felix Stefanile, West LaFayette, Indiana, 1962 April
Speech: One is a Wholish Number for Solo Flight, 2010
Stonemarrow Poetry III, IV, Lillie D. Chaffin, Poetry Press, Pikeville, Kentucky, 1977
Submission to Frankfort Arts Forum chapbook competition, 1985 January 15
Subsidy publishing, Vantage Press, 1977, undated
Summer poems to revise, 2003
Swallows, Wind/Literary Journal, Pikeville, 1981
Sylvia Wilkinson biographical information, undated
Talk: Taking a Bath in August, 2002 July 25
Talk: "Poems as a Way of Knowing", undated
Talks I've made, papers given, circa 1970s
Tamsen Donner, 1981
Tar River Poetry, Department of English, East Carolina University, Greenville, 1978 Fall
Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves by Baron Wormser and David Capella, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2000
The 'Croked Wey' of the Pardoner's Old Man, 1970, 1981
The Bastion Review, No. 1, Zebulon-on-coon, Kentucky, 1972 Fall
The Cricket in the Elevator Shaft, Appalachian Heritage, 1982 Fall
The Fall draft and Rhizome introduction, 2009
The Garden, The Hollins Critic, 1989 February
The Greensboro, no.17, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1974-1975 Winter
The Harvest of a Quiet Eye manuscript, undated
The Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1982 April
The Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1966 June
The Kentucky Review, vol. III no. 2, University of Kentucky Library Associates, Interview with Ruth Whitman, 1982
The Lyric, volume 62, number 1, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1982 Winter
The New Kentuckian magazine, Lexington, Kentucky, 1975 Summer/Fall
The Oldest Thing There Is prose, undated
Poem: The Reading Lamp, 2002
The Spoon River Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Press, David R. Pichaske, 1981 Fall
Essay: The Use of Poetry, 1983 April
The Use of Poetry, notes toward, undated
The Whale, Elvis in Oz: New Stories and Poems from the Hollins Creative Writing Program, edited by Mary Flynn, University Press of Virginia, 1992
Title page and quote for poem collection, 2004
To Let,The Hollins Critic, Hollins College, Virginia, 1966 April
To My Grandson, poem, 2005 May 16
To take to Bill's, section of total collection, undated
Tony Thompson poems, 1997
Total collection of new poems since A Garden in Kentucky, undated
Twigs, volume lI, number 1, Pikeville College Press, Appalachian Studies Center, 1974
Two Flowers, The Pikeville Review, Pikeville College, 1994
Two poems, The Spoon River Quarterly, Spoon River Press, Peoria, Illinois, 1981 Fall
Two Shakertown poems: At Shakertown, My two grown daughters asleep in the same bed, 2003 January 25-27
University of Kentucky press release on second printing of A Garden In Kentucky, 1995 December 6
Uncollected poems, undated
Understanding Mary Lee Settle, The Southern Literary Journal, University of North Carolina Press, 1989 Fall
Unfinished poems I've been working on awhile, 1987-1990
Unpredictability poem draft from an older attempt, 2003 September 1
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) poems, 1993 October
Voices and Visions first handout, comprehensive, undated
Voices and Visions Viewers Guide by Joseph Parisi, 1987
Voices and Visions, Modern American Poets series for libraries, 1988
Washing Sheets in July, Hollins College, Virginia, 1982 April
What Are Poems Good For?, undated
What does it take to be Happy? poem, 2004 February 12
Whole set of current, revised poems, 1981 July 20
Why Kentucky is a Stateful of Writers essay, after 2006
Wind, Pikeville, Kentucky poem, 1975
Winter Moon poem, 2004 June
Women and Philosophy review, 1976
Women in Language news, 1985 February
Women in the Ancient World paper, 1987 February
Women Writers of the Contemporary South, edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, University Press of Mississippi, 1984, review draft, circa 1984
Working on, in progress writings, 1991, 2003, undated
Worksheets on "To My Father", 1987 Fall
Writing Who We Are: Poems by Kentucky Feminists, edited by Elizabeth Oakes and Jane Olmstead, Western Kentucky University, 1999
Bone of My Bone manuscript edited by Sylvia Wilkinson and correspondence, 1980
Draft letter to the editor by Jane Gentry Vance, 1981 October 23
Draft of Anglican church narrative by Jane Gentry Vance, undated
Paper: Tamsen Donner, Ruth Whitman, undated
Reviews written for the Courier-Journal, circa 1981
Bare Bones bound poetry manuscript, undated
Personal papers, 1941-2015, undated
Scope and Contents
The Personal papers series (1941-2015, undated) contains Jane Gentry Vance's biography, correspondence, clippings, day planners, family records, notes, and other non-professional documents. The bulk of the series includes correspondence between family and friends. Notably, many of the letters are from other Kentucky writers and artists, like Bobbie Ann Mason, George Ella Lyon, and Nikky Finney.
A Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Jane Gentry Vance, Lexington Cemetery, 2015 October 10
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mailer about Nixon administration, circa 1970
Address list, undated
Algonquin Books brochures and reports, 1983-1985, 1989
Animal footprint Christmas card, made by Jane Gentry Vance, circa 1980
Art and pictures of famous people for collages, undated
Article about Psychic, John Kane by Judy Young, 1985 July
Astrological charts (Jane's and Philip T. Vance), undated
"Beautiful things": cards and ephemera, circa 1978
"Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House" by Elizabeth Keckley, Dover, 2006
Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia pamphlets and postcards, 1983-1984
Birthday cards, 1972, undated
Bright Leaf Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina business plan, 1982-1983
Bush, Rich, letter, 2013
Cards, correspondence, 1979-1980
Correspondence, 1962
Correspondence, 1963
Correspondence, 1964
Correspondence, 1964
Correspondence, 1978
Correspondence, 1992
Correspondence, 1993
Correspondence, 1994
Correspondence, 1995
Correspondence, 1997
Correspondence, 1998
Correspondence, 2000
Correspondence, 2007
Correspondence, 2008
Correspondence, 2009
Correspondence, 2010
Correspondence, undated
Correspondence, 1963-1981
Correspondence drafts (personal), 1987-1989, undated
Curriculum vitae, 1995
Curriculum vitae, 1978-1981
Daily and weekly calendar, 1985
Daily and weekly planner, 1986-1987
Daily and weekly planner, journal, 1988
Daily and weekly planner and travel diary, 2008-2009
Day calendar, 1983
Daybook, 2006-2007
Daybook, journal, 1993-1997
Description of Jane Gentry Vance's life before mid 1980s, mid 1980's
Diary, 1969
Diary, 2002-2008
Diary, 2007-2011
Don Edwards column and letter, 1983
Dream group, Sharon George, 2008 September
Elizabeth Bishop named 1964 Fellow of Academy of American Poets, 1964
Envelopes, undated
Finney, Nikky, correspondence, undated
Fragment of letter to Babok, circa 1961
Frances Jones Mills, Office of Secretary of State, 1980
French exchange students, 1988
"From George", 1972
Lyon, George Ella note, undated
Get well correspondence, 2013
May, Ginny, 1995
Governor Steven L. Beshear thank you letter, 2008 February 18
Graduate Newsletter, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992 Summer
Grubbs, Morris Allen letters, 1999
Miller, Heather Ross, 2006
Helpful Hints for Housewives booklet by Schotten's Teas, Coffees, and Spices, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1910
Holland America Line cruise, 2011 June
Hospice notes, undated
I love you note from Lucy, undated
Intra-House memorandum, 1977 September 13
Iroquois Hunt Club, Lexington, newsletter and program, 1995-1997
Iroquois Hunt Club, Lexington, newsletters, 1989, 1992, 1995
Jane Gentry biographical materials: vita, introductions, poetry, 1986-1996
Jane Gentry biographical materials: birth certificate (copy), 1941 February 9
Jane Gentry card to Sue, 2008 January 29
Jane Gentry biographical materials: resume, circa 1975
Jane Gentry biographical materials: resume, circa 1980
Jane Gentry biographical materials: resume, circa 1984
Keene Springs Hotel, Nicholasville, biography, undated
Kentucky Artist Fellowship Application, 1986
Kentucky Artist Fellowship Application, 1992
Kentucky Board of Agriculture resignation letter, undated
Kentucky Books for the Bicentennial, University Press of Kentucky catalogue, 1976
Kentucky National Alumni Association Great Teacher Award accolades, 1986
"Key Dates in the Development of the Culture of the US" list, circa 1990
King Library Press bookmark, undated
Kirwan Memorial Prize for University of Kentucky faculty, 1995
Reynolds, Lance correspondence, 2010
Larkspur Press, 2008
Larson, Mary A., 2011 June 16
Lawless, Kelly, 2012
Lease for 108 Desha Road, owned, after 2000
Letters from Beema, 2007-2013
Letters to Jane Gentry Vance, 1964-2008
Lucy Gentry Vance poem for Poposse's birthday, 1982 September 1
Lucy Vance AP English notes, 1988
Lysistrata, Actor's Guild of Lexington, program (Vance was dramaturg), 1991 January
Martins, Twyla, 2006
Mary Flanery's gift certificate, circa 1980
Mason, Bobbie Ann, 2006, 2009
Meher Baba and other religious pamphlets and articles re: psychic phenomena, 1969
Minnie-Melvin veterinary records, 1986
Miscellaneous correspondence, copies of letters from Jane Gentry Vance, 1971-1978
"Miscellaneous interesting emails", 2008-2009
Letters to Editor, 1978-1981
Nagel, Ellen Jan, 2008
National Collegiate Honors Council Publications Board, 1983
Notes, undated
Notes on Joe Hayes, circa 1978
O'Donnell, Jane from Jane Gentry Vance, 1994 March 26
Painting and house repairs, 1980 Summer
Pam, undated
Paris, France trip flight details, 2008 August
Paul Holbrook Christmas card, 2008
Pearlman, Mickey, Iona College, 1988
Pem Kremer's furniture on loan to Jane Vance, 1987 February
Pem, University of Kentucky Honors Program, undated
Personal correspondence, 1995-1997
Peters, Coralyn F., 1995
Poems about Jane Gentry Vance and her family, 1975-1976, undated
Price, Claudette, 2006
Pryor, Jane letter, 1982 November 29
Purcell, Carolyn, 1996
Randoll, Julie Sawyer, 1995
Refo, John, Hollins College, 1963
Resume, 2007 April 18
Robinson, George, 2009
Roger Pritchard correspondence, 2010 April 15
Rubin, Eva, 1991, 2005
Sample resumes, 1986-1989
Saykaly, Ron, 2012
Scrapbook, 1993
Seligson, Lucy Vance, 2007
Semones, Charles, 1985, 1995
Silva Mind Control seminar from Judy Vasek, 1985 September
Smock, Frederick, 2006, 2008
Stemm, Michael letters, 1980, undated
Susan W., Meredith College, 1980-1981
Suzanne Karem's book group member list, undated
Sylvia Wilkinson correspondence, 2008-2011
Teacher application, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1971
Teacher evaluation and teaching ideas, 1967
Teaching applications, 1971-1972
Thank you cards and letters, 1980, undated
Thank you cards and letters, 2004-2010
Thank you letters from Pike County Central High School students, 2008 March 28
The Woman That Was by Tommie Kane, book cover, 1952
Travel journal of cruise with Louis Rubin and Sylvia Wilkerson, 2011 June
Trip to Paris airline receipts, 2008 August 10-20
Valentine's Day cards, 1985
Vance's 60th Birthday celebration program, Amelia's Field, Paris, Kentucky, 2001 February 9
Vance, Philip, 1980, 2011
Vance, Vl. G., 2000
Vance's resume, 1997
Viking Cruise, Holland, 2011
Weekly planner, 2010-2011
White, Owen and Addie, 1950 April 2
Wilton Jellico Coal booklet, Richmond, Kentucky, 1912
Wormser, Baron, Poet Laureate of Maine, 2002
WVLK Radio 59 Jack Pattie fan club letter, 1985 August 16
Xerox copy of Jane Gentry as a young girl picture, undated
King Library Press print signed by Robert Pen Warren to Jane Gentry, 1980
Print drawing of Romans in chariot hunting lion, undated
Publicity and news clippings, 1936-2013, undated
Scope and Contents
The Publicity and news clippings series (1936-2013, undated) primarily consists of interviews with Jane Gentry Vance for radio, television, magazines, journals, and newspapers. The series also includes newspaper and magazine clippings of topics Vance researched like Kentucky history and other writers.
Allison Elliots, Ampersand interview, 2006
Articles and pictures of writers (miscellaneous and mostly modern), 1969-1977
Arts across Kentucky, Dory Hudspeth article, 2007
Bluegrass Woman magazine editions with Jane Gentry Vance as editorial assistant, 1976-1977
Bob Edwards radio interview, brush up packet, 2007 July 23
Book Club at KET (Kentucky Educational Television) bookmark, 2006
Carnegie Center newsletters featuring Jane Gentry Vance, 2007
Courier-Journal article about poet laureate, Jane Gentry Vance, 2007 April 22
Eagle Wings, St. John's Episcopal Church, Versailles, newsletter, 2009 March
Hunting for a Christmas Tree After Dark poem, Carnegie Center bookmark, undated
Interview correspondence, 2007-2008
Interview questions by Audrey Sandknop and three friends, 2007 December
Interview questions for Jane Gentry Vance, Kentucky Poet Laureate, 2007
Interview with Jane Gentry Vance by Terri Sidaras, Ramifications, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, 1983 Spring
"Kentucky born and read", Lexington Herald-Leader, 2007 April 22
Kentucky Literary Newsletter, Carnegie Center, Lexington, 2006-2007
KET One on One Conversation interview, Bill Goodman, 2007 April 7
Literati correspondence and clippings, 1974
Magazines featuring Abraham Lincoln, 2007-2010
Magazines with articles on Jane Gentry Vance, 1995, 2006-2013
Magazines with photos of Jane Gentry Vance, 2007-2009
Magazines with poems, 1961-2009
New York Times poetry review ad, undated
Newspaper clippings re: articles, 1950, 1981, 2007
Newspaper clippings re: Athens broadcast tower protest, 2002
Newspaper clippings re: Athens, Kentucky history, 1967-2008
Newspaper clippings re: Authors and poetry, 1965-2009
Newspaper clippings re: Authors and poetry, Kentucky stories, 1938-1988
Newspaper clippings re: Awards and recognitions of Jane Gentry Vance, 1968-2006
Newspaper clippings re: Comic strips, 1987-1989
Newspaper clippings re: Educational communities, 1982-1983
Newspaper clippings re: Events featuring Jane Gentry Vance, 1979-2008
Newspaper clippings re: Family members, 1949-2008
Newspaper clippings re: Gender and feminism, 1979-2000
Newspaper clippings re: George Boone with Jane Gentry Vance notes, 1980
Newspaper clippings re: Harry Caudill and strip mining, circa 1985, 2009
Newspaper clippings re: Henry County, Kentucky, 1981
Newspaper clippings re: Interviews of Jane Gentry Vance, 1976-2007
Newspaper clippings re: James Still, 1978, 1995
Newspaper clippings re: Jane Gentry Vance and the University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1980, 1988
Newspaper clippings re: Jane Gentry Vance and Kentucky Book Fair, 2005-2008
Newspaper clippings re: Jane Gentry Vance as Kentucky Poet Laureate, 2007
Newspaper clippings re: Jane Gentry Vance book announcements, 1988-2004
Newspaper clippings re: Kentucky and Kentucky history, 1976-2011
Newspaper clippings re: Kentucky arts events, 1981-2013
Newspaper clippings re: Kentucky Libraries, 2008
Newspaper clippings re: Louis Rubin and Algonquin Books, 1962-2004
Newspaper clippings re: Margaret Atwood, 1978-1982
Newspaper clippings re: Mary Lee Settle, 1978-1989
Newspaper clippings re: Morality, 1982
Newspaper clippings re: Obituaries, 1968-2012
Newspaper clippings re: "Our Lincoln" event research, 1977-2009
Newspaper clippings re: Poems, 1987-2009
Newspaper clippings re: Poetry and book reviews, 1974-2009
Newspaper clippings re: Religious topics, 1969-2006
Newspaper clippings re: Reviews, 1964-1995
Newspaper clippings re: Reviews of Jane Gentry Vance works, 1974-2007
Newspaper clippings re: Science and technology, 1979
Newspaper clippings re: Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, Paris, France, undated
Newspaper clippings re: Southern Festival of Books, 1990-1995
Newspaper clippings re: Sylvia Wilkinson, 1977-1978
Newspaper clippings re: Teaching and education, 1958-2008
Newspaper clippings re: Television appearances, 2006-2007
Newspaper clippings re: University of Kentucky, 1965-1982
Newspaper clippings re: University of Kentucky Sports research, 1967-1980
Poet of the Highest Order, Courier-Journal, by Wade Hall about Jane Gentry Vance, 2006 September 23
Poets will criticize your poems ad by Jean Feraca and Jane Gentry in The New York Review of Books, 1976 February 19
Professor and Author named Kentucky Poet Laureate, University of Kentucky News, 2007 April 12
Reading publicity materials, 1995-1997
Review of Portrait of an Artist by Mary Lee Allen, Blackbird: an online journal, 2007 Fall
Sample of publicity and public relations materials, 1999-2000
Sarabandista newsletter, 2007
The American Poetry Review brochure, undated
The Supporter Update newsletter, Carnegie Center, Lexington, 2009 Summer
University of Kentucky brochure with Jane Gentry Vance photograph on cover, 1990
Wedding announcements, Siltz, 1960s
WHAS-TV, Rachel Platt Show interview, 2008 December 16
Teaching records, 1970-2013, undated
Scope and Contents
The Teaching records series (1970-2013, undated) comprises appointment books, handouts, student work, syllabi, and other teaching aids of Jane Gentry Vance's position as an English professor at the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College from 1972-2013. The series also includes departmental and tenure records. A large portion of the series includes student documents and published editions of Jar: a creative arts journal published by honors program students in a class taught by Vance.
Academic awards, University of Kentucky, 1990-1991, 1997-1998
Academic calendar, 2002-2003
Acceptance letter for lecturer position at University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1972 May 4
Acting Director, University of Kentucky Honors Program, correspondence, 1980
Acting Directorship, Honors Program agreement, 1980 Fall
"All that's Kentucky" by Josiah Henry Combs (1915 copies), undated
Appointment book, 1988
Appointment book, 1989
Appointment book, 1990
Appointment book, 1991
Appointment book, 1992
Appointment book, 1993
Appointment book, 1994
Appointment book, 1995
Appointment book, 1997
Appointment book, 1998
Appointment book, 1999
Appointment book, 2000
Appointment book, 2001
Appointment book, 2001-2002
Appointment book, 2004-2005
Appointment book, 2006
Appointment book, 2007
Appointment book, 2008
Appointment book, 2011-2012
Arse Poetica by student, circa 2006
Australian National University and sabbatical, 1995 Fall
Ballads - student imitations, undated
Ballads (including Edward), English Literature Freshmen, undated
Basic reading materials, 2009
Betts, Ray correspondence, undated
Bluegrass Woman: general magazine ideas, 1976
"Can Poetry Matter?" by Dana Gioia, 1991 May
Carolyn G. Heilbrun "Reinventing Womanhood"""Coming of Age at 50", 1982
Casey Huggins Ph.D committee, 2009
Center for Research Libraries, and University of Kentucky Libraries research directory, 1975
Character file: Mary D. Sheriff, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1983
Children's Literature, 1981
Children's Literature, undated
Christmas play, undated
Collegiate Weekly Planner, 1997-1998
Committee on Women's Status - Women's Studies, 1984-1987
Contact sheets, undated
Creating Soul of Kentucky, extra poems, undated
Creative writing class plans and syllabi, 2000-2001
Creative writing: Poets on Poetry and What is Poetry worksheets, undated
Current booklists, syllabi, desk copies, order forms, 1981
Current syllabi and booklists, 1981-1982
Danforth Foundation, 1981
Danforth Foundation Associate Program for Faculty, 1980
Denotation and Connotation poems and class materials, undated
Diction, William Carlos Williams, John Ciardi, undated
Different poets' poems, Ella Leffland story for class duplication, vision and revision, 1975
Don Quixote, class notes, undated
Donald Hoffman, University of Kentucky Council on Aging, letter, 1981
Donovan Trust Committee meeting materials, 1993-1994
Dr. Lewis Cochran, Vice President of Student Affairs, visit to the Honors Program, 1980 Fall
Dr. Robert Owen Evans, Honors Program Director communique, 1972
Dream On by James Tate, Nature of Poetry, copies, 1996
Early 20th Century Literature class notes, undated
Elizabeth Ramsey and Lee Matthews independent study projects, 1996-1997
English master's recommendation letters, 2009
English 407 Poetry workshop handouts, 2005-2008
English 407 Poetry workshop handouts, 2009-2010
English 407-002 Haiku exercise, undated
English 407 Haiku, 2009 September 9
English 507 handouts, 2007 Spring
English 507-002 reading packet, 2007 Spring
English Literature modern class notes, circa 1970s
English MFA, 2011
Exercise 20: Twenty Little Poetry projects, undated
Exercise: Line ending, Early Morning New Hampshire, 1993
Exercise: List poem, James Still's Those I want in Heaven with Me, undated
Exercise: Painting poems, undated
Exercise: Prose poem, 2004 Fall
Ezra Pound on Writing Poetry handouts, undated
Ezra Pound: Craft of Writing Poetry, undated
F. Smock, Craft Talks, undated
Faculty meeting records, 1982-1983
Faculty meetings, includes information on course and instructor evaluations, 1980 Fall
Faculty Merit Evaluation Report, 2008
Faculty Merit Evaluation Report, 1993-1994
Faculty Merit Evaluation Report, 2002-2004
Faculty Merit Evaluation Review binder, 1996-1997
Faculty Merit Evaluation Review binder, 1992-1996
"Finney and Vance Promoted" English Department memo, University of Kentucky, 1996-1997
"Funny things and pats on the back from students", Georgetown College, 1979
Gaines program selection, 1986
Gaines Seminar, 1995 February 9-28
Gladys Pram University of Kentucky poems, 2007
Gottlieb Duwan honors program application, 1994
Grubbs, Morris, Short story definitions, undated
Guide for analyzing lyric poems, circa 1970s
Handouts and excerpts, 2007, undated
Handouts from writing course, continuing education for women, circa 1970s
Hillman, James Interview excerpt, 1983
History of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky, 2011 June
History of the Honors Program papers, 1989-2011
History of the Honors Program, University of Kentucky, 1979, 2011
Hon 300-001: Special Course, Creative Writing and Editing a Journal, 1995 Fall
Honors 202 worksheets on Themes in poetry, undated
Honors 300 Creative Writing handout, circa 1991
Honors 301 handouts, 2007 Spring
Honors 301 Poems of Eros, 2010 Spring
Honors and awards committee, 1998-2000
Honors Program Acting Directorship records, 1980 Fall
Honors Program administrative file, 1980
Honors Program business records, 1979-1982
Honors Program correspondence, 1974-2011
Honors Program Director search committee, 1998
Honors Program faculty meeting handouts and notes, 1994 March 28
Honors Program faculty responses to suggested guidelines for expenditures, 1980
Honors Program library holdings, circa 1980
Honors Program monthly calendar, undated
Honors Program newsletter, 1970, 1972
Honors Program Review Committee, 1982 January 11
Honors Program Sophomore Scholarships, 1999-2001
Honors Program/English Department Distribution of Effort change for tenure as Kentucky Poet Laureate, 2007
Humor (irony analysis), circa 1970s
Gladys, Pram, University of Kentucky poems, 1983
Jane Gentry Vance business card, undated
Jane Gentry Vance biographical materials: curriculum vitae/resume, 2007-2008
Jane Gentry Vance biographical materials: curriculum vitae/resume, hard floppy disk, 2004 December 1
Jane Gentry Vance biographical materials: curriculum vitae/resume, hard floppy disk, 2005
Jane Shapiro, University of Kentucky English Department Visiting Writers Series, 1997
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1974-1976
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1977-1981
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1978 Winter
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1979 Winter
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1980
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1981
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1982
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1983
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1985
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1985
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1986
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1991-1992
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1993-1994
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1994 Fall
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1995-1996
JAR: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1998
JAR copyright forms, 1982-1987
JAR flyers, 1994, 2000, undated
JAR history, 1979-1991
JAR invoices, 1992, 1994
JAR policy statement, 1983-1997
JAR publications committee, 1982
JAR Reader Evaluations, undated
JAR staff position definitions, 1992-1996
JAR staff positions, undated
JAR, Jennifer Glenn, editor, 2002
JAR, Maggie Dolan, editor, 2004-2005
JAR: a creative arts journal, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1978 Winter
JAR: a creative arts journal, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1974 Winter
JAR: a creative arts journal, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1975 Spring
JAR: a creative arts journal, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1976 Spring/Summer
JAR: a creative arts journal, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1977 Spring
JAR: a creative arts journal, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1977 Winter
JAR submissions, 1987 April
JAR class roll, syllabus, 1992-1993
JAR class roll, 1994-1995
JAR class roll, staff position papers, 1995-1996
JAR class roll and policy, 1996-1997
JAR class notes, 2000-2001
JAR staff position papers, undated
Jean's, Anne's and my reading notes, circa 1970s
Jim Wayne Miller's article on figurative language in poetry, undated
Joint appointment with English Department and Honors Program, 1981
Journalism search committee, 1992-1993
Kentucky Alumnus Magazine, 1995 Winter
Kentucky Film Series proposal to University of Kentucky Chancellor's office, 1990 October 3
Kentucky Kernel opinion piece on University of Kentucky Sports, 1980 March
King Library Press Editorial Board meeting, 1981-1983
Kremer, Pem poem, 1990
Laurel: creative writing journal, University of Kentucky Honors Program, 1973 Spring, Winter
Letter of recommendation sent to Virginia School of the Arts for University of Kentucky colleague, 1993 July 7
Letter re: promotion and tenure, University of Kentucky, 1975
Letters of recommendations, 2002-2012
Letters of recommendations, 1997-2002
Lewis, Jeffrey poems, graduate credit for independent study, 1998-1999
Lexington forms and newsletters, 1981-1985
Literary opportunities, 1981
M. Manning, "Pissing in a Stump", undated
Mary Ann Abner Master of Arts final, undated
Medieval Literature course notes, 1979
Merit evaluations, 1974
Merit evaluations: teaching, 1979
Merit rating credits and distribution of effort, 1981-1982
Modern World Literature, undated
Naomi Shihab Nye, Robert Bly, "Art of Disappearing", "Sumptuous Heavens", undated
National Endowment for the Humanities Program on State, Local, Regional History Projects guidelines, 1981
Notes for readings, 2006-2009
Notes on describing images in writing, undated
Notes on language in poetry, circa 1970
Ode to Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry), undated
Older student's poems - perhaps for examples, undated
Open Ground exercise, 2009 Fall
Other teachers classroom materials, including book lists, 1995-2002
Paul Ciholes Project Archetype, 1979
Pem's Merde d'or Award proposal, 1983
Place & Purpose: Interpretations by the Faculty of the Honors Program booklet, 1988
Plato Project, 1982-1985
Playwriting, 1981
Poem analysis, circa 1970s
Poem: Discerning: Why is This a Bad Poem?, undated
Poetry terms, undated
Poetry: kinds and scansion class materials, undated
Prichard report quote, undated
Publications Committee, 1981-1982
Publishing and tenure, 1974
Ray Betts, Honors Program Director, directives and Jane Gentry Vance notes to him, 1981-1982
Ray Betts, Honors Program, faculty review, 1978-1981
Recommendation letters, 1979-1990
Representative student essays, 1990's
Representative student poetry, 1990's
Research statement, 2000
Retired professionals roster, 1980 Fall
Retirement fund information, 1979
Revision: Riddle, Open Ground, undated
Rhythm sheets, second semester freshmen, undated
Roger Moore and Shelley Griffith Poems, undated
Ruth Whitman, Denise Levertov, Nature of Poetry, undated
Sabbatical, 1993 Fall
Second semester freshmen poetry classroom materials, undated
Second Spring, University of Kentucky Council on Aging program, 1975
Sexton, Pam english independent study proposed course of study, 1999
Singletary Center President Room application for use, 1991
Singletary interview schedule, 2006
Spalding MFA Craft Talk, 2008 May 27
Street Dogs, Honors Program Magazine, 1980
Student evaluation reports, 1984-1986
Student sonnets, undated
Student thank you letter, 1982
Summer in London for research, 1984
Summer Reading Committee Honors Program reading list, 2000 Fall
Susannah's and Lucy's class and extra curricular activities records, 1980-1983
Syllabi, 1981-1982
Talk on art and literature (Jung) Rene Evenson's workshop, undated
Teachers plan book, 1991-1992
Teachers plan book, 1992-1994
Teachers plan book, 1995-1996
Teachers plan book, 1998-1999
Teachers plan book, 2003
Teaching assistant observation forms, 2005-2008
Teaching evaluations, contract, tenure announcements, 1973-1977
Tenure Committee - Women's Studies, 1983-1985
Tenure credits, 1977-1979
Tenure credits, 1980
Tenure documents, 1977
Tenure matters, 1982-1983
Tenure matters, 1983-1984
Text list for master's exam Scott S. Gordon, 1996 July 24
Text orders, 1973 Spring
The Lexington School, 1984
"The Toes", Raymond Carver, voice and imagery, undated
Thought-provoking essays, articles. magazines and newspapers, 1987
Thoughts on poetry and story, undated
Tidings, University of Kentucky Honors Program Newsletter, 2007
Todd Antry's poetry exercise, undated
University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Retreat, 1993
University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame program, 2013
University of Kentucky Department of English Twenty-Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony, 2008 April 23
University of Kentucky English Department Executive Committee meeting, 2006 November 21
University of Kentucky Honors Program correspondence, undated
University of Kentucky Honors Program desk copy order forms, undated
University of Kentucky Honors Program faculty statements, mini grants, and Small Wall newsletter, 1976-1977
University of Kentucky Honors Program Mini Colloquia, 2011 September 9-11
University of Kentucky job documents, 1977-1978
University of Kentucky job documents, 1981-1982
University of Kentucky Prospectus, 1991
Unfinished letter to the editor about "censorship in the English Department, University of Kentucky, 1978-1979", 1979
University of Kentucky English/Honors Department faculty correspondence, 1980-2009
University Press of Kentucky catalog, 1988-1989 Fall/Winter
Vocabulary: Diction, W.Wind pages, undated
Voice-Diction, May Swenson "Question"", undated
Wallace Stevens aphorisms handout, undated
Weekly date keeper, 1987
Weekly executive planner, 1996
Weekly planner, 2007-2008
What is a Poem? by Emily Dickinson, class materials, undated
Where Poems Come From, undated
"Why Johnny Can't Think", articles on teaching and education generally, 1987 September
Why keep a Journal? Honors Program talk, 1990-1991
Wilhelmina C. Barrett prize, Honors Program literary prize, 1982-1983
William Jewell handouts, 1981
Women's Studies Committee, 1982-1984
World Literature: summer reading list, undated
Writing workshop materials to duplicate, circa 1970s
Honors program evaluation papers, 1990-1992
Class handouts, undated
Research Statement, 1996
Resume, 2002
Honors 201: Early Modern World syllabus, undated
First year post doctorate student selection committee, 2004 Spring
Brittany Strobel draft papers, 2000-2001
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Descriptive Summary
- Collection Overview
- Preferred Citation
- Restrictions on Access and Use
- Contents of the Collection
- Audiovisual, 1890-2011, undated
- Athens history and family genealogy, 1890-2013, undated
- Education, 1960-2014, undated
- Events, readings, and workshops, 1961-2013, undated
- Manuscripts and other works, 1958-2011, undated
- Personal papers, 1941-2015, undated
- Publicity and news clippings, 1936-2013, undated
- Teaching records, 1970-2013, undated
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