Carol Bergé - Judson Crews Papers

The Carol Bergé - Judson Crews paper consists of correspondence between both poets from 1978 to 1986. The correspondence consists of both personal matters and business matters between the poets. The correspondence includes letters, postcards, manuscripts of Bergé and Crews, published materials, and photographs.

Carol Bergé (1928- ), a New York poet and author of several books of poetry and prose: The Vulnerable Island (1964), An American Romance (1969), Alba Genesis (1979), and Fierce Metronome (1981). Her work has appeared in several anthologies: Partisan Review, Poetry, Kayak, T riquarterly, Iowa Review, and etc. She attended New York University and New School for Social Research studying writing, editing, and magazine production.

She was involved in the avant-garde New York poets group and attended the Vancouver poetry seminary at the University of British Columbia in 1962 writing The Vancouver Report (1964) in response. In 1970, she founded Center magazine until 1980. She also taught creative writing at Grand Valley State University (1975-1976), Goddard College (1976), University of California Berkeley (1976-1977), University of Southern Mississippi (1977-1978), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1978-1979), Wright State University (1979), as well as teaching several writing workshops.

Judson Crews (1917 - ), southwestern poet and publisher attended Baylor University, receiving his BA in 1941 and an MA in 1944. He also studied Fine Arts there as well from 1946 to 1947. He has worked at Wharton Country Junior College (1967-1970), University of New Mexico-Gallup (1971-1972), and the University of Zambia (1974-1978).

He was first published in 1935, since then he has been published over 600 times in over 350 journals such as Poetry Now, Wormwood Review, and Southwestern American Literature. He has published several books of poetry including Psalms for a Late Season (1942), Hermes Past the Hour (1963), The Clock of Moss (edited by Carol Bergé, 1983), and Henry Miller and My Big Sur Days (1992). His poetry also appears in several anthologies as well such as City Lights Anthology (1974). He edited and published several avant-garde magazines: Motive, The Flying Fish, The Deer and Dachshund, and Poetry Taos among others.