For a more comprehensive collection, we encourage patrons to explore Widener Library's poetry collection. Due to our space constraints, we frequently transfer books to our large peer library Widener. The Blue Star collection serves to augment scholars' understanding of authors we have recorded to document the work of Boston-area poets and presses and to illuminate the Poetry Room's literary, social, and architectural historyĬirculating Collection:Our small in-room collection of 20th and 21st century English-language poetry (and poetry in translation) is available to all visitors for in-room use and to HUID holders for loan. We also encourage you to explore our YouTube Channel and The Listening Booth. If the recording you are seeking is not available, please contact us to request a scholarly-use copy or to arrange an in-room visit.īlue Star Collection: Named after the "blue star" that early curators used to denote an item's rarity, this special collection (housed and accessed at Houghton Library) includes unique or limited-edition monographs, chapbooks, journals, typescripts, broadsides, photographs and correspondence. Many of our recordings can be accessed digitally via HOLLIS and HOLLIS for Archival Discovery. Literary Recording Collection: Founded in 1933, the Poetry Room's audio-visual collection includes over 6,000 recordings that document readings, lectures, interviews, and performances by a range of 20th and 21st century poets, writers and thinkers.
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