Beth Singer Bentley papers,

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1 Overview of the Collection Creator Bentley, Beth Title Beth Singer Bentley papers Dates (inclusive) Quantity 8.08 cubic feet (8 boxes) Collection Number 6220 (Accession No ) Summary Correspondence, poems and fiction manuscripts, published works, travel and literary notebooks, class and curriculum materials, sound recordings of readings, and project files from a poet and writing teacher from Seattle Repository University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Special Collections University of Washington Libraries Box Seattle, WA Telephone: Fax: speccoll@uw.edu Access Restrictions No restrictions on access for the textual materials. In the case of sound recordings, no user copies exist and users must arrange to have recordings transferred to digital format. The collection is stored off site. Advance notice is required for use. Languages English Biographical Note Beth Singer Bentley was born on October 7, 1921 in St. Paul. She was educated at the University of Minnesota (B.A., 1943) and received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and English from the University of Michigan (1946). She won the Hopwood Award (for fiction) in 1948 while continuing graduate studies at Michigan. She moved to Seattle in 1952, where she married her fiance George Nelson Bentley, newly hired as a UW assistant professor.. Beth Bentley taught in the Northwest and elsewhere for over thirty years, including the course "Writing Contemporary Poetry" at the University of Washington from 1980 to She also founded and directed the Northwest Poets' Reading Series at the Seattle Public Library, where it ran from 1960 to Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, Saturday Review, and The Sewanee Review. Beth Bentley's poetry collections include: Little Fires, Cune Press, 1998; The Purely Visible, SeaPen Press, 1980; Philosophical Investigations, SeaPen Press, 1977; Country of Resemblances, Ohio University Press, 1976; Field of Snow, Gemini Press, Seattle, 1973; Phone Calls From the Dead, Ohio University Press, Her awards and honors include: Montalvo Award, 1987; Washington State Governor's Award for Phone Calls From the Dead, and for Country of Resemblances; Northwest 1

2 Bookseller's Award for Phone Calls From the Dead; National Endowment of the Arts fellowship, 1976/77. Beth Bentley selected and edited The Selected Poems of Hazel Hall, published by Ahsahta Press. She has translated a number of contemporary French poets, which were published both in the U.S. and in Canada. She was a fellow of the NEA in 1978 and that same year she and her husband Nelson Bentley were invited to read at the Library of Congress. Content Description Correspondence, poems and fiction manuscripts, published works, travel and literary notebooks, class and curriculum materials, sound recordings of readings, and project files (Bronte Sisters play, Hazel Hall project, translations of French women poets, anthology of American women poets). Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use Copyrights retained by creator. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details. Administrative Information Preservation Note The collection is stored off site. Advance notice is required for use. Acquisition Information Sean Bentley Related Materials Nelson Bentley Papers, Detailed Description of the Collection Container(s) Description Dates Box 1 Bronte Sisters Play - Bronte Play Research Materials & Bronte Society

3 1 Bronte Sisters Play - Bronte Play Correspondence Bronte Sisters Play - "Speak, Radiant Angel!" Drafts & Notes Bronte Sisters Play - Branwell Bronte Research Materials 1 Bronte Sisters Play - "Haworth" Drafts & Notes Hazel Hall Project - Hazel Hall Article Drafts Hazel Hall Project - Hazel Hall Research Materials & Correspondence Hazel Hall Project - Hazel Hall Materials Hazel Hall Project - Hazel Hall Selected Poems Publication Hazel Hall Project - Correspondence Hazel Hall Project - Ahsahta Correspondence & Others Hazel Hall Project - Hall Letters Hazel Hall Project - Hazel Hall Material for Symposium & Grant Hazel Hall Project - Griefs Forsaken: Letters from Hazel Hall 1 Hazel Hall Project - "Hunting for Hazel" Hazel Hall Bio Notes & Materials, Drafts Hazel Hall Project - Saul & Braithwaite Letters & Materials Letters & Correspondence - Miscellaneous Correspondence from Poets Letters & Correspondence - Correspondence from V. Watkins Letters & Correspondence - Correspondence Rolfe Humphries Letters & Correspondence - Correspondence Sandy McPherson

4 1 Letters & Correspondence - Letters from Leonie Adam Troy Letters & Correspondence - Jean Garrigue Correspondence & Poems 1 Letters & Correspondence - Miscellaneous Correspondence and PHOTOS Published Works - Poetry Publications Published Works - Poetry PUblications Published Works - Poetry Publications Bronte Sisters Play - "Haworth" Drafts & Notes Bronte Sisters Play - "Speak, Radiant Angel!" Correspondence Bronte Sisters Play - Assorted Photocopies of Scenes (Bronte Plays) Bronte Sisters Play - Lord Byron Research 2 Bronte Sisters Play - "Speak, Radiant Angel!" Drafts & Notes 2 Bronte Sisters Play - "Speak, Radiant Angel!" Draft Bronte Sisters Play - "Speak, Radiant Angel!" Submission Bronte Sisters Play - TFA Submission Bronte Sisters Play - Trinity Repertory Co. Submission Bronte Sisters Play - "Speakâ " Drafts 2 Bronte Sisters Play - "Speakâ " Master Drafts & FLOPPY DISK Bronte Sisters Play - "Speakâ " Submission Correspondence Bronte Sisters Play - "Speakâ " Notes

5 2 Poems & Fiction - "La Belle Bergere" 2 Poems & Fiction - "Missing Addresses" Manuscript 2 Letters & Correspondence - Misc. Correspondence Resume & Reviews Poems & Fiction - Poetry & Fiction Copies 3 Poems & Fiction - "Missing Addresses" Ballard Library Reading Poems & Fiction - "Is There Anybody There Said the Traveler" Misc. Notes Notebooks - Poetry Transactions Notebook Notebooks - Dream Journal (with pressed plants) Notebooks - Daily Journal 3 Notebooks - Personal Journal Notebooks - Misc. Notebooks Notebooks - Personal Journal Notebooks - Personal Journal Notebooks - Thayer Street Journal Notebooks - Misc. Notebooks Notebooks - Working Notebooks Notebooks - Poetry Transactions Notebook Notebooks - Diary Notebooks - Assorted Mini Notebooks 5

6 4 Notebooks - Poetry Transactions Notebook Notebooks - Working Notebooks 4 Notebooks - Travel Notebooks Critical Articles - NY Times Book Reviews Clippings Letters & Correspondence - Permission Correspondence Letters & Correspondence - Copyright Material Sent to Library of Congress Reviews - Reviews of her books Women Poets 4 Autobiography - Autobiography & Publication Letters & Correspondence - Correspondence Letters & Correspondence - Poetry Copyright Releases & Permissions Travel Writing: Brittany/Venice Poems & Fiction - First Monologue Published Works - Country of Resemblances Memorandum of Agreement Published Works - Published Poetry 5 Letters & Correspondence - Correspondence Reviews - Poetry Reviews Published Works - Phone Calls From the Dead Memorandum of Agreement Published Works - Poem: Hawthorne

7 5 Events - Ten Poets Seattle Poems & Fiction - La Belle Bergere 5 Poems & Fiction - Missing Addresses 5 Poems & Fiction - Poems Poems & Fiction - Is There Anybody There Said The Traveller 5 Poems & Fiction - Out of Body 5 Poems & Fiction - Arachne & Other Poems Poems & Fiction - Letters to Lost Children 5 Personal Scrapbook of Poems & Clippings 5 Published Works - Phone Calls From the Dead Personal & Annotated Copy Letters & Clippings in Book/Note from Richard Wilbur Published Works - Field of Snow Published Works - A Poet's Dozen: Fourteen Poems by Northwest Poets Published Works - Country of Resemblances Published Works - Little Fires Poems & Fiction - Miscellaneous Poems 5 Poems & Fiction - Poems from 1960s & 1970's Poems & Fiction - Very Early Poetry Poems & Fiction - Posthumus Letters Poems & Fiction - Misc Poems 7

8 5 Poems & Fiction - Early Poetry Poems & Fiction - The Frozen Lake 5 Poems & Fiction - Codex to the Flight of Birds 5 Poems & Fiction - In the Hotel Garden Posters numbered 6 & of Events - Ballard Library Reading Notebooks - Old Working Notebooks Misc. Papers & Loose PHOTOS 6 Nightingale & The Rose Radio Adaptation Events - Women's History Week Residencies for Writers/The Endowment Experience Walkers of Air: Women Poets in America 6 Events - Readings Poems & Fiction - Misc. Poetry French Translations - Dominique Grandmont Translation Notebooks - Notebook Critical Articles - Jean Garrigue: The Binding Element Hunting for Hazel 6 Poems & Fiction - Misc Poems French Translations - Joyce Mansour Translations 6 French Translations - Marguerite Duras Translation French Translations - Four French Women Poets

9 6 French Translations - Claude de Burine Translation 6 Poems & Fiction - Misc Poems 6 French Translations - French Translation 6 French Translations - Translation Publications French Translations - Marie Claire Bancquart French Translations - The Horse With Angel Hair 6 Letters & Correspondence - French Correspondence French Translations - Dominique Grandmont Reviews & Letters French Translations - Annie Salager Translation 6 French Translations - Dominique Grandmont Translation 6 French Translations - The Horse With Angel Hair Poems & Fiction - La Belle Bergere French Translations - Marguerite Duras Translation French Translations - Edith Boissannas Translation 7 French Translations - Joyce Mansour Translations 7 Bronte Sisters Play - Bronte Play 7 Notebooks - Notebooks Notebooks - Notebooks Notebooks - Notebooks American Women Poets - American Women Poets Correspondence Critical Articles - Jean Garrigue: The Binding Element

10 7 Reviews - Calyx Correspondence (Reviews) Critical Articles - Garrigue Materials & Drafts 7 French Translations - Camille Claudel Materials 7 American Women Poets - Women Writers Materials 7 Letters & Correspondence - Publisher Correspondence Events - Pacific Northwest Poets & Poetry Northwest Readings & Conferences American Women Poets - Essays on Women Writers Curriculum & Class - Surrealism 7 Curriculum & Class - Death Discussed 7 Curriculum & Class - Class Materials 7 Curriculum & Class - Class Materials Poems & Fiction - Short Story: Quartet 7 Poems & Fiction - Short Story: Cheer of Passion 7 Poems & Fiction - Short Story: Martir For To Seke 7 Poems & Fiction - Short Story: The Humorist in New York 7 Poems & Fiction - Story: The Stumbling Heart 8 Reading Recordings - Cactus Poets VHS TAPE 8 Reading Recordings - UW Poets Celebrating Nelson Bentley Tape 1 CASSETTE TAPE 8 Reading Recordings - UW Poets Celebrating Nelson Bentley Tape 2 CASSETTE TAPE

11 8 Reading Recordings - UW Poets Celebrating Nelson Bentley Tape 3 CASSETTE TAPE Reading Recordings - Nelson 8 Reading Recordings - Drilervier with Stafford Side 1 Only 8 Reading Recordings - Reading by Beth Bentley at Portland for be Gale Reading Recordings - Beth Bentley: Poet Recorded at HCC Reading Recordings - Beth Reading Le Vice-Counsul 8 Reading Recordings - Beth Bentley Distinguished Poet Series Reading Recordings - In Celebration of Nelson Bentley Reading List of contributors 8 Reading Recordings - Thank You Card Distinguished Poet Series Names and Subjects Other Creators : Corporate Names : University of Washington. University Archives 2018 (Last modified: 9/26/2018) About Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West: