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Table of Contents
Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3
Biographical/Historical note .......................................................................................................................... 3
Scope and Contents note ............................................................................................................................... 4
Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4
Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6
Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Summary Information
Repository: Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Creator: Körte, Mary Norbert, 1934-
Title: Mary Norbert Korte papers
ID: D.408
Date [inclusive]: 1966-2010
Physical Description: 10 boxes
Language of theMaterial:
English
Preferred Citation
(Name of item, if applicable), Mary Norbert Korte Papers, 1966- 2010. Dept. of Rare Books,Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
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Biographical/Historical note
Born in 1934, Mary Norbert Korte grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. Her younger years wereheavily influenced by her Catholic family and when she graduated high school in 1952 she joined the St.Rose Convent in San Francisco (Korte, Knight 257). During this period in her life she earned a master’sdegree in Silver Latin but continued to strictly practice her faith (Knight 258).
Her life changed forever when she attended the Berkley Poetry Conference in 1965. She was the onlynun in attendance but was deeply moved. “She [had] found her true calling (Knight 258).” Excited by hernew found love, she stole food from the Convent to give to her starving poet friends and started writing adifferent, more unconfined type of poetry (Knight 258-9).
In 1968, Korte realized that her religious community did not share her penchant for political activism andwriting. She left the convent the same year and moved to Berkeley. Obtaining a job in the psychologydepartment at the University of California, Korte was able to explore herself as a writer and an activist(Knight 258).
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In the fall of 1972, Korte was nominated for a National Endowment award and later that year moved toher current residence in the redwood forest in Mendocino County, California. Along with her writing andactivism she took up a new project, that of being an environmentalist (Knight 259-260).
Before 1997, Korte had spent most of her life teaching. She was one of the original Poet/Teachers forthe California Poets in the Schools program. Thirty years of her life was devoted to this program (KurtRaw Data). In 1997 she stopped teaching to be the Environmental Director for Coyote Valley Tribe(Biography). To support herself she teaches at a college on an Indian reservation, bringing the joys ofwriting to students.
Her own publications include Beginning of Lines (1968), Hymn To The Gentle Sun (1967), andMammals of Delight (1978) including many anthologies such as Remember Our Fire: Poetry by Women(1969) and Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace & Gladness (1966). Today she lives quietly and writesextensively in the Redwood Forest in Mendocino County (260-261).
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Scope and Contents note
The Mary Norbert Korte Papers consists of 10 boxes of Korte's personal papers, includingcorrespondence, manuscript and printed material, works by other authors, printed material and ephemera,biographical documents and materials.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement
Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
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Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Restrictions on Access
The Mary Norbert Korte Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the RareCollections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be askedto fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Restrictions on Use
In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publishmaterials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible fordetermining any copyright questions.
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Related Materials
Related Archival Materials noteSelected Bibliography Korte, Mary Norbert. For Gertrude Stein: Notes on the Statewide Conference.[Mendocino County, California]: Everybody Knows Press, 1960. Korte, Mary Norbert. For theDiggers--: A Perhaps Poem. San Francisco: Communications Corp, 1960. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. Le Jeune David. Detroit, Mich: Detroit Artist's Workshop, 1966. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. Adam: A Poem for Michael McClure. Berkeley: The Author], 1966. Korte, Mary Norbert.Hymn to the Gentle Sun: Poems. [Kensington, Calif.]: Oyez, 1967. PS3561.K78h Korte, Mary Norbert.The Beginning Is the Life Is the Word. [Berkeley, CA]: Oyez, 1967. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert.The Jester Is Not Always Volunteer. Berkeley, Calif: Oyez, 1967. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert &Kenneth Patchen. Beginning of Lines: Response to Albion Moonlight. Berkeley [Calif.]: Oyez, 1968.Korte, Mary Norbert. The Sign of the Fool: Poems. [S.l.]: Pacifica-Middle Earth Press, 1968. Korte,Mary Norbert, Jess Villalva, and Clayton C. Barbeau. The Generation of Love. New York: Bruce Pub.Co, 1969. Korte, Mary Norbert. My Day Has Been Beautiful, How Was Yours?; The Going: TwoPoems. [Berkeley? Calif.]: Oyez, 1969. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. Two Poems. [Berkeley]:Oyez/White Rabbit, 1969. Korte, Mary Norbert. While We Slept, America. San Francisco: [CraniumPress], 1969. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. A Breviary in Time of War. San Francisco: CraniumPress, 1970. Korte, Mary Norbert. 4th of July. [S.l.]: Hermes Free Press, 1970. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. A Grammar of War. San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1970. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert.The Midnight Bridge. Berkeley [Calif.]: Oyez, 1970. PS3561.K78m Korte, Mary Norbert, and CliffordBurke. Reading from the I Ching. S.l: s.n.], 1970. Korte, Mary Norbert, Clifford Burke, and AllenSay. This Room Within My Self Wants Light. Berkeley, Calif: Oyez], 1970. Korte, Mary Norbert.Fourth Annual Protest Poem against War. San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1971. Broadside. Korte, MaryNorbert. The Window: Poem for the Death of Kenneth Patchen. Santa Cruz, Ca: The Lime Kiln Press,1972. Broadside. Hitchcock, George, Mary Norbert Korte, Peter Veblin, Naomi Clark, John Skinner,and William Everson. West to the Water; Six Poets: a Santa Cruz Portfolio; George Hitchcock, MaryNorbert Korte, Peter Veblin, Naomi Clark, John Skinner [and] William Everson. [Santa Cruz, Calif.]:
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The Lime Kiln Press, 1972. Six broadsides. Korte, Mary Norbert. Any Day Now, Any Day Now BobDylan: A Collection of Contemporary Female Poets. California?: s.n, 1973. Korte, Mary Norbert.Lines Bending. [Berkeley, Calif.]: Oyez, 1978. Korte, Mary Norbert. Mammals of Delight. Berkeley:Oyez, 1978. Korte, Mary Norbert. Finally When You Have To. [Mendocino, Calif.]: Everybody KnowsPress, 1982. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. The Generation of Teachers Like Fire: A Poem to HonorCecile Scully Korte. Mendocino, Calif: Black Bear Press, 1983. Korte, Mary Norbert. Stalking theWild Beatles. London: British Museum, 1986. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert. Greenham WomenAre Every Where. S.l: Rainyday Women Press, 1987. Korte, Mary Norbert. My Mother & Gaia & theMole. Willits, [Calif.]: Rainy Day Women Press, 1989. Korte, Mary Norbert. When She Hides. [Willits,Calif.]: Rainy Day Women Press, 1989. Broadside. Korte, Mary Norbert, and Henry Massie. In the Riverthe Roar of a Train: Poems of the Noyo. Willits, Calif: Rainy Day Women Press, 1990. Korte, MaryNorbert. Throwing Firecrackers Out the Window While the Ex-Husband Drives By. Willits, Calif: RainyDay Women Press, 1991. Korte, Mary Norbert. Sesquicentennial Anniversary. 2000. An anniversaryquestionnaire. Sanctuary Station, Mendocino County. Korte, Mary Norbert. An Edited Biography. Rawdata. Willits, California. This is a piece of information that she wrote and edited. This is one of theoriginal versions but we are also in possession of other versions. Compilations: Black, Gordon Leon.Low Tech in the Great Northwest. Albion, Calif: Pygmy Forest Press, 1990. Bohn, Dave, and JohnCarpenter. The Authorized Checklist. Oyez. Berkeley: [White Rabbit and Oyez?], 1997 Bovarney, Dot,and Jodi Gehrman. Small Mirrors: (2007). Ukiah, Calif: Friends of the Mendocino College Library,2007 Cregg, Magda. Hey Lew: Homage to Lew Welch. Bolinas, Cal. (Box 964, Bolinas 94924): M.Cregg, 1997. Rhees Stacks PS3573.E45 Z6 1997 Di Prima, Diane. Seminary Poems. Point Reyes Station[Calif.]: Floating Island Publications, 1991. Palmer, Doug, and Tove Neville. Poems Read in the Spiritof Peace & Gladness. Berkeley, Calif: Peace & Gladness Co-op Press, 1966. Weiss, Ruth. For TheseWomen of the Beat. S.l.: 3300 Press, 1997. Aldebraran Review Berkeley Poetry Conference Blue MoonEverything Irish Hollow Orange 3 Manhattan Review Or, Oar, Ore #1 Phantasm Quarterly News-LetterRemember Our Fire The The Three Poems for Christmas Way Poems See also: Knight, Brenda. "MaryNorbert Korte: Redwood Mama Activist." Women of the Beat Generation: the Writers, Artists, andMuses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Conari, 1996. 257-61. Print. PS508.W7 W585 1996
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Controlled Access Headings
• Poets, American• Nuns• Correspondence• Poetry• Photographs• Körte, Mary Norbert, 1934-
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Collection Inventory
Title/Description Contents List
Box 1: Poems By Date, 1966 - 2009
Title/Description Contents List
1. 1966 - 1976
Title/Description Contents List
grows within me slippery..., 1966.
Sharp Moving Grace, 8 January 1966
For senses are made..., 1967
A Quality of Woman, 9 March 1967
My Divine Deed..., 5 April 1967
Among the Lions Night is Still, 3 May 1967
have seen you by the blind..., 20 August 1967
Letter 60, 17 October 1967
Hymn for Death and Resurrection, 6 October 1967
To tell you what it's like..., 9 October 1967
Lightfall, 28 November 1967
The Fire of Resurrection, Easter 1968
Let me make you song..., Easter 1968
The road is wrong..., Easter 1968
A Poem for the Resistance, 3 April 1968
The Labyrinth, Spring 1969
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Letter 24, 2 September 1969
Ecology Action, 11 November 1969
Pineapple (for Yoko Ono), 1970
Natural and Acquired Politeness, 26 May 1970
Fragment in the Manner of a Lament, 5 June 1970
The Window: For the Death of Kenneth Patchen, 8 January 1972
Keep It Up, 13 January 1971
Letter to Alta, 20 January 1971
Love Poem, 28 January 1971
Report - 6 February 1971, 6 February 1971
Of Patience and Doors, 23 February 1971
We Have No Waterbed, 23 February 1971
Sundayafternoon Paper, 7 March 1971
Sundaymorning Paper, 7 March 1971
Fourth Annual Protest Poem Against War, 24 April 1971
The Westerly Movements, 27 May 1971
Sonnet for the Hostage, 9 June 1971
Saying I Want You is a Dance, 27 June 1971
Moving, 28 October 1970, 27 June 1971, 24 August 1971
A Smile / Or Anything Else of Value, September 1971
When Light Picked Out Importance of the Windowframe, 30 September 1971
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Everybody's Making Love or Else Expecting Rain, 1972
Letter Fifty: The Drowned Phoenician Sailor, 8 January 1972
Every Time Some Thing Happens Some Goddam Poem Will Come of it, 16February 1972
We covered the last place we came down..., 6 April 1972
The Great Blue Heron is Not a Beautiful Bird, May 1972
Thursday, 25 May 1972
Wednesday, 31 May 1972
I M A G E, 19 June 1972
Just Like in the Movies, 6 September 1972
The Rose is a Symbol of Rage, 7 December 1972
American Cradle, 1973
The Violational Heroine, 15 February 1973
The Ten Things I Look For..., 28 February 1973
For Peter When it is Cold, 2 March 1973
For Peter Who is Away, 30 July 1973
Letter 53: Paradigm to Shirley Kaufman, August 1973
Letter 55: To Peter and Fruud, 18 November 1973
Every Day Shaggy Mane Mushroom, Fall 1974
On the Death of Anne Sexton, 11 October 1974
All Their Precious Time, 19 November 1974
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Letter 60, 1975
Letter Sixty-One: Dear Mama, 1975
Owl In Cloisonne, 3 January 1975
Winterbirds in Woods, 3 January 1975
What a Catch..., 14 March 1975
Prescription for the Feast of All Fools, 1 April 1975
In the Woods, 25 May 1975
Summit Meeting - Ft Bragg Willits Road - 1756 Feet Elevation, October-April-November 1974-5
Journal / Aubade, April - November 1975
Wood Ducks, April 1976
Greek Road Dust is Our Bones, 4 May 1976
Poem For My Mother On My Forty*Second Birthday, 7 June 1976
I Love You She Says, 15 June 1976
And the Deer Came to be With Its Neck Broken, Fall 1976
Armageddon, 2 September 1976
Poem Instead of Putting in A Window, 5 November 1976
2. 1976- 1979
Title/Description Contents List
The Fault is Like Closed Hands, 1977
Finishing a Book in Berkeley, 1977
The skin the tip clipped..., 1977
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Turning 40 in Willits, 1977
Boiling Point, 15 January 1977
Thunderheads and Menageries, 24 January 1977
Letter on the First Day of Spring, 20 March 1977
Reading Ferlinghetti in an Outdoor Bathtub One Week Into Spring, 7 April1977
Sonnet, 25 April 1977
Sanctuary Station Wildlife and Artists’ Refuge, May 1977
Jumping into the American River, 21-24 September 1977
Tour De Force, 25 October 1977
Letter Sixty-Two: Other Lives, 10 December 1977
The Cat, 1978
The Mole, 13 October 1978
Seeing Through the Hole in the Sky, December 1978
Feet Of Cable/Feet of Steel, 1979
Last Winter We Wanted to Take That One Down, 1979
Keeping Still Mountain, 1979
If you do not see me dancing about shadow boxing..., 26 February 1979
Forest of Quaking Aspen, 10 December 1979
3. 1980 - 1989
Title/Description Contents List
The Don Quixote Memorial Woodlot, 1980
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Relax You Fool Enjoy the Mystic Countryside, 1980
This Room of Trees And Moving Earth This Room Where No One Knows HowSky Begins, 1980
Poem to Give a House Direction, Fall 1981
A Bear Came Into My Heart, 3 December 1981
After a Winter of Drowned Mushrooms, 1982
When we had covered the last place we came down..., 1982
The Exercise is About Blood, 26 February 1982
So you come out..., 29 April 1982
Finally When You Have To, 29 April 1982
Closer Than Hawks, 30 July 1982
O Mama You Dance Now Your Poor Feet Fly, 3 August 1982
The fruit flies will go away as soon as the table's been washed..., 6 August 1982
Tools, 19 August 1982
Quetzacotl, 19 August 1982
Machismo, 1 September 1982
O God (For John Lennon) A Day in the Life, 28 November 1982
Behind a Burger King Truck, 5 December 1982
Waxing Moon, 28 December 1982
Down the Highway to Hopland Where it Floods Out Every Year Slides heSaidLookit That Slides, January 1983
No Mattresses Over 20 Feet in Length, 2 January 1983
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The Generation of Teachers Like Fire, February 1983
Neurotic Light, May-July 1983
Incantation While Sharpening the Chain Saw, August 1983
The List of House, 20 August 1983
Fugitive Ink, 22 November 1983
Fugitive Ink: A Progress over Many Miles, 1984
The Little Lame Balloonman, 1985
Chasing Down the Muse, 29 September 1984
A Day in the Life in the Day, 1986
Stalking the Wild Beatles, 13 January 1986
Greenham Women Are Everywhere, 1987
Eddie Mae the Cook Dreamed Sister Mary Ran off With Allen Ginsberg, 1988
The Story of Uncle Guido, 9 March 1988
My Mother Gaia The Mole, 14 May 1989
Living On The Edge, 17 October 1989
Grandmother To Me at My Father's Grave, 16 December 1989
4. 1990 - 1994
Title/Description Contents List
Sometimes Golden Eagles, 1990
Country bars are the best she thinks..., 16 December 1991
Engraved Announcement, 1992
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Dangerous Lines, 16 January 1992
A Breviary in Time of Drought: Preface, 16 January 1992
Full Moon of the Albion Nation, 15 June 1992
Wooden Woman With Hair, 22 September 1992
Well remember God remember, 8 October 1992
Lines in the Dark, Midwinter 1992
At the Wolf Summit, 19 January 1993
Her sisters brothers crossing roads person..., 11 August 1993
She Hears that the FBI Once Spent 2 Years Investigating the Song Louie Louie,11 August 1993
Twelve, 22 November 1993
She knew it was only the refrigerator door..., 31 October 1994
5. 1995 - 1999
Title/Description Contents List
This year will be the..., 1 January 1995
More than you being a Nice Catholic Boy me..., 1 January 1996
Promise to the headwaters forest Promise to a Mother Redwood Tree, 5 March1996
Rehearsal, May 1996
The Noyo Ridge Rabbit, 7 May 1996
Episode in which She Explains Why She Likes Art That Moves, Midsummer1996
Falling in to the Burn Pile, September 1996
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They Are All Singing, 15 September 1996
Falling in to the Burn Pile, 23 September 1996
Listening to the Radical Political Figure While Doing Dishes, 24 September1996
Letter to Lew Welch, 6 October 1996
That Point (Exactly In The Middle), 6 October 1996
Visit, 6 October 1996
Election Night, 5 November 1996
The Cape Buffalo Among Us, 6 November 1996
A Day of Action for Headwaters Forest, 15 November 1996
...the world of sisters brothers..., 1 January 1997
John Muir Welcomes Judi Bari Into Heaven, 2 March 1997
Do Not Touch the Rain Stick, 20 March 1998
Anna Abraham, 2 April 1997
Jerry and Judi the Spotted Owl, 5 August 1997
Meet Me in Carlotta, 14 September 1997
Workingman's Weed, 11 October 1997
6:30 AM PDT: Bill Clinton's Checkers Speech, 11 September 1998
Election Night is at the Full of the Moon, 27 October 1998
17th Annual Willits Library Poetry Marathon, 14 November 1998
Divorce, 22 November 1998
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You Pull Roadkill Off Highways to Make a Safe Place for the Crows, 1December 1998
Justice, 1 January 1999
In Those Days, 16 February 1999
Why The Hero, 17 April 1999
A Good Life as in God's Country, 29 April 1999
But To Wildflowers, 30 April 1999
Domestic Cat Is Not A Subsistence Hunter (Why We Do Not Need AnotherWar), 3 May 1999
Heli Campcommet Copter Logging, 5 May 1999
Let Me Know, 28 May 1999
We Persist in Building Roads Next to Water, 7 July 1999
Wellness: A Little Poem for EPA Youth, 12 August 1999
2 Poems: Outback and Musics on Car Radios, 19 August 1999
Once there was a fellow named Ray..., 7 December 1999
6. 2000 - 2001
Title/Description Contents List
How Dominican Prepared Me For Life, 2000
Still as water, we can hear the land tell us of what is to come..., 1 January 2000
The Redwood Valley Oaks, 25 January 2000
I am the woman who lives in the woods..., 13 March 2000
Industrial boss..., 14 June 2000
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RUNNING DREAM: Sometimes it's the dead sometimes it's landed UFO's, 20June 2000
Elegy for Wild Sage Poetry, 5 September 2000
Small Thanksgiving Poem, 23 November 2000
Fishing in the Waters of Heaven, 2001
G Stein's Ghost: I want to go to Fairy Godmother School, 20 February 2001
Sitting in a Hole at the Bottom of the World, 21 February 2001
Aluta Continua: A Box of Chocolate Bars for Judi Bari and the Rainbow Ridge500, 24 May 2001
Prescriptions for a Ritual Exorcism, 25 July 2001
Golden Jubilee, 28 July 2001
Offering It Up, 1 October 2001
Speechless Light, 10 December 2001
7. 2002 - 2003
Title/Description Contents List
Hawthorn Court (Spring II), 2002
Weather Station, 2002
How We Look, 15 March 2002
Magic Road, 7 June 2002
A Few Open Lines About The Current Situation, 8 August 2002
North Woods Rain Listening to Songs from Africa, December 2002
Living With Paul Blake's Dragon Boat Other Works of Art, 5 December 2002
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Haven't Heard Kingfisher Lately, 12 December 2002
For You I Would Leave Flowers, 13 January 2003
Undo the Knot of War, 18 January 2003
A True Unspoiled By Sordid Politics Valentine for the U.N. Security Council,14 February 2003
It's Her Truck, 25 March 2003
Technology, 18 July 2003
Psychology, 25 July 2003
How Come There's No Vermont, 13 August 2003
The Noyo Ridge Rabbit, 22 August 2003
You Done Good Dear, Fall 2003
He's Got Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes, 2 September 2003
Theology, 5 September 2003
Doxology, 7 September 2003
Biology, 8 September 2003
Felinology, 8 September 2003
A Really Really Really Good Man, 12 October 2003
This Go-Round, 13 October 2003
8. 2004 - 2006
Title/Description Contents List
This is a Poem About Computers How a Lot of People Tell Me They Needn'tDrive Me Crazy But They Do, 15 January 2004
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He's Got Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes, 15 April 2004
Life the World Are the Same in Irish, 15 May 2004
For the Jubilarians, 31 July 2004
Today is the kind of day..., 28 August 2004
Poem Beginning With the Name of My Favorite Grocery Store, 6 September2004
Betha's Kitty Boutique, 17 September 2004
Harvest Time Blues, October 2004
Chugging Down the EA Road, 14 October 2004
Bible History I, 26 October 2004
The Government Guru, 2 November 2004
Get A Gun Get A Dog, 1 January 2005
She's Got Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, 6 May 2005
Giant Magnets, 25 May 2005
For Marilyn-- I speak for more than myself, 30 July 2005
Hiroshima, 5 August 2005
They Say Light Will Come Back, 21 December 2005
Hang Out Long Enough in One Place You Get From Time to Time to See SomeAwesome Things, 17 May 2006
In the Time of Green Berries, 21 June 2006
You See Some Strange Things When You Work For a Tribal Government, 30June 2006
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9. 2007 - 2009
Title/Description Contents List
Bible History II, 1 January 2007
Winter Disappointment Haiku, 28 February 2007
Rooted In The Vernal Equinox, 21 May 2007
Thanksgiving for Delma, 27 March 2007
no George I failed to file not out of some civil disobedience action but because Ifailed to file I just failed to file, 12 April 2007
Rain stick sits..., 2 April 2007
Redneck Bling, 3 August 2007
Sasquatch, 9 August 2007
Redneck Bling, 3 August 2007
A Thank-you Note, 10 July 2007
Hot Running Water A Fridgerator, 16 June 2007
Down In the Hole, 12 November 2007
The Big Seven-Oh For My Brother His Buddies, 20 October 2007
Bad Luck Trees, 21 September 2007
Now is the age when memory is warmest..., 12 September 2007
When the great Thunder God comes..., 2008
Walking on Eggs, 1 January 2008
Travelin', 14 February 2008
Persephone Gets to Come Into the Light, 12 March 2008
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White Bread Blues, 15 March 2008
In Praise of Magic Realism, 13 May 2008
Romantic Notions Hit the Brick Wall, 22 May 2008
Country Wedding, 31 August 2008
Root Canal, 26 September 2008
There Is a There There Gertrude, 9 November 2008
(Faux) Farewell To Doggie Diner, 18 November 2008
The Last Cowboy, 18 January 2009
Utterly Cool, February 2009
(Always In the Woods), 14 February 2009
Feng Shui Firewood, 15 April 2009
Dangerous Lines, Summer 2009
All The Ways All the Things an Morrison, 7 June 2009
When You Live Alone, 10 June 2009
Box 2: Alphabetized Poems
Title/Description Contents List
1. Poems, A - C
Title/Description Contents List
A Roof over One's Head
After the Death of Gavin Arthur
All The Ways All The Tings Van Morrison
Always the Woods
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And The Deer Came To Be With Its Neck Broken
Artistic Statement
ALTUA CONTINUA: A Box of Chocolate Bars for Judi Bari and the RainbowRidge 500
The Bathroom Mirror
Blue Spirit The Phantasma
books of redwood douglasfir pine...
Critical Mass
A Certain Anger
The Cat
The Cat The Ghost She
To Come Out of the Warrior Class is to Come out of a 1000-Year-Habit
Chasing Down the Muse
Childhood East
It Is Chickenshit...
Conversation Overheard
2. Poems, D - F
Title/Description Contents List
Dangerous Lines
Do You Want Me to Call the Po-Lice
Documentation in the Form of Delirium
The Dog
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Down the Highway to Hopland Where it Floods Out Every Year Slides He SaidLookit That Slides
Did I Make a Poem For my Brother Sister On Your 40th Birthdays
Dream
Eleanor Madeline's Last TrickorTreat
Elegy For Wild Sage Poetry
The Endless Poem
Enough Basta No More Fini Seldom Fini
Eulogy
Farewell to the Giant Sequoia
Fifty Lives a Day At Camp Anguish
Fiona Perkins speaks eloquently of those secret places, full of wonder...
For Carmille David
For My Dear Companion
For Travellers
Foreword
Fourth Annual Poem Against War
Fragment In the Manner of a Lament
3. Poems, G - K
Title/Description Contents List
Giant Magnets
Goddess of Night and Morning
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The Going
Going to Jail with the Lesbians
The Grammar of War
Greenham Women Are Everywhere
Have You Noticed
He Said/There is a Sparrowhawk
Hooking Up The Heartmachine
How Dominican Prepared Me For Life
How I would be some night-creature of God...
How is this Lucida Calligraphy And This is the Lowercase for CopperplateGothic
How You Go About Putting off the Time of Dying
Hundreds of years ago...
I used to think...
In Praise for Magic Realism
In the Garden of the Years
In the Long Long Time
In the story that is always...
In the years of little rain...
In This Country in This Time
Indian Summer
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Into the Long Long Time
Jerry Judi The Spotted Owl
Jesus Saves in Northern California
Journal / Aubade
Jumping into the American River
Just as you Said Love It's A Death
4. Poems, L - Q
Title/Description Contents List
The Ladies Breakfast League
LEARNING CURVE: Response to the Atomic Clock
The Length of Loyalty
Letter 7
Letter 56: To Morton Marcus
Letter of the First Day of Spring
The Little Lame Balloonman
Living in the woods...
Living the Dream
Magic Potion
Manifesto
No Mattresses Over Twenty Feet in Length
Mary worries at her words so...
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Meanwhile Back at Family Christmas
Meet Me in Carlotta
In Memoriam: A History of Great Affairs of the World In Rain
Millennium Trees
Mirror on the Vanity Table
Moon For Mothers Ireland
Neurotic Light
Notes on Talking
The Noyo Ridge Rabbit
O God (For John Lennon) A Day in the Life
O Mama You Dance Now Your Poor Feet Fly
In the Orchard Afternoon Sun Cold
Of Patience and Doors
The Permission
The Permission / The Reading / The Road
Persephone Gets to Come Into the Light
Pileated woodpecker movies in 9AM...
Pineapple
Poem
Poem Beginning with the Name of My Town
Poem for Marco and Peter
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Poem to go With a Bottle of Yukon Jack
The Poet
Poltergeist
Portrait of My Mother
In Praise of Magic Realism
Process
Promise to Judi Bari Promise to Headwaters Forest Promise to a MotherRedwood Tree
5. Poems, R - S
Title/Description Contents List
It is raining there is...
Recipe for Ecology
Redneck Bling
Redwood trees call forth...
A Roof Over One’s Head
This Room of Trees and Moving Earth This Room Where No One Knows HowSky Beings
Root Canal
The Rose is a Symbol of Rage
See! Another Spring
Seeing Through the Hole in the Sky
Seldom: Because the FBI Investigated Louie-Louie
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A Seldom Used Line/ Often Profession
She has earnest conversations with...
She knew it was only the refrigerator door...
She Said
She Was Buried in a Nieman-Marcus Box
Sisypha: Running Dream
The Sixth Year of Drought
So One Enters the Woods
Song for the Long-Ago Lover
Sonnet
Sometimes a great ship slides...
Sometimes Golden Eagles
Spring/Summer Bed
Standing
6. Poems, T - Z
Title/Description Contents List
To tell you what it's like...
Then speak no stars...
It is them as steals...
Theology: Breathing
There Are Ya-yas Everywhere
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They say if you live next to a river long enough...
This Room of Trees Moving Earth This Room Where No One knows How SkyBegins
To Those Women From My Mother to Mother Superior to Mother Earth
Throwing Firecrackers Out the Window While the Ex-Husband Drives By
Thunderheads Menageries
Tirade I: In the Seasons of Little Rain
Tirade II: Cafe Woman
Tirade III: Germ Theory
Tools
Turning 40 in Willits
Twenty Thousand Lawyers
Variations
Vietnam You Bombed Us All
Vivian's Ghost
Voice II
Water The Key to it All
Weather Jealous
We covered the last place...
We're Getting There- Just Wait
We Wood
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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What is a catch...
When You Left me I Began to Dream of Crowds
Who is Mel Lawson and Why is He Writing Such Shit
The Window: For the Death of Kenneth Patchen
Wooden Woman With Hair
You Are My Planet
Box 3: Miscellaneous Poems
Title/Description Contents List
1. Misc. First pages of poems
2. Misc. Second pages of poems
3. Published Poems, A - T
Title/Description Contents List
American Cradle
Bible History
Country Wedding
Down the Highway to Hopland Where it Floods Out Every year Slides He SaidLookit That Slides
Election Night is at the Full of the Moon
Epithalamion
Fourth Annual Poem Against War
Funeral at Sea
A Grammar of War
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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The Generation of Teachers Like Fire
Hawthorne Court (Spring II)
How Dominican Prepared Me for Life
Letter Twenty-Three
My Mother Gaia The Mole
Poem to Give a House Direction
Promise to Headwaters Forest Promise to a Mother Redwood Tree
Reading From I Ching
Seldom: Because The FBI Investigated Louie-Louie
Turning 40 in Willits
Sonnet
4. Published Poems, T - Z
Title/Description Contents List
Thanksgiving for Delma
They Say Light Will Come Back
This Year will be the winter spring the summer...
Tools
Two Poems
Walking on Eggs
Utterly Cool
While We Slept America
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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5. Manuscripts
Title/Description Contents List
Hymn to the Gentle Sun
Beginning of Lines
Mammals of Delight
Box 4: Correspondence
Title/Description Contents List
1. Personal Correspondence, from A - B
Title/Description Contents List
Aldwell, Julie (Jules), 3 letters, 24 December 1979 - 3 June 2008 (See Wood,Tera)
Ball, Betty, 28 June 2004
Barry, Joe, George, Bart, October 20, 2007
Big Eagle, Duane Katherine, 10 letters, 31 July 1979 - 21 October 1982
Black, Ray, 2 letters, ND 21 May 1983
Bosque, Gloria, ND 9 March 1979
Bruneau, Betsy family, 1 January 2005 14 January 2008
Burgess, Steve Carolyn, 15 December 1982
Burke, Clifford, ND
Burkhardt, Hanna, 4 letters, 29 August 29 2001 - 14 December 2004
2. Personal Correspondence, from C - E
Title/Description Contents List
Canan, Janine, from MNK, 31 July
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Carr, David, 3 letters, 10 March 1973 - 5 April 1982
Cowan, David, 2 March 1980
Craig, Edward, 3 letters, 17 August 1979 - 19 December 2001
Cummins, Kathy, 2 letters, 20 July 1977 13 May 1980
DeBar, Janet, 6 June 2009
Di Prima, Diane - from MNK, ND (never sent)
Dorbin, Sandy, ND
Doty, Mark, 9 October 2007
Earley, Beth, 5 letters, 7 February 1978 - 13 March 1980
Edell, Hally, 11 October 1979
Elliott, Therica, 2 letters, 2 May 1979 18 December 1979
3. Personal Correspondence, from F - H
Title/Description Contents List
Frank, Diane, 2 letters, 17 September 2007 15 September 2008, letter fromMNK, 21 September 2007
Gallo, Kate, 25 August 1979
Grapes, Jack, 17 June 1980 21 June 1981
Griffith, E.V., 28 October 1978
Griggs, Kari (Kari Temple), ND
Guenther, Allanya, 2 letters, 17 March 1981 - 8 April 2002
Hassler, Scott, 31 March 1982
Hayden, Wayne, from MNK, 1 June 1980
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Hellman, Steve, 5 June 2007
Hiatt, Ben L., 9 letters, 8 February 1981 - 22 June 1983, with undated responsefrom MNK
Hiatt, Juliene, 24 August 1982
Higgins, Ellen and Mary Ellen Jones, 6 letters, 29 March 1976 - 20 July 1981
Hopkins, Lib, 25 September 1978
Hunt, Nan, 1980
Hunt, Jean, ND
Hunter Family, ND [1996?]
4. Personal Correspondence, from J - M
Title/Description Contents List
Jones, Mary Ellen, 4 letters, 20 July 1981 - ND (See Higgins, Ellen)
Kaufman, Shirley, 1 January
Kirchoff, Terry ( Martha and Paul), 8 letters, 1978 - December 2007
Kirkpatrick, Don, 29 May 2007
Krebs, Al, 2 January 1981
Korte, George, 26 June 1998
McCarthy, Randy, 14 December 1978
McMann, Cindy, 3 letters, ND - 8 October 2008
Mears, Darla, 3 August 1979
Mendocino Litfest - Dot Brovarney (see also Cindy McMann), 31 August 2007
Miller, Rose, 3 January 2009
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Milne, Sharon, 31 October 1981
Morgan, Michele, 3 November 2001
Muchowski, Val - from MNK, ND
5. Personal Correspondence, from N - R
Title/Description Contents List
Neruda, Pablo, 22 February 2008
Nye, Naomi Shihab, 5 November 2007
O'Brien, James Edward, 9 October 1978
Parks, Annette, 5 September 1979
Parks, David, 5 September 1978
Patch, Ray, 19 May 1983
Patchen, Kenneth - from MNK, 14 September 1967
Peals, P. [?], May 1983
Pendell, Dale (Kuksu journal), 19 March 1981
Pred, Noah (birth announcement), March 12, ND
Phantasm - Jackson, Larry S., 3 letters, 28 April - 30 September 1980
Rain, Patricia, 5 June 1978
Rath, Paula G., 3 letters, 21 June 1980 - 20 July 1981
Ray, William (Bill) J., 27 May 2007
Rose, Sharon, 29 September 1982
Ross, Cliff, 21 July 1979
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Ross, Neil W., 17 May 1999, with undated response from MNK
Rule, Robin, 2 letters, ND
Rule-Gustafson, Ari and Kate, 31 December 2008
6. Personal Correspondence, from S - Z
Title/Description Contents List
S., Karen Wilbur, 4 September 1978
Sides, Lora Sue, 8 June 2007
Simon, John Oliver, 8 letters, 13 September 1978 - 2 January 1982
Simpson, Sister Patricia, December, c.2008
Pano Stephens [Law Office], 14 December 2007
Stroud, Joseph, 24 April [c.1998?]
Suntree, Susan, 5 letters, 16 April 1979 - 2 August 1982
Tannenbaum, Judith, 4 March 1979
Vane, Paul, 14 22 September 1977
Vecchione, Patrice, 16 June 1982
Volz, Jory, 28 July 2007
Walsh, Eileen, 15 August 1979
Warde, Valerie, ND
Weiss, Ruth, 7 June 2009
Wells, Judy, 2 letters, 12 April 2005 9 May 2008
Wheatwind, Mimi, 2 letters, August 1982 ND
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Wood, Tera Julie (Jules) Aldwell, 3 letters, 24 December 1979 - 3 June 2008
Zier, Alison, December 1979 - 24 March 1980
7. Personal Correspondence, First Name Only, from A - J
Title/Description Contents List
Alicia, ND
Anna, 5 April 1979
Arthur (Signature not legible), ND
B, ND
Sister Bernetta, 18 July 1968
Betsy George, 3 letters, 1998 - 2002
Big, 3 letters, 15 January 1980 - 17 August 2001
Bobette, 2 letters, ND
Cindy David, ND
Derry/Barry, ND
Deni, 25 April 1979
Don, ND
Ellen, 20 September 1977
Eva, 6 August 1982
Hal (Signature not legible), ND
J[...] J[...] (Signature not legible), ND
Jamie and Irene, 4 letters, 28 September - 14 November 1978
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Jeff, 5 November 1978 ND
Jetta, 20 July 1979
Joanna George [MNK's nephew], ND
John, Janet, and Darren, [December 1975?]
8. Personal Correspondence, from MNK to First Name Only
Title/Description Contents List
Alicia
Anne
George
Howard
Jack
Jason
Laurie
Mary
Unnamed
9. Personal Correspondence, First Name Only, from K - Z Unnamed
Title/Description Contents List
Karin, ND
Laurel and Bob, 13 October
Lu, 15 June 1980
M[...] (Signature not legible), ND
Mallory, 13 May 1979
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Marcelino, ND
Mary, 25 April 1979
Melissa, [1982]
Michelle and Miguel, ND
Mike (Walnut Creek), 23 August
Missy, 25 April 1979
Newman, ND
Noelle, 27 October 2002
Natale, ND
P R, 1995
Robin, June 1983
Shelley, ND
Ted and Cathy, ND
Toby, 8 August 1981
Wanda, 15 May 1978
Unnamed
10. Professional Financial Correspondence, A - M, to and from MNK
Title/Description Contents List
Anderson Valley Advertiser
Bottomfish Magazine
California Arts Council
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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California Poets in the Schools
Conari Press
Continuing Presences - Koolish, Lynda (Stanford University)
Coyote Valley Tribal Council
Diocese of Oakland (California)
D-Q University
Friends of the Noyo (see also William Ray correspondence)
Inez Foster Elementary School, San Antonio, TX
John Swett Unified School District, Crockett, CA
Kennedy High School, Sacramento, CA
Little Magazine
Mendocino College
Mendocino County Courthouse
Mendocino County Library
Mendocino County School District
Merlin Press
11. Professional Financial Correspondence, N - Z and Miscellaneous, to andfrom MNK
Title/Description Contents List
National Endowment for the Arts
National Institute for Mental Health
P.E.N. American Center
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Performing Tree
Pot Shard Press
Prairie Home Companion
Redwood Nation Earth First!
San Francisco Oracle
San Francisco Public Library
Shell Oil Company
Sonoma State University
Thurston Auto Plaza
Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research andImprovement
University of Rochester
Who's Who in Poetry 1978
Willits Art Commission
Writers Read
Miscellaneous Professional Financial Correspondence
12. Professional Correspondence, to Oyez - Hawley, Robert (Bob) and fromMNK
Box 5: Public appearances; Activism materials; Awards
Title/Description Contents List
1. Public appearances, Activism materials and Awards
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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2. Coyote Valley Reservation
3. California Poets in the Schools
4. Teaching
5. Dominican Sisters
6. Sanctuary Station
7. MNK's activist activities. Includes songs, rally fliers, speeches, letters, andother misc.
8. Activism, continued
9. Awards and Honors
Box 6: Miscellaneous manuscripts; Biographical information; Personal Ephemera
Title/Description Contents List
1. MNK's Notebooks
2. Pieces from manuscripts and compilations of MNK's work and MNK's workwith other people.
3. Miscellaneous of handwritten poems, prose, notes and drawings by MNK.
4. Poetry by Others
5. Articles Reviews
6. Rainy Day Women Press
7. Biographical Information, written by MNK and others.
8. MNK's accident, February 5, 1970
9. Personal Ephemera
10. Miscellaneous Ephemera
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Box 7: A/V Materials
Title/Description Contents List
1. Judi Bari Medical Benefit, Willits, CA, February 2, 1997
Title/Description Contents List
The Noyo Ridge Rabbit
Jump Into the American River
Because the FBI Investigated Louie Louie
Meet Me in Carlotta on Sept. 15
2. Miscellaneous Files
Title/Description Contents List
Have Seen You By the Blind
Drawing by MNK
Poem for Joan Baer
Pg. 2, Letter to Patchens
Pg. 1, Letter to Mr. Mrs. Patchen
Poem, A New Flower
Patchen Tribute I
Patchen Tribute II
3. Five Poets of Willits Read "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman, October 28,2006
4. Mary Norbert Korte, Luck and Love, Mendecino, February 13, 2009
5. Mary Norbert Korte: Poetry 2004
6. Mary Norbert Korte, Willits, CA, April 2008
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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7. Mary Norbert Korte, 2005
8. Richard Peek Mary Norbert Korte; dialogue of the collection
Box 8: Photographs and surrogate images
Title/Description Contents List
1. CDs of photographs
2. Photographs of Mary Norbert Korte
3. Photographs of other subjects
4. Surrogate images, computer printouts, photocopied items, and newspaperclippings
5. Negatives
Box 9: Miscellaneous Ephemera - T-shirt, California Poets Society
Box 10: Oversized Ephemera
Title/Description Contents List
1. Matted poem about MNK's father with a photograph of him, 2006-2007
2. Photograph of MNK as a child
3. Four posters for public appearances, 1990-2010
4. Three miscellaneous broadsides:
Title/Description Contents List
Repeated on Rainbows Dancing, compiled at random, San Hedrin High Schoolstudents in Poetry Workshop, 1983-1984 (2 copies)
Magic Chant, by Maria Cockroft, California Poets in the Schools Workshop,1982
War is not healthy...
5. Six broadsides of MNK's poems:
Mary Norbert Korte papers
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Title/Description Contents List
The Big Five-Oh (2 copies, one signed with inscription)
Incineration (in 3 pieces, signed)
The jester is not always volunteer (1 copy, signed)
Noyo Redwoods Jubilee, 16 October 2010 (1 copy, signed with inscription)
Utterly Cool, February 2009 (3 copies, 1 signed)
Jumping into the American River, 18 May 1984 (2 copies, 1 signed)