April is National Poetry Month! Emory is home to the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which houses a collection of over 75,000 volumes of rare and first editions of modern and contemporary poetry. Within the Danowski collection are issues of Beatitude, a Beatnik-era “little” magazine first published in 1959. The magazine featured a number of works Read More …
Ada Limón, the current US poet laureate, will give a public reading at Emory University on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, at 3 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium. Books will be for sale at the reading, with a signing immediately following the event. Attendees can register for the reading, which is open to the public at no Read More …
Keep On Truckin’ Poster, R. Crumb, 1967 Share Related Story: MARBL Stories: Raymond Danowski Related Links: R. Crumb Finding Aid The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Join the discussion The Raymond Danowski and John Martin collection of R. Crumb material is a new addition to the manuscripts at MARBL and has recently been fully processed. Read More …
Gilbert & George are famous British visual and conceptual artists who have been working together since they met in art school in 1967. The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library contains two of their “postal sculptures,” “The Limericks” from 1971 and “Pink Elephants” from 1973. As Gilbert & George conceived it a postal sculpture was a series Read More …
One of the more curious items to come to light during the unpacking of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library was a volume of poems in Italian called L’alito eterna by the obscure Italian poet Renata Pescanti Botta. What made this book so intriguing was that the margins and empty space in the first half were Read More …
Cataloging the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library has revealed some surprising treasures. One of the less obvious ones was a book by John Lennon that sat uncataloged on a shelf for a number of years because it didn't look that special. Turns out that it was. The book is a slim volume titled “Power to the Read More …
