Series II: Correspondence, 1964-1997, inclusive

This series includes typed and handwritten letters, postcards, greeting cards, original envelopes, and attachments, including photographs. The bulk of the correspondence was received by Karen Swenson but there are a few folders of letters written by Swenson. Folders in boxes 1, 2, and 3 note correspondence with Bruce Berger, Michael Blumenthal , Charles Altieri, [?] Bell, Carol Berge, Robert Boyers, Christopher Brookhouse, Helen Brown, Michael Browne, Jean Burden, John Ciardi, Tony Connor, Mary Crow, George Cuomo, Ki Davis, Richard Eberhart, Kathleen Fraser, Dana Gioia, Jorie Graham, W. S. Graham, Hilda Gregory, Rachel Hadas, Leo Hamalian, Marie Harris, Samuel Hazo, George Hitchcock, Richard Hugo, Lucille Iverson, June Jordan, Donald Justice, George Keithley, X. J. Kennedy, Ismith Kahan, Gallaway Kinnel, Carolyn Kizer, Linda Krenis, Maxine Kumin, Greg Kuzma, Karen Lindsay, Ernest Lookridge, Albert B. Lowenfels, Robert Lowell, Naomi Lazard, Denis Leverton, A. L. Levine, Larry Lieberman, Lyn Lifshin, Pat Madden, Harold Q. Masur, Bill Matthews, Heather McHugh, David Milofsky, Jack Myers, Josephine Nilo, Edward Pennant, Robert Poek, Nilda Raz, M. L. Rosenthal, Stephen Sandy, Reg Saner, Grace Schulman, Peter Sears, Jane Shore, Harry Smith, Kathleen Spirack, Ann Stanford, Ruth Stone, [Mother] Swenson, Helen Susskind, Rawdon Tomlinson, John Updike, John Williams, Martha Winston, Carolyn Wright, Jane Yolen, Al Young, William Zaranke, Betty Kray, Pat Madden, Frank Walker, Elizabeth West, and New York Magazine.