“Wedding” of the Folios
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016The University Libraries and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (B&ECPL) commemorated the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with a Wedding of the Folios on October …
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A Poetry Reading & Book Launch for Ansie Baird
Friday, September 9th, 2016Please join us for a celebration of Ansie Baird’s new book of poems The Solace of Islands published by BlazeVOX [books]. Wednesday, September 14th at 7:30pm Copies of …
The Third Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Event
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016Featuring a lecture by Donald Sheehy, Professor of English at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and co-editor of The Letters of Robert Frost, a five-volume scholarly edition from Harvard …
Robert Bertholf, 1940-2016
Thursday, February 25th, 2016Robert Bertholf, 1940-2016 The Poetry Collection mourns the loss of its longtime curator Robert J. Bertholf, who died February 19 at his home in Austin, Texas. A graduate …
Poetic History: Archivist documents 50 years of poetic history
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015Last year, the Poetry Collection received a $150,600 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to catalog and create online finding aids for the editorial …
Spiritualism in Special Collections: on display from the Marion H. Skidmore Library
Monday, November 23rd, 2015After a great presentation on the history of Spiritualism and channeled works, which started right here in Western New York, given by Mandi Shepp on Monday 11/16, she …
Notice of construction 11/30 – 12/11
Monday, November 23rd, 2015Please excuse the dust and noise. Heart of the Campus renovations will be taking place in the 3rd – 4th floor stairwell outside of Special Collections November 30 …
Library Artifact: Milton Hebald’s miniature bronze sculpture of James Joyce
Thursday, October 29th, 2015Part of the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection, this 1966 bronze maquette of James Joyce (13 ½ x 7 x 5 ½”) by Milton Hebald (American, 1917-2015) is …
Poetry Collection Staff Featured in The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections
Monday, October 19th, 2015Michael Basinski, Marie Elia, James Maynard, and Edric Mesmer are featured in “Acts of Curation: The Curating of Poetry & The Poetics of Curating” in the inaugural issue …
An Evening with Irving Feldman, October 8th, 2015
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7pm UB Anderson Gallery | Doors open at 6:30 Irving Feldman, poet and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English, arrived in Buffalo in 1964 …