Title: Phyllis Walsh papers
Inclusive Dates: 1975-2009

Creators:

• Hummingbird Press

• Walsh, Phyllis

Unique Identifier: Collection ZZ

Quantity:

• 4.0 Linear Feet
• 3 records storage cartons, 1 flat box

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of Special Collections

Abstract:

The Phyllis Walsh papers (1975-2009) consist of materials about "Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem" from the magazine's first editor, Phyllis Walsh (1928-2012). The collection mainly includes correspondence between Walsh and other poets, notably Cid Corman. There is also correspondence and invoices with businesses and bookstores, drafts and manuscripts of other works published by the Hummingbird Press, and poem submissions for various volumes of the magazine. Also included in this collection are numerous original poems, drafts and notes of manuscripts, submissions and correspondence to other magazines and presses, and an early scrapbook prior to the start of the Hummingbird Presspoems.

Language: English .

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Phyllis Walsh grew up on a farm near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin in 1928. She received her B.A. from Milton College. She then attended UW-Madison where she recieved her M.A. in Library Science in 1957. She was the library director and children's literature instructor at UW-Richland Library. After a cerebral aneurysm ruptured in 1975, Walsh underwent surgery from which she had less than a 50% chance of recovery. While recovering from the surgery, Walsh began to seriously work as a poet. She retired as a librarian in 1987. Three years later, Walsh would establish the Hummingbird Press and the "Hummingbird" magazine.

"Hummingbird: Magazine of the Short Poem" was established in 1990 by Walsh with strong encouragement from friend and poet, Cid Corman. Located in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Walsh was the editor of the "Hummingbird" for twenty-two volumes until her death in 2012. While the Hummingbird Press is most known for it's little magazine, the "Hummingbird", it also published several other works of poetry by poets Vincent Tripi and Wally Swist.

The Phyllis Walsh papers consists of materials about the magazine and materials by Phyllis Walsh, the magazine's first editor. Materials about the magazine contains mainly correspondence between Walsh and other poets, notably Cid Corman. Additional correspondence and invoices with businesses and bookstores, drafts and manuscripts of other works published by the Hummingbird Press, and poem submissions and drafts for select issuse of the magazine are included.

Items by Phyllis Walsh include numerous original poems, drafts and notes of manuscripts, submissions and correspondence to other magazines and presses, and an early scrapbook prior to the start of the Hummingbird Press.

This collection includes no known access restrictions.

Collection materials may be subject to laws governing rights. Researchers are solely responsible for determining the rights status of the materials they use. Permission may be required for some uses such as publication or reproduction.

Gift of Theresa Walsh, 2016

Issues of the "Hummingbird" magazine are held at Special Collections, in the Little Magazines collection.

Little magazinesAmerican poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals

Box [89130049448]   1   folder 1	Ammons, Don correspondence 1992-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 2	Beam, Jeffery correspondence 1997-1998
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 3	Blei, Norbert correspondence July 2003
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 4	Cooney, Ellen correspondence and poems 1994-1996
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 5	Correspondence, from Cid Corman to Phyllis Walsh 1986-1990
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 6	Correspondence, from Cid Corman to Phyllis Walsh 1991-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 7	Correspondence, from Cid Corman to Phyllis Walsh 1994-1999, 2003-2004
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 8	Correspondence, from Phyllis Walsh to Cid Corman 1986-1989
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 9	Correspondence, from Phyllis Walsh to Cid Corman 1990-1991
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 10	Correspondence, from Phyllis Walsh to Cid Corman 1992-1996, 2002
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 11	Daniel, Darrin correspondence 1994-1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 12	Deluty, Robert correspondence 2002-2003
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 13	Dent, Peter correspondence 1991-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 14	Dorsty, George 2004-2006
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 15	Enslin, Theodore correspondence 1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 16	Faust, Clive correspondence and poems 1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 17	Finlay, Alec correspondence 1990-February 1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 18	Finlay, Alec correspondence and miscellaneous notes March 1992-1996, Undated
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 19	Gibson, Morgan correspondence 1994-1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 20	Gibson, Morgan correspondence 1996
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 21	Goldstein, Sanford correspondence 1992-1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 22	Hannon, Michael correspondence 1995-1996
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 23	Higginson, William correspondence 1990
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 24	Imaoka, Keiko correspondence 1994-1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 25	Jorgenson, Jeanna correspondence 2005
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 26	Kacian, Jim correspondence and poems 1995, Undated
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 27	Katz-Levine, Judy correspondence 1991-1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 28	Kempton, Carl correspondence and poems 1995-1997
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 29	Lamb, Elizabeth Searle correspondence 1993-1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 30	Lliteras, Daniel Serafin correspondence 1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 31	MacDonald, Barry correspondence 1990-1991
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 32	MacLeod, Anne correspondence and poems 1998-2000
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 33	Martone, John correspondence 1990-1996
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 34	Mehrhoff, Charlie correspondence and poems 2005-2006
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 35	Montag, Tom correspondence and poems 1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 36	Montag, Tom correspondence 1994-1995, 2001-2005
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 37	Nowak, Mark correspondence 1994
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 38	Noyes, H.F. correspondence and poems 1993-1994, 1998-2005, Undated
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 39	Olson, Marian correspondence 2001-2005
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 40	Olson, Mark correspondence 1990-1996
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 41	Pavelich, David correspondence 2002
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 42	Perlman, John correspondence 1994-1996, Undated
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 43	Reniker, Sherry correspondence 1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 44	Roddan, Brooks correspondence 1992-1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 45	Rosenow, Ce correspondence 1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 46	Roub, G.H. correspondence 1990
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 47	Schuler, Bob [Robert] correspondence and poems 1991-1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 48	Sherman, Bill correspondence 1994
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 49	Smith, Gerard correspondence 1991-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 50	Swist, Wally correspondence about "The Gristmill's Trough" by Swist and other poems February 1991-July 16, 1991
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 51	Swist, Wally correspondence about "The Gristmill's Trough" by Swist and other poems July 26, 1991-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 52	Tagliabue, John correspondence and poems 1996-1998, 2001-2005
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 53	Tarachow, Michael (Pentagram Press) correspondence about "River" by Walsh 1992-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 54	Tripi, Vincent correspondence 2001
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 55	Turnball, Gael correspondence 1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 56	Walter, Gaspari correspondence 1991
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 57	Whaley, Michael correspondence 1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 58	Vieira, John correspondence 1995-1996, 2001, 2005
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 59	Correspondence, miscellaneous 1990-2003
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 60	Cicada, correspondence, submissions, and flyers 1989-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 61	Cornerstones, poems; flyers from the Mevlevi Order of America 1995-1996
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 62	Haiku Headlines, correspondence and submissions 1991
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 63	Haiku Quarterly, correspondence 1991-1993
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 64	Lilliput Review, correspondence 2004
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 65	Longhouse Poetry, correspondence and Winter 1990 catalog 1989-1994
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 66	Mayfly Haiku Magazine, correspondence and submissions 1990-1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 67	Friends of Lorine Niedecker, correspondence 2005
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 68	ORIGIN, correspondence and poems 2006
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 69	Publisher correspondence, 1992
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 70	tel-let, correspondence with John Matrone 1995
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 71	Transactions: The Journal of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, correspondence 1989
Box [89130049448]   1   folder 72	Woodnotes, correspondence 1991-1992
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 1	Photographs and flash drive with scanned photos
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 2	"Board Tests" by Phyllis Walsh, manuscripts 1977-1987
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 3	"Center Stillness" by Phyllis Walsh, correspondence 1986-1990
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 4	"Center Stillness" by Phyllis Walsh, drafts and notes 1986-1990
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 5	"To Find a Rainbow" by Phyllis Walsh, drafts and notes, correspondence about production 1997-1998
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 6	"Lake Superior Haibun" by Phyllis Walsh, manuscript Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 7	"The Neighbor" by Phyllis Walsh, manuscripts 1977-1978, Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 8	"The Neighbor" by Phyllis Walsh, manuscripts 1983-1988, Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 9	"The Newcomer" by Phyllis Walsh, manuscripts 1983-1988
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 10	"Olympic Rainforest" by Phyllis Walsh, correspondence and drafts 1988-1989
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 11	"Quaking Aspen Grove" by Phyllis Walsh, correspondence and drafts 1985
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 12	"River: a Haiku Sequence" by Phyllis Walsh (printed by Pentagram Press), drafts 1993
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 13	"Seasons of Goldfinch" by Phyllis Walsh, correspondence and manuscripts 1987
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 14	"Seasons of Goldfinch" by Phyllis Walsh; poems for Spoon River Press or White Pine Press, 1989
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 15	Short poems, including "Tame Bittersweet" by Phyllis Walsh 1987, 1997
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 16	Phyllis Walsh, poems and writings Spring 1984-1985
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 17	Phyllis Walsh, poems and writings Winter 1984-1985
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 18	UW System Women's Conference, La Crosse 1985
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 19	Poems and correspondence, La Crosse 1987-1988
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 20	Poems and correspondence, La Crosse 1989
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 21	Poems and correspondence, La Crosse 1989
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 22	Poems and correspondence, La Crosse 1990-1992
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 23	Submissions for Wisconsin Poet's Calendar, 1991
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 24	Poems by Phyllis Walsh and friends; draft of chapter 11 of "A Major Woman: the Life of Anna Wickham, poet" Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 25	Phyllis Walsh, poems in progress 1996-1999, Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 26	Phyllis Walsh, submitted poems 1997-1999
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 27	Miscellaneous poems, mostly by Phyllis Walsh 1999-2003, Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 28	Miscellaneous poems, mostly by Phyllis Walsh 2004-2007
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 29	Notes and newspaper clippings on Lorine Niedecker, 1985-1986, Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 30	Writings and other materials about Niedecker, 1985-1986, Undated
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 31	"Lorine Niedecker: a Feminine Sensibility" by Phyllis Walsh, drafts and correspondence (with John Judson) 1987
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 32	"Why We Should Hurry Home: Niedecker's Earth Ethic" by Phyllis Walsh, drafts and correspondence (with John Judson) 1988-1989
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 33	Juniper Press, correspondence about "Explorations: Poetry of Lorine Niedecker" by Phyllis Walsh 1989
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 34	"Niedecker's Last Years" by Phyllis Walsh, drafts and correspondence (with John Judson) 1990
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 35	"Lorine Niedecker: Solitary Plover" by Phyllis Walsh, correspondence with John Judson (editor, Juniper Press) January 1991-September 15, 1991
Box [89130049455]   2   folder 36	"Lorine Niedecker: Solitary Plover" by Phyllis Walsh, correspondence with John Judson (editor, Juniper Press); misc. corrections of drafts September 21, 1991-1992
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 1	ISBN records and correspondence, 1991-2000
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 2	Copyright, certificates of registration and correspondence 1989-2005
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 3	Hummingbird, V.1 No.1, submissions and drafts September 1990
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 4	Hummingbird, V.4 No.1 Cid Corman issue, submissions September 1993
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 5	Hummingbird, V.4 No.2 Bob Arnold issue, submissions March 1994
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 6	Hummingbird, V.5 No.2 Tom Montag issue, submissions December 1994
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 7	Hummingbird, V.5 No.3 Elizabeth Searle Lamb issue, submissions March 1995
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 8	Hummingbird, V.5 No.4 Sanford Goldstein issue, submissions June 1995
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 9	Hummingbird, V.6 No.1 Brooks Roddan issue, submissions September 1995
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 10	Hummingbird, V.6 No.2 Charlie Mehrhoff issue, submissions December 1995
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 11	Hummingbird, V.6 No.3 Ellen Cooney issue, submissions March 1996
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 12	Hummingbird, V.6 No.4 Gibson Morgan issue, submissions June 1996
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 13	Hummingbird, V.7 No.1 John Vieira issue, submissions September 1996
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 14	Hummingbird, V.7 No.2 John Perlman issue, submissions December 1996
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 15	Hummingbird, V.7 No.3 Michael Hannon issue, submissions March 1997
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 16	Hummingbird, V.8 No.1 John Tagliabue issue, submissions September 1997
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 17	Hummingbird, V.8 No.2 Karl Kempton issue, submissions December 1997
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 18	Hummingbird, V.9 No.1 Jeffery Beam issue, submissions September 1998
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 19	Hummingbird, V.14 No.4 Cid Corman memorial issue, submissions June 2004
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 20	Hummingbird, V.18 No.2, submissions March 2008
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 21	Hummingbird, V.19 No.1, submissions September 2008
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 22	Hummingbird. V.19 No.2 (never published), submissions March 2009
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 23	Poem submissions, B and unnamed
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 24	Poem submissions, C-R
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 25	Poem submissions, S-W
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 26	Drawing by T. Walsh, Undated
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 27	Illustrations for Hummingbird, originals 1993-2004
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 28	"Monk & I" by Vincent Tripi, published by Hummingbird Press, drafts and notes 2001
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 29	Avol's Bookstore, invoices 2002-2005
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 30	"Ben Zen: the More I Know" by Tom Montag, published by Hummingbird Press, invoices and correspondence 2000-2003
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 31	Bookstore invoices, 1991-1993
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 32	EBSCO invoices, 2005-2006
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 33	"Gristmill's Trough" by Wally Swist, published by Hummingbird Press, invoices and correspondence 1991-1994
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 34	"Monk & I" by Vincent Tripi, invoices 2001-2003
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 35	Murphy Library, UW-La Crosse, invoices and correspondence 2002
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 36	Ocooch Books, invoices 2005-2007
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 37	UW-Madison Rare Book Department, invoices and correspondence 1990-1992
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 38	Woodland Patterns, invoices 1999-2007
Box [89130049463]   3   folder 39	Yale University Library, invoices and correspondence 2002
Box [89130048374]   4	Phyllis Walsh scrapbook, with correspondence, poems, and newspaper clippings 1975-1982
Box [89130048374]   4   folder 1	Correspondence (found tucked in back of scrapbook), 1975-1987