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Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ; oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development, Freshkills Park, Staten Island, N.Y. Born and raised on Long Island, lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar College, moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ;oral history
Field of study: neuroscience and behavior. Current occupation: Freshkills Park Manager for Science and Research Development. Born and raised on Long Island; lived in San Francisco briefly after Vassar; moved to Brooklyn. Keywords: LGBTQ; oral history; queer; Long Island; San Francisco; Colgate
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| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
|---|---|
| Creator: | Bartlett, Amy |
| Title: | Amy Bartlett Papers |
| Dates: | 1979-2000 |
| Quantity: | 1 cubic feet (1 box) |
| Abstract: | Poems and manuscripts from the life and career of American poet and poetry editor, Amy Bartlett. |
Amy Bartlett was a poet and poetry editor. She was born March 18, 1949 to Eliot Fitch and Christine Price Bartlett and grew up in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1972, she graduated from Vassar College and in 1985 she received a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from New York University. She died in 2004 at the age of 54.
TopThe collection includes typescript poems and manuscripts with handwritten editorial notes. Most materials are not dated.
TopThis collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Permission to quote (publish) from previously published material must be obtained in writing from Persea Books. Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished material must be obtained in writing from Byron Bartlett.
Encoded by Adrienne Turner, October 2008. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, October 2025.
TopAmy Bartlett Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Collection processed by Adrienne Turner, October 2008.
Bequest of the Bartlett Estate, 2005. (M2005-015)
| Folder 1 | Counting Your Friends, 1981 Jul 1 (10 pages) |
| Folder 2 | Counting Your Friends, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 3 | Snow, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 4 | Snow, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 5 | The Wake, undated (3 pages) |
| Folder 6 | Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "MS"), undated (41 pages) |
| Folder 7 | Temporary Measures, undated (4 pages) |
| Folder 8 | Home, undated (6 pages) |
| Folder 9 | Parents Sleeping, undated (9 pages) |
| Folder 10 | Tenebrae, undated (6 pages) |
| Folder 11 | Pound Ridge, 1982 Mar 10 (11 pages) |
| Folder 12 | Uncle Morris, 1982 May 2 (9 pages) |
| Folder 13 | Everything Personal, undated (19 pages) |
| Folder 14 | Awaiting Trial, 2 Nov 1981 (11 pages) |
| Folder 15 | From My Window, undated (2 pages) |
| Folder 16 | Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "Amy Bartlett Poems"), undated (12 pages) |
| Folder 17 | Eating Out, undated (2 pages) |
| Folder 18 | Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "Amy Bartlett Poems"), undated (13 pages) |
| Folder 19 | Miscellaneous poem drafts (original folder titled "Amy Bartlett Poems"), undated (5 pages) |
| Folder 20 | Empire State Building, undated (2 pages) |
| Folder 21 | On Learning of…, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 22 | Mudfish, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 23 | For a Boy…, undated (2 pages) |
| Folder 24 | Windfall, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 25 | For My Brother…, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 26 | Old House, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 27 | Now, undated (1 page) |
| Folder 28 | New Ice, undated (82 pages) |
| Folder 29 | Award letter from the Academy of American Poets at New York University acknowledging Bartlett’s 1982 "Prize for Poetry" win, 1983 Jun 1 (1 page) |
| Folder 30 | Visiting Hour, 1982 Mar 24 (6 pages) |
| Folder 31 | The Visiting Hour, 1984 Apr 3 (64 pages) |
| Folder 32 | Hart Crane paper NYU, 1984 Mar 3 (20 pages) |
| Folder 33 | The Walk, undated (8 pages) |
| Folder 34 | In Winter, undated (3 pages) |
| Folder 35 | One Childhood, undated (79 pages) |
| Folder 36 | Across the River, undated (17 pages) |
| Folder 37 | On a Sixty-fifth Birthday, undated (7 pages) |
| Folder 38 | Millennium, 2000 Jan 1 (3 pages) |
| Folder 39 | On the Escalator, undated (39 pages) |
| Folder 40 | Short stories – Dean Albarelli, 1992 Aug (58 pages) |
| Folder 41 | Short story drafts and news clipping (original folder titled "Memoir") , circa 1993 (19 pages) |
| Folder 42 | The East River, undated (5 pages) |
| Folder 43 | At Church, undated (6 pages) |
| Folder 44 | Going Back, undated (29 pages) |
| Folder 45 | Mathews tutorial, 1986 Spring (11 letters) |
| Folder 46 | Mathews tutorial, 1987 Spring (30 pages) |
| Folder 47 | Childhood prose poem, 1979 (4 pages) |
| Folder 48 | Alicia, undated (77 pages) |
| Folder 49 | The Strays, undated (15 pages) |
| Folder 50 | The Lichen, undated (43 pages) |
| Folder 51 | Memorial service, 1992 May 9 (2 pages) |
| Folder 52 | On the Corner, undated (14 pages) |
| Folder 53 | Looking for my Father’s Father, undated (34 pages) |
| Folder 54 | Willoware – see "The Strays", undated (4 pages) |
| Folder 55 | Leukepheresis, undated (10 pages) |
| Folder 56 | On the Subway, undated (8 pages) |
| Folder 57 | The Other Wife, undated (95 pages) |
| Folder 58 | Afterwards manuscript, 1984 Jun 11 |
| Folder 59 | Graduate thesis: The Window on the Ground, undated |
| Folder 60 | The 86th Street Transverse, undated (11 pages) |
| Folder 61 | Sunday Afternoon, undated (14 pages) |
| Folder 62 | Holding Back, undated (20 pages) |
| Folder 63 | The End (Holding On), undated (33 pages) |
| Folder 64 | The Rainbow Room, undated (16 pages) |
| Folder 65 | The Dead, undated (24 pages) |
| Folder 66 | Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages) |
| Folder 67 | Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages) |
| Folder 68 | Late in the Day, undated (35 pages) |
| Folder 69 | Flying, undated (7 pages) |
| Folder 70 | The Estuary, undated (33 pages) |
| Folder 71 | The Estuary, undated (33 pages) |
| Folder 72 | To a Traveler, undated (16 pages) |
| Folder 73 | The Valley Road, undated (39 pages) |
| Folder 74 | The Potato Chip, undated (3 pages) |
| Folder 75 | 2 A.M., undated (9 pages) |
| Folder 76 | Bone Marrow Harvest, undated (7 pages) |
| Folder 77 | Urgent Care, undated (20 pages) |
| Folder 78 | Scars, undated (11 pages) |
| Folder 79 | Mastectomies, undated (13 pages) |
| Folder 80 | Chest X-ray, undated (9 pages) |
| Folder 81 | Antarctica, undated (16 pages) |
| Folder 82 | Drafts, 1983 Summer/Fall (51 pages) |
| Folder 83 | The Wake, undated (22 pages) |
| Folder 84 | Love in the Same Name, undated (23 pages) |
| Folder 85 | Draft for "Afterwards", undated (53 pages) |
| Folder 86 | The Spotted Seal, short story draft, undated (40 pages) |
| Folder 64 | The Rainbow Room, undated (16 pages) |
| Folder 65 | The Dead, undated (24 pages) |
| Folder 66 | Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages) |
| Folder 67 | Avery’s Gore, undated (14 pages) |
| Folder 68 | Late in the Day, undated (35 pages) |
| Folder 69 | Flying, undated (7 pages) |
| Folder 70 | The Estuary, undated (33 pages) |
| Folder 71 | The Estuary, undated (33 pages) |
| Folder 72 | To a Traveler, undated (16 pages) |
| Folder 73 | The Valley Road, undated (39 pages) |
| Folder 74 | The Potato Chip, undated (3 pages) |
| Folder 75 | 2 A.M., undated (9 pages) |
| Folder 76 | Bone Marrow Harvest, undated (7 pages) |
| Folder 77 | Urgent Care, undated (20 pages) |
| Folder 78 | Scars, undated (11 pages) |
| Folder 79 | Mastectomies, undated (13 pages) |
| Folder 80 | Chest X-ray, undated (9 pages) |
| Folder 81 | Antarctica, undated (16 pages) |
| Folder 82 | Drafts, 1983 Summer/Fall (51 pages) |
| Folder 83 | The Wake, undated (22 pages) |
| Folder 84 | Love in the Same Name, undated (23 pages) |
| Folder 85 | Draft for "Afterwards", undated (53 pages) |
| Folder 86 | The Spotted Seal, short story draft, undated (40 pages) |
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Poems and manuscripts from the life
and career of American poet and poetry editor, Amy Bartlett.
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