Rejection letter from the New York Quarterly
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Rejection letter from the New York Quarterly
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Description
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A rejection letter in two pages from the New York Quarterly. The first page is typewritten, with a handwritten note, while the second page is handwritten. The first page states: “The editors regret that the enclosed manuscript does not meet the needs of the magazine at this time. But we appreciate your letting us look at this material, and we hope that you will send us more of your work in the future.’ There is a handwritten note that states, “William Packard is interested in your work and would like to see more poems- 3 to 5 at a time.”. The second page is handwritten, and is to Louise Kertesz from someone(?) that has signed their name on the bottom. The letter states that NYC doesn't do reviews, and that they are sorry about that. It then goes on to say that it is too bad that Louise couldn’t be at the banquet in honor of Muriel Rukeyser, and that they would have been pleased to have Louise say something in her honor about her and her work. It then goes on to ask if Louise had sent a copy of the manuscript to the Poetry Society of America library, and gives the address for the library. Then, the letter states that the picture of Muriel with her mother is haunting, and that she looks so mature, she could be the mother. The letter ends by asking Louise to continue sending them her work. A postscript on the other side of the second page says that in this group of poems, the writer liked ‘Staying/Going’ best. A second Postscript says that the writer showed the book to Dennis Bernstein, who used to work for WBAI-Radio in New York City, and that he was quite impressed with it.
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UNKNOWN
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Paper
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Subject
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New York Quarterly; rejection letter; publication; William Packard; reviews; Muriel Rukeyser; Dennis Bernstein; WBAI-Radio; mother; poetry; women in poetry; the poetic vision of muriel Rukeyser
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Collection Location
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Box 1 Folder 21
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Latitude Brown
