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Doubletake photography12/21/2023 Topics include Inman's poems, publication work, and his political activites. The addition (accession #2002-0143) (2250 items, 3.60 linear feet dated 1982-2001) consists primarily of incoming and outgoing personal correspondence. It also includes typescript poetry by Inman as Bill McGirt, 1940-1956 other poetry by Inman professional correspondence and a journal kept by Inman, 2000-2001. The addition (accession #2001-0195) (1676 items, 2.7 linear feet dated 1940-2001, bulk 1976-2001) comprises mainly personal correspondence to and from Inman and Jimmy Santiago Baca, 1971-1995, including typescript poetry. 1910, chiefly mounted in albums, as well as Inman's baby book from 1923. There are also photographs of the McGirt family from ca. The collection contains clippings of these early published works as well as clippings of Inman's mid 1960's newspaper column "Conchsounds in the Hills." Inman regularly published his early work in newspapers in North Carolina. This collection also contains copies of several of the anthologies and literary magazines where Inman published his work and several of the poetic monographs that Inman authored. In organizing this collection, Inman's notebooks were discarded, but the typescripts maintain the order they held while bound in the notebooks, and serve to provide a chronological overview of Inman's published and unpublished writings. He kept typescript copies of his poems and other writings, ordering them chronologically into notebooks, and recording publication information onto the typescripts. Inman also kept detailed records concerning his completed writings. The diaries also include information about the poetry he is working on and several include typescripts of completed poems. In his diaries Inman recorded daily events, poetic inspirations, and his responses to world events. Inman's copious diaries provide almost daily detail of his life from 1950-1994. The collection holds many of Inman's out going correspondence as he regularly kept copies of his own letters. Inman was also in regular contact with the editors and publishers of various literary magazines and the letters to these individuals document his efforts to publish his work. Inman protested in favor of civil rights, ending the war in Vietnam, and various environmental causes, and his letters reflect his thoughts and opinions on these subjects. These letters to public and political figures express admiration and voice concerns about political events and social conditions. He also regularly wrote to political and social figures during the 1960s. Inman was a prolific corespondent and maintained regular correspondent relationships with his friends and family, as well as with his readers and other editors and authors. The correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, clippings, and printed material in the Will Inman Papers span from 1939-1999, and serve to document the life and literary career of the poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher.
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