The poet and translator has won numerous awards and prizes and writes about travel expenses for a poetry reading at Stony Brook, a softball game, and Bob Mezey

About some Alberti translations, translating in general in the U.S., and James Laughlin, publisher of New Directions

The publisher of New Directions sends a response to a publishing query, offering various names and giving useful advice way beyond the requirements of a response to an ordinary query letter from an unknown writer

The poet writes about trying to place a review of Jim Harrison's Plain Song

About trying to place a review of Jim Harrison's Plain Song

The poet and anthologist and winner of Lamont Poetry Prize, The Poet's Prize, and other awards who was also a teacher at Fresno State University, University of Utah, and Claremont sends notes for a "blurb" for book cover

A typewritten poem, an acrostic spelling Thomas Gatten, inscribed and signed. Included is a copy of Bob Mezey's The Door Standing Open in which the poem appears.

From Spanish surrealist poet and writer Rafael Alberti, granting permission to publish English translations and his Spanish poems

The poet and editor of Art and Literature, an international review published in Lausanne, writes about a story submitted to the review

The poet, writer, and former ambassador of Ghana to Brazil, Cuba, and the UN; author of The Breast of the Earth, a survey of the history, culture, and literature of Africa south of the Sahara; This Earth My Brother; Ride Me Memory, etc., writes to inform of book completion

Invitation to Africa

As ambassador to Brazil. Personal letter

Attending the Congress of P.E.N., thank-you letter for February 28, no problem with African character being from Ghana