Jim Cohn Papers, 1953-2019
15.5 Linear Feet — 19 manuscript boxes, 2 record boxes, 4 oversize boxes
The correspondence series is made up of letters Cohn sent and received throughout his career. Cohn sorted the correspondence according to the person he was corresponding with, making special room for his two primary correspondents, fellow poets David Cope and Randy Roark.
The ASL Poetry and Poetics, Beat and Postbeat Studies, and Disability series contain records of Cohn's research, writings, and work related to each subject. Similarly, the Research Notebooks contain materials related to Cohn's archival research about poets Paul Blackburn and Ezra Pound.
The Audio Files and Books in Print files series are papers relating to Cohn's recordings and publications, respectively. Related A/V materials were placed in the A/V series, while published books were separated for cataloging.
The Education, Juvenilia, and Photographs series contain papers, photography, and artifacts from Cohn's personal life from childhood through the 2000s.
The Editor/Co-editor and Publisher series consist of magazines that Cohn helped edit or publish, as well as files related to the same.
The Manuscripts series contains Cohn's manuscripts, organized by genre.
Fine Arts includes two of Cohn's art projects, making paper and printing poetry on Tibetan prayer flags.
The Promotional Materials series includes papers relating to Cohn's public career and self-promotion, as well as performance reviews from a former job. The Interviews series contains both interviews of Cohn and interviews with other poets conducted by Cohn.
The Teaching Guides series are papers related to poetry workshops Cohn has taught.
The Museum of American Poetics series consists of printouts of various sections and updates to the website over the years.
Finally, the A/V materials series largely consists of CD and tape recordings of Cohn's spoken word music poetry. Also included are CD backups of the MAP website, recordings of Allen Ginsberg, and Ann Waldman's 2003 film, "Makeup on Empty Space." Please reach out to the Special Collections Research Center for information about accessing these materials.