This collection consists of the working files of the poet and publisher Morgan Schuldt. Included are drafts of his poetry that include Schuldt's annotations and edits and thirteen hard and soft bound journals that include Schuldt's writing as well as other poetry of interest to him. Also included are documents related to his time at University of Virginia and other institutions, chapbooks, and his work for CUE and CUE editions which Schuldt co-founded.
Poet and publisher, Morgan Lucas Schuldt passed away on January 30, 2012, from complications of Cystic Fibrosis; he was 33 years old. The son of Barbara Schuldt and Murray Dychtwald, Morgan was born and raised in Toms River, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Virginia in 2000. He earned an MFA in Poetry in 2002 and an MA in English Literature in 2007 from the University of Arizona and became an adjunct professor there teaching Poetry. Tucson became his inspiration and where he pursued a career in writing, editing, and teaching. He was the author of "Verge," (2007) a collection of poems published by Free Verse Editions, three chapbooks, and "erros" Poems, (2013) published posthumously. He co-founded "Cue" a journal of prose poems and CUE Editions, a Poetry Press. Based in Tucson, Arizona, CUE Editions is an independent micro-press that specializes in limited-edition, hand-made chapbooks by new and established poets.
His poems appeared in over thirty print and online journals, including "American Letters and Commentary," "Coconut," "CutBank," "Diagram," "EOAGH," "Fence," "Gulf Coast," "H_NGM_N," "Hotel AmeriKa," "LIT," "The Massachusetts Review," "Notre Dame Review," "Pleiades," "Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics," "Verse," and "West Branch." His poems were anthologized in "Best New Poets 2007" (University of Virginia Press, 2007), "The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel" (No Tell Books, 2007), and "Prose Poetry / Flash Fiction: An Anthology" (Starcherone Books, 2006).
Information taken from https://poetry.arizona.edu/visit/about-poetry-center/reading-lecture-series/morgan-lucas-schuldt-memorial-reading and https://thebreathefoundation.org/about-us/about-morgan-lucas-schuldt/
This collection was given to the University of Virginia Special Collections Library on April 8. 2020, by Boyer Rickel.
This collection is open for research use.
It was published in the fall of 2009 by CUE Editions.
Includes "As Vanish, Unespecially" by Morgan Schuldt, "In Common Salt" by G.C Waldrep and "Lately, even the rain is sounding holy."
Includes Dan Beachy-Quick "A January Notebook", "Reviews", "Diminished Reference and the Model Reader," "The Politics of the Referent," and "Body and Language" by Bruce Andrews.
Includes excerpts from "The Solo Mysterioso Blues: An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Calvin Bedient and an Elisabeth Frost Interview with Harryette Mullen.
Includes Notes on Harryette Mullen, a poem by Kevin McFadden, and copies of a variety of poems.
Includes: "The Pornographer at Work", "Mercy", "Browsing the Adult Section", "Taste" and "Wine Tasting."
Includes a postcard, newspaper clipping, copy of "Every man in his humour" by William F. Bynum (2007), copy of "Blood and bile and phlegm, oh my" by Andrew O'Hehir (2007) and copy of "Lunguage" (2009.
Includes note or entry from "Vesalius' Journal" (1536) and "The Fabric: A Poet's Vesalius" by Heather McHugh.
Includes drafts of poems eventually published in "Erros" and other poems both typed and handwritten, with a variety of edits.
Includes various writings such as "Mottetti-Poems of Love" (1990), Tenney Nathanson's "Collage and Pulverization in Contemporary American Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Controlling Interests", "Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry", "The Ecstasy of Influence" by Jonathan Lethem, and "Late Victorians San Francisco, AIDS, and the Homosexual Stereotype" by Richard Rodriguez.
Includes: a newspaper clipping on Joan Miró, two printed photographs of artwork and a partial copy of "The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly."
Includes two newspaper clippings (Three articles), "Odor Decoder" by John Lanchester, "Creaturely" by Devin Johnston and "Taking Place" by Nicholas Howe.
Includes teaching portfolio templates, statement of purpose templates, poems, class worksheets, printed copies of books and syllabi.
Includes documents and a contract with Parlor Press for publication of "Verge." Includes a book order, flyers, a copy of "Free Verse Editions" edited by Jon Thompson and a receipt.
Includes a copy of "Rage and Bone", two copies of "Virginia literary review", clippings of "The Retreat of Eros" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt, "One Little Doorway and One Big Head: Being John Malkovich" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt and "The End of Innocence: Lawn Retrospective 2000" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt.
These personal journals include notes, quotes, poems and drafts of poems, analysis of poems, poems by others, title and poem ideas, word and phrase experimentation, essays, hand-draw illustrations, reading lists, influence lists, addresses and contact information, and to-do lists when out of the hospital. Some also contain ideas for photographic series, lecture notes, lists of books to get, and lists of poetry books. The built-in portfolios in the back of the journals also contain poetry, news clippings, business cards, printed material, etc.
These personal journals include notes, quotes, poems and drafts of poems, analysis of poems, poems by others, title and poem ideas, word and phrase experimentation, essays, hand-draw illustrations, reading lists, influence lists, addresses and contact information, and to-do lists when out of the hospital. Some also contain ideas for photographic series, lecture notes, lists of books to get, and lists of poetry books. The built-in portfolios in the back of the journals also contain poetry, news clippings, business cards, printed material, etc.