Biographical / Historical Note
Daniel Halpern (1945-) is the founder of Ecco Press and the National Poetry Series.
Summary
Manuscript and typescript poems submitted to Daniel Halpern for the National Poetry Series. Includes letters and poetry submissions from Dan Beachy-Quick, Richard Blanco, Robert Bly, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Tom Healy, Thomas Lux, D. Nurkse, Stanley Plumly, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, and Matthew Zapruder. Also includes two typescript drafts of poems by Gary Soto; a typescript letter, signed, from Soto to Halpern discussing changes made in the typescript drafts; and a printed chapbook of Soto's Gil Mendez & the Metaphysics of a Blimp (Toledo, Ohio : Aureole Press, University of Toledo, 2003).