Scope and Contents
The Kore Press Archive contains production and organizational files, correspondence, writings, board meeting minutes, grant proposals, material concerning fundraising, and other related papers, dating from 1993 to 2006. The archive documents the work of founders, Lisa Bowden and Karen Falkenstrom, to establish Kore Press, and more broadly, provides insight into an independent press focusing on women's literature at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries.
Dates
- 1994-2006
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Box 7 (computer disks): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies of electronic files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
The Kore Press Archive is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Kore Press on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2006.
Arrangement
Organized into one grouping: March 2006 Acquisition.
Extent
32.8 Linear Feet (50 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Production and organizational files, including correspondence, writings, minutes of board meetings, grant proposals, material concerning fundraising and other related papers.
Kore Press
Lisa Bowden and Karen Falkenstrom founded Kore Press in 1993. The press publishes literary (poetry, personal essays, prose and manifestos) works by women writers, with authors including Jennifer Barber, Lucinda Bliss, and Ofelia Zepeda. Kore Press is based in Tucson, Arizona.
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing in 2014, including rehousing and in some instances minimal organization. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, identified by a unique call number and titled according to month and year of acquisition.
The finding aid for this collection is compiled from individual preliminary lists for each acquisition that were created at or around the time of receipt by the library. The preliminary lists were migrated to comply with current archival descriptive standards and merged into a single file in 2007-2008. As part of the migration, modifications were made to the formatting of individual lists; however, the content of the lists was neither modified nor verified.
As a rule, descriptive information found in the Collection Contents section is drawn in large part from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
Former call number: Uncat MSS 850.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- American literature -- 20th century
- Authors -- United States -- 20th century
- Authors and publishers
- Authors, American -- 20th Century
- Barber, Jennifer
- Bliss, Lucinda
- Born digital
- Bowden, Lisa
- Electronic documents
- Falkenstrom, Karen
- Kore Press
- Poets -- United States -- 20th century
- Poets, American -- 20th century
- Publishers and publishing
- Small presses
- Women authors
- Zepeda, Ofelia
- Title
- Guide to the Kore Press Archive
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- 2007-05-16
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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