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Contents: file consists of four poems written by Anne Innis Dagg.

File consists of 28 poems (27 typed and one handwritten) written by Urquhart. Some are collected under the title "Twenty One Tales I'm not Likely to Tell You."

File consists of poetry created and accumulated by Florence Grace Clement.

Series consists of poetry written by John Herbert.

Poems written and illustrated by Orpheus Moyer Schantz. Poems include: Salamander (ts. original with illustrations); The Brookfield zoo (ts. original); The woolly bear caterpillar (ts. original); March winds (ts. original); The thirteen-lined spermophile (ts. original); It may be (ts. original, illustrated); October idylls (ts. original on letterhead); The barn owl (ts. original); Shocking (ms., illustrated); Winter woods (ts. original); An exodus (ms.); The years are getting on (ms.); Bird stories in rhyme (ts. original); Sunday morning at the filling station (ts. with illustrations); Reminiscences of Kitchener (ts. original); If I were a gnarled old tree (ts. original with ms. note); Apricot blooms (ms. with illustrations).

File consists of notes on poetry handwritten and typed by Dana Porter. Includes notes on Sonnets, excerpts from poems, etc.

Manuscript poetry drafts by Elaine M. Catley.

One two-ring lined notebook belonging to Jenny Pincock, used a scrapbook, containing published and typescript copies of poems pasted in. Material inserted loose includes clipping, manuscript and typescript notes and poems, one signed Rev. Thomas Voaden.

File consists of three untitled ms. poems.

File consists of various invitations and programmes for poetry readings, primarily for works published by Dolmen Press.

File consists of a list of works printed by The Poetry Bookshop.

File consists of one item of correspondence between the University of Waterloo Federation of Students and Bernard Suits regarding publication of his work in the Liontayles journal. Also includes the June 1944 edition of Carillon, the University of Chicago College Magazine which includes a poem by Suits.

Series consists of poetry and prose written by Isabel Mackay. Includes mss., tss. and published works.

Series consists of a list of works printed by The Poetry Bookshop.

1 typed draft of earlier version entitled "The Poem is in the Leaping", 2 typescripts.

File consists of one small pamphlet with poetry by members of the Ontario Iota Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa.

4 ts. drafts, some with corrections.

File consists of typescript drafts and fragments of poetry written by Bernard Suits. Poems include:

• alphabetical acrostic typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• Venus at five o'clock typescript (computer output)
• untitled typescript (original)
• visiting hours typescript (original)
• The playwright begins his day (original)
• Big John (original)
• Like Pontius Pilate said (original)
• untitled typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• Mary had a little lamb typescript (original)
• Small Etudes typescript (original)
• Things always look quite different in the morning typescript (original)
• The nocturnal vase typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• Heloise and Abelarde typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• A fit of triolets typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• A repetition typescript (original)
• Love's progress typescript (original)
• A seascape
• a sacrement typescript (original)
• Hello, goodbye typescript (original)
• Catalog number twenty-four typescript (original)
• All loci of our heroine's parade typescript (original)
• Visiting hours typescript (original).

Note that all poems are 1 leaf unless otherwise noted and many have manuscript notes.

Five poems: "Fellow Pilgrims", undated, 1 page; "Prairie Rain" undated, 1 page.; "That Canada May Live," undates., 1 page; "The Night-Mail Plane," 1939, 1 page; "The Age of Machinery," 1930, 1 page. Also includes "Little babe" manuscript, music by Clifford Higgin, with words by Elaine Catley, signed by Clifford Higgin.

7 versions, holograph, typescript. 1 p. ; 28 cm. Some versions contain annotations and have differing Titles.

1p. ms. notes.

Christmas songs and poems written by Rebecca Brubacher, and possibly gifted to Henry Bowman. Rebecca is likely Henry's aunt (mother's sister).

File consists of a flyer for "An evening of poetry with Rienzi Crusz" held May 11, 1987 at Kitchener Public Library.

Contains material relating to Anne Innis Dagg's research on women poets. Includes newspaper and magazine clippings, research notes and observational statistics, drafts of the chapter on poetry, correspondence to Anne Innis Dagg, articles on statistics, photocopied articles, and newsletters.

File consists of four leaves of handwritten notes (photocopies) on elegiac mode in poetry created by Rienzi Crusz while working on "Coming through the shadows."

File consists of one typed document (photocopy), newly signed by the author.

File consists of manuscript poems and poem fragments by Bernard Suits. Includes:

• untitled manuscript (2 leaves)
• Lines of freedom (ode to liberty) manuscript
• There is this one thing about our money, doctor manuscript
• untitled fragments manuscript
• untitled manuscript
• Unfinished portrait manuscript (2 leaves)
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• Visiting hours manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• The roge of friendship manuscript
• Early spring manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• I want a herring-bone overcoat manuscript
• The beach manuscript
• Sonnet manuscript
• untitled manuscript
• Riddle manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• The page of friendship manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (9 leaves). Note that all poems are 1 leaf unless otherwise noted.

3 handwritten, 1 typed drafts.

Materials related to the Governor General's Literary Awards. Includes certificate issued to Julia McCarthy for being selected as a finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and related correspondence and newspaper clipping.

File consists of one typed document (66 unnumbered leaves, computer output ).

1 handwritten draft (original), 3 typed drafts (computer output) with handwritten annotations, all dated 2012 and 2013. This poem is a re-titled version of Love song #4 (For Anne.)

Correspondence, typed copy (photocopy) of an introduction to an annual poetry anthology published by the Librarian's Association.

Materials related to the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. Includes announcement card for the winner of the J. M. Abraham Atlantic poetry award for the year 2017, which was awarded to Julia McCarthy, and congratulating correspondence.

Draft of article “The Spirituality of Poetry: an Internet conversation with Don Domanski” by John Herbert Cunningham. Includes annotations and corrections.

File consists of one photocopy of "The Persistence of Memory" by Dali with the title information for "Other Landscapes" by Rienzi Crusz.

File consists of a photocopy of a page from a TSAR Publications catalogue announcing the release of this book by Chelva Kanaganayakam.

Stubbs, Andrew. Review of Dark Anotonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz by Rienzi Crusz. This is a typescript of this review which was later published inAriel(n.d.)

File consists of a catalogue of works of poetry by contemporary Canadian poets, prepared by the League of Canadian Poets. Includes an entry for Insurgent Rain by Rienzi Crusz.

Levenson, Christopher. Review of Dark Antonyms and Paradise: the Poetry of Rienzi Crusz. This is a photocopied, corrected typescript of the review which was sent by the reviewer to Rienzi Crusz. This typescript is accompanied by a note dated Sept. 17, 1998 written by Christopher Levenson to Rienzi Crusz.

File consists of a flyer for a Human rights association of Fredericton poetry reading by Rienzi Crusz held April 7 and 8, 1989 at the University of New Brunswick.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Rienzi Crusz relating to the Dorothy Shoemaker literary awards contest for poetry and prose. Includes a speech given by Rienzi when he was a judge in 2004 as well as a publication from the awards in 2008, when Rienzi was again a judge.

A small card with an illustration and the poem Speak Gently by David Bates.

File consists of two photocopies of Rienzi Crusz's entry in "Living in America; poerry & fiction by South Asian American writers" including the beginning of the poem "Conversations with God about my present whereabouts."

Ms. notes by by Rienzi Crusz for his introduction to poetry readings at Northern Lights College in 1986.

One anthology of poetry titled "Close to the Heart: An Anthology of Canadian Prose and Poetry", edited by Mary and Paul Knowles. The anthology includes the poems "Carpe Diem", "Know Your Old Bone", and "Downsizing" by Rienzi Crusz.

One videocassette (VHS).

File consists of typed notes by Rienzi Crusz prepared for a high school age workshop on poetry.

An offprint of an article titled, “The Poet and the Indian : Indian themes in the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier,” written by E Palmer Patterson The article was published in Ontario History 59, no. 2 (June, 1967), p. 69-78. The cover of the offprint features a drawing by Nancy-Lou Patterson illustrating the interpretations of Indian themes in the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier. The offprint was originally housed in a package titled, Tongass Tlingit: Tongass at Ft. Simpson.

Cover illustration by Nancy-Lou Patterson. Ontario History 59, no. 2 (June 1967): 69-78. which featured the article "The Poet and the Indian: Indian Themes in the Poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier" by E Palmer Patterson.

One videocassette (VHS).

Hutcheon, Linda. Review of Insurgent rain: selected poems 1974-1996, by Rienzi Crusz, and of Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz by Chelva Kanaganayakam. The Toronto Review, (winter 1998). (photocopy).

One anthology of poetry and fiction titled Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers", edited by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. The anthology includes the poems "Conversations with God about my Present Whereabouts", and "Remains of an Asian Poet Writing in Canada" by Rienzi Crusz.

One anthology of poetry titled "Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States", edited by Cyril Dabydeen. The anthology includes the poems "Conversations with God about my Present Whereabouts", "When Adam First Touched God", "Elegy for the Sun-Man's Father", "The Rain Doesn't Know me Anymore", and "After the Snowfall" by Rienzi Crusz.

Reid, Robert. "Volumes Place Waterloo Poet in Context: Definitive Collection of Works is Ideally Complemented by Perceptive Analysis". Review of Insurgent rain: selected poems 1974-1996, by Rienzi Crusz, and of Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz by Chelva Kanaganayakam. The Record (n.d.). (photocopy).

Thorpe, Michael. Review of Insurgent rain: selected poems 1974-1996, by Rienzi Crusz, edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam, and of Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz, by Chelva Kanaganayakam. This is a photocopied typescript of this review which was later published in World Literature Today (n.d.)

Contents : ts. essay (photocopy, undated) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.
Thorpe, Michael. "Beyond 'otherness': the poetry of Rienzi Crusz".

Typed essays (photocopies) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.
Crusz, Robert. "Weathervane meanings and the fourth-world poet : identity as emancipation in the poetry of Rienzi Crusz." [198-].
Mukherjee, Arun P. "Songs of an immigrant: the poetry of Rienzi Crusz." 1987.
Stubbs, Andy. "Keeping Iago: rituals of innocence in Rienzi Crusz's recent poetry. 1995.

"Poetry Reading, Scarborough College." A copy already listed as added in 1993.

Typed excerpts from published works (photocopies) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.

Typed exerpts from published works (photocopies) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.

File consists of nine items of correspondence from Katherine Munday of the Salisbury Poetry Circle.

Contents : ts. articles and essays (originals and photocopies) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.

Typed exerpts from published works (photocopies) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.

File consists of ms. notes entitled "Why study or read poetry? Who needs it?" and an ms. list of poems and additional information.

Contents: 3 p. ts. pages, drafts of prose and poetry by Jenny O'Hara Pincock.

Typed essays (photocopies) relating to the poetry of Rienzi Crusz.
Crusz, Robert. "Weathervane meanings and the fourth-world poet : identity as emancipation in the poetry of Rienzi Crusz." [198-].
Gool, Reshard. "Back in touch: Rienzi Crusz's poetry." Toronto South Asian Review 2, no. 1, (Spring 1983): 2-13.
Miller, Judith. "Archangel and Charlie's angel : the poems of Rienzi Crusz." [198-].
Parmaswaran, Uma. "The singing metaphor : poetry of Rienzi Crusz." Canadian Literature no. 132 (Spring 1992): 154.
Parmaswaran, Uma. "The South Asian diaspora in Canada." [1989].

Series consists of criticism and analysis of the poetry of Rienzi Crusz. Includes ts. essays and articles (some photocopies), notes on manuscripts, and ms. notes.

Series consists of video recordings relating to the activities of Rienzi Crusz, including judging for the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards and an interview and poetry reading.

Wooden board with a serigraph printing of a poster of an event organized by Malaspina University-College. Event is the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Chair presenting Cape Breton Poet Don Domanski: "Don Domanski: a conversation" (October 19) and "Poetry and the Sacred" (October 20). Board is signed by Domanski to McCarthy.

Comb bound book titled My Father's House. Poetry by Barbara Drizen, illustrations by Claire Watson.

File consists of four versions, some with corrections and variant covers, of a book of poetry by Robin Magowan.

File consists of three photocopies of Urquhart's poetry collection "The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan."

File consists of one notebook with handwritten notes of personal thoughts, as well as prose and poetry writing.

Series consists of drafts and working notes for title pages, tables of contents and illustrations for manuscripts of books of poetry by Rienzi Crusz.

Mixed ts. and manuscript poetry drafts, ca. 15 pages by Jenny O'Hara Pincock, written under various pseudonyms.

Series consists of manuscript and typescript notes for and drafts of works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Jenny Pincock and others.

File consists of seven photocopies of posters advertising Rienzi's poems. All posters were designed by L'Affice Barrio Poetry Posters.

Series consists of drafts and working notes for title pages and tables of contents for manuscripts of books of poetry by Rienzi Crusz.

One school notebook kept by Idessa Eichler while a student in Waterloo. Includes topics such as poetry, chemistry, and geography.

Autograph pages from one of Southey's notebooks. Includes lists of Mexican, Greek, Oriental, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish names for possible use in his poetry. Includes ideas for subjects for poems. One or two of the names may have a genuine connection with the poetry of Coleridge. One leaf in Spanish, headed "Papel publico em Madrid..." Nine leaves. Also included is the original auction advertisement for the group.

File consists of a flyer for "An evening with Rienzi Crusz" poetry reading held April 15, 2009 at Kitchener Public Library.

File consists of a poster advertising a poetry reading at the Willett Student-Faculty lounge, University of Chicago. Poster includes an illustration by Virgil Burnett.

Free quarterly publication containing reports, opinions, poetry, and essays from incarcerated members of the Native Brotherhood of Indians and Métis of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary.