Overview

Administrative/Biographical Note

Gloria Catherine Oden (1923-2011) was an American poet, professor, and editor. She joined the UMBC faculty as an English professor in the 1970s, and taught there until retiring in 1996. Oden was nominated for the Pultizer Prize in 1979 for a collection of poems entitled Resurrections. Her other books of poetry include The Naked Frame: A Love Poem and Sonnets (1952), The Ties that Bind (1980), Appearances (2003), and Homage (2011).

Scope & Content

Arrangement

This collection was arranged into seven series: Series 1: Personal Life Series 2: Professional Life Series 3: Publications Series 4: Unpublished Materials Series 5: Correspondence Series 6: Oversized Series 7: Audiovisuals

Provenance Information

Provenance and Acquisition Information

Contains five accessions. UARC 1997-28 and UARC 1999-27 were transferred from Gloria Oden/UMBC English Department. UARC 2008-21 materials were transferred prior to 2008 and accessioned on 7/9/2008. The original donor and receipt date of UARC 2009-020 are unknown; it was assigned an accession number in 2009. UARC 2013-003.

Processing Note

All associated accession were surveyed and rehoused into acid free folders and containers. University publications were weeded out of the collection and transferred to the University Publications collections. The same was done for information and correspondence related to Gloria Oden's late husband, John Price Bell, for which UMBC is also the repository for his collection.

Descriptive Rules Used

Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)

Archives Processing Manual: Description (2015): The processing manual used in Special Collections for all descriptive platforms, including PastPerfect.

Access & Use

Finding Aids

Finding Aids available.

Finding Aid: http://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll069.php

Access Conditions

The collection is open for research. There are no restricted materials.

Conditions Governing Reproductions and Use

Permission required for all reproductions requests. UMBC is the copyright owner.

Subject Headings

Creators

Oden, Gloria

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

Oden, Gloria

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982

Subjects

University of Maryland, Baltimore County -- Faculty

Women poets

Oden, Gloria -- Archives

Poets, American -- 20th century

Series Description & Container List

1. Series 1: Personal Life

   Date: 1937-2007

   Description: Series 1 contains materials concerning Gloria Oden's personal life, including items from the passing of her mother and sister, geneological research, family albums, and early academic achievements.

   1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
      Academic Programs	1937-1940	1	1
      Certificates	1943-1991	1	2
      Ethel and Georgia Oden	1974	1	3
      Ethel and Georgia Oden	1974	1	4
      Gloria Oden Images	1986-2005	1	5
      NAACP	1977	1	6
      Oden Family Geneological Research (1 of 2)	2001-2007	1	7
      Oden Family Geneological Research (2 of 2)	2001-2007	1	8
      Oden Family Albums	undated	11		Description
      2 albums are housed in one box.

2. Series II: Professional Life

   Date: 1953-2011

   Description: Series 2 contains materials involving her teaching career at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and various research projects she participated throughout her academcic career. Both subjects have been divided into two subseries.

   1. Subseries A: UMBC

      Date: 1965-2000

      Description: Series 2 subseries A contains Oden's tenure dossier as she progressed to full professor status and other supportive documents.

      1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
         Black Faculty/ Staff Association Award: Dedicated Service	1991	1	9
         Curriculum Vitae of Gloria Oden	1994	1	10
         Deep Rivers: Teachers' Guide, by Naomi L. Madgett	1974	1	11
         Employment Recommendations	1966-1967	1	12
         Event Pamplets and Invitations	1965-1987	1	13
         Lyceum Lecture	1990	1	14
         Tenure Acceptance	1975	1	15
         Tenure: Supportive Documents	1975	1	16
         Tenure: Full Professor Dossier	1983	1	17
         University of Maryland, Baltimore County correspondence and notes	1970-2000	1	18

   2. Subseries B: Research

      Date: 1953-2011

      Description: Series 2 subseries B contains the various research activity and collaborations with Gloria Oden.

      1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
         Albany Institute	undated	1	19
         Baravalle, Vivian	1986-1992	1	20
         Battle, Samuel J.	2006-2007	1	21
         Bell, Edward Price (1 of 2)	1965-2004	1	22
         Bell, Edward Price (2 of 2)	1994-2008	1	23
         Bishop, Elizabeth (1 of 2)	1984-2008	1	24
         Bishop, Elizabeth (2 of 2)	1994-2008	1	25
         Black History	1968-2001	1	26
         Charlotte Forten Article: Letters	1983-1984	1	27
         Charlotte Forten Diary Research (1 of 2)	undated	1	28
         Charlotte Forten Diary Research (2 of 2)	undated	1	29
         Charlotte Forten: Reviews of Billington	1953-1954	1	30
         Clonneg, James G	undated	1	31
         Collected Articles on James Baldwin (1 of 2)	1962-1964	2	1
         Collected Articles on James Baldwin (2 of 2)	1963-1965	2	2
         Colonial Williamsburg, Inc.	1971	2	3
         Eastman, Johnson	undated	2	4
         Filreis, Al	2008	2	5
         Frost, Robert (1 of 4)	2007-2008	2	6
         Frost, Robert (2 of 4)	2007-2008	2	7
         Frost, Robert (3 of 4)	2007-2008	2	8
         Frost, Robert (4 of 4)	2007-2008	2	9
         Frost, Robert at Breadloaf	2007-2009	2	10
         Iredell, James	1990	2	11
         Johnston, Joshua	1971	2	12
         King, Charles B.	undated	2	13
         Krimmel, John H.	1970	2	14
         Life of Frederic Barbadoes Research (1 of 2)	1999	2	15
         Life of Frederic Barbadoes Research (2 of 2)	1999	2	16
         Maryville	1995-2007	2	17
         Moore, Marianne (1 of 4)	2008	2	18
         Moore, Marianne (2 of 4)	2008	2	19
         Moore, Marianne (3 of 4)	2008	2	20
         Moore, Marianne (4 of 4)	2008	2	21
         Moravian Church	undated	2	22
         Neagle, John	undated	2	23
         Oden slides and transparencies	1977, undated	2	24
         Oral History Transcript of Gloria Oden	1977	2	25	Description
         Interviewed by Saunders Redding
         Peale, Charles Wilson	undated	2	26
         Ponsonby, Arthur	1989	2	27
         Putnam Letters	1990	2	28
         Raine, Kathleen (1 of 3)	2009	3	1
         Raine, Kathleen (2 of 3)	2009	3	2
         Raine, Kathleen (3 of 3)	2009	3	3
         Roupel, George	undated	3	4
         Socet, Gerard Zoust	undated	3	5
         Taylor Family Geneology	1985-1990	3	6
         The History of the Black Women's Club Movement	1984	3	7
         Tilyard, Phillip T.C.	undated	3	8
         Walker, William Aiken	undated	3	9
         West Newton, Masssechusetts	1984-2011	3	10
         Woods, T.W	undated	3	11
         Woodville, Richard Caton Sr.	undated	3	12
         Research Cards	undated	12
         Research Cards	undated	13

3. Series 3: Publications

   Date: 1959-2011

   Description: Series 3 contains the various publications of Gloria Oden throughout her professional career. Most publications identfy the specific page her poetry or essay's can be found.

   1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
      The Writer's Voice Vol. 2, No. 9	1959	3	13	Description
      Oden on Page 3. "To my nephew on the second breaking of a leg"
      The Muse Vol. 3. No.1	1959	3	14	Description
      Oden on page 28. "With Love To Miss Marianne Moore"
      The Blue River Poetry Magazine Vol. XXVII No. CIV	1959	3	15	Description
      Oden on page 23. "Now Winter Comes"
      Caravan, Vol. 4 No. 5	1959	3	16	Description
      Oden on page 15. "Testament of Loss"
      The Gallery Sail Review, Vol.1 No.4	1959	3	17	Description
      Oden on page 7. "A Private Letter to Brazil"
      Voices, No. 170	1959	3	18	Description
      Oden on pages 24-25. "Winter is for Burying"
      The Carolina Quarterly, Vol.XI No. 3	1960	3	19	Description
      Oden on page 20-22. "I Pledge Allegiance"
      The Wormwood Review, Vol. 1, No. 4	1961	3	20	Description
      Oden on page 9. "Poem"
      The Outsider	1961	3	21	Description
      Issue #1 (Oden on page 81), Issue #2 (Oden on page 49). "Lay your head here" and "Low calvary"
      EPOS, Vol. 12 No. 3	1961	3	22	Description
      Oden pages 10-11. "Legacy" and "The Waves"
      Mutiny, Vol.3 No.2	1961	3	23	Description
      Oden on page 148. "Epitaph for Anne E. Edmonds"
      The Wormwood Review, Vol.2. No, 2. Issue No. 6	1962	3	24	Description
      Oden on page 3. "Dark Justice"
      The Wormwood Review, Vol.2, No.4, Issue No. 8	1962	3	25	Description
      Oden on pages 15-17. "August Sets Its Stone" and "Love Weighs Me"
      Approach: A Literary Quarterly, No. 48	1963	3	26	Description
      Oden on page 40. "Recoil"
      Poetry Northwest, Vol. V, No. 5.	1964	3	27	Description
      Oden on pages 36-38. "Bible Study", "Man White, Brown Girl and all that Jazz", "Herself Surprised"
      Reflectively Speaking	1964	3	28
      The Massachusetts Review Vol. VI No. 3	1965	3	29	Description
      Oden on pages 650-652. "Civil Rights and White Intellectuals" by Gloria Oden
      Negritude, So What!	1965	3	30
      Negro American Literature Forum Vol. 3, No. 2	1969	3	31	Description
      Oden on page 49. "Literature and Politics- The Black Investment"
      Humanization of Knowledge in the Social Sciences: A Symposium	1972	4	1	Description
      Oden on page 18. "The Black Colonial Experience (And Somewhat Beyond): Search and Research"
      Mid~Night, No.1	1974	4	2	Description
      Oden on page 33-34. "I think of you"
      The Massachusetts Review Vol. XV No. 3	1974	4	3	Description
      Oden on pages 502-504. "This Child is the Mother"
      Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 38, No.3	1975	4	4	Description
      Oden on page 376. "This Child is the Mother"
      Essence Magazine	1975	4	5	Description
      Oden on page 8. "Bring It Down Front: I's About Time"
      Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 40, No.4	1977	4	6	Description
      Oden on page 716. "Bonsai"
      The Poetry Society of America Bulletin	1977	4	7	Description
      Name referenced;
      New England Review Vol.1 No.1	1978	4	8	Description
      Oden on page 112. Metaphor as Illness: A Meditation on Recent Poetry by Kenneth Pitchford
      New York Clippings	undated	4	9
      Seer	1979	4	10	Description
      Oden on page 8. Recognized as poet of the year.. Announcement of Poet of the year
      The Poetry Society of America Bulletin Vol. LXIX Nos. 1 &2	1979	4	11	Description
      Oden on pages 17, 43, and 44. "Review
      Multi-Ethnicity in American Publishing: Midwest Region, Vol.8, No. 4	1980	4	12	Description
      Announcement of The ties that bind
      Coda: Poets & Writers Newsletters Vol.9 No. 1	1981	4	13	Description
      "Our Poet in Washington" reference G.O
      Seer	1981	4	14	Description
      Oden on page 3. "… the road we trod"
      Ms. Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2	1982	4	15	Description
      Oden on page 74. "23"
      Religion & Intellectual Life, Vol. IV No. 1	1986	4	16	Description
      Oden on page 79. "Sunday, October 23, 1983"
      Religion & Intellectual Life, Vol. IV No. 3	1987	4	17	Description
      Oden on pages135-136. "Sister of the Spirit" reviewed by Gloria Oden
      The Canadian Forum	April 1959	4	18	Description
      Oden on page 13. "...As When Emotions Too Far Exceeds Its Cause"
      The Canadian Forum	December 1959	4	19	Description
      Oden on page 202. "The Atlantic"
      Saturday Review	September 23, 1961	4	20	Description
      Oden on page 50. "There are things that are important beyong all this fiddle"
      Saturday Review	April 6, 1963	4	21	Description
      Oden on page 29. "The Walls of Jerichow"
      Fire and James Baldwin	January 27, 1964	4	22	Description
      Published by the New York Post.
      Down Beat	October 8, 1964	4	23	Description
      Oden on page 36. The New Equality"
      Down Beat	November 5, 1964	4	24	Description
      Oden on page 34. "Feather's Nest" review by Leonard Feather
      Stenographic Transcript of Proceedings: Panel Discussion Poetry and Polemic	April 24, 1965	4	25	Description
      Panel composed of Samuel W. Allen, Calvin C. Hernton, Leroi Jones, and Gloria Oden.
      The New School Bulletin Vol.23, No. 8	November 16, 1965	4	26	Description
      "Literature and Politics- The Black Investment"
      Inside American Institute of Physics (AIP)	March 1, 1966	4	27	Description
      Oden as the editor. Name published as editor
      New School Bulletin Vol. 23, No. 17	April 14, 1966	4	28	Description
      Oden on page 67. Name published
      Out of Sight	September-October 1974	4	29	Description
      September (Oden on page 2), October (Oden on pages 2-3). "Once Upon Our Time"; "Perspective"
      Weid: The Sensibility Review, Vol.XII No.1-3 Whole Number 45-47	December 1976	4	30	Description
      Oden on page 120.. #1 and #29: A Work in Progress- Growing out of the slaying of my mother and sister two years ago by persons unknown.
      Interview with Gloria Oden by Saunders Redding	1977	4	31
      Weid: The Sensibility Revue, Vol. XIV No. 1 Whole Number 51	March 1978	4	32	Description
      Oden on page 7-42. Interview with Gloria Oden by Saunders Redding
      Seer	June 1979	4	33	Description
      Oden on page 6. Review by Linda of "Resurections"
      Targets: A Quarterly of Poetry, No. 3	September 1980	4	34	Description
      Oden on page 11. "Love Breaks Upon Me From My Left"
      The A.M.E. Zion Quarterly Review, Vol.XCIII No.1	April 1981	4	35	Description
      Oden on page 42. "The Tie That Binds"
      Ms. Vol. XIV, Nos. 2	August 1985	4	36	Description
      Oden on page 86. "The Other Side of the Blanket: A White Woman Finds her Black Cousin"
      Redstart, Vol.1 No.1	February 1, 1988	4	37	Description
      Oden pages 59-60. Review of Michelle T. Clinton's "High Blood Pressure"
      The Naked Frame	1953-1955	4	38
      Quicksilver	1958-1960	4	39	Description
      Vol.11 No. 4 (Oden on pages 21 and 25), Vol.13 No. 1 (Oden on page 12). "January's Child" (1960)
      Poetry Digest	1959-1960	4	40	Description
      Vol.5 No. 5., Vol.5, No.3 (Oden on page 24), Vol. 5, No. 1 (Oden on page 35). "So a negro spoke of Israel"
      The Half Moon	1959-1960	4	41	Description
      No.1 (Oden on page 5), No. 4 (Oden on page 13). "We Unwise Men"; "The Carousel"
      Oak Leaves: A Magazine of Poetry	1959-1961	4	42	Description
      Vol.2 No.1 (Oden page 8), Vol.3 No. 2 (Oden on page 14), Vol.1 No. 6 (Oden on page 10). "Passing Fancy"; "Faith"; "Credo"
      Poetry	1959-1965	4	43	Description
      Vol. 98 No. 2, Vol. 94 No. 4, Vol.106 No.3 (Oden on page 246). Name referenced;
      Impetus	1960-1961	4	44	Description
      Oden on page 12. "The First Hundred Hardest"
      Lynx	1962-1963	4	45	Description
      Vol.1 No.2 (Oden on page 11), Vol.1 No. 4 (Oden on pages 6-7). "Baptism of Desire" and "Love Letter"; "Full Circle"
      "Relatively Speaking	1964-1965	5	1	Description
      "Relatively Speaking
      James Baldwin Manuscript	1967-1972	5	2
      Public Announcements	1972-1982	5	3
      BONSAI by Gloria Oden	1976-1977	5	4
      The New Laurel Review	1977-1978	5	5	Description
      Vol. VII No.2 (Oden on page 72-74), Vol.VIII No.2 (Oden on page 46). "Growing Up" and "Resurrections" review by Robert Tucker
      Various Other Publications	1978-1992	5	6
      MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (1 of 2)	1978-1980	5	7	Description
      Vol.5 No.1 (Oden on page 38), Vol.4, Vol.7 No3 (Oden on page 83). "Chesnutt's Conjure as African Survival"; Review of Resseuractions by Jascha Kessler
      MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States	1983-1987	5	8	Description
      Vol. 10 No.3, MELUS 1985, MELUS 1987. "The Black Putnams of Charlotte Forten's Journal" and The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: The Salem-Philadelphia Years (1854-1862) Reexamined"
      Essex Institute Historical Collections	1983-1990	5	9	Description
      Vol.119 No.2 (Oden on pages 119-139), Vol.126 No.4 (Oden on pages 237-253).
      Newspaper Announcements	1983-1996	5	10
      Caprice	1988-1990	5	11	Description
      June (Oden page 49), October (Oden page 18), and December (Oden page 60). The Poet a Mystery by Gloria Oden; "Strange Flowers gone to seed"; "An Urban Story of Good and Evil"
      Poetry Publications	1989-1990	5	12
      MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States	1993-1994	5	13	Description
      Vol.18. No.3 and Vol.19 No.3.
      UP! Vol. 1, No. 1	November 1993	5	14	Description
      Oden on page 24. "The Way it is"
      History of Cartography	2008	5	15
      Homage by Gloria Oden	2011	5	16
      See you in the Morning: Six Songs for Soprano and Six Instruments	undated	5	17	Description
      features "The Carousel" by Gloria Oden.
      Homage: images	undated	5	18
      Homage slides	undated	5	19

4. Series 4: Unpublished Materials

   Date: undated

   Description: Series 4 contains Oden's unpublished papers and poetry. Materials have been orgnaized alphabetically.

   1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
      Chesnutt's Conjure as African Survival	undated	5	20
      Covenant	undated	5	21
      Early Poems	undated	5	22
      Jame Baldwin	undated	5	23
      Salem and Baltimore: Black Connections	undated	5	24
      The Black Huntsman	undated	5	25
      The Dark and the Fair	undated	5	26
      The Naked Frame	undated	5	27
      The Negro in Colonial Art: Image and Origin	undated	6	1
      The Trouble with Mirrors	undated	6	2
      Unpublished writings (1 of 2)	undated	6	3
      Unpublished writings (2 of 2)	undated	6	4

5. Series 5: Correspondence

   Date: 1955-2010

   Description: Series 5 contains Oden's personal and professional coorespondences with poets, other academics, former students, academic institutions, museums, mentors, family and friends.

   1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
      Adams, Leonie	1957-1977	6	5
      Academy of American Poets	1966-1988	6	6
      Baratz, Morton and Cindy	1974-1983	6	7
      Bishop, Elizabeth	1956-1989	6	8
      Bogan, Louise	1956-1978	6	9
      Bone, Robert	1969-1976	6	10
      Bontemps, Arna, Head Librarian of Fisk University	1956-1963	6	11
      Boyle, Kay	1976-1978	6	12
      Broadhead, Eleanor	1969-1992	6	13
      Burkowski, Charles	1994	6	14
      Ciandi, John	1958-1978	6	15
      Cifelli, Edward	2002-2010	6	16
      Cochrane, Pauline (Atherton)	2000-2005	6	17
      Coleman, Wanda	2007	6	18
      D.V. Smith	undated	6	19
      DeJesus, Tez	1993	6	20
      Diamond, Wright W.	1993	6	21
      Dodd, Mead & Company	1975	6	22
      Doreski, Carole	1997-1998	6	23
      Edgar Allen Poe Society	1977-1981	6	24
      Editors of Ms. Magazine	1984-1985	6	25
      Ellenbogen, Mrs. Kurt	1976-1996	6	26
      Fertig, Robert	1966-1969	6	27
      Fitts, Dudley	1952-1961	6	28
      Frank, Elizabeth	1976-1986	6	29
      Friar, Kimon	1954-1956	6	30
      Gardener, Geoffrey	1979-1982	6	31
      Giles, Catherine	1986-1987	6	32
      Guenther, Charles	1977-1996	6	33
      Guenther, Charles	1998-2008	6	34
      Guenther, Charles	2001-2005	6	35
      Haft, Adele	2008-2011	6	36
      Hall, Robert L.	1989-1990	6	37
      Hamalian, Linda and Rachelle Learner	1990-1995	6	38
      Hammer, Langdon	2008	6	39
      Harris, Odessa	1978	6	40
      Hoffman, Daniel	1977	6	41
      Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc.	1971	6	42
      Hopewell, Virginia B.	1985-1997	6	43
      Hughes, Langston	1960-1961	7	1
      Hurrell, John D.	1963-1964	7	2
      Iggers, Georg G. and Wilma	1990-2006	7	3
      International Who's Who in Poetry	1974	7	4
      Jacobsen, Josephine	1973-1983	7	5
      Janz, Janheiz	1960-1965	7	6
      Jenkins, Maude	1979-2000	7	7
      Jervis Manton, Norman	1958-1979	7	8
      John Hay Whitney Foundation	1954-1972	7	9
      Johnson Sherwin, Judith	1977-1984	7	10
      Kaplan, Louis L.	1977-1986	7	11
      Kaplan, Sydney	1971-1983	7	12
      Kenner, Hugh	1981	7	13
      Kessler, Jascka	1981-1984	7	14
      Kizer, Carolyn	1964-1987	7	15
      King, Minnie and John Hamilton	1984	7	16
      Lagier, Gary	1979-1980	7	17
      Locke, Alan	1947	7	18
      Martin, Jay	1977-2005	7	19
      Mason, Julian	1977	7	20
      McMahon, Edwina	1974-1975	7	21
      Media Plus	1978	7	22
      Middleton, Christopher	1976-1978	7	23
      Miles, Jo	1976-1983	7	24
      Poetry and Letters	1952-1979	7	25
      Moore, Marianne	1956-1959	7	26
      Negro Digest	1965	7	27
      New York Reading Invitations	1968-1970	7	28
      Norton, Irene R.	1992-2001	7	29
      Olivant Press	1977-1979	7	30
      Peterson, Virginia	1958-1961	7	31
      Penobscot Marine Museum	1986-1989	7	32
      Pereira, Mary Delfin	1993-1994	7	33
      Redding, Saunders	1955-1978	7	34
      Rexvoth, Kenneth (1)	1960-1967	7	35
      Rexvoth, Kenneth (2)	1961-1965	7	36
      Saylor, Bruce	1989-2000	7	37
      Senghor, Léopold Sédar, President of Senegal	1975-1978	7	38
      Stanford, Ann	1975-1977	7	39
      Stepanchev, Stephen	1978-2009	7	40
      Sweet Briar College	1874-1976	8	1
      The Library of Congress	1978	8	2
      The Outsider	1961	8	3
      The Whaling Museum	1982-1983	8	4
      Tucker, Bob	1976-1983	8	5
      Van Doren, Mark and Dorothy	1952-1978	8	6
      Walker, Juanita	1986-1987	8	7
      Welding, Pete	1964-1989	8	8
      Wessling, Joseph H.	1972-1991	8	9
      Winch, Julie	1993	8	10
      Winchester, Ada	1992-1993	8	11
      "The Ties that Bind" letter responses	1980	8	12
      "This Child is the Mother" reponse letters	1974-1975	8	13
      Various Coorespondence	1981-1993	8	14
      Various Coorespondence	1994-2006	8	15
      Various Coorespondence	1966-1977	8	16	Description
      Features letter from Ossie Davis
      Various Coorespondence	1981-1995	8	17
      Various Coorespondence	1957-1990	8	18
      Various Coorespondence	1960-2001	8	19
      Various Coorespondence	1983-1997	8	20
      Various Coorespondence	1974-2003	8	21

6. Series 6: Oversized

   Date: 1961-2004

   Description: Series 6 contains oversized newspapers, flyers, posters and magazines that were created for and event for Oden or inspired her work.

   1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
      Newspapers and Newsletters (1 of 2)	1983-2004	9	1
      Newspapers and Newsletters (2 of 2)	2004	9	2
      Oden Posters and Flyers	1976-2011	9	3
      The Urbanite: Images of the American Negro	March-June 1961	9	4

7. Series 7: Audiovisuals

   Date: 1965-2009

   Description: Series 7 contains VHS, cassette tapes, DVDs, and 3 3/4 floppy disks of various recording of interviews with poets, interviews with Oden, and features John Price Bell. Materials have been organized chronologically,

   1. Folder Title/Description	Date	Box #	Folder #	Additional Info.
      Marianne Moore reads her poetry	1965	10	Coll069-001	Description
      cassette. [TRT- 00:22:00 minutes]
      UMBC/ slides-mother	1973	10	Coll069-002	Description
      cassette.
      The Poetry and Voice of Ted Hughes	1977	10	Coll069-003	Description
      cassette.
      Special Report: Gloria Oden- WNYC Radio, New York. Interviewer: Andre Bernard	26676	10	Coll069-004	Description
      cassette. [TRT- 00:25:00 minutes]
      Sharon Olds: Coming Back to Life	1985	10	Coll069-005	Description
      cassette.
      Linda Pastan: Mosaic	1987	10	Coll069-006	Description
      cassette.
      Interview with Dr. Gloria Oden	1993	10	Coll069-007	Description
      cassette.
      Donald Hall, Prose and Poetry- Side 1 & 2	1997	10	Coll069-009	Description
      cassette.
      Donald Hall, Prose and Poetry- Side 3 & 4	1997	10	Coll069-010	Description
      cassette.
      Robert Tucker	November 18, 1976	10	Coll069-011	Description
      cassette.
      GCO [Gloria C. Oden]- Federal City College	December 3, 1976	10	Coll069-012	Description
      cassette. 2 sided
      J[ohn] + G[loria]- Carselle #1	August 1982	10	Coll069-013	Description
      cassette. 2 sided
      APBP to JAB [John A. Bell] and GCO [Gloria C. Oden]	December 31, 1982	10	Coll069-014	Description
      cassette.
      Poet and The Poem: Gloria Oden	June 3, 1985	10	Coll069-015	Description
      cassette. WPFW 89.3 FM- 2 sided
      The Poet and The Poem: Gloria Oden	June 6, 1985	10	Coll069-016	Description
      cassette. Hosted by Grace Cavalieri; WPFW 89.3 FM- Washington DC
      John and Gloria- Thanksgiving 1982	November 25, 1985	10	Coll069-017	Description
      cassette. 2 sided
      Gloria Oden- Bucknell University	November 8, 1987	10	Coll069-018	Description
      cassette.
      The Poet and The Poem: Gloria Oden	May 15, 1988	10	Coll069-019	Description
      cassette. Hosted by Grace Cavalieri; WPFW 89.3 FM- Washington DC
      Julian Mason reads nineteen of his poems	October 31, 1995	10	Coll069-020	Description
      cassette.
      Poets' Corner: Gloria Oden	April 14, 1999	10	Coll069-021	Description
      VHS. Channel Six Productions [TRT- 00:52:50 minutes]
      Charlestown Today with GCO [Gloria C. Oden]	May 30, 2000	10	Coll069-022	Description
      VHS. [TRT- 00:35:20 minutes]
      Gloria Oden- Poetry Reading	November 1, 2000	10	Coll069-023	Description
      VHS. A.O.K Library and Gallery [TRT- 00:45:00 minutes]
      Charlestown Today	January 15, 2001	10	Coll069-024	Description
      VHS. Channel Six Productions [TRT- 00:49:40 minutes]
      "MLK Charlestown Today"	January 27, 2002	10	Coll069-025	Description
      VHS. CTN Productions [TRT- 00:48:47 minutes]
      Amazing Seniors Featuring Dr. Gloria Oden	March 2003	10	Coll069-026	Description
      VHS. CTN Productions [TRT- 00:16:10 minutes] (2 copies)
      Book Review- Gloria Orden	October 4, 2004	10	Coll069-027	Description
      VHS. CTN66 Production [TRT- 0030:00 minutes] (2 copies)
      Untitled- Magnetic Recording Tape	undated	10	Coll069-028	Description
      7" reel.
      Poets' Corner with Dr. Gloria Oden "From the beginning- 1952"	February 9, 2005	10	Coll069-029	Description
      VHS. CTN66 Productions [TRT- 00:45:14 minutes] 3 copies
      Dr. Gloria Oden "Black Methodism"	February 16, 2005	10	Coll069-030	Description
      VHS. CTN66 Productions [TRT- 00:20:40 minutes] (2 copies)
      Dr. Gloria Oden "Poet's Corner" (Dunbar)	November 9, 2005	10	Coll069-031	Description
      VHS. 2 copies
      Gloria Oden- Book Review	July 2006	10	Coll069-032	Description
      DVD.
      Charlestown Today Program- Book Review Preview with Gloria Oden	July 17, 2006	10	Coll069-033	Description
      VHS. CTN66 Production [TRT: 00:27:45 minutes]
      Book Review with Gloria Oden- Confronting the Veil	July 26, 2006	10	Coll069-034	Description
      VHS. CTN Production [TRT- 00:52:00 minutes] 2 copies
      Hometown to Charlestown interview, Dr. Gloria Oden-Bell	September 20, 2007	10	Coll069-035	Description
      DVD. [TRT- 00:28:04 minutes]
      Book Review- Robert Frost: The Early Years, Dr. Gloria Oden	October 16, 2007	10	Coll069-036	Description
      DVD. [TRT- 01:02:43 minutes] (2 copies)
      Book Review: "The Inner Journey of the Poet", Preview and Review by Gloria Oden	August 2009	10	Coll069-037	Description
      DVD. 2 copies
      J Bell 8/69 (background) 10/71 (art)	1969-1971	10	Coll069-038	Description
      cassette. 2 sided
      APB- to [John and Gloria]	March 19-21, 1983	10	Coll069-039	Description
      cassette. 2 sided
      Johnny-Gloria (Tape 1) Complete	October 8-9, 1982	10	Coll069-040	Description
      cassette. 2 sided (side 1 recorded 10/8/87 and side 2 recorded 10/9/82)
      GCO	undated	10	Coll069-041	Description
      3 1/4 floppy disk.
      Alan Christian Show	undated	10	Coll069-042	Description
      cassette. 2 sided; side 2 (15-20 minutes) is missing the end of the show
      An Interview with Dr. Oden by Mary Delfin Pereira and Jayson Pereira (cameraman)	undated	10	Coll069-043	Description
      VHS.
      Book Review: "Homage"	undated	10	Coll069-044	Description
      DVD.
      Channel Six Productions with Dr. Gloria Oden-Bell: "Women's History Month"	undated	10	Coll069-045	Description
      VHS. 2 copies
      Charlestown TV Commerials with Dr. Gloria Oden	undated	10	Coll069-046	Description
      VHS.
      Classics of Latin Poetry and Prose	undated	10	Coll069-047	Description
      cassette.
      Conrad Aiken Reading: A Letter from Li Po, The Blues of Ruby Matri\, Time in the Rock- Selections	undated	10	Coll069-048	Description
      cassette.
      Donald Hall and Carolyn Kizer (side 1)/ Donald Hall and Robert Hayden (side 2) speak at Univrersity of Michigan	undated	10	Coll069-049	Description
      cassette.
      Donald Hall II	undated	10	Coll069-050	Description
      cassette.
      Donald Hall talking at the University of Michigan	undated	10	Coll069-051	Description
      cassette.
      Dr. Gloria Oden- WGBH	undated	10	Coll069-052	Description
      cassette.
      Gary Snyder: There is no othe life, selected poems 1954-1974	undated	10	Coll069-053	Description
      cassette. [TRT- 00:30:00 minutes]
      James Dickey (side 1)/ Robert Bly (side 2)	undated	10	Coll069-054	Description
      cassette.
      JPB (very little)	undated	10	Coll069-055	Description
      cassette.
      JPB and Gloria (side 1); APB tape 1 (side 2)	undated	10	Coll069-056	Description
      cassette. 2 sided
      Langston Hughes reads and talks about his poems	undated	10	Coll069-057	Description
      cassette. 2 sided; [TRT- 00:21:00 minutes] each side
      Linda Brady demo	undated	10	Coll069-058	Description
      cassette.
      Malcolm Cowley Poets Say (1 of 2)	undated	10	Coll069-059	Description
      cassette.
      Malcolm Cowley Poets Say (2 of 2)	undated	10	Coll069-060	Description
      cassette. [TRT- 00:10:00 minutes]
      Marianne Moore	undated	10	Coll069-061	Description
      VHS. Labeled: "Jazz History PBS"
      Mark Van Doren- Poems	undated	10	Coll069-062	Description
      cassette.
      Maryland Public Television	undated	10	Coll069-063	Description
      3 1/4 floppy disk. 2 untitled disks in the envelope
      Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Eyes of the Poet"	undated	10	Coll069-064	Description
      VHS.
      Poem 1-37	undated	10	Coll069-065	Description
      3 1/4 floppy disk. blue disk reads "Blue R"
      Poems 4-12 (38-45)	undated	10	Coll069-066	Description
      3 1/4 floppy disk.
      Poems 46-65	undated	10	Coll069-067	Description
      3 1/4 floppy disk.
      Poet's Corner: Dr. Gloria Oden-Bell	undated	10	Coll069-068	Description
      VHS. 2 copies
      Redding Interview	undated	10	Coll069-069 A	Description
      cassette. 2 cassette tapes/ both two sided recordings
      Redding Interview	undated	10	Coll069-069 B	Description
      cassette. 2 cassette tapes/ both two sided recordings
      Robert Creeley: The Door, Selected Poems	undated	10	Coll069-070	Description
      cassette.
      The Language of Literature	undated	10	Coll069-071	Description
      cassette.
      Wiliiams Carlos Willaims	undated	10	Coll069-072	Description
      cassette.
      William Carlos Williams reads his poetry	undated	10	Coll069-073	Description
      cassette. Side A only