Digital Danowski

The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library is a 75,000-volume collection of rare and first editions of modern and contemporary poetry, which seeks to collect every poetry volume in English published worldwide in the twentieth-century.

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Networking the New American Poetry

What can we learn from the collection using data analysis and visual mapping? This project began with an exciting set of research questions that aimed to complicate and challenge some key narratives and assumptions of U.S. literary history.

Network Graphs

Investigate network graphs to visualize the relationships between authors, editors, translators and journals.

Postwar Poetry Journals

From New York to Los Angeles, the Beats to Black Mountain poets, the project includes some of the most important poetry publications of the twentieth century.

Meet the Authors

Schooling Donald Allen collects publication data on over 750 different authors, editors, and translators featured in a robust sample of rare and influential magazines.

View the Connections

Compare how the print communities measure against the familiar poetic schools.