Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.

Correspondence, manuscript plays, stories, songs, speeches, and book manuscripts and galley proofs.

Bergé, Carol, 1928-

Papers of the American poet. Holograph and typescript notes and drafts of 21 poems.

Barker, Eric Wilson.

Papers of the American poet (1905-1973). Correspondence, manuscripts, and published material.

Bruce, Ethel.

Correspondence, writings, subject files, published material of the American writer and poet.

Bush, Grace E., 1884-1967.

American composer, poet. Collection contains correspondence, printed material, a photograph, and manuscripts.

Bail, Grace Shattuck.

Papers of the American poet, composer, arranger. Bail often set Biblical passages to music. Collection includes correspondence (1942-1979); musical compositions, poems, and memorabilia.

Blackwell, Harriet (Gray)

Papers of the American author and poet. Collection includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, and memorabilia.

Bryant, Helen

Four issues of The New Magazine of Rockland County containing articles, essays or poems by Bryant.

Burden, Jean.

Papers of the American poet, author, poetry editor for Yankee magazine. Born 1914. Correspondence, manuscript and published articles, poems, and memoirs; and memorabilia, including photographs.

Ballard, Juliet Brooke.

Papers of the American author, poet. Author of books based on the Edgar Cayce readings. Correspondence, typescript poems, research material on Edgar Cayce, photographs, published material, including articles and clippings by and about Ballard, scrapbooks, and memorabilia.

Beaudoin, Kenneth Lawrence, 1913-

Papers of the American poet. Correspondence; holograph and/or typescript articles, poems, reviews, news releases, and notes.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

Papers of the African-American author, music critic, novelist, playwright, poet, and social activist. Baraka was also editor of Yugen, a literary magazine, and co-editor, with Diane Di Prima, of The floating bear. Correspondence (1958-1965); Baraka's typescript and published writings, including articles, book manuscripts, book and music reviews, essays, playscripts, and poems; and Yugen records, including manuscripts and page proofs. Yugen manuscripts include those of John Ashbery, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Bruce Boyd, William Burroughs, Paul Carroll, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Edward Dahlberg, Diane Di Prima, Edward Dorn, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Stephen Jonas, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Koch, Philip Lamantia, Ron Loewinsohn, Walter Lowenfels, Michael McClure, Edward Marshall, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Stuart Perkoff, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, George Stanley, Philip Whalen, John Wieners, and William Carlos Williams.

Berry, Margaret McGorman.

Papers of the American poet. Collection includes correspondence, typescript and holograph poems, the text of a lecture, published poems, and newspaper clippings about Berry.

Buxbaum, Martin.

American author, poet; director of communications for Marriott Corporation, 1953-1976, editor of Hot Shoppes Table Talk and various in-house publications. Collection contains correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1937-1967); manuscript books, essays, poems, short stories, speeches; photographs; and printed material, including articles by and about Buxbaum, clippings, and house organs edited by Buxbaum for several companies for which he worked.

Brown, Pearl E., 1887-

Papers of the American author, poet. Manuscript and published poems, and some correspondence.

Buchanan, Pegasus, 1918-2006.

Manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, published material, complete run (14 issues) of L.A. Magazine, of which Buchanan was poetry editor.

Berrigan, Ted

Papers of the American poet and editor, 1934-1983. Correspondence, manuscript submissions, and production records relating to C, a poetry journal which Berrigan edited. Incoming correspondence and/or manuscripts of John Ashbery, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Michael Benedikt, Jim Brodey, Joseph Ceravolo, Robert Dash, Edwin Denby, Ted Greenwald, Barbara Guest, Ruth Krauss, Gerard Malanga, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, James Schuyler, Lorenzo Thomas, Sotère Torregian, Tony Towle, and John Wieners.

Burns, Vincent Godfrey, 1893-1979

Writings by and printed materials about the American Congregationalist minister and Poet Laureate of Maryland

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.

Humorous sketch about a restaurant serving "transcendental cuisine"

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.