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Nancy Venable Raine Papers, 1979-1983

 Collection
Identifier: 164

Scope and Contents

This collection documents Nancy Venable Raine's work as poet-in-residence at the Fitzgerald School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1980-81. A portion of the collection is related to her collaboration with the Cambridge Arts Council to display student art and poetry on buses and subways as part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Arts on the Line program. It also includes a 16mm reel of the film Light Coming Through, a film portrait of Boston artist Maud Morgan that Raine co-directed with Richard Leacock.

Dates

  • 1979-1983

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Nancy Venable Raine is a poet and essayist. After working as an arts grant administrator in Washington, D. C., in 1978 she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to serve as poet-in-residence at the Fitzgerald School. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and other literary journals. She is the author of the memoir After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back.

Extent

1.2 Linear Feet

.5 Cubic Feet

2 boxes (1 Hollinger box and 1 film can)

350 Items (133 35mm color slides, 1 16mm film reel)

Language of Materials

English

Creator

Title
Nancy Venable Raine Papers, 1979-1983
Status
Completed
Author
Michael Wilkerson under the supervision of Alyssa Pacy.
Date
2019-03-06
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Room, Cambridge Public Library Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Cambridge Public Library
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Cambridge MA 02138 USA
617-349-7757