Faculty Records: Peter Landers Makuck Papers

1960-2017
University Archives #UA90-76
Creator(s)
Makuck, Peter, 1940-2023
Physical description
3.5 Cubic Feet
Preferred Citation
[Item description]. Peter Landers Makuck Papers Papers. UA90-76, Box [number]. University Archives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Repository
East Carolina University Archives
Access
The collection is open for research use.

This collection contains literary and personal papers of Dr. Peter L. Makuck, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the English Department, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, where he taught from 1978 to 2006. Included are correspondence, lecture and teaching notes, and drafts of poems and short stories. A large portion of this collection pertains to the publication Tar River Poetry from its founding in 1978 by Dr. Makuck, as a publication of the English Department at ECU, until 2015. Included are correspondence and all but one of the issues.


Scope and arrangement

This collection contains literary and personal papers of Dr. Peter L. Makuck, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the English Department, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, where he taught from 1978 to 2006. Included are correspondence, lecture and teaching notes, and drafts of poems and short stories. A large portion of this collection pertains to the publication Tar River Poetry from its founding in 1978 by Dr. Makuck, as a publication of the English Department at ECU, until 2015. Included are correspondence and all but one of the issues.


Administrative information
Custodial History

January 28, 2018, (unprocessed), 10 cubic feet; This collection contains literary and personal papers of Dr. Peter L. Makuck, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the English Department, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, where he taught from 1978 to 2006. Included are correspondence, lecture and teaching notes, and drafts of poems and short stories. A large portion of this collection pertains to the publication Tar River Poetry from its founding in 1978 by Dr. Makuck, as a publication of the English Department at ECU, until 2015. Included are correspondence and all but one of the issues. Gift of Peter Landers Makuck.

August 8, 2018, (unprocessed addition 1), 5 cubic feet; Addition includes printed journals and books containing Makuck's essays, poetry, and book reviews; the address he gave at East Carolina University's 1994 commencement; and artwork used for the covers of the Tar River Poetry publication. Gift of Peter Landers Makuck.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Peter Landers Makuck

Copyright notice

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Related material

This collection is a part of Faculty Records.


Separated Material

Tar River Poetry Publications in UA90-76 Makuck Papers transferred to UA50-15 University Publications: Tar River Poetry. 1.5 cubic feet, Volumes 18-56.


Key terms
Personal Names
Makuck, Peter, 1940-2023
Corporate Names
East Carolina University--Faculty
Topical
English teachers--North Carolina--Greenville
Poets, American--North Carolina--Greenville
Titles
Tar River Poetry

Container list
Box 1 Betty Adcock, Undated
Box 1 Fred Chappell, 1984-2010
Box 1 George Core, 1974, 1980-2000
Box 1 George Core, 2001-2010
Box 1 Brendan Galvin, Undated
Box 1 Brendan Galvin , Undated
Box 1 Samuel Hazo, 1979-2016
Box 1 Hugh Hennedy , 1964, 1967, 1973-1968
Box 1 Hugh Hennedy, 1988-2007
Box 1 Hugh Hennedy, 2008-2017
Box 1 William Heyen, 1997-1998
Box 1 Jonathan Holden, 1987-1998
Box 1 Larry Lieberman, 1982, 1993, 1995-2001
Box 1 Ralph Mills, Jr., 1980-1990
Box 1 Fred Morgan, 1951, 1980-2006
Box 1 Michael Mott, 1970, 1985-2015
Box 2 Leslie Norris, 1981-1991
Box 2 Leslie Norris 1992-1994, 1992-1994
Box 2 Leslie Norris, 1995
Box 2 Leslie Norris , 1996-2005
Box 2 Al Poulin, Jr. , 1960-1964
Box 2 Al Poulin, Jr., 1975-1979
Box 2 Al Poulin, Jr. , 1980-1985
Box 2 Al Poulin, Jr., 1986-1990, 1995-1996
Box 2 Al Poulin, Jr., "A Momentary Order" manuscript, 1987
Box 2 Al Poulin, Jr. , Undated
Box 2 Thomas Reiter , 1990-2006
Box 2 Richard Selzer, 1982-1983
Box 2 Louis Simpson, 1982-2006
Box 3 Richard Simpson, 1978-1984
Box 3 Richard Simpson, 1985-1995
Box 3 W. D. Snodgrass , 1998-2006
Box 3 Alexander Theroux, 1964-2008
Box 3 Michael Waters, 1981-1990
Box 3 Luke Whisnant, 1979-1990
Box 3 Various Authors and Poets, 1990-2005
Box 3 Correspondence, 1978-1984
Box 3 Correspondence, 1985-1998, 2009
Box 3 Submitted Works
Box 3 Makuck Clippings File
Box 3 Tar River Poetry Clippings File
Box 4 "Breaking and Entering" Manuscript
Box 4 "Breaking and Entering" Manuscript
Box 4 Author's Proof "Breaking and Entering"
Box 4 Revised Pages "Breaking and Entering"
Box 4 Master Set Revised Pages "Breaking and Entering"
Box 4 Publication "Breaking and Entering"
Box 4 Drafts, Correspondence from Debra Dean , 2000, 2004
Box 4 Drafts, Correspondence from Leslie Norris, Undated
Box 4 Draft "Dziadek", Correspondence from Lewis Simpson, 1970-1972
Box 4 Draft "After"
Box 4 Draft "Day of the Warbler"
Box 4 Draft "For the Snow-walker"
Box 4 Draft "Reckless"
Box 4 Draft "Recovery"
Box 4 Draft "Rerun Scene: You Rescue My Son"/"Laid-back"
Box 4 Draft "Southern Snow"
Box 4 Draft "Tangier Island"
Box 4 Draft "There is nothing until we find it"
Box 4 Draft "Twilight"
Box 4 Draft "Wyeth's Winter"
Box 4 Drafts, Untitled Poems
Box 4 Manuscript "Adios Senor Errands of Mercy Impitoyable"/"Fastidious"
Box 4 Manuscript "Getting There"
Box 4 Manuscript "Home"/"Dichotomy"
Box 4 Manuscript "The Incinerator"
Box 4 Manuscript "Luck"/"Disappointed Bridges"
Box 4 Manuscript "Meeting There"/"Retreat"
Box 4 Manuscript "Trespasses"
Box 5 Interviews
Box 5 Poems , 1970-1979
Box 5 Poems , 1980-1989
Box 5 Poems, 1990-1999
Box 5 Poems , 2000-2017
Box 5 Poems , Undated
Box 5 Reviews, The Hudson Review Vol. 57-62, 2004-2009
Box 5 Reviews, The Laurel Review Vol. 31-35, 1997-2001
Box 5 Reviews, The Laurel Review Vol. 36-41, 2002-2007
Box 5 Reviews, Various Journals, 1982-2017
Box 5 Reviews of Mackuck's Published Works, 1987-2004
Box 6 Stories, 1971-1979
Box 6 Stories, 1980-1989
Box 6 Stories, 1990-2008
Box 6 French Association of American Studies, "Dziadek" French Translation
Box 6 "Against Distance" Promotional Items
Box 6 Distinguished Professor Award, 1996
Box 6 Certificate of Service at ECU
Box 6 Addresses and Speeches
Box 6 ECU Commencement Speech , 1994
Box 7 Honors Seminar Fiction into Film
Box 7 The Accidental Tourist
Box 7 A Passage to India
Box 7 A River Runs Through It
Box 7 A Room with a View
Box 7 Being There
Box 7 Blade Runner
Box 7 Blow Up
Box 7 Death in Venice
Box 7 Deliverance
Box 7 Dog Soldiers
Box 7 Fahrenheit 451
Box 7 The Last Picture Show
Box 7 The Maltese Falcon
Box 7 Mosquito Coast
Box 7 The Natural
Box 7 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Box 7 Shane
Box 7 Slaughterhouse Five
Box 7 Modern American Novel Class
Box 7 Modernism and New Fiction
Box 7 Saul Bellow
Box 7 Robert Frost
Box 7 Ernest Hemingway
Box 7 Robert Lowell
Box 7 Norman Mailer
Box 7 Vladimir Nabakov
Box 7 Flannery O'Connor
Box 7 Wallace Stevens
Box 7 Anne Tyler
Box 7 John Updike
Box 7 Kurt Vonnegut
Box 7 Eudora Welty
Box 7 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Box 7 Benjamin Franklin
Box 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Box 7 Herman Melville
Box 7 Edgar Allen Poe
Box 7 Henry David Thoreau
Box 7 Mark Twain
Box 7 Walt Whitman
Box 7 Modern American Poetry Class
Box 7 Miscellaneous Class Materials