Pearl Archive

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms166

Staff Only

Pearl Archive largely consists of editorial materials toward the complete run of Pearl magazine from 1975-1993 including correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, camera-ready copies, galleys, paste-ups, and more. The collection also includes additional literary correspondence between Gregory Stephenson and writers including Kay Boyle, Andrei Codrescu, Ira Cohen, Cid Corman, Guy Davenport, Larry Eigner, Clayton Eshleman, Kimon Friar, David Gascoyne, Maurice Girodias, Donald Hall, Mark Halperin, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Archibald MacLeish, Philip O’Connor, Edouard Roditi, George Starbuck, C.K. Williams, Jonathan Williams, and more.

Dates

Creation: 1966-2017

Creator

Pearl (Odense, Denmark) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.

Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.

If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.)

Extent

13.00 boxes

Additional Description

Historical Information

The first issue of Pearl appeared in the summer/fall of 1975, edited by Gregory Stephenson, an American expatriate writer then living in Odense, with the help of his Danish wife Birgit. Nine issues were produced, ending production in the spring of 1982. During the 1990s, Lars Rasmussen, owner and proprietor of The Booktrader in Copenhagen, began to publish Pearl. It was named by the Library Journal as one of the ten best literary magazines in the world. Pearl discontinued publication in 1993.

Pearl prominently featured Beat writers including William Burroughs, Alan Ginsburg, Gregory Corso, George Starbuck, Ira Cohen, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Additional writers include W. H Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, Denise Levertov, Robert Bly, Cid Corman, Robert Sward, Paul Bowles, James Tate, Rita Dove, David Ignatow, Edouard Roditi, Grace Schulman, Christopher Logue, Kimon Friar, Kay Boyle, John Ciardi, Charles Bukowski, Diane di Prima, Donald Hall, Michael McClure, James Laughlin, and more.