KSC’s Mason Library recently established the Modern Poetry Collection, a special collection of books, periodicals, and archival manuscripts of 20th century poetry. Three significant gifts are now, or soon will be, in the Collection. A bequest earlier this year of a 2100-volume modern-poetry library, valued near $89,000, from the family of Frank C. Shuffelton inspired the creation of the Collection. Frank Shuffelton, a long-time summer resident of Harrisville, N.H., was the chair of the English department at the University of Rochester. The Shuffelton family choose Keene State College over the University of Rochester because of Shuffelton’s love for the Mondanock area. The Shuffelton collection includes first and rare editions of works by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O’Hara, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and many other poets—a who’s who of modern poetry.

Adding to the scope of the Modern Poetry Collection, the Zephyr Press (Brookline, Mass.) will soon be donating its editorial and publishing records, and those from its earlier incarnation as Aspect Magazine. The records span the years from the 1960s to 1997. Zephyr Press is best known for publishing the works of all the major Eastern European and Chinese poets.
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