April 28, 2008

Watzek Library Acquires William Stafford Archive

Forty years of daily journals and papers belonging to former U.S. Poet Laureate William Stafford have been donated for safeguarding and digitization to the Watzek Library.

Forty years of daily journals and papers belonging to former U.S. Poet Laureate William Stafford have been donated for safeguarding and digitization to the Watzek Library. Graduate school professor Kim Stafford (William’s son) will work closely with the digitization project and to formulate plans for the best use of the collection. See also the exhibit, How the Ink Feels: Poetry Broadsides Assembled by the Friends of William Stafford, June 5 - July 13 at the Hoffman Gallery.