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This collection is comprised of ten manuscript journals kept by William S. Burroughs in the last year of his life, circa November 1996-July 1997, and transcriptions, photocopies, and drafts for Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, edited and with an introduction by James Grauerholz (2000).

Overview This collection consists of incoming correspondence sent to Jim McCrary and submissions to and correspondence about his literary zine Smelt Money: a poetics newsletter from the kaw river bottoms, produced by McCrary in Lawrence, Kansas in the mid-1990s. Also in the collection is a draft and final copy of a short story written by McCrary, materials related to the River City Reunion held in Lawrence, Kansas in September 1987, and a set of recorded readings...

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John Fowler was a poet and editor of the poetry magazine GRIST. He was active in Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains books, magazines, draft poems, photographs, and correspondence.

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The River City Reunion was a large-scale cultural event held in Lawrence, Kansas in September 1987 that celebrated the town's contributions to the arts in the Midwest and a gathering of cross-generational counter-culture writers, musicians, and performers. This collection predominately contains audiovisual materials covering the event and a number of release forms associated with the audiovisual material.