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Collection
Title
Michael Hettich papers
Date(s)
- 1979-2024 (Creation)
Extent
4.00 linear feet (2 record storage cartons, 1 oversized flat archival box)
Name of creator
Biographical history
"Michael Hettich was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1953 and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. He has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Northern Florida, Vermont, Miami, and Black Mountain, North Carolina, where he now lives with his wife, Colleen. He has published over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies.
Michael Hettich’s awards include several Florida Individual Artists Fellowships, a Florida Book Award, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson–Meadow Hawk Prize, and the 2020 Lena M. Shull Book Award. He often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and fellow writers.
He is married to Colleen and has two adult children, Matthew and Caitlin, and a grandson, Owen Sharpe." -- Biographical description from https://michaelhettich.com/
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Scope and content
This collection contains manuscripts, poems, journals, printouts from online chapbooks and collaborations, reviews, clippings, promotional posters and fliers, audiovisual materials, and other writings by the well-renowned and award-winning poet and writer Michael Hettich (1953-).
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Conditions governing access
This collection is unprocessed but open for research.
Physical access
This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Related archival materials
Books that arrived with the collection were separated out to be added into the online catalog: https://www.library.miami.edu/specialcollections/index.html.
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Archivist's note
Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 06-06-24.