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Bern Porter International: Volume 4 Number 12 (December, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring works by D.A. Russell and C.A. Conrad.

Bern Porter International: Volume 4 Number 10 (October, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring found works by Bern Porter and other artists.

Bern Porter International: Volume 4 Number 9 (September, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring art by Nguyen Ducmanh and "The Continuing Travels of Black Bear Bob."

Bern Porter International: Volume 4 Number 8 (August, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Bulletin of the Scholars of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring art by Sheila Holtz and written work by Roger Coleman and Brendan Connell.

Bern Porter Cosmographic: Volume 1 Number 7 (July, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "The Travels of Black Bear Bob" (Beltane) and written work by Daniel Russell and Nguyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 4 Number 7 (July, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Bulletin of the Scholars of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech and part 2 of "The Travels of Black Bear Bob."

Bern Porter Cosmographic: Volume 1 Number 6 (June, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring art and prose by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter Cosmographic: Volume 1 Number 5 (May, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring poetry by Daniel Russell and found art by Nick Herbert.

Bern Porter Cosmographic: Volume 1 Number 4 (April, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "Inventions" by Richard Eaton and a reprinted review of books by Bern Porter.

Bern Porter International: Volume 4 Number 11 (November, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring collage art by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter Cosmographical: Volume 1 Number 3 (March, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring found works by Nguyen Ducmanh and Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter Cosmographic: Volume 1 Number 2 (February, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring found objects by several artists.

Bern Porter Cosmographical: Volume 1 Number 1 (January, 2000), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring found art by Bern Porter.

Gary Snyder's Path, Jason Dockter

Masters Theses

Early in Gary Snyder's life, he lived a rootless existence in pursuance of gaining spiritual satisfaction through a more harmonious relationship with nature. This rootlessness that dominated this period of Snyder's life originated in Snyder's European ancestors lifestyle, which valued exploiting the natural world for a profit. Through exposure to Chinese landscape paintings, Snyder found Buddhism and began to practice it as a means to reconcile his own humanity with the natural world, which his cultural heritage has alienated himself from. Through Buddhism, Snyder realizes the importance of reuniting humanity with the natural world.

Upon gaining this knowledge, Snyder assumes …

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 6 (December, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring a newspaper article on Bern Porter's predictions for the new millenium, and a "fond farewell" from editor Sheila Holtz -- followed by a retraction.

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 5 (October, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring a poem by Bob Holman and a review of the art of Andrezej Dudek-Durer.

Gen Ms 01 Katharine E. O’Brien Papers Finding Aid, Susie R. Bock

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Description:

Katharine E. O’Brien (d. 1998) was raised in Portland, Maine. She taught mathematics for more than 30 years at Deering High School in Portland, of which she was an alumna, and was a published poet. The Papers includes typescripts of her poems, correspondence, photographs, and miscellany.

Date Range:

1947-1998

Size of Collection:

1 ft.

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 4 (August 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking

Featuring 1991 Porter Preview interview and "Return to Belfast, Part II: the Long-Suppressed Bootleg Version" (installment 3 of 3).

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 3 (June, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an reprinted article on Bern Porter and poems by D. Russel and Nguyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 2 (April, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring found works by Bern Porter and Natasha Bernstein's "Return to Belfast, Part II."

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 1 (February ,1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "The Year 2000 (Y2K) Computer Problem (IV): Capitalism's Culpability" by George Shand and poems by Maureen Neville and Anne Welsh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 6 (December, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "Science and Writing, or, Physics is Language: A manifesto or something" by Andrew Russ and an excerpt from Bern Porter's book, Monica Lewinsky: All of Us Want Yours.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 5 (October, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an excerpt from Arundhati Roy on nuclear war and art by Dan Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 4 (August, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring found art by Bern Porter and "To Whom Returns To Naas" by Nugyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 3 (June, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an overview of poet Sam Silva and a page from Bern Porter's Book of Wisdom.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 2 (April, 1998), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz

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A bimonthly literary newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring Bern Porter on the Human Genome Initiative and "Omaha" by Dan Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 1 (February, 1998), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz

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A bimonthly literary newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring Nick Herbert on Quantum Tantra and statements from Institute scholars.

Warren's Audubon: A Vision Revisited, Sylwia W. Zechowska

Masters Theses

This thesis consists of a Polish translation of a volume of Robert Penn Warren's poetry: Audubon: A Vision accompanied by an introductory essay focusing on historical, cultural and psychological aspects of the poems. As a novelist, Robert Penn Warren is well known to the Polish reading public. All his major novels have been translated into Polish and received with great acclaim, which has been confirmed by numerous editions. Warren's popularity among Polish readers may be attributed to the fact that his fiction is permeated with a peculiar sense of melancholy and a profound awareness of tragic national history, features inevitably …

Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 2 (Autumn, 1997), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz

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Featuring a list of works by Bern Porter and a list of "scholars" of the Institute of Advanced Thinking.

Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 1 (Summer, 1997), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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A Literary Newspaper

Featuring the Bern Porter International mission statement with an introduction to the Institute of Advanced Thinking and Porter's literary philosophy.