Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Sharon Defibaugh and Emily Shipman
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was given to the University of Virginia Special Collections Library on April 8. 2020, by Boyer Rickel.
Biographical / Historical
Poet and publisher, Morgan Lucas Schuldt passed away on January 30, 2012, from complications of Cystic Fibrosis; he was 33 years old. The son of Barbara Schuldt and Murray Dychtwald, Morgan was born and raised in Toms River, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Virginia in 2000. He earned an MFA in Poetry in 2002 and an MA in English Literature in 2007 from the University of Arizona and became an adjunct professor there teaching Poetry. Tucson became his inspiration and where he pursued a career in writing, editing, and teaching. He was the author of "Verge," (2007) a collection of poems published by Free Verse Editions, three chapbooks, and "erros" Poems, (2013) published posthumously. He co-founded "Cue" a journal of prose poems and CUE Editions, a Poetry Press. Based in Tucson, Arizona, CUE Editions is an independent micro-press that specializes in limited-edition, hand-made chapbooks by new and established poets.
His poems appeared in over thirty print and online journals, including "American Letters and Commentary," "Coconut," "CutBank," "Diagram," "EOAGH," "Fence," "Gulf Coast," "H_NGM_N," "Hotel AmeriKa," "LIT," "The Massachusetts Review," "Notre Dame Review," "Pleiades," "Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics," "Verse," and "West Branch." His poems were anthologized in "Best New Poets 2007" (University of Virginia Press, 2007), "The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel" (No Tell Books, 2007), and "Prose Poetry / Flash Fiction: An Anthology" (Starcherone Books, 2006).
Information taken from https://poetry.arizona.edu/visit/about-poetry-center/reading-lecture-series/morgan-lucas-schuldt-memorial-reading and https://thebreathefoundation.org/about-us/about-morgan-lucas-schuldt/
Content Description
This collection consists of the working files of the poet and publisher Morgan Schuldt. Included are drafts of his poetry that include Schuldt's annotations and edits and thirteen hard and soft bound journals that include Schuldt's writing as well as other poetry of interest to him. Also included are documents related to his time at University of Virginia and other institutions, chapbooks, and his work for CUE and CUE editions which Schuldt co-founded.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry
- Schuldt, Morgan Lucas. Poems. Selections
- University of Arizona. Poetry Center
- University of Virginia -- Alumni
- free verse
- poetry
Container List
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 1
"CentOde" Poetry Drafts1 folder(s)2011 June-2018
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 2
Chapbook "Faster, Faster" by Stephanie Balzer1 folder(s)circa 2009Scope and Contents
It was published in the fall of 2009 by CUE Editions.
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 3
Chapbooks by Morgan Lucas Schuldt1 folder(s)undatedScope and Contents
Includes "As Vanish, Unespecially" by Morgan Schuldt, "In Common Salt" by G.C Waldrep and "Lately, even the rain is sounding holy."
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 4-5
College Essays and Papers by Morgan Lucas Schuldt, 2 folders2 folder(s)1997 October-2003 December
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 6
"CUE Online", includes a variety of poems by different poets1 folder(s)2008, undated
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 7
"Erros" Poetry Manuscript1 folder(s)circa 2012
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 8
Essays in Progress by Morgan Lucas Schuldt1 folder(s)undated
- Text [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 9
Essays on Poetry - Printed Reference Material1 folder(s)1980-2011Scope and Contents
Includes Dan Beachy-Quick "A January Notebook", "Reviews", "Diminished Reference and the Model Reader," "The Politics of the Referent," and "Body and Language" by Bruce Andrews.
- Text [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 10
Film Reviews and Notices (printed)1 folder(s)2007-2008
- Text [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 11
"Gondola" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt, (printed)1 folder(s)2013
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 12
Interview Excerpts with Harryette Mullen1 folder(s)1996, 2000Scope and Contents
Includes excerpts from "The Solo Mysterioso Blues: An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Calvin Bedient and an Elisabeth Frost Interview with Harryette Mullen.
- Manuscripts [X031750657] box: 1 folder: 13
Interview with Morgan Lucas Schuldt and a "Family History"1 folder(s)2008
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 1
Lecture ENGL 2091 folder(s)undatedScope and Contents
Includes Notes on Harryette Mullen, a poem by Kevin McFadden, and copies of a variety of poems.
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 2
Manuscripts by Boyer Rickel?1 folder(s)2010, undated
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 3
Miscellaneous Pieces by Morgan Lucas Schuldt1 folder(s)undatedScope and Contents
Includes: "The Pornographer at Work", "Mercy", "Browsing the Adult Section", "Taste" and "Wine Tasting."
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 4
"Morganalia" by Boyer Rickel, includes a variety of poems and other written works.1 folder(s)undated
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 5
Note on Fellini1 folder(s)undated
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 6
Note on Mexico1 folder(s)undated
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 7
Note on Palpation, includes "Palpation and the Quarry"1 folder(s)undated
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 8
Palindromes, includes a copy of an email that includes "Palindrome List"1 folder(s)2005 July
- Mixed Materials [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 9
Papers on "Lungs, Air, Phlegm"1 folder(s)2007-2009Scope and Contents
Includes a postcard, newspaper clipping, copy of "Every man in his humour" by William F. Bynum (2007), copy of "Blood and bile and phlegm, oh my" by Andrew O'Hehir (2007) and copy of "Lunguage" (2009.
- Mixed Materials [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 10
Papers on Vesalius1 folder(s)undatedScope and Contents
Includes note or entry from "Vesalius' Journal" (1536) and "The Fabric: A Poet's Vesalius" by Heather McHugh.
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 11-12
Poetry and Other Work by Morgan Lucas Schuldt, written while in High School and College, 2 folders2 folder(s)1995 June-1999, undated
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 13
Poetry Drafts1 folder(s)circa 2010-2011Scope and Contents
Includes drafts of poems eventually published in "Erros" and other poems both typed and handwritten, with a variety of edits.
- Text [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 14
Printed Articles, chiefly on Poetry1 folder(s)1990-2007Scope and Contents
Includes various writings such as "Mottetti-Poems of Love" (1990), Tenney Nathanson's "Collage and Pulverization in Contemporary American Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Controlling Interests", "Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry", "The Ecstasy of Influence" by Jonathan Lethem, and "Late Victorians San Francisco, AIDS, and the Homosexual Stereotype" by Richard Rodriguez.
- Text [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 15
Printed Material on Art1 folder(s)1983, 2004, undatedScope and Contents
Includes: a newspaper clipping on Joan MirĂ³, two printed photographs of artwork and a partial copy of "The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly."
- Text [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 16
Printed Material on the Sense of Smell1 folder(s)2006Scope and Contents
Includes two newspaper clippings (Three articles), "Odor Decoder" by John Lanchester, "Creaturely" by Devin Johnston and "Taking Place" by Nicholas Howe.
- Mixed Materials [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 17
Syllabi1 folder(s)1998-2002Scope and Contents
Includes teaching portfolio templates, statement of purpose templates, poems, class worksheets, printed copies of books and syllabi.
- Manuscripts [X031750658] box: 2 folder: 18
Thesis - "American Surrealist Poetry: A survey of Radical Romanticism in the Modernist Milieu" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Bachelor of Arts at the University of Virginia1 folder(s)2000 April 14
- Manuscripts [X031750659] box: 3 folder: 1
Thesis "Inventing the Body: Poems" by M.L. Schuldt, University of Arizona, Master of Fine Arts, with his resume1 folder(s)2002
- Mixed Materials [X031750659] box: 3 folder: 2
"Verge" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt1 folder(s)2007Scope and Contents
Includes documents and a contract with Parlor Press for publication of "Verge." Includes a book order, flyers, a copy of "Free Verse Editions" edited by Jon Thompson and a receipt.
- Mixed Materials [X031750659] box: 3 folder: 3
Writings by Morgan Lucas Schuldt at the University of Virginia1 folder(s)1999-2000Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of "Rage and Bone", two copies of "Virginia literary review", clippings of "The Retreat of Eros" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt, "One Little Doorway and One Big Head: Being John Malkovich" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt and "The End of Innocence: Lawn Retrospective 2000" by Morgan Lucas Schuldt.
- Mixed Materials [X031750659] box: 3 folder: 4-7
Personal Journals, 4 folders4 folder(s) 8 black bound volumes2003 December-2009 FebruaryScope and Contents
These personal journals include notes, quotes, poems and drafts of poems, analysis of poems, poems by others, title and poem ideas, word and phrase experimentation, essays, hand-draw illustrations, reading lists, influence lists, addresses and contact information, and to-do lists when out of the hospital. Some also contain ideas for photographic series, lecture notes, lists of books to get, and lists of poetry books. The built-in portfolios in the back of the journals also contain poetry, news clippings, business cards, printed material, etc.
- Mixed Materials [X031750660] box: 4 folder: 1-2
Personal Journals, 2 folders2 folder(s) 5 volumes2010 January-2011 DecemberScope and Contents
These personal journals include notes, quotes, poems and drafts of poems, analysis of poems, poems by others, title and poem ideas, word and phrase experimentation, essays, hand-draw illustrations, reading lists, influence lists, addresses and contact information, and to-do lists when out of the hospital. Some also contain ideas for photographic series, lecture notes, lists of books to get, and lists of poetry books. The built-in portfolios in the back of the journals also contain poetry, news clippings, business cards, printed material, etc.