Marie B. Lucas Papers, 1943, 1982-1991

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: Biographical Materials

Folder 2: School Assignments

Folder 3: Poems written by Marie Lucas: A-L

A: After, Aging, And Perpetual Light Shines, Anniversary, The Apple, At Rest, Awakening (two versions), Ave

B: The Barbie Doll, Barely Pink, Basket Maker, Before the Storm, The Big Eye, Black Man’s Anger, Black Patches, Bread to Live, Bright Brave Flowers, Brother’s Reading, Burial, Burning, The Burning Question

C: Capital Punishment (two versions), The Cat in the Solarium, Caucus, Change of Season, Changing Seasons, Christmas, Christmas Dusk, Christmas Morn, Cleansing, Cold Heart, The Collector, Come Together at Dusk, Conversation with the Oil Man, Cook Car Lunch, Crop Failure

D: Day Begins, Daybreak, Death, Death of a Dear One, Decision, Demons, De Profundis, Dial a Number, Divorce, Doughnut Maker, The Doves, Drawings, The Drifters, Dust Storm

E: Early Morning Notes, Early Rain, Early Spring, Eight Died, Emergency, Emergency Room, Enclosed, The End, End of an Affair, End of a Season, Every Friday, Every July (two versions), Evil Wine, Experience, Extinguished

F: Fallen Flower, Fall Poem, False Alarm, The Ferret, Filling Stations Are for Men, Final Acts, The Finish, First Dance, First Snow, Flight, Food, For an Old Friend, For “Jelly”, For Mr. Upshaw, For My Mother, For My 65th Birthday, Forty Plus, From 9th Tower Window, 57939 Names

G: Gathered Rosebuds, Generation Gap, Gifts for my 65th Birthday, Girl in the Sand, Girl to Woman, Going Home, Gone, Goodbye, The Grasshoppers, Green-Up Time (2 versions), Growing Up

H: Hay Stack Party, Health Unit, Heart Attack, He is Free, He is Risen, Holy Night, The Home, Howling: Saturday Nite, The Husband, Husband’s Visit

I: I Am Padded Into This Cell, Ice Storm, I Like Sunday Best, Improvisations, Inheritance, Instead of, In the Glory, An Invitation, In 1989, I Stand in a Garden, It Is, It Is Not to Trump

J:July (two versions), June

L: Leaving, Life Sentence, Light from Shadow, Listening, Listless Lethargy, The Little Girl, Lone Bird, Longing, Lost, Lost Innocence, Lost Land

Folder 4: Poems written by Marie Lucas: M-Z

M: Main Street, Make Believe, March, Medicine in the Fast Lane, Mend Mine, Migration, Mist in the Hills, Moon Cover, Morning Tears, The Mother’s Death, Movement, Mowing the Graves, My Mother’s Glasses, My New Club

N: New Life, A New Room (two versions), Night Beauty, Night Jazz, Night of Pain, Night Voice, Night Watch, Not Alive, Notes From My Diary, November at Home, No Visit This Year

O: O Dominant Mother, An Old Man Pounds, Only Me, On the Porch the Man

P: Parade, Passing Time, The Pattern, Philip, The Place, Political Feast, Pozzatti’s Cathedral Window, Prairie Song, Prairie Winter, Prison, The Private Sale, Psychiatric Care

Q: Quarrel

R: Rain, Rain Keeps Falling, Reaching for Life, Re-Birth, Reflections, Rejection, Remembering (three versions), Renewal, Re-Run, Return (three versions), The Return, Return of the Gold Finch, The Ride, Right and Proper, Roommate

S: Sally Rand Lives Here, Sea Notes, Searching, Seasons, Second Time Around, Sensuality, Separation, Seven, She (two versions), Silly, Sisters, Snow Dancers, Snow Fall, Snow Maiden, Song of Memory, Southern, Sponges, Spring Approaches, Still, Stopping for the Kids, Summer Lunch, Sunday Service

T: Tall Black Man, Tea Time, There Is No Water, Thinning Beets, Third Generation, Time Is Now, Time to Clean House, To Be Young, Today (two versions), Too Quiet, Too Young to Die, Transfiguration #2, Transformation, TV Prescription, Twilight

U: Under

V: Valuables (two versions), Variations

W: Waiting Room, Want Ads, Warmth, Warning, The Watcher, The Watershed, Wearing Out (two versions), The Weaver, Weeping Cherry, We Inherit the Earth, Will (two versions), The Wind, Winter, Woman In the Window, The Word Spider

Y: Youth-1938

Folder 5: "After Sixty-Five." by Marie Beaudry Lucas. Winston-Salem, NC: AlphaGraphics Printshops of the Future, 1990

Folder 6: "Come Together at Dusk." by Marie Beaudry Lucas. no date.

Folder 7: "Now You Hear My Crying...". by Marie B. Lucas. Winston-Salem, NC: Tenth Muse Press, 1982

Folder 8: Short stories written by Marie Lucas

Item 1: "Thank You, Miss Lykken"

Item 2: "The Event: It Changed My Life"

Item 3: "The Hitching Post"

Item 4: "My Mother's Place"

Item 5: "The Girl in the White Room"

Folder 9: SilverArts Select Exhibition. RJR Galley. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August and September 1991

Lucas won First Place - Poetry for her poem, "For My Mother"

Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings, 1982-1990

Item 1: "Local Poet Celebrates Book." by Annie Lee Singletary. The Pilot-Southern Pines, North Carolina. August 18, 1982

Item 2: "Present NC Poetry - Marie Lucas." by Kathryn Gibbs. The Pilot-Southern Pines, North Carolina. April 3, 1985

Item 3: "Pembroke Magazine Has Emphasis on Poetry." Winston-Salem Journal. September 1, 1985

Item 4: "After Sixty-Five: A Collection Bright and Beautiful." a Review by Susan Ott. The Senior Scene. December 1990

Item 5: "Compassion and Longing Mark New Poetry Works." by Shelby Stephenson. no date

Review of "Now You Hear My Crying..." by Marie Lucas

Item 6: "Southern Accent." by Sam Ragan. no date

Review of "Now You Hear My Crying..." by Marie Lucas

Item 7: "'Don't Label Me!' Says New Poet." by Jo Woestendiek. no date

Folder 11: Photographs

Photograph 1: "Marie and I in the park" (from back of photograph), 1943

Photograph 2: Marie Beaudry, circa 1943

Photograph 3: Marie Beaudry Lucas, no date

Photograph 4: Contact print, portrait photographs of Marie Beaudry Lucas, no date

Photograph 5: Contact print, portrait photographs of Marie Beaudry Lucas, no date

Folder 12: Poems written for Marie Lucas, 1987-1991

Item 1: "The Gifts" by Joan ?, December 1987

Two pages, typed; "To Marie" handwritten on the top of the first page

Item 2: Untitled by CRK Apt 18, January 5, 1990

2 pages, handwritten; "To Marie" written at the top of the first page

Item 3: "Brady Fernald" by Carolyn Page, Troy, Michigan, Winter 1991

Signed "Warm Regards, Carolyn" at the bottom of the page