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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Johnson, Halvard, 1936-

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 4 item(s); 7 pg(s)

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Biography

Poet Halvard Johnson was born in Newburgh, New York, and spent his boyhood in both in small Hudson Valley towns and New York. He spent his years after college in Ohio hitchhiking around the United States in the late 1950's. After graduate study in English at University of Chicago, he began teaching at the University of Texas, El Paso for four years. Near the end of his time in Texas, he sent Merton some poems for Monks Pond. After this, he taught in Puerto Rico, traveled Europe, and now has returned to his native New York where he writes and teaches at the New School. A number of his books of poetry have been published. (Source: Monks Pond, pp. 109 and 207.)

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See also contributions to Monks Pond, pp. 83, 136 and 228.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/01/25 TALSto MertonKeith Wilson told me about <u>Monk's Pond</u>, your new magazine, &amp; suggested I send you   
 1968/02/28 TL[c]from MertonI am keeping Projections 4.23.27, which I like very much for the second number of MONKS POND.   
 1968/03/14 HLSto MertonThanks for the letter and Monks Pond #1. I received it just the other day and found much   
 1968/05/01 TALSto MertonHere's the "something more" you kindly asked me to send: some more "projections" together   
        

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