Collection Guide

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Biographical Note

Rochelle Holt Dubois was born in Chicago in 1946 of Russian-Scottish-Polish parents. She started writing poetry at the age of thirteen, and eventually included prose in her writings. She received a B.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, in 1967; an M.F.A. in the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1970; and a Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University in 1980. Her first book of poetry, To Make a Bear Dance, was published in 1970 in Iowa City. With D.H. Stefanson, Holt was co-publisher and editor of Valhalla Literary Magazine through Ragnarok Press, which received three Coordinating Council Literary Magazine grants. A protege of Anaiis Nin, she has been widely published, publishing a book annually since 1970. Her joint publication with Virginia Love Long in 1985, Letters of Human Nature, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the small press prose division. Broad in her interests, she has been a painter, dancer, letterpress printer, sculptor, and educator, as well as poet and writer of prose.

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Scope and Contents

The papers of Rochelle Lynn Holt consist of correspondence, photographs, publications, newsletters, and books of poetry and prose.

Photographs: Box 1

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Acquisition and Processing Information

These papers were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by Rochelle Lynn Holt and others.

Guide posted to Internet: August 2004

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Box Contents List

Box 1

Biographies and photographs, Rochelle Lynn Holt

Holt, Rochelle Lynn.

A Ballet of Oscillations. Sioux City, IA: Ragnarok Press, 1972. Valkyrie Series #5

"Houseman's Letters to George Galway:" Books at Iowa 15 (Nov. 1971), pp. 3 -- 10

Children of the Moon. Sioux City, IA: Ragnarok Press, 1973. Valhalla Series #2

From 1 Bird. Birmingham, AL: Ragnarok Press, 1978. Valkyrie Series #14

How to Cope With Depression Psychically. Westfield, NJ.: Merging Media, 1985

"Let Djuna Say." Typescript

To Make a Bear Dance. Iowa City, IA: Ragnarok Press, 1970. Valkyrie Series #1

"No Frigate Like a Book." Unpublished Manuscript. Photocopy

"One Working Woman's Newsletter"

Pangs. Novel. TMS with holographic corrections

Pathways -- Art as Healer. Valhalla #8. Merging Media: 1981 -- 1982

Valhalla. Birmingham, AL.: Ragnarok Press, 1977. Valhalla #4

Holt, Rochelle Lynn and D.H. Stefanson. Water, Light, Woman. Holly Springs, MS.: Ragnarok Press, 1974. Bifrost #3

Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream. Fisher, Barbara and Richard Alan Spiegel, Eds. New York: Tenpenny Players, Inc., 1985

Holt, Rochelle Lynn. The Woman in the Moon. Tunnel, NY: Geryon Press, 1982

Merging Media

Ragnarok Press

Rose Shell Press

Columbia Pacific University

Letters to Richard Centing

Letters to Donald R. Harkness, American Studies Press, 1981 -- 1991

Box 2

Correspondence with Chesely Hartman "Bud" Wells, Jr.

1973

1974 -- 1975

1976

January -- March 1977

April -- December 1977

1979 -- July 1980

Chesely Hartman "Bud" Wells, Jr., "Lili," and Rochelle Lynn Holt, 1976

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