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Princeton University, Nassau Hall.<\/p>\n

Alumni; Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann.<\/p>\n

AMERICANA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

from\u00a0 Going Home to Wyoming<\/p>\n

after John Ford\u2019s Cheyenne Autumn<\/p>\n

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. . .Saintly Gardiners of Olivet, or of Magdala, send us food<\/p>\n

We\u2019re starving, we hear your orchards have no rival in Cheyenne.<\/p>\n

You, my erstwhile lot, within Wyoming sandstone, quarried from Wyoming ledges, pray for us<\/p>\n

Within the arches of steel and concrete, trimmed with oak<\/p>\n

Within earshot of the Visser-Rowland tracker pipe organ at St. Mary\u2019s<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/span>Keyboards, naturals of macasser ebony, sharps of maple, encased in red oak of Appalachia<\/p>\n

Beneath the stained spin-offs and the sunlight of Raphael.\u00a0 Hi Barbara, look-me-in-the-eye, \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Pray for us.<\/p>\n

St.\u00a0 John Godina, Olympic shot putter, pray for us.<\/p>\n

St. Tom Horn, hired lawman, outlaw and assassin, pray for us.<\/p>\n

St.\u00a0 Shirley E. Flynn, Cheyenne author and historian, add a footnote for us.<\/p>\n

All you male and female patrons of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, pray for us.<\/p>\n

St. General Grenville M. Dodge, in your City of God, who named Crow Creek Crossing after us, the Cheyenne,<\/p>\n

All you martyrs, blessed patricians of the five spires rid us of the rattlesnake Wessel,<\/p>\n

St. Bernadette of the Gallic town we\u2019re twinned with,<\/p>\n

Pray for us.<\/p>\n

All you folk who walk the windy city of Cheyenne, pray for us.<\/p>\n

All you seniors at the 80ft. Burke Senior Centre, pray for us.<\/p>\n

Saints of the Chinook wind downslope from the Rockies, warm our faces.<\/p>\n

Saints of Mount Rushmore, Little Big Horn and Grand Teton, pray for us.<\/p>\n

Old Faithful at your geyser, pray for us, spirit of all the dead bears and buffalo<\/p>\n

Strengthen us.<\/p>\n

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Cheyenne Warriors, re-group under new management.<\/p>\n

Play for us,<\/p>\n

shorten our trek home. . .<\/p>\n

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Ode to Billy Joe<\/strong><\/p>\n

prayer for Billy Joe McAllister<\/p>\n

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Though to the rocky fields of furthest universe you go<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll come back, fall off Tallahatchie, where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

Polish the eggs, re-seed the five-acre field, up the clover you know<\/p>\n

Then slip off Tallahatchie, where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

Failed male on the slopes of Croghan, where the ashy acres grow<\/p>\n

You\u2019re pushed off Tallahatchie, where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

Though your hair be gelled from Galicia, only the best you know<\/p>\n

Go, son, quick, jump off Tallahatchie, where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

Let the preacher preach in best shirt and tie, deaths and ascensions all the go<\/p>\n

He\u2019s bound too for Tallahatchie, where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

Yeshua, catch young Billy Joe in free fall from the bridge now you know<\/p>\n

He\u2019s falling, falling off Tallahtachie,\u00a0 where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

Dry your eyes, Billy Joe, take Bobby Lee home, there\u2019s nowhere left to go<\/p>\n

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Only fall off Tallahtachie, where the muddy waters flow<\/p>\n

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In the Spring of 2017, Princeton University acquired John Ennis\u2019s extensive archive.<\/h1>\n

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Princeton University<\/b> is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, where it was renamed Princeton University in 1896. Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering. It offers professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Architecture and the Bendheim Center for Finance. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary and the Westminster Choir College of Rider University. Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States.\u00a0 <\/span>From 2001 to 2017, Princeton University was ranked either first or second among national universities by U.S. News & World Report, holding the top spot for 15 of those 17 years. <\/span><\/p>\n

The university has graduated many notable alumni. It has been associated with 41 Nobel laureates, 21 National Medal of Science winners, 14 Fields Medalists, 5 Abel Prize winners, 10 Turing Award laureates, five National Humanities Medal recipients, 209 Rhodes Scholars, 139 Gates Cambridge Scholars and 126 Marshall Scholars. Two U.S. Presidents, 12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices (three of whom currently serve on the court) and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princeton’s alumni body. Princeton has also graduated many prominent members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Cabinet, including eight Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense and two of the past four Chairs of the Federal Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Latin: Universitas Princetoniensis
\nAt the Battle of Princeton<\/b>, during which King George\u2019s soldiers briefly occupied Nassau Hall, American forces, led by George Washington, fired cannon on the building to rout them from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former names College of New Jersey (1746\u20131896) <\/span><\/p>\n

Motto: Dei Sub Numine Viget (Latin
\nType: Private
\nEstablished 1746. Academic affiliation\u00a0 <\/span>AAU, URA, NAICU[2]\nEndowment $22.153 billion (2016)
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President.<\/b> Christopher L. Eisgruber. Academic staff<\/b>, 1,238. Administrative staff<\/b> 1,103. Students <\/b>8,181 (Fall 2016). Undergraduates 5,400 (Fall 2016).\u00a0 <\/span>Postgraduates 2,781 (Fall 2016). Location<\/b>, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Campus suburban, 500 acres (2.0 km2). Colors<\/b> Orange and Black. Nickname<\/b> Tigers.
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Bonfire<\/b>.\u00a0 <\/span>Ceremonial bonfire that takes place in Cannon Green behind Nassau Hall. It is held only if Princeton beats both Harvard University and Yale University at football in the same season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sporting affiliations<\/b>. NCAA Division I, Ivy League, ECAC Hockey, EARC, EIVA, MAISA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Princeton University Library System<\/b> houses over eleven million holdings including seven million bound volumes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holder Howl. <\/b> The midnight before Dean’s Date, students from Holder Hall and elsewhere gather in the Holder courtyard and take part in a minute-long, communal primal scream to vent frustration from studying with impromptu, late night noise making.<\/span><\/p>\n

House Parties<\/b>, Lawn Parties<\/b>, Newman\u2019s[Paul] Day<\/b> (24 beers x 24 hours. Disputed). Nude Olympics<\/b> -in the original Grecian style – in the first snows 1970. Co-ed, 1979. Press notoriety. Banned, alas, 2000. Loss to Education.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Princeton Students after a freshman v. sophomores snowball fight in 1893.<\/span><\/p>\n

Website<\/b> princeton.edu
\n(Data on Princeton, via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)<\/span><\/p>\n

The archive of poet John Ennis at Princeton comprises a unique collection.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. <\/b>Mss <\/b>copies of the works of John Ennis to date, including early unpublished poetry mss (some collected and bound with annotations by mentor poet and prof. Se\u00e1n Lucy UCC ) and an unpublished short story sequence.\u00a0 <\/span>Mss copies of the author\u2019s nineteen <\/b>published works, along with draft unpublished future <\/b>volumes being completed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. <\/b>Mss<\/b> copy of the author\u2019s unpublished Ph.D (1997) What Verities Remain<\/i><\/b>, of which his academic extern, poet professor Robert Welch, University of Ulster at Coleraine says \u201cit shows that Ennis is, by any standard, a poet of international significance whose work is characterized by an integrating moral and humane perspective, which is fortified by its contact with the structures of consciousness itself\u201d. Copies of some of the author\u2019s poetry reviews, including his critique of Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/i> printed in the special AGENDA<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>for Walcott.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. <\/b>Mss<\/b> to do with the four acclaimed\u00a0 <\/span>gender-balanced Irish-Canadian anthologies for which John Ennis acted as co-editor, or editor,\u00a0 <\/span>co-published or published, through School of Humanities Publications, WIT: The Backyards of Heaven<\/i>, However Blow the Winds<\/i>, The Echoing Years<\/i> and How the Light Gets in.<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. <\/b>Mss of other writers<\/b>: mss. to John Ennis as Creative Writing Facilitator \u2013 Agee, McKenzie; mss accumulated through readings for PIC (Poetry Ireland Choice) \u2013 Thomas Kinsella, Eavan Boland, Medhbh McGuckian . . .; mss. submitted for the cross-atlantic anthologies, especially of poems about to be published, Rosanna Deerfield . . . .; Down to the Dirt<\/i> by Joel Hynes, award-winner, a Newfoundland Portrait of the Artist<\/i>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. <\/b>Creative Writing Workshop Material<\/b>. John Ennis facilitated writing groups for a period of some fifteen years.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. <\/b>Correspondence<\/b>.\u00a0 <\/span>General\u00a0 <\/span>correspondence<\/b> on poetry matters (ex-Canadian) over a period of half a century. This includes especial folders for Seamus Heaney, Peter Fallon, J.F.Deane as well as a large number of others, poets mainly. \u00a0 <\/span>Correspondence (Canadian),<\/b> round the four anthologies and stored in the related archive boxes for ease of synchronisation. \u00a0 <\/span>Correspondence Poetry Ireland<\/b>(in related archive box). This includes a rejection letter to Seamus Heaney! Too bad.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. <\/b>Poetry Ireland Archive<\/b>. (John Ennis was a founding member of Poetry Ireland, as well as an executive member for the first eleven years.) This archive box includes details of organisational set-up, agendas for meetings, personal input, newsletters, correspondence with the director(s), and poets and reviewers submitting work, as well as draft mss, for PIR 22,23,24 and 25 for which Ennis was editor \u00a0 <\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. <\/b>Special archive stretching from the late 1960\u2019s till today<\/b> (The Irish Times), comprising New Irish Writing pages by David Marcus (The Irish Press<\/i>) including first views of poems by Seamus Heaney and John Montague\u2019s \u201cHymn to the New Omagh Road\u201d; weekend literary supplements from The Irish Times<\/i>, The Irish Press<\/i>, The Irish Independent<\/i>, The Sunday Tribune<\/i> and Hibernia<\/i>. (On the demise of New Irish Writing, The Sunday Tribune<\/i> under Ciaran Carty ran a new Irish Writing Page, as did The Irish Times<\/i> and Hibernia<\/i> all along). Also included are review sections from The Sunday Times<\/i> and The Observer<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>The biggest collection is from The Irish Times<\/i> (1960s to date), comprising not only literary reviews but also reviews of music<\/b>, theatre, fine art<\/b>, film<\/b> and social issues<\/b>, which give a comprehensive and holistic picture of the arts in context, in Ireland.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. <\/b>Poetry Anthology publications.<\/b> <\/b>Ireland and the world.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n
  10. <\/b>Spanish Poetry, <\/b>20thC Archive Box.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n
  11. <\/b>John Ennis and Music.\u00a0 <\/span>Recordings. Also, press and profile.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>ARCHIVE SUMMARY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    The John Ennis Archive, as presented, runs to 51 archive boxes. Numbers in brackets indicate the number of archive boxes per area.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. <\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>John Ennis Collection:\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>Own Poetry Publications Archive (12), Early Personal Manuscripts (2),\u00a0 <\/span>Manuscripts, other poets (1), Creative Writing Workshop (1). Sub-total 16.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    2. <\/b> Editorial Roles, Irish-Canadian: <\/b>The Backyards of Heaven<\/i> (3), However Blow the Winds<\/i> (3),\u00a0 <\/span>The Echoing Years<\/i> (6), How the Light Gets in<\/i> . . .\u00a0 <\/span>(2).\u00a0 <\/span>Sub-total 14.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. <\/b>Arts Review Supplements <\/b>The Irish Times<\/i> (6), Education & Living (1), Working & Living\u00a0 <\/span>(1) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The Sunday Times Books\/ Observer<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>(2), Hibernia <\/i>(1), The Irish Press \/ Irish Independent<\/i> (1), New Irish Writing<\/i>, The Irish Press (1), The Sunday Tribune<\/i> (1),The Cork Examiner<\/i> \u2013 The Examiner (1), Misc. (1).\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Sub-total 16.<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. <\/b>Various: <\/b>Correspondence (1), Poetry Ireland (1), Library: Anthologies\u00a0 <\/span>Eng.\/Dual (1), Spanish Anthologies \/Individual (1), Misc. Tapes, Poems for Music (1). Sub-total 5.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>TOTAL: 51 Boxes.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Audio Tapes Archive<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

      Beckett, Samuel \u00a0 <\/span>All That Fall<\/i>; Donoghue \/ Richard Kearney Interview<\/span><\/p>\n

      Broderick, John (Folio Interview, 1979), Poetry Competition, Poems, Comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Brontes, The (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Cohen, Leonard\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Selte<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

      Colum, Padraic (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Conrad (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Coriolanus<\/i>, RTE Players, Mercier Educational<\/span><\/p>\n

      Deane, Seamus \u00a0 <\/span>A Poetry Ireland casette<\/span><\/p>\n

      Delaney, Shelagh \u00a0 <\/span>A Taste of Honey<\/i> (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Durcan, Paul reading from \u201cChristmas Day\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

      Ennis, John\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Poems recorded including \u201cGod Save Biafra\u201d. Two tapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Ennis, John \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cArt Poems\u201d, Anthology Prepared for Students of Art. Two Tapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Ennis, John interviewed by Theo Dorgan, Poetry Now (<\/i>RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Friel, Brian\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Dancing at L\u00fanasa<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

      James, Henry and Emily Dickinson (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Higgins, Aidan (Folio Interview, RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Hogan, Des (Play), The Burren \/ Des Hogan Interview with Andy O\u2019Mahoney<\/span><\/p>\n

      Jordan, Neil (Play), Poems (Ennis)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Kavanagh, Patrick\u00a0 <\/span>The Great Hunger<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

      Kilroy, Thomas\u00a0 <\/span>The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche<\/i>(RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Lawrence, D.H.\u00a0 <\/span>Reading<\/span><\/p>\n

      Magee, Heno\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Hatchet<\/i> (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      McNeice, Louis (Tom McGurk, RTE), tape also includes Moby Dick<\/i> section<\/span><\/p>\n

      Muggeridge on Blake, Hugh McDiarmuid,\u00a0 <\/span>Ray Lynott\u00a0 <\/span>February<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

      One Man\u2019s Island<\/i>, poems by Thomas Kinsella (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Pinter, Harold The Birthday Party<\/i> (RTE), two tapes<\/span><\/p>\n

      Poetry Quarterly (RTE), Gallery Books<\/span><\/p>\n

      RTE Recording: Patrick Kavanagh, Robert Lowell . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

      RTE Talks on Poetry: Austin Clarke, T.S.Eliot, Louis McNeice, W.B Yeats<\/span><\/p>\n

      Sophocles Electra<\/i>, Beckett Commentary<\/span><\/p>\n

      Thomas Davis Lectures (RTE):Anglo-Irish Idiom in Synge, O\u2019Casey, Joyce. Clarke, Kavanagh, Kinsella. Augustine Martin<\/span><\/p>\n

      Various 1 Tape: John Jordan, Hugh Maxton, Thomas Kinsella (A Technical Supplement<\/i>), W.H.Auden, Francis Stuart (poems), Samuel Beckett, Kinsella Reading Austin Clarke, Paul Muldoon reading his poems<\/span><\/p>\n

      Various 2 Tape, Francis Stuart on Kafka\u2019s The Castle<\/i>; Gordimer\u2019s Monkey<\/i>; Eile\u00e1n N\u00ed Chuille\u00e1n\u00e1in.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Various 2 (cont\u2019d), Stuart on Kafka, Padraic Colum\u2019s Joyce, Gald\u00f3s Miau<\/i>, Seamus Heaney\u2019s Wintering Out<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

      \u201cVladivostok\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>by Maurice Kennedy (Irish Short Stories, Faber, no date of publication recorded)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Walcott, Derek Reading with Seamus Heaney (1991) with Copeland\u2019s Appalachian Spring<\/i> and El Salon M\u00e9jico<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

      Welles, Orson The Future \u00a0 <\/span><\/i>(RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Williams, Tennesse\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>A Street Car Named Desire<\/i> (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

      Woods, Macdara reading from \u201cThe Hanged Man was not Surrendering\u201d, Padraig J. Daly (Poetry Thursday), John Ennis, Frank Harte\u2019s Sean N\u00f3s<\/span><\/p>\n

      Yeats\u2019s Poems (Telef\u00eds Scoile,RTE) \u2013\u201cSailing to Byzantium\u201d, \u201cAmong School Children\u201d, \u201cThe Circus Animals\u2019 Desertion\u201d read by James Plunkett; Lord of the Flies<\/i> by William Golding, extract.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Yeats, On Baile\u2019s Strand<\/i> (RTE)<\/span><\/p>\n

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