Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Danner, Margaret, papers
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| Notes: | Box 1 contains audio material that does not include access copies. Researchers will need to consult with staff before requesting material from this series. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
Poet, editor, and community activist, Margaret Danner attended Loyola University, Roosevelt College, Northwestern University, and YMCA College, studying under poets Paul Eagle and Karl Shapiro. She became editorial assistant for Poetry: The Magazine of Verse in 1951 and was promoted to assistant editor in 1956, the first African-American to serve in that position. Danner's first collection of poetry was Impressions of African Art Forms. Her other publications include To Flower: Poems (1963), and The Down of a Thistle: Selected Poems, Prose Poems, and Songs (1976). She received the John Hay Whitney Fellowship Award and used it to travel to Africa in 1966. Danner was a member of the Society of Contemporary Artists, Afro-American Culture, National Council of Teachers of English, Nologonyu's, Boone House, and Chicago Southside Community Art Center.
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| Summary: | Consists of drafts, manuscripts, publications, unpublished poems, poetry journals, ephemera, biographical material, correspondence, newspaper articles, cassette tapes, course materials, and interviews.
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| Cite as: | When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Danner, Margaret. Papers, [Box#, Folder#], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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| Cumulative Index / Finding Aids Note: | Finding aid available in the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
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