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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Marie Gilbert Papers #5487, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lawrence Gilbert Sanford in October 2010 (Acc. 101391).

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• Airman--United States--Correspondence.
• American poetry--North Carolina.
• Bayes, Ronald H., 1932-
• Chappell, Fred, 1936-
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gilbert family.
• Gilbert, Marie.
• Korean War, 1950-1953--Participation, American.
• North Carolina Poetry Society.
• Poets, American--North Carolina.
• Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996.
• Women poets, American--North Carolina.

• North Carolina Poetry Society Records (#4606)

Marie Rogers Gilbert was born in 1924 in Florence, S.C. She graduated from Rollins College with a dual major in English and psychology in 1945. In 1946, Gilbert married Richard A. Gilbert, a finance officer for the Air Force. In 1952, as an Air Force Reservist, Richard A. Gilbert was called up for duty in the Korean War and served in an account-auditor in Seoul, Korea. Marie and Richard had two children, R. Austin Gilbert Jr. and Laurence (Laurie) Gilbert.

Marie Gilbert published several collections of poetry, including Myrtle Beach Back When (1989), The Song and the Seed (1983), Connexions (1994), Brookgreen Oaks (1999), and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (2006). She was active in the North Carolina Poetry Society, serving as president, 1990-1992. Gilbert received numerous awards for her work, including the Sam Ragan Fine Arts Awards in 1994 and the Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Award in 2003. She served as writer-in-residence at Saint Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., from fall 2000 to spring 2001. Marie Gilbert died in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2007.

The collection contains correspondence, writings, and other materials related to Marie Gilbert's family life and to her career as a poet. Some of the correspondence is with other poets, including Sam Ragan, Fred Chappell, and Ronald Bayes, but the bulk it is between Gilbert and her husband Richard A. Gilbert while he was stationed overseas during the Korean War. There are also letters relating to other Gilbert family members. Also included are drafts of Gilbert's books, poems, and essays as well as reviews and promotional materials related to Gilbert's published works. Other items include teaching materials, information on workshops taught and attended by Gilbert and her academic residency at Saint Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., audiocassette recordings featuring Marie Gilbert, and research notes. There are also some records of the North Carolina Poetry Society, including meeting notes, newspaper clippings, program brochures, and promotional material for the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series.

• Audiocassettes (C-5487/1-5)