Curbside Review collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0684

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Scope and Contents

The magazine-sized literary journal devoted to original poetry was published monthly between 2000 and 2006. This collection includes business files, correspondence, and the published issues.

Dates

Creation: 2000 - 2005

Creator

Castleberry, R.T. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open to the public. Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

Curbside Review, a Houston-based monthly poetry journal devoted to modern free verse and prose poetry, existed from 2000 to 2006. It was published and edited by R.T. Castleberry and Carolyn Adams, members of the Flying Dutchman Wrtiers Troupe. It received roughly 1,200 original submissions per year and accepted about 20%. Press run was 400 copies that published approximately 10 poems per issue. Its format was four pages, magazine-sized, copier printed and folded, and was distributed free to local poetry groups and events, as well as local independent bookstores.

Extent

1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The magazine-sized literary journal devoted to original poetry was published monthly between 2000 and 2006. This collection includes business files, correspondence, and the published issues.