This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Seitz, Ron".
Ron Seitz was a poet, author, essayist, and a former professor of creative writing at University of Louisville and Bellarmine University. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but traveled extensively as a young man and took a variety of different jobs before returning to Louisville.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
Series 1: 1968/01/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks much for poems. They are very good ones. Maybe I am prejudiced because I read them sitting |
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Series 1: Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton...
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| 2. |
Series 1: 1968/02/07 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for liking my poems. Was surprised as hell. I still think you musta had 4 or 5 cold ones |
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Series 1: Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton...
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| 3. |
Series 1: 1968/03/08 |
TLS to Merton |
so skipped this morning the teachin (all that talk, the noise of it chilling) & lit |
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Series 1: Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton...
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| 4. |
Series 1: 1968/06/26 |
TALS to Merton |
Just a short note Tom to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting beautiful |
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Series 1: Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton...
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Series 1: 1968/06/26 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
Just a short note Tome to thank you for my poem in POND #2 & also thank you for meeting |
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Series 1: Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton...
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| 6. |
Series 1: 1968/06/26 (#02) |
other to Merton |
REQUIEM [-] for Pop Seitz my grandfather [-] to begin-- [-] a dingdong bloom of bells |
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Series 1: Correspondence between Ron Seitz and Thomas Merton... [3 poems by Seitz sent to Merton: "for Pop Seitz my grandfather", "HAPPENING for Dick Sisto", and "POET THIS MORNING"]
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| 7. |
Series 2: undated/no/no (#01) |
other by Seitz, Ron |
2 POEMS DEAR TOM [-] for Father Merton [-] 2 poems dear Tom and high again [-] time it is to |
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Series 2: Thomas Merton and Ron Seitz material from a poetry... [poems by Ron Seitz about Thomas Merton]
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| 8. |
Series 2: undated/no/no (#02) |
other by Merton |
THE TRAPPIST ABBEY: MATINS [-] When the full fields begin to smell of sunrise |
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Series 2: Thomas Merton and Ron Seitz material from a poetry... [selected poems by Thomas Merton with a drawing and lettering (not by Merton) spelling out "Here's Tommy" from a word bubble and a cartoon man]
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| 9. |
Series 2: undated/no/no (#03) |
other by Merton |
POETRY AND CONTEMPLATION by Thomas Merton [-] There is a misleading insistence on the terms |
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Series 2: Thomas Merton and Ron Seitz material from a poetry... [It is a different draft of "Poetry and Contemplation" from what was previously in the Center's archives. Possibly, it was given by Merton to Ron Seitz.]
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| 10. |
Series 2: undated/no/no (#04) |
other |
Poems by Bellarmine Faculty and Students [-] Scene, Ash Wednesday, 1967 by Sr. Clarita Felhoelter |
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Series 2: Thomas Merton and Ron Seitz material from a poetry... [poems by Sr. Clarita Felhoelter, Daniel Lawless, Cora E. Lucas ("Pereginatio" for Thomas Merton), John H. Meyer, Ron Seitz,
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Series 2: undated/no/no (#05) |
other |
Nicanor Parra [-] HELP! I don't know how I got here: I was running along happy as you please |
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Series 2: Thomas Merton and Ron Seitz material from a poetry... [poems by Nicanor Parra, John Berryman, Philip Levine, Thomas Merton (3 poems), and poems of Han-Shan translated by Gary Snyder]
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