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Eugene Platt Papers, 2015-2023

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Contents List

Box 1

Folder 1. “Ambulance to the Apocalypse,” November 2023

Folder 2. "An Inauguration Day Lunch"

Folder 3. “My Father the Philanderer”

Folder 4. “My Mother Stoned”

Folder 5. “Route 36”

Folder 6. “Weaned on War”

Folder 7. Draft, “Dresden’s Frauenkirche Weeps for Notre-Dame de Paris

Folder 8. Draft, Weaned on War

Folder 9. Drafts of "Agony in Egypt, April 8, 1970"

Folder 10. Drafts of "How I Escaped the Holocaust"

Folder 11. Drafts of "The Day I Killed my Cat"

Folder 12. Drafts of "Where We Find Our Fathers"

Folder 13. Various drafts

Folder 14. Index of titles

Folder 15. Production Proof, Weaned on War

Folder 16. Supporting material

Folder 17. Reviews, 2016

  • “Poet and author Eugene Platt: Parallel stories,” by Marjorie Rawle, Art Mag, Jul-Sep 2016, p.64

Folder 18. Poems in Literary Journals, 2019

  • “Dresden’s Frauenkirche Weeps for Notre-Dame de Paris,” Into the Void, Issue 13, Qtr 3, 2019, p. 15

Folder 19. Articles and Poems in Literary Journals, 2022

  • “The Light of Light,” Carolina Grace, Spring-Summer 2022, p. 36
  • “Agony in Egypt – April 8, 1970,” p. 29; "How I Escaped the Holocaust," p. 31; "Where We Find Our Fathers," p. 33; “My Father the Philanderer,” p. 35; “Waiting for the Train at Ballybrophy Junction,” p. 37; “In the Butcher Shop in Bushmills,” p.41; A New Ulster, Issue 114, May 2022
  • “The Good Vet,” and “The Day I Killed my Cat,” West of Free Press, June 2022, p. 36
  • “Carolina Catechism, Atlanta Review, Fall/Winter 2022, p. 43

Folder 20. "The Church of the Crooked Cross," by Eugene Platt, 2023

Folder 21. Published work, A Patrick Kavanagh Anthology, edited by Eugene Robert Platt, 1973

Box 2

Folder 1: Summer Days with Daughter (1999) drafts

Folder 2: Nuda Veritas (2020) drafts

Folder 3: Perennial (play) drafts, 1 of 2

Folder 4: Perennial (play) drafts, 2 of 2

Folder 5: Various poems

Folder 6: Correspondence