9/3/21 Arts and Sciences Art Percival R. Roberts III Papers, 1928-1989 Biography Roberts was born on November 2, 1935 in Newark Delaware. He earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Delaware. He attended Illinois State for his PhD. He was Delaware's ninth poet laureate. He wrote seven books of poetry and authored articles on aesthetics and art education. He was one of the founding members of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's Board of Directors. He was also active with Bloomsburg's Town Beautification Committee. His dedication to art and teaching was evident in his life membership of the National Art Education Association. He became the chairman of the Art department in 1968 at Bloomsburg State College. He succumbed to cancer in 1984 at the age of 48. Box 1: Articles on or by Roberts, 1967-1984 General Correspondence, 1969-1970 Olen Bryant Correspondence, 1965-1983 Memorial Sculpture Garden Dedication, 1989 Art Bloomsburg Art Department: Exhibits and Information, 1973-1989 Artwork of Roberts, 1967-1987 Bloomsburg State College Permanent Art Collection, 1976 "The Aesthetics of an Apparition", 1969 24 Living Art Ideas, 1968 Exemplary Programs in Art Education, 1969 Box 2: Published Poetry Centaurian Flight and Other Poems, 1968 Out, Out Brief Candle, 1968 Haiku Highlights and Other Short Poems, 1968: Haiku Hints for the Reader, 3-4 Handbook on Haiku and Other Form Poems, 1970: Haiku Hints for the Reader, 12-13 International Poetry Quarterly, winter 1972: Seasonal Hues, 42 International Poetry Quarterly, fall 1972 (2 copies): Education in Central Park, 23 Olympian, 1972: Thoughts from Inside a Balloon, 6, Et Vera Dicunt, 12 and III, from "Three Poems: Unwritten", 49 Poet, 1969: Epilogue for Eliot, 46-47 Poet, 1971: Eve Again: Tomorrow, 52 Poet, 1972: Foreword, 305 and The Ghetto Scribbler, Forget Hate and Renewal, 334 Poet Lore, 1971: Autumn Afternoon, 259 Profiles of Delaware's Poets Laureate, 1947-1970, 1970 Quaderni di Poesia, 1970: Thoughts on Another Monument to Time, 14 St. Andrew's Review, 1971: Et Vera Dicunt (and the words mean...), 26 St. Andrew's Review, fall-winter 1979: Variation on Catullus' Theme, 87-89 and Love's Diminution, 90 St. Andrew's Review, 1984: Incantation VIII ("Assembling Ancient Thoughts"), 42, Incantation IX ("Only Emotion Endures"), 43 and Incantation X ("Getting IT Down"), 44-45 The American Bard, 1969, 20-21 The Clouds Threw This Light: Contemporary Native American Poetry, 1983 The Human Voice, 1968: Maidenkind, 59 The Human Voice, 1971: Thoughts From A Balloon, 83 and III, from "Three Poems: Unwritten", 87 The Triangle, 1966: Centaurian Flight, 18-19 and Dipping Water in Clasped Hands, 43 The Triangle, 1967: Musgrave's Folly, 14-15 and in twenty-three: A Reply, 55 The Triangle, 1968: Melody for Melinda, 49 and Conversational: For a Mortal Muse, 50-51 Various Poems by Roberts, 1975-1981 Voices International, 1971: Autumn Afternoon, 34-35 Voices International, Spring 1972: Thoughts from a Sand-Filled Well, 21 Voices International, Summer 1972: One Glad Thursday, 28 Box 3: Publications Contributed to (as editor, judge...) Cumberland Journal: "Disjointed Fictions", Richard Grayson, winter 1981 Cumberland Journal: "Poetry in the Middle: Notes on Land and Language", Joe Napora, summer 1981 Cumberland Journal: "Magna Mater, works of Robert Lowell and Gary Snyder", Frank Allen, fall 1981 International Poetry Quarterly, summer 1972 Pegasus Poetry Competition, 1971 Prize Poems, 1982 Voices International, spring 1971 (2 copies) Voices International, fall 1971 Voices International, 1980 Book Collection Account of a Dash to Ayer's Rock, Cyril E. Goode, 1972 An American Poet Speaks, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1965 Ballads of the Free State Bird, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1967 Bittersweet, Mary Blackburn, 1952 Brooks-Bright Prize Essays, 1928 "Cauldron", 1953-1954 D*Dawn and Other Poems, Margaret McGarvey, 1964 "Gleanings: Prose", 1973 "Gleanings: Poetry", 1973 Golden Memories, George H. Hudson, 1965 Haiku Highlights and Other Short Poems, 1970 Haiti: a l'heure du tiers monde", Gerard de Catalogne, 1966 Itadakimasu, William J. Higginson, 1971 Love and Stuff, Florence Unangst, 1967 "Major Poets", 1971 "Manifold", 1968 Box 4: Maryland's Revolutionary Hero: the Thrilling Story of Colonel Teuch Tilghman, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1963 "Orbit" (2 copies) Fall 1968 Spring 1968 Poems from "Land of Manna", Menke Katz, 1968 Poet (7 copies) June 1968 March 1969 April 1969 May 1969 May 1972 June 1972 November 1972 "Poetry Nippon" (2 copies) Fall 1970 Summer 1970 "Prattle and Plot", 1973 "Prize Poems" (11 copies) 1960 1961 1962 1963 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1969-1970 1971 Shadows and Windy Places, Amey Smyth, 1938 "South and West: An International Literary Quarterly", summer 1969 Strange Heartbeats, Judson Dicks, 1972 "The Book Exchange", March 1970 The Four Tests of a Loyal American, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1966 The Poet and His Country, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1963 The Poet and His Ideas, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1963 The Poet and His Nature, Vincent Godfrey Burns, 1963 "The Triangle", 1962 Vedas in Lyrics, Krishna Srinivas, 1972 "Venture" (2 copies) Unknown 1955 Welsh Tract Church and Elder John Green Eubanks, Percy Roberts (father), 1978 Words are Wonderful, Lena Elvina Tripp, 1972 Box 5: Bark: A Portfolio of Poems and Eye-Poems, 1980 (5 copies) Laurel Leaves, 1967: Poetry Day, 29 Laurel Leaves, Winter -Spring, 1968: The Golden Rule, 7 Laurel Leaves, summer 1968, 40