15th Anniversary: Richard Yates Reading, Lie Down in Darkness

This series contains ad rate cards, flyers, mailings, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, audiocassettes, a homemade banner, a tote bag, and a scrapbook. Flyers and mailings advertise Ploughshares' benefits and reading series that featured writers such as: Robert Lowell, John McGahern, Siobhan McKenna, Marilyn Hacker, and Brian Moore. This series also includes six audiocassettes of recorded readings by authors including: Seamus Heaney, Frank Conroy, Mary Lavin, and Richard Yates. There is also an interview with founders DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley from September 1971.

The scrapbook in this collection was compiled by DeWitt Henry and includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and certificates that were awarded for Ploughshares' inclusion in the Pushcart Prize – Best of the Small Presses series in 1976.