This collection contains materials pertaining to the life and work of the poet and artist Ernesto Edwards, including correspondence, original artworks, journals, and performance documents.

This collection contains items pertaining to the life and work of Jack Micheline, an important figure in the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements.

Charles Potts was born in Idaho Falls in 1943 and was raised on a ranch in Idaho. By 1963 he was already publishing poetry. He graduated from Idaho State University in 1965 with a degree in English. He took part organizing, producing, and publishing of Beat era poets for over fifty years. The collection includes broadsides, newsletters, postcards, and ephemera collected and produced by Potts.

The Karen Waring Sykes papers are composed of the author’s writings and correspondence. Writing under the names Karen Waring and Karen Sykes, she authored poetry and short stories that were featured in several writing publications, as well as a weekly hiking column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called “Hike of the Week.”

The Kathryn Caine Wanlass Beat Broadside and Ephemera collection was gifted to Utah State University Libraries in 1998 by the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. The initial gift included approximately 200 Beat broadsides, as well as 3300 books, pamphlets, little magazines, and primary source materials that document the history and development of the Beat Movement in American literature and allied arts.