Archives & Collections

Granary is a dealer in literary, art, and performance archives, as well as distinctive collections of rare books and author libraries. We work to place such collection with research institutions and have worked with over 150 writers, artists, and publishers toward this end since the early 1990s.

Our clients embody a variety of achievements that contribute to our understanding of cultural history: from Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, unheralded stars of the literary underground, small press stalwarts, and those involved in a variety of mainstream and experimental practices. Genres of archives include poetry, prose/fiction and non-fiction, theater/playwrighting, fiction, publishing and printing, the arts, photography, comics, and beyond.

Placements

Library of Congress, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, The New York Public Library, The Huntington Library, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, New York University, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Rochester, University of California San Diego, Texas A&M University, Temple University, University of Delaware, University of Houston, and University of Denver.

Clients

Recent clients: Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Lynn Nottage, Donald Byrd, Lois Elaine Griffith, Shin Yu Pai, Fiona Templeton, Ron Padgett, Will Alexander, Charles Bernstein, Jane Wodening, Peter Schjeldahl, Mary Norbert Korte, Dick Gallup, John Godfrey, and others.

Previous clients include: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ed Dorn, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Anselm Hollo, Michael Lally, Gerrit Lansing, Kit Robinson, Johanna Drucker, David Bromige, Norma Cole, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Douglas Crase, Pierre Joris, Susan Stewart, Charles North, Paul Violi, Don Byrd, Susan Bee, Trevor Winkfield, Arthur Sze, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, John Koethe, Edith Schloss Burckhardt, Michael Gizzi, Kenward Elmslie, Gloria Frym, Douglas Woolf, Joe Brainard, The Robert C. Morgan Conceptual Art Collection, Patty (Oldenburg) Mucha, Janet Hamill, Andrew Schelling, Turtle Point Press, Bardo Matrix/Ira Cohen/Gnaoua/Dana Young, Michael Heller, Lewis Warsh, Robert Dash, Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theater), Thom Gunn, Maggie Paley, Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin, Lawrence Alloway, Tony Zwicker, Kathleen Fraser, Robert Creeley, Ninja Press, Carolee Schneemann, Benny Andrews, Leslie Scalapino, Clark Coolidge, Ray DiPalma, Marjorie Welish, Susan Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Jane Wodening, Susan King, and others.

Literary organizations, magazines, and small press archives: The Poetry Project, Journal of Artists' Books (JAB), Home Planet News, Restau Press, Bottle of Smoke Press, Barbara Henning and Long News in the Short Century, Larry Goodell and Duende Press, Blind Date, A.I.R. Gallery, Woodland Pattern, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and others.

Please contact info@granarybooks.com if you wish to offer or acquire such material.

Archives or collections that are available below are marked with a large blue asterisk.