Mary Norbert Korte Archive
Mary Norbert Korte (1934–2022) took nun’s vows with the Dominican Catholic Sisterhood at the age of 17, and earned her bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Latin. Korte attended the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference, encountering Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer, and Lew Welch, among other poets. She befriended Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Spicer, and Welch, and developed her own mystically-charged poetics. Korte formally left the Dominican order in 1967, and embarked on the lay life of the poet. From 1973 onward, Korte lived in Mendocino county, on the bank of the Noyo River. Between 1979 and 2009, Korte fought tirelessly to protect a large area of redwood forest at the Noyo headwaters, which is now permanently preserved by the Mendocino Land Trust. She was a longtime teacher in the Medocino area, including for California Poets in the Schools. She has been published by Oyez Press, Cranium Press, Rainy Day Women Press, and prolifically in little magazines.
This is the second installment of her archive. The collection has sold.