[{"id":"7103","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Warren Tallman Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Warren Tallman Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Warren Tallman (7 November 1921 - 1 July 1994) was an American-born poetry professor who inspired the Canadian Tish movement and influenced the mid-20th century poetry scene in Canada. Born in Seattle attended the University of California, Berkeley on the G.I. Bill. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951. In 1956, the Tallmans accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, where they helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 26"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Tootsie, Warren Tallman's mother, interviewed by her son on September 11, 1982 and Daphne Marlatt talking and reading poems from \"Steveston\" in Tallman's poetry class at UBC on March 19, 1980"],"item_title_source":["Recording and J-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Marlatt, Daphne","Tallman, Warren","Minden, Robert","Shepard, Dorothy"],"creator_names_search":["Marlatt, Daphne","Tallman, Warren","Minden, Robert","Shepard, Dorothy"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/92127388\",\"name\":\"Marlatt, Daphne\",\"dates\":\"1942-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\",\"Interviewer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Minden, Robert \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"He is the photographer whom Daphne Marlatt had a collaboration for her book called \\\"Steveston\\\". 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On Side A, the recording is clearer after the first two minutes.\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"On the first side, Warren Tallman interviews his mother, who goes by Tootsie. Tootsie's birth name was Dorothy Shepard and she was born in St. Joseph, MI (37:55). Tallman notes on tape that Tootsie was born in 1896 (5:29), her father was Arthur Shepard (1:00), her mother's last name was Jocelyn (1:19), and both parents \\\"died so young\\\" (1:47). Tootsie was raised by an Aunt Alice who was born in Fredonia, NY (4:21). Their conversation implies that Tootsie grew up in Niles, MI (37:51).\\n\\nThe interview's location is not given but it is likely taking place at Tootsie's home in Olympia (her dog, Jenny, is present). She may have been living with Tallman's sister Jean and Jean's husband David at the time. Though Warren is eager for Tootsie to  talk about her family she repeatedly refuses (and initially cites an earlier recording by Warren where \\\"we went through all this already on your tape recorder.\\\" They briefly discuss other U.S. cities, David Copperfield, Voltaire, a 1978 Disraeli TV mini series, history and politics from Reagan and Jefferson as well as pets, kitchens, and earrings. The interview finishes at 55:50 and abruptly cuts into  a few minutes of a recorded class or group conversation led by Robin Blaser, discussing the relation of language to reality and how this is managed by unnamed English department colleagues and other literary scholars. \\n\\nOn the second side, Daphne Marlatt talks about her book Steveston and her collaboration with Robert Minden.\\n\\n\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556473229316,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.772Z","score":4.9116282}]