Kerry Shawn Keys papers

This collection consists of correspondence, journals, photographs, and other personal papers of Kerry Shawn Keys, poet, editor, translator, and cultural liaison. He has authored more than 40 books of poetry and prose and translated more than a dozen other works from Portuguese, Czech, and Lithuanian. (Publications can be found by searching the library online catalog.) He has taught at Penn State University, Harrisburg Area Community College, Dickinson College, and Vilnius University. He has received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Translation Laureate Award from the Lithuanian Writers Union, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.