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Albert Frank Moritz
Fonds number:
49
Title: Albert Frank Moritz
Dates of Material:
1935 – 2023
Extent:
21.3 m of textual records
71 photographs
7 audio cassettes
2 digital video discs
2 VHS tapes
1 sculpture
2 compact discs
3 artifacts
71 photographs
7 audio cassettes
2 digital video discs
2 VHS tapes
1 sculpture
2 compact discs
3 artifacts
Biographical sketch
Albert Frank (A.F.) Moritz is a prolific poet who has published numerous acclaimed collections and contributed to many anthologies and periodicals. He was born in Niles, Ohio in 1947. His father was a teacher and later a professor of biology and science education; his mother was a grade school teacher. In 1969, A.F. Moritz received a B.A. in Journalism from Marquette University, and later earned an M.A. and Ph.D (English) from that institution. He came to Canada in 1974 with his wife Theresa (Carrothers) and son Blaise (born 1971) and settled in Toronto. Since then, A.F. Moritz has worked in a number of occupations, including advertising copywriter and executive, editor and publisher (Watershed Books), and has held various university teaching positions, including senior lecturer at Victoria College. Through the years, he has won distinguished awards for his poetry, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990, Selection to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 1984, and the Griffin Poetry Prize for his work Sentinel in 2009. In 2019 he was selected to be Toronto's sixth Poet Laureate, a position he held until 2023.
The A.F. Moritz fonds contains records relating to his education, teaching, translation and editing work, journalism and other employment, and, predominantly, his work as a poet. Records include manuscripts and typescripts, handwritten drafts and notes, notebooks and journals, correspondence, copies of periodicals and anthologies, promotional material, photographs and personal material including family records.
- Series 1: Education
- Series 2: Teaching
- Series 3: Poetry manuscripts, essays and related records
- Series 4: Correspondence / Subject files
- Series 5: Poetry Readings
- Series 6: Periodicals containing material by or about A.F. Moritz
- Series 7: Publishing and Editorial Work
- Series 8: Anthologies containing A.F. Moritz poems
- Series 9: Literary related activities
- Series 10: Translation projects
- Series 11: Personal material
- Series 12: Employment
NOTE(S)
Source of supplied title
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition
Acquired from A.F. Moritz in 2003–2009, 2012, 2014, 2016-2020, 2022 and 2023.
Language of material
Material is in English, unless noted otherwise noted in series descriptions.
Access restrictions
Material is not restricted, unless otherwise noted in series descriptions.
Rights
Copyright is held by A.F. Moritz.
Finding aids
Box/file list available
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
General notes
Additional detailed file-level descriptions written by Moritz are stored in the A.F. Moritz accession file in E.J. Pratt Library. Please contact the library if you are interested in learning about these records: victoria [dot] library [at] utoronto [dot] ca
In 2020, an electronic submission of Al Moritz's 2017 email correspondence was transferred to the Special Collections. For information about these digital records, contact the Archivist or Head of Reader Services.
In 2022, an electronic submission of Al Moritz's 2018-2020 email correspondence was transferred to the Special Collections. For information about these digital records, contact the Archivist or Head of Reader Services.
In 2023, an electronic submission of Al Moritz's 2021-2022 email correspondence was transferred to the Special Collections. For information about these digital records, contact the Archivist or Head of Reader Services.
Access points
Moritz, A.F. (Albert Frank), 1947–
Moritz, Theresa Anne, 1948–
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