[{"id":"7160","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":["Ellie Nichol reading in classroom at York University on November 28, 1991"],"item_title_source":["J-card and Recording"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Tallman, Warren","Nichol, Ellie","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creator_names_search":["Tallman, Warren","Nichol, Ellie","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11397708\",\"name\":\"Tallman, Warren\",\"dates\":\"1921-1994\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Nichol, Ellie \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Ellie Nichol is BP Nichol's sister reading at Warren Tallman classroom \",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\" http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1991],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/11941/Warren Tallman Fonds_MsC 26.42_161.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MSC26-161-SideA.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:45\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"49 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MSC26-161-SideB.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:34\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"50.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1991-11-28\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/15396822\",\"venue\":\"[York University?]\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"University York University, Keele Campus, Bowsfield Road, Humber River—Black Creek, North York, Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, M3J 0K9, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"43.7739\",\"longitude\":\"-79.5048\"}]"],"Address":["University York University, Keele Campus, Bowsfield Road, Humber River—Black Creek, North York, Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, M3J 0K9, Canada"],"Venue":["[York University?]"],"City":["Toronto, Ontario"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"This Ellie Nichol reading would have taken place a few years after her husband bpNichol's passing in 1988. \\n\\nWarren Tallman taught an undergraduate class at York University entitled \\\"Modern Canadian Poetry\\\" in Spring 1992 as a guest instructor, so it is likely that Nichol visited another classroom prior to this time. Tallman traveled to York to visit his former student Adeena Karasick, his son Ken, and friends like bill bissett prior to this time too.\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556689235970,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.983Z","score":4.9280577}]