From the Exhibit:

Special Collections at the University of Rhode Island is showcasing an important collection of poetry published by the Pym-Randall Press held in its Manuscript and Rare Book collections. The Press was established in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and named for the founder, Professor James Randall of Emerson College, and his "cranky Manx cat," Pym. Begun during a time when you couldn't walk down the streets of Cambridge and not bump into a poet, it specialized in the first book publication of young poets. In time, the Press came to publish many well-known poets such as Kenneth Rexroth, Basil Bunting, Thom Gunn, Richard Eberhart, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Lowell, Gerard Malanga, and others.

The Pym-Randall Press Archives reveal the interesting editorial and business-related correspondence of a press that took as its mission the publication of up-and-coming works of exciting new poets. The Pym-Randall Book Collection contains works of poets associated with the Pym-Randall Press. Taken together these collections represent an intriguing record of the workings of a small press, the creative processes involved in publishing poetry, and the daily activities of some important contemporary poets.

The exhibit may be seen on the second floor of the Library outside of the Special Collections Department.