Contains collected poems in manuscript with handwritten inventory. Poems include "Confession," "Maintaining Monogamy," "Acts of Reflection on Marriage," "Domestic Arrangement," "Domestic Bliss," "Portrait of a Lady," "Mother in the Kitchen," "A Moments Work," "Stealing Time," "Argument," "Why we are Laffing," "Can a Man be a Feminist," "Insufficient Training," "Sexual Politics," and "Reconstructing Gender."

Contains newspaper clippings and poetry, likely for the anthologies.

Contains a collection of handwritten poetry, likely all by Joseph Cohen. Many are on pages with letterheads, including personal letterheads, such as S. Dunsky and Joseph Cohen; hotels, such as the Victor Hotel in Miami, the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal, and the Queens Hotel in Leeds; businesses, such as J. Cohen Inc. Wholesale Wollens and the City Sponging Works.

Contains three collections of Sharon Nelson's poetry entitled "Simplicities," "Dangerous Light," and "Love All," with some attached notes and light annotations.

Contains collections of printed poems by Sharon Nelson with explanatory notes, including "In the Beginning," "Acculturation," "Collusion," "Character," "The Dialectic of Liberation," lightly annotated.

Contains collections of printed poems by Sharon Nelson, including "Construction Fictions," "Actually," "II," "Gross National Product," "Dangerous Light," "September," and others, most of which experiment with spacing, font, and sizing.

Consists of Yiddish poetry manuscripts and English translations, as well as genealogical information and correspondence about the translations.

Contains typed and handwritten drafts of poems and essays from 1991, edited and annotated, including "Two Poets and Painter," "Telling By Hand," "Constructing Gender," "Art and Elegance," and "Freilach."