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Finding Aid for the John Holmes Collection - in the Tufts Digital Library
The finding aid for the John Holmes Collection provides information on Holmes' personal papers held by the Tufts Digital Collections and Archives. This material has been arranged and described according to archival standards by Series, File Units, and Items contained in the collection.

Before getting started, first-time visitors to the collection might want to read the Scope and Content Note which provides background information on collection as a whole, as well as the Biographical Sketch of Holmes' life.

Poetry

John Holmes: Collected Poems - in the Tufts Digital Library
The full text of all of the poems contained in the John Holmes Collection have been compiled into a text in the Tufts Digital Library.

Browse Audio Poems
Holmes believed that no poem was complete until it had been read aloud. Many of the poems in the John Holmes Collection are available as audio recordings in MP3 format.