This collection consists of Alicia Ostriker's drafts and proofs of poems, nonfiction books, critical commentary, essays, articles, reviews, interviews, and other writings for various publications, as well as some unpublished writings, song lyrics, student writings, and drawings. Ostriker's extensive personal and professional correspondence includes letters exchanged with friends and fellow scholars and poets, along with reader mail and family correspondence. Her correspondents include many of the best-known American poets of the post-World War II period, such as Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dunn, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, and May Swenson. Teaching and research files from Ostriker's time as a professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University from 1965 through 2004 also comprise a portion of the collection, as do teaching materials related to poetry and midrash writing workshops she lead at many institutions around the world, drafts and recordings of her readings and lectures, and a small group of miscellaneous subject files regarding events, publishing, and various other topics.