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In early twentieth century America, Boston’s Trinity Court was a definitive apartment complex in the new, fashionable, and artistic Back Bay, which was later demolished and virtually forgotten by the twenty-first century, even in some historical maps. Trinity Court had served as a location for meetings of writers and artists and held custom built apartments and rooms for creative practices. Using the Court as a case study this paper explores ideas around the tangibility of creative space and how acts of literary production and creative collaboration can be situated in the field of urban literary studies through the archival study and rediscovery of such locations. 

Bio:

SJ Burton is a research fellow in English at the ANU. She is the Official Historian for the New England Poetry Club in Boston, MA, USA and her research focuses on archival preservation and American poetry with a particular interest in literary communities and notions of place and space in the study of writing.