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Ann-Ellen Akeley was a graduate student student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in the mid-1970s. The Papers consist of copies of clippings and ephemera that document Brodsky's teaching and appearances, mostly in Michigan in the 1970s.

Ann Kjellberg was Brodsky's assistant from 1986 to 1996 and became his literary executor after his death. Kjellberg organized a reading group that focused on Brodsky's poetry in English.

One draft includes several poems on a single typed page: Zimniaia svad'ba, Shest' let spustia, Orfei i Artemida, Dla shkol'nogo vozrasta, Elegiia (Podruga...). A holograph note identifes the poems Anno Dominiand Shest' let spustia as the most "essential."