The International Poetry Institute published 6 to 12 issues a year. Issues contain organizational information (names of officers and new members), announcements (of poetry contests, winners and programming), news, and examples of member poetry. A typical issue was typescript on colored paper and one to four pages long. This collection has an incomplete run of the newsletter.

The newsletters in this collection are: vol.2 (nos.3-12), vol.3 (nos.1-11), vol.4 (no.1), vol.5 (nos.1-6), vol.6 (nos.1-6), vol.7 (nos.1-10), vol.8 (nos.1-12), vol.9 (nos.1-12), and vol.10 (nos.1-8, 10-12).