Facts & Figures
Synopsis
Editors
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Manifesto
Bibliography
Title
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse

Publication date
 October 1912 - present

Frenquency of publication
Monthly

Circulation
 1912-1913: 1,065; subscription price $1.50
1921-1922: 1,891; subscription price $3.00

Place of Publication
Chicago, Illinois

Format
 5 x 7; originally bound in a light tan cover that always contained a picture of the pegasus. Contained table of contents, criticisms, and poems by professional and amateur poets.

Editor
Harriet Monroe

Associate Editor
Alice Corbin Henderson

Foreign Editor
Ezra Pound

Significant holdings of Originals

• Davidson College, North Carolina (vol. 1-149, 1912-1986)
• Chowan College Whitaker Library, North Carolina (1-160, 1912-1992)
• Brevard College, North Carolina. (1949-1954, 1969-1996)
• Durham CNTY Library, North Carolina (retains current 4 years)

“The office itself was lively.
Poets felt free to drop in, look over manuscripts
and debate the new movements of free verse."
-Monroe, A Poet's Life

 

 

Compiled by Alice Neumann Class of "06 & Simone Muller, 1-year-International, Germany @ Davidson College

  
 

 

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