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