.... The chapter argues that Poetry's avant-garde experiments have a transformative impact upon American poetry, and literary culture more generally. Hall of Fame for Great Americans Henderson Alice Corbin Monroe Harriet National Institute of Arts and Letters Pound Ezra professionalization...

...This chapter challenges the conceptual model dominating histories of modern American poetry from the 1940s, in which political and aesthetic radicalism are seen as mutually exclusive responses to twentieth-century modernity, by analyzing the avant-gardism of The Masses...

... between April and October. Defying conventional views of the modernist little magazine as a fugitive publication, the Seven Arts became an ideal destination for formally experimental American poetry owing to its amateur status. This chapter considers the impact of World War I...

...This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four “little magazines”—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Masses, Others, and Seven Arts—the book shows how...

...This chapter examines how the experimental verse of Others, the quintessential aestheticist-modernist little magazine of American poetry, emerges from and responds to the climate of metropolitan activism that links it to The Masses. Others...

...This chapter examines how modern American poetry dealt with skyscrapers as a theme during the 1910s. The most potent icons of modernity in the early twentieth-century city were great buildings, structures of unprecedented scale and grandeur that punctuated the skyline and symbolized...

... uncontrollable force. This chapter first considers the differences between skyscraper verses and rapid-transit verses in terms of engagement with the modern urban landscape fashion before discussing “rapid-transit verse” in greater detail. It explores American poetry's fascination with rapid transit as a central...

... Prize from the American Poetry Review and a coveted fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, which provided five weeks in Italy. Her political activism diminished, but it never completely ended. She continued to write and lecture about justice issues. Hunthausen Raymond Levertov Denise poetic...

...This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating it within the collective efforts of poets, editors, publishers, and readers involved in the New Verse movement between 1912 and 1925, rather than in the individual accomplishments of a few...

...This chapter examines the crisis in American poetry during the period 1905–1912. Between 1900 and 1905, poetry in the United States was perceived to be in precipitous decline, and many questioned its very survival. No one assumed sustained responsibility for the publicizing and reviewing of new...

..., and Carl Sandburg began to write verses about life in the modern city. This turn toward urban subject matter marked a decisive change in American poetry's relationship to modernity and an epochal departure from national traditions. This chapter considers the integral connection between verse and the visual...