Harriet Monroe
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Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts. She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which she established in 1912. As
Monroe in 1920
The October 1912 issue of Poetry magazine
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams was an American-Puerto Rican poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In hi
Portrait by Man Ray, 1924
A selection of William Carlos Williams poetry on a plaque in New York City
I saw the figure 5 in gold. Charles Demuth, 1928. The Great Figure Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. William Carlos Williams 1920.
This Is Just to Say (wall poem in The Hague)