Poetry (magazine)

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Cover of the first issue from October 1912

Poetry is an American poetry magazine founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe in Chicago . By the Second World War , it became the leading organ for modern poetry in the English-speaking world. Since it began in the Chicago Renaissance , it is often associated with the rough, regionally influenced poetry of Carl Sandburg , Edgar Lee Masters , Vachel Lindsay or Sherwood Anderson , but it also represented new formalist movements such as imagism .

Contributors include TS Eliot , Wallace Stevens , Marianne Moore , DH Lawrence, and William Carlos Williams ; Ezra Pound worked as a correspondent in Europe.

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