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William Saphier was a Romanian-born poet and painter who served as associate editor for Others, a monthly modernist magazine he coedited with Alfred Kreymborg. Other members of the editorial staff included Maxwell Bodenheim, Helen Hoyt, Lola Ridge, and William Carlos Williams. The magazine, under Saphier and Kreymborg, published the early poetry of T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Williams, among others.
One of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, Robert Frost was the author of numerous...
Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a...
Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling,...
Born in 1886, Hilda Doolittle was one of the leaders of the Imagist movement. She published...