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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.
A green and copper-backed frog
keeps me from seeing
brick-colored eucalyptus flowers
dancing on an apple-green sky;
large rose-hued cotton fists
with gold knuckles
chase a blushing sun
into a purple, lead sea:
I am hungry and he is cautious.
Alfred Kreymborg was born on December 10, 1883, in New York City.
Mark Strand was awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 1979 and the...
Born in London in 1882, Mina Loy has been labelled as a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, feminist,...
Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one...
Though he did not receive widespread recognition until late in his life, Wallace...
Gertrude Stein was born in Pennsylvania in 1874. An important figure among American expatriates...
