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William Saphier

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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.

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Modernism

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1920 Mood
1920 Before Sunrise
1920 Margrethe
1920 Childhood Memories
1920 Rain
1920 Sadness
1920 Conscience
1920 Flamingo Dreams

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