Poetry (Chicago) - Definition and Overview

Poetry (Chicago) is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world.

The magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic of the Chicago Tribune. Contributors include T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H. D., William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Carl Rakosi, Dorothy Richardson, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff and Carl Sandburg, among others. The magazine was instrumental in launching the Imagist and Objectivist poetic movements.

References:

• Peter Jones (ed.): Imagist Poetry (Penguin, 1972).
• Historical note at the magazine Web site (http://www.poetrymagazine.org/brief_history.html)