When future historians investigate the culture of the early 20th Century, they will look farther afield than the newspapers; magazines and books also tell the human news of their day. Among the files the historians will consult will be the little magazines—and one of them will doubtless be Chicago's slim Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. Last week, in a special 72-page number marking its 35 years of life, Poetry took a historical look at itself.
Poetry was founded by a frail, abstracted but determined spinster named Harriet Monroe. She spent weeks in the Chicago...
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