Journals and Publishers of LZ

 

The following list gives basic notes on the little magazines and presses that published LZ to help give some idea of the networks in which he was operated. However, my resources are limited, so this list is very incomplete and additions are appreciated.

 

Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature (Urbana, IL). Autumn 1940-Autumn 1960 (20 volumes). Journal of the creative writing program of the University of Illinois.

Agenda (UK). Ed. William Cookson (1940-2003), 1959- . Poetry journal begun with Pound’s instigation.

The Albuquerque Review.

Alcheringa.

The Ark II/Moby I (San Francisco). Eds. Michael McClure and James Harmon, 1956-1957 (1 issue).

The Ark III (San Francisco). Ed. James Harmon, Winter 1957 (1 issue).

Artes Hispanicas/Hispanic Arts (Indiana U, Bloomington). Ed. Willis Barnstone.

The Beloit Poetry Journal (Beloit College, Wisconsin). Ed. David Ignatow (Fall 1952-Fall/Winter 1958).

Black Mountain Review (Black Mt., North Carolina). Ed. Robert Creeley, Spring 1954-Autumn 1957 (7 issues).

Black Sparrow Press (Los Angles, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa). Publ. John Martin. Published Little / A Fragment for Careenagers (1967) and CZ’s A Bibliography of LZ (1969).

Blue Grass (Georgetown, Kentucky). Ed. H.B. Chapin. Also a press which published Found Objects (1964).

Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms (Columbus, Miss.). Ed. Charles Henri Ford with Parker Tyler (WCW contributing editor), Feb. 1929-Fall 1930 (9 issues).

Botteghe Oscure (Rome, Italy). Ed. Marguerite Caetani, Spring 1948-Autuman 1960.

Boxwood Press/Mother Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Publ. Ralph and Mildred Buchsbaum (Boxwood), 1952- . Published After I’s (1964).

Bozart-Westminster (Oglethorpe University, Georgia), see Westminster Magazine.

Burning Deck (Ann Arbor, Michigan and Durham, Connecticut). Eds. James Camp, D.C. Hope & Bernard Waldrop, 1962-1965 (4 issues).

Calendar (NYC). Ed. Norman MacLeod, 1940-1942 (annual anthology, 3 issues). Published by The Press of James A. Decker, Prairie City, Illinois (see below). Sponsored by the Poetry Center of the New York YMHA, directed by Norman MacLeod; LZ read or participated in panel discussions at the Poetry Center on at least a couple of occasions.

Cape Goliard Press (London). Ed. Nathaniel Tarn.

Cleft: A University Quarterly (Edinburgh, UK). Ed. Bill McArthur.

The Columbia Review (NYC).

Combustion (Toronto, Canada). Ed. Raymond H. Souster, Jan. 1957-1966 (15 issues).

Contact (NY). Eds. William Carlos Williams with Robert McAlmon & Nathanael West, Feb.-Oct. 1932 (3 issues). Originally WCW and McAlmon edited Contact from Dec. 1920-July 1923 (5 issues).

Contempo: A Review of Books and Personalities (Chapel Hill, North Carolina). Eds. Milton Avant Abernethy (1931-1934), Anthony J. Buttitta (1931-March 1932), Minna K. Abernethy (Fall 1932-1934), 31 May 1931-15 Feb. 1934.

Counter/Measures (Bedford, MA).

The Criterion (London). Ed. T.S. Eliot, Oct. 1922-Jan. 1939.

Cronos (Columbus, Ohio). Ed. Richard Wirtz Emerson, Spring 1947-March 1948. This journal continued Norman MacLeod’s Briarcliff Quarterly (see Maryland Quarterly).

Damascus Road (Allentown & Wesconville, PA). Ed. Charles Shahoud Hanna, 1961-1978 (7 issues).

The Dial (NY). Eds. Marianne Moore & James Sibley Watson, Jr. (June 1925-July 1929), Jan. 1920-July 1929.

Échanges (Paris). Ed. Allanah Harper. 1929-1931 (5 issues).

El Corno Emplumado (Mexico City) Eds. Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragon, (Jan. 1962-Oct. 1968), Jan. 1962-July 1969 (31 issues).

The Exile (Rapallo, Italy; publ. Pascal Covici, Chicago). Ed. Ezra Pound, Spring 1927-Autumn 1928 (4 issues).

Fifth Floor Window (NY). Ed. Harvey N. Foster.

The Forum (NY). 1886-1930.

Front (The Hague, Netherlands). Ed. Norman MacLeod (American representative), Dec. 1930-June 1931 (4 issues). Trilingual journal.

The Galley Sail Review (San Francisco, CA). Ed. Stanley McNail, Winter 1958-1970/71 (22 issues).

The Golden Goose (Columbus, Ohio). Eds. Richard W. Emerson and Frederick Eckman, Summer 1948-Summer 1949 (1^st series). This journal continued from Cronos.

Granata (Cambridge, England). Founded in 1889 as a student periodical and continuing into the 1970s. The current publication is a relaunched independent version focusing on new writing.

Grosseteste Review (Bicester, Oxon., England). Eds. Tim Longville and John Riley, 1967-1984.

Grossman Publishers (NYC).

H.B. Chapin (Georgetown, Kentucky). Published Found Objects (1964).

Helicon (Long Island University, Brooklyn campus, NYC). Undergraduate literary magazine, 1963-1971.

Hound & Horn (Boston & Portland, Maine). Eds. Lincoln Kirstein & Varian Fry; R.P. Blackmur (1928-1930), Bernard Bandler (1929-?), A. Hyatt Major (1931-1932), Allan Tate (1932-1934), Yvor Winters (1932-1934), Sept. 1927-July/Sept. 1934 (7 volumes).

Il Mare (Rapallo, Italy). Local weekly newspaper, Ezra Pound was a contributing editor to the literary supplement.

L’Indice (Genoa, Italy). Literary magazine.

IMAGI (Allentown, PA & Baltimore). Ed. Thomas Cole. 1947-1956.

Island (Toronto, Canada). Ed. Fred Wah, Sept. 1964-1966 (8 issues).

The Jargon Society (Highlands, North Carolina). Publ. Jonathan Williams, 1951- . Published Some Time (1956) and A Test of Poetry, 2^nd edn (1964)

Joglars (Cambridge, Mass. And Providence, RI). Ed. Clark Coolidge and Michael Palmer, 1964 & 1966 (3 issues).

Jonathan Cape (London). Publ. & Senior Editor Jonathan Cape, 1921-1960; Tom Maschler 1960-? (absorbed by Random House in 1987). Published English editions of All: The Collected Poems 1923-1958 (1966), All: The Collected Poems 1956-1964 (1967) Ferdinand/including It Was (1968), and “A” 13-21 (1969).

Jonathan Williams, Publisher. See Jargon Society.

The Journal of Creative Behavior. Ed. David Posner.

King Ida’s Watch Chain (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England). Ed. Tom Pickard (1 issue on Basil Bunting).

Kulchur (NYC), Eds. Marc Schleifer (Spring 1960-Summer 1962), Lita Hornick (Summer 1962- ), Gilbert Sorrentino (1961-Summer 1963) and others, Spring 1960-Winter 1965/66 (20 issues). Founded as a “vanguard magazine devoted principally to Criticism and Commentary.”

The Lavender (City College, NYC). Student publication.

Left: A Quarterly Review of Radical and Experimental Art (Davenport, Iowa). Ed. Jay DuVon, 1931 (2 issues).

Les Presses Modernes (Paris).

Lines (NYC). Ed. Aram Saroyan, Sept. 1964-Nov. 1965 (6 issues).

The Lion & Crown (Columbia University, NY). Ed. James Leippert. Fall 1932-Jan. 1933? (2 issues).

Maryland Quarterly (University of Maryland, English Dept., College Park, MD). Eds. various, 1944 (3 issues). This journal subsequently became the Briarcliff Quarterly when MacLeod moved to Briarcliff Community College 1945-1947.

The Massachusetts Review (U of Massachusetts, Amherst). Eds. F.C. Ellert (Oct. 1959-Summer 1963) and Sidney Kaplan (Spring 1961-Summer 1963).

Monks Pond. Ed. Thomas Merton, Spring-Winter 1968 (4 issues).

Montevallo Review (Montevallo, AL). Ed. Robert Payne, 1950-1953.

Morada. Ed. Norman Macleod (Albuquerque, NM), first five issues 1929-1930. Eds. Norman Macleod (NYC) and Donal McKenzie (Laga de Garda, Italy) as tri-lingual journal. 1931.

The Morningside (Columbia University, NY). Student poetry journal revived with John Erskine’s sponsorship in 1920. Both Whittaker Chambers and Meyer Schapiro served as editors.

Nativity (Delaware, Ohio). Ed. Boris J. Israel (aka Baline Owen). Winter 1930-Spring 1931 (2 issues).

Neon (Brooklyn, NY). Ed. Gilbert Sorrentino, 1956-1960 (4 issues and 2 supplements).

New Directions in Prose and Poetry (Norfolk, CT & NYC). Ed. James Laughlin, annual 1936-1991.

The New Masses (NYC). Eds. Mike Gold and John Sloan, May 1926-March 1948 (began as monthly and became weekly in Jan. 1934. Although Mike Gold was listed as editor throughout, he in fact did not exercise much editorial control, which devolved to a frequently shifting editorial board, members of whom included at various times Stanley Burnshaw (1934-1936), Joseph Freeman (1936-1937), Joshua Kunitz, Herman Michelson, Joseph North, Loren Miller, Granville Hicks and F.W. Dupree.

The New Review (Paris). Eds, Samual Putnam and Richard Thoma.), 1931-1932 (5 issues). Formerly Direction.

Nomad (London). Eds. Donald Factor and Anthony Linick. (Culver City, CA), Winter 1959-Autumn 1962 (11 issues).

The Objectivist Press. See “Objectivists” Publications.

The Old Line (University of Maryland, College Park, MD). This was a student literary journal that apparently was edited or advised by Norman MacLeod at the time LZ published in it in 1943. The following year MacLeod would continue with the Maryland Quarterly.

Origin. Ed. Cid Corman. Five series: 1^st series (Dorchester, Mass.), 20 issues (Spring 1951-Winter 1957), 2^nd series (Kyoto, Japan), 14 issues (April 1961-July 1964), 3^rd series (Kyoto, Japan), 20 issues (April 1966-1971), 4^th series (Boston), 20 issues (Oct. 1977-July 1982), 5^th series (Orono, Maine), 4 issues (Fall 1983-Fall 1984). Origin Press published “A” 1-12 (1959) and It Was (1961).

Pagan (NYC).

Pagany (Boston & New York). Ed. Richard Johns, Jan./March 1930-Dec/ 1932 (12 issues).

Paris Review (Pairs). Eds. George Plimpton, Perter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, et. al, Spring 1953-1974; Tom Clark (Poetry Editor 1964-1974). Paris Review Editions published “A” 1-12 (1966) and “A” 13-21 (1969).

Partisan Review (NYC). Eds. F.W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy, et. al., Feb./March 1934- ; Delmore Schwartz (1943-1955).

The Phoenix Book Shop (Greenwich Village, NYC). Propriator and publisher Robert A. Wilson, 1962-1988.

The Philadelphia Public Ledger.

The Piccolo Press (Stroud, Gloucestershire, England).

Poetry (Chicago, Illinois). Eds. Harriet Monroe (Oct. 1912-Oct. 1936), George Dillon (Nov. 1937-Aug. 1942, Karl Shapiro (Feb. 1950-Sept. 1955, Henry Rago (Oct. 1955-June 1969), Daryl Hine (July 1969-Dec. 1977), Oct. 1912- .

Poor.Old.Tired.Horse (Edinburgh, UK). Ed. Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1962-1968 (25 issues).

The Pound Newsletter (U of California, Berkeley). Eds. John Edwards & William Vasse (10 issues).

The Press of James A. Decker (Prairie City, Illinois). Publ. James A. Decker, 1937-1947. Published 55 Poems (1941) and Anew (1946), as well as Lorine Niedecker’s New Goose (1946).

Quarterly Review of Literature (Bard College, NY: 1947-1968). Eds. Theodore Weiss (Winter 1944- ) and Renée Weiss (1946- ).

The Resuscitator (Somerset and Cambridge, UK). Eds. John James and Nick Wayte, Autumn 1963-Jan. 1969.

Rhythmus (NY). Ed. Gustav Davidson, 1922-1923.

San Francisco Review. Eds. George Hitchcock, June Oppen Degnan & Roy Miller, 1959-1962? (12 issues).

Singe (Laundering Room Press, Newcastle & London). 1976-1977.

The Stinehour Press (Lunenburg, Vermont). Published 80 Flowers (1978). A fine arts press founded in 1952.

The Symposium (NYC). Eds. James Burnham and Philip E. Wheelwright, 1930-1933.

To, Publishers. See ”Objectivists” Publications.

Tomorrow (NYC). Ed. Eileen Garnett, Sept. 1941-Aug. 1951.

Transatlantic Review (NYC). Summer 1959-June 1977 (60 issues).

transition (Paris until March 1928, then Colombay-les-deux-Eglises, France). Ed. Eugene Jolas, April 1927-Spring 1938.

Tree (Santa Barbara).

Trigram Press (London). Publ. Asa & Penelope Benveniste and Paul Vaughn, 1965-?. Published “A”22 & 23 (1977).

Trobar (Brooklyn, NY). Eds. George Economou, Joan Kelly and Robert Kelly, 1960-1964 (5 issues). Trobar Press published I’s (pronounced eyes) (1963).

Turret Books (London). Directors Edward Lucie-Smith, Bernard Stone & George Rapp, 1965-1975. Small press specializing in limited edition booklets by contemporary poets. Published “A”-14 (1967) Catullus Fragmenta (1968)

Two Worlds: A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations (NYC). Ed. Samuel Roth, Sept. 1925-Oct. 1927. Contributing editors Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer.

Unicorn Press (Santa Barbara, Calif.). Director & designers Alan Brilliant & Teo Savory, 1966-1984. Published An Era (1970).

Varsity (Columbia University, NYC). Undergraduate magazine.

View (NYC). Ed. Charles Henri Ford, Sept. 1940-March 1947.

Voices (NY).

Wagner Literary Magazine (Wagner College, Staten Island, NY). Ed. Norman Black. (formerly Nimbus).

Westminster Magazine (Oglethorpe University, Georgia). Originally established in 1911 as a church paper by Thornwell Jacobs, Westminster Magazine evolved into a literary magazine and then in 1932 into a quarterly edited by Robert England. In 1935 it merged with the poetry review Bozart to become Bozart-Westminster, edited by James E. Routh. Issue 24.1 (Spring-Summer 1935) was guest edited by EP, John Drummond and T.C. Wilson, and also including contributions by WCW and Niedecker.

Wild Dog (Pocatello, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah and SF). Eds. John Hoopes, Ed Dorn, Drew Wagnon and others, April 1963-March 1966 (21 issues).

Wild Hawthorn Press (Edinburgh, UK). Founded by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Jesse McGuffie in 1961. Published 16 Once Published.

The Windsor Quarterly. (Vermont & Commonwealth College, Arkansas). Eds. F.B. Maxham & Irene Merrill. Spring 1933-Spring 1935

Workshop (London).

Yale Poetry Review (Newhaven, CT). Eds. Harvey Shapiro, Tom McMahon & Rolfe Fjelde (Shapiro states that WCW sent him the poem the journal published in 1946).