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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson

Edited by Nathaniel Mackey, Marjorie Perloff, Carolyn Kizer, John Hollander, and Robert Hass

“The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well…. Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better anthology of modern American poetry, or even come close.” — Talk

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This second volume of the landmark two-volume Library of America anthology of twentieth-century poetry, organized chronologically by the poets’ birthdates, takes the reader from E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) to May Swenson (1913–1989). In the wake of the modernist renaissance, American poets continued to experiment with new techniques and themes, while the impact of the Depression and World War II and the continuing political struggle of African Americans became part of the fabric of a literature in transition. New schools and definitions of poetry seemed often to divide the literary scene. This was the era of the Harlem Renaissance, the Objectivists, the Fugitives, the proletarian poets. It was also an era of vigorously individuated voices—knotty, defiant, sometimes eccentric.

The range of tone and subject matter is immense: here are Melvin B. Tolson’s swirlingly allusive Harlem portraits, Phyllis McGinley’s elegant verse transcriptions of suburbia, May Swenson’s playful meditations on the laws of physics. The diversity of formal approaches includes the extreme linguistic experiments of Eugene Jolas and Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Rolfe Humphries’s adaptation of traditional Welsh meter, the haiku of Richard Wright, the ballads of Helen Adam and Elder Olson, the epigrams of J.V. Cunningham. A selection of light verse is joined by lyrics from the era’s greatest songwriters, including Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, and Ira Gershwin. Several important long poems are presented complete, including Hart Crane’s The Bridge, Louis Zukofsky’s Poem beginning “The” and Robert Penn Warren’s Audubon: A Vision. Rounding out the volume are such infrequently anthologized figures as Vladimir Nabokov, James Agee, Tennessee Williams, and John Cage.

The collection is unprecedented in its textual and editorial authority, and includes biographical sketches of each poet and extensive notes. The editorial advisory board includes the very distinguished poets and scholars Robert Hass, John Hollander, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Project support for this volume was provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, volume two is kept in print by a gift from Jamie Houghton to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in honor of his wife Maisie Houghton on her 70th birthday.
Table of Contents

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
“All in green went my love riding”
“in Just-/ spring when the world is mud-”
“Tumbling -hair / picker of buttercups”
“Humanity i love you”
“O sweet spontaneous”
“stinging / good swarms”
“between green / mountains”
“Babylon slim / -ness of”
“ta / ppin / g / toe”
“Buffalo Bill’s / defunct”
“the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”
“god pity me whom (god distinctly has)”
“Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows”
“Spring is like a perhaps hand”
POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL
“she is being Brand”
“on the Madam’s best april the”
MeMORABILIA
“next to of course america i”
“lis / -ten / / you know what i mean when”
“my sweet old etcetera”
“Among / these / red pieces of”
“in spite of everything”
“since feeling is first”
“i sing of Olaf glad and big”
“twi-/ is -Light bird”
“a clown’s smirk in the skull of a baboon”
“somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond”
“r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”
“the boys I mean are not refined”
“as freedom is a breakfast food”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“my father moved through dooms of love”
“plato told”
“pity this busy monster, manunkind”
“a grin without a”

H. L. Davis (1894-1960)
Proud Riders

Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969)
Europa
Test Paper
From the Green Book of Yfan

Eugene Jolas (1894-1952)
Mater Dolorosa

H. Phelps Putnam (1894-1948)
Words of an Old woman
Hasbrouck and the Rose
Bill Gets Burned

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
“On Brooklyn Bridge I saw a man drop dead”
“I met in a merchant’s place”
“The shopgirls leave their work”
“How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted”
“My work done , I lean on the window -sill”
“In the shop, she, her mother, and grandmother”
The Idiot
“She who worked patiently”
Epidemic
“Her work was to count linings-”
“The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase”
Aphrodite Vrania
April
“Out of the hills the trees bulge”
“How difficult for me is Hebew”
“I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread”
“After I had worked all day at what I earn my living”
“The Hebrew of your poets, Zion”
“Though our thoughts often, we ourselves”
“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies”
Epitaphs
Millitary District [ ‘The clouds….”]
“A dead gull in the road”
“I Like this secret walking”
Rainy Season
“Of course, we must die”
“My grandfather, dead long before I was born”
“A grove with small trees, thick with berries”
Millinery District [ “Many fair hours…”]
Similies
Epitaph
Free Verse
From Early History of a Writer

Bessie Smith
Empty Bed Blues

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1937)
Everyday Alchemy
Thrist
To One Loved Wholly Within Wisdom
To Mr. Maunder Maunder, Professional Poet
To the Powers of Desolation
To the Natural World: at 37
Try Tropic
All Around the Town
Bounding Line
Hymm to Yellow
The Weed
Fructus

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Reapers
Cotton Song,
Georgia Dusk
Nullo
Evening Song
Portrait in Georgia
Seventh Street
Storm Ending
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
Gum
The Gods Are Here

Mark Van Doren (1894-1972 )
The Amber Sunstream
Axle Song
The Hear House
Midland
So Simple
Where I Saw the Snake
The First Poem

Alter Brody (1895-1979)
Lamentations
Winter Nocturne: The Hospital

Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
“To an Amiable Child”
Creatures in the Zoo

Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (1895-1950)
A Purplexicon of Dissynthegrations

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)
Ol’ Man River

Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)
Little Girl Blue
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Robert Hillyer (1895-1961)
Dead Man’s Corner

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
Epitaphas
A House of the Eighties
The Omlet of A. Macleish

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
Newsreel LIII

Thomas Hornsby Ferril (1896-1988)
Waltz Against the Mountains
Something Starting Over
Noon

Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
I Can’t Get Started
They All Laughed

Ramon Guthrie (1896-1973)
Elegy for Melusine from the Intensive Care Ward
Red-Headed Intern, Taking Notes
Scene: A Bedside in the Witches’ Kitchen

E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981)
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

Isidor Schneider (1896-1977)
Insects
A History of the Caesars

Louisa Bogan (1897-1970)
Medusa
Knowledge
Women
The Alchemist
My Voice Not Being Proud
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
Sub Contra
Cassandra
Winter Swam
Dark Summer
Late
Song
Short Summary
Roman Fountain
Evening Star
Baroque Comment
Kept
Heard by a Girl
Several Voices Out of a Cloud
Musician
Zone
Night
Morning
The Dragonfly

Emanuel Carnevali (1897-1942?)
Sermon
Serenade
Kiss
Almost a God

Blind Lemon Jefferson (1897-1929)
Long Distance Moan

Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976)
From Elegy in the Manner of a Requiem in the memory of D.H. Lawrence

David McCord (1897-1997)
Waiter,
History of Education

John Wheelwright (1897-1940)
Slow Curtain
Why Must You Know?
Would You Think?
Fish Food: An Obituary to Hart Crane
Come Over and Help Us
Anathema. Maranatha!
In the Bathtub, to Mnemosyne
Espirit d’Escalier
Cross Questions

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
From John Brown’s Body
American Names
Cotton Mather
Daniel Boone
Metropolitan Nightmare

Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989)
Winter Tenement
Ernest

Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
Vision
Photoheliograph

Horace Gregory (1898-1982)
From Chorus for Survival
The Cage of Voices

Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)
From Libretto for the Reblic of Liberia
From Harlem Gallery

Leonie Adams (1899-1988)
April Morality
Ghostly Tree
The Rounds and Garlands Done
The Moon and Spectator
Fragmentary Stars
The Horn
The Figurehead
Grapes Making

Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Chaplinesque
For the Marriage of Faustas and Helen
Voyages
Repose of Rivers
The Wine Menagerie
At Melville’s Tomb
The Bridge
O Carib Isle!
The Broken Tower

Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993)
Take My Hand, Precious Lord

Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987)
Dumb
Moments
Fern Song
Frog Song
True Western Summer

Janet Lewis (1899-1998)
From The Indians in the Woods
Girl Help
The Reader
Winter Garden
Helen Grown Old
For the Father of Sandro Gullota
The Ancient Ones: Betatakin
Garden Note I, Los Altos
Garden Note II, March

Joseph Moncure March (1899-1977)
From The Wild Party

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
From Lolita
On Translating Eugene Onegin

Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)
Santo Domingo Corn Dance

Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Mr. Pope
Ode to the Confederate Dead
The Twelve
Last Days of Alice
The Wolves
Aeneas at Washington
The Ivory Tower
The Mediterranean
Sonnets at Christmas
The Swimmers

Edward Hahlberg (1900-1977)
February Ground
Walt Whitman

Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
Two Songs of Advent
The Magpie’s Shadow
The Solitude of Glass
October
Vacent Lot
The Cold
Nocturne
The Barnyard
Wild Sunflower
The Realization
Apollo and Daphne
The Fable
The Fall of Leaves
The Slow Pacific Swell
To A Young Writer
By the Road to the Sunnyvale Air-Base
Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Two Years Since in the Salt-Marsh
On Teaching the Young
Time and Garden
In Praise of California Wines
To the Moon

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
Long Gone
Scottie Has His Say
Sister Lou
Southern Road
Memphis Blues
Ma Rainey
Slim in Atlanta
Children’s Children
Chillen Get Shoes
Sporting Beasley
Caberet
Old Lem

Robert Francis (1901-1987)
A Broken View
Onion Fields
Earthworm
Slow
By Night
The Curse
While I Slept
The Sound I Listened For
As Easily As Trees
Waxwings
Pitcher
Cypresses
Swimmer
Farm Boy After Summer
Museum Vase

Lindley Williams Hubbell (1901-1994)
Ordovician Fossil Algae
Sounds
A student who sat facing me during the Osaka express
Beer Bottles
Waka

Laura Riding (1901-1991)
An Ancient Revisits
As Well As Any Other
Prisms
Lucrece and Nara
O Vacables of Love
Faith Upon the Waters
Sea, False Philosophy
The Map of Places
Chloe or . . .
Take Hands
The World and I
The Wind , the clock, the We
Nothing So Far
Divestment of Beauty
Because of Clothes
With the Face

Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
Reconnaissance
Southern Mansion
Dark Girl
A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)
Green Light
Evening Song
1933
Escape
Dirge
Portrait
American Rhapsody (4 )
Literary
How Do I Feel?
Art Review
Reception Good
Beware
4 A.M.
Bryce & Tomlins

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Aunt Sue’s Stories
When Sue Wears Red
Young Prostitute
My People
Dream Variations
Subway Face
I, Too
Suicide’s Note
Summer Night
Strange Hurt
A House in Taos
Railroad Avenue
Sea Calm
Drum
Cubes
Little Lyric (Of Great Importance)
Evil
Songs
Luck
Curious
American Heartbreak
From Montage of a Dream Deferred

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Spring Comes to Murray Hill
Refection on Ice-Breaking
The Terrible People
Song of the Open Road
Very Like a Whale
A Necessary Dirge
Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
The Germ
Glossina Morsitans, or, the Tsetse
Samson Agonistes
Inter-Office Memorandum
Which the Chicken, Which the Egg?

Eve Triem (1902-1992)
For Paul

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
Atlantic City Waiter
Incident
Heritage
For My Grandmother
For a Lady I know
For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats
For Hazel Hall, American Poet
From the Dark Tower

Edwin Denby (1903-1968)
The Subway
A New York Face
“I had heard it’s a fight. At the first clammy touch”
“Smelling or feeling of the several holes”

Dudley Fitts (1903-1968)
“Ya se van los pastores”

Brewster Ghiselin (b. 1903)
Shore Bird
Bath of Aphrodite
The Food of Birds
The Net Breaker
Learning the Language

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)
“Remember my little granite pail?”
“The clothesline post is set”
“There’s a better shine”
“What horror to awake at night”
“Paul / when the leaves / fall”
“The death of my poor father”
“Women in the middle life”
“He lived-childhood summers”
“I rose from marsh mud”
The Graves
“My friend tree”
“The men leave the car”
“My life is hung up”
“Get a load / of April’s”
Poet’s Work
“I married”
My Life By Water
“Far reach / of sand”
“Stone / and that hard / contact-”
Sewing a Dress
Paean to Place
“Not all harsh sounds displease-”
Darwin

Carl Rakosi (b. 1903)
The January of a Gnat
Amulet
Figures in an Ancient Ink
The Lobster
Lying In Bed on a Summer Morning
Young Girl
Americana
To an Anti-Semite
Discoveries, Trade Names, Genitals, and Ancient Instuments
Two Variations on a Theme
Instructions to the Player
The Avocado Pit

R. P. Blackmur (1904-1965)
Redwing
“One grey and foaming day”
Mirage
Seas Incarnadine
Since There’s No Help….
The Communiques from Yalta
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum et Mentem Mortalia Tangunt

Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
This Fevers Me
The Groundhog
‘ I Walked Over the Grave of Henry James,’
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn, in New England
La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour
Gnat on My Paper

John Holmes (1904-1962)
The Old Professor
Four and a Half

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
I Sent Thee Late
Poem beginning “The”
“Not much more than being”
“Cocktails”
Ferry
Tibor Serly
“in that this happening”
“To my wash-stand”
“When the crickets”
“It’s hard to see but think of a sea”
“The lines of this new song are nothing”
“Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose”
( Ryokan’s scroll)
Xenophanes
“As To How Much”
Shang Cup
“A“II
from “A“I2

Howard Baker (1905-1990)
Advice to a Man Who Just Lost A Dog
Sappho’s Leap

Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987)
Christ Is a Dixie Nigger
Sam Jackson

Dorothy Fields (1905-1974)
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)
The Science of the Night
The Dragonfly
The Testing-Tree
The Catch
The Quarrel
Route Six
Touch Me

Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
Twelfth Night
Spring Comes to the Suburbs
The 5:32
Portrait of Girl with Comic Book

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
Spring, Coast Range
Anree Rexroth
The Signature of All Things
Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
It Is a German Honeymoon
On Flower Wreath Hill
From the Love Poems of Marichiko

Byron Vazakas (1905-1987)
The Pavilion on the Pier
Epitaph for the Old Howard

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
The Return: An Elegy
Bearded Oaks
Where the Slow Fig’s Purple Sloth
Audubon: A vision
Birth of Love
Evening Hawk
Heart of Autumn
Vision
Muted Music

Stanley Burnshaw (b. 1906)
End of the Flower World
Bread

Waring Cuney (1906-1976)
No Images
The Death Bed
Conception

Joseph Kalar (1906-1972)
Papermill

Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984)
North Philadelphia Trenton and New York
Vergil Georgia I.489-514

Helene Johnson (1907-1995)
Bottled
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
Magalu

Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996)
Gloria
P.E.O.

Constance Carrier (1906-1991)
A Point of View
Clause for a Covenant
Elegy
Laudare
Helianthus

Alton Delmore (1908-1964)
The Girl by the River

Josephine Jacobsen (b. 1908)
Poems for My Cousin
Yellow

George Oppen (1908-1984)
Discete Series
Eclogue
Image of the Engine
From Disaster
Psalm
The Occurrences
Route
But So As By Fire
In Memoriam Charles Reznikoff

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
The Heron
The Bat
Cuttings
Cuttings (later)
Root Cellar
Old Florist
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
My Papa’s Waltz
The Lost Son
Four for Sir John Davies
Elegy for Jane
The Waking
I Knew a Woman
A Walk in Late Summer
The Rose
The Thing
In a Dark Time

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
I Have Seen Black Hands
The FB Eye Blues
Selected Haiku

Helen Adam (1909-1993)
Mune Rune
The Huntsman
Shallow-Water Warning

James Agee (1909-1955)
“Not met and marred with the year’s whole turn of grief
“So it begins. Adam is in his earth”
“Now stands our love on that still verge of day”
“This little time the breath and bulk of being”
To Walker Evans
“Wake up Threeish”

Mary Barnard (b. 1909)
Shoreline
Logging Trestle
The Field
Static
The Solitary
Probably Nobody
The Pleiades
Lethe

Johnny Mercer (1909-1976)
Blues in the Night
Midnight Sun

Elder Olson (1909-1992)
The Four Black Bogman

Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
Casuality
Paris-Christmas 1938
First Love

Bukka White (1909-1977)
Fixin’ to Die

Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985)
Manuscript with Illumination
Horae
Et Quidquid Aspiciebam Mors Erat
Farewell
Mutations
History
Souls Lake
South Side
Spring Shade

Frank Loesser (1910-1969)
Luck, Be a Lady

Rosalie Moore (b. 1910)
The Mind’s Disguise
Memory of Quiet
Height

Charles Olsen (1910-1970)
La Preface
These Days
In Cold Hell, in Thicket
The Moon Is the Number 18
Merce of Egypt
As the Dead Pray Upon Us
Variations Done for Gerald Van De Weile
From The Maximus Poems
Letter 3
Maximus, to himself
The Ocean
“flowering of the underworld”
“I live underneath / the light of day”

Winfield Townley Scott (1910-1968)
Crocus Air
Flowering Quince
The U.S. Sailor with the Japanese Skull
Winslow Homer

Ben Belitt (b. 1911)
The Orange Tree
Kites: Ars Poetica

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Map
The Man-Moth
Sleeping on the Ceiling
Roosters
The Fish
Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance
The Bight
At the Fishhouses
The Prodigal
The Shampoo
Song for the Rainy Season
The Armadillo
Sestina
Sandpiper
Twelfth Morning; or What You Will
In the Waiting Room
Crusoe in England
One Art
Sonnet

J. V. Cunningham (1911-1985)
Dream Vision
A Moral Poem
For My Contemporaries
Montana Pastoral
Selected Epigrams
To What Strangers, What Welcome

Rose Drachler (1911-1982)
The Evening of the Sixth Day

Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
The Lordly Hudson

Robert Johnson (1911-1938)
Stones in My Passway
Hellhound on My Trail
Me and the Devil Blues

Josephine Miles (1911-1985)
Housewife
All Hollow
Sale
“After noon I lie down”
Album

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Street Corner College
Religion Is That I Love You
23rd Street Runs into Heaven
The Figure Motioned with It’s Mangled Hands Towards the Wall Behind It
The Horses of Yilderlin
The Origin of Baseball
The Lions of Fire Shall Have Their Hunting
Lonesome Boy Blues

Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962)
The Airman Who Flew Over Shakespeare’s England
Winter, Never Mind Where
For T.S.E. Only
As The Great Horse Rots on the Hill

Anne Porter (b. 1911)
Consider the Lilies of the Sea
Winter Twilight

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
The Beanstalk Country

John Cage (1912-1992)
2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance
From Composition in Retrospect

William Everson (1912-1994)
Muscat Pruning
Tor House
Rainy Easter
A Canticle to the Waterbirds
Gale at Dawn
Stone Face Falls

Jean Garrigue (1912-1972)
Song in Sligo
The Grand Canyon
Grenoble Cafýý

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Dust Storm Disaster
Talking Dust Bowl
Vigilante Man

Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982)
Death Bells

May Sarton (1912-1995)
Moving In
The Snow Light
February Days

Virginia Hamilton Adair (b. 1913)
Buckroe, After the Season
Exit Amor

Charles Henri Ford (b. 1913)
The Fox with the Blue Velvet Band
The Overturned Lake
I Wouldn’t Put It Past You

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays
Homage to the Empress of the Blues
Middle Passage
Runagate Runagate
Soledad
The Night-Blooming Cereus
Ice Storm
Bone-Flower Elegy

John Frederick Nims (1913-1999)
The Evergreen

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
The Book of the Dead
Ajanta
The Outer Banks
The Speed of Darkness
The Poem as Mask
Myth

David Schubert (1913-1946)
Monterey
It Is Sticky in the Subway
Prospect Park
Victor Record Catalog
A Successful Summer
No Title

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
Sonnet: The Beautiful American Word, Sure
Far Rockaway
Tired and Unhappy, You Think of Houses
In the Slight Ripple, the Mind Perceives the Heart
The Ballet of the Fifth Year
Do the Others Speak of Me Mockingly, Maliciously?
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital
Lincoln

Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
Auto Wreck
University
Troop Train
Full Moon: New Guinea
Homecoming
The Alphabet
The Confirmation
The First Time
I Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers
The Funeral of Poetry

May Swenson (1913-1989)
Question
The Centaur
Almanac
Riding the “A”
Distance and a Certain Light
Colors Without Objects
Unconscious Came a Beauty
The Shape of Death
Electric Sound
How Everything Happens (Based on a study of the Wave)
Bronco Busting, Event # 1
One of the Strangest
Shu Swamp, Spring
Staring at the Sea on the Day of a Death of Another
Contributors

Virginia Hamilton Adair
Helen Adam
Léonie Adams
James Agee
Howard Baker
Mary Barnard
Ben Belitt
Stephen Vincent Benét
Elizabeth Bishop
R. P. Blackmur
Louise Bogan
Arna Bontemps
Alter Brody
Sterling A. Brown
Stanley Burnshaw
John Cage
Emanuel Carnevali
Constance Carrier
Malcolm Cowley
Hart Crane
Harry Crosby
Countee Cullen
E.E. Cummings
Waring Cuney
J. V. Cunningham
Edward Dahlberg
Frank Marshall Davis
H. L. Davis
Alton Delmore
Edwin Denby
Babette Deutsch
Thomas A. Dorsey
John Dos Passos
Rose Drachler
Richard Eberhart
William Everson
Kenneth Fearing
Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Dorothy Fields
Dudley Fitts
Robert Fitzgerald
Hildegarde Flanner
Charles Henri Ford
Robert Francis
Jean Garrigue
Ira Gershwin
Brewster Ghiselin
Abraham Lincoln Gillespie
Paul Goodman
Horace Gregory
Ramon Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Oscar Hammerstein II
E. Y. Harburg
Lorenz Hart
Robert Hayden
Robert Hillyer
John Holmes
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Lindley Williams Hubbell
Langston Hughes
Rolfe Humphries
Josephine Jacobsen
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Helene Johnson
Robert Johnson
Eugene Jolas
Joseph Kalar
Lincoln Kirstein
Stanley Kunitz
Richmond Lattimore
Janet Lewis
Frank Loesser
Walter Lowenfels
David McCord
Phyllis McGinley
Joseph Moncure Marsh
Johnny Mercer
Josephine Miles
Rosalie Moore
Vladimir Nabokov
Ogden Nash
Lorine Niedecker
John Frederick Nims
Charles Olson
Elder Olson
George Oppen
Kenneth Patchen
Hyam Plutzik
Anne Porter
H. Phelps Putnam
Carl Rakosi
Kenneth Rexroth
Charles Reznikoff
Laura Riding
Lynn Riggs
Theodore Roethke
Edwin Rolfe
Muriel Rukeyser
May Sarton
Isidor Schneider
David Schubert
Delmore Schwartz
Winfield Townley Scott
Karl Shapiro
Bessie Smith
May Swenson
Genevieve Taggard
Allen Tate
Melvin B. Tolson
Jean Toomer
Eve Triem
Mark Van Doren
Byron Vazakas
Robert Penn Warren
John Wheelwright
Bukka White
Tennessee Williams
Edmund Wilson
Yvor Winters
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