A poet of substance in her own right, Harriet Monroe is best known as the founder of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Monroe's twenty-four-year editorship of the magazine earned her a prominent place among those who shaped twentieth-century poetry and...

Poet and editor, Harriet Monroe played a critical role in the renaissance of modern poetry that took place in the early twentieth century. Literary historians have accorded Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, which she founded in 1912 and edited until her...

Many scholars of modernist verse consider Harriet Monroe--the founder and first editor of Poetry, A Magazine of Verse--a curious anomaly. She was dedicated to extending the parameters of American poetry, but in literary history she has been known as the editor who held...

Many scholars of modernist verse consider Harriet Monroe -- the founder and first editor of Poetry, A Magazine of Verse -- a curious anomaly. She was dedicated to extending the parameters of American poetry, but in literary history she has been known as the...