The Glebe was a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Francis Kreymborg was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.-Early life and associations:...

 and Man Ray

Man Ray

Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...

 from 1913

1913 in literature

The year 1913 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Husayn Haykal publishes the first modern Egyptian novel Zaynab.-New books:* Alain-Fournier — Le Grand Meaulnes* L...

 to 1914

1914 in literature

The year 1914 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*The literature of World War I makes its first appearance.*November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published....

. The first issue was published from Ridgefield, New Jersey, while the rest of the run was published in New York by Alfred & Charles Boni. Ten issues were produced, with a circulation of 300. Issue number 5 comprised the first anthology of Imagism

Imagism

Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets,...

: Des Imagistes

Des Imagistes

Des Imagistes, edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914, was the first anthology of the Imagism movement. It was published in The Glebe in February 1914, and later that year as a book by Charles and Albert Boni in New York, and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop in London.The eleven authors featured...

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Issues and Contributors

Vol. 1, No. 1 - September 1913 - Adolf Wolff: Songs, Sighs and Curses (collected poems).

Vol. 1, No. 2 - October 1913 - Wallace E. Baker: Diary of a Suicide (diary).

Vol. 1, No. 3 - December 1913 - Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth

Charles Demuth was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism....

: The Azur Adder (play).

Vol. 1, No. 4 - January 1914 - Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history...

: Love of One's Neighbor (play, translated by Thomas Seltzer

Thomas Seltzer (translator)

Thomas Seltzer was a Russian-American translator, editor and book publisher.-Life:...

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Vol. 1, No. 5 - February 1914 - Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

 (editor): Des Imagistes: An Anthology (poetry by 11 authors)

Vol. 1, No. 6 - March 1914 - Alfred Kreymborg: Erna Vitek (novel).

Vol. 2, No. 1 - April 1914 - Horace L. Traubel: Collects (essays).

Vol. 2, No. 2 - September 1914 - George W. Cronyn: Poems

Vol. 2, No. 3 - October 1914 - Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...

: Erdgeist (Earth Spirit; translated play in verse).

Vol. 2. No. 4 - November 1914 - Frank Wedekind: Pandora's Box (translated play).