University of Chicago Poetry Club, a group formed in 1917

1917 in poetry

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 by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 curriculum.

Members included Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Wescott was gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.-Biography:Wescott was...

, George Dillon

George Dillon

George Hill Dillon was an American editor and poet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English...

, Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a Kentucky novelist and poet, primarily known for her novels and stories about the Kentucky mountain people, including The Time of Man , The Great Meadow and A Buried Treasure . All of her writings are characterized by her distinct, rhythmic prose...

, Yvor Winters

Yvor Winters

Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.-As modernist:Winters's early poetry, which appeared in small avant-garde magazines alongside work by writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, was written in the modernist idiom, and was heavily influenced both by Native American...

, Llewellyn Jones

Llewellyn Jones

Llewellyn Jones was a United States writer and literary editor. He was one of the signatories to Humanist Manifesto I....

, Maurice Lesemann

Maurice Lesemann

Maurice Lesemann was a United States poet.Lesemann was born in Chicago, the son of a Methodist clergyman. He studied at the University of Chicago where he served as president of the Poetry Club, several of whose members — including Lesemann — were published in early numbers of the...

, Janet Lewis

Janet Lewis

Janet Loxley Lewis was an American novelist and poet.-Biography:Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters...

, Gladys Campbell

Gladys Campbell

Gladys Campbell was a poet and teacher in Chicago. As a student she was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club....

, and Kathleen Foster Campbell

Kathleen Foster Campbell

Kathleen Foster Campbell was an American poet. She was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club.-Life:Kathleen Foster was born in Larne, Ireland, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago to study poetry...

. Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry Magazine, which made its debut in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S...

, the founder and editor of Poetry

Poetry (magazine)

Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...

, visited the group often. Gladys Campbell and George Dillon were among the editors of the Poetry Club's publication, The Forge: A Journal of Verse, published from 1924 to 1929.

External links

• Gladys Campbell Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• Llewellyn Jones Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• Kathleen Foster Campbell Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.