Circle Magazine Explained
Circle Magazine was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, California, bookstore daliel's (stylized with a lowercase 'd'), it featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to be called the San Francisco Renaissance.[1] In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller (a personal friend of Leite's).[2]
Issue contents and covers
Number one, 1944
Number two, 1944
Number three, 1944
- Harry Hershkowitz – The Bulbul Birds
- Kenneth Patchen – Four Poems
- W. Edwin Ver Becke – The Father
- Yvan Goll – Histoire De Parmenia L'Havanaise
- Thomas Parkinson – Morning Passage
- George Elliott – Two Poems
- Douglas MacAgy – Palimpsest
- Pvt. Leonard Wolf – Two Poems
- Hamilton Tyler – Mr. Eliot And Mr. Milton
- Jackson Burke – Poem
- Pvt. J. C. Crews – Poem
- M. Wheelan Grote – First Impression Of College
- Lt (jg) Hubert Creekmore – Two Poems
- Marie Wells – Two Poems
- Lawrence Hart – About Marie Wells
- Robert Lottick – Poem
- Wendel Anderson – Poem
- Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Number four, 1944
- Anaïs Nin – The All-Seeing
- Theodore Schroeder – Where Is Obscenity?
- Arthur Ginzel – Four
- Walter Fowlie – The Two Creators
- George Leite – Low Darkened Shelter
- Henry Miller – Varda: The Master Builder
- Lee Ver Duft – Poems
- Herbert Cahoon – Marley And The Gemini
- Lt. Joseph Stanley Pennell – Two Poems
- Bern Porter – All Over The Place
- James Franklin Lewis – To John Wheelwright
- Forrest Anderson – Sea Poems
- Warren d'Azevedo – Deep Six For Danny
- Lt. Robert L. Dark – Two poems
- Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Number five, 1945
Number six, 1945
- Lawrence Hart – Some Elements Of Active Poetry
- Rosalie Moore – Letter To Camp Orford, Poem In Two Scenes, text
- R. H. Barlow – Framed Portent, Table Set For Sea Slime, text
- Marie Wells – Death At Noon, Monody In One, text
- Jeanne McGahey – Road To Chicago, text
- Alfred Morang – Darling Sister And The Pound Of Liver
- Haldeen Brady - Whirl
- Henry Miller – Knud Merrild: A Holiday In Paint
- Robert Barlow – Tepuzteca, Tepehua
- James Laughlin – Poem In 38 Lines
- Thomas Parkinson – John Works On A Figure Of Virginia, Carving It
- Harry Roskolenko – Return, The Expert
- Eugene Gramm – A Gallery Of Americans
- Maude Phelps Hutchins – Soliloquy At Dinner
- Alex Comfort – The Soldiers
- William Pillin – My Reply As A Jew
- Leonora Carrington – Flannel Night Shirt
- Richard O. Moore – Villanelle 1, Villanelle 2
- Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Numbers seven and eight, 1946
Number nine, 1946
Number ten, 1948
- John Whitney & James Whitney – Audio-Visual Music
- Joseph Stanley Pennell – Logistics
- Mary Fabilli – The Boss
- Giuseppe Ungaretti – Eight Poems
- Antony Borrow – The Great Refusal
- Douglas MacAgy – A Margin Of Chaos
- Charles Howard – The Bride
- Harry Partch – Show-horses In The Concert Ring
- Robert Barlow – The Malinche Of Acacingo
- Alex Comfort – Two Enemies Of Society
- D. Rentis – Forward
- Attile Joseph – Two Poems
- Clarisse Blazek – Poet In Hungary
- George Elliott – Story
- Luis J. Trinkaus – Eight Inches Of Snow
- Kendrick Smithyman – Legends Of The Gunner And His Girl
- Warren D'Azevedo – Shuttle
- Robert Duncan – Toward An African Elegy
- Jody Scott & George Leite — Admission of Fission
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Davidson, Michael . Michael Davidson (poet)
. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Michael Davidson (poet). 39. 1991. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-42304-5.
- Mildred. Brady. Mildred Edie Brady. April 1947 . The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy. Harper's Magazine .
