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Decker Press
The Press of James A. Decker was a poetry publishing house once located in the tiny hamlet of Prairie City, Illinois. Created in 1937 by James A. Decker, the press carried the full name of its founder until 1948 when the imprint was shortened to simply the Decker Press. The Decker Press received national attention in the 1940s, when it published work by famous authors such as Edgar Lee Masters, August Derleth, Hubert Creekmore, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), David Ignatow, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth and Louis Zukofsky. The small press was noted as one of the most prolific publishers of poetry in the country at the time, but the business was plagued by financial issues until the press came to a sudden end in 1950 with a murder-suicide case. The Decker family James A. Decker, the founder of the Decker Press, was born in 1917 in Prairie City, Illinois, to Ulah and Arthur Decker. His younger sister Dorothy was born in 1921. His father Arthur worked in a drugstore owned by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prairie City, Illinois
Prairie City is a village in McDonough County, Illinois, United States. The population was 407 at the 2020 census. Geography Prairie City is located in the northeast corner of McDonough County at (40.620740, -90.463582). It is bordered to the north by Warren County. Illinois Route 41 passes through the village as East Main Street, leading northeast to St. Augustine and southwest to Bushnell. Macomb, the McDonough county seat, is to the southwest. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Prairie City has a total area of , all land. The village drains northeast toward Gallett Creek, a north-flowing tributary of Cedar Creek, part of the Spoon River watershed leading to the Illinois River. Demographics Per the 2010 US Census, Prairie City had 379 people. Among non-Hispanics this includes 371 White (97.9%), 5 Black (1.3%), 1 Asian (0.3%), & 1 from two or more races. The Hispanic or Latino population included 1 person (0.3%). Of the 135 households 43 had children under the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Boggs (poet)
Tom Boggs (1905 – November 17, 1952) was an American poet, editor, and novelist who emerged as a Greenwich Village Bohemian during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. Biography He was born Thomas Kavanaugh Boggs in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, the son of prominent Pittsburgh doctor, Joseph Crosher Boggs (born 1867), and Alberta Marie (born 1867). He attended Allegheny High School. Boggs and fellow student Robert Clairmont met in Pittsburgh and became literary friends. Clairmont, a poet who inherited $350,000 under strange circumstances in 1925, left for New York, where he became an extravagant character in the Greenwich Village Bohemian scene and invited Boggs to join him. Boggs recorded many of their wild escapades in a novelized biography called ''Millionaire Playboy''. He also started a short-lived literary journal, bankrolled by Clairmont and launched on April Fools' Day 1927, called ''New Cow of Greenwich Village (A Monthly Periodical Sold on the Seven Arts as Such)''. He b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winfield Townley Scott
Winfield Townley Scott (April 30, 1910 – April 28, 1968) was an American poet and diarist. He also worked as a newspaperman and book reviewer. Biography Scott was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, seven days after the arrival of Halley's Comet. He was raised at Newport, Rhode Island and then returned to spend his teenaged years at Haverhill where was editor of his high-school paper and developed his facility as a young poet. Savings provided by his grandfather enabled Scott to attend Brown University, from which he graduated in 1931. After graduating from Brown he went to work for the city's main newspaper the ''Providence Journal'', quickly becoming their book reviewer and Literary Editor. He also wrote book reviews for other titles and with the advent of radio worked as a broadcast voice. In 1943 he married the young heiress Eleanor Metcalf. He retired his post as Literary Editor in 1951 to complete "a book-length narrative poem on the Viking discoverers of America" ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorine Niedecker
Lorine Faith Niedecker (English: pronounced Needecker) (May 12, 1903 – December 31, 1970) was an American poet. Niedecker's poetry is known for its spareness, its focus on the natural landscapes of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (particularly waterscapes), its philosophical materialism, its mise-en-page experimentation, and its surrealism. She is regarded as a major figure in the history of American regional poetry, the Objectivist poetic movement, and the mid-20th-century American poetic avant-garde. Early life Niedecker was born on Black Hawk Island near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin to Theresa (Daisy) (née Kunz) and Henry Niedecker and lived most of her life in rural isolation. She grew up surrounded by the sights and sounds of the river until she moved to Fort Atkinson to attend school. The environment of birds, trees, water and marsh would inform her later poetry. On graduating from high school in 1922, she went to Beloit College to study literature but left after two years be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Friend (poet)
Robert Friend (November 25, 1913 – January 12, 1998) was an American-born poet and translator. After moving to Israel, he became a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Friend was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. He was the eldest of five children. After studying at Brooklyn College, Harvard and Cambridge, he taught English literature and writing in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Panama, France, England, and Germany. He settled in Israel in 1950, where he lived the rest of his life. He taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over thirty years. He was well known in Israel as an English-language poet and a translator of Hebrew poetry. Robert Friend was homosexual, gay, and his sexuality found expression in his poetry well before the Stonewall riots, Stonewall era. According to Edward Field in the ''Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry'', ''Shadow on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |