''The Lyric'' is the oldest extant
literary magazine in North America devoted to
formal poetry.
The journal was established by
Norfolk
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-based poet John R. Moreland in 1921, and was published by the Norfolk Poets' Club until 1928. By 1949 it had moved to
New York City
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,
[Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker, ''The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II, North America, 1894-1960'' (2012), p. 521.] and was being published by the Lyric Foundation, an organization founded by the magazine's third editor, Virginia Kent Cummins. After Cummins' death editorship passed to
Ruby Altizer Roberts,
poet laureate of Virginia
The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the Virginia General Assembly.
Originally, the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year, in a ...
.
Contributors
The journal has featured works by the following notable poets:
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Henry Bellamann
Heinrich Hauer Bellamann (April 28, 1882 – June 16, 1945) was an American author, whose bestselling novel ''Kings Row'' exposed the hypocrisy of small-town life in the midwest, addressing many social taboos. Research suggested that Bellamann ...
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Gamaliel Bradford
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Alma Denny
Alma Denenholz Kaplan (1906 – 1 March 2003) was an American poet and syndicated columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Alma Denny.
Life and career
Denny was born Alma Denenholz in Far Rockaway in New York City, the eldest of ten children. Sh ...
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
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Robert Hillyer
Robert Silliman Hillyer (June 3, 1895 – December 24, 1961) was an American poet and professor of English literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934.
Early life
Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey to an old Connecticut fam ...
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Aline Kilmer
Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918). The couple attendeRutgers College Preparatory School ...
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Walter de la Mare
Walter John de la Mare (; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for a highly acclaimed selection of ...
References
External links
''The Lyric''
Poetry magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1921
Magazines published in New York (state)
Magazines published in Virginia
Mass media in Norfolk, Virginia
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