The ''Wormwood Review'' was a literary magazine published from Fall 1959 to April 1999.
Alan Kaufman considered the magazine to be "the greatest little magazine of all time."
History and profile
The ''Wormwood Review'' was first published in Fall 1959 in Mt. Hope,
Connecticut
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.
The founding editors were Alexander (Sandy) Taylor,
James Scully, and Morton Felix.
[ It was also edited and published by Marvin Malone.][ Later, the magazine moved to ]Stockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquir ...
.[ ]Poets
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published by the magazine included Charles Bukowski, Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burrough ...
, e.e. cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...
, James Dickey, Jack Micheline, Peter Orlovsky
Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet and actor. He was the long-time partner of Allen Ginsberg.
Early life and career
Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Katherine (née ...
, and William Wantling
William Wantling (November 23, 1933 – May 2, 1974) was an American poet, novelist, ex- Marine, ex-convict, and college instructor born in East Peoria, Illinois. After graduating high school he joined the Marine Corps until 1955. He served ...
.[
The magazine organized the annual Wormwood Award.][ The last issue of the ''Wormwood Review'' was published in April 1999.][
]
Notable contributors
*Douglas Blazek
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He is one of the founders of the Mimeo Revolution, a literary movement that spra ...
*Bertolt Brecht
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* Charles Bukowski
* William S. Burroughs
*Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski (born Nelson Cherry; July 1, 1945) is an American poet and memoirist, who has resided since 1975 in San Francisco.
Biography
Born in Santa Monica, California, Cherkovski grew up in San Bernardino, California. In the 1970s he wa ...
*Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burrough ...
*e.e. cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...
* James Dickey
* Jules Feiffer
*Paul Fericano
*Edsel Ford
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*Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in the Free City of Da ...
* Linda King
*Gerald Locklin
Gerald Locklin (February 17, 1941 – January 17, 2021) was an American poet. He was a professor of English at California State University, Long Beach and the poetry editor of '' Chiron Review''.
Biography
Locklin was born and raised in Rochest ...
*Gerard Malanga
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist.
Early life
Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of h ...
*Al Masarik
AL, Al, Ål or al may stand for:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Al (''Aladdin'') or Aladdin, the main character in Disney's ''Aladdin'' media
* Al (''EastEnders''), a minor character in the British soap opera
* Al (''Fullmetal ...
* Jack Micheline
*Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical ref ...
*Peter Orlovsky
Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet and actor. He was the long-time partner of Allen Ginsberg.
Early life and career
Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Katherine (née ...
*Ben Pleasants
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Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( ...
*Steve Richmond
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Amateur career
Richmond grew up playing hockey in Chicago ...
*James Valvis
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*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguat ...
*William Wantling
William Wantling (November 23, 1933 – May 2, 1974) was an American poet, novelist, ex- Marine, ex-convict, and college instructor born in East Peoria, Illinois. After graduating high school he joined the Marine Corps until 1955. He served ...
*Charles Harper Webb
Charles Harper Webb is an American poet, professor, psychotherapist and former singer and guitarist. His most recent poetry collection is ''Shadow Ball'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009). His honors include a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim ...
* Philip Weidman
References
External links
Official Website of The ''Wormwood Review''
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Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1959
Magazines disestablished in 1999
Magazines published in California
Magazines published in Connecticut
Poetry magazines published in the United States