1929 JAPM Poetry Weekly Paul Engle Louis Ginsberg Early Poetry Little Magazine

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Original November 11, 1929 issue of JAPM: The Poetry Weekly, a scarce American little magazine published by Benjamin Musser in the Atlantic City / Margate, New Jersey area. This six-page issue features poetry by a notable group of writers, including two names with especially strong literary crossover appeal: Paul Engle Louis Ginsberg Valerie Gates Mable Ives Anne Hamilton Carl Bostelmann L. Eugene Bone Notable Contributors Paul Engle was still at the very beginning of his literary career in 1929. He later became one of the most important figures associated with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, helping build it into a major center of American creative writing. An appearance this early is especially interesting because it predates the period for which he is best remembered. Louis Ginsberg was a published poet and teacher and is also remembered as the father of Allen Ginsberg, one of the defining poets of the Beat Generation. That gives this issue unusually broad crossover interest among collectors of: Early American poetry Iowa Writers’ Workshop history Paul Engle Allen Ginsberg family material Beat Generation associations Little magazines 1920s literary ephemera Why It Matters JAPM — short for Just Another Poetry Magazine — was a short-lived weekly poetry publication from the late 1920s. Because it had a relatively brief run and featured work by writers who later became much better known, surviving individual issues can be surprisingly difficult to locate. The combination of Paul E

• Year: 1929
• Condition: Very Good

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