University of Chicago Poetry Club, a group formed in

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by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the

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curriculum. Members included

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, George Dillon, Elizabeth Madox Roberts,

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, Llewellyn Jones, Maurice Lesemann, Maurine Smith,

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, Gladys Campbell, and Kathleen Foster Campbell.

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, the founder and editor of ''

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'', visited the group often. Gladys Campbell and George Dillon were among the editors of the Poetry Club's publication, ''The Forge: A Journal of Verse'', published from 1924 to 1929.

References

*Campbell, Gladys. "Some Recollections of the Poetry Club at the University of Chicago," ''Poetry'', Volume 105, October 1964, Page 50.

External links

Gladys Campbell Papers
at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Llewellyn Jones Papers
at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Kathleen Foster Campbell Papers
at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Guide to the Maurine Smith Papers
at the University of Chicago Library.

Poetry Club Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in a ...

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