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''Circle Magazine'' was published from 1944 to 1948 by
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
, initially with poet
Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
. Produced at Leite's
Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...
, bookstore daliel's (stylized with a lowercase 'd'), it featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to be called the
San Francisco Renaissance The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centered on San Francisco, which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetry avant-garde in the 1950s. However, others (e.g., Alan Watt ...
. In addition to the magazine,
Circle Editions George Leite began Circle Editions in 1945 as an outgrowth of ''Circle Magazine'', which was published from his Berkeley, California bookstore and gallery, daliel's (stylized with lowercase 'd'). Producing avant-garde, experimental work, the v ...
published contemporary authors such as
Albert Cossery Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or i ...
and
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 ...
(a personal friend of Leite's).


Issue contents and covers

Number one, 1944 *
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 ...
– Open Letter to Small Magazines *
Philip Lamantia Philip Lamantia (October 23, 1927 – March 7, 2005) was an American poet and lecturer. His poems were often visionary, ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic, exploring the subconscious world of dreams and linking it to daily experiences, while s ...
– Two Poems *
Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
– You're No Dope: Let Me Save You *
Jeanne McGahey Jeanne McGahey (died 1995 or 1996) was an American poet published by George Leite in ''Circle Magazine ''Circle Magazine'' was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, Califor ...
– Street With People *
Rosalie Moore Rosalie Moore, Gertrude Elizabeth Moore (October 8, 1910 in Oakland, California – June 18, 2001 in Petaluma, California) was an American poet. Life She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley ''magna cum laude'' with a B.A. in 19 ...
– Poem In 2 Scenes * George Elliott – The Red Battery *
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
– Toward A Technique Of Rule *
Josephine Miles Josephine Louise Miles (June 11, 1911 – May 12, 1985) was an American poet and literary critic; the first woman tenured in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several work ...
– Four Poems * Joseph Van Auker – Pirandello In Chains *
Lawrence Hart (poet) Lawrence Hart (1901 - 1996) was an American poet, critic, and mentor of the "Activist Group" of poets. Hart was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint F ...
– The Map Of The Country Number two, 1944 *
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 ...
– To Anaïs Nin Regarding One Of Her Books *
Glen Coffield Glenn Stemmons Coffield (June 5, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American poet and conscientious objector. He was born in Prescott, Arizona, and received a B.S. degree in education from Central Missouri State Teachers College in 1940. During World ...
– Two Poems * William Everson – Two War Elegies *
R. H. Barlow Robert Hayward Barlow (May 18, 1918 – January 1 or 2, 1951Joshi & Schultz (2007): p. xx.) was an American author, avant-garde poet, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language. He was a correspondent and f ...
– Four Poems *
Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
– Letter To Gabene * W. Edwin Ver Becke – Four Line Prints * C.F. MacIntyre – Rilke And The Lost God *
Dean Jeffries Edward Dean Jeffries (February 25, 1933 – May 5, 2013) was an American custom car designer and fabricator, as well as stuntman and stunt coordinator for motion pictures and television programs based in Los Angeles, California. Early life Je ...
– Three Poems *
William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both ped ...
– To The Dean *
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
– To Henry Miller *
Philip Lamantia Philip Lamantia (October 23, 1927 – March 7, 2005) was an American poet and lecturer. His poems were often visionary, ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic, exploring the subconscious world of dreams and linking it to daily experiences, while s ...
– Two Poems * Shaemus Keilty – Quinquin Number three, 1944 * Harry Hershkowitz – The Bulbul Birds *
Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of Will ...
– Four Poems * W. Edwin Ver Becke – The Father *
Yvan Goll Yvan Goll (also: Iwan Goll, Ivan Goll; born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealis ...
– Histoire De Parmenia L'Havanaise *
Thomas Parkinson Thomas F. Parkinson (1920–1992) Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a poet in his own right; an expert on the poetry of W. B. Yeats; and one of the first academic authorities to write about the Beat poets and n ...
– Morning Passage * George Elliott – Two Poems * Douglas MacAgy – Palimpsest * Pvt. Leonard Wolf – Two Poems * Hamilton Tyler – Mr. Eliot And Mr. Milton *
Jackson Burke Jackson Burke (1908 in San Francisco, California – 1975) was an American type and book designer. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he succeeded C.H. Griffith as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler Linotyp ...
– Poem * Pvt. J.C. Crews – Poem *
M. Wheelan Grote ( ; ; pl. ; ; 1512, from Middle French , literally "my lord") is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court. It has now become the customary French title of respec ...
– First Impression Of College * Lt (jg) Hubert Creekmore – Two Poems *
Marie Wells Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...
– Two Poems *
Lawrence Hart (poet) Lawrence Hart (1901 - 1996) was an American poet, critic, and mentor of the "Activist Group" of poets. Hart was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint F ...
– About Marie Wells *
Robert Lottick The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
– Poem * Wendel Anderson – Poem *
Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider ...
– Les Lauriers Sont Coupés Number four, 1944 *
Anaïs Nin Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 11, 1903 – January 14, 1977; , ) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the ...
– The All-Seeing *
Theodore Schroeder Albert Theodore Schroeder (September 17, 1864 – February 10, 1953) was an American author who wrote on issues pertaining to freedom of expression. Schroeder challenged the state of freedom of speech in the United States, claiming that the US ...
– Where Is Obscenity? * Arthur Ginzel – Four *
Walter Fowlie Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1 ...
– The Two Creators *
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
– Low Darkened Shelter *
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 ...
– Varda: The Master Builder * Lee Ver Duft – Poems * Herbert Cahoon – Marley And The Gemini * Lt. Joseph Stanley Pennell – Two Poems *
Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
– All Over The Place * James Franklin Lewis – To John Wheelwright *
Forrest Anderson Forrest Howard Anderson (January 30, 1913 – July 20, 1989) was an American politician, attorney, and judge who served as the 17th Governor of Montana from 1969 to 1973. Prior to this, he served as the Attorney General of Montana from 1957 to 1 ...
– Sea Poems *
Warren d'Azevedo A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...
– Deep Six For Danny * Lt. Robert L. Dark – Two poems *
Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider ...
– Les Lauriers Sont Coupés Number five, 1945 *
Weldon Kees Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914 – disappeared July 18, 1955) was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, Kees is considered an importa ...
– The Purcells *
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 ...
– Five Poems *
Dane Rudhyar Dane Rudhyar (March 23, 1895 – September 13, 1985), born Daniel Chennevière, was a American author, modernist composer and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology. Biography Dane Rudhyar was born in Paris on ...
– Neptune, Evocator Extraordinary * Jess Cloud – Three Portraits *
Henri Hell Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (1916 – April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a musicologist. Biography As a literary critic, Henri Hell collaborated with ', ''Combat'', ''la Table Ronde'', ''l'Expres ...
– Max Jacob * Douglas MacAgy – Clay Spohn's War Machines *
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 ...
– Preface For The Power Within Us *
Aline Musyl Aline may refer to: * Aline (given name), a feminine given name Places * Aline, Idaho, United States, first settlement of the Latter-day Saints movement, now a ghost town * Aline, Oklahoma, United States, a town * Loch Aline, Scotland *266 Aline, ...
– Four Little Poems * Albert Clements – Rain *
Alfred Young Fisher Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...
– Voltas For Fugues *
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
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Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
– Photo-poems *
Frederic Ramsey, Jr. Charles Frederic Ramsey, Jr. (January 29, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 18, 1995 in Paterson, New Jersey) was an American writer on jazz and record producer. Ramsey took his BA at Princeton University in 1936, then took jobs a ...
– Artist's Life *
Nicholas Moore Nicholas Moore (16 November 1918 – 26 January 1986) was an English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, whose reputation stood as high as Dylan Thomas’s. He later dropped out of the literary world. Biography Moore wa ...
– A Poem & A Story * Marguerite Martin – First Pity *
Paul Radin Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...
– Journey Of The Soul * Max Harris – Two Poems Number six, 1945 *
Lawrence Hart (poet) Lawrence Hart (1901 - 1996) was an American poet, critic, and mentor of the "Activist Group" of poets. Hart was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint F ...
– Some Elements Of Active Poetry *
Rosalie Moore Rosalie Moore, Gertrude Elizabeth Moore (October 8, 1910 in Oakland, California – June 18, 2001 in Petaluma, California) was an American poet. Life She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley ''magna cum laude'' with a B.A. in 19 ...
– Letter To Camp Orford, Poem In Two Scenes, text *
R. H. Barlow Robert Hayward Barlow (May 18, 1918 – January 1 or 2, 1951Joshi & Schultz (2007): p. xx.) was an American author, avant-garde poet, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language. He was a correspondent and f ...
– Framed Portent, Table Set For Sea Slime, text *
Marie Wells Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...
– Death At Noon, Monody In One, text *
Jeanne McGahey Jeanne McGahey (died 1995 or 1996) was an American poet published by George Leite in ''Circle Magazine ''Circle Magazine'' was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, Califor ...
– Road To Chicago, text *
Alfred Morang Alfred Gwynne Morang (1901–1958) was an American painter, writer, art critic and active member of the Santa Fe art colony. Alfred Morang was born in Ellsworth, Maine in 1901. His early education was in violin playing, writing and painting. He ...
– Darling Sister And The Pound Of Liver * Haldeen Brady -Whirl *
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 ...
– Knud Merrild: A Holiday In Paint * Robert Barlow – Tepuzteca, Tepehua *
James Laughlin James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing. Early life He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin. Laughlin ...
– Poem In 38 Lines *
Thomas Parkinson Thomas F. Parkinson (1920–1992) Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a poet in his own right; an expert on the poetry of W. B. Yeats; and one of the first academic authorities to write about the Beat poets and n ...
– John Works On A Figure Of Virginia, Carving It *
Harry Roskolenko Harry Roskolenko (1907–1980) was an American author of poetry, novels, travelogues, screenplays, and journalism. Early life Harry Roskolenko was born on September 20, 1907, in the Lower East Side of New York City. He was the thirteenth of fou ...
– Return, The Expert * Eugene Gramm – A Gallery Of Americans * Maude Phelps Hutchins – Soliloquy At Dinner *
Alex Comfort Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, '' The Joy of Sex'' (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist ...
– The Soldiers * William Pillin – My Reply As A Jew *
Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement o ...
– Flannel Night Shirt *
Richard O. Moore RichardO. Moore (February 26, 1920March 25, 2015) was an American poet associated with Kenneth Rexroth and the San Francisco Renaissance. His earliest poetry was published in 1945 in '' Circle Magazine'' by George Leite. In 1949 he was one o ...
– Villanelle 1, Villanelle 2 *
Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider ...
– Les Lauriers Sont Coupés Numbers seven and eight, 1946 *
Robert Duncan (poet) Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any ...
– The Years As Catches *
Ian Hugo Hugh Parker Guiler (February 15, 1898 – January 7, 1985), also known as Ian Hugo, was Anaïs Nin's husband from 1923 until her death in 1977, and a skilled engraver and filmmaker in his own right. Biography Guiler was born in Boston, Massachus ...
– Two Block Prints *
Anaïs Nin Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 11, 1903 – January 14, 1977; , ) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the ...
– Hedja * Hamilton Tyler – Finnegan Epic *
Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
– Map Of Joyce's Life * Lindley Williams Hubbell Jacques Vache *
Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of Will ...
– Sleepers Awake * Thomas Hughes Ingle – Tattooed Sailor * Kenneth O. Hanson – Falstaff And The Chinese Poet * Douglas MacAgy – Without Horizon *
James McCray James McCray was an American operatic tenor and voice teacher. Life and career Born in Ohio, McCray served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War before entering the Mannes School of Music in New York City where he was a pupil of ...
– Four Paintings *
Yvan Goll Yvan Goll (also: Iwan Goll, Ivan Goll; born Isaac Lang; 29 March 1891 – 27 February 1950) was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealis ...
– The Magic Circle *
Brewster Ghiselin Brewster Ghiselin (June 13, 1903 – June 11, 2002) was an American poet and academic. Ghiselin was born in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. The family home is at 29 Jefferson Road, now designated as a historic landmark. At the age of ...
– Concert In Dorse * Charlotte Marletto – Oblique Epitome *
A.M. Klein Abraham Moses Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer. He has been called "one of Canada's greatest poets and a leading figure in Jewish-Canadian culture." Best known ...
– In Memoriam *
Thomas Parkinson Thomas F. Parkinson (1920–1992) Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a poet in his own right; an expert on the poetry of W. B. Yeats; and one of the first academic authorities to write about the Beat poets and n ...
– Letter To A Young Lady *
Howard O'Hagan Howard O'Hagan (February 17, 1902 – September 18, 1982) was a Canadian writer.Ken Mitchell"Howard O'Hagan" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', April 10, 2008. One of the first significant writers to have been born in Western Canada, he was most noted ...
– The Colony * Edmund de Coligny – The Poem Of The Two Oscars * Robert Barlow – Angel Hernandez, Artist *
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
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Bern Porter Bernard Harden Porter (born February 14, 1911, Porter Settlement in Houlton, Aroostook County, Maine – died June 7, 2004, in Belfast, Maine) was an American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and physicist. He was a representative of the ava ...
– Two Photo-poems *
Edwin Ver Becke The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (die ...
– A Line Drawing And A Story, The Tryst * Gil Orovitz – Flamenco * Shaun FitzSimon – Easter Bells *
Roger Pryor Dodge Roger Pryor Dodge (21 January 1898 — 2 June 1974) was an American ballet, vaudeville, and jazz dancer, as well as a choreographer and pioneering jazz critic. He formed the first extensive collection of photographic portraits of Vaslav Nijinsky. ...
– A Non-esthetic Basis For The Dance * Alex Austin – Civilization *
Oscar Williams Oscar Williams may refer to: * Oscar Williams (poet), American anthologist and poet * Oscar Williams (filmmaker), film actor, screenwriter and film director * Oscar Williams (cricketer), Antiguan cricketer See also * Oscar Randal-Williams Oscar ...
– The Lemmings *
Paul Radin Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...
– Three Conversions * Osmond Beckwith – Fire Sale * Warren D' Azevedo – Blue Peter *
Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...
– French Music Between Two Wars *
George Barrows George D. Barrows (New York, February 7, 1914 – Oxnard, October 17, 1994) was an American actor known for playing Ro-Man in the film '' Robot Monster''. He was the son of actor Henry A. Barrows. He often wore a gorilla suit for his film ...
– Creative Photography *
W.S. Graham William Sydney Graham (19 November 1918 – 9 January 1986) was a Scottish poet, who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime; however, partly thanks to the ...
– Three Poems * Eithene Wilkins – Two Poems * Jack Jones – A Story, A Poem *
Samuel Holmes Samuel Holmes may refer to: *Samuel Jackson Holmes (1868–1964), American zoologist and eugenicist *Samuel Holmes (politician), speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives during the mid-1850s *Sam Holmes (baseball) (1915–2010), American ba ...
– The Death Of An Innocent * James Steel Smith – Murder And Complacency *
Georges Henein Georges Henein (1914–1973) was an Egyptian poet and author. He was a founding member of the Cairo-based, surrealist Art and Liberty Group which brought together artists, writers and various intellectuals of different backgrounds and national o ...
– There Are No Pointless Jests * Martin H. Mack – It All Depends On How You Want It * David Cornel DeJong – Three Poems *
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 ...
– Three Books Tangent To Circle Number nine, 1946 *
Lawrence Durrell Lawrence George Durrell (; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial par ...
– Eight Aspects Of Melissa *
Gerald Burke Gerald Burke (2 December 1930 – 24 June 1994) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Burke made his debut for the Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Au ...
– Essay On Children *
Richard O. Moore RichardO. Moore (February 26, 1920March 25, 2015) was an American poet associated with Kenneth Rexroth and the San Francisco Renaissance. His earliest poetry was published in 1945 in '' Circle Magazine'' by George Leite. In 1949 he was one o ...
– A History Primer * Jim Fitzsimmons – Four Experimental Nudes * David Stuart – The Inflammable Angel Kezia * C.F. MacIntyre – The Ars Poetica Of Paul Valery * William Everson – The Release * A. Seixas – Ellwood Graham *
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
– The Wing: The Mirror * Alexis Comfort – Taras And The Snowfield * Walker Winslow – NP Ward *
Hilaire Hiler Hilaire Harzberg Hiler (July 16, 1898 – January 19, 1966) was an American artist, psychologist, and color theoretician who worked in Europe and United States during the mid-20th century. At home and abroad, Hiler worked as a muralist, jazz mu ...
– Manifesto Of Psychromatic Design *
Harold Norse Harold Norse (July 6, 1916, New York City – June 8, 2009, San Francisco) was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images. One of the expatriate artists of the Beat generation, Norse wa ...
– Three Poems *
Robert Wosniak The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
– The Man In The Cape *
Robert Stock Robert Stock may refer to: * Robert Stock (baseball) (born 1989), American baseball pitcher * Robert Stock (businessman) (1858–1912), German entrepreneur and telecommunications pioneer * Robert Stock (tennis) (born 1944), American tennis ...
– Triumphal Arch * Ericka Braun – Oath Of The Tennis Court *
Max Harris (poet) Maxwell Henley Harris AO (13 April 1921 – 13 January 1995), generally known as Max Harris, was an Australian poet, critic, columnist, commentator, publisher, and bookseller. Early life Harris was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised ...
– Revolutionary Poem *
Mary Fabilli Mary Fabilli (February 16, 1914 − September 2, 2011) was an American poet and illustrator who for many years made her living as an art teacher and curator at the Oakland Museum in Oakland, California. She was for a time married to poet William ...
– The Memorable Hospital *
Will Gibson William Gibson (16 February 1868 – 15 September 1911) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Lincoln City, Notts County and Sunderland, and in the Scottish Football League for Rangers, as a left back or left half. C ...
– Poem For Three * Selwyn Schwartz – Four Poems *
Ernst Kaiser Ernst David Kaiser (3 October 1911 – 1 January 1972) was an Austrian writer and translator. Early life Ernst David Kaiser was born in Vienna. His father, a Jewish merchant, came from the Slovak part of Hungary, and his mother from Brno. At bir ...
– The Development From Surrealism * Richard Lyons (writer) – A Note To Kenneth Patchen *
Byron Vazakas Byron Vazakas (September 24, 1905, New York City - September 30, 1987, Reading, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, whose career extended from the modernist era well into the postmodernist period; nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1947 ...
– Two Poems *
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 ...
– Rimbaud Opus (Part Two) *
Harry Roskolenko Harry Roskolenko (1907–1980) was an American author of poetry, novels, travelogues, screenplays, and journalism. Early life Harry Roskolenko was born on September 20, 1907, in the Lower East Side of New York City. He was the thirteenth of fou ...
– PR, The Portable Review Number ten, 1948 * John Whitney &
James Whitney James Whitney may refer to: * James Whitney (politician) (1843–1914), Canadian politician in the province of Ontario *James Whitney (filmmaker) (1921–1982) * James Amaziah Whitney (1839–1907), United States patent lawyer and writer *James Poun ...
– Audio-Visual Music * Joseph Stanley Pennell – Logistics *
Mary Fabilli Mary Fabilli (February 16, 1914 − September 2, 2011) was an American poet and illustrator who for many years made her living as an art teacher and curator at the Oakland Museum in Oakland, California. She was for a time married to poet William ...
– The Boss *
Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experim ...
– Eight Poems * Antony Borrow – The Great Refusal * Douglas MacAgy – A Margin Of Chaos * Charles Howard – The Bride *
Harry Partch Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century co ...
– Show-horses In The Concert Ring * Robert Barlow – The Malinche Of Acacingo *
Alex Comfort Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, '' The Joy of Sex'' (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist ...
– Two Enemies Of Society * D. Rentis – Forward * Attile Joseph – Two Poems * Clarisse Blazek – Poet In Hungary * George Elliott – Story * Luis J. Trinkaus – Eight Inches Of Snow *
Kendrick Smithyman William Kendrick Smithyman (9 October 1922 – 28 December 1995) was a New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century. Family and early life Smithyman was born in Te Kōpuru, a milling and logging t ...
– Legends Of The Gunner And His Girl *
Warren D'Azevedo A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...
– Shuttle * Robert Duncan – Toward An African Elegy * Jody Scott &
George Leite George Thurston Leite (December 20, 1920 – August 6, 1985) was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born to a Portuguese- ...
- Admission of Fission


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Circle History
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