Taggard Co‑Founds The Measure: A Journal of Poetry
Poet involved
What happened
In 1921, Genevieve Taggard joined Maxwell Anderson, Padraic Colum, and others in founding The Measure: A Journal of Poetry, a monthly magazine that published new verse and ran until 1926. Taggard served on its editorial board and featured her own early poems, including the critically acclaimed 'Ice Age,' in its inaugural issue.
Literary impact
Founding The Measure gave Taggard a platform to champion the kind of accessible, emotionally direct poetry she valued, distinguishing her from the more obscure strains of high modernism. The editorial experience sharpened her critical eye and deepened her engagement with the craft of poetry, influencing her own writing and her later anthologies.
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