“It is America's opportunity to lay the foundations for a new flowering of English verse, and to lay them as broad as they are strong.”
About John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950
In the pantheon of American poetry, few figures embody the restless spirit of early twentieth-century modernism quite like John Gould Fletcher. Born into the genteel society of Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 3, 1886, Fletcher would traverse continents and literary movements, ultimately crafting a body of work that…