Herbert Bruncken

Herbert Gerhard Bruncken
Born	(1896-09-21)September 21, 1896 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Occupation	Poet and magazine editor
Genre	Poetry

Herbert Gerhard Bruncken ^[1] (born September 21, 1896, date of death unknown) was an American poet, and magazine editor.

Life

Bruncken was born in Milwaukee on September 21, 1896. ^{[2] [3]}

Bruncken lived in Wisconsin. ^[4]

Bruncken sent contributions for the Smart Set to H. L. Mencken. ^[5]

Bruncken was editor of Minaret magazine in Washington, D. C., from 1911 to 1926, ^{[6] [7]} with Shaemus O. Sheele, and Harold Hersey.

Awards

• 1939/1940 Shelley Memorial Award

Works

Poetry

• "A Wind from Spain". Contemporary Verse. 1918.
• "The Tide". The Midland. 1918.
• Hall bedroom. W. Drey. 1936.
• The long night. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie press. 1939.
• Last parade. Muscatine, Ia.: The Prairie Press. 1938.
• Noise in Time. Prairie City, Ill.: Decker Press. 1949.
• Hue and Cry; poems, 1941. Muscatine, Ia.: The Prairie Press. 1941.

Non-fiction

• Subject Index to Poetry, Chicago, ALA, 1940.

References

1. "The Minaret". The Buffalo News. 2 January 1926. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
2. "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918". Ancestry. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
3. "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942". Ancestry. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
4. Risjord, Norman K (2006-05-01). The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Wisconsin. ISBN   978-0-87351-553-5.
5. Henry Louis Mencken (1993). Jonathan Yardley (ed.). My life as author and editor . Knopf. ISBN   978-0-679-41315-8.
6. Bruno, Guido (1915). "Bruno's weekly". Guido Bruno: 516. Herbert Bruncken.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. Doyle, Charles (1997). Wallace Stevens. ISBN   978-0-415-15943-2.