Wormwood Review

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The Wormwood Review was a literary magazine published from Fall 1959 to April 1999. Alan Kaufman considered the magazine to be "the greatest little magazine of all time." [1]

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History and profile

The Wormwood Review was first published in Fall 1959 in Mt. Hope, Connecticut. [2] The founding editors were Alexander (Sandy) Taylor, James Scully, and Morton Felix. [2] [3] It was also edited and published by Marvin Malone. [2] Later, the magazine moved to Stockton, California. [2] Poets published by the magazine included Charles Bukowski, [4] Gregory Corso, e.e. cummings, James Dickey, Jack Micheline, Peter Orlovsky, and William Wantling. [1]

The magazine organized the annual Wormwood Award. [1] The last issue of the Wormwood Review was published in April 1999. [2]

Notable contributors

References

  1. 1 2 3 Alan Kaufman (1999). The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Basic Books. p. 417. ISBN   1-56025-227-8 . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Marvin Malone. "A Brief History of the Wormwood Review". Wormwood Review. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ Morton N. Felix (June 2, 2010). Redemptive Angel. AuthorHouse. p. 225. ISBN   978-1-4520-1614-6 . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ Abel Debritto (September 26, 2013). Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground: From Obscurity to Literary Icon. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 112. ISBN   978-1-137-34355-0 . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
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