Harriet Monroe Poetry

Harriet Monroe was an American editor, poet, and literary critic. She is best remembered as the founding publisher of Poetry magazine. She helped to support some of the most important modernist poets in the English language and is today credited with supporting the development of the movement.

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Myself

Monroe’s ‘Myself’ explores complex self-identity through history and myth, embodying diverse figures from Eve to Cleopatra.

What am I? I am Earth the mother,

With all her nebulous memories;

And the young Day, and Night her brother,

And every god that was and is.

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