Harriet Monroe (1860-12-23 – 1936-09-26) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. She is best known as founder and long time editor of Poetry magazine. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ... Poetry, published in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. ...

Monroe was the first editor at Poetry, when it was founded in 1912. From her position as editor, she was instrumental in the development of Modern Poetry, both as an early publisher and as a constant supporter of poets such as Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and others. Because of her bold, intelligent leadership, Poetry magazine became the most important journal of modern poetry. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... T.S. Eliot (by E.O. Hoppe, 1919) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. ...

Additionally, Monroe was a long time correspondent of the poets she supported, and her letters provide a wealth of information on the thoughts and motives of modernist poets.