Origin magazine, an American poetry magazine founded in 1951 by Cid Corman, (its longstanding editor), and Charles Olson, provided an early platform for the work of Olson, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Theodore Enslin, and other important, ground-breaking poets, who collectively created an alternative to the academic poets of the 1950's.^[1] // Bad Lord Byron, a film directed by David Macdonald about the Romantic poet W.H. Auden, Nones Charles Causley, Farewell Aggie Weston Hugh Kenner, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, highly influential in causing a re-assessment of Pounds poetry Robert Lowell, The Mills of the Kavanaughs Peter Mason Opie... Cid Corman (1924 - March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. ... Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat... Portrait taken in 1972 Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. ... Young Gary Snyder, on one of his early book covers Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. ... Theodore Vernon Enslin (born March 25, 1925) is an American poet associated with Cid Cormans Origin magazine and press. ...

Corman recruited Olson as a contributing editor when he started Origin. Their correspondence was printed in 1969 as Letters For Origin. The collection details "an enormous battle of creative energy".^[1] // FIELD Magazine founded Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press. ...

Origin published Olson's In Cold Hell, In Thicket, as its eighth issue, in 1953 as well as Louis Zukofsky's key work, A 1-12. "The collection, The Gist Of Origin (1979) remains a groundbreaking work", according to Michael Carlson.^[1] // George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found The Paris Review. ... The cover of the 1978 edition of Zukofskys long poem A. Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. ...

Corman edited the magazine for decades, even when he was abroad in France, Italy and Japan.

The Origin sixth series, comprised of skeletal notes left behind by Corman is made up of four online issues, released in 2007:

http://www.longhousepoetry.com/forthcoming.html

sixth series issues one and two: http://www.longhousepoetry.com/origin.html

In late 2003 Corman, after his trip to Milwaukee and Lorine Niedecker Centenary USA visit, conceived the idea of Origin's Sixth Series to be an online and printed edition. Upwards of twenty issues were planned in collaborative assistance with Chuck Sandy, a newly found friend and educator who also resided in Japan.

Unfortunately, Cid only sketched out Origin issues 1-4, instead of his intended twenty issues, and this came with brief notes, recommendations and plans for the featured poets.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} [1] Carlson, Michael, "Cid Corman/ Poet who was behind the literary magazine Origin", obituary in The Guardian, April 15, 2004

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