After studying the starving poets in the Village garrets of the Twenties, the Jefferson Market Library workshop looked at poetry magazines that emerged during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. A major resource for information about the period was The Dream and The Deal: The Federal Writer’s Project, 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione.
We looked at the Federal Writer’s Project efforts to publish a magazine of contemporary poets. Kenneth Patchen, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Harry Roskolenko were poets involved in the project. The first hand experiences of workshop participants shed light into the period. Some of the participants knew the poets we discussed.
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