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Dear George, It is hard to know just what readers of NOW will want most to know about the USA as it emerges, post-War II, ruler of the world, minus [...]

In early 1960 the San Francisco Examiner (a Hearst newspaper) offered Kenneth Rexroth a job writing a weekly column. He accepted. By May 1961 the column had proved popular enough [...]

When Rexroth asked D.S. Savage (1917-) if he would contribute to the New British Poets anthology (New Directions, 1949) he gained a friend and ally. Their correspondence ran without significant [...]

'Goddam Kenneth Rexroth,' wrote Ann Kees with fear and salt to her husband after one Abraham Lincoln Kanai knocked on her door in the dead of night. Weldon Kees, at [...]

Jonathan Williams (1929-) first wrote to Kenneth Rexroth as a recent Princeton dropout looking for advice about attending the Art Institute of Chicago and avoiding the draft. Within two years, [...]

The correspondence between Kenneth Rexroth and anarchists Herbert Read (1893-1968) and George Woodcock (1912-95) was an outgrowth of shared values. All three were prominent figures in the literary wing of [...]

Rexroth first met Herbert Read during his visit to England in 1949, shortly after the publication of his New British Poets: An Anthology (1949). Rexroth greatly admired Read and would [...]

Each responsible in his own way for the flourishing of California's literary culture in the twentieth century, Kenneth Rexroth and Yvor Winters differed both in temperament and literary judgment. One [...]

Louis Zukofsky first contacted Kenneth Rexroth in November 1930, soliciting poetry for the 1931 Objectivists issue of Poetry magazine. Almost two years older than Rexroth, Zukofsky had spent all his [...]