Circle Magazine

Circle Magazine was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, California, bookstore daliel's (stylized with a lowercase 'd'), it featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to be called the San Francisco Renaissance.[1] In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller (a personal friend of Leite's).[2]

Issue contents and covers

Number one, 1944

Cover of first issue, 1944

Number two, 1944

Cover of second issue, 1944

Number three, 1944

Cover of third issue, 1944
  • Harry Hershkowitz – The Bulbul Birds
  • Kenneth Patchen – Four Poems
  • W. Edwin Ver Becke – The Father
  • Yvan Goll – Histoire De Parmenia L'Havanaise
  • Thomas Parkinson – Morning Passage
  • George Elliott – Two Poems
  • Douglas MacAgy – Palimpsest
  • Pvt. Leonard Wolf – Two Poems
  • Hamilton Tyler – Mr. Eliot And Mr. Milton
  • Jackson Burke – Poem
  • Pvt. J.C. Crews – Poem
  • M. Wheelan Grote – First Impression Of College
  • Lt (jg) Hubert Creekmore – Two Poems
  • Marie Wells – Two Poems
  • Lawrence Hart (poet) – About Marie Wells
  • Robert Lottick – Poem
  • Wendel Anderson – Poem
  • Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés

Number four, 1944

Cover of fourth issue, 1944
  • Anaïs Nin – The All-Seeing
  • Theodore Schroeder – Where Is Obscenity?
  • Arthur Ginzel – Four
  • Walter Fowlie – The Two Creators
  • George Leite – Low Darkened Shelter
  • Henry Miller – Varda: The Master Builder
  • Lee Ver Duft – Poems
  • Herbert Cahoon – Marley And The Gemini
  • Lt. Joseph Stanley Pennell – Two Poems
  • Bern Porter – All Over The Place
  • James Franklin Lewis – To John Wheelwright
  • Forrest Anderson – Sea Poems
  • Warren d'Azevedo – Deep Six For Danny
  • Lt. Robert L. Dark – Two poems
  • Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés

Number five, 1945

Cover of fifth issue, 1945
  • Weldon Kees – The Purcells
  • E.E. Cummings – Five Poems
  • Dane Rudhyar – Neptune, Evocator Extraordinary
  • Jess Cloud – Three Portraits
  • Henri Hell – Max Jacob
  • Douglas MacAgy – Clay Spohn's War Machines
  • Henry Miller – Preface For The Power Within Us
  • Aline Musyl – Four Little Poems
  • Albert Clements – Rain
  • Alfred Young Fisher – Voltas For Fugues
  • George Leite & Bern Porter – Photo-poems
  • Frederic Ramsey, Jr. – Artist's Life
  • Nicholas Moore – A Poem & A Story
  • Marguerite Martin – First Pity
  • Paul Radin – Journey Of The Soul
  • Max Harris – Two Poems

Number six, 1945

Cover of sixth issue, 1945

Numbers seven and eight, 1946

Cover of seventh and eighth issue, 1946
  • Robert Duncan (poet) – The Years As Catches
  • Ian Hugo – Two Block Prints
  • Anaïs Nin – Hedja
  • Hamilton Tyler – Finnegan Epic
  • Bern Porter – Map Of Joyce's Life
  • Lindley Williams Hubbell Jacques Vache
  • Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
  • Thomas Hughes Ingle – Tattooed Sailor
  • Kenneth O. Hanson – Falstaff And The Chinese Poet
  • Douglas MacAgy – Without Horizon
  • James McCray – Four Paintings
  • Yvan Goll – The Magic Circle
  • Brewster Ghiselin – Concert In Dorse
  • Charlotte Marletto – Oblique Epitome
  • A.M. Klein – In Memoriam
  • Thomas Parkinson – Letter To A Young Lady
  • Howard O'Hagan – The Colony
  • Edmund de Coligny – The Poem Of The Two Oscars
  • Robert Barlow – Angel Hernandez, Artist
  • George Leite & Bern Porter – Two Photo-poems
  • Edwin Ver Becke – A Line Drawing And A Story, The Tryst
  • Gil Orovitz – Flamenco
  • Shaun FitzSimon – Easter Bells
  • Roger Pryor Dodge – A Non-esthetic Basis For The Dance
  • Alex Austin – Civilization
  • Oscar Williams – The Lemmings
  • Paul Radin – Three Conversions
  • Osmond Beckwith – Fire Sale
  • Warren D' Azevedo – Blue Peter
  • Darius Milhaud – French Music Between Two Wars
  • George Barrows – Creative Photography
  • W.S. Graham – Three Poems
  • Eithene Wilkins – Two Poems
  • Jack Jones – A Story, A Poem
  • Samuel Holmes – The Death Of An Innocent
  • James Steel Smith – Murder And Complacency
  • Georges Henein – There Are No Pointless Jests
  • Martin H. Mack – It All Depends On How You Want It
  • David Cornel DeJong – Three Poems
  • Henry Miller – Three Books Tangent To Circle

Number nine, 1946

Cover of ninth issue, 1946

Number ten, 1948

Cover of tenth issue, 1948
  • John Whitney & James Whitney – Audio-Visual Music
  • Joseph Stanley Pennell – Logistics
  • Mary Fabilli – The Boss
  • Giuseppe Ungaretti – Eight Poems
  • Antony Borrow – The Great Refusal
  • Douglas MacAgy – A Margin Of Chaos
  • Charles Howard – The Bride
  • Harry Partch – Show-horses In The Concert Ring
  • Robert Barlow – The Malinche Of Acacingo
  • Alex Comfort – Two Enemies Of Society
  • D. Rentis – Forward
  • Attile Joseph – Two Poems
  • Clarisse Blazek – Poet In Hungary
  • George Elliott – Story
  • Luis J. Trinkaus – Eight Inches Of Snow
  • Kendrick Smithyman – Legends Of The Gunner And His Girl
  • Warren D'Azevedo – Shuttle
  • Robert Duncan – Toward An African Elegy
  • Jody Scott & George Leite- Admission of Fission
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References
  1. Davidson, Michael (1991). The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-521-42304-5.
  2. Brady, Mildred (April 1947). "The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy". Harper's Magazine.
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