Re: SLPAD - 128 - “Entropy” - 1

[Mark Kohut]

Michael!----

It looks like Robie might have become editor at the start of 1959....this
says Ransom was editor UNTIL 1959
AND this list of writers Robie published is incredible and it includes
Tom...

And a picture of both of them, Ransom and Macauley:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kenyon_Review



On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:27 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> First published in Spring 1960 Kenyon Review
>
> - Kenyon Review founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom
>
> - Dr Ransom retired in 1959
>
> - Robie Macauley took the editorship - & ran with it for 10 years, so he
> and/or his people likely shepherded “Entropy” (although maybe not, since it
> was in the Spring 1960 issue, depending on how far in advance it was
> acquired)
>
> - Macauley’s WWII experience included the liberation of Flossenburg
> concentration camp
>
>
> - moribund from 1969 to 1979, Kenyon Review was revived by Marilyn Hacker,
> poet (& early wife of SF author Samuel Delany)
>
> - it’s still around; cumulative lists of contributors is even more
> impressive than those of “New World Writing” if that is possible
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