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The magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic of the Chicago Tribune. Contributors include T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H. D., William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Carl Rakosi, Dorothy RichardsonDorothy Miller Richardson ( 17 May 1873 17 June 1957) was the first writer to publish a novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-consciousness technique. Her fourteen novel sequence Pilgrimage is one of the great 20th century works of moderni, Louis ZukofskyLouis Zukofsky ( January 23, 1904 May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets. He was co-founder of the Objectivist group of poets and was to be an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in Americ, Charles ReznikoffCharles Reznikoff ( August 31, 1894 January 22, 1976) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to provide an introduction to what became known as the Objectivist issue of Poetry Louis Zukofsky used his essa and Carl SandburgCarl Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 July 22, 1967), American poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois by Swedish parents and died in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every, among others. The magazine was instrumental in launching the Imagist and ObjectivistThe Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein. The core group consisted of Louis Zukofsky, C poetic movements.