1953 in Poetry - Events

Events

  • George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes found The Paris Review.
  • Nuovi Argomenti, an influential Italian literary magazine, founded by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia in Rome.
  • The October issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine in the United States publishes "Perspectives of India", anthologizing poems from India.

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