page_title: Circle Magazine
section_title: Issue contents and covers
hierarchical_section_title: Circle Magazine / Issue contents and covers
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of 3rd issue of Circle Magazine, 1944
context_page_description: 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, 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. In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller.
context_section_description: Number one, 1944
  Henry Miller – Open Letter to Small Magazines
  Philip Lamantia – Two Poems
  Bern Porter – You're No Dope: Let Me Save You
  Jeanne McGahey – Street With People
  Rosalie Moore – Poem In 2 Scenes
  George Elliott – The Red Battery
  George Leite – Toward A Technique Of Rule
  Josephine Miles – Four Poems
  Joseph Van Auker – Pirandello In Chains
  Lawrence Hart (poet) – The Map Of The Country
  Number two, 1944
  Henry Miller – To Anaïs Nin Regarding One Of Her Books
  Glen Coffield – Two Poems
  William Everson – Two War Elegies
  R. H. Barlow – Four Poems
  Bern Porter – Letter To Gabene
  W. Edwin Ver Becke – Four Line Prints
  C.F. MacIntyre – Rilke And The Lost God
  Dean Jeffries – Three Poems
  William Carlos Williams – To The Dean
  George Leite – To Henry Miller
  Philip Lamantia – Two Poems
  Shaemus Keilty – Quinquin
  Number three, 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
  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
  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
  Lawrence Hart (poet) – Some Elements Of Active Poetry
  Rosalie Moore – Letter To Camp Orford, Poem In Two Scenes, text
  R. H. Barlow – Framed Portent, Table Set For Sea Slime, text
  Marie Wells – Death At Noon, Monody In One, text
  Jeanne McGahey – Road To Chicago, text
  Alfred Morang – Darling Sister And The Pound Of Liver
  Haldeen Brady -Whirl
  Henry Miller – Knud Merrild: A Holiday In Paint
  Robert Barlow – Tepuzteca, Tepehua
  James Laughlin – Poem In 38 Lines
  Thomas Parkinson – John Works On A Figure Of Virginia, Carving It
  Harry Roskolenko – Return, The Expert
  Eugene Gramm – A Gallery Of Americans
  Maude Phelps Hutchins – Soliloquy At Dinner
  Alex Comfort – The Soldiers
  William Pillin – My Reply As A Jew
  Leonora Carrington – Flannel Night Shirt
  Richard O. Moore – Villanelle 1, Villanelle 2
  Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
  Numbers seven and eight, 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-po
caption: Cover of third issue, 1944
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