ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Marianne Moore's early publications in three little magazines during the First World War, The Egoist: An Individualist Review published in London, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago, and Others in New York. The fullest account of Others and its transformations during the 1910s under Alfred Kreymborg is Suzanne W. Churchill, The Little Magazine "Others" and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry. The chapter recalls the historical sense of "activism" to keep the historical specificity of Moore's communicative actions in the wartime little magazines in dialogue with contemporary criticisms own social and political inflections. It turns to the visually spare but socially hospitable pages of Others and its circle in New York and New Jersey to examine Moore's exemplary status in this American counter-public sphere. Hilda Doolittle placed an excerpt from Ezra Pound's translation of the Dialogues of Fontenelle to begin on the same page on which her introduction to "Marianne Moore" ended.
