Description

New Michigan Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Carl Edwin Burklund, first published in 1940 by the University of Michigan Press. The collection showcases works from Michigan poets and reflects the literary voices of the region during that period. It also includes a foreword by Louis Untermeyer, a prominent American poet and critic, who likely provides context on the significance of Michigan's poetic contributions to American literature. This anthology serves as a snapshot of Midwestern poetry during the early 20th century

Authors include Ivan Swift, Bennett Weaver, Howard Mumford Jones, Frederick Ten Hoor, Carl Edwin Burklund, Wade Von Dore, Forman Brown, Myrtle Adams, A. J. M. Smith, Leona Ames Hill, David Cornel De Jong, Carrow De Vries, Louisa Butler, Ivan Olson, E. Florence Swanson, Theodore Roethke, Joyce McIntyre, Francis Jennings Stillman, Anne Persov, Charles Miller, Elizabeth Allen, Joseph Cherwinski, John Malcolm Brinnin, and John Nerber.

Carl Edwin Burkland lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the author of The Moment Of Time: Collected Poems.