Little magazines made modernism happen. This collection offers a reconsideration of little magazines' integral role in the development of modernism. Essays on avant-garde, literary, political, regional, and African-American little magazines offer diverse approaches: discussions of material practices; analyses of the relationship between little magazines and popular audiences; examinations of correspondences between texts and images; feminist modifications of literary history; and reflections on the emerging field of periodical studies.

Contents: Preface, Mark Morrisson; Introduction, Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible. Part I Negotiations: Lines of engagement: rhythm, reproduction and the textual dialogues of early modernism, Faith Binckes; The cosmopolitan Midland and the academic writer, Tom Lutz; The marriage of Rogue and The Soil, Jay Bochner; The Dial, The Little Review, and the dialogues of modernism, Alan Golding. Part II Editorial Practices: Poetry's opening door: Harriet Munroe and American modernism, John Timberman Newcomb; Women editors and little magazines in the Harlem renaissance, Jayne Marek; Suffragism, imagism and the 'cosmic poet': scientism and spirituality in The Freewoman and The Egoist, Bruce Clarke; Epilogue: how poetic authority became authoritarian, Joyce Wexler. Part III Identities: Black and tan: racial and sexual crossings in Ebony and Topaz, Caroline Goeser; The lying game: Others and the great spectra hoax of 1917, Suzanne W. Churchill; 'Life is real and life is earnest': Mike Gold, Claude McKay and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Adam McKible; Afterword: small magazines, large ones, and those in-between, Robert Scholes; Appendices; Index.