{{Short description|American periodical (1944–1948)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use American English|date=June 2016}} {{Italic title}} '''''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 (stylized with a lowercase 'd'), 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century|authorlink=Michael Davidson (poet)|last=Davidson|first=Michael |page=39|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-42304-5}}</ref> In addition to the magazine, Circle Editions published contemporary authors such as Albert Cossery and Henry Miller (a personal friend of Leite's).<ref>{{Cite journal|first=Mildred|last=Brady|authorlink=Mildred Edie Brady|date=April 1947 |title=The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy|journal=Harper's Magazine }}</ref>
== Issue contents and covers == ===Number one, 1944=== thumb|Cover of first issue, 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 – The Map Of The Country
===Number two, 1944=== thumb|Cover of second issue, 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=== thumb|Cover of third issue, 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 – About Marie Wells * Robert Lottick – Poem * Wendel Anderson – Poem * Kenneth Rexroth – Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
===Number four, 1944=== thumb|Cover of fourth issue, 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=== thumb|Cover of fifth issue, 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=== thumb|Cover of sixth issue, 1945 * Lawrence Hart – 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=== thumb|Cover of seventh and eighth issue, 1946 * Robert Duncan – 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-poems * Edwin Ver Becke – A Line Drawing And A Story, The Tryst * Gil Orovitz – Flamenco * Shaun FitzSimon – Easter Bells * Roger Pryor Dodge – A Non-esthetic Basis For The Dance * Alex Austin – Civilization * Oscar Williams – The Lemmings * Paul Radin – Three Conversions * Osmond Beckwith – Fire Sale * Warren D' Azevedo – Blue Peter * Darius Milhaud – French Music Between Two Wars * George Barrows – Creative Photography * W. S. Graham – Three Poems * Eithene Wilkins – Two Poems * Jack Jones – A Story, A Poem * Samuel Holmes – The Death Of An Innocent * James Steel Smith – Murder And Complacency * Georges Henein – There Are No Pointless Jests * Martin H. Mack – It All Depends On How You Want It * David Cornel DeJong – Three Poems * Henry Miller – Three Books Tangent To Circle
===Number nine, 1946=== thumb|Cover of ninth issue, one of four variants, 1946 * Bezalel Schatz – Cover art * Lawrence Durrell – Eight Aspects Of Melissa * Gerald Burke – Essay On Children * Richard O. Moore – A History Primer * Jim Fitzsimmons – Four Experimental Nudes * David Stuart – The Inflammable Angel Kezia * C. F. MacIntyre – The Ars Poetica Of Paul Valery * William Everson – The Release * A. Seixas – Ellwood Graham * George Leite – The Wing: The Mirror * Alexis Comfort – Taras And The Snowfield * Walker Winslow – NP Ward * Hilaire Hiler – Manifesto Of Psychromatic Design * Harold Norse – Three Poems * Robert Wosniak – The Man In The Cape * Robert Stock – Triumphal Arch * Ericka Braun – Oath Of The Tennis Court * Max Harris – Revolutionary Poem * Mary Fabilli – The Memorable Hospital * Will Gibson – Poem For Three * Selwyn Schwartz – Four Poems * Ernst Kaiser – The Development From Surrealism * Richard Lyons – A Note To Kenneth Patchen * Byron Vazakas – Two Poems * Henry Miller – Rimbaud Opus (Part Two) * Harry Roskolenko – PR, The Portable Review
===Number ten, 1948=== thumb|Cover of tenth issue, 1948 * John Whitney & James Whitney – Audio-Visual Music * Joseph Stanley Pennell – Logistics * Mary Fabilli – The Boss * Giuseppe Ungaretti – Eight Poems * Antony Borrow – The Great Refusal * Douglas MacAgy – A Margin Of Chaos * Charles Howard – The Bride * Harry Partch – Show-horses In The Concert Ring * Robert Barlow – The Malinche Of Acacingo * Alex Comfort – Two Enemies Of Society * D. Rentis – Forward * Attile Joseph – Two Poems * Clarisse Blazek – Poet In Hungary * George Elliott – Story * Luis J. Trinkaus – Eight Inches Of Snow * Kendrick Smithyman – Legends Of The Gunner And His Girl * Warren D'Azevedo – Shuttle * Robert Duncan – Toward An African Elegy * Jody Scott & George Leite — Admission of Fission
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713122838/http://www.vallejo.to/artists/varda_circle.htm Circle History], from Jean Varda's ferryboat's website {{authority control}}
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