Who is Orrick Johns

Orrick Glenday Johns (June 2, 1887 – July 8, 1946) was an American poet and playwright. He was one of the earliest modernist free-verse poets in Greenwich Village in 1913-1915 and associated with the artist's colony at Grantwood, New Jersey (sometimes referred to as Ridgefield), where Others: A Magazine of the New Verse was founded and published by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915. Johns's work "Olives," a series of fourteen small poems appeared in the first issue of July 1915. He is part of a coterie of poets and authors sometimes called the "Others" group who were contributors to the magazine or residents at the colony and included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, ...
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Orrick Johns Poems

• The Sea-lands
  Would I were on the sea-lands,
  Where winds know how to sting;
  And in the rocks at midnight
  The lost long murmurs sing....
• The Interpreter
  In the very early morning when the light was low
  She got all together and she went like snow,
  Like snow in the springtime on a sunny hill,
  And we were only frightened and can't think still....
• Little Things
  There's nothing very beautiful and nothing very gay
  About the rush of faces in the town by day,
  But a light tan cow in a pale green mead,
  That is very beautiful, beautiful indeed . . ....
• Dilemma
  What though the moon should come
  With a blinding glow,
  And the stars have a game
  On the wood's edge,...

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