Coyote’s Journal was a literary magazine edited by American poet James Koller. Koller (1936-2014) was originally trained as a photographer and became poetry editor of the University of Oregon’s literary magazine in 1964. After the suspension of that magazine he started his own Coyote’s Journal together with Ed Van Aelstyn and Will Wroth later that year. Koller moved to northern California in 1965 and stayed…
George Bacovia (1881-1957) and Dimitrie Stelaru (1917-1971) represent two generations in the long line of Romanian Francophile Symbolists. Although both Bacovia and Stelaru took inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and the French Symbolists and were also touched by early-Expressionism, the two countrymen were miles apart in upbringing, cultural background, character, lifestyle and reception of their work. Bacovia, frail and suffering from depressions, held various official positions and led an uneventful life with his wife…