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When it came to the creation
of Origin magazine, there
www.dotnews.com were a number of individuals
who were considered to be
vital in the success of it’s
beginning stages. Evelyn
Shoolman, an affluent
supporter of the arts was the
first to sponsor and invest in
Origin. Also, Robert Creeley
was highly instrumental in
developing Origin. Creeley
was often featured as a guest
on Corman’s radio show,
which led later to their
collaboration on Origin
magazine and him agreeing
to provide Corman with
literary content/ material
that he has gathered from
previous projects. Another
individual who was
Where It All Began considered as a primary asset
to Origin, was Charles Olson.
organize Origin and
Origin Magazine was one of the Olson helped Corman to
most significant and instrumental concentrate it’s vision on
poetry journals of the late 20th specifically, presenting an
century. In 1949, Cid Corman started open and genuine form of
to share his love of poetry by poetry.
creating a radio show in Boston fromasecretlocation.com
called “This is Poetry”. Corman was
incredibly proud of his radio
program, declaring it as the first
radio program ever to focus on
broadcasting contemporary poetry/
literary material. Corman’s radio
show, proceeded for three years,
incorporating performances and
live readings from respected and
established poets including John
Crowe Ransom, Richard Wilbur,
Stephen Spender, Theodore Roethke
and Richard Eberhart. Corman also
performed some of his one poetry
on the radio show. First two issues of Origin's
3 first series
