Orrick Johns

Orrick Johns

Orrick Glenday Johns 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, 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,