Mark Van Doren edited and published An Anthology of World Poetry in 1929. Amazingly, this enabled him to buy the house at 393 Bleecker Street. Van Doren was a poet himself and a playwright and a greatly admired professor at Columbia University.

Mark Van Doren's birthday is June 13.

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Here is a poem of his published in the January 1968 issue.

"Looking for Something Lost"

Looking for something lost is mind
And matter playing a game. (read more...)