Program showcases literary magazines

Editors and contributors from Madison literary journals will read their work and participate in a discussion about “little magazines” — non-commercial, avant-garde, literary publications dating from about 1900 — in a program Thursday, Jan. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Department, 976 Memorial Library.

Little magazines are associated with many literary and artistic movements, and have often featured distinguished writers and those who later achieved distinction.

Sponsored by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries, the program highlights the Sukov Collection of Little Magazines housed in Special Collections.

With more than 6,000 journals, 1,200 received through current subscription, the Sukov collection is one of the most extensive of its kind in the country. Marvin Sukov, a Minneapolis psychiatrist, assembled the original collection, which UW acquired in 1959. New titles are added every year.

The development of the collection was greatly influenced by the exceptional personality and reputation of Felix Pollak, Special Collections curator from 1959 to 1973, and a distinguished poet.