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Herbert Gerhard Bruncken (born September 21, 1896, date of death unknown) was an American poet, and magazine editor.

Life

Bruncken was born in Milwaukee on September 21, 1896.

Bruncken lived in Wisconsin.

Bruncken sent contributions for the Smart Set to H. L. Mencken.

Bruncken was editor of Minaret magazine in Washington, D. C., from 1911 to 1926, with Shaemus O. Sheele, and Harold Hersey.

Awards

• 1939/1940 Shelley Memorial Award

Works

Poetry

• "A Wind from Spain". Contemporary Verse. 1918.
• "The Tide". The Midland. 1918.
• Hall bedroom. W. Drey. 1936.
• The long night. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie press. 1939.
• Last parade. Muscatine, Ia.: The Prairie Press. 1938.
• Noise in Time. Prairie City, Ill.: Decker Press. 1949.
• Hue and Cry; poems, 1941. Muscatine, Ia.: The Prairie Press. 1941.

Non-fiction

• Subject Index to Poetry, Chicago, ALA, 1940.

References

1. "The Minaret". The Buffalo News. 2 January 1926. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
2. "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918". Ancestry. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
3. "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942". Ancestry. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
4. Risjord, Norman K (2006-05-01). The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Wisconsin. ISBN 978-0-87351-553-5.
5. Henry Louis Mencken (1993). Jonathan Yardley (ed.). My life as author and editor. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-679-41315-8.
6. Bruno, Guido (1915). "Bruno's weekly". Guido Bruno: 516. Herbert Bruncken. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. Doyle, Charles (1997). Wallace Stevens. ISBN 978-0-415-15943-2.

• 1896 births
• American magazine publishers (people)