Boar's Head Society
The Boar's Head Society (1910 – 1970s) was a student conversazione society devoted to poetry at Columbia University. It was an "adjunct to Columbia College's Philolexian Society... The purpose of their new society was entirely creative: reading and commenting on each other's works."
| Formation | 1910 |
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| Founder | John Erskine |
| Founded at | Columbia University |
| Dissolved | 1970s |
| Type | Student |
| Purpose | Poetry |
| Headquarters | Columbia University |
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Key people | Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Burke, Alfred A. Knopf Sr., Randolph Bourne, Irwin Edman, Whittaker Chambers, Louis Zukofsky, Lionel Trilling, John Berryman, Daniel Hoffman, John Hollander, Allen Ginsberg, Terrence McNally |
| Affiliations | Columbia Review |
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