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And, not limited to his own school’s journal, his poems were published in a variety of other venues, even in Harriet Monroe’s prestigious Poetry magazine during the era when it was publishing the likes of Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W. Most notably, his work appeared in the earliest editions of Prairie Schooner, whose editorial staff he joined in 1927, the year after it began publication under the guidance of Lowry Wimberly. However in his early years as an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska Eiseley had the reputation as an important and promising poet, and he published poetry in a range of literary journals. Loren Eiseley’s literary reputation today rests almost exclusively on the significance of his nonfiction nature essays, which deservedly stand as influential exemplars of creative nonfiction science and nature writing. By Tom Lynch, Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln