Founded by Ann Fox Wolfe, Nancy Ford, and Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald, who served as its Director, the League to Support Poetry (1936-1949) began as "a plan for organizing clubs and classes interested in poetry into a permanent unit" in the hopes of fostering a "direct contact between the poet and his potential readers." The League invited pre-existing literary clubs, poetry societies, college English classes as well as individuals to subscribe with the stipulation that every group would buy one copy of each book published, with the proceeds going towards paying author royalties. Those who subscribed received The Poetry Bulletin (1937-1946), a mimeographed newsletter appearing from November 1937 to Spring-Summer 1946. To assess the poetry manuscripts submitted for publication, an initial list of judges was assembled including such critics as Witter Bynner, John Gould Fletcher, and F. O. Matthiessen. In 1938-1939 the League published an "experimental series" of seven mimeographed booklets, from which members selected Kenneth Spade Alling's Core of Fire for publication as the first major book in 1940. The mimeographed anthology Gleanings was distributed shortly thereafter, and included works by authors not selected for the experimental series. Subsequent contest winners were Ted Olson's Hawk's Way (1941), Starr Nelson's Heavenly Body (1942), Richard Leon Spain's Rock and Cumulus (1942), Gerard Previn Meyer's Louder Than the Drum (1943), Carolyn Wilson Link's There Is Still Time (1944), Alice Monks Mears's Brief Enterprise (1945), Eve Triem's Parade of Doves (1946), Howard Griffin's Cry Cadence (1947), and Henry McLaughlin's Where the Moment Was (1948). In 1946-1957 the League sponsored a series of poetry broadcasts on WNYC. By 1943 the organization changed to an annual dues system, for which members received both the newsletter and that year's featured publication, and in 1946 The Poetry Bulletin was replaced by the The New Quarterly Review of Poetry. Due to a lack of finances this new magazine came to an end in 1948, followed by the League itself a year later.