By: Eric Temple Bell

“Am I a man, or less?”

By: Noëlle Roger

“Douceville in flames…”

By: Lillian B. Jones

“It seemed a week of horrors to our people throughout the land.”

By: HILOBROW

An interview with BEFORE SUPERMAN editor Josh Glenn

By: Claude McKay

“Life still lingers, questioningly strange, / Timid and quivering, naked and alone…”

By: Noëlle Roger

“You’re not yet familiar with this model of portable telephone…”

By: Leslie F. Stone

I refused to relinquish the controls.

By: Álvaro de Campos

“Something like people / Will continue to make things like poems…”

By: Ralph Milne Farley

Pink snow drifts in, / Dyed by the dying sun.

By: Lillian B. Jones

“I feel that my life has been utterly worthless.”

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

“Even the megascope is slave to Time.”

By: Noëlle Roger

“I have discovered a new substance, hyperuranium, number 93 in the periodic table.”

By: Elinor Wylie

“My soul, be not disturbed / By planetary war…”

By: Robert Gilbert Wells

I brought him back to life again.

By: Claude McKay

“Mine is the future grinding down to-day…”