 A pacifist quarterly, "The Phoenix" was noteworthy for the willingness of its editors to publish material that the mainstream media would consider countercultural, radical, and revolutionary.The writing of Henry Miller, which could find no outlet elsewhere in the United States at the time, was featured in all of the initial issues, as were excerpts from the diaries of Anaïs Nin.The works of writers such as Hervey White, Kay Boyle and Jean Giono were printed in their entirety, as well as the poetry of Robert Duncan, Rayner Heppenstall, Derek Savage, Thomas McGrath, J. C. Crews and William Everson (Brother Antonius).