The Word was an individualist anarchist free love magazine founded in 1872.[1] The magazine was edited by Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood from 1872–1890, 1892–1893, issued first from Princeton and then from Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2] The Word was subtitled "A Monthly Journal of Reform," and it included contributions from Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker, and Joshua K. Ingalls. Initially, The Word presented free love as a minor theme which was expressed within a labor reform format. But the publication later evolved into an explicitly free love periodical.[2] At some point Tucker became an important contributor but later became dissatisfied with the journal's focus on free love since he desired a concentration on economics.[3] The magazine existed until 1893.[4]