In order that the experiment of a magazine of verse may have a fair
trial, over one hundred subscriptions of fifty dollars annually for five
years have been promised by the ladies and gentlemen listed below. In
addition, nearly twenty direct contributions of smaller sums have been
sent or promised. To all these lovers of the art the editors would
express their grateful appreciation.
Mr. H. C. Chatfield-Taylor
Mr. Howard Shaw
Mr. Arthur T. Aldis
Mr. Edwin S. Fechheimer
Mrs. Charles H. Hamill
[B]Mr. D. H. Burnham
Mrs. Emmons Blaine (2)
Mr. Wm. S. Monroe
Mr. E. A. Bancroft
Mrs. Burton Hanson
Mr. John M. Ewen
Mr. C. L. Hutchinson
Mrs. Wm. Vaughan Moody
Hon. Wm. J. Calhoun
{Miss Anna Morgan
{Mrs. Edward A. Leicht
Mrs. Louis Betts
Mr. Ralph Cudney
Mrs. George Bullen
Mrs. P. A. Valentine
Mr. P. A. Valentine
Mr. Charles R. Crane
Mr. Frederick Sargent
Mrs. Frank G. Logan
Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus
Mrs. Emma B. Hodge
Mr. Wallace Heckman
Mr. Edward B. Butler (2)
Miss Elizabeth Ross
Mrs. Bryan Lathrop
Mr. Martin A. Ryerson
Mrs. La Verne Noyes
Mrs. E. Norman Scott (2)
Mr. Wm. O. Goodman
Mrs. Charles Hitchcock
Hon. John Barton Payne
Mr. Thomas D. Jones
Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat
Mr. Andrew M. Lawrence
Miss Juliet Goodrich
Mr. Henry H. Walker
Mr. Charles Deering
Mr. Jas. Harvey Peirce
Mr. Charles L. Freer
Mrs. W. F. Dummer
Mr. Jas. P. Whedon
Mr. Arthur Heun
Mr. Edward F. Carry
Mrs. George M. Pullman
Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick (2)
Mr. F. Stuyvesant Peabody
Mrs. F. S. Winston
Mr. J. J. Glessner
{Mr. C. C. Curtiss
{Mrs. Hermon B. Butler
Mr. Will H. Lyford
Mr. Horace S. Oakley
Mr. Eames Mac Veagh
Mrs. K. M. H. Besly
Mr. Charles G. Dawes
Mr. Clarence Buckingham
Mrs. Potter Palmer
Mr. Owen F. Aldis
Mr. Albert B. Dick
Mr. Albert H. Loeb
The Misses Skinner
Mr. Potter Palmer
Miss Mary Rozet Smith
Misses Alice E. and Margaret D. Moran
{Mrs. James B. Waller
{Mr. John Borden
Mr. Victor F. Lawson
{Mrs. H. M. Wilmarth
{Mrs. Norman F. Thompson
{Mrs. William Blair
{Mrs. Clarence I. Peck
Mr. Clarence M. Woolley
Mr. Edward P. Russell
Mrs. Frank O. Lowden
Mr. John S. Miller
Miss Helen Louise Birch
Nine members of the Fortnightly
Six members of the Friday Club
Seven members of the Chicago Woman's Club
Mr. William L. Brown
Mr. Rufus G. Dawes
Mr. Gilbert E. Porter
Mr. Alfred L. Baker
Mr. George A. McKinlock
Mr. John S. Field
Mrs. Samuel Insull
Mr. William T. Fenton
Mr. A. G. Becker
Mr. Honoré Palmer
Mr. John J. Mitchell
Mrs. F. A. Hardy
Mr. Morton D. Hull
Mr. E. F. Ripley
Mr. Ernest MacDonald Bowman
Mr. John A. Kruse
Mr. Frederic C. Bartlett
Mr. Franklin H. Head
Mrs. Wm. R. Linn
[Footnote B: _Deceased._]
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Through the generosity of five gentlemen, _Poetry_ will give two hundred
and fifty dollars in one or two prizes for the best poem or poems
printed in its pages the first year. In addition a subscriber to the
fund offers twenty-five dollars for the best epigram.
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Mr. Maurice Browne, director of the Chicago Little Theatre, offers to
produce, during the season of 1913-14, the best play in verse published
in, or submitted to, _Poetry_ during its first year; provided that it
may be adequately presented under the requirements and limitations of
his stage.
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We are fortunate in being able, through the courtesy of the
Houghton-Mifflin Co., to offer our readers a poem, hitherto unprinted,
from advance sheets of the complete works of the late William Vaughan
Moody, which will be published in November. The lamentable death of
this poet two years ago in the early prime of his great powers was a
calamity to literature. It is fitting that the first number of a
magazine published in the city where for years he wrote and taught,
should contain an important poem from his hand.
Mr. Ezra Pound, the young Philadelphia poet whose recent distinguished
success in London led to wide recognition in his own country, authorizes
the statement that at present such of his poetic work as receives
magazine publication in America will appear exclusively in _Poetry_.
That discriminating London publisher, Mr. Elkin Mathews, "discovered"
this young poet from over seas, and published "Personae," "Exultations"
and "Canzoniere," three small volumes of verse from which a selection
has been reprinted by the Houghton-Mifflin Co. under the title
"Provença." Mr. Pound's latest work is a translation from the Italian of
"Sonnets and Ballate," by Guido Cavalcanti.
Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke, another contributor, is a graduate of Harvard,
who studied law and entered his father's office in Davenport, Iowa. He
is the author of "The Happy Princess" and "The Breaking of Bonds," and a
contributor to leading magazines. An early number of _Poetry_ will be
devoted exclusively to Mr. Ficke's work.
Mrs. Roscoe P. Conkling is a resident of the state of New York; a young
poet who has contributed to various magazines.
Miss Lorimer is a young English poet resident in Oxford, who will
publish her first volume this autumn. The London _Poetry Review_, in its
August number, introduced her with a group of lyrics which were
criticized with some asperity in the _New Age_ and praised with equal
warmth in other periodicals.
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Miss Dudley, who is a Chicagoan born and bred, is still younger in the
art, "To One Unknown" being the first of her poems to be printed.
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_Poetry_ will acknowledge the receipt of books of verse and works
relating to the subject, and will print brief reviews of those which
seem for any reason significant. It will endeavor also to keep its
readers informed of the progress of the art throughout the
English-speaking world and continental Europe. The American metropolitan
newspaper prints cable dispatches about post-impressionists, futurists,
secessionists and other radicals in painting, sculpture and music, but
so far as its editors and readers are concerned, French poetry might
have died with Victor Hugo, and English with Tennyson, or at most
Swinburne.
NOTE.--Eight months after the first general
newspaper announcement of our efforts to secure a
fund for a magazine of verse, and three or four
months after our first use of the title _Poetry_,
a Boston firm of publishers announced a
forthcoming periodical of the same kind, to be
issued under the same name. The two are not to be
confused.
THE RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR COMPANY
PRINTERS CHICAGO
Poetry VOL. I
A Magazine of Verse NO. 2