Agnes Lee (Mrs. Otto Freer) who has lived much in Boston, but is now a
resident of Chicago, is known as the author of various books of poetry,
the most representative, perhaps, being _The Border of the Lake_,
published about two years ago by Sherman, French & Co. She has
translated Gautier's _Emaux et Camees_ into English poetry; and has
contributed to the magazines. Her long poem, _The Asphodel_, which
appeared in _The North American Review_ several years ago, attracted
wide attention.
Mr. Edmund Kemper Broadus is a member of the faculty of the University
of Alberta, Canada.
Miss Fannie Stearns Davis is a young American who has written many songs
and lyrics, a collection of which is to be published this spring. She
was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but now lives in the East.
Mrs. Meynell, who is the wife of Mr. Wilfrid Meynell, editor of one of
the leading English Catholic reviews, hardly needs an introduction in
America, where her exquisite art is well known. Her small volumes of
essays--_The Rhythm of Life_, _The Color of Life_, _The Children_, etc.,
and her _Poems_ are published by The John Lane Company.
Mr. Ridgely Torrence is the author of _El Dorado_, _A Tragedy_, _Abelard
and Eloise_, a poetic drama, and _Rituals for The Events of Life_. He
contributes infrequently to the magazines, several of his longer poems
having never been republished. He lives in New York.
Mr. Samuel McCoy was born, thirty-one years ago, at Burlington, Iowa. He
now lives at Indianapolis, and devotes himself wholly to literary work.
He was educated at Princeton, and from 1906 to 1908 was associate editor
of _The Reader_. A collection of Mr. McCoy's poems will be issued in
book form this year by the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Mr. Alfred Noyes, a young English poet, is a well known contributor to
English and American magazines, and has published many books of poetry.
_The Loom of Years_; _The Flower of Old Japan_; _Poems_; _The Forest
of Wild Thyme_; _Drake, English An Epic_; _Forty Singing Seamen_, and
_The Enchanted Island_ are among the titles of his published works; and
a new volume, _The Tales of the Mermaid Tavern_, is to be published this
spring by the Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Early numbers of Poetry will contain poems by John G. Neihardt, Ezra
Pound, Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Allen Upward, and
others.