Edited by Harriet Monroe, 543 Cass St., Chicago, Ill.
POETRY, at the end of its first year, is no longer an experiment
but an assured artistic success, a publication whose importance
is authoritatively recognized, not only in this country, but in
Great Britain and France as well. The field it has opened up is
full of brilliant possibilities, encouraging the editors to hope
for the enthusiastic support of a discriminating public.
POETRY endeavors to present the best verse now being written in
English, quality alone being the test of acceptance.
POETRY is an effort to create an organ for the art. While the
ordinary magazines must minister to a large public little
interested in poetry, this magazine appeals to and will develop a
public primarily interested in poetry as an art, potentially the
highest, most complete human expression of truth and beauty. Thus
it offers to poets a chance to be heard by their own audience, in
their own place, without the limitations imposed by the popular
magazines. And to lovers of poetry it offers each month a sheaf
of new verse in delicate form uninterrupted by prose articles
demanding a different mood.