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. Thomas D. Jones
Mr. Howard Shaw	Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat
Mr. Arthur T. Aldis	Mr. Andrew M. Lawrence
Mr. Edwin S. Fechheimer	Miss Juliet Goodrich
Mrs. Charles H. Hamill	Mr. Henry H. Walker
Mr. D. H. Burnham	Mr. Charles Deering
Mrs. Emmons Blaine	Mr. Jas. Harvey Peirce
Mr. Wm. S. Monroe	Mr. Charles L. Freer
Mr. E. A. Bancroft	Mrs. W. F. Dummer
Mrs. Burton Hanson	Mr. Jas. P. Whedon
Mr. John M. Ewen	Mr. Arthur Heun
Mr. C. L. Hutchinson	Mr. Edward F. Carry
Mrs. Wm. Vaughan Moody	Mrs. George M. Pullman
Hon. Wm. J. Calhoun	Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick
Miss Anna Morgan	Mr. F. Stuyvesant Peabody
Mrs. Edward A. Leicht	Mrs. F. S. Winston
Mrs. Louis Betts	Mr. J. J. Glessner
Mr. Ralph Cudney	Mr. C. C. Curtiss
Mrs. George Bullen	Mrs. Hermon B. Butler
Mrs. P. A. Valentine	Mr. Will H. Lyford
Mr. P. A. Valentine	Mr. Horace S. Oakley
Mr. Charles R. Crane	Mr. Eames Mac Veagh
Mr. Frederick Sargent	Mrs. K. M. H. Besley
Mrs. Frank G. Logan	Mr. Charles G. Dawes
Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus	Mr. Clarence Buckingham
Mrs. Emma B. Hodge	Mrs. Potter Palmer
Mr. Wallace Heckman	Mr. Owen F. Aldis
Mr. Edward B. Butler	Mr. Albert B. Dick
Miss Elizabeth Ross	Mr. Albert H. Loeb
Mrs. Bryan Lathrop	The Misses Skinner
Mr. Martin A. Ryerson	Mr. Potter Palmer
Mrs. La Verne Noyes	Miss Mary Rozet Smith
Mrs. E. Norman Scott	Misses Alice E. and Margaret D.
Mr. Wm. O. Goodman	Moran
Mrs. Charles Hitchcock	Mr. James B. Waller
Hon. John Barton Payne	Mr. John Borden
Mr. Victor F. Lawson	Mr. Alfred L. Baker
Mrs. H. M. Wilmarth	Mr. George A. McKinlock
Mrs. Norman F. Thompson	Mr. John S. Field
Mrs. William Blair	Mrs. Samuel Insull
Mrs. Clarence I. Peck	Mr. William T. Fenton
Mr. Clarence M. Woolley	Mr. A. G. Becker
Mr. Edward P. Russell	Mr. Honoré Palmer
Mrs. Frank O. Lowden	Mr. John J. Mitchell
Mr. John S. Miller	Mrs. F. A. Hardy
Miss Helen Louise Birch	Mr. Morton D. Hull
Nine members of the Fortnightly	Mr. E. F. Ripley
Six members of the Friday Club	Mr. Ernest MacDonald Bowman
Seven members of the Chicago	Mr. John A. Kruse
Woman's Club	Mr. Frederic C. Bartlett
Mr. William L. Brown	Mr. Franklin H. Head
Mr. Rufus G. Dawes	Mrs. Wm. R. Linn
Mr. Gilbert E. Porter

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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 Bailate," 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.

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.

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To have great poets there must be great audiences, too.
—Whitman.

HELP us to give the art of poetry an organ in America. Help us to give the poets a chance to be heard in their own place, to offer us their best and most serious work instead of page-end poems squeezed in between miscellaneous articles and stories.

If you love good poetry, subscribe.

If you believe that this art, like painting, sculpture, music and architecture, requires and deserves public recognition and support, subscribe.

If you believe with Whitman that "the topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry," subscribe.

EDITOR
Harriet Monroe

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Henry B. Fuller
Edith Wyatt
H. C. Chatfield-Taylor

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
William T. Abbott
Charles H. Hatnill