We believe that there is a public for poetry, that it will grow, and that as it becomes more numerous and appreciative the work produced in this art will grow in power, in beauty, in significance. In this belief we have been encouraged by the generous enthusiasm of many subscribers to our fund, by the sympathy of other lovers of the art, and by the quick response of many prominent poets, both American and English, who have sent or promised contributions.
We hope to publish in Poetry some of the best work now being done in English verse. Within space limitations set at present by the small size of our monthly sheaf, we shall be able to print poems longer, and of more intimate and serious character, than the popular magazines can afford to use. The test, limited by ever-fallible human judgment, is to be quality alone; all forms, whether narrative, dramatic or lyric, will be acceptable. We hope to offer our subscribers a place of refuge, a green isle in the sea, where Beauty may plant her gardens, and Truth, austere revealer of joy and sorrow, of hidden delights and despairs, may follow her brave quest unafraid.
NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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 |
| Mr. D. H. Burnham [B] | Mr. Henry H. Walker |
| Mrs. Emmons Blaine (2) | Mr. Charles Deering |
| Mr. Wm. S. Monroe | Mr. Jas. Harvey Peirce |
| Mr. E. A. Bancroft | Mr. Charles L. Freer |
| Mrs. Burton Hanson | Mrs. W. F. Dummer |
| Mr. John M. Ewen | Mr. Jas. P. Whedon |
| Mr. C. L. Hutchinson | Mr. Arthur Heun |
| Mrs. Wm. Vaughan Moody | Mr. Edward F. Carry |
| Hon. Wm. J. Calhoun | Mrs. George M. Pullman |
| ⌈ Miss Anna Morgan | Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick (2) |
| ⌊ Mrs. Edward A. Leicht | Mr. F. Stuyvesant Peabody |
| Mrs. Louis Betts | Mrs. F. S. Winston |
| Mr. Ralph Cudney | Mr. J. J. Glessner |
| Mrs. George Bullen | ⌈ Mr. C. C. Curtiss |
| Mrs. P. A. Valentine | ⌊ Mrs. Hermon B. Butler |
| Mr. P. A. Valentine | Mr. Will H. Lyford |
| Mr. Charles R. Crane | Mr. Horace S. Oakley |
| Mr. Frederick Sargent | Mr. Eames Mac Veagh |
| Mrs. Frank G. Logan | Mrs. K. M. H. Besly |
| Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus | Mr. Charles G. Dawes |
| Mrs. Emma B. Hodge | Mr. Clarence Buckingham |
| Mr. Wallace Heckman | Mrs. Potter Palmer |
| Mr. Edward B. Butler (2) | Mr. Owen F. Aldis |
| Miss Elizabeth Ross | Mr. Albert B. Dick |
| Mrs. Bryan Lathrop | Mr. Albert H. Loeb |
| Mr. Martin A. Ryerson | The Misses Skinner |
| Mrs. La Verne Noyes | Mr. Potter Palmer |
| Mrs. E. Norman Scott (2) | Miss Mary Rozet Smith |
| Mr. Wm. O. Goodman | Misses Alice E. and Margaret D. Moran |
| Mrs. Charles Hitchcock | ⌈ Mrs. 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 Woman's Club | Mr. John A. Kruse |
| Mr. William L. Brown | Mr. Frederic C. Bartlett |
| Mr. Rufus G. Dawes | Mr. Franklin H. Head |
| Mr. Gilbert E. Porter | Mrs. Wm. R. Linn |
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.