The first issue of Poetry magazine was published in 1912 and featured poems by Ezra Pound, Helen Dudley, William Vaughn Moody, Arthur Davison Ficke, Grace Hazard Conkling, and Emilia Stuart Lorimer. It also featured an essay by Edith Franklin Wyatt and an editorial comment by the magazine’s founder, Harriet Monroe. Her comment, titled “The Motive of the Magazine,” makes a plea for “an entrenched place, a voice of power” for the arts and its patrons and emphasizes the need for every interest to have its own voice.
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