The award of the Helen Haire Levinson Prize of two hundred dollars will be announced in our November number. This prize was offered by Mr. S. O. Levinson, of Chicago, for the best poem or group of poems, by an American poet, printed by Poetry during its third year—October, 1914, to September, 1915.
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Of the poets represented in this number, all but three are familiar to our readers. Mr. Carl Sandburg, of Chicago, had the honor, a year ago, of initiating the Helen Haire Levinson prize, which was awarded to his Chicago Poems, printed in Poetry for March, 1914. He is one of the editors of The Day-book, and has not yet published a volume.
Sara Teasdale, of St. Louis, (now Mrs. Ernst Filsinger), will soon publish through the Macmillan Company a new book of poems, Rivers to the Sea. Mr. Lee Wilson Dodd, of New Haven, and Mr. Richard Aldington, of London, will also publish new books of verse this fall, the former through the Yale University Press, and the latter through the Houghton-Mifflin Company. Mr. T. S. Eliot, born in St. Louis and recently a student of philosophy at Oxford, was introduced by Poetry last June, and has not yet published a volume.
Of the contributors new to our readers, Mr. Wilton Agnew Barrett is a young poet of New York City, and Mr. Charles Hamilton Musgrove, of Louisville, Ky. Florence Randal Livesay (Mrs. J. F. B. Livesay), of Winnipeg, has written chiefly for Canadian magazines and newspapers.
Mrs. Livesay's interest in Ukranian, or Ruthenian, folk-song, began through contact with immigrants of that race. The Ukraine, lying between the Carpathians and the Caucasus, is partly in Russia and partly in Galicia and Hungary. For centuries it was an independent kingdom, and the people are almost
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