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Nothing But Itself Can Harm American Poetry; May Riley Smith Thinks Magazines Fail to Benefit It, Because They Do Not Demand a High Order of Verse
By Joyce Kilmer.
August 13, 1916, Sunday
Section: MAGAZINE SECTION, Page SM16, 2798 words
NOT long ago the Poetry Society of America awarded prizes of $125 each to the two poems which, by vote of the members, were selected as the best read at its meetings during the year. One of the prize-winning poems was "Debts," a brief lyric by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. The other was "The Child in Me" by May Riley Smith. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
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