The first publication of any of Carl Sandburg’s poems, “Chicago Poems” from a man living in Chicago in a magazine based in Chicago, though with transatlantic renown. Sandburg won the Helen Haire Levinson Poetry Prize for these poems, which attracted the attention of publisher Alfred Harcourt (of Harcourt, Brace & Co.) who published Sandburg’s first collection by the same name in 1916. With a further contribution from EP, “Homage to Wilfred Blunt,” which tells of the awarding to Blunt (the same “To have, with decency, knocked | That a Blunt should open”) by a committee of poets a marble by Gaudier Brzeska.

We, who are little given to respect,
Respect you, and having no better way to show it,
Bring you this stone to be some record of it.