Thanks for your interest in Measure, a journal dedicated to publishing the best metrical, English-language verse from both the United States and abroad. Measure was begun in spring 2005 by Paul Bone and Robert Griffith in response to the demise of The Formalist, a journal which helped renew and sustain interest in formal poetry.

Measure, as an biannual journal, has a mission not only to publish the best new poetry from both established and emerging writers, but also to reprint a small sampling of poems from the best books of metrical poetry published the previous year. Likewise, each issue will include interviews with some of our most important contemporary poets and also offer short critical essays on the poetry that has helped to shape the craft.

Funding for Measure was provided by generous grants from the University of Evansville and from the Ball Brothers Foundation of Muncie, for the Venture Fund, a program administered by the Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) for the benefit of Indiana’s independent colleges and universities. ICI is a nonprofit association representing Indiana’s 31 nonprofit, accredited, undergraduate degree-granting institutions of higher education. On behalf of its member colleges and universities, ICI engages in public policy advocacy, corporate and foundation fundraising, public information and research, administration of the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Community Scholars Program, and development of collaborative services.

Sincerely,
The Editors