This article deals with publications in the magazine “New Youth” under the heading “Poetry”, which existed from 1915 to 1923. “New Youth” was one of the most important journals in China in the first decades of the 20th century. “New Youth” was the first magazine that published the most important journalistic articles and works of fiction that shaped new Chinese culture and literature after the “May 4th movement”. This article focuses on the poems that were first published in “New Youth” magazine. The substantive and formal features of the literary works are examined not only within the framework of the magazine’s policy in general, but also in the context of the ideas of the “Poetry” column authors as to what the shape of new poetry should be. Creative experiments on the pages of “New Youth” led to the emergence of new poetic genres (vers libre, prose poetry) and the rapid evolution of the themes of new poetry.