With a view to encouraging the young who have a flair for writing English poetry but unable to find a platform to get exposures, it was decided to float an organization in the year 2000 and as a result of which YOUNG POETS CLUB OF INDIA was inaugurated in the BERTRUM HALL of LOYOLA COLLEGE, Chennai on 14th November 2000 with the following objectives:

To channelise the poetic talents of the youth of less than 25 years of age, spread throughout the length and breadth of India.

To provide a medium to make their talents known to the literary world.

To build up leadership with noble and sterling vision, character, social responsibility and sensitivity, humanism and love for nature through the medium of poetry.

To promote universal brotherhood, peace and harmony through poetry.

OUR ACTIVITIES Publication of quarterly poetic journal titled YOUNG POET and depending on the response, to be made a monthly journal –where the poems from the youth of less than 25 years of age alone will find a place.

Organise an annual Seminar for the members to have a free and frank interaction on all the matters of interest in the world of poetry.

Honouring the leading senior poets of India

Recognise the young poetic talents through Awards

Conducting periodic competitions in English poetry in which only the young poets can participate.

In pursuance of the objectives of the organisation YPCI, the journal is being published regularly under the Editorship of Mr. N V Subbaraman - a bilingual poet in English and Tamil and whose poems have been published in almost all the leading poetic journals in the country.

In the last six years and more, more than 200 young poets have contributed more than500 poems.