In 1927, he made his debut in poetry, writing for the Prahova-based modernist magazine "Câmpina", which was edited by poet Alexandru Tudor-Miu. The following year, he contributed to Sașa Pană's avant-garde magazine "unu" (also known as "Unu"), edited a short-lived Surrealist and anti-bourgeois magazine that drew inspiration from Urmuz (and was titled after that writer), and published in Tudor Arghezi's "Bilete de Papagal". Arghezi admired the younger writer, and he is credited with having suggested the name "Urmuz" for the magazine.