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April 1936

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Horace Gregory
William Phillips
Peggy Church
Robert Frost
Raymond Holden

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1936

Table of Contents

Robert Frost
- At Woodward's Gardens

Ten Mills

Robert Frost

The Unceasing Fountain

Peggy Pond Church

Lilian White Spencer
- Hemisphere Peaks
Frederic Prokosch
- The Gothic Dusk

Two Tongues

J. E. Scruggs
- My Bohemia
- Blotted Out

Margery Swett Mansfield
- Farewell to a Winged Horse
Roberta Teale Swartz
- Unripe Falling

Poems after the Fact

Naomi Katz

Ted Olson
- Dirge for a Dark Age
Raymond Holden
- Matter in Agony
- Rockefeller Plaza Night

Fated Steps

Robert B. Read

Frances Dickenson Pinder
- Inland from Jupiter
Harriet Monroe
- Kipling as a Poet

Reviews

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Problems of Knowledge
John Wheelwright
- Where the Road Divides
Louise Bogan
- Poetry's Genuine Fare
Horace Gregory
- The Poetry of Wit

Two Brief Notices

Howard Nutt
- Sea Pieces and Other Poems, by Forrest Anderson
- The Crag, by Carla Lanyon Lanyon

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Recent Magazines

Contributors
- - Robert Frost
  - Peggy Pond Church
  - Lilian White Spencer
  - Frederic Prokosch
  - J. E. Scruggs
  - Margery Swett Mansfield
- - Roberta Teale Swartz
  - Naomi Katz
  - Ted Olson
  - Raymond Holden
  - Robert B. Read
  - Frances Dickenson Pinder
- - Harriet Monroe
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - John Wheelwright
  - Louise Bogan
  - Horace Gregory
  - Howard Nutt