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April 1937

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

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William Empson
Geoffrey Grigson
Kenneth Alling
Sherman Conrad
Federico García Lorca

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Table of Contents

Here Is the Street

David Schubert

Songs

Federico García Lorca
- Rider's Song
- Little Ballad of Three Rivers

Six Poems

Emma Swan

Donagh Macdonagh
- Six Men and Their Dog
Clara Shanafelt
- Lament

Notes of a Naturalist

Reitza Dine Wirtshafter

Sherman Conrad
- Epistemology

Two Poems

Leila Jones
- Alembic
- The Shadow

Hallock Marsh
- Song of Ah Hing
Katharine Garvin
- New York
Kenneth Slade Alling
- Within Be Fed
Florence Ripley Mastin
- Interior

The Hunted Voice

Elda Tanasso

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Volume Fifty
Louise Bogan
- Rilke in His Age

Reviews

Stanley Kunitz
- A Poet's Duty
Robert Fitzgerald
- American Pastorals
R. P. Blackmur
- The Whole Poet
Philip Blair Rice
- The Critic as Prophet
Elder James Olson
- A Defense of Poetry
Lionel Wiggam
- Iowa Exteriors

Contributors
- - David Schubert
  - Federico García Lorca
  - Emma Swan
  - Donagh Macdonagh
  - Clara Shanafelt
  - Reitza Dine Wirtshafter
  - Sherman Conrad
- - Leila Jones
  - Hallock Marsh
  - Katharine Garvin
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Florence Ripley Mastin
  - Elda Tanasso
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
- - Louise Bogan
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Robert Fitzgerald
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Philip Blair Rice
  - Elder James Olson
  - Lionel Wiggam