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August 1936

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

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Harriet Monroe
Morton Zabel
Katherine Bregy
Catherine Coblentz
Kile Crook

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1936

Table of Contents

The Cock of Heaven

Elder James Olson

Household Lyrics 1934

Harold Rosenberg

Marie Luhrs
- New Grief

Three Poems

Frances M. Frost

Kile Crook
- The Safe Spartans

Three Sonnets

Richard Leon Spain

Stricken

Mabel Kingsley Richardson
- Telegram
- Hunter

William Fitzgerald
- The Harridan at Heart
Katherine Bregy
- A Rouge Box
Catherine Cate Coblentz
- Triumph

I Observe

Albert Edmund Trombly

The Whole Course

Howard Nutt

North Falconer
- Gold of Evening

Summary in August

Josephine Johnson

Harriet Monroe
- Both Slave and Free
Ezra Pound
- Lucrum Tuum Damnum Publicum Est

Reviews

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- The American Grain
Kenneth Burke
- Deft Plaintiveness
Hildegarde Flanner
- American Eccentrics
Winfield Townley Scott
- Tradition Has Few Heirs
S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- A.E.'s Golden Age
Stanley Kunitz
- Half a Ghost
Harriet Monroe
- A New Negro Poet

Contributors
- - Elder James Olson
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - Marie Luhrs
  - Frances M. Frost
  - Kile Crook
  - Richard Leon Spain
  - Mabel Kingsley Richardson
  - William Fitzgerald
- - Katherine Bregy
  - Catherine Cate Coblentz
  - Albert Edmund Trombly
  - Howard Nutt
  - North Falconer
  - Josephine Johnson
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Ezra Pound
- - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Kenneth Burke
  - Hildegarde Flanner
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  - Stanley Kunitz