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August 1944

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

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Joseph Axelrod
Marian Castleman
Babette Deutsch
Don Gordon
Rolfe Humphries

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1944

Table of Contents

Five Poems

P. K. Page
- Vacationists
- The Sick
- The Dreamer
- Quarrel
- Element

Two Poems

Eve Merriam
- For a Soldier's Birthday
- The Dusty Young Men

Six Poems

Ray Smith

Don Gordon
- The Beachhead
Rolfe Humphries
- Coming Home

Two Poems

Byron Vazakas
- Skyscraper
- The Hotel in the Glen

Robert A. Johnston
- Stop And

The Faraway Island

Babette Deutsch

Selwyn S. Schwartz
- Mother Earth

Five Poems

Randall Jarrell

Milton A. Kaplan
- Radio and Poetry
D. S. Savage
- Criticism and Orthodoxy

Reviews

E. S. Forgotson
- Anger and the Fullness of Reality
Ruth Dart Stephan
- Bartenders, Blondes, Salesmen, Etc.

Contributors
- - P. K. Page
  - Eve Merriam
  - Ray Smith
  - Don Gordon
  - Rolfe Humphries
- - Byron Vazakas
  - Robert A. Johnston
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Selwyn S. Schwartz
  - Randall Jarrell
- - Milton A. Kaplan
  - D. S. Savage
  - E. S. Forgotson
  - Ruth Dart Stephan