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December 1938

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

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Witter Bynner
Babette Deutsch
Joe Horrell
Agnes Lee
Janet Lewis

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1938

Table of Contents

Babette Deutsch
- The Remnant
Janet Loxley Lewis
- A Lullaby

Four Poems

John Nerber

Oscar Williams
- Song for December 24th
Witter Bynner
- Change

Three Poems

Agnes Lee

John Robert Quinn
- Abundance

New Section

Mary J. J. Wrinn
- Grecian Lamp Unearthed near Sparta
- Omen

Two Poems

Edward A. Richards
- Burning
- The Birds

Joe Horrell
- For the Romanticists
Alice Bidwell Wesenberg
- Death's Time

Seven Poems

Theodore Roethke

John Peale Bishop
- The Poetry of John Masefield

Reviews

Kerker Quinn
- Portrait in Letters
Reuel Denney
- Private Meanings
Jessica Nelson North
- A Human Version

Correspondence

Kimball Flaccus
- Selden Rodman's Anthology

Contributors
- - Babette Deutsch
  - Janet Loxley Lewis
  - John Nerber
  - Oscar Williams
  - Witter Bynner
  - Agnes Lee
- - John Robert Quinn
  - Mary J. J. Wrinn
  - Edward A. Richards
  - Joe Horrell
  - Alice Bidwell Wesenberg
  - Theodore Roethke
- - John Peale Bishop
  - Kerker Quinn
  - Reuel Denney
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Kimball Flaccus