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December 1941

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

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Allen Curnow
Archibald MacLeish
Edouard Roditi
George Abbe
Augustine Bowe

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1941

Table of Contents

The Lost People

Malcolm Cowley

Alfred Hayes
- Nebuchadnezzar
Gabriela Mistral
- God Wills It
Ashley Sampson
- Behold the Man

Fourteen Poems

Augustine Bowe

Marion Strobel
- In the Season of Good Will

Three Poems

George Abbe

Amelia Snyder McIntyre
- The Flowers of Orcus Remember Thee
Millen Brand
- Morning
John Robert Quinn
- Shoes
Clara Brussel
- The Book of Adelaide
Stanley Kunitz
- The Day Is a Poem

Reviews

Leo Shapiro
- Lew Sarett and Nature
Harvey Breit
- View of the World
Weldon Kees
- A Supplement from Cummings
Francis Coleman Rosenberger
- Two Midwesterners
Kathleen Foster Campbell
- Time and Low Tide

Contributors
- - Malcolm Cowley
  - Alfred Hayes
  - Gabriela Mistral
  - Ashley Sampson
  - Augustine Bowe
  - Marion Strobel
- - George Abbe
  - Amelia Snyder McIntyre
  - Millen Brand
  - John Robert Quinn
  - Clara Brussel
  - Stanley Kunitz
- - Leo Shapiro
  - Harvey Breit
  - Weldon Kees
  - Francis Coleman Rosenberger
  - Kathleen Foster Campbell