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February 1940

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

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Charles Towne
William Everson
Julian Symons
Maude Smith
Maxwell Bodenheim

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1940

Table of Contents

Gertrude Stein
- Stanzas in Meditation

Two Poems

John Vincent Healy
- Murray Bay
- Faces Seen in Dreams

Herman Spector
- Sunday on Third Avenue
Irene Wilde
- The Magic Flute

Two Poems

Elizabeth Randall-Mills
- Host to the Great
- The Day

David Morton
- As It Was in the Beginning
Robert Clark Hollingsworth
- A Man of the Road
William Herber
- The Sign
Maxwell Bodenheim
- Sonnet

Two Poems

Kathleen Foster Campbell
- Not Fragments
- Wake

Mabel Simpson
- Only Death
John Gould Fletcher
- The Ozarks

Five Poems

Terence Heywood

Wendell Wilcox
- A Note on Stein and Abstraction
Charles Hanson Towne
- Poetry in the Making

Reviews

Morgan Blum
- No Shallow Stream
Jessica Nelson North
- Revivifying the Familiar
Joseph M. Hone
- Young Ireland
Alfred Kreymborg
- Business and Poetry

Contributors
- - Gertrude Stein
  - John Vincent Healy
  - Herman Spector
  - Irene Wilde
  - Elizabeth Randall-Mills
  - David Morton
  - Robert Clark Hollingsworth
- - William Herber
  - Maxwell Bodenheim
  - Kathleen Foster Campbell
  - Mabel Simpson
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Terence Heywood
  - Wendell Wilcox
- - Charles Hanson Towne
  - Morgan Blum
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Joseph M. Hone
  - Alfred Kreymborg