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February 1941

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

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Thornton Wilder
E. Brown
Elizabeth Bohm
John Brinnin
Edwin Burrows

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Feb 1941

Table of Contents

Two Poems

Robert Penn Warren
- Terror
- Question and Answer

Two Poems

Theodore Roethke
- Sale
- Second Shadow

Three Poems

Edward A. Richards

Babette Deutsch
- Memory

Two Poems

Virginia Lyne Tunstall
- Traveler Forget
- Alien

Florence Ripley Mastin
- Now I Have Died
Denis Devlin
- Farewell and Good
Harry Roskolenko
- Refugees

Four Poems

Elizabeth Bohm

Dorothy Dow
- O Loveliest Voice
Edwin Gladding Burrows
- Murder for Tea
Susan Clay Sawitzky
- Mariner
Ewart Milne
- Sierran Aftermath

From "The Lincoln Lyrics"

John Malcolm Brinnin

Reviews

Henry W. Rago
- Religion and Sensibility
Ruth Lechlitner
- The Theme of Disintegration
Kathleen Foster Campbell
- Two Islands
Robert Liddell Lowe
- George Abbe's Poems
Babette Deutsch
- The Value of Failure
Thornton Wilder
- Poetry on Records

Contributors
- - Robert Penn Warren
  - Theodore Roethke
  - Edward A. Richards
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Virginia Lyne Tunstall
  - Florence Ripley Mastin
  - Denis Devlin
- - Harry Roskolenko
  - Elizabeth Bohm
  - Dorothy Dow
  - Edwin Gladding Burrows
  - Susan Clay Sawitzky
  - Ewart Milne
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
- - Henry W. Rago
  - Ruth Lechlitner
  - Kathleen Foster Campbell
  - Robert Liddell Lowe
  - Thornton Wilder