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February 1944

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

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Sherna Vinograd
Edouard Roditi
D. Savage
Kenneth Alling
Mary Barnard

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1944

Table of Contents

Five Poems

William Meredith

Saul Gottlieb
- Standards

On a Baroque Screen Four Poems from South America

Daniel Catton Rich

John Morton Poole
- Prothalamion

Two Poems

Israel Newman
- Strangers
- The Man with the Plough

William Michaux
- Lucretius

Three Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling

Two Poems

Irving Layton
- Drill Shed
- Newsboy

Don Gordon
- Hospital Room
Roy Fuller
- In Hospital

Two Poems

Ray Smith
- This Is the Country, Yes
- Listen, for I Have Kept a Fanatic Heart

Three Poems

Mary Barnard

Ian A. Gordon
- For Us No More in Epic Encounter

Three Poems

Jessica Nelson North

Edouard Roditi
- Public and Private Poetics
William Van O'Connor
- André Gide and the Poet in Wartime

Reviews

E. S. Forgotson
- Patchen's Progress
Francis Coleman Rosenberger
- On Canadian Poetry
Dudley Fitts
- Pressed Flower
Jeremy Ingalls
- The Geography of Peace

Contributors
- - William Meredith
  - Saul Gottlieb
  - Daniel Catton Rich
  - John Morton Poole
  - Israel Newman
  - William Michaux
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
- - Irving Layton
  - Don Gordon
  - Roy Fuller
  - Ray Smith
  - Mary Barnard
  - Ian A. Gordon
  - Jessica Nelson North
- - Edouard Roditi
  - William Van O'Connor
  - E. S. Forgotson
  - Francis Coleman Rosenberger
  - Dudley Fitts
  - Jeremy Ingalls