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January 1940

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

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Wendell Wilcox
Kimon Friar
Petr Bezruc
Amy Bonner
Merrill Christopherson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1940

Table of Contents

David Wolff
- The City

Three Modern Czech Poems

Petr Bezruc
- Ostrava
Jiri Wolker
- The Face at the Window
Laco Novomesky
- Danse Macabre

Two Poems

Carleton Drewry
- Castle of the Child
- Fields of Fear

Jessie Wilmore Murton
- Street Lights at Dusk
Edmund Wilson Jr.
- Three Women
Daniel Catton Rich
- The Fabric of This Dream

Two Poems

Amy Bonner
- Prelude to Sleep
- Man Subdues the Elements

Roberta M. Grahame
- Watch Night
Warren Ramsey
- Poem
Merrill Christopherson
- Three Waves

Two Poems

J. Calder Joseph
- Subject Matter
- A Path Alone

Frederic Prokosch
- Four Poems

F. C. Weiskopf
- The Spirit of Czech Poetry

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
- Outline of a Poetics: Part II

Reviews

Harry Roskolenko
- Bitter, Lonely, American
T. C. Wilson
- From This Life
James Daly
- The Intonation of a Mind
Margaret Walker
- Concise Lyrics
Marion Strobel
- Old Possum and Others

Contributors
- - David Wolff
  - Petr Bezruc
  - Jiri Wolker
  - Laco Novomesky
  - Carleton Drewry
  - Jessie Wilmore Murton
  - Edmund Wilson Jr.
- - Daniel Catton Rich
  - Amy Bonner
  - Roberta M. Grahame
  - Warren Ramsey
  - Merrill Christopherson
  - J. Calder Joseph
  - Frederic Prokosch
- - F. C. Weiskopf
  - Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - T. C. Wilson
  - James Daly
  - Margaret Walker
  - Marion Strobel