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January 1944

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

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Edouard Roditi
Florence Brownell
Edward Fenton
John Hall
Ruth Lechlitner

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1944

Table of Contents

Muriel Rukeyser
- The Children's Elegy
Preston Newman
- Galileo Goes to War
Harvey Curtis Webster
- Trainee

Two Poems

Oscar Williams
- The Red Sea Crossing
- On Rising in the Morning

Edward Fenton
- Parley in Algiers
Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
- Scene from a Common Tragedy, Unnamed
Ruth Lechlitner
- Elegy
Florence Kerr Brownell
- Soft Rain

Two Poems

Eve Triem
- Concert, in Wartime
- Magic in the House

Two Poems

John Hall
- Candlemas
- Earthbound

Two Poems

Irving Wexler
- Love Song: Carthage Beach
- Surgery: At Sea

Jerome H. Weisser
- At the Window
Jay West
- Litter
Gabriela Mistral
- Woman: The Mad One
William Carlos Williams
- Burning the Christmas Greens
Josephine Miles
- The Pathetic Fallacy and the Thing in Itself
Richard Crowder
- Mr. MacNeice and Miss Sitwell

Reviews

Marian Castleman
- Tenor of a Decade
Milton Hindus
- Soft and Loud
Lloyd Frankenberg
- The Short and the Long of It
Julia Le Cour Bowe
- A Latin American Anthology

Contributors
- - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Preston Newman
  - Harvey Curtis Webster
  - Oscar Williams
  - Edward Fenton
  - Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
  - Ruth Lechlitner
- - Florence Kerr Brownell
  - Eve Triem
  - John Hall
  - Irving Wexler
  - Jerome H. Weisser
  - Jay West
  - Gabriela Mistral
- - William Carlos Williams
  - Josephine Miles
  - Richard Crowder
  - Marian Castleman
  - Milton Hindus
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
  - Julia Le Cour Bowe