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July 1934

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

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Morton Zabel
Stanley Burnshaw
Laura Bird
R. Blackmur
Robert Brittain

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1934

Table of Contents

Irrealistic Verses

W. W. E. Ross

R. P. Blackmur
- An Elegy for Five

Against Death

Naomi Replansky

Robert Miller
- The Bats Fly
Agnes Lee
- The Drought

Delicate Meshes

Marguerite Young
- Woodlands Far Removed
- Minnows and a Monster

May Williams Ward
- Tree Cut Down

Waiting

Laura Lee Bird
- The House
- Surfeit

Marion Ethel Hamilton
- Moment
Robert Penn Warren
- So Frost Astounds

Emblems of Air

A. J. M. Smith

Robert Brittain
- Epitaph
George Edward Hoffman
- Sandpipers

A Weathered Grove

Lincoln Fitzell
- Knoll Oak
- Entity
- Indian
- Museum Piece

Seasons

Marie Luhrs
- Sorrow in Summer
- Autumnal

Affirmations

Genevieve Taggard

Comment

Stanley Burnshaw
- Art and Propaganda
Joseph M. Hone
- A Letter from Ireland

Reviews

William Carlos Williams
- The New Poetical Economy
Harriet Monroe
- A First Flash
Rolfe Humphries
- Animals, Weather, and Men
John Gould Fletcher
- Discovering Poetry or Discovering Revolution
Jessica Nelson North
- Translations of Tagore

Contributors
- - W. W. E. Ross
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Naomi Replansky
  - Robert Miller
  - Agnes Lee
  - Marguerite Young
  - May Williams Ward
  - Laura Lee Bird
- - Marion Ethel Hamilton
  - Robert Penn Warren
  - A. J. M. Smith
  - Robert Brittain
  - George Edward Hoffman
  - Lincoln Fitzell
  - Marie Luhrs
  - Genevieve Taggard
- - Stanley Burnshaw
  - Joseph M. Hone
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Jessica Nelson North