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June 1937

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

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David Schubert
Dorothy Alyea
Laura Bird
Doris Caldwell
William Everson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1937

Table of Contents

Rehearsal against Time

Samuel French Morse

Three Poems

Philip Parker

The Watchers

William Everson
- We in the Fields
- Dust and the Glory

Grace Fallow Norton
- Mood

A Room in a House

Franklin Folsom

The Coral Bough

Yang Hsiu Ou
- Ming Fei
Yien Chi Feng
- Three Desires

Frances Shaw
- To Death

Lyrics

Laura Lee Bird
- Orphan
- Plea
- Auto-da-Fé

The Shuttle

Tennessee Williams
- This Hour
- My Love Was Light

A Measure of Earth

Walter Kidd

Doris Caldwell
- California Coast

Five Poems

Dorothy Collins Alyea

Winfield Townley Scott
- "The Unaccredited Profession"
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- The Use of Prizes

Reviews

Ford Madox Ford
- The Flame in Stone
Charles K. Trueblood
- Whatsoever Force of Words
John Peale Bishop
- A Little Legacy
R. P. Blackmur
- An Unresponsive Witness
Raymond Holden
- Hard against This World
Robert Fitzgerald
- Against the Grain

Contributors
- - Samuel French Morse
  - Philip Parker
  - William Everson
  - Grace Fallow Norton
  - Franklin Folsom
  - Yang Hsiu Ou
  - Yien Chi Feng
- - Frances Shaw
  - Laura Lee Bird
  - Tennessee Williams
  - Walter Kidd
  - Doris Caldwell
  - Dorothy Collins Alyea
  - Winfield Townley Scott
- - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Ford Madox Ford
  - Charles K. Trueblood
  - John Peale Bishop
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Raymond Holden
  - Robert Fitzgerald