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June 1941

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

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Amy Bonner
Kenneth Alling
Walter de La Mare
José Garcia Villa
John Hay

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1941

Table of Contents

Nine Poems

Walter de La Mare
- A Character
- The Secret
- Enough
- A Fiddler
- A Tailor
- Crops
- Immanent
- Poetry
- The Very Self

Charles Miller
- Epilogue for Pilate
Kenneth Slade Alling
- Briareus
Weldon Kees
- On a Painting by Rousseau
Louis Zukofsky
- "A"9

Two Poems

Ruth Lechlitner
- Only the Years
- Quiz Program
John Hay
- Post Mortems
- Lebensraum

Dean P. Jeffress
- Thomas Mann
José Garcia Villa
Harold Rosenberg
- Ode
Emily Porter St. John
- Differentia

Four Poems

Winfield Townley Scott

Reviews

Richard Eberhart
- A Human Good
Babette Deutsch
- Sirs, What Must I Do to Be Saved?
Stanley Kunitz
- The Profile of a Mask
Harvey Breit
- Who Are We?
E. S. Forgotson
Willard Maas
- Considerably Healthy
Morgan Blum
- New Directions and the Formal Tradition

Correspondence

Amy Bonner
- Is It Criticism?

Contributors
- - Walter de La Mare
  - Charles Miller
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Weldon Kees
  - Louis Zukofsky
  - Ruth Lechlitner
  - John Hay
- - Dean P. Jeffress
  - José Garcia Villa
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - Emily Porter St. John
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Babette Deutsch
- - Stanley Kunitz
  - Harvey Breit
  - E. S. Forgotson
  - Willard Maas
  - Morgan Blum
  - Amy Bonner