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June 1944

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

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Thomas Ferril
William O'Connor
Amy Bonner
John Hay
John Healy

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1944

Table of Contents

Six Poems

Howard Moss

Robert David O'Brien
- Promises to Keep
John Vincent Healy
- Substance of Shadow

Three Poems

Thomas McGrath

Two Poems

Amy Bonner
- House Long Known
- Veiled Landscape

John Hay
- City Ball Game
Dilys Bennett Laing
- Eros out of the Sea

Four Poems

Robert Wistrand

Joseph Langland
- Dry Grass

Five Poems

John Nerber

D. S. Savage
- The Poet's Perspectives

Reviews

Peter De Vries
- To Be
A. J. M. Smith
- Language of the Wound
Jessica Nelson North
- Notes on the Mystery
Mona Van Duyn
- Five Worlds

Contributors
- - Howard Moss
  - Robert David O'Brien
  - John Vincent Healy
  - Thomas McGrath
  - Amy Bonner
- - John Hay
  - Dilys Bennett Laing
  - Robert Wistrand
  - Joseph Langland
  - John Nerber
- - D. S. Savage
  - Peter De Vries
  - A. J. M. Smith
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Mona Van Duyn