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March 1939

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

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Julian Symons
Maxine Brinkley
Witter Bynner
Peter De Vries
John Healy

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1939

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Witter Bynner

Three Poems

John Vincent Healy

Martha Millet
- Grey Afternoon

Two Poems

C. F. MacIntyre
- The Old Woman Waits for Spring
- The Ex-Senator

Margaret Walker
- We Have Been Believers
A. M. Sullivan
- Symbols for Deceit
Florence Dickinson Stearns
- The Tie That Separates

Two Poems

Rupert Hodge
- And Times There Are
- Blind

Maxine Brinkley
- Signature

Three Poems

Peter De Vries

James Daly
- A Little Plain Woman with Two Smooth Bands of Reddish Hair
Yvor Winters
- The 16th Century Lyric in England: A Critical and Historical Reinterpretation: Part II

Reviews

Theodore Roethke
- Evidence of Growth
Kerker Quinn
- Things Felt and Seen

Contributors
- - Witter Bynner
  - John Vincent Healy
  - Martha Millet
  - C. F. MacIntyre
  - Margaret Walker
- - A. M. Sullivan
  - Florence Dickinson Stearns
  - Rupert Hodge
  - Maxine Brinkley
  - Peter De Vries
- - James Daly
  - Yvor Winters
  - Theodore Roethke
  - Kerker Quinn