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May 1939

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

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R. Fuller
Brewster Ghiselin
Robert Herridge
Thomas Hudson
Weldon Kees

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1939

Table of Contents

Eight New Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Theodore Roethke
- The Auction

Two Poems

Weldon Kees
- The Speakers
- Statement with Rhymes

Three Poems

Brewster Ghiselin

Two Poems

Harold Rosenberg
- Yesterday, to Us
- Snow on the Aerials

Three Poems

Emma Gray Trigg

F. G. Weibault
- There's One Waiting for You
R. B. Fuller
- Poem
Mary Leslie Newton
- Two Fields
Robert Herridge
- Vision with Commentary
Thomas David Hudson
- The Inheritors
M. Jean Prussing
- These Angles Sharp

Three Poems

Ruthven Todd

Winfield Townley Scott
- Robinson to Robinson

Reviews

H. R. Hays
- The Expatriate Consciousness
George Marion O'Donnell
- Delmore Schwartz's Achievement
C. A. Millspaugh
- A Long Perspective
Arthur Meeker Jr.
- The Poet as Entertainer

Contributors
- - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  - Theodore Roethke
  - Weldon Kees
  - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - Emma Gray Trigg
- - F. G. Weibault
  - R. B. Fuller
  - Mary Leslie Newton
  - Robert Herridge
  - Thomas David Hudson
  - M. Jean Prussing
- - Ruthven Todd
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - H. R. Hays
  - George Marion O'Donnell
  - C. A. Millspaugh
  - Arthur Meeker Jr.