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May 1942

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

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Jessica North
Augustine Bowe
John Brinnin
Robert Duncan
Robert Francis

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1942

Table of Contents

Five Poems

Karl Shapiro

Two Poems

Margaret Stanley-Wrench
- The New Swallows
- For the Bombed Cities

Robert Francis
- Statement
John Malcolm Brinnin
- Winter Term
Howard Nutt
- Thoreau
Inez Cunningham Stark
- Ether

Three Poems

Randall Jarrell

Augustine Bowe
- Rousseau in the Custom House

Two Poems

Robert Duncan
- A Spring Memorandum
- A Pair of Uranian Garters for Aurora Bligh

William Stephens
- Topical Poem
Harold Vinal
- The Journey
Parker Tyler
- The Heroes
S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- The Linguistic Approach to Poetry

Reviews

David Daiches
- Noise as of Battle: Enter Poet
Winfield Townley Scott
- Easy Doesn't It
Lloyd Frankenberg
- Poetry and Agreement
Marshall Schacht
- A Fine Instrument
Theodore Roethke
- Obiter Dicta

Contributors
- - Karl Shapiro
  - Margaret Stanley-Wrench
  - Robert Francis
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Howard Nutt
  - Inez Cunningham Stark
- - Randall Jarrell
  - Augustine Bowe
  - Robert Duncan
  - William Stephens
  - Harold Vinal
  - Parker Tyler
- - S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  - David Daiches
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Theodore Roethke