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May 1944

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

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John Ciardi
John Brinnin
August Derleth
Brewster Ghiselin
Oliver Gogarty

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1944

Table of Contents

Three Poems

John Malcolm Brinnin

Geoffrey Johnson
- Mistress Fell
David Newton
- Central Park

Six Poems

Martha E. Keller

Brewster Ghiselin
- Needle to Be Threaded: Or Homage to the Californian Riviera

Poems for Someone Loved

August W. Derleth

Two Poems

James Steel Smith
- Shore Gun
- The Young Dead

James Hearst
- Burn the Cocoons

Two Poems

Oliver St. John Gogarty
- High Tide at Malahide
- Between Brielle and Manasquan

Kimon Friar
- The Action of Incorrigible Tragedy

Reviews

John Gould Fletcher
- The Triumph over Life
Winfield Townley Scott
- The Incongruity and the Glory

Contributors
- - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Geoffrey Johnson
  - David Newton
  - Martha E. Keller
- - Brewster Ghiselin
  - August W. Derleth
  - James Steel Smith
  - James Hearst
- - Oliver St. John Gogarty
  - Kimon Friar
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Winfield Townley Scott