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November 1940

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

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David Daiches
Kenneth Alling
Madeline Gleason
David Hamilton
Lee Hays

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1940

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Frederic Prokosch

Two Poems

Stephen Spender
- ("Doing anything and everything...")
- ("As I sit staring...")

John Southworth Moodey
- Green Key

Seven Poems

William Carlos Williams

Two Poems

R. H. Kuhlke
- Fall Pause
- Nocturne

Sonia Raiziss
- Signal Hill
Alice Monks Mears
- Always the Timid
Lee Hays
- Deadbuggy

Two Poems

David Osborne Hamilton
- Words
- Whoever

Four Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Wooden Statue
- Pumpkins
- Clock
- Visitor

Two Poems

Madeline Gleason
- The Surviving Mirror
- Complaint

Henry Treece
- Poem

Three Poems

John Nerber

Reviews

David Daiches
- The Honest Man Alone
William Fitzgerald
- Twenty Years at Hard Labor
Leo Shapiro
- The Meaning of Crashaw

Contributors
- - Frederic Prokosch
  - Stephen Spender
  - John Southworth Moodey
  - William Carlos Williams
  - R. H. Kuhlke
  - Sonia Raiziss
- - Alice Monks Mears
  - Lee Hays
  - David Osborne Hamilton
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Madeline Gleason
  - Henry Treece
- - John Nerber
  - David Daiches
  - William Fitzgerald
  - Leo Shapiro