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October 1938

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

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Kimball Flaccus
D. Savage
Genevieve Taggard
Tom Boggs
Malcolm Cowley

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1938

Table of Contents

Eight Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stephen Spender
- The Human Condition

Three Poems

Kenneth Fearing

Garrett Oppenheim
- The Olympian in Autumn
Robert Whittington
- The Squirrels
William Stephens
- The Old Men

The Sounding Vision

Marshall Schacht

Two Poems

Tom Boggs
- Rogue's Gallery
- From Unfulfilled Delight

Katharine Shattuck
- Jungle Piece

Four Songs

Malcolm Cowley

Genevieve Taggard
- The Critical Method of R. P. Blackmur

Reviews

John Gould Fletcher
- Illusion for Illusion
T. C. Wilson
- Poetry—The Painless Way
Kenneth Fearing
- Historic Certainties

Contributors
- - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  - Stephen Spender
  - Kenneth Fearing
  - Garrett Oppenheim
  - Robert Whittington
- - William Stephens
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Tom Boggs
  - Katharine Shattuck
  - Malcolm Cowley
- - Genevieve Taggard
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - T. C. Wilson