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October 1942

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

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George Dillon
Hoyt Hudson
Morgan Blum
John Buxton
John Ciardi

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1942

Table of Contents

H. B. Mallalieu
- Days of Waiting
Wallace Stevens
- Certain Phenomena of Sound
Morgan Blum
- Old Man at Window
John Buxton
- To Edmund Blunden
Howard Nutt
- The Hunter Man
Jeremy Ingalls
- Apotheosis of Four Poets

Two Poems

Howard Moss
- The Year
- The Arrow

Three Poems

John Ciardi

David M. Clay
- Motion
Louis MacNeice
- The Springboard

Four Poems

William Pillin

George H. Dillon
- On Being Thirty
Jessica Nelson North
- The Magazine Today

Reviews

Warren Beck
- Another Milestone
Babette Deutsch
- Not Hard Enough
E. S. Forgotson
- Montparnasse and the Cosmos
Edward Weismiller
- The Lesson for Today
John Vincent Healy
- Myths and Poetry
Edouard Roditi
- A Faust-Fight

Contributors
- - H. B. Mallalieu
  - Wallace Stevens
  - Morgan Blum
  - John Buxton
  - Howard Nutt
  - Jeremy Ingalls
  - Howard Moss
- - John Ciardi
  - David M. Clay
  - Louis MacNeice
  - William Pillin
  - George H. Dillon
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Warren Beck
- - Babette Deutsch
  - E. S. Forgotson
  - Edward Weismiller
  - John Vincent Healy
  - Edouard Roditi