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September 1938

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

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Harold Rosenberg
Jessica North
Delmore Schwartz
Elizabeth Bohm
Carl Bomberger

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1938

Table of Contents

Five Poems

Abbie Huston Evans

Ralph Gustafson
- Seascape
Julian Symons
- Poem

Quiet Morning

Elizabeth Bohm

W. G. Van Keuren
- To a Stranger in Passing

Two Poems

Herman Gund
- Carnival
- Queens

Carl Bomberger
- Inbred

Three Poems

May Lewis

Michael Roberts
- Mediterranean

The Past Is Dragging Statues

Oscar Williams

Harold Rosenberg
- The God in the Car
Archibald MacLeish
- A Letter from Archibald MacLeish
Jessica Nelson North
- Another Chance

Reviews

Babette Deutsch
- A Lost Address
Rolfe Humphries
- More of the Same
Anne Channing
- Well-Made Lyrics
Edgar Lee Masters
- Every Word Is Intentional

Contributors
- - Abbie Huston Evans
  - Ralph Gustafson
  - Julian Symons
  - Elizabeth Bohm
  - W. G. Van Keuren
  - Herman Gund
- - Carl Bomberger
  - May Lewis
  - Michael Roberts
  - Oscar Williams
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - Archibald MacLeish
- - Jessica Nelson North
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - Anne Channing
  - Edgar Lee Masters