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September 1940

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

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George Dillon
H. Hays
Alexander Bergman
Millen Brand
John Brinnin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1940

Table of Contents

John Malcolm Brinnin
- Address to the Refugees
Ruth Lechlitner
- A Winter's Tale
Marion Strobel
- The Target Is the Same

Three War Poems

Julian Symons

Alexander F. Bergman
- April 29th
R. N. Currey
- Now That the War Is Here
John Frederick Nims
- Parting: 1940
Millen Brand
- Children in San Diego
Edwin Muir
- Then

Three Poems

Lawrence Lee

Marshall Schacht
- As through a Glass Darkly
Josephine Jacobsen
- For Wilfred Owen
David Wolff
- While We Slept
Kenneth Fearing
- U. S. Writers in War
David Daiches
- Poetry in the First World War
F. C. Weiskopf
- On the Continent
- On the Continent

Reviews

Roberta Teale Swartz
- The Spirit Watches
Frajam Taylor
- A New Adventure
Thomas Howells
- "Where To, Where Now?"
John Gould Fletcher
- Lorca in English

Contributors
- - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Ruth Lechlitner
  - Marion Strobel
  - Julian Symons
  - Alexander F. Bergman
  - R. N. Currey
  - John Frederick Nims
- - Millen Brand
  - Edwin Muir
  - Lawrence Lee
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - David Wolff
  - Kenneth Fearing
- - David Daiches
  - F. C. Weiskopf
  - Roberta Teale Swartz
  - Frajam Taylor
  - Thomas Howells
  - John Gould Fletcher