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September 1941

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

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Robert Graves
David Daiches
Nelson Algren
Basil Bunting
Paul Engle

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1941

Table of Contents

America 1941

Paul Engle

Two Poems

Rolfe Humphries
- The Five Dreams
- The Statue

Basil Bunting
- To Violet
Genevieve Taggard
- Range, Range the Words Around

Three Poems

Jeremy Ingalls

Two Poems

Nelson Algren
- Local South
- How Long Blues

Six Poems

Eve Merriam

Israel Smith
- Sojourn in Vermont
Clifford Franklin Gessler
- Tehuantepec Journey
Bob Miller
- Opaque Clouds

Two Poems

Josephine Johnson
- A Polar Word
- In the Park

Three Poems

Edwin Muir

David Daiches
- New Trends in Soviet Russian Poetry

Reviews

Kerker Quinn
- Story of an Arkansas Poet
Babette Deutsch
- Over the Hills and Far Away
Karl Shapiro
- De Imitatione
Winfield Townley Scott
- Muse in Michigan

Contributors
- - Paul Engle
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - Basil Bunting
  - Genevieve Taggard
  - Jeremy Ingalls
  - Nelson Algren
- - Eve Merriam
  - Israel Smith
  - Clifford Franklin Gessler
  - Bob Miller
  - Josephine Johnson
  - Edwin Muir
- - David Daiches
  - Kerker Quinn
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Winfield Townley Scott