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April 1942

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

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D. Savage
Peter De Vries
Carl Bulosan
Richard Eberhart
John Hay

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1942

Table of Contents

Seven Poems

Richard Eberhart

John Hay
- Wake Island

Two Poems

Genevieve Taggard
- Hymn to the Sun with Imperative Refrain
- K. D.

Three Poems

Carl Bulosan

Marguerite Young
- The Home-Coming

Two Poems

William Meredith
- Words after Midnight, Forbidding Remorse
- When Do We Inherit Them

Grace Baer Hollowell
- Angels

Four Poems

Thomas Merton

Dilys Bennett Laing
- Nautilus

Two Poems

Anthony Wrynn
- A Woman Reviews Paradise
- The Printed Visions

Selwyn S. Schwartz
- Judgment

Four Poems

Katinka Loeser

Edouard Roditi
- The Poetics of Translation
Eunice Tietjens
- The End of Ezra Pound

Reviews

Stanley Kunitz
- Pentagons and Pomegranates
Morgan Blum
- The Hard Way
Marshall Schacht
- Close and Real
Howard Milton Blake
- There Is a Firbank in It

Contributors
- - Richard Eberhart
  - John Hay
  - Genevieve Taggard
  - Carl Bulosan
  - Marguerite Young
  - William Meredith
- - Grace Baer Hollowell
  - Thomas Merton
  - Dilys Bennett Laing
  - Anthony Wrynn
  - Selwyn S. Schwartz
  - Katinka Loeser
- - Edouard Roditi
  - Eunice Tietjens
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Morgan Blum
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Howard Milton Blake