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August 1938

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

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Ezra Pound
Mary Barber
Mary Barnard
James Boothe
Carl Bulosan

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1938

Table of Contents

Dylan Thomas

Three Poems

Babette Deutsch

Carl Edwin Burklund
- Song for a Night
Terence Heywood
- The Whale

Two Poems

James Boothe
- Having Talked with Men
- Within the Houses, Love

Walter Lowenfels
- Homer

Four Poems

Mary Barnard

Carl Bulosan
- These Are Also Living

Four Poems

Joseph Joel Keith

Two Poems

Vincent Starrett
- Hell, Said the Duchess
- To Wicky: My Wire

Frederick Mortimer Clapp
- Misguided

Nantucket Sojourn

Mary Finette Barber
- Returning
- Survivals

Three Poems

John Russell McCarthy

Margery Swett Mansfield
- It Stopped Ticking
James E. Warren Jr.
- Bather Sleeping
Edgar Lee Masters
- Sunken Realms
John Peale Bishop
- The Federal Poets' Number
S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- Is Indeed 5

Reviews

Samuel French Morse
- Prophecy and Fact
Ruth Lechlitner
- An Intellectual Poet
Arthur Meeker Jr.
- Two Anthologies

Contributors
- - Dylan Thomas
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Carl Edwin Burklund
  - Terence Heywood
  - James Boothe
  - Walter Lowenfels
  - Mary Barnard
- - Carl Bulosan
  - Joseph Joel Keith
  - Vincent Starrett
  - Frederick Mortimer Clapp
  - Mary Finette Barber
  - John Russell McCarthy
  - Margery Swett Mansfield
- - James E. Warren Jr.
  - Edgar Lee Masters
  - John Peale Bishop
  - S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  - Samuel French Morse
  - Ruth Lechlitner
  - Arthur Meeker Jr.