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January 1936

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

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Harriet Monroe
Flora Arnstein
Verne Bright
Harold Cook
Joy Davidman

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1936

Table of Contents

Wintry Words

Harold Lewis Cook

Walls and Open Gates

John Robert Quinn

Verne Bright
- Good Soil
Catherine Moore
- Blizzard
John Wheelwright
- The Lords' Prayer to the Poor

Ancestral

George Marion O'Donnell
- Letter for the Confederates
- For My Grandmother

Bunichi Kagawa
- Silent Intimacy

Stark Lines

Joy Davidman
- Resurrection
- Amulet

Harry Roskolenko
- Martial Music
Donald J. Paquette
- Words for the Wind
Flora J. Arnstein
- No Winter

Two Poems

Charlotte Elizabeth Wilder
- City Streets
- To Beauty

A. S. J. Tessimond
- Portrait

Against the Wind

Lenore G. Marshall
- They Vie with Waves
- After Illness

In Winter

Norman Macleod
- Boys in the North Country
- Banners of Desperation

Three Poems

Richard Leekley

Harriet Monroe
- Joy in Great Art

Reviews

Harriet Monroe
- A Daughter of the Caesars
S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- A Master of China
Winfield Townley Scott
- Modern Jason
Hildegarde Flanner
- Lives and Landscapes
William Carlos Williams
- A Twentieth-Century American
Raymond Holden
- Holy Strangeness
D. G. Bridson
- The Social Ego

Contributors
- - Harold Lewis Cook
  - John Robert Quinn
  - Verne Bright
  - Catherine Moore
  - John Wheelwright
  - George Marion O'Donnell
  - Bunichi Kagawa
  - Joy Davidman
- - Harry Roskolenko
  - Donald J. Paquette
  - Flora J. Arnstein
  - Charlotte Elizabeth Wilder
  - A. S. J. Tessimond
  - Lenore G. Marshall
  - Norman Macleod
  - Richard Leekley
- - Harriet Monroe
  - S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Hildegarde Flanner
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Raymond Holden
  - D. G. Bridson