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June 1918

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

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Alice Henderson
Harriet Monroe
William Patterson
Louis Gilmore
Frank Gordon

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POETRY Magazine cover of June 1918 issue

Table of Contents

War Times

John Curtis Underwood

Calvin Dill Wilson
- The Old Gods
Samuel Roth
- Kol Nidre
- Human Speech

Figs from Thistles

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Inventions

Louis Gilmore
- Deity
- Earth
- Pause

Raymond Holden
- Passers-By

Three Negro Spirituals

Fenton Johnson

Winifred Waldron
- Hoofs
- Swallows

Gold in the Desert

Frank S. Gordon

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- The New Internationalism

Reviews

Dorothy Dudley
- Large Measures
Alice Corbin Henderson
- Mid-America Awake
- Far-Western Verse
Harriet Monroe
- First Books and Others

Our Contemporaries

Alice Corbin Henderson
- Baiting the Public
William Morrison Patterson
- A Later Word from Dr. Patterson

Contributors
- - John Curtis Underwood
  - Calvin Dill Wilson
  - Samuel Roth
  - Edna St. Vincent Millay
  - Louis Gilmore
- - Raymond Holden
  - Fenton Johnson
  - Winifred Waldron
  - Frank S. Gordon
  - Harriet Monroe
- - Dorothy Dudley
  - Alice Corbin Henderson
  - William Morrison Patterson