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November 1941

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

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William Benét
Agustí Bartra
Walter Benton
John Brinnin
Maurice English

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1941

Table of Contents

Roy Fuller
- The Growth of Crime
Milton A. Kaplan
- The Top Spins
John Malcolm Brinnin
- At the Band Concert
Ellen Stevenson
- Night Flight

Three Poems

Karl Shapiro

Two Poems

Walter Benton
- Summary of the Distance between the Bomber and the Objective
- With the Most Susceptible Element, the Mind, Already Turned under the Toxic Action

Seven Poems

Ruth Dart Stephan

Agustí Bartra
- Refugee
Eunice Tietjens
- Under the Caribbean: The Deeps
Maurice English
- Lines

Six Poems

C. F. MacIntyre

Arnold Kenseth
- Footnote for John Smith

Two Poems

F. R. Scott
- Dialogue
- To Certain Friends

Katherine Garrison Chapin
- The Quality of Poetry

Reviews

Stanley Kunitz
- The Pangolin of Poets
Donald F. Bond
- Looking Backward

Contributors
- - Roy Fuller
  - Milton A. Kaplan
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Ellen Stevenson
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Walter Benton
- - Ruth Dart Stephan
  - Agustí Bartra
  - Eunice Tietjens
  - Maurice English
  - C. F. MacIntyre
  - Arnold Kenseth
- - F. R. Scott
  - Katherine Garrison Chapin
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Donald F. Bond