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October 1917

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

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Alter Brody
Vachel Lindsay
Harriet Monroe
Carl Sandburg
William Skaling

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An edited Poetry Magazine by Harriet Moore. The issue is from October of 1917.

Table of Contents

Canticle of the Race

Edgar Lee Masters

William Rose Benét
- The Price

Autumn Leaves

Helen Birch Bartlett

Vachel Lindsay
- The Soap-Box
- How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza

On the Road

Willard Wattles

Eleanor Rogers Cox
- To a Portrait of Whistler in the Brooklyn Art Museum
- Whistler's White Girl

Lyrics

Margaret Widdemer

William Butler Yeats
- Ego Dominus Tuus

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- These Five Years

Reviews

Alice Corbin Henderson
- Hodgson's Poems

Four Young Poets

Harriet Monroe
- Asphalt by Orrick Johns
Alice Corbin Henderson
- Streets and Faces by Scudder Middleton
Harriet Monroe
- Swords for Life, by Irene Rutherford McLeod
- The Dance of Youth, by Julia Cooley

Reviews

Padraic Colum
- A Poet's Upbringing

Correspondence

Vachel Lindsay
- Correspondence
Alter Brody
- Correspondence: The Cowboy Theatre League

Contents

William H. Skaling
- That Cowboy Poem
Carl Sandburg
- Correspondence: Good-bye to Eunice Tietjens

Contributors
- - Edgar Lee Masters
  - William Rose Benét
  - Helen Birch Bartlett
  - Vachel Lindsay
  - Willard Wattles
- - Eleanor Rogers Cox
  - Margaret Widdemer
  - William Butler Yeats
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Alice Corbin Henderson
- - Padraic Colum
  - Alter Brody
  - William H. Skaling
  - Carl Sandburg