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October 1937

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

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D. Savage
Malcolm Cowley
Kenneth Alling
Jean Anderson
Nelson Bittner

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1937

Table of Contents

Wallace Stevens
- A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
Louise Bogan
- Untitled

Three Poems

William Carlos Williams

Two Poems

Carl Sandburg
- Be Ready
- Night Bells

Horace Gregory
- Fortune for Mirabel
Robert Penn Warren
- Bearded Oaks

Two Poems

Eda Lou Walton
- The Pool
- Alternate, None

John Gould Fletcher
- Ascent of Monadnock
Kenneth Slade Alling
- Mown Hay
Harry Roskolenko
- Sea-Weed
Nelson Del Bittner
- Resurrected by a Bomb, by God
Rupert Hodge
- Pedant
Clark Mills
- Catalina
Robert Friend
- The Journey

Forest Landscapes

Jean Anderson

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- "Poetry'"s Quarter-Century
Jessica Nelson North
- A Forward Look
Kenneth Burke
- Responses to Pressure

Reviews

Louise Bogan
- A Singular Talent
Ben Belitt
- Nowheres Rapidly
Philip Horton
- The California Classicism

Contributors
- - Wallace Stevens
  - Louise Bogan
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Carl Sandburg
  - Horace Gregory
  - Robert Penn Warren
  - Eda Lou Walton
- - John Gould Fletcher
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Nelson Del Bittner
  - Rupert Hodge
  - Clark Mills
  - Robert Friend
- - Jean Anderson
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Kenneth Burke
  - Ben Belitt
  - Philip Horton