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September 1939

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

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Delmore Schwartz
Janet Bangs
John Brinnin
Dorothy Dow
Loren Eiseley

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1939

Table of Contents

Six Poems

William Carlos Williams

Two Poems

John Malcolm Brinnin
- Prague
- Cadillac Square

Israel Newman
- Paper in Wind
Glenway Wescott
- The Summer Ending

Three Poems

Roberta Teale Swartz

Martha Roberts
- Bed-Time

Two Poems

Helen Goldbaum
- The Tree
- In the Shadow of Great Times

Three Poems

Harold Vinal

Two Poems

Loren C. Eiseley
- Tasting the Mountain Spring
- The Spider

Janet Norris Bangs
- Timepiece

Two Poems

Mary N. S. Whiteley
- No Word
- Transiency

Dorothy Dow
- What I Have Felt
Raymond Holden
- Variations on a Theme by Circumstance
Ruth Lechlitner
- The Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Yvor Winters
- Agnes Lee

Reviews

Frederic Prokosch
- Yeats's Testament
John Gould Fletcher
- Two Plainsmen
Jessica Nelson North
- Fine Workmanship
Reuel Denney
- A Glad Day

Contributors
- - William Carlos Williams
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Israel Newman
  - Glenway Wescott
  - Roberta Teale Swartz
  - Martha Roberts
  - Helen Goldbaum
- - Harold Vinal
  - Loren C. Eiseley
  - Janet Norris Bangs
  - Mary N. S. Whiteley
  - Dorothy Dow
  - Raymond Holden
  - Ruth Lechlitner
- - Yvor Winters
  - Frederic Prokosch
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Reuel Denney