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August 1939

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

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Giuseppe Borgese
Maxwell Bodenheim
Homer Combs
Joe Horrell
Thomas Howells

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1939

Table of Contents

Garrett Oppenheim
- Epithalamion and Callithump: Or the Girdle of Aphrodite, with an Obbligato on the G String
Thomas McGrath
- Sentiments for a Valediction
Leila Jones
- Lost Swan

Three Poems

Thomas Howells

Joe Horrell
- North Carolina Idyl
Eve Triem
- Flute Songs
Maxwell Bodenheim
- To John Gould Fletcher

Four Poems

Oscar Williams

Elda Tanasso
- This Quiet-Time

Five Poems

Norman Macleod

Homer C. Combs
- Song

Four Poems

H. B. Mallalieu

John Crowe Ransom
- T. S. Eliot as Dramatist
Terence Heywood
- Hopkins' Ancestry: Part II

Reviews

Alfred Kreymborg
- Genevieve Taggard's Poems
Edouard Roditi
- The Writing on the Wall
Marion Strobel
- Memories

Contributors
- - Garrett Oppenheim
  - Thomas McGrath
  - Leila Jones
  - Thomas Howells
  - Joe Horrell
  - Eve Triem
- - Maxwell Bodenheim
  - Oscar Williams
  - Elda Tanasso
  - Norman Macleod
  - Homer C. Combs
  - H. B. Mallalieu