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February 1936

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

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Morton Zabel
Harriet Monroe
Dorothy Alyea
Marion Bliss
Carl Bulosan

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1936

Table of Contents

Second Sight

Jessica Nelson North
- Confession
- Lake Cycle
- Chalk
- Grief
- This in Remembrance
- The Real Princess
- Bed-Time
- Stature
- Gardener

Edmund Wilson Jr.
- Sleeping and Waking

The Voyage

Clifford Franklin Gessler

Brevities

Hertha D. Luckhardt

Carla Lanyon Lanyon
- The Dancer

As If a Star

Sister Mary Jeremy, O.P.
- The Departure
- Untimed

Two Poems

Marion Louise Bliss
- Memorial
- A Leaf Falls

Herman Salinger
- Vine
Jacqueline Sinclair Shafer
- Still Life
Dorothy Collins Alyea
- Passing on Her Way
Helene Magaret
- An Incident
Agnes Dongan Moore
- Globe Amaranth

The Unknown Quantity

Carl Bulosan

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Yeats at Thirty and Seventy
Harriet Monroe
- Honor to Lizette Reese

Reviews

Marianne Moore
- If I Am Worthy, There Is No Danger
Muna Lee
- Of the Prairie
Raymond Holden
- Through a Reading Glass
Jessica Nelson North
- A Hungarian Masterpiece
S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- Heroism Libeled

Contributors
- - Jessica Nelson North
  - Edmund Wilson Jr.
  - Clifford Franklin Gessler
  - Hertha D. Luckhardt
  - Carla Lanyon Lanyon
  - Sister Mary Jeremy, O.P.
  - Marion Louise Bliss
- - Herman Salinger
  - Jacqueline Sinclair Shafer
  - Dorothy Collins Alyea
  - Helene Magaret
  - Agnes Dongan Moore
  - Carl Bulosan
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
- - Harriet Monroe
  - Marianne Moore
  - Muna Lee
  - Raymond Holden
  - S. Ichiye Hayakawa