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July 1938

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

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Willard Maas
Archibald MacLeish
John Bishop
Sterling Brown
James Daly

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1938

Table of Contents

Two Poems

Kenneth Fearing
- Hold the Wire
- A Dollar's Worth of Blood, Please

Alfred Hayes
- A Little Nightmusic
James Daly
- City
Raymond Ellsworth F. Larsson
- Compline of the Men of Peace
William Pillin
- Speech
Lawrence Estavan
- It Is My Fault
Norton Krieger
- Common Threat
Sol Funaroff
- To Federico Garcia Lorca
Dorothy Van Ghent
- Depositions for the Fatherland
Sterling A. Brown
- The Young Ones
Mark Turbyfill
- Hardy Perennials
Helen Neville
- Time's Embrace

Two Poems

Charles Hudeburg
- Last Year's Flowers Photographed
- A Song ("Lovely, the weight...")

Virgil Geddes
- Summons at Night
Seymour Gordon Link
- The Sculptor Year

Two Poems

Weldon Kees
- The Inquiry
- Poem ("Mind's residue is vein-violet...")

Margaret Walker
- The Struggle Staggers Us
Harry Roskolenko
- Sea and Land
Kenneth Rexroth
- From "The Crisis"
Charlotte Elizabeth Wilder
- Sanctuary
Miriam Allen De Ford
- Litany
Lola Pergament
- My so Much Loved Variety
Melvin Geer Shelley
- Blond Cat
Harold Rosenberg
- The End of the World
H. R. Hays
- Defenseless Spring
Willard Maas
- Journey and Return
Archibald MacLeish
- In Challenge Not Defense
Alfred Kreymborg
- Bread and Poetry
Malcolm Cowley
- Poetry Project
Willard Maas
- A Brief Statement

Reviews

John Wheelwright
- A Nice After-Dinner Scold
Sol Funaroff
- Armored Car Robbery
Jessica Nelson North
- Echo Answers
Peter De Vries
- Fusion and Confusion

Contributors
- - Kenneth Fearing
  - Alfred Hayes
  - James Daly
  - Raymond Ellsworth F. Larsson
  - William Pillin
  - Lawrence Estavan
  - Norton Krieger
  - Sol Funaroff
  - Dorothy Van Ghent
  - Sterling A. Brown
  - Mark Turbyfill
- - Helen Neville
  - Charles Hudeburg
  - Virgil Geddes
  - Seymour Gordon Link
  - Weldon Kees
  - Margaret Walker
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Kenneth Rexroth
  - Charlotte Elizabeth Wilder
  - Miriam Allen De Ford
  - Lola Pergament
- - Melvin Geer Shelley
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - H. R. Hays
  - Willard Maas
  - Archibald MacLeish
  - Alfred Kreymborg
  - Malcolm Cowley
  - John Wheelwright
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Peter De Vries