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May 1929

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

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Morton Zabel
Jessica North
Nelson Bittner
Harry Crosby
Samuel Hoffenstein

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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The issue is from May of 1929

Table of Contents

Hospital Poems

Merrill Moore

Seven Songs of Earth

Thomas Hill McNeal

Katherine Newton
- To the Turning of Wheels

Word and Wind Talk

Marshall Schacht

Kathryn White Ryan
- High Noon

Cloud and Hill

Samuel Hoffenstein
- Cloud
- Hill

Harry Crosby
- Fragment
Wilbert Snow
- Spruces
Anne Van Rein
- Cable

Dissolution

Jamie Sexton Holme

Elizabeth Howell
- Smoke at Night

Night Thoughts off Tarragonna

Nelson Del Bittner

Middle Moments

Hal Saunders White

Comment

Jessica Nelson North
- The Hungry Generations
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- The New Poets of Germany

Reviews

Jessica Nelson North
- More Humor than Skill
Harriet Monroe
- A Valuable Oriental Anthology
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Footnotes to Beauty
Margery Swett Mansfield
- A Canadian Poet
Harriet Monroe
- A Light Lyrist

Contributors
- - Merrill Moore
  - Thomas Hill McNeal
  - Katherine Newton
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Kathryn White Ryan
  - Samuel Hoffenstein
- - Harry Crosby
  - Wilbert Snow
  - Anne Van Rein
  - Jamie Sexton Holme
  - Elizabeth Howell
  - Nelson Del Bittner
- - Hal Saunders White
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Margery Swett Mansfield