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May 1937

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

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Morton Zabel
Kenneth Allott
Doris Caldwell
David McCaughie
Marjorie Meeker

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1937

Table of Contents

Wallace Stevens
- The Man with the Blue Guitar

Brought Back

James Still
- White Highways
- Earth-Bread

A Sign Awaited

Marjorie Meeker

Doris Caldwell
- California Hills
Kenneth Allott
- Calenture
Madeleine Ruthven
- Chrysler Building

In These Gardens

David L. McCaughie

David Schubert
- Crow on the Husk

Michoacán: Two Scenes

Marian Storm
- Cove on the Orilla
- Coast Panther

Slow Invasion

Lola Pergament

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- The Poetry of Unrest

Reviews

Kenneth Burke
- Tentative Proposal
Evelyn Scott
- The Tone of Time
Stanley Kunitz
- Learned in Violence
T. C. Wilson
- Protest and Hope
Richmond Lattimore
- Greek into English
Ben Belitt
- Trance and Monodrama
John Wheelwright
- Lyric Reality

Correspondence

William Empson and Geoffrey Grigson
- Correspondence

Contributors
- - Wallace Stevens
  - James Still
  - Marjorie Meeker
  - Doris Caldwell
  - Kenneth Allott
  - Madeleine Ruthven
  - David L. McCaughie
- - David Schubert
  - Marian Storm
  - Lola Pergament
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Kenneth Burke
  - Evelyn Scott
  - Stanley Kunitz
- - T. C. Wilson
  - Richmond Lattimore
  - Ben Belitt
  - John Wheelwright
  - William Empson
  - Geoffrey Grigson