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October 1936

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

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Morton Zabel
Geoffrey Grigson
George Abbe
Eli Cantor
Thomas Ferril

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1936

Table of Contents

Thomas Hornsby Ferril
- Words for Leadville

Under the Stars

Ralph Friedrich

Rosalie Dunlap Hickler
- On This Still Air
John Mavrogordato
- Entropy

Never Follow

George Abbe
- Departure
- Open High Windows

Madeleine Ruthven
- The Mountain Road
Roger Roughton
- Tomorrow Will Be Difficult

Lyrics

Sara Bard Field

Renewals

Edward J. Fitzgerald

Eli Cantor
- Song for the Times
Harriet Monroe
- Twenty-Four Years
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Sandburg's Testament

Reviews

John Wheelwright
- Back to the Old Farm
Harold Rosenberg
- Truth and the Academic Style
Kenneth Burke
- Cautious Enlightenment

Correspondence

Ezra Pound
- The Printing Press Was Invented

Contributors
- - Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  - Ralph Friedrich
  - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler
  - John Mavrogordato
  - George Abbe
  - Madeleine Ruthven
- - Roger Roughton
  - Sara Bard Field
  - Edward J. Fitzgerald
  - Eli Cantor
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
- - John Wheelwright
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - Kenneth Burke
  - Ezra Pound