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October 1944

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

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Ray Smith
Helena Carus
Edward Fenton
Hortense Flexner
Rolfe Humphries

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1944

Table of Contents

Two Poems

Philip Blair Rice
- Agenbite of Inwit
- Calligrammes

James C. Kenney
- Invasion

Two Poems

Edouard Roditi
- The Nature of Knowledge
- A Parisian in Kansas City
Hortense Flexner
- Lost Tenants
- Interval

Three Poems

Herman Salinger

Two Poems

Rolfe Humphries
- Night Game
- A Landscape, and a Lady
Margaret Manners
- No Definition Rises from These Ashes
- Particular Speech

Helena Carus
- Norway

Four Poems

Edward Fenton

D. S. Savage
- Form in Modern Poetry

Reviews

Edwin Honig
- The Mind's Immortal, but the Man Is Dead
Marian Castleman
- A New Poet
Nelson Algren
- Three Against the World
E. K. Brown
- Satirical Verse

Contributors
- - Philip Blair Rice
  - James C. Kenney
  - Edouard Roditi
  - Hortense Flexner
  - Herman Salinger
- - Rolfe Humphries
  - Margaret Manners
  - Helena Carus
  - Edward Fenton
  - D. S. Savage
- - Edwin Honig
  - Marian Castleman
  - Nelson Algren
  - E. K. Brown