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April 1940

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

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Leo Shapiro
Howard Blake
Gladys Campbell
William Empson
Charles Ford

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1940

Table of Contents

Devil in Crystal

Elder James Olson

Two Poems

Willard Maas
- The Secret on the Urn
- Tableau at Cocktail Hour

Howard Milton Blake
- Transcorporeal Wanted
Lii Tyng Kwei
- Fugitive Journey
Jeanne McGahey
- Recurrent Dream

Two Poems

William Justema
- To Last Violets
- I Have a Friend

Gladys Campbell
- Voyage
William Empson
- Bacchus III
Charles Henri Ford
- The Overturned Lake

Two Poems

Langston Hughes
- Out of Work
- Love Again Blues

Eugene Jolas
- Lumor

Two Poems

Josephine Jacobsen
- The Bathers
- Artist's Sustenance

Florence Dickinson Stearns
- Answer in Green

Poems in Time of War

H. B. Mallalieu
- One
- Two
- Three

Charles Hanson Towne
- Edwin Markham
- Edwin Markham
Amos N. Wilder
- A Poet and the Class Struggle: Two Stages

Reviews

David Daiches
- Into the World
John Malcolm Brinnin
- For a Wider Audience
Nelson Algren
- Lloyd Frankenberg's Poems
Arthur Meeker Jr.
- Lyric and Narrative
Thomas Howells
- Campion, Musical Poet

Contributors
- - Elder James Olson
  - Willard Maas
  - Howard Milton Blake
  - Lii Tyng Kwei
  - Jeanne McGahey
  - William Justema
  - Gladys Campbell
- - William Empson
  - Charles Henri Ford
  - Langston Hughes
  - Eugene Jolas
  - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Florence Dickinson Stearns
  - H. B. Mallalieu
- - Charles Hanson Towne
  - Amos N. Wilder
  - David Daiches
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Nelson Algren
  - Arthur Meeker Jr.
  - Thomas Howells