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February 1937

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

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John Cournos
Joseph Hone
Matthew Biller
John Bishop
R. Blackmur

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1937

Table of Contents

Homage to Audubon

John Peale Bishop

Louise Bogan
- Song for a Lyre
R. P. Blackmur
- Scarabs for the Living

Facing the Day

Stephen Stepanchev

Two Poems

Delmore Schwartz
- Poem ("You, my photographer...")
- Poem ("Old man...")

Sydney S. Salt
- About Gestures

Past and Present

Richmond Lattimore
- Prelude for a History
- Two Octobers

Mary Littledale
- Winter Wood

The Season Turns

Alice Gustava Smith
- Late Autumn
- Snow

Lola Pergament
- For Love Later

The Faithful Shadow

Winona Montgomery Gilliland

Files Moving

Matthew Biller
- Years
- How Many?

Two Poems

Mary N. S. Whiteley
- Garment Workers' Strike
- No Horns Blowing

Henry W. Rago
- Sanctuary

The Immutable Transit

Beatrice Goldsmith
- Phase
- Transit
- Escape
- Finis

Marianne Moore
- Unanimity and Fortitude
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Poet as Anthologist

Reviews

Robert Penn Warren
- Jeffers on the Age
Horace Gregory
- A Contrast in Satires
C. A. Millspaugh
- Passion and Rumination
Ben Belitt
- The Gaelic Mode
Henry W. Rago
- A Fitful Splendor

Elsa Gidlow
- The Western Writers' Congress

Contributors
- - John Peale Bishop
  - Louise Bogan
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Stephen Stepanchev
  - Delmore Schwartz
  - Sydney S. Salt
  - Richmond Lattimore
  - Mary Littledale
- - Alice Gustava Smith
  - Lola Pergament
  - Winona Montgomery Gilliland
  - Matthew Biller
  - Mary N. S. Whiteley
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Beatrice Goldsmith
  - Marianne Moore
- - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Robert Penn Warren
  - Horace Gregory
  - C. A. Millspaugh
  - Ben Belitt
  - Elsa Gidlow