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June 1939

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

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Terence Heywood
W. Auden
Elizabeth Frost
Beatrice Goldsmith
Ruth Henderson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1939

Table of Contents

W. H. Auden
- Voltaire at Ferney
Beatrice Goldsmith
- Nocturne
Arthur Rimbaud
- When Rimbaud Came to Charleroi
George Marion O'Donnell
- Commencement Oration
Grace Fallow Norton
- Dear Wolf

Two Poems

Ruth Evelyn Henderson
- First Crossing
- Postcard from Geneva

May Williams Ward
- The Time of Delicate Petals
Boris Todrin
- Durutti
Ted Olson
- Words Said for Comfort

Three Sonnets

Inez Cunningham Stark

Rolfe Humphries
- Draft Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion

Three Poems

Elizabeth Hollister Frost

Berenice K. Van Slyke
- Pursuit so Hidden

From "The Seasonal Man"

Samuel French Morse

David Daiches
- W. H. Auden: The Search for a Public

Reviews

S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- The Allusive Trap
Richard Eberhart
- Warmth and Ease and Charm and Aptitude
John Wheelwright
- Toward the Recovery of Speech

Amy Bonner
- The Poetry Market

Contributors
- - W. H. Auden
  - Beatrice Goldsmith
  - Arthur Rimbaud
  - George Marion O'Donnell
  - Grace Fallow Norton
  - Ruth Evelyn Henderson
  - May Williams Ward
- - Boris Todrin
  - Ted Olson
  - Inez Cunningham Stark
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - Elizabeth Hollister Frost
  - Berenice K. Van Slyke
  - Samuel French Morse
- - David Daiches
  - S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  - Richard Eberhart
  - John Wheelwright
  - Amy Bonner