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May 1931

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

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Ezra Pound
Harriet Monroe
Richard Aldington
Mary Barber
Luella Boynton

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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The issue is from May of 1931

Table of Contents

Split Rock

Lew R. Sarett

Six Poems

Audrey Wurdemann

Luella Boynton
- Sonnet
Romer Wilson
- From "A May Pastoral"
Jane Dransfield
- The Loons
Helen Cornelius
- The Wisdom of the Hand
Ursula Kimball Russell
- First Year
Ben Maddow
- Obsequy
Richard Aldington
- La Rochelle
Mary Finette Barber
- Idle Acre

Personals

Leon Herald

Three Sonnets

William Harold McCreary

Two Poems

John Scheffer
- Affirmation
- This Youth Bewildered

H. Chattopadhyaya
- Forgiveness

Two Ballads

Derrick Norman Lehmer
- The Feud
- Eviction

Comment

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Leadership
Ezra Pound
- The Situation

Reviews

Harriet Monroe
- On a High Horse
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- A Dawn in Britain: II
Harriet Monroe
- Wisdom in Nutshells
Marion Strobel
- Love and Metaphysics
Marie Luhrs
- Casual Singing
Harriet Monroe
- Early Montana
Bertha Ten Eyck James
- Quiet Lyrics
Jessica Nelson North
- Not so Good

Contributors
- - Lew R. Sarett
  - Audrey Wurdemann
  - Luella Boynton
  - Romer Wilson
  - Jane Dransfield
  - Helen Cornelius
  - Ursula Kimball Russell
  - Ben Maddow
- - Richard Aldington
  - Mary Finette Barber
  - Leon Herald
  - William Harold McCreary
  - John Scheffer
  - H. Chattopadhyaya
  - Derrick Norman Lehmer
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
- - Ezra Pound
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Marion Strobel
  - Marie Luhrs
  - Bertha Ten Eyck James
  - Jessica Nelson North