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May 1932

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

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Allen Tate
Robert Warren
Harriet Monroe
John Bishop
Saville Clark

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Poetry Magazine Cover, May 1932

Table of Contents

Kentucky Mountain Farm

Robert Penn Warren

Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Pastures
William Alexander Percy
- Sonnet

Two Poems

John Gould Fletcher
- At the Dream's-Edge Shore
- The Blue Elegy

Two Poems

Josephine Pinckney
- A Recollection
- A Fig for Selene

William Davidson
- One Savage Word

Three Sonnets

Merrill Moore

Cravings

John Peale Bishop
- Hunger and Thirst
- The Truth about the Dew

Two Poems

Allen Tate
- The Anabasis
- Brief Message

Donald (Grady) Davidson
- Aunt Maria and the Gourds

Looking Through

Gene De Bullet

Erle Howry
- Time

Persons Seen

Josephine W. Johnson

James Palmer Wade
- Bergruine Englehaus

Poem and Sequence

Saville Clark
- At Memphis
- City

Saville Clark
- The Son of Senisub

Comment

Allen Tate
- Editorial Note
Donald (Grady) Davidson
- The Southern Poet and His Tradition
Robert Penn Warren
- A Note on Three Southern Poets

Contributors
- - Robert Penn Warren
  - Lizette Woodworth Reese
  - William Alexander Percy
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Josephine Pinckney
- - William Davidson
  - Merrill Moore
  - John Peale Bishop
  - Allen Tate
  - Donald (Grady) Davidson
- - Gene De Bullet
  - Erle Howry
  - Josephine W. Johnson
  - James Palmer Wade
  - Saville Clark