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September 1931

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

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Harriet Monroe
Morton Zabel
Kenneth Alling
Wesley Ames
Flora Arnstein

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Poetry Magazine Cover, Sept 1931

Table of Contents

Things Descried

Harold Lewis Cook

Pointed Leaves

Wesley Ames

Six Poems

Flora J. Arnstein

Carlos R. Mondaca
- Amor

Three Persons

James Palmer Wade

As We Are

Helen Neville
- The Problem
- A Prophecy

Even Though

Dorothy Dow
- Portrait
- Plea

James L. Duff
- The Major

Edges

Selden Rodman

Geoffrey Johnson
- The Outcast
Kenneth Slade Alling
- Gull
H. Boner
- The Giant Cactus

Dance Poems

Mark Turbyfill

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- A Midsummer Interlude
A. R. Gonzalez
- Some Chilean Poets

Reviews

R. P. Blackmur
- Moody in Retrospect
Marianne Moore
- A Machinery of Satisfaction
Robert Fitzgerald
- Summer Sadness
Dudley Fitts
- Clouded Characters
Sherry Mangan
- A Very Fitful Tracing
Jessica Nelson North
- Something Lacking
Robert Louis Burgess
- Rime Is Music

Contents

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Recent Magazines

Contributors
- - Harold Lewis Cook
  - Wesley Ames
  - Flora J. Arnstein
  - Carlos R. Mondaca
  - James Palmer Wade
  - Helen Neville
  - Dorothy Dow
  - James L. Duff
- - Selden Rodman
  - Geoffrey Johnson
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - H. Boner
  - Mark Turbyfill
  - Harriet Monroe
  - A. R. Gonzalez
  - R. P. Blackmur
- - Marianne Moore
  - Robert Fitzgerald
  - Dudley Fitts
  - Sherry Mangan
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Robert Louis Burgess
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel