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April 1934

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

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Baker Brownell
F. Leavis
Katherine Chapin
Franklin Folsom
John Gill

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1934

Table of Contents

New Meanings

Harold Rosenberg

These Days

Franklin Folsom

Marjorie Knapp
- Tenth Birthday
Katherine Garrison Chapin
- At Stonehenge

Two Poems

James Neugass
- Earthen Terror
- A Landscape of Negatives

John Gill
- Rending the Veil

Fire Poems

Helen Hoyt
- Vaunting of Fire
- Estuaries of Fire

Sidelong Glances

Shan Sinclair

Something There Is

Henry W. Rago

To Meet the Rose

Mabel Simpson

James J. Ryan
- I Do Not Ask

Preludes and Impromptus

Elder James Olson

Comment

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- The Use of the Poet
S. Foster Damon
- Francis Daniel Pastorius

Reviews

Léonie Adams
- Winter Bloom
Harriet Monroe
- Miss Kenyon's Decade
R. P. Blackmur
- Text for a Life, with Epitaph
Robert Fitzgerald
- New Messages
Willard Maas
- Four Young Revolutionists
Allen Tate
- How Is Writing Taught?

Brief Notices

Contributors
- - Harold Rosenberg
  - Franklin Folsom
  - Marjorie Knapp
  - Katherine Garrison Chapin
  - James Neugass
  - John Gill
  - Helen Hoyt
- - Shan Sinclair
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Mabel Simpson
  - James J. Ryan
  - Elder James Olson
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - S. Foster Damon