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July 1933

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

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Harriet Monroe
Basil Bunting
Wilson Askew
John Bishop
Gladys Campbell

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1933

Table of Contents

Elder James Olson
- Novel in Pictures

Forbears

John Peale Bishop

Two Poems

A. S. J. Tessimond
- The Children Look at the Parents
- Cocoon for a Skeleton

Three Sonnets

Helen Cornelius

Cypress Leaves

Henry W. Rago

Sonnets in Slanting Rhymes

Hubert Creekmore
- Coincidence of Birds
- Before a Leyden Jar

David Cornel De Jong
- Cool Weather

Brevities

Marion Doyle

R. B. N. Warriston
- Sanctuary

Two Poems

Wilson Askew
- Dream
- One Season to Another

Sue Skipwith Flagg
- Sung Upward
Welborn Hope
- The Squatter

Two Poems

Mary Barbara Holoubek
- Epitaph
- Fickle

Motion and Change

Gladys Campbell

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- A Bull in the China Shop

Reviews

R. P. Blackmur
- The Ribbon of Craft
Harriet Monroe
- Paul Engle's First Book
Marion Strobel
- A Hopwood Award Poet
John Gould Fletcher
- Stephen Spender's Poems
Stanley Kunitz
- Six English Poets
Nelson Del Bittner
- The Bigness of California

Coorespondence

Elsa Gidlow
- Science and the Poets

Contributors
- - Elder James Olson
  - John Peale Bishop
  - A. S. J. Tessimond
  - Helen Cornelius
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Hubert Creekmore
  - David Cornel De Jong
- - Marion Doyle
  - R. B. N. Warriston
  - Wilson Askew
  - Sue Skipwith Flagg
  - Welborn Hope
  - Mary Barbara Holoubek
  - Gladys Campbell
- - Harriet Monroe
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Marion Strobel
  - John Gould Fletcher
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Nelson Del Bittner
  - Elsa Gidlow