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May 1934

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

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Harriet Monroe
William Williams
Morton Zabel
Laura Benet
Stanley Blackpool

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1934

Table of Contents

Jesse Stuart
- Young Kentucky
Laura Benet
- Lige Weedy's Fiddle
William Davidson
- The Loneliest Born

Two Poems

Guy Carden
- Apprehension
- Modern Interior

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
- The Last Lover

Flashes over Basalt

Stanley Blackpool

Frances M. Frost
- Last Generation

From China and Hawaii

Doris Durst

Harold Vinal
- Daybreak
Frederick Ten Hoor
- A Wish for My Brother

Swift Glimpses

Malvina Levine Rosen

Cary Ross
- Two Poems

In Search

Isabel Perry Doughty

New Times on the Plains

Paul Engle

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- Down South
F. R. Leavis
- English Letter

Reviews

Marianne Moore
- Things Others Never Notice
Léonie Adams
- Unequal Beauty
Rolfe Humphries
- Journeyman of Letters
William Gorman
- Poetry and Labor
Horace Gregory
- The Best People

Brief Notices

Contributors
- - Jesse Stuart
  - Laura Benet
  - William Davidson
  - Guy Carden
  - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
  - Stanley Blackpool
  - Frances M. Frost
- - Doris Durst
  - Harold Vinal
  - Frederick Ten Hoor
  - Malvina Levine Rosen
  - Cary Ross
  - Isabel Perry Doughty
  - Paul Engle
- - Harriet Monroe
  - F. R. Leavis
  - Marianne Moore
  - Léonie Adams
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - William Gorman
  - Horace Gregory