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May 1935

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

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Harriet Monroe
Morton Zabel
Marion Bliss
Luella Boynton
Guy Carden

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1935

Table of Contents

Native Hours

Hildegarde Flanner

Arkansas Poems

Richard Leon Spain

Guy Carden
- Weather
Robert Wormhoudt
- To Her Father
Roderick McKenzie
- Harbor

Two Poems

Gilbert Maxwell
- From a Piazza in the South
- Symbol for Static Grief

Casual Seed

David Lear
- Laocoon
- Venus Pandemos

Dipping Upward

John Mckinley Greenlee
- Ohio Lanes and Wells
- Cold Ambition

In the Upper Air

Alice Gustava Smith
- Flight
- Seasonal

Ruth Earnshaw
- For a Day in May
A. J. M. Smith
- Good Friday
Luella Boynton
- Portrait
Israel Newman
- Torah
Allan Seager
- Epilogue
Welborn Hope
- In Early Spring
Marion Louise Bliss
- Dust Storm

Syllables of Silence

Robert Gildart
- Portraits of the Living
- Sonnet ("These dreams of you...")

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- A Department of Science Art and Literature?
Eunice Tietjens
- The Cuckoo School of Criticism

Reviews

Louise Bogan
- For Garrets and Cellars
Morton Dauwen Zabel
- For Saints and Patriots
R. P. Blackmur
- Statements and Idyls
Raymond Holden
- Ten Beginnings

Contributors
- - Hildegarde Flanner
  - Richard Leon Spain
  - Guy Carden
  - Robert Wormhoudt
  - Roderick McKenzie
  - Gilbert Maxwell
  - David Lear
  - John Mckinley Greenlee
- - Alice Gustava Smith
  - Ruth Earnshaw
  - A. J. M. Smith
  - Luella Boynton
  - Israel Newman
  - Allan Seager
  - Welborn Hope
  - Marion Louise Bliss
- - Robert Gildart
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Eunice Tietjens
  - Louise Bogan
  - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Raymond Holden