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May 1936

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

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Philip Rahv
Edgar Masters
Harriet Monroe
R. Blackmur
Kenneth Fearing

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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The issue is from May of 1936

Table of Contents

Before the Hour

Edwin Rolfe
- The Ship
- Night-World

Alfred Hayes
- Singleman
Kenneth Fearing
- Longshot Blues
David Shreiber
- Marching to Georgia
David Wolff
- On Signing Up

There Comes an End

T. C. Wilson
- Tear Down the Walls
- Poem ("To sing a song...")

John Wheelwright
- Two Tongues in a Tower
R. P. Blackmur
- Judas Priest
Hildegarde Flanner
- Women of My Day
Josephine Miles
- Driver Saying
Harold Rosenberg
- 1776

Two Poems

C Newman
- The Last Superstition
- When the Earth Is Cold

Night-Music

Muriel Rukeyser

Horace Gregory
- Prologue as Epilogue
William Phillips and Philip Rahv
- Private Experience and Public Philosophy

Reviews

T. C. Wilson
- The Example of Dr. Williams
Harold Rosenberg
- Youth in Protest
Winfield Townley Scott
- Shapes of Time
R. P. Blackmur
- A Green Thought in a Green Shade
Delmore Schwartz
- Adroitly Naive

Contributors
- - Edwin Rolfe
  - Alfred Hayes
  - Kenneth Fearing
  - David Shreiber
  - David Wolff
  - T. C. Wilson
- - John Wheelwright
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Hildegarde Flanner
  - Josephine Miles
  - Harold Rosenberg
  - C Newman
- - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Horace Gregory
  - William Phillips
  - Philip Rahv
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Delmore Schwartz