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November 1932

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

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Ferris Greenslet
Oscar Brynes
Jeannie Dixon
Jay Du Von
Mary Elmendorf

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1932

Table of Contents

The Speediest Ash

Morton Dauwen Zabel

Richard Esler
- At the Grave of Hart Crane
Oscar Brynes
- Autumnal

Grass of Ruins

Lincoln Fitzell

Louise Ayres Garnett
- They Who Listen
C. A. Millspaugh
- Past Pitch of Grief
Sara Saper
- Two Poems for F.
Harriet Monroe
- Eighty Degrees

Sonnets of a Battlefield

Anderson M. Scruggs
- Missionary Ridge
- Chickamauga Park

Jay Du Von
- November

Straight Talk

John Mckinley Greenlee
- Journeyman
- The People Are at Peace

Mary J. Elmendorf
- October

Sonnet and Song

Margery Swett Mansfield
- Hand
- Song for Music

Marian Storm
- Catastrophe
Marlys Henning
- Tardigrade
Jeannie Begg Dixon
- Tied Sheaves

Questions and Answers

John Wheelwright

Comment

Harriet Monroe
- The "Great Poem"

Reviews

R. P. Blackmur
- The Lesser Satisfactions
Stanley Kunitz
- Mrs. Speyer's Third Volume
Harriet Monroe

Brief Notices

Laundry Bills

Robert Fitzgerald
- A Premature Elegy

Contributors
- - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Richard Esler
  - Oscar Brynes
  - Lincoln Fitzell
  - Louise Ayres Garnett
  - C. A. Millspaugh
  - Sara Saper
- - Harriet Monroe
  - Anderson M. Scruggs
  - Jay Du Von
  - John Mckinley Greenlee
  - Mary J. Elmendorf
  - Margery Swett Mansfield
  - Marian Storm
- - Marlys Henning
  - Jeannie Begg Dixon
  - John Wheelwright
  - R. P. Blackmur
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Robert Fitzgerald