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November 1936

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

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Malcolm Cowley
George Dillon
Verne Bright
Thomas Duncan
William Empson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1936

Table of Contents

Marianne Moore
- Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks

Inquiries

Frederick Ten Hoor

William Empson
- Reflection from Rochester
William Carlos Williams
- To an Elder Poet

How Otherwise

May Lewis

Drought

Verne Bright
- Goose-Grass Harvest
- Futile Furrow

Thomas W. Duncan
- One Who Came in Night

On a Thread

Bertha Ten Eyck James

Five Poems

Mary Ray McCullar

Walking through Daylight

William Pillin

Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Harriet Monroe: December 23, 1860-September 26, 1936

Reviews

Robert Fitzgerald
- Actual and Archaic
Louise Bogan
- Out of Memory
Hildegarde Flanner
- Fact and Mystery

Correspondence

Geoffrey Grigson
- A Letter from England

Contributors
- - Marianne Moore
  - Frederick Ten Hoor
  - William Empson
  - William Carlos Williams
  - May Lewis
- - Verne Bright
  - Thomas W. Duncan
  - Bertha Ten Eyck James
  - Mary Ray McCullar
  - William Pillin
- - Morton Dauwen Zabel
  - Robert Fitzgerald
  - Louise Bogan
  - Hildegarde Flanner
  - Geoffrey Grigson