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April 1917

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

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Svea Bernhard
Harriet Monroe
Walter Pach
Willard Wattles
James Alvord

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Table of Contents

My People

Carl Sandburg
- Loam
- The Year
- Chicago Poet
- Street Window
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Repetitions
- Throw Roses
- Fire-Logs
- Baby Face
- Early Moon
- Alix
- Gargoyle
- Prairie Waters by Night
- Moonset
- Garden Wireless
- In Tall Grass
- Bringers

Walter de La Mare
- The Reawakening
- Two Epitaphs
Morris Gilbert
- Prussians Don't Believe in Dreams A. D., 1916
- To a French Aviator Fallen in Battle

Out of Mexico

Grace Hazard Conkling

Gladys Cromwell
- The Fugitive
- The Crowning Gift
James Church Alvord
- Easter Evening
Scudder Middleton
William Saphier
- Praise
- To....

Toadstools

Alfred Kreymborg
- Love Was Dead All Day
- Lanes
- Again
- Courtship
- Sir Hobbledehoy
- 1914
- Dirge

Editorial Comment

Harriet Monroe
- The City and the Tower
Svea Bernhard
- Verner Von Heidenstam

Reviews

Agnes Lee
- Youth at War
Ezra Pound
- A Flock from Oxford
Agnes Lee
- The Escaped Princess by W. R. Childe; Thursday's Child by E. Rendall; Bohemian Glass by E. L. Duff; Contacts by T. W. Earp; The Iron Age by Frank Betts;
Eunice Tietjens
- From India
Harriet Monroe
- From Canada

Our Contemporaries

Walter Pach
- La Voce and Its Poets

Willard Wattles
- Correspondence

Contributors
- - Carl Sandburg
  - Walter de La Mare
  - Morris Gilbert
  - Grace Hazard Conkling
  - Gladys Cromwell
  - James Church Alvord
- - Scudder Middleton
  - William Saphier
  - Alfred Kreymborg
  - Harriet Monroe
  - Svea Bernhard
  - Agnes Lee
- - Ezra Pound
  - Eunice Tietjens
  - Walter Pach
  - Willard Wattles