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September 1917

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

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Alice Henderson
Harriet Monroe
Sherwood Anderson
Karle Baker
John Cournos

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Table of Contents

Mid-American Songs

Sherwood Anderson

Songs from the Woods

Harley Graves

Richard Hunt
- The Scarlet Tanager
Karle Wilson Baker
- A Simple Song for America: 1917
Glenn Ward Dresbach
- The Dreamers
- Nocturne
Carl Sandburg
- Old Timers
John Cournos
- Among the Rodins

Poems

Scharmel Iris

John Hall Wheelock
- The Moonlight Sonata

Editorial Comment

Harriet Monroe
- Emerson in a Loggia
Alice Corbin Henderson
- The Great Adventure
- Our Cowboy Poet

Reviews

Harriet Monroe
- John Masefield
Eunice Tietjens
- Dreamer and Cynic
Amy Lowell
- An Observer in China
Agnes Lee
- Émile Cammaerts

Contributors
- - Sherwood Anderson
  - Harley Graves
  - Richard Hunt
  - Karle Wilson Baker
  - Glenn Ward Dresbach
- - Carl Sandburg
  - John Cournos
  - Scharmel Iris
  - John Hall Wheelock
  - Harriet Monroe