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February 1940

 
  • Charles Towne
  • William Everson
  • Julian Symons
  • Maude Smith
  • Maxwell Bodenheim
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Stanzas in Meditation

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Murray Bay

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Sunday on Third Avenue

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Table of Contents

  • Gertrude Stein
    • Stanzas in Meditation
Two Poems
  • John Vincent Healy
    • Murray Bay
    • Faces Seen in Dreams
  • Herman Spector
    • Sunday on Third Avenue
  • Irene Wilde
    • The Magic Flute
Two Poems
  • Elizabeth Randall-Mills
    • Host to the Great
    • The Day
  • David Morton
    • As It Was in the Beginning
  • Robert Clark Hollingsworth
    • A Man of the Road
  • William Herber
    • The Sign
  • Maxwell Bodenheim
    • Sonnet
Two Poems
  • Kathleen Foster Campbell
    • Not Fragments
    • Wake
  • Mabel Simpson
    • Only Death
  • John Gould Fletcher
    • The Ozarks
Five Poems
  • Terence Heywood
    • Notes for a Bestiary
    • Not without Hazard
    • Linguistic
    • Grisaille
    • Holy Living and Wholly Dying
  • Wendell Wilcox
    • A Note on Stein and Abstraction
  • Charles Hanson Towne
    • Poetry in the Making
Reviews
  • Morgan Blum
    • No Shallow Stream
  • Jessica Nelson North
    • Revivifying the Familiar
  • Joseph M. Hone
    • Young Ireland
  • Alfred Kreymborg
    • Business and Poetry
CONTRIBUTORS
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  • Maxwell Bodenheim
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  • John Gould Fletcher
  • John Vincent Healy
  • William Herber
  • Terence Heywood
  • Robert Clark Hollingsworth
  • Joseph M. Hone
  • Alfred Kreymborg
  • David Morton
  • Jessica Nelson North
  • Elizabeth Randall-Mills
  • Mabel Simpson
  • Herman Spector
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Charles Hanson Towne
  • Wendell Wilcox
  • Irene Wilde
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