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June 1940

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

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Kenneth Fearing
James Daly
Richard Eberhart
E. Idle
Arthur Kramer

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Table of Contents

Muriel Rukeyser
- The Soul and Body of John Brown

Four Poems

Edouard Roditi

Two Poems

Arthur J. Kramer
- Victory
- Vampire

Jean Starr Untermeyer
- The Realists
James Johnson Sweeney
- Guernica
Nicholas Moore
- Two Poems
E. Doreen Idle
- Holiday
Marguerite Young
- Ventriloquist: The Coffee Hour
Helene S Pulse
- Peeling Apples
Yvonne Markus
- Anabasis

Three Poems

Robert Liddell Lowe

Two Poems

James Daly
- A.D. 1940: An Epigraph
- Franchester Farm

Richard Eberhart
- From "Poem in Construction"
John Peale Bishop
- The Poetry of a E. Housman
Maude Sumner Smith
- When Children Write Verse

Reviews

Conrad Aiken
- A Rocking Alphabet
S. Ichiye Hayakawa
- The Last Tourist
David Sachs
- The Military Image
Howard Milton Blake
- Seventeenth Century Yankee

Contributors
- - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Edouard Roditi
  - Arthur J. Kramer
  - Jean Starr Untermeyer
  - James Johnson Sweeney
  - Nicholas Moore
  - E. Doreen Idle
- - Marguerite Young
  - Helene S Pulse
  - Yvonne Markus
  - Robert Liddell Lowe
  - James Daly
  - Richard Eberhart
  - John Peale Bishop
- - Maude Sumner Smith
  - Conrad Aiken
  - S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  - David Sachs
  - Howard Milton Blake