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December 1940

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

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Gorham Munson
Maxwell Bodenheim
David De Jong
Orian De Pledge
J. Hendry

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Table of Contents

Five Poems

Robinson Jeffers

May Sarton
- What the Old Man Said
Samuel French Morse
- Sonnet ("How can he answer grief?")

Three Poems

David Cornel De Jong

Inez Cunningham Stark
- The Angel of the Lord
E. L. Mayo
- The Questioners
Orian C. De Pledge
- Autumn
J. F. Hendry
- Midnight Air Raid
Rudolph Leonhard
- Die Letzten Tage

Two Poems

David Morton
- Chorus for Our Play
- How Then ?

Charles Norman
- Ring out, Ring In

Four Poems

Ruth Dart Stephan
- Eyelet
- Sea Sprout
- Hiatus
- To God

Two Poems

Maxwell Bodenheim
- Advice to a Man
- To Gertrude Stein

Margedant Peters
- The Poet and Pedant Symposium

Reviews

John Vincent Healy
- The Pound Problem
Henry W. Rago
- Symmetry of Frustration
Louis Forster
- The Two Bynners
Marion Strobel
- Happy Landing
Tom Boggs
- Five Anthologies

Contributors
- - Robinson Jeffers
  - May Sarton
  - Samuel French Morse
  - David Cornel De Jong
  - Inez Cunningham Stark
  - E. L. Mayo
  - Orian C. De Pledge
- - J. F. Hendry
  - Rudolph Leonhard
  - David Morton
  - Charles Norman
  - Ruth Dart Stephan
  - Maxwell Bodenheim
  - Margedant Peters
- - John Vincent Healy
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Louis Forster
  - Marion Strobel
  - Tom Boggs