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August 1949

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

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Hayden Carruth
Richard Emerson
Kenneth Alling
Le Garde Doughty
Donald Drummond

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1949

Table of Contents

Poems

Winfield Townley Scott
- Bermuda Suite
Peter Viereck
- Love Song of Judas Smith

Two Translations

Heinrich Heine
- The Phoenix
- Leaning against the Mast

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Onion Skin in Barn

Three Poems

Donald F. Drummond

Julia Randall
- Prothalamium
Emma Swan
- The Lion & the Lady
Le Garde S. Doughty
- Humanist

Two Poems

W. Wesley Trimpi
- To El Greco
- Adirondacks: Late Summer 1948

Vernon Scannell
- Song

Four Poems

Laurence Josephs

Three Poems

May Sarton
- Two Songs
- Humpty Dumpty

An Editorial

Hayden Carruth
- The Anti-Poet All Told

Comment

Patrick Kavanagh
- Letter from Ireland

Reviews

John Conley
- Hopkins Enshrined
Horace Gregory
- The New January
Richard Ellmann
- Atonic and Archaic Verse from England

Contributors
- - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Peter Viereck
  - Heinrich Heine
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Donald F. Drummond
  - Julia Randall
- - Emma Swan
  - Le Garde S. Doughty
  - W. Wesley Trimpi
  - Vernon Scannell
  - Laurence Josephs
  - May Sarton
- - Hayden Carruth
  - Patrick Kavanagh
  - John Conley
  - Horace Gregory
  - Richard Ellmann