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February 1953

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

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Patrick Anderson
Edwin Honig
Rolfe Humphries
Joseph Langland
Josephine Miles

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Feb 1953

Table of Contents

Six Poems

Patrick Anderson

Joseph Langland
- Light in Autumn
Edwin Honig
- Pray Eros

Two Poems

Josephine Miles
- Winter
- Evangel

Two-Poems

William Jay Smith
- Autumn
- Nightwood

New Section

Rolfe Humphries
- Song from the Gaelic, Maybe("The fond summer numbers...")

Two Poems

Vernon Watkins
- Woodpecker and Lyre-Bird
- Ballad of the Trial of Sodom

Reviews

Edward Dahlberg
- A Long Lotus Sleep
Parker Tyler
- The Profile-View: Striking
E. L. Mayo
- Two Twayne Poets
Vivienne Koch
- Metaphysical Muddle
William Becker
- On the Margin of Yeats
Diana Chang
- Pakeha Poetry

Contributors
- - Patrick Anderson
  - Joseph Langland
  - Edwin Honig
  - Josephine Miles
  - William Jay Smith
- - Rolfe Humphries
  - Vernon Watkins
  - Edward Dahlberg
  - Parker Tyler
  - E. L. Mayo
- - Vivienne Koch
  - William Becker
  - Diana Chang