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July 1949

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

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Hayden Carruth
Tom Boggs
Claire Burch
E. Cummings
Leah Drake

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1949

Table of Contents

Seven Poems

E. E. Cummings

Flavio Herrera
- Hai Kais
Charles Slack
- A Short Unidentified Man
Edwin Honig
- A Graver Story
Lucy Black Johnson
- Economic Theory

Two Poems

Theodore Weiss
- The Match
- The Dance Called David

Claire Burch
- Poem by Emily Dickinson

Two Poems

David Wagoner
- Mice in Halo
- Vigil

Leah Bodine Drake
- Leonardo before His Canvas
Frances M. Frost
- Sunday Afternoon

Two Poems

Stanley Moss
- Sestina: The Ships Go Nowhere
- And Now There Is No Place to Look

Tom Boggs
- Grackles
Patterson Gephart
- Night Scoop
Nicholas Moore
- The Azure Tower

Criticism

Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
- Rococo: The Poetry of Sacheverell Sitwell

Reviews

William Troy
- Poetry and "The Non-Euclidean Predicament"
Muriel Rukeyser
- A Simple Theme
Paul Goodman
- The Choral Odes of Dr. Sitwell
Ray B. West Jr.
- The Imagistic Vision
Hayden Carruth
- Cherchez L'Homme

Contributors
- - E. E. Cummings
  - Flavio Herrera
  - Charles Slack
  - Edwin Honig
  - Lucy Black Johnson
  - Theodore Weiss
  - Claire Burch
- - David Wagoner
  - Leah Bodine Drake
  - Frances M. Frost
  - Stanley Moss
  - Tom Boggs
  - Patterson Gephart
  - Nicholas Moore
- - Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
  - William Troy
  - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Paul Goodman
  - Ray B. West Jr.
  - Hayden Carruth