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June 1947

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

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Katherine Chapin
Bruce Berlind
Nelson Bittner
Millen Brand
Elizabeth Brewster

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1947

Table of Contents

John Ciardi
- Letter to Virginia Johnson
Pablo Neruda
- Widower's Tango

Three Poems

Alison Lurie

Bill Swing
- Alta Eager
J. Radcliffe Squires
- Casualty
Elizabeth Brewster
- In the Library
C. P. Cavafy
- Footfalls

Three Poems

Lila Hitchcock

Bruce Berlind
- Dolly Pentreath

Two Poems

Millen Brand
- Joe HeimbacherThe Start
- Dinner

Elizabeth McFarland
- Exiles
Anthony Kerrigan
- Haitian Themes
Paul Goodman
- Dreams Are the Royal Road to the Unconscious
Nelson Del Bittner
- Blue Piano

Four Poems

Marion Strobel

Coorespondance

Harvey Curtis Webster
- Humanism as the Father Face (A Critical Preview)

Reviews

Dudley Fitts
- The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
A. J. M. Smith
- The Uneven Maturing Man
Ruth Dart Stephan
- Travelers in a Secret Country
Ray Smith
- Two Kinds of Myth
Frajam Taylor
- The Fount of Bliss

Contributors
- - John Ciardi
  - Pablo Neruda
  - Alison Lurie
  - Bill Swing
  - J. Radcliffe Squires
  - Elizabeth Brewster
  - C. P. Cavafy
- - Lila Hitchcock
  - Bruce Berlind
  - Millen Brand
  - Elizabeth McFarland
  - Anthony Kerrigan
  - Paul Goodman
  - Nelson Del Bittner
- - Marion Strobel
  - Harvey Curtis Webster
  - Dudley Fitts
  - A. J. M. Smith
  - Ruth Dart Stephan
  - Ray Smith
  - Frajam Taylor