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June 1949

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

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Hayden Carruth
J. Cunningham
George Barker
Grace Conkling
Randall Jarrell

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1949

Table of Contents

Five Poems

James Merrill

Two Poems

George Barker
- Ode against St. Cecilia's Day
- Elegy on the Death of Michael Roberts

Elizabeth Travers
- Elegy for a Pet Beagle
Randall Jarrell
- Goodbye, Wendover; Goodbye, Mountain Home
Jacques Prîvert
- Rue de Seine
Anne Ridler
- Poem
H. Lee Sutton
- News Item

The Summer Poems

Samuel French Morse

Jerome H. Weisser
- Portrait of an Old Man
Margaret Widdemer
- Willow
Grace Hazard Conkling
- The Return

Five Poems

Arvid Shulenberger

An Editorial

Hayden Carruth
- The Bollingen Award: What Is It?

Opinion

Paul Goodman
- The Chance for Popular Culture

Reviews

Frank Jones
- Talent vs. the Mode
Hugh Kenner
- The Later Discipline
Arthur Mizener
- The White Cliffs of Dover Revisited
Sherman Conrad
- The Common War
Ray Smith
- Listening Backward

William Van O'Connor
- Recent Magazines

Contributors
- - James Merrill
  - George Barker
  - Elizabeth Travers
  - Randall Jarrell
  - Jacques Prîvert
  - Anne Ridler
  - H. Lee Sutton
- - Samuel French Morse
  - Jerome H. Weisser
  - Margaret Widdemer
  - Grace Hazard Conkling
  - Arvid Shulenberger
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Paul Goodman
- - Frank Jones
  - Hugh Kenner
  - Arthur Mizener
  - Sherman Conrad
  - Ray Smith
  - William Van O'Connor