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May 1947

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

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Sally Carrighar
Charles Bruce
Clara Brussel
C. Coates
Alfred De Vigny

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1947

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Nicholas Moore

C. Coates
- The Gull

Four Poems

William Meredith

Alfred Victor De Vigny
- To the Deaf-Mutes
Edith Weaver
- Lost Cinderella
Louis Ginsberg
- Bridal Party
Charles Bruce
- Note for a Textbook

Two Songs

George Moor
- Song of Death's Envoy to Violet
- Death's Love Song

Three Poems

Clara Brussel

Two Poems

David Kapp
- Judgment Day
- One Small Voice

Samuel French Morse
- Variations: For Hope
Brewster Ghiselin
- Reading Sprung Rhythms

Reviews

Winfield Townley Scott
- Great and Austere Poet
Robert Liddell Lowe
- Three at Mid-Century
Edwin Morgan
- Fowlie on Rimbaud
Francis C. Golffing
- A Victorian Self-Portrait
William Jay Smith
- Patchen's Province and Other Landscapes

Correspondence

Sally Carrighar
- The Butterfly as a Strategy

Contributors
- - Nicholas Moore
  - C. Coates
  - William Meredith
  - Alfred Victor De Vigny
  - Edith Weaver
  - Louis Ginsberg
- - Charles Bruce
  - George Moor
  - Clara Brussel
  - David Kapp
  - Samuel French Morse
  - Brewster Ghiselin
- - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Robert Liddell Lowe
  - Edwin Morgan
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - William Jay Smith
  - Sally Carrighar