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May 1950

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

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Frederick Morgan
John Wheelock
Ezra Pound
F. Matthiessen
Gene Baro

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1950

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Andrew Glaze

Three Poems

Miles White

Helena Henderson
- Arrest

Two Poems

Wade Donahoe
- If Not Love Then Nothing
- A Consequence of the Storm

Two Poems

William Jay Smith
- Marine
- London

Gene Baro
- Sonnet
Philip Murray
- The Finches
Allen Curnow
- When the Hulk of the World
Stanley Rosen
- On My Grandmother's Funeral
Varley McBeth
- Sawyer

Six Translations from Max Jacob

Max Jacob

T. S. Eliot
- A Letter from T. S. Eliot

An Editorial

F. O. Matthiessen
- The Persistence of "Poetry"

Reviews

Frank Wood
- Rilke and Benvenuta
Paul Goodman
- Viereck Revisited
Hugh Kenner
- The Channeled Realm
Seymour Betsky
- Ambiguity
Vera Sandomirsky
- The Forgotten Eve of the Revolution

Vera Sandomirsky
- A Note on the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
John Hall Wheelock
- Recent Magazines

Contributors
- - Andrew Glaze
  - Miles White
  - Helena Henderson
  - Wade Donahoe
  - William Jay Smith
  - Gene Baro
  - Philip Murray
- - Allen Curnow
  - Stanley Rosen
  - Varley McBeth
  - Max Jacob
  - T. S. Eliot
  - F. O. Matthiessen
  - Frank Wood
- - Paul Goodman
  - Hugh Kenner
  - Seymour Betsky
  - Vera Sandomirsky
  - John Hall Wheelock