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November 1947

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

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Anna Balakian
Hayden Carruth
William O'Connor
Karl Shapiro
John Brinnin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1947

Table of Contents

John Malcolm Brinnin
- The Worm in the Whirling Cross
Louis Kent
- The Stair

Four Poems

William E. Stafford

William Robert Moses
- Point of View
Barbara Moore
- Autumn
Albert Edward Clements
- Hung out by My Feet on the Sunday Clothes Line
John Short
- Memorabilia

Two Poems

George Moor
- Old Man and Woman
- Willows

Two Poems

Arthur Gregor
- Ritual
- Blackout

Critical Preview

John Theobald
- The World in a Cross Word

Reviews

William Elton
- Metapoetry by a Thinking Type
Francis C. Golffing
- Question of Strategy
Robert Liddell Lowe
- Comic Mask
Alfred C. Ames
- Escaping Selfhood

Hayden Carruth
- New Magazines, Here and Abroad

Contributors
- - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Louis Kent
  - William E. Stafford
  - William Robert Moses
  - Barbara Moore
- - Albert Edward Clements
  - John Short
  - George Moor
  - Arthur Gregor
  - John Theobald
- - William Elton
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Robert Liddell Lowe
  - Alfred C. Ames
  - Hayden Carruth