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October 1949

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

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Milton Saul
Alan Swallow
Hayden Carruth
J. Cunningham
Wallace Fowlie

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1949

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Roland Mathias

Barbara Rohde
- Living Quarters
William Burford
- Discoveries
George T. Fairclough
- Furious as a Lute
Reed Whittemore
- Variations on Being Thirty
Robert Wooster Stallman
- The Windmill

Two Poems

Dorothy Lee Richardson
- Child on a Height
- Skull

Herman Salinger
- Sultry Morning: Rural
Charles Francis Knauber
- But When in Time
Pearce Young
- Upon a Poem by Ben Jonson
Leslie A. Fiedler
- A Jahrzeit for Papa Jay

Two Poems

John Frederick Nims
- Fairy Tale
- The Magical View of Nature

A Symposium

Alan Swallow
- Poet, Publisher, and the Tribal Chant

Contributors
- - Roland Mathias
  - Barbara Rohde
  - William Burford
  - George T. Fairclough
  - Reed Whittemore
- - Robert Wooster Stallman
  - Dorothy Lee Richardson
  - Herman Salinger
  - Charles Francis Knauber
  - Pearce Young
- - Leslie A. Fiedler
  - John Frederick Nims
  - Alan Swallow