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September 1954

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

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Delmore Schwartz
Ben Belitt
William Belvin
Margaret Danner
Brewster Ghiselin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1954

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Randall Jarrell

Two Poems

John Woods
- The Downfall Plot
- Near Carter's Mill

William Belvin
- To a Yellow Tea Rose

Far from Africa

Margaret Danner
- Etta Moten's Attic

Four Poems

John Hay

Philip Murray
- Spider Poem

Two Poems

William Mundell
- Butchering the Pig
- Hill Journey

Ben Belitt
- Karamazov

Two Poems

Joseph Langland
- Any Hot Springs: A Bellhop's Portrait
- Willows

Alice Monks Mears
- Springshine
Neil Weiss
- Late Reader
Don Gordon
- The Neurotics

Two Poems

Ralph Pomeroy
- Myself above the Piazza Frescobaldi
- The King of the Wild Beasts

Four Poems

William E. Stafford

Brewster Ghiselin
- The Nets
David Wagoner
- An Anthem for Man
- Credo Adoration
Wallace Fowlie
- Corbière Translated
Hugh Kenner
- Supreme in Her Abnormality
Nicholas Joost

Contributors
- - Randall Jarrell
  - John Woods
  - William Belvin
  - Margaret Danner
  - John Hay
  - Philip Murray
  - William Mundell
- - Ben Belitt
  - Joseph Langland
  - Alice Monks Mears
  - Neil Weiss
  - Don Gordon
  - Ralph Pomeroy
  - William E. Stafford
- - Brewster Ghiselin
  - David Wagoner
  - Wallace Fowlie
  - Hugh Kenner
  - Nicholas Joost