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April 1948

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

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Joseph Beach
John Berryman
Malcolm Cowley
John Dawkins
Richard Eberhart

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1948

Table of Contents

Five Poems

John Berryman

George Scarbrough
- Lines for an Aunt
Woodridge Spears
- Of an Engraving at a School

Four Poems

Maude Phelps Hutchins

Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
- Virtuoso
Richard Eberhart
- from From Letter I
Alice Clay Judson
- Three Seasons of Growth
Malcolm Cowley
- The Source
John Dawkins
- Bare Poem

Three Poems

Charlotte Palmer

Three Poems

Frank G. Mundorf

Opinion

Robert Fitzgerald
- A Prose Odyssey

Reviews

Francis C. Golffing
- Mr. Barker and His Critics
William Carlos Williams
- The Steeple's Eye
Hayden Carruth
- System over All
Harvey Curtis Webster
- Nevertheless
Muriel Rukeyser
- Myth and Torment
Macha Rosenthal
- Sailing for Great Abaco

Contributors
- - John Berryman
  - George Scarbrough
  - Woodridge Spears
  - Maude Phelps Hutchins
  - Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
  - Richard Eberhart
- - Alice Clay Judson
  - Malcolm Cowley
  - John Dawkins
  - Charlotte Palmer
  - Frank G. Mundorf
  - Robert Fitzgerald
- - Francis C. Golffing
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Harvey Curtis Webster
  - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Macha Rosenthal