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April 1949

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

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George Dillon
Marion Strobel
William Williams
Hayden Carruth
Robert-Peter Aby

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1949

Table of Contents

Randall Jarrell
- Hohensalzburg
Reuel Denney
- The Rememberer
Willard Maas
- Morning, Memorial, Monolith

Two Poems

Lawrence Olson
- The Funeral
- When I See Pictures of the Dead

Three Poems

John Ciardi

Alice Monks Mears
- O Hollywood
Kathleen Foster Campbell
- Old Letters
Kenneth Slade Alling
- First World War

Two Poems

Eve Merriam
- Abstraction
- Movie Star in the Projection Room

Margaret E. Perry
- The River Pigs
R. A. Crabtree
- Interview Assignment
Robert-Peter Aby
- Etude II

Modern Instances

Gilbert Neiman
- To Write Poetry Nowadays You Have to Have One Foot in the Grave

Reviews

Edwin Honig
- The Paterson Impasse
Winfield Townley Scott
- Youth, That Dying—
Stephen Stepanchev
- Commentaries
Clellon Holmes
- A Concerned Neutrality
Warren Beck
- War as a Climate
John Theobald
- Three and One
Hayden Carruth
- The Essays of Allen Tate
William Meredith
- Ten Young Americans

Contributors
- - Randall Jarrell
  - Reuel Denney
  - Willard Maas
  - Lawrence Olson
  - John Ciardi
  - Alice Monks Mears
  - Kathleen Foster Campbell
- - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Eve Merriam
  - Margaret E. Perry
  - R. A. Crabtree
  - Robert-Peter Aby
  - Gilbert Neiman
  - Edwin Honig
- - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Stephen Stepanchev
  - Clellon Holmes
  - Warren Beck
  - John Theobald
  - Hayden Carruth
  - William Meredith