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December 1944

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

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Norman Rosten
Horace Gregory
Kenneth Alling
Patrick Anderson
Garrard Beck

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1944

Table of Contents

Eight Poems

Patrick Anderson

Three Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling

Marian Lineaweaver
- Child Afraid

Two Poems

Garrard Beck
- Instruction
- Autumn Negra

Preston Newman
- The Indians in the Movies Say "Ugh!"

Three Poems

Louis O. Coxe

Dorothy Berry Hughes
- The Hand

Two Poems

Kenneth Scholes
- Season's Greetings
- Crossroads

Six Poems

Marion Strobel

William M. Sale Jr.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poet and Convert

Reviews

A. J. M. Smith
- The Golden Mirror
Ruth Lechlitner
- Technical Skill
Lloyd Frankenberg
- Temperate Zone
John Malcolm Brinnin
- Views of the Favorite Mythologies
Thomas Howells
- The Poetry of Great Issues

Contributors
- - Patrick Anderson
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Marian Lineaweaver
  - Garrard Beck
  - Preston Newman
- - Louis O. Coxe
  - Dorothy Berry Hughes
  - Kenneth Scholes
  - Marion Strobel
  - William M. Sale Jr.
- - A. J. M. Smith
  - Ruth Lechlitner
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Thomas Howells