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February 1947

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

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Margaretta Wright
Brewster Ghiselin
Waldemar Hansen
John Beatty
Vance Bourjaily

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1947

Table of Contents

Mrs. Walpurga: Five Poems

Muriel Rukeyser

James Merrill
- The Broken Bowl
Robert Resor
- To Persephone, at a Railway Station

Four Poems

Langston Hughes

John C. Beatty
- Earl Baldwin of Bewdly
Herbert Schaumann
- Aphrodite and Ares
Waldemar Hansen
- Poem
Dorothy Brown Thompson
- Winter Thaw
Vance Bourjaily
- News Item: Three Versions

Two Poems

William Justema
- Of Innocence
- A Dream

Eve Merriam
- Memo to Myself
Edith Grobmann
- Syndrome
Donald Weeks
- Giraffe

The Iron Pastoral

John Frederick Nims

Edwin Morgan
- Notes on the Metaphysics of Jules Laforgue
Karl Shapiro and William Jay Smith
- Two Transatlantic Statements

Reviews

Edwin Honig
- The City of Men
Jessica Nelson North
- Mercurial
Francis C. Golffing
- No-Man's-Land
Henry W. Rago
- The Immediate as the Irrelevant
Babette Deutsch
- Personality

Contributors
- - Muriel Rukeyser
  - James Merrill
  - Robert Resor
  - Langston Hughes
  - John C. Beatty
  - Herbert Schaumann
  - Waldemar Hansen
  - Dorothy Brown Thompson
- - Vance Bourjaily
  - William Justema
  - Eve Merriam
  - Edith Grobmann
  - Donald Weeks
  - John Frederick Nims
  - Edwin Morgan
  - Karl Shapiro
- - William Jay Smith
  - Edwin Honig
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Babette Deutsch