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February 1954

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

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John McCormick
Charles Bell
Louis Coxe
Judson Crews
Reuel Denney

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1954

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Reuel Denney

Two Poems

Dilys Bennett Laing
- Saint Giotto of Assisi
- I Shall Know

Judson Crews
- What Babylon Was Built About
Naomi Replansky
- The Mistress Addresses the Wife
Louis O. Coxe
- Beowulf

Mississippi Return

Charles G. Bell
- Air-View

Paul Goodman
- Poem

Three Poems

Richard Wilbur

London Letter

John McCormick
- Some New Figures

Reviews

John H. Meyer
- An Exegesis of Mallarmé
Rosalind Levine
- A Longer Loneliness
Melvin B. Tolson
- Claude McKay's Art
G. Robert Stange
- The "Lost" Renaissance
Hugh Kenner
- Seedless Fruit

Contributors
- - Reuel Denney
  - Dilys Bennett Laing
  - Judson Crews
  - Naomi Replansky
  - Louis O. Coxe
- - Charles G. Bell
  - Paul Goodman
  - Richard Wilbur
  - John McCormick
  - John H. Meyer
- - Rosalind Levine
  - Melvin B. Tolson
  - G. Robert Stange
  - Hugh Kenner