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January 1950

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

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Vera Sandomirsky
John Berryman
Catherine Davis
Norma Farber
Lloyd Frankenberg

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1950

Table of Contents

Eight Poems

John Berryman

Two Poems

Lloyd Frankenberg
- Jerusalem
- The Harbor

Three Poems

William Jay Smith

Three Poems

Cynthia Pickard

Lindley Williams Hubbell
- Something the Matter
Hanson Kellogg
- Four Disinterested Prayers
Grace Baer Hollowell
- On the Road to Reality

Four Poems

Catherine Davis

Norma Farber
- Inform Yourself Completely

Opinion

Allen Tate
- Homage to St.-John Perse

Reviews

Eliseo Vivas
- The Heresy of Paraphrase
Horace Gregory
- The Moment of Revival
Dudley Fitts
- To Compel the Reader
Frank Jones
- Goethe: Tombstones and Milestones
Paul Goodman
- The "New Romanticism"
Richard Eberhart
- The Middle Way
John A. Holmes
- Ironic Autobiography

Contributors
- - John Berryman
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
  - William Jay Smith
  - Cynthia Pickard
  - Lindley Williams Hubbell
  - Hanson Kellogg
- - Grace Baer Hollowell
  - Catherine Davis
  - Norma Farber
  - Allen Tate
  - Eliseo Vivas
  - Horace Gregory
- - Dudley Fitts
  - Frank Jones
  - Paul Goodman
  - Richard Eberhart
  - John A. Holmes