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June 1948

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

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Charles Abbott
Kenneth Alling
Ronald Bottrall
Richard Gillman
John Howard

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1948

Table of Contents

Eight Poems

James Merrill

Five Poems

Marvin Solomon

Robert Lasson
- Children and War

Two Poems

John Nerber
- The Grandmother
- Above Me Perched in Air

John Weston Howard
- Simple Song

Two Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit
- Dead Wasp

Richard Gillman
- College Girls

Two Poems

Ronald Bottrall
- Cassandra
- Cubes

T. Ronald
- The People's Army

Two Poems

Elizabeth Sait
- Narcissa
- La Venta Fantasy

Three Poems

Howard Moss
- Air
- Storm
- Mariner's Song

Modern Instances

Charles David Abbott
- Some Notes Towards an Autobiography: The Childish Background (I)

Reviews

Richard M. Weaver
- Etiology of the Image
Macha Rosenthal
- Self-Portrait, with Emblems of the Times
William Elton
- Eliot-cum-BBC
Harry Duncan
- Melville, Definitive

Contributors
- - James Merrill
  - Marvin Solomon
  - Robert Lasson
  - John Nerber
  - John Weston Howard
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
- - Richard Gillman
  - Ronald Bottrall
  - T. Ronald
  - Elizabeth Sait
  - Howard Moss
  - Charles David Abbott
- - Richard M. Weaver
  - Macha Rosenthal
  - William Elton
  - Harry Duncan