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June 1951

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

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Wallace Fowlie
Edward Williamson
Demetrios Antoniou
Andonis Decavalles
Odysseus Elytis

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POETRY Magazine cover of June 1951 issue

From this Issue

- poem
  
  Conclusion
  
  By John Frederick Nims
  
  If what began (look far and wide) will end:
  This lava globe huddle and freeze, its core
  Brittle with cold, or pulled too near its friend
  Pop once like one gun in a long-drawn war,
  And the stars sputter one by one, the night
  So...
  
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- poem
  
  Aegean Melancholy
  
  By Odysseus Elytis
  
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- poem
  
  Part II from Amorgos
  
  By Nikos Gatsos
  
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Table of Contents

Three Poems

John Frederick Nims

Winthrop Palmer
- Leave Thy Desire

Two Poems

Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
- Windward of Voice and Feeling
- Tenements: Train's Eye View

Howard Sergeant
- The Islands
George Scarbrough
- Portrait Mostly in Black and White

Four Poems

Horace Gregory

Opinion

Kimon Friar
- Contemporary Greek Poetry
- A Note on the Prosody

Greek Poems of the 20th Century

Anghelos Sikelianos
George Seferis
- A Word for Summer
- The Last Station (Tr. by Kimon Friar)
Nikos Kazantzakis
- "Voyage with Charon" from "The Odyssey"
Takis Papatzonis
- The Dependence
- Before the First Coming
Andreas Emberikos
- Spring as Always
- Moment of Porphery
Demetrios Antoniou
- Poem
- To the Cold Imagination
Nikiforos Vrettakos
- Elegy of Flowering Fire
Alexander Matsas
- Midday Contemplation at Delos
- The Seduction
Nikos Engonopoulos
Odysseus Elytis
Nikos Gatsos
- Part II from Amorgos
- Death and the Knight (1513)
Miltos Sahtouris
- He Is Not Oedipus
Andonis Decavalles
- Letter from Ithaca
Nanos Valaoritis
- The Birds

Contributors
- - John Frederick Nims
  - Winthrop Palmer
  - Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
  - Howard Sergeant
  - George Scarbrough
  - Horace Gregory
  - Kimon Friar
- - Anghelos Sikelianos
  - George Seferis
  - Nikos Kazantzakis
  - Takis Papatzonis
  - Andreas Emberikos
  - Demetrios Antoniou
  - Nikiforos Vrettakos
- - Alexander Matsas
  - Nikos Engonopoulos
  - Odysseus Elytis
  - Nikos Gatsos
  - Miltos Sahtouris
  - Andonis Decavalles
  - Nanos Valaoritis