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March 1949

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

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Stephen Stepanchev
John Ciardi
E. Cummings
Dannie Abse
Patrick Anderson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1949

Table of Contents

Five Poems

Paul Goodman

Jean Wahl
- On Reading the Four Quartets

Four Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Children of the Poor
- A Light and Diplomatic Bird

David Cornel De Jong
- Deciphering the Elephant
Dannie Abse
- Delilah

Three Poems

Patrick Anderson

James Broughton
- Mama Is Gone
Constance Carrier
- A Picnic in the Grove
Byron Vazakas
- A Place in the World
Arthur Gregor
- The Mind Placed in a Room
Louis Johnson
- A Love Poem
Selwyn S. Schwartz
- Hampshire House

Two Poems

David Sachs
- Villanelle for Christians
- To Oedipus, before His Disappearance

Opinion

Karl Shapiro
- Prosody as the Meaning

Reviews

Ned Rosenheim
- One Tiger on the Road
William Poster
- Phases of Development
John Theobald
- Form and Sensibility
Ray Smith
- Seducing Contemplation
Stanley Edgar Hyman
- Who Wrote Junius?
Germaine Bree
- Including the French

William Van O'Connor
- Little Magazines in the Third Generation

Contributors
- - Paul Goodman
  - Jean Wahl
  - Gwendolyn Brooks
  - David Cornel De Jong
  - Dannie Abse
  - Patrick Anderson
  - James Broughton
- - Constance Carrier
  - Byron Vazakas
  - Arthur Gregor
  - Louis Johnson
  - Selwyn S. Schwartz
  - David Sachs
  - Karl Shapiro
- - Ned Rosenheim
  - William Poster
  - John Theobald
  - Ray Smith
  - Stanley Edgar Hyman
  - Germaine Bree
  - William Van O'Connor