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March 1954

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

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Donald Finkel
Don Geiger
W. Merwin
Marianne Moore
John Nims

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1954

Table of Contents

More Fables from la Fontaine

Marianne Moore

Karl Shapiro
- The Alphabet

Three New Poets

Donald Finkel
- Of All the Ways to Die
Don Geiger
- Speed of Sound
Hollis Summers
- The Lawnmower

W. S. Merwin
- Spider

Three Poems

John Frederick Nims

Reviews

William Jay Smith
- The Legacy of Laforgue
Harry Duncan
- In Service of Innocence
Cid Corman
- A Requisite Commitment
Eda Lou Walton
- Younger Voices
Edward Dahlberg
- Lawrentian Analects
Babette Deutsch
- The Waste Remains
Hugh Kenner
- Some Elders

Contributors
- - Marianne Moore
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Donald Finkel
  - Don Geiger
  - Hollis Summers
- - W. S. Merwin
  - John Frederick Nims
  - William Jay Smith
  - Harry Duncan
  - Cid Corman
- - Eda Lou Walton
  - Edward Dahlberg
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Hugh Kenner