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May 1954

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

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E. Cummings
Philip Booth
Jean Cocteau
Hubert Creekmore
Arthur Gregor

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1954

Table of Contents

Marya Zaturenska
- The Fountains of Rome
Arthur Gregor
- Kenya Drums
August Kadow
- Why Should I Not Love Childhood Still?
Galway Kinnell
- The Feast
Harry Roskolenko
- Analogy
Hubert Creekmore
- Mallarm in His Study
Philip Booth
- North
V. R. Lang
- Waiting and Peeking

Two Poems

Anthony Kerrigan
- Druidical
- Wildness Bred into a Plant

Jean Cocteau
- From the Crucifixion

Opinion

E. E. Cummings
- A Note on Jean Cocteau

Reviews

Maurice English
- An Intelligent Romantic
Marshall McLuhan
- Poetry and Society
Selden Rodman
- Alastair Reid Is Introduced
Elder James Olson
- The Schoolroom Poets
I. L. Salomon
- An Irish Oracle at Delphi
Babette Deutsch
- Talks to Teachers
Louis O. Coxe
- Robinson's Selected Poems
Hugh Kenner
- Hellas Without Helicon

Contributors
- - Marya Zaturenska
  - Arthur Gregor
  - August Kadow
  - Galway Kinnell
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Hubert Creekmore
  - Philip Booth
- - V. R. Lang
  - Anthony Kerrigan
  - Jean Cocteau
  - E. E. Cummings
  - Maurice English
  - Marshall McLuhan
  - Selden Rodman
- - Elder James Olson
  - I. L. Salomon
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Louis O. Coxe
  - Hugh Kenner