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April 1947

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

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Clyde Park
Babette Deutsch
Myron Broomell
Alan Dugan
Donald Fairchild

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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The issue is from April of 1947

Table of Contents

Four Poems

James Merrill

Marshall Schacht
- Vacation Postponed

Six Poems

Alan Dugan

Two Poems

Donald Fairchild
- Man with Blue Eyes
- Confusion

George Witter Sherman
- Epoch
Myron H. Broomell
- From "The City Built on Sand"
Kenneth Koch
- Schoolyard in April
Edward Hudiburg
- Adventures of the Damned and Blessed

Two Poems

Herman Salinger
- Requiem for Pan
- Morning Visit

James M. Idema
- The so and so Memorial Library
H. B. Mallalieu
- Lines from Europe

William Van O'Connor
- The Isolation of the Poet

Reviews

Stanley Kunitz
- A Tale of a Jar
Kenneth Burke
- Towards Objective Criticism
Evalyn Shapiro
- Revolvers for the Midget
Harvey Breit
- A Contrast
John Nerber
- Oars but No Boat

Contributors
- - James Merrill
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Alan Dugan
  - Donald Fairchild
  - George Witter Sherman
  - Myron H. Broomell
- - Kenneth Koch
  - Edward Hudiburg
  - Herman Salinger
  - James M. Idema
  - H. B. Mallalieu
  - William Van O'Connor
- - Stanley Kunitz
  - Kenneth Burke
  - Evalyn Shapiro
  - Harvey Breit
  - John Nerber