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August 1946

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

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Brewster Ghiselin
Jessie Lemont
Robert Francis
Lloyd Frankenberg
Scott Greer

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1946

Table of Contents

Eight Poems

William Jay Smith

John Waller
- Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley
Silvina Ocampo
- Sleepless Palinurus
Robert Francis
- Five Poems
Scott Greer
- The Return of Aegean Apollo
Theodore Roethke
- The Return

Two Poems

Clinton Williams
- The Quest
- Trolley Stop

Marshall Schacht
- Wave to the World
Frank Wood
- Chalfont St. Giles

Three Poems

Patricia Martin

Two Poems

Charles Norman
- Palimpsest
- When Soldiers Sing

Lloyd Frankenberg
- The Years of Enormous Addresses

Ruth Lechlitner
- Night in August

Two Poems

John A. Holmes
- Election
- Silence

- A Hard Look at Criticism

Reviews

Josephine Miles
- Poetry as a Rainbow
Dudley Fitts
- A Pretty Book

Contributors
- - William Jay Smith
  - John Waller
  - Silvina Ocampo
  - Robert Francis
  - Scott Greer
  - Theodore Roethke
- - Clinton Williams
  - Marshall Schacht
  - Frank Wood
  - Patricia Martin
  - Charles Norman
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
- - Ruth Lechlitner
  - John A. Holmes
  - Josephine Miles
  - Dudley Fitts