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February 1950

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

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Karl Shapiro
Bruce Berlind
Buddhadeva Bose
John Brinnin
Donald Drummond

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Feb 1950

Table of Contents

Ten Sonnets

John Frederick Nims
- The Masque of Blackness

Robert Graves
- The Jackals' Address to Iris
Thomas Hornsby Ferril
- Grandmother's Old Dear Friend
William E. Stafford
- Juke Joint

Four Poems

Roy Marz

Bruce Berlind
- The Incompatible

Two Poems

Leslie A. Fiedler
- A Lament for Little Farfel
- To the Unbeautiful in Spring

V. R. Lang
- The Pitch
George Steiner
- Lyric of Desire

Four Poems

Donald F. Drummond

Charles Edward Eaton
- The Garden Party

Two Poems

Buddhadeva Bose
- To an Unknown Dead
- The Crow

Four Poems

John Malcolm Brinnin

Dorothy Lee Richardson
- This Dust, Your Land

Opinion

Karl Shapiro
- The Cantabrigian Approach

Reviews

William Meredith
- Second Verse, Same as the First
Alfred Kreymborg
- Different Southerner
Catherine Davis
- The Texture of the Shroud
Harvey Curtis Webster
- One-Way Poetry
Harriet Zinnes
- A New Text

Contributors
- - John Frederick Nims
  - Robert Graves
  - Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  - William E. Stafford
  - Roy Marz
  - Bruce Berlind
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
- - V. R. Lang
  - George Steiner
  - Donald F. Drummond
  - Charles Edward Eaton
  - Buddhadeva Bose
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Dorothy Lee Richardson
- - Karl Shapiro
  - William Meredith
  - Alfred Kreymborg
  - Catherine Davis
  - Harvey Curtis Webster
  - Harriet Zinnes