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February 1952

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

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Ben Belitt
William Tindall
Karl Shapiro
Francis Golffing
William Belvin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Feb 1952

Table of Contents

Karl Shapiro
- Editorial Note
Theodore Roethke
- The Teaching Poet

Three Poems

L. E. Hudgins

Harold Enrico
- Isolde
Kathy McLaughlin
- Suicide Pond
Antoinette Stanton
- Poem ("They whisper the sea...")
Patricia Coombs
- Perhaps
Edward Weinstein
- The Cultural Skeleton
Robert W. Parker
- Another Kingdom
Wesley Wehr
- Liebeslied
Paulette Halgren
- Summer at Home
Tom Frazier
- From My Tenth Year
Paul Engle
- Poet and Professor Overture
Ricaredo Demetillo
- The God My Father Chiseled with His Tongue
Albert Herzing
- Canticle I
Cynthia Pickard
- Bird Dream
Arthur Covell
- Crusade
William E. Stafford
- Boom Town
Edith L. Tiempo
- Lament for the Littlest Fellow
Peter Hald
- Narcissus in New York
Dominador I. Ilio
- Diplomat Listening to Speech of Another Diplomat
David Clay Jenkins
- Quentin Compson
William Belvin
- On a Recent Collegiate Basketball Scandal
James Baker Hall
- Seasonal
J. V. Meade
- To a Woman Who Is Not All Myth
Courtney Johnson
- The Man from Nothing
Robert Shelley
- Harvest

Reviews

Brewster Ghiselin
- Poets Learning
William Van O'Connor
- The Responsibilities of Editors
- The Process
E. L. Mayo
- A Sensitive First Volume

Opinion

G. D. Bridson
- Broadcast Poetry in Britain

Contributors
- - Karl Shapiro
  - Theodore Roethke
  - L. E. Hudgins
  - Harold Enrico
  - Kathy McLaughlin
  - Antoinette Stanton
  - Patricia Coombs
  - Edward Weinstein
  - Robert W. Parker
  - Wesley Wehr
  - Paulette Halgren
- - Tom Frazier
  - Paul Engle
  - Ricaredo Demetillo
  - Albert Herzing
  - Cynthia Pickard
  - Arthur Covell
  - William E. Stafford
  - Edith L. Tiempo
  - Peter Hald
  - Dominador I. Ilio
  - David Clay Jenkins
- - William Belvin
  - James Baker Hall
  - J. V. Meade
  - Courtney Johnson
  - Robert Shelley
  - Brewster Ghiselin
  - William Van O'Connor
  - E. L. Mayo
  - G. D. Bridson