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October 1950

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

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Rainer Rilke
Edward Dahlberg
Monroe Spears
Lawrence Hart
David Aivaz

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1950

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Vernon Watkins

Five Poems

Kenneth Slade Alling
- Mind
- On the Park Bench
- Letter
- Pariah
- Monsoon

Brewster Ghiselin
- Ego

Two Poems

Gene Baro
- Top-Ranking Funnymen
- Buildings Where My Father Died

Three Poems

E. L. Mayo

Two Poems

David Lougee
- If the Seas Unmask
- My Love's Mad Music

Three Poems

Weldon Kees

David Aivaz
- Who Turn the Tables
Herbert Read
- The Death of Kropotkin

Three Poems

Robert Huff
- Falcon
- The Snows
- Burning

Grace Baer Hollowell
- When the Light Is in the Pearl

Two Poems

Eleanor Ross
- The Bine Adkins Rose
- Sister

Opinion

Robert W. Flint
- Introduction to "The Oxford Book of American Verse"

Reviews

Robert W. Flint
- The Art of T. S. Eliot by Helen Gardner
John Caffrey
- English Institute Essays, 1949 by Alan S. Downer

Contributors
- - Vernon Watkins
  - Kenneth Slade Alling
  - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Gene Baro
  - E. L. Mayo
- - David Lougee
  - Weldon Kees
  - David Aivaz
  - Herbert Read
  - Robert Huff
- - Grace Baer Hollowell
  - Eleanor Ross
  - Robert W. Flint
  - John Caffrey