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September 1950

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

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Donald (Grady) Davidson
Bruce Berlind
Carl Bode
Thomas Cole
Cid Corman

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1950

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Richard Wilbur

Two Poems

Anthony Hecht
- To Phyllis
- Alceste in the Wilderness

Bruce Berlind
- Aetat 24

Six Sonnets by Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

Two Poems

Carl Bode
- Song
- Eastertide

Scott Greer
- From Los Pesares

Four Children's Poems

Theodore Roethke

Cid Corman
- The Cockatoo
Thomas Cole
- La Grande Jatte: Sunday Afternoon

Five Poems: Images Southwest

Reuel Denney

Opinion

Ezra Pound
- Letters to a Young Poet from Ezra Pound

Reviews

William Van O'Connor
- Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch, 1590-1950 by Douglas Bush
Frederick J. Hoffman
- The Shaping Spirit: A Study of Wallace Stevens by William Van O'Connor
Jessica Nelson North
- Chinese Love Songs by Mabel Lorenz Ives; The Cowherd and the Sky Maiden by Esther Shephard
James Hall
- Fingerboard by Marshall Schacht
Ray Smith
- The Lion & the Lady by Emma Swan
Arvid Shulenberger
- The White Bird by Ann Stanford; Theory of Silence by William Pillin; Guide to the Ruins by Howard Nemerov

Contributors
- - Richard Wilbur
  - Anthony Hecht
  - Bruce Berlind
  - Edgar Degas
  - Carl Bode
  - Scott Greer
- - Theodore Roethke
  - Cid Corman
  - Thomas Cole
  - Reuel Denney
  - Ezra Pound
  - William Van O'Connor
- - Frederick J. Hoffman
  - Jessica Nelson North
  - James Hall
  - Ray Smith
  - Arvid Shulenberger