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January 1951

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

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Frederick Bock
Paul Goodman
Robinson Jeffers
Philip Murray
Harvey Shapiro

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Jan 1951

Table of Contents

Seven Poems

Robinson Jeffers

Harvey Shapiro
- Walker under Water
May Swenson
- Green Red Brown and White

Two Poems

Three Poems

Philip Murray

Two Poems

Paul Goodman
- The Parallax
- Anacreontic

Frederick Bock
- The Force of Cassowaries
Theodore Weiss
- Interview

Reviews

Leslie A. Fiedler
- Bad Poetry and the Tradition
Wylie Sypher
- The Tragic Spectrum
Paul Goodman
- Orpheus by Muriel Rukeyser
Edouard Roditi
- Prophet or Pedant
Austin Warren
- The Achievement of Some Recent Critics

Contributors
- - Robinson Jeffers
  - Harvey Shapiro
  - May Swenson
  - Philip Murray
- - Wylie Sypher
  - Edouard Roditi
  - Austin Warren