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September 1947

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

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William O'Connor
John Schealer
John Theobald
Sheila Alexander
Nelson Algren

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1947

Table of Contents

Seven Poems

E. E. Cummings

William Gibson
- Moses Rock
Oliver Evans
- The Art of Mr. Pavel Tchelitchew
George W. John
- Four Poems

Four Poems

Sheila Alexander

- Memorial Day
Eve Triem
- Dubuque, Iowa
Florence Ripley Mastin
- Teacher on Strike

Six Poems

Francis C. Golffing

Nelson Algren
- Epitaph: The Man with the Golden Arm
Arthur J. Bull
- In Egypt's Land

Five Poems

Margaret Avison

Brewster Ghiselin
- The Architecture of Vision
Katherine Garrison Chapin
- T. S. Eliot at the National Gallery

Reviews

H. R. Hays
- Mirror to Human Inadequacy
Stanley Edgar Hyman
- High-Priced Elegy
William Meredith
- The Poems of Joan Murray
Francis C. Golffing
- Bottrall in Limbo
David Grene
- Unveiling

Contributors
- - E. E. Cummings
  - William Gibson
  - Oliver Evans
  - George W. John
  - Sheila Alexander
  - Eve Triem
- - Florence Ripley Mastin
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Nelson Algren
  - Arthur J. Bull
  - Margaret Avison
  - Brewster Ghiselin
- - Katherine Garrison Chapin
  - H. R. Hays
  - Stanley Edgar Hyman
  - William Meredith
  - David Grene