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February 1951

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

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William Williams
Guillaume Apollinaire
Ralph Caplan
Charles Eaton
Brewster Ghiselin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Feb 1951

Table of Contents

Two Narratives

David Wagoner
- Sam the Aerialist (B. 1871-D. 1903)
- Edmond of New Hope (B. 1852-D. 1915)

Two Poems

Brewster Ghiselin
- Red
- The Food of Birds

Francis C. Golffing
- Four Epigrams

Two Poems

Robert Hazel
- Little Horn
- Dynamo

Laurence Josephs
- There Is No Lack of Hell in That Mad Nest

Two Poems

Charles Edward Eaton
- Flamboyante
- The Marriage of Martyrs

Two Epigrams

Theodore Roethke
- Words in the Violent Ward
- To an Anthologist

Two Poems

Ralph Caplan
- Nowhere Lovelier than in Bars
- And the Native Girls, What Were They like, Really?

Four Poems from the French of Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire

Opinion

Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rilke Letters to Benvenuta

Reviews

William Van O'Connor
- A Valuable Checklist
Harold Orel
- Holy, Holy, Holy
David Sachs
- Burke's Rhetoric

Contributors
- - David Wagoner
  - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Robert Hazel
  - Laurence Josephs
- - Charles Edward Eaton
  - Theodore Roethke
  - Ralph Caplan
  - Guillaume Apollinaire
  - Rainer Maria Rilke
- - William Van O'Connor
  - Harold Orel
  - David Sachs