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September 1951

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

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Paul Engle
Theodore Roethke
George Barker
Betty Davis
James Merrill

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1951

Table of Contents

Two Poems

Theodore Roethke
- Sensibility! O La!
- O Lull Me, Lull Me

George Barker
- To My Son

Two Poems

Betty Miller Davis
- Holy Thursday Communion
- Only beneath Whose Awful Hand

Five Poems

James Merrill

Melvin B. Tolson
- E. & O. E.

Reviews

William Carlos Williams
- Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems
Stephen Spender
- Seriously Unserious
Robert W. Flint
- An Ambitious Venture
Hugh Kenner
- A Resurrected Poet: The Chisel

Thomas Cole
- Bunting: Formal Aspects

Contributors
- - Theodore Roethke
  - George Barker
  - Betty Miller Davis
  - James Merrill
- - Melvin B. Tolson
  - William Carlos Williams
  - Stephen Spender
  - Robert W. Flint
- - Hugh Kenner
  - Thomas Cole