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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1946

January 1946

 
  • Edith Wyatt
  • John Ciardi
  • John Hay
  • Cecil Hemley
  • Richard Moore
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A Wreath for Wednesday

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The Clowns

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The Sea Is Acquisitive

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Table of Contents

Six Poems
  • Howard Moss
    • A Wreath for Wednesday
    • The Fourth Wall
    • Death of a Grandmother
    • A Portrait
    • A Dream Dissolved
    • The Trial
Two Poems
  • Richard Moore
    • The Clowns
    • Seascape
Homecoming
  • Cecil Hemley
    • The Sea Is Acquisitive
    • The Continents Have Been Discovered
    • A Nocturne
    • At Shale Springs
    • The Mirrors
    • Homecoming
  • Herman Salinger
    • Army of Occupation
  • John Ciardi
    • Poem for My Twenty-Ninth Birthday
  • Marion Strobel
    • After Ardennes
New Continents
  • John Hay
    • Twilight Travelers
    • Poem ("All colors, derelicts...")
    • Concert in Panama City
Three Poems
  • James E. Schevill
    • Photograph of a French Child
    • Landscape for a Prisoner of War Camp
    • Elegy in New York
  • S. Ichiye Hayakawa
    • Poetry and Advertising
Reviews
  • Richard Eberhart
    • The Search for Perfection
  • Ray Smith
    • Innocence and Optimistic Will
  • Theodore Roethke
    • Meditations of a Sensitive Man
  • John Vincent Healy
    • Letters of Rilke
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Fair Exchange
  • Francis C. Golffing
    • Facets of Convention
  • H. R. Hays
    • In the Symbolist Tradition
CONTRIBUTORS
  • John Ciardi
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Francis C. Golffing
  • John Hay
  • S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  • H. R. Hays
  • John Vincent Healy
  • Cecil Hemley
  • Richard Moore
  • Howard Moss
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Herman Salinger
  • James E. Schevill
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • Ray Smith
  • Marion Strobel
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