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1949-07 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1949/07 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: E.E. Cummings (7: if a cheerfulest Elephantangel-child should site – a thrown a – open his head, baby – possibly thrice we glimpsed – (im)c-a-t(mo) – in – now all the fingers of this tree (darling) have) – Flavio Herrera (1) – Charles Slack (1) – Edwin Honig (1) – Lucy Black Johnson (1) – T. Weiss (2) – Claire Burch (1) – David Wagoner (2) – Leah Bodine Drake (1) – Frances Frost (1) – Stnaley Moss (2) – Tom Boggs (1) – Patterson Gephart (1) – Nicholas Moore (1)
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And articles by: Joseph Warren Beach – Reviews by William Troy – Muriel Rukeyser – Paul Goodman – Ray B. West , Jr. – Hayden Carruth

1949-05 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1949/05 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Rosalie Moore (2) – V.R. Lang (2) – William Burford (4) – Adrien Stoutenburg (1) – Rosemary Thomas (1) – Neil Weiss (1) – Diana Witherby (2) – Frances Crawford (1) – Charles Francis Knauber (3) – Irving Feldman (2) – R.F. Capon (1) – Georgia Ronan (1) – William Goyen (1) – Bruce Pehmister (1) – Miles White (2) – Addison Ward (1) – Julia Randall (1) – John Philip (1)
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And articles by: George Dillon Announces a Change in Editorship – E.E. Cummings Comment – Eleven Quotations (Rilke) – About 2-1/4 pages covers a letter from Cummings with a brief opening and then excerpts from the Rilke work – Marion Strobel – Notes Towards an Autobiography by William Carlos Williams – 18 pages long, end of Part I as continued from the August 1948 issue – John Ciardi – Reviews by Richard Wilbur – William Abrahams

1949-04 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1949/04 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Randall Jarrell (1) – Reuel Denney (1) – Willard Maas (1) – Lawrence Olson (2) – John Ciardi (3) – Alice Monks Mears (1) – Kathleen Campbell (1) – Kenneth Slade Alling (1) – Eve Merriam (2) – Margaret E. Perry (1) – R.A. Crabtree (1) -Robert-Peter Aby (1)
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And articles by: Gilbert Neiman – Reviews by: Edwin Honig – Winfield Townley Scott – Stephen Stepanchev – Clellon Holmes – Warren Beck – John Theobald – Hayden Carruth – William Meredith

1949-03 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1949/03 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Paul Goodman (5) – Jean Wahl (1) – Gwendolyn Brooks (2) – David Cornel DeJong (1) – Dannie Abse (1) – Patrick Anderson (3) – James Broughton (1) – Constance Carrier (1) – Byron Vazakas (1) – Arthur Gregor (1) – Louis Johnson (1) – Selwyn S. Schwartz (1) – David Sachs (2)
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And articles by: Karl Shapiro – Reviews by: Ned Rosenheim – William Poster – John Theobald – Ray Smith 0 Stanley Edgar Hyman – Germaine Bree – WIlliam Van O’Connor – Correspondence from: Reed Whittemore

1949-02 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1949/02 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Barbara Howes (6) – Thomas Merton (2) – Henri Michaux (1) – William Abrahams (1) – Dorothy Wirtz (1) – B. Rajan (1) – John Morton Poole (1) – Witter Brynner (1) – Vernon Scannell (1) – E.L. Mayo (3) – Cecil Hemley (1) – Morton Seif (2) – Dorothy Lee Richardson (2) – William Bell (1) – Walter McElroy (1)
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And articles by: Waldemar Hansen – William Elton – Reviews by: Frank Jones – Hayden Carruth – Paul Goodman – Ray Smith – Francis C. Golffing

1949-01 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1949/01 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Reed Whittemore (1) – George Moor (1) – Harold Kaplan (1) – Arvid Shulenberger (3) – David Sachs (1) – Clellon Holmes (1) – Lawrence P. Spingarn (1) – Bette Richart (1) – Hayden Carruth (1) – Francis Stuart (1) – Barbara Gibbs (3) – Julian H. Hamilton (1)
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And articles by: David Park Williams – William Elton – Reviews by: Stanley Kunitz – Arthur Mizener – Frank Jones

1948-12 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/12 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Richard Wilbur (4) – Hubert Creekmore (2) – Phyllis Haring (1) – Nicholas Moore (4) – Henry G. Fisher (1) – May Miller (3) – David R. Wagoner (2) – Charlotte Miles (1) – John Robert Quinn (1) – Elder Olson (3)
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And articles by: Hayden Carruth – William Elton – Israel Newman – Reviews by: Paul Goodman – Robert Gorham Davis – Richard Eberhart – Marya Zaturenska

1948-11 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/11 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: William Jay Smith (5) – Alfred Hayes (2) – Howard Moss (1) – Ruth Lechlitner (1) – Lii Tyngkwei (1) – George Witter Sherman (1) – Alfred Kreymborg (1) – Violet Anderson (1) – Robert Hullihan (3) – Ernest Kroll (1) – John Sutherland (1) – P.B. Newman (1) – Benedict Borrazzo (3) – Robert Francis (2) – Derek Stanford (1) – Don Justice(1)
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And articles by: Archibald MacLeish – Israel Newman – Reviews by: Reed Whitmore – Dudley Fitts – Robert Liddell Lowe – Barbara Gibbs

1948-10 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/10 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Stephen Spender (1) – Louis Second (1) – Alexis Healy (1) – Nicolas Guillen (3) – Eric Wilson Barker (1) – Elizabeth Daryush (2) – K.O. Hanson (1) – William E. Stafford (2) – Ruthven Todd (1) – Philip Murray (2) – Howard Griffin (1) – Vernon Watkins (1)
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And articles by: William Saroyan – George Dillon – Archibald MacLeish – Reviews by: Richard Eberhart – Harvey Breit – Janet Lewis

1948-09 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/09 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Randall Jarrell (7) –
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And articles by: W.S. Graham – Hayden Carruth – “The Little Magazine as a Cultural Journal” by William Van O’Connor – Reviews by: Herbert J. Muller – Hayden Carruth – Morgan Blum – William A. Sylvester – Alfred C. Ames – Brewster Ghiselin – John Bradbury – Correspondence from: Ebria Feinblatt – Marshall N. Levin – Louis Hasley – Witter Brynner

1948-08 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/08 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Weldon Kees (4) – Peter Viereck (2) – Thomas Barbour II (1) – Desmond Stewart (3) – Gerta Kennedy (1) – Kenneth Koch (1) – Amy Bonner (2) – Elma Dean (1) – Herman Salinger (2) – Robert K. Bingham (1)
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And articles by: Christopher Maclaine – John Ciardi – William Carlos Williams – Reviews by: Hayden Carruth – William Poster – Barbara Gibbs – James Hall – Jessica North Nelson – William Van O’Connor

1948-07 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/07 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Hugh MacDiarmid (1) – Edwin Honig (1) – Clellon Holmes (1) – Lee St. Ledger-Roty (1) – J. Radcliffe Squires (2) – Hortense Flexner (1) – James Facos (1) – Lawrence Olson (1) – Elise Asher (2) – Francis Barry (1) – Ernest Sandeen (2) – Nicholas Moore (1) – Jerome Weisser (2) – Robert Friend (1) – John Theobald (1)
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And articles by: David Daiches on Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Poetry – Reviews by: William Poster – Harriet Zinnes – John Theobald – Drummond Minor – Anna Balakian – Northrup Frye

1948-05 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/05 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: William Carlos Williams (1: “Lear”) – Robert Humphrey (1) – James L. McPherson (3) – William Abrahams (4) – Ralph Pomeroy (1) – Oliver Evans (2) – Dilys Bennett Laing (3) – Robnert Whittington (1) – Doris Cone Weeks (1) – Kenneth Gee (1) – Storm Mannon (20 – Daniel Smythe (1) – Winfield Townley Scott (3) – Waldemar Hansen (1) – Ruthven Todd (4)
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And articles by: George Dillon – Stephen Spender – Reviews by: William Meredith – Barbara Gibbs – Correspondence from: John Gould Fletcher

1948-04 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/04 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: John Berryman (5) – George Scarbrough (1) – Woodridge Spears (1) – Maude Phelps Hutchins (4) – Joseph Warren Beach (1) – Richard Eberhart (1) – Alice Clay Judson (1) – Malcolm Cowley (1: “The Source”) – John Dawkins (1) – Charlotte Palmer (3) – Frank G. Mundorf (3)
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And articles by: Robert Fitzgerald – Reviews by: F.C. Golffing – William Carlos Williams – Hayden Carruth – Harvey Curtis Webster – Muriel Rukeyser – Macha Rosenthal

1948-03 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/03 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Vernon Watkins (1) – Armando Huacuja, E. (1) – Albert Cook (1) – David Cornel DeJong (5) – Corinne Benson (1) – Patric Anderson (3) – W.S. Merwin (1) – Oliver Hale (2) – W.S. Graham (1) – Henry Rago (5)
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And reviews by: Stephen Spender – Arthur Mizener – Horace Gregory – John Theobald – Morgan Blum – William Poster – Northrop Frye – Clellon Holmes – Barbara Gibbs

1948-02 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/02 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Richard Wilbur (7) – Claire Burch (2) – Roy Fuller (1) – John Ciardi (1: “To Judith”) – Hayden Carruth (3 sonnets) – Elizabeth Brewster (1) – William Poster (2) – Helen Curry (1)
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And articles by: Elder Olson – Stanley Edgar Hyman – Reviews by: R.P. Blackmur – Alfred C. Ames – Owen Dodson – William Van O’Connor

1948-01 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1948/01 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Harry Brown (1) – Richard Hart (1) – Philip Murray (1) – Ernest Kroll (1) – Nicholas Moore (5) – Coman Leavenworth (1) – Constance Carrier (1) – Muriel Rukeyser (9)
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And articles by: Karl Shapiro (A Farewell to Criticism) – Reviews by: Hayden Carruth – F.C. Golffing – William Van O’Connor – Correspondence from: Anna Balaklan

1947-12 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/12 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Peter Viereck (5) – David Daiches (1) – Vernon Watkins (1) – Phyllis Haring (4) – Paul Goodman (1) – Bertolt Brecht (1: “The Swamp” translated by Naomi Replansky) – Ray Smith (3) – James Schevill (2) – John F. Frank (1) – Henry Treece (5)
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And articles by: William Elton about Robert Lowell – Jacques Allamand – Reviews by: Gladys Campbell – Dudley Fitts – Harvey Curtis Webster – Evalyn Shapiro – Northrop Frye – Stanley Edgar Hyman

1947-11 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/11 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: John Malcoln Brinnin (1) – Louis Kent (1) – William E. Stafford (4) – W.R. Moses (1) – Barbara Moore (1) – Albert Clements (1) – John Short (1) – George Moor (2) – Arthur Gregor (2)
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And articles by: John Theobald – Reviews by: William Elton – F.C. Golffing – Robert Liddell Lowe – Alfred C. Ames – William Van O’Connor – Correspondence from: John M. Schealer – Stanley Edgar Hyman

1947-10 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/10 – Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Issue. This issue includes:

Poetry by: Carl Sandburg (3: “Number Man” – “Harmonica Humdrums” – “On a Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride”) – Robinson Jeffers (3) – Wallace Stevens (2: “The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract” – Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight”) – Yvor Winters (1: “An Ode”) – Weldon Kees (4) – Thomas Cole (1) – Reed Whittemore (2) – Constance Carrier (1) – Richard Gillman (1) – Robert Graves (2: “Return of the Goddess Artemis” – “Intercession in Late October”) – Robert Hillyer (1) – Kenneth Fearing (3) – Lysander Kemp (2) – William Carlos Williams (1: From “Paterson: Book II”)
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1912-1947: Highlights – And reviews by: David Daiches – Henry Rago

1947-09 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/09 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: E.E. Cummings (7: Collected under “Seven Poems” each untitled but numbered 1-7) – William Gibson (1) – Oliver Evans (1) – George John (4) – Sheila Alexander (4) – Edward L. Hirsh (1) – Eve Triem (1) – Florence Ripley Mastin (1) – Francis C. Golffing (6) – Nelson Algren (1) – Arthur J. Bull (1) – Margaret Avison (5)
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And articles by: Brewster Ghiselin – Katherine Garrison Chapin on T.S. Eliot and the National Gallery – Reviews by: H.R Hays – Stanley Edgar Hyman – William Meredith – F.C. Golffing – David Grene – Correspondence from: Sally Carrighar

1947-08 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/08 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Karl Shapiro (3) – Robert Lowell (1: “The Fat Man in the Mirror”) – A.G. Maling (1) – Marcia Lee Anderson (1) – Kenneth Allott (1) – James M. Idema (1) – Brean Douglas Newton (1) – Marya Zaturenska (2) – May Williams Ward (1) – Kenneth Slade Alling (2)

Some Modern Soviet Poets — Translated by Babette Deutsch and George Reavey — Poems by: Eduard Bagritsky – Stepan Shchipachev – Yevgeny Dolmatovsky – Mikhail Matusovsky – E. Serebrovskaya – Anna Akhmatova – Boris Paternak (9 poems by Pasternak, 1 or 2 each by the others)
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And reviews by: Austin Warren – Warren Back – Frajam Taylor – Robert Wooster Stallman – William A. Sylvester – Parker Tyler – Correspondence by: Yvor Winters

1947-06 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/06 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: John Ciardi (1: Letter to Virginia Johnson) – Pablo Neruda (1: Widower’s Tango translated by Dudley Fitts) – Alison Lurie (3) – Bill Swing (1) – J. Radcliffe Squires (1) – Elizabeth Brewster (2) – C.P. Cavafis (1) – Lila Hitchcock (3) – Bruce Berlind (1) – Millen Brand (2) – Elizabeth McFarland (1) – Anthony Kerrigan (1) – Paul Goodman (1) – Nelson Del Bittner (1) – Marion Strobel (4)
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And articles by: Harvey Curtis Webster – Reviews by: Dudley Fitts about Pablo Neruda – A.J.M. Smith – Ruth Stephan – Ray Smith – Frajam Taylor

1947-05 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/05 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: Nicholas Moore (3) – Carrol Turner Coates (1) – William Meredith (4) – George Dillon (1) – Edith Weaver (1) – Louis Ginsberg (1) – Charles Bruce (1) – George Moore (2) – Clara Brussel (3) – David Kapp (2) – Samuel French Morse (11)
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And articles by: Brewster Ghiselin – Reviews by: Winfield Townley Scott – Robert Liddell Lowe – Edwin Morgan – Francis Golffing – Correspondence by: Waldemar Hansen

1947-04 Harriet Monroe’s Poetry Magazine Contents

1947/04 – This issue includes:

Poetry by: James Merrill (4) – Marshall Schacht (1) – Alan Dugan (6) – Donald Fairchild (2) – George Witter Sherman ((1) – Myron H. Broomell (1) – Kenneth Koch (1: “Schoolyard in April”) – Edward Hudiburg (2) – Herman Salinger (2) – James M. Idema (1) – H.B. Mallalieu (3)
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And articles by: William Van O’Connor – Reviews by: Stanley J. Kunitz – Kenneth Burke – Evalyn Shapiro – Harvey Breit – John Nerber – Correspondence by: Margaretta W. Wright