Poetry

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Title:	Poetry
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First renewed issue:	January 1944 (v. 63 no. 4); see 1971
First renewed contribution in:	October 1930; see 1958 July-December

Renewed issues

This includes all active issue renewals through 1949. It might not show all renewals past that date.

January 1944 (v. 63 no. 4)
February 1944 (v. 63 no. 5)
March 1944 (v. 63 no. 6)
April 1944 (v. 64 no. 1)
May 1944 (v. 64 no. 2)
June 1944 (v. 64 no. 3)
July 1944 (v. 64 no. 4)
August 1944 (v. 64 no. 5)
September 1944 (v. 64 no. 6)
October 1944 (v. 65 no. 1)
November 1944 (v. 65 no. 2)
December 1944 (v. 65 no. 3)
February 1945 (v. 65 no. 5)
March 1945 (v. 65 no. 6)
April 1945 (v. 66 no. 1)
May 1945 (v. 66 no. 2)
June 1945 (v. 66 no. 3)
July 1945 (v. 66 no. 4)
August 1945 (v. 66 no. 5)
September 1945 (v. 66 no. 6)
October 1945 (v. 67 no. 1)
November 1945 (v. 67 no. 2)
December 1945 (v. 67 no. 3)
January 1946 (v. 67 no. 4)
February 1946 (v. 67 no. 5)
March 1946 (v. 67 no. 6)
April 1946 (v. 68 no. 1)
May 1946 (v. 68 no. 2)
June 1946 (v. 68 no. 3)
July 1946 (v. 68 no. 4)
August 1946 (v. 68 no. 5)
September 1946 (v. 68 no. 6)
October 1946 (v. 69 no. 1)
November 1946 (v. 69 no. 2)
December 1946 (v. 69 no. 3)
January 1947 (v. 69 no. 4)
February 1947 (v. 69 no. 5)
March 1947 (v. 69 no. 6)
April 1947 (v. 70 no. 1)
May 1947 (v. 70 no. 2)
June 1947 (v. 70 no. 3)
July 1947 (v. 70 no. 4)
August 1947 (v. 70 no. 5)
September 1947 (v. 70 no. 6)
October 1947 (v. 71 no. 1)
November 1947 (v. 71 no. 2)
December 1947 (v. 71 no. 3)
January 1948 (v. 71 no. 4)
March 1948 (v. 71 no. 6)
April 1948 (v. 72 no. 1)
May 1948 (v. 72 no. 2)
June 1948 (v. 72 no. 3)
July 1948 (v. 72 no. 4)
August 1948 (v. 72 no. 5)
September 1948 (v. 72 no. 6)
October 1948 (v. 73 no. 1)
November 1948 (v. 73 no. 2)
December 1948 (v. 73 no. 3)
January 1949 (v. 73 no. 4)
February 1949 (v. 73 no. 5)
March 1949 (v. 73 no. 6)
April 1949 (v. 74 no. 1)
May 1949 (v. 74 no. 2)
June 1949 (v. 74 no. 3)
July 1949 (v. 74 no. 4)
August 1949 (v. 74 no. 5)
September 1949 (v. 74 no. 6)
October 1949 (v. 75 no. 1)
November 1949 (v. 75 no. 2)
December 1949 (v. 75 no. 3)
January 1950 (v. 75 no. 4)

Renewed contributions

This includes all active contribution renewals through 1942. It might not show all renewals past that date.

October 1930: "Three Sonnets: Women Have Loved Before; I Know My Mind; Even in the Moment", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
March 1931: "Lost Life", by Brewster Ghiselin
March 1931: "The Tree", by Laura Benét
November 1931: "Memorial for Dead Friends", by Arthur Davison Ficke
May 1932: "The Anabasis", by Allen Tate [Permissions]
October 1932: "O Beauty Infinite", by Arthur Davison Ficke
October 1932: "On Dying", by Arthur Davison Ficke
May 1933: "In Argos", by H. L. Davis [Permissions]
May 1933: "New Birds", by H. L. Davis [Permissions]
June 1933: "America Remembers", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
January 1934: "Dilemma", by Richard Aldington [Permissions]
May 1934: "Lige Weedy'a Fiddle", by Laura Benét
January 1936: "They Vie With Waves", by Lenore Marshall
January 1936: "After Illness", by Lenore Marshall
July 1936: "Kind Valentine", by David Schubert
July 1936: "Long Live the Weeds", by Theodore Roethke [Permissions]
April 1937: "Crooked Road, Crooked Year", by David Schubert
April 1937: "The Lake", by David Schubert
April 1937: "When Apples on the Lilac", by David Schubert
April 1937: "Rilke in His Age", by Louise Bogan [Permissions]
May 1937: "The Man With the Blue Guitar, No. 1-13", by Wallace Stevens [Permissions]
May 1937: "Crow on the Husk", by David Schubert
June 1937: "The Shuttle: This Hour; My Love Was Light", by Tennessee Williams (using the name Thomas Lanier Williams) [Permissions]
November 1937: "Reply to Censure", by Theodore Roethke [Permissions]
August 1938: "Four Poems", by Mary Barnard
October 1938: "Inert Perfection", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "Song for Young Lovers in a City", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "The Fitting", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "What Savage Blossom", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "Intention to Escape From Him", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "The Road to the Past", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "Sonnet in Tetrameter", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "Truce for a Moment", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
October 1938: "Four Songs", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
January 1939: "Mortals", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
January 1939: "These Children Singing in Stone a", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
January 1939: "Nouns to Nouns", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
January 1939: "When What Hugs Stopping Earth Than Silent Is", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
January 1939: "Up Into the Silence the Green", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
January 1939: "Six", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
January 1939: "Love is More Thicker Than Forget", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
May 1939: "My Earnestness, Which Might at First Offend", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "Rendezvous", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "Modern Declaration", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "True Encounter", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "Plaid Dress", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "This Dusky Faith", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "Snow Storm", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
May 1939: "Two Voices", by Edna St. Vincent Millay [Permissions]
January 1940: "Three Women", by Edmund Wilson [Permissions]
March 1940: "Winter Night", by Edith Lovejoy Pierce
July 1940: "Dylan Thomas", by Conrad Aiken [Permissions]
August 1940: "You Which Could Grin Three Smiles Into a Dead", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
August 1940: "A Pretty a Day", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
August 1940: "I Say No World", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
August 1940: "If You Can't Eat You Got To", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions]
August 1940: "There Are Possibly 2-1/2 or Impossibly 3", by E. E. Cummings [Permissions] (Issue as stated in CCE renewal record. We did not find a poem with that title or line in this issue, though we also did not find a renewal for the first poem of that issue's 'Five Poems' sequence, whose other four poems were renewed. We do not know if this is an early version of that first poem.)
August 1940: "Coming and Going of Storms", by Genevieve Taggard [Permissions]
October 1940: "University", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
October 1940: "Love Poem; Necropolis", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
December 1940: "9, 19, 1939", by Robinson Jeffers [Permissions]
December 1940: "Finland is Down", by Robinson Jeffers [Permissions]
December 1940: "Great Men", by Robinson Jeffers [Permissions]
December 1940: "The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean", by Robinson Jeffers [Permissions]
December 1940: "The Bloody Sire", by Robinson Jeffers [Permissions]
December 1940: "Ring Out, Ring In", by Charles Norman [Permissions]
February 1941: "Terror", by Robert Penn Warren [Permissions]
February 1941: "Sale", by Theodore Roethke [Permissions]
March 1941: "Gilfeather", by Genevieve Taggard [Permissions]
March 1941: "Four Songs for Musical Settings", by Genevieve Taggard [Permissions]
March 1941: "James Joyce (1882-1941)", by Thornton Wilder [Permissions] (Title as given in issue. CCE renewal record gives title as 'James Joyce, 1882-1914'.)
July 1941: "Hospital", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
July 1941: "Pharmacy", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions] (Title as given in issue. CCE renewal record gives title as 'Drug Store'.)
July 1941: "The Snob", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
July 1941: "Mongolian Idiot", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
July 1941: "Scyros", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
July 1941: "The Contraband", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
July 1941: "My Grandmother", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
September 1941: "America 1941", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
September 1941: "On the Birth of My Child", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
September 1941: "Elements", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
September 1941: "Henry David Thoreau", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
September 1941: "Emily Dickinson", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
September 1941: "Contrary", by Paul Engle [Permissions]
September 1941: "Letter After Drouth", by Paul Engle [Permissions] (Title as given in issue. CCE renewal record gives title as 'Letters After Drouth'.)
September 1941: "Range, Range the Words Around", by Genevieve Taggard [Permissions]
November 1941: "October 1; A Robbery", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
November 1941: "Summary of the Distance Between the Bomber and the Objective", by Walter Benton
November 1941: "The Quality of Poetry", by Katherine Garrison Chapin
December 1941: "Roxane", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
December 1941: "Restaurateur With Music", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
December 1941: "The Eater of Darkness", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
December 1941: "The Lost People", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
December 1941: "Seven", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
December 1941: "God Wills It", by Gabriela Mistral [Permissions], trans. by Katherine Garrison Chapin
January 1942: "Anyway", by Hazel Collister Hutchison
January 1942: "Manifesto", by Edith Lovejoy Pierce
January 1942: "Revelation", by Robert Penn Warren [Permissions]
January 1942: "Interval of Peace", by Katherine Garrison Chapin
January 1942: "Holiday, 1941", by Katherine Garrison Chapin
January 1942: "Pastorale", by Katherine Garrison Chapin
January 1942: "Evening", by Katherine Garrison Chapin
January 1942: "This Lonely Light", by Katherine Garrison Chapin
February 1942: "Terminal", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions] (A CCE renewal record mentions this poem and 'Travelogue for Exiles' together, though they appear to be separated in the issue.)
February 1942: "Waitress", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
February 1942: "Travelogue for Exiles", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions] (A CCE renewal record mentions this poem and 'Terminal' together, though they appear to be separated in the issue.)
May 1942: "Man; Time and the Thing-in-Itself in a Textbook; Esthetic Theories", by Randall Jarrell [Permissions] (group of three poems, with spelling and order as given in their CCE renewal record. JSTOR's table of contents shows the poems appearing together in the opposite order in this issue.)
June 1942: "Panther From its Dark and Hidden Lair; Penates in Peril", by William Jay Smith [Permissions]
November 1942: "The Second-Best Bed", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
November 1942: "The Twins", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
November 1942: "A Cut Flower", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
November 1942: "Nostalgia", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
November 1942: "Confessional", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
November 1942: "Joe and Jack and Jennie", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
November 1942: "Snow", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
November 1942: "The Heart", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
December 1942: "Poems: Portrait for a Lapidary; Academic Procession; Polynesian in Khaki; All Earth's Divided", by William Jay Smith [Permissions]
February 1943: "A Lively and Deadly Wit", by Malcolm Cowley [Permissions]
March 1943: "King Juke; Confession Overheard in a Subway", by Kenneth Fearing [Permissions]
June 1943: "Mexico is a Foreign Country", by Robert Penn Warren [Permissions]
August 1943: "Nigger", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
August 1943: "Movie Actress", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
August 1943: "Jew", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
August 1943: "Red Indian", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
August 1943: "Jefferson", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
August 1943: "Point of Embarkation; Come to the Stone; The Emancipators; Absent With Official Leave", by Randall Jarrell [Permissions] (group of four poems, with order as given in their CCE renewal record. JSTOR's table of contents for this issue shows Absent With Official Leave appearing before the other three poems.)
August 1943: "I Have Seen Too Much", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
August 1943: "Lord", by Karl Shapiro [Permissions]
November 1944: "Gay Chaps at the Bar", by Gwendolyn Brooks [Permissions]
November 1944: "Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity", by Gwendolyn Brooks [Permissions]

Additional note

Active contribution renewals are recorded beginning in the 1958 January-June CCE volume, but the earliest contribution with an active copyright renewal is noted in the 1958 July-December volume.

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