The Murder of Lidice—Millay's book-length poem dramatizing the destruction of a Czechoslovakian town by Nazi forces—was broadcast on national radio, printed in its entirety by Life magazine, issued by Harper in several paperback editions, and distributed on vinyl by Columbia in a three-record set. Despite its lavish production and audience of millions, the poem may very well be Millay's most neglected work. (Nancy Milford's Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, for example, gives the poem a single paragraph of its 608 pages.) Millay herself contributed to this neglect by distancing herself from her wartime propaganda, but for many American readers, Murder was an important poem. This paper will seek to investigate what happened to Millay's "propaganda" once it landed in the hands of ordinary readers. By the time Murder was broadcast, Millay was already one of the most frequently saved and scrapbooked "literary" authors in the U.S., and readers regularly sandwiched clippings about her in the books they purchased. This was the case with Murder as well. By looking closely at clippings inserted between the pages of 5 individual copies of this poem—including a copy that came to me by way of my maternal grandmother, who kept it until her death in 1992—I hope to show that American readers didn't absorb Millay's propaganda as passively as one might expect. Indeed, in becoming an engine of sorts for political and critical thought, the material saved with the books at times complements, augments, and even interrogates the poem and the pro-U.S. policy the poem endorses. Such an approach to Millay's work is also intended to demonstrate how reception-oriented studies of twentieth century poetry can reveal aspects of poetry's social lives that more conventional, text-centered approaches do not.