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August 1958

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

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Thomas Cole
Lawrence Hart
Rosalie Moore
Daniel Berrigan
Elliott Coleman

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1958

Table of Contents

Washington, 1958

Robert Hazel

James Wright
James L. Dickey
- Dover: Believing in Kings
Elliott Coleman
- Joyce's Grave
Donald Justice
- Southern Gothic
Harold Lee Fleming
- Elocution at Thirty
- The Hour before the Coming of the Night
William H. Dickey
- Of the Festivity
James Hearst
- Success
Anthony Ostroff
- Dirge
Daniel Berrigan
- More like the Sea
Neil Weiss

Three Poems of St. John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross

Comment

David Wright
- Six British Poets
Samuel French Morse
- A Transatlantic View

Correspondence

David C. Mearns and Karl Shapiro
- A Letter to American Poets and Libraries [with Reply]
Brom Weber
- Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, and Hart Crane

Contributors
- - Robert Hazel
  - James Wright
  - James L. Dickey
  - Elliott Coleman
  - Donald Justice
  - Harold Lee Fleming
- - William H. Dickey
  - James Hearst
  - Anthony Ostroff
  - Daniel Berrigan
  - Neil Weiss
  - St. John of the Cross
- - David Wright
  - Samuel French Morse
  - David C. Mearns
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Brom Weber