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December 1963

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

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Hidde Van Duym
Paul Van Ostaijen
Marvin Bell
Etta Blum
Robert Graves

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POETRY Magazine cover of December 1963 issue

Table of Contents

Randall Jarrell
- Thinking of the Lost World
Ted Hughes
Amiri Baraka
Junzaburo Nishiwaki
- Dry Sedge
- Parabola
Ralph Pomeroy
- Confession
- To Words
Etta Blum
- Fog at Brighton
Eric Pfeiffer
Marvin Bell
- The Wisdom
- The Admission
Mark McCloskey
- The Smell of the Woods
Dabney Stuart
- Fair
Mona Van Duyn
Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Midnight Elegy
Robert Graves
- Myrrhina

Comment

Wallace Fowlie
- The Method of Sainte-Beuve
Austin Clarke
- An Irish Chronicle
James L. Dickey
- That Language of the Brain
Hayden Carruth
- Silent Voices
Turner Cassity
- Five Poets
Paul Van Ostaijen
- A Note on Lopold Sdar Senghor

Contributors
- - Randall Jarrell
  - Ted Hughes
  - Amiri Baraka
  - Junzaburo Nishiwaki
  - Ralph Pomeroy
  - Etta Blum
  - Eric Pfeiffer
- - Marvin Bell
  - Mark McCloskey
  - Dabney Stuart
  - Mona Van Duyn
  - Léopold Sédar Senghor
  - Robert Graves
  - Wallace Fowlie
- - Austin Clarke
  - James L. Dickey
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Turner Cassity
  - Paul Van Ostaijen