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February 1958

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

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Stephen Berg
Robert Beum
Carl Bode
Edwin Burrows
Turner Cassity

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1958

Table of Contents

James Merrill
John Ciardi
- S.P.Q.R.—A Letter from Rome
- To Lucasta, about That War
Muriel Rukeyser
- Hero Speech
Allen Kanfer
Edwin Gladding Burrows
- Landfall
Robert Lawrence Beum
- Chanty
- Anniversary Birds
Carl Bode
- And the Virgin
May Swenson
- A Lake Scene
Rosalind Levine
- Space Design
Turner Cassity
Stephen Berg
- The Room
Alan Neame

Comment

Kenneth Burke
- The Encyclopaedic, Two Kinds of
Robert Duncan
- A Risk of Sympathies
Parker Tyler
- Pride and Prejudice in Poetic Drama
Don Geiger
- Earwicker on the Stage

Contributors
- - James Merrill
  - John Ciardi
  - Muriel Rukeyser
  - Allen Kanfer
  - Edwin Gladding Burrows
  - Robert Lawrence Beum
- - Carl Bode
  - May Swenson
  - Rosalind Levine
  - Turner Cassity
  - Stephen Berg
  - Alan Neame
- - Kenneth Burke
  - Robert Duncan
  - Parker Tyler
  - Don Geiger