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January 1960

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

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Carol Johnson
Dannie Abse
Robert Bagg
John Berry
Rosellen Brown

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1960

Table of Contents

Carl Sandburg
- Alice Corbin Is Gone
Howard Griffin
- The Gladiatore Farnese
- The Analyst
Dannie Abse
- Progress of a Marriage
- Chalk
John Hall Wheelock
Guy A. Cardwell
- On Reaching Seventy-Three near Scott's Bluff on the Oregon Trail
Carol Johnson
- Elegy
Margaret Tongue
- The Minnow
- Resurrection
Ralph Salisbury
Rosellen Brown
- Sestina for Three Voices
George Starbuck
- Three Dreams on a Warm Sabbath
Barry Spacks
- Narcissus at Seventeen
- Botticelli in Atlantic City
Julia Maria Morrison
X J Kennedy
- Nude Descending a Staircase
John Berry
Robert Bagg
George Oppen

Comment

Turner Cassity
- Report from Goli
David Wright
- South African Poetry
William E. Stafford
- Several Tongues

Contributors
- - Carl Sandburg
  - Howard Griffin
  - Dannie Abse
  - John Hall Wheelock
  - Guy A. Cardwell
  - Carol Johnson
  - Margaret Tongue
- - Ralph Salisbury
  - Rosellen Brown
  - George Starbuck
  - Barry Spacks
  - Julia Maria Morrison
  - X J Kennedy
  - John Berry
- - Robert Bagg
  - George Oppen
  - Turner Cassity
  - David Wright
  - William E. Stafford