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June 1956

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

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John Montague
David Clark
Cid Corman
Francis Golffing
James Hall

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1956

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Ewart Milne

Life of the Virgin

Roy Marz

Four Poems

David Wagoner

Vernon Watkins
- Erinna and the Waters
Anne Hitchcock
- The Women
David Ridgley Clark
- Old Chapel: A Poem in Favor of the World

Two Poems

Stan Steiner
- Unearth the Man
- With Muted Passions

Three Poems

Parker Tyler

Cid Corman
- After Reading Keats' Letters
May Swenson
- Frontispiece

Three Poems

Stephen Stepanchev

Three Poems

Francis C. Golffing

James Baker Hall
- Grandmother

Two Poems

Ned O'Gorman
- Childhood
- The Resurrection of Animals

Three Poems

William Meredith

Opinion

John Montague
- Ungaretti's "La Terra Promessa": A Commentary and Some Examples

Conrad Aiken's New Volume: Two Views

William Jay Smith
- A Pastel Keyboard
Samuel French Morse
- A Word in Praise

Stanley Kunitz
- Five Points of the Compass
Frederick Bock
- The Poetry of Weldon Kees

Contributors
- - Ewart Milne
  - Roy Marz
  - David Wagoner
  - Vernon Watkins
  - Anne Hitchcock
  - David Ridgley Clark
  - Stan Steiner
- - Parker Tyler
  - Cid Corman
  - May Swenson
  - Stephen Stepanchev
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - James Baker Hall
  - Ned O'Gorman