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March 1955

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

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Harry Roskolenko
Philip Booth
John Burns
Paul Carroll
Hayden Carruth

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1955

Table of Contents

Hayden Carruth
- Under the Long Wind
Paul Carroll
- Un Voyage Cythre

Two Poems

Anthony Ostroff
- Letter from Berkeley
- Lake Alan: Summer, 1954

Three Poems

Fairfield Porter

Landis Everson
- These Friends of Yours

Three Poems

William H. Dickey

Two Poems

Judson Crews
- The Lovers
- Matadora

Felix N. Stefanile
- Spoiled by All My Tyrants

Two Poems

Philip Booth
- Great Farm
- Adam

New Section

John Burns
- Ahab on His Wedding Night
May Sarton
- The Walled Garden at Clondalkin
Rosalie Moore
- Joy and the Presence of Snakes

Opinion

Harry Roskolenko
- Another Word on Kenneth Koch
Babette Deutsch
- The Morality of the Poet
G. Robert Stange
- Hardy the Poet
John A. Holmes
- Trapped in Sorrow
Alexandra V. Krinkin
- The Making of an Original

Contributors
- - Hayden Carruth
  - Paul Carroll
  - Anthony Ostroff
  - Fairfield Porter
  - Landis Everson
  - William H. Dickey
- - Judson Crews
  - Felix N. Stefanile
  - Philip Booth
  - John Burns
  - May Sarton
  - Rosalie Moore
- - Harry Roskolenko
  - Babette Deutsch
  - G. Robert Stange
  - John A. Holmes
  - Alexandra V. Krinkin