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May 1957

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

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John Montague
Joseph Bennett
Robert Beum
James Dickey
David Galler

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1957

Table of Contents

Howard Moss
- King Midas
Joseph D. Bennett
- Earthly Love
Leonard E. Nathan
- Figure in the Distance
- A Mexican in Passing
Geoffrey Hill
- Wreaths
Robert Lawrence Beum
Robert Mezey
- It Is June, This Jesting Heat
David Galler
- Snow Scene
- For Robert Graves
Stephen Stepanchev
- The Artist and the Nude
- Unmelodious Song
Frank O'Hara
J. Radcliffe Squires
James L. Dickey
- The First Morning of Cancer

Comment

Wallace Fowlie
- Jorge Guillén, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot: Some Recollections
Samuel French Morse
- The Time Made Good
William Belvin
- Five Poets

Contributors
- - Howard Moss
  - Joseph D. Bennett
  - Leonard E. Nathan
  - Geoffrey Hill
  - Robert Lawrence Beum
- - Robert Mezey
  - David Galler
  - Stephen Stepanchev
  - Frank O'Hara
  - J. Radcliffe Squires
- - James L. Dickey
  - Wallace Fowlie
  - Samuel French Morse
  - William Belvin