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October 1960

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

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Karl Shapiro
Beth Bentley
Jean Garrigue
James Hall
Warren Hassmer

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1960

Table of Contents

Vernon Watkins

Three for Friendship

Katherine Hoskins
- A Rescue

William Robert Moses
- Battle Report
- Loon-Link
Beth Singer Bentley
- Country Lives
James Baker Hall
- Pilgrims: Uncle Sid
Paul Petrie
Constance Urdang
- Five Celebrations
Stephen Stepanchev
- The Stone Statesman
Warren Hassmer
- Quiet Bird in the Big Night
Allen Kanfer
- Teaching a Child to Read
- Past Anger
Peter Miller
- Notes from Uxmal
Jean Garrigue
- Her Spring Song
- Song II ("And now my spring...")

Comment

Philip Booth
- Off Hawthorne's Salem
Witter Bynner
- A Note on Donald Justice
Theodore Holmes

Contents

Karl Shapiro
- The Farmer and the Poet

Contributors
- - Vernon Watkins
  - Katherine Hoskins
  - William Robert Moses
  - Beth Singer Bentley
  - James Baker Hall
  - Paul Petrie
- - Constance Urdang
  - Stephen Stepanchev
  - Warren Hassmer
  - Allen Kanfer
  - Peter Miller
  - Jean Garrigue
- - Philip Booth
  - Witter Bynner
  - Theodore Holmes
  - Karl Shapiro