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February 1956

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

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Joseph Beach
Charles Bell
Irving Feldman
Andrew Glaze
Rolfe Humphries

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1956

Table of Contents

Three Poems

Stanley Kunitz

Kenneth Koch
- Pregnancy

Two Poems

Rolfe Humphries
- The Lament of Llywarch Men [Corrected Title: The Lament of Llywarch Hen]
- Oak

John Tagliabue
- Three Poems

Three Poems

Winfield Townley Scott

Two Poems

Louis Johnson
- Age of Discovery
- The Quick and the Dead

Three Poems

Herbert Morris

Mary Owings Miller
- Woman and Sea Horse
Andrew Glaze
- A Cut of Copernicus
Charles G. Bell
- From "Delta Return"
Irving Feldman
- Loss
Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
- All My Knowing

Four Poems

Helen Singer

James Merrill
- Salome
- For a Second Marriage
Donald Hall
- A Diet of Dissatisfaction
Warren Carrier
- Some Versions of Lorca
W. K. Wimsatt Jr.
- Gay in the Mystery
Brom Weber
- Wimsatt in Theory and Practice

Contributors
- - Stanley Kunitz
  - Kenneth Koch
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - John Tagliabue
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - Louis Johnson
- - Herbert Morris
  - Mary Owings Miller
  - Andrew Glaze
  - Charles G. Bell
  - Irving Feldman
  - Professor Emeritus Joseph Warren Beach
- - Helen Singer
  - James Merrill
  - Donald Hall
  - Warren Carrier
  - W. K. Wimsatt Jr.
  - Brom Weber