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January 1962

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

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Louise Bogan
Ben Belitt
Kay Boyle
James Dickey
William Meredith

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1962

Table of Contents

W. S. Merwin
Ben Belitt
- Life of Mrs. Cal
Kay Boyle
- Seascape for an Engraver
- Rendezvous
Felix N. Stefanile

From "Some Songs for Billie Holiday"

Felix N. Stefanile
- Rory
- Love Song

Felix N. Stefanile
- A Fig-Tree in America
William Watt
Jocelyn Sloan
- In at the Death
Ralph Pomeroy
- Sentry Seurat
- Letter to Pasternak
William Meredith
- Roots
James L. Dickey

Comment

Louise Bogan
- Jorge Guilln
David Ignatow
John Engels
- Two Religious Poets
- The Gravel Ponds, by Peter Levi, S.J.
Katherine Hoskins
- Homework
Charles Tomlinson
- The Metaphysicals Revisited

Contents

John Engels
- The Crooked Lines of God, by Brother Antoninus

Contributors
- - W. S. Merwin
  - Ben Belitt
  - Kay Boyle
  - Felix N. Stefanile
  - William Watt
- - Jocelyn Sloan
  - Ralph Pomeroy
  - William Meredith
  - James L. Dickey
  - Louise Bogan
- - David Ignatow
  - John Engels
  - Katherine Hoskins
  - Charles Tomlinson