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October/November 1962

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

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Conrad Aiken
Ben Belitt
John Berryman
Frederick Bock
Louise Bogan

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, 50th Anniversary Double Issue

Table of Contents

Conrad Aiken
- Love's Grammarians
Ben Belitt
- The Hornet's House
John Berryman
Frederick Bock
- The Cows
Louise Bogan
- Night
- Morning
John Malcolm Brinnin
- Flight 539
Hayden Carruth
- Stanzas from the Reading Hour
John Ciardi
Louis O. Coxe
- Breaking the Barrier: The Base Commander Contemplates Time and Space
Robert Creeley
- The Invitation
E. E. Cummings
- Poem
J. V. Cunningham
- Love Letter
James L. Dickey
- Below Ellijay
Alan Dugan
Robert Duncan
- After a Passage in Baudelaire
Richard Eberhart
Paul Engle
Robert Fitzgerald
- ?????
Robert Frost
- The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics the Commentators Merely by Statistics
Robert Graves
- Ouzo Unclouded
Thom Gunn
- In the Tank
Anthony Hecht
- Tarantula: Or the Dance of Death
Barbara Howes
Randall Jarrell
Kenneth Koch
- from Angelica: An Opera
Stanley Kunitz
- Three Floors
- After the Last Dynasty
Arnaut Daniel
- A Strict Lady Strictly Guarded
Denise Levertov
- Living with a Painting
- Another Spring
Robert Lowell
- Child's Song
- Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts
Hugh MacDiarmid
- Speech, My Beloved
William Meredith
- For His Father
- Iambic Feet Considered as Honorable Scars
James Merrill
- The Mad Scene
W. S. Merwin
- Bread and Butter
- Before That
Rosalie Moore
- Poet as Bullfighter
Howard Moss
- The Silences
Howard Nemerov
- Idea
Charles Olson
- The Gulf of Maine
Elder James Olson
- Exhibition of Modern Art
William Plomer
- The Half-Recluse
Ezra Pound
- from From Canto Cxiii
Henry W. Rago
- The Promising
Kathleen Raine
- Nocturn
Kenneth Rexroth
- Air and Angels
Delmore Schwartz
- Apollo Musagete, Poetry, and the Leader of the Muses
Tom Scott
- In Handsel O Poetry's Fifty Light Years
Anne Sexton
- Somewhere in Africa
Karl Shapiro
- From "The Bourgeois Poet"
Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tu Fu's View of Fife
- Aurora Sluggart
William Jay Smith
- Northern Lights
Stephen Spender
- Journal Leaves
Charles Tomlinson
- Hill Walk
- On a Theme of Pasternak
Vernon Watkins
- Triads
Molière
- Tartuffe: Act Three
William Carlos Williams
- Stormy
James Wright
- Sitting in a Small Screen-House on a Summer Morning
Louis Zukofsky
- Atque in Perpetuum A.W.

Contents

Muriel Rukeyser
- Song ("A voice flew out...")

Contributors
- - Conrad Aiken
  - Ben Belitt
  - John Berryman
  - Frederick Bock
  - Louise Bogan
  - John Malcolm Brinnin
  - Hayden Carruth
  - John Ciardi
  - Louis O. Coxe
  - Robert Creeley
  - E. E. Cummings
  - J. V. Cunningham
  - James L. Dickey
  - Alan Dugan
  - Robert Duncan
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Paul Engle
  - Robert Fitzgerald
  - Robert Frost
- - Robert Graves
  - Thom Gunn
  - Anthony Hecht
  - Barbara Howes
  - Randall Jarrell
  - Kenneth Koch
  - Stanley Kunitz
  - Arnaut Daniel
  - Denise Levertov
  - Robert Lowell
  - Hugh MacDiarmid
  - William Meredith
  - James Merrill
  - W. S. Merwin
  - Rosalie Moore
  - Howard Moss
  - Howard Nemerov
  - Charles Olson
  - Elder James Olson
- - William Plomer
  - Ezra Pound
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Kathleen Raine
  - Kenneth Rexroth
  - Delmore Schwartz
  - Tom Scott
  - Anne Sexton
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Sydney Goodsir Smith
  - William Jay Smith
  - Stephen Spender
  - Charles Tomlinson
  - Vernon Watkins
  - Molière
  - William Carlos Williams
  - James Wright
  - Louis Zukofsky
  - Muriel Rukeyser