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April 1956

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

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Wallace Fowlie
Donna Bowen
Judson Crews
Alan Dugan
Gerald Fitzgerald

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1956

Table of Contents

Four Poems

James Wright

Three Poems

Alan Dugan

Five Poems

Richmond Lattimore

Two Poems

Judson Crews
- The Artist
- Sole the Fabled Dim Recess

Two Poems

Paul Petrie
- Superseded Love Letters
- Fathers and Sons

Leonard Wolf
- The Yewberry
Jon Silkin
- White
Donna Bowen
- Return of the Lover
Don Geiger
- Aunt Mabel
Gerald Fitzgerald
- Death and the Maiden

Two Poems

Melvin Walker La Follette
- Portage
- Lake Beaver

Six Poems

Sydney Goodsir Smith

Opinion

Tom Scott
- Some Poets of the Scottish Renaissance

W. S. Merwin
- Without the Reality of Music
John Berryman
- The Long Way to MacDiarmid

Contributors
- - James Wright
  - Alan Dugan
  - Richmond Lattimore
  - Judson Crews
  - Paul Petrie
- - Leonard Wolf
  - Jon Silkin
  - Donna Bowen
  - Don Geiger
  - Gerald Fitzgerald
- - Melvin Walker La Follette
  - Sydney Goodsir Smith
  - Tom Scott
  - W. S. Merwin
  - John Berryman