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May 1960

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

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Robert Beum
Jean Burden
Edwin Burrows
Robert Creeley
Kenward Elmslie

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1960

Table of Contents

Robert Creeley
Frank O'Hara
Don Geiger
- Hart Crane II
Joseph Langland
- Myself in You
Harold Witt
- Theseus
Jean Burden
- For a Sleeping Man
Gil Orlovitz
- Art of the Sonnet: C
Robert Lawrence Beum
- 11/20
- A Dialogue with a Voice
E. S. Forgotson
- Elderly Nobody Erases Self in Central Park
Robert W. Watson
- A Paper Horse
Kenward Elmslie
Bertha Hinman
- Primitive
- Beside These Sheltered Waters
Edwin Gladding Burrows
- Nicias to the Athenians
- Camel Song

Comment

Charles Tomlinson
- Poetry and Silence
Samuel French Morse
- Trusting the Art
Ernest Sandeen
- The Poetry of Barbara Howes
Theodore Holmes
- The Wine-Transfiguring World
Glauco Cambon
- Recent Anthologies

Contributors
- - Robert Creeley
  - Frank O'Hara
  - Don Geiger
  - Joseph Langland
  - Harold Witt
  - Jean Burden
- - Gil Orlovitz
  - Robert Lawrence Beum
  - E. S. Forgotson
  - Robert W. Watson
  - Kenward Elmslie
  - Bertha Hinman
- - Edwin Gladding Burrows
  - Charles Tomlinson
  - Samuel French Morse
  - Ernest Sandeen
  - Theodore Holmes
  - Glauco Cambon