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November 1954

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

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Cid Corman
Richard Eberhart
John Gill
Donald Justice
Rosalind Levine

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POETRY Magazine cover of November 1954 issue

Table of Contents

Five Poems

Frank O'Hara

Three Poems

William Saunders

Cid Corman
- The Groves of Colonos
Louis Zukofsky
- The Judge and the Bird
Hollis Summers
- King's X

Three Poems

Mary Fraser Walker

Two Poems

Lawrence Perry Spingarn
- The Slave Coast
- Dirge for a Landing

Two Poems

Rosalind Levine
- A Permissive Climate
- Enchanted Blueprint

Tom Scott
- The Troops Talk O Wine and Wemen Frae a Lang Poem
Donald Justice
- On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
John J. Gill
- Lover's Choice
Merrill Moore
- Fragrance: Peonies in 1937
William Pillin
- If You Say Thou to Anything

Three Poems

Richard Eberhart

Reuel Denney
- The Idiomatic Kingdom
Byron Vazakas
- Eberhart: A Negative Report
Anthony Kerrigan
- News of Molly Bloom
Ross Wurm
- Becket Recorded
Léonie Adams
- Spinning Singular

Contributors
- - Frank O'Hara
  - William Saunders
  - Cid Corman
  - Louis Zukofsky
  - Hollis Summers
  - Mary Fraser Walker
  - Lawrence Perry Spingarn
- - Rosalind Levine
  - Tom Scott
  - Donald Justice
  - John J. Gill
  - Merrill Moore
  - William Pillin
  - Richard Eberhart
- - Reuel Denney
  - Byron Vazakas
  - Anthony Kerrigan
  - Ross Wurm
  - Léonie Adams