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November 1956

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

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Robert Bagg
Ben Belitt
Carol Drake
Mary Jeremy
O.P.

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1956

Table of Contents

Ben Belitt
- Andaluz
Sister Mary Jeremy, O.P.
- Ever to Scourges
Selwyn S. Schwartz
- Birth
John Frederick Nims
- Florence

Four Poems

Kenneth Koch

Harold Norse
- Florence
Robert Bagg
- Sonnet by the Lakeside
Carol Christopher Drake
- Immigrant

Two Poems

P. K. Page
- After Rain
- Giovanni and the Indians

Two Poems

Robert Krieger
- The Delay
- A Now Famous Escape

Constance Urdang
- Birth of Venus

Three Poems

Reed Whittemore

Opinion

James L. Dickey
- Five Poets
Harry Roskolenko
- A Question of Governance
Donald Justice
- Occasional Poetry
John Woods
- Engle's One Hundred Sonnets

Contributors
- - Ben Belitt
  - Sister Mary Jeremy, O.P.
  - Selwyn S. Schwartz
  - John Frederick Nims
  - Kenneth Koch
  - Harold Norse
- - Robert Bagg
  - Carol Christopher Drake
  - P. K. Page
  - Robert Krieger
  - Constance Urdang
  - Reed Whittemore
- - James L. Dickey
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Donald Justice
  - John Woods