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August 1956

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

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Harry Roskolenko
William Smith
William Abrahams
George Barker
William Burford

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1956

Table of Contents

The Cylce of Six Lyrics

George Barker

Three Poems

Ruthven Todd

Ted Hughes
- Bawdry Embraced

Two Poems

Dorothy Donnelly
- Charm
- For Peter Who Cried Because He Could Not Catch the Moth

Three Poems

Louis O. Coxe

Two Poems

William Burford
- El Dorado
- Sea and Sky

Paul Goodman
- The Car Barn under Coogan's Bluff

Two Poems

William Abrahams
- Tapestry Figures
- Nobody Here but Us

Four Poems

Andonis Decavalles

Three Poems

Marvin Solomon

Four Poems

Neil Weiss

Three Poems

Richard Eberhart

Paul Engle
- Colette

Opinion

Hugh Kenner
- A Creator of Spaces
Mona Van Duyn
- A Wide Range
E. L. Mayo
- The Roads Taken
Rolfe Humphries
- From the Greek
Harriet Zinnes
- Locations for the Critic

Contributors
- - George Barker
  - Ruthven Todd
  - Ted Hughes
  - Dorothy Donnelly
  - Louis O. Coxe
  - William Burford
- - Paul Goodman
  - William Abrahams
  - Andonis Decavalles
  - Marvin Solomon
  - Neil Weiss
  - Richard Eberhart
- - Paul Engle
  - Hugh Kenner
  - Mona Van Duyn
  - E. L. Mayo
  - Rolfe Humphries
  - Harriet Zinnes