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January 1953

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

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Karl Shapiro
Martin Svaglic
Paul Aaen
Dannie Abse
Conrad Aiken

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Jan 1953

Table of Contents

Three Poems

William Belvin

Herman Salinger
- Paternal Ashes

Two Poems

Cid Corman
- The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne
- Invocation

Sheila Pritchard
- To the Land of My Inquiry
May Sarton
- The Sacred Wood
William Burford
- The Solitary Man
Stephen Stepanchev
- Three Priests in April
Emma Swan
- Joy
Conrad Aiken
- The Ego

Two Poems

Dannie Abse
- The Frontier
- The Meeting

Paul Aaen
- All Gargoyle

Reviews

Henry W. Rago
- The Thoroughly Being a Poet
Nicholas Joost
- Poe as Patron Saint
Thomas Cole
- A Disciple of Whitman
Geoffrey Wagner
- Quiet Achievement
Betty Miller Davis
- Merry England à la Marx
W. S. Merwin
- Anthology Pieces

Opinion

Wallace Fowlie
- Henri Michaux

Communication

John McCormick
- Falling Asleep over Grillparzer: An Interview with Robert Lowell

Contributors
- - William Belvin
  - Herman Salinger
  - Cid Corman
  - Sheila Pritchard
  - May Sarton
  - William Burford
  - Stephen Stepanchev
- - Emma Swan
  - Conrad Aiken
  - Dannie Abse
  - Paul Aaen
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Nicholas Joost
  - Thomas Cole
- - Geoffrey Wagner
  - Betty Miller Davis
  - W. S. Merwin
  - Wallace Fowlie
  - John McCormick