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July 1961

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

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Muriel Rukeyser
J. Cameron
Mary Carlton
James Crenner
Peter Davison

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1961

Table of Contents

J. Cameron
Mary Carlton
- Of Tutankhamen's Tomb
James T. Crenner
- Song to a Crippled Child
Peter Davison
- Artemis
- Sacrificial Mask
William Duffy
- An Old Man's Walk
- Bachelor Place
Edward Field
Richard Frost
- Villanelle of the Circus Villains
- Hunting in Deep Creek
Barbara Guest
- Dido to Aeneas
- Green Awnings
John V. Hicks
- O but What Sun
Gene Lundahl
- A Father to His Young Son
Julian Mitchell
- Lament for the Cowboy Life
- Epitaph for an Airman
Richard Murphy
- The Poet on the Island
Guy Owen
- The White Horse
A. K. Ramanujan
Belle Randall
Charles Reynolds
- On Ancient Death
Larry Rubin
- The Visitant
Florence Victor
- Postcard
Robert Wallace
- A Snapshot for Miss Bricka Who Lost in the Semi-Final Round of the Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Tournament, at Haverford, July, 1960
- The Double-Play
David Wevill
- The Elder Son

Comment

X J Kennedy
- The New American Poetry
Ralph J. Mills Jr.
- Lives of the Poets
A. Norman Jeffares
- Yeats as Public Man
Charles Tomlinson
- Pull down Thy Vanity

Contributors
- - J. Cameron
  - Mary Carlton
  - James T. Crenner
  - Peter Davison
  - William Duffy
  - Edward Field
  - Richard Frost
  - Barbara Guest
- - John V. Hicks
  - Gene Lundahl
  - Julian Mitchell
  - Richard Murphy
  - Guy Owen
  - A. K. Ramanujan
  - Belle Randall
  - Charles Reynolds
- - Larry Rubin
  - Florence Victor
  - Robert Wallace
  - David Wevill
  - X J Kennedy
  - Ralph J. Mills Jr.
  - A. Norman Jeffares
  - Charles Tomlinson