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June 1961

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

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Robert Frost
Wallace Fowlie
Günter Grass
Ruth Herschberger
Edward Kessler

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1961

Table of Contents

Charles Tomlinson
Edward Kessler
- Grey Squirrel
Daniel J. Langton
- A Day Dream
Ruth Herschberger
William E. Stafford
Georg Trakl
- Sebastian in Dream (Sebastian im Traum)
Günter Grass
- Open Wardrobe
I. A. Richards
- Alas Extra
Ruth Whitman
- Birth Day
Emily Townsend
- Dactylo-Epitrites for Dudley Fitts
James Merrill
- A Tenancy
- Six Leaves from the Album in the Waiting-Room

Comment

Reed Whittemore
- A Letter to Karl Shapiro
Wallace Fowlie
- Postscript
Arthur Gregor
- Visionary Landscapes
Oscar Cargill
- The "Unfractioned Idiom" of "The Bridge"
Robert Creeley

Contents

Robert Frost
- Remarks on the Occasion of the Tagore Centenary

Contributors
- - Charles Tomlinson
  - Edward Kessler
  - Daniel J. Langton
  - Ruth Herschberger
  - William E. Stafford
  - Georg Trakl
- - Günter Grass
  - I. A. Richards
  - Ruth Whitman
  - Emily Townsend
  - James Merrill
  - Reed Whittemore
- - Wallace Fowlie
  - Arthur Gregor
  - Oscar Cargill
  - Robert Creeley
  - Robert Frost