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May 1970

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

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Kaywynne Adams
Wendell Berry
Helen Chasin
David Galler
Theodore Holmes

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1970

Table of Contents

W. S. Merwin
H. B. Mallalieu
- Samothrace
Wendell Berry
- September 2
Helen S. Chasin
- The Poetess Kō Ōgimi
Theodore Weiss
Kathleen Spivack
- The Tank
- Snapping Turtle
Theodore Holmes
- Storm Day
- The Apple Tree
David Galler
- Marsyas
Peter Straub
- Thinking about America
Mark McCloskey
- Pig
- Too Dark
Kaywynne Adams
- Semantikos/Rejectementa
Josephine Saunders
- The Undersides of Words
Frank O'Hara

Comment

Richard Howard
- Graves yawns
Gilbert Sorrentino
- Black Mountaineering
Alan Brilliant
- Five Pamphlets

Contributors
- - W. S. Merwin
  - H. B. Mallalieu
  - Wendell Berry
  - Helen S. Chasin
  - Theodore Weiss
  - Kathleen Spivack
- - Theodore Holmes
  - David Galler
  - Peter Straub
  - Mark McCloskey
  - Kaywynne Adams
  - Josephine Saunders
- - Frank O'Hara
  - Richard Howard
  - Gilbert Sorrentino
  - Alan Brilliant