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September 1957

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

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Karl Shapiro
Robert Duncan
Isabella Gardner
Jean Garrigue
Carol Hall

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1957

Table of Contents

Jean Garrigue
- Incantatory Poem
- The Chess Dance
Jay Macpherson
Galway Kinnell
- Seven Streams of Nevis
Robert Duncan
Carol Hall
- An Old Woman's Words to Her Young Cat
- To a Woman Seen Eating the Evening Paper
Harry Strickhausen
- The Frozen Lake
James Wright
- The Morality of Poetry
- Nightpiece
Marcia Lee Masters
- Mansion at Sundown
E. L. Mayo
- Twinkling
Isabella Gardner
- The Widow's Yard
Rolfe Humphries
- Rain in Jackson Heights
- Among the Paeligni
David Wagoner

Comment

Karl Shapiro
- A Commemoration: "Les Fleurs du Mal", 1857-1957
Frederick Eckman
- Neither Tame nor Fleecy

Contributors
- - Jean Garrigue
  - Jay Macpherson
  - Galway Kinnell
  - Robert Duncan
  - Carol Hall
- - Harry Strickhausen
  - James Wright
  - Marcia Lee Masters
  - E. L. Mayo
  - Isabella Gardner
- - Rolfe Humphries
  - David Wagoner
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Frederick Eckman