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May 1958

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

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Philip Booth
Paul Carroll
Katherine Chapin
Artelia Court
Babette Deutsch

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1958

Table of Contents

Delmore Schwartz
- The Kingdom of Poetry
David Wagoner
Babette Deutsch
- Unearthly Toy
Samuel French Morse
Katherine Garrison Chapin
- Butterflies
- Late Song
Arthur Gregor
- Song without Words
Paul Carroll
- Still Life: Tankard, Sun, and Avocado Plant
Philip Booth
- Convoy
Galway Kinnell
- The Descent
Joanie La Bombard
- The Sibyl
- If We Were Water-Voice
Artelia Bowne Court
- Four Poems
Eugenio Montale
Charles Tomlinson

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Edith L. Tiempo
- The Cover of Crags
Louis Zukofsky
- What I Come to Do Is Partial
Rosalie Moore
- The Weather
John Edward Hardy
- Stephen Crane, Whitman, Auden, and a Poetry Handbook
Hugh Kenner
- Glow-Worms and Antimacassars

Contributors
- - Delmore Schwartz
  - David Wagoner
  - Babette Deutsch
  - Samuel French Morse
  - Katherine Garrison Chapin
  - Arthur Gregor
- - Paul Carroll
  - Philip Booth
  - Galway Kinnell
  - Joanie La Bombard
  - Artelia Bowne Court
  - Eugenio Montale
- - Charles Tomlinson
  - Edith L. Tiempo
  - Louis Zukofsky
  - Rosalie Moore
  - John Edward Hardy
  - Hugh Kenner