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May 1978

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

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Christina Mahony
A. Ammons
Philip Appleman
Bruce Bennett
Frederick Bock

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1978

Table of Contents

Robert Morgan
- Chant Royal
Norman Dubie
- The World Isn't a Wedding of the Artists of Yesterday
Philip Appleman
- State of Nature
Lisel Mueller
- The Artist's Model, ca. 1912
Ira Sadoff
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Philip Dacey
- Hopkins under Ether
William E. Stafford
- Resolutions
Dorothy Emerson
- Come Soon
Michael Ryan
- When I Was Conceived
Ellen Bryant Voigt
- The Starveling
Linda Pastan
- On Hearing the Testimony of Those Revived after Cardiac Arrest
David Bottoms
- Crawling out at Parties
Marilyn Hacker
- Lines Declining a Transatlantic Dinner Invitation
Tom Disch
- High Purpose in Poetry: A Primer
A. R. Ammons
- Persistences
Thomas Lux
- Poem Beginning with a Random Phrase from Coleridge
Helen S. Chasin
- Poem Incorporating a Phrase from a Poem by Tom Lux Beginning with a Random Phrase from Coleridge
Bruce Bennett
May Swenson
- Fashion in the 70's
William Heyen
- The Singer
Carole Oles
- Rain the Rememberer
Frederick Bock
- Grasshoppers
James Baker Hall
- Four Year Old Brown & Grey Ford Family Car, Dirty
John Ciardi
- Censorship
Robert Pack
- The Meeting
Michael Heffernan
- February 1st
Caroline Knox
- I Have Met Freddy

Contents

Christina Hunt Mahony
- A Note on "The Watch-Fire," by W. B. Yeats (With Edward O'Shea)

Contributors
- - Robert Morgan
  - Norman Dubie
  - Philip Appleman
  - Lisel Mueller
  - Ira Sadoff
  - Philip Dacey
  - William E. Stafford
  - Dorothy Emerson
  - Michael Ryan
  - Ellen Bryant Voigt
- - Linda Pastan
  - David Bottoms
  - Marilyn Hacker
  - Tom Disch
  - A. R. Ammons
  - Thomas Lux
  - Helen S. Chasin
  - Bruce Bennett
  - May Swenson
  - William Heyen
- - Carole Oles
  - Frederick Bock
  - James Baker Hall
  - John Ciardi
  - Robert Pack
  - Michael Heffernan
  - Caroline Knox
  - Christina Hunt Mahony