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September 1959

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

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Theodore Roethke
Elise Asher
Gwendolyn Brooks
David De Jong
Dorothy Donnelly

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1959

Table of Contents

Barbara Howes
Dorothy Donnelly
- Trio in a Mirror
Sylvia Plath
Peter Redgrove
- Woman in a Flowered Dress
- From "Feeding-Pieces"

The Bean Eaters

Gwendolyn Brooks

John Montague
- Speech for an Ideal Irish Election
Elise Asher
- Sickbed
D. J. Hughes
- Kokoro
James Reaney
- A Cellar Song
- The Windyard
Felix N. Stefanile
- Services
- That Miser, Fear
David Cornel De Jong
Herbert Morris
- Myself and Thou from Theatres of the Night
- Hôtel de dieu
Howard Nemerov
- Death and the Maiden

Comment

Wallace Fowlie
- Letter from Haiti
Alan Neame
- Aware or Disregarding
Henry Birnbaum
- The Poetry of Protest
Hugh Kenner
- Beast-Type Sockdolagers

Contributors
- - Barbara Howes
  - Dorothy Donnelly
  - Sylvia Plath
  - Peter Redgrove
  - Gwendolyn Brooks
  - John Montague
- - Elise Asher
  - D. J. Hughes
  - James Reaney
  - Felix N. Stefanile
  - David Cornel De Jong
  - Herbert Morris
- - Howard Nemerov
  - Wallace Fowlie
  - Alan Neame
  - Henry Birnbaum
  - Hugh Kenner