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July 1957

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

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Wallace Fowlie
William Smith
John Hendrickson
Louis Coxe
Kimon Friar

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1957

Table of Contents

Kenneth Koch
Samuel French Morse
Paul Goodman
Theodore Holmes
- The Dressing of a Young Girl
- A Single Man at the Fire
Kimon Friar
- In Childhood's Chair
Richard Perreau-Saussine
- For Helen Keller
S. P. Zitner
- Light Bulb: Lares
John Hollander
- The Observatory
Stan Steiner
- Wearing the Odd Clothes of Exile a Puerto Rican Youth Arrives in New York City and Is Laughed At
Pauline Hanson
- So Beautiful Is the Tree of Night
- From as Far as Once
Louis O. Coxe
- Fall of Leaf
- The Hostage
Sylvia Plath

Comment

Hugh Kenner
- Homage to Musonius
Stanley Kunitz
- No Middle Flight
John Ashbery
- The Impossible
Paul Carroll
- Prophet without Honor
John Woods
- Tennessee Williams as a Poet

Correspondence

John R. Hendrickson
- Millay and the Reviewers

William Jay Smith
- News Notes

Contributors
- - Kenneth Koch
  - Samuel French Morse
  - Paul Goodman
  - Theodore Holmes
  - Kimon Friar
  - Richard Perreau-Saussine
  - S. P. Zitner
- - John Hollander
  - Stan Steiner
  - Pauline Hanson
  - Louis O. Coxe
  - Sylvia Plath
  - Hugh Kenner
  - Stanley Kunitz
- - John Ashbery
  - Paul Carroll
  - John Woods
  - John R. Hendrickson
  - William Jay Smith