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March 1959

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

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Tom Haber
A. Ammons
Margaret Avison
Kay Boyle
Warren Carrier

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1959

Table of Contents

Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot

William Carlos Williams
- Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot

Comment

John Hollander
- I. A. Richards as Poet
Robert Creeley
- "Her Service is Perfect Freedom"
Philip Levine
- Three Poets
Donald Justice
- The Unhappy Fate of the "Poetic"
Bruce Cutler
- The Facts of Human Defeat
Charles Tomlinson
- Studies in Chinese Literature

Contributors
- - Alan Neame
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Barbara Gibbs
  - Margaret Avison
  - Robert Duncan
  - A. R. Ammons
- - Warren Carrier
  - Kay Boyle
  - Leonard E. Nathan
  - Carolyn Kizer
  - William Carlos Williams
  - John Hollander
- - Robert Creeley
  - Philip Levine
  - Donald Justice
  - Bruce Cutler
  - Charles Tomlinson