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October 1956

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

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Richard Ashman
Margaret Danner
Harold Fleming
Arthur Gregor
Howard Moss

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1956

Table of Contents

Seven Poems for Marthe, My Wife

Kenneth Rexroth

Three Poems

Howard Moss

Two Poems

Theodore Weiss
- The Giant Yea
- The Little Winter Gardens

Leonard E. Nathan
- Between Town and City

Two Poems

Margaret Danner
- Best Loved of Africa
- The Painted Lady
Harold Lee Fleming
- Sure of What the Birds Know
- The Lens Grinder

Richard Ashman
- The Crematory
K. P. A. Taylor
- The Road
Arthur Gregor
- A Mode of Hangings
Harry Roskolenko
- I Stole the Mad Woman's Love, the Mad Woman Said
Kenneth Patchen
- Poemscapes

Comment

Edwin Honig
- Gene Derwood's Poems—An Observance
Reuel Denney
- Invitations to the Listener: Nine Young Poets and Their Audiences
Frederick Eckman
- Six Poets, Young or Unknown
Frederick Bock
- The Invisible and the Manifest

Contributors
- - Harold Lee Fleming
  - Richard Ashman
  - K. P. A. Taylor
  - Arthur Gregor
  - Harry Roskolenko
- - Kenneth Patchen
  - Edwin Honig
  - Reuel Denney
  - Frederick Eckman
  - Frederick Bock