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She made Ladies' Home Journal something poetic

Elizabeth McFarland Hoffman, who as poetry editor of Ladies' Home Journal sandwiched the work of W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath in between "Is Your Marriage a Masquerade?' and "Bing Crosby's Kitchen for His Bride,' died on May 12 in Philadelphia. She was 83 and had homes in Swarthmore, Pa., and Harborside, Maine.

The cause was complications after cardiac surgery, her husband, Daniel Hoffman, said.

While Hoffman was at Ladies' Home Journal, from 1948 to 1962, the magazine published at least a half-dozen poems in each monthly issue. Major 20th-century writers whose verse appeared there included Marianne Moore, John Ciardi, Mark Van Doren, Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Edna St. ...

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