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December 1999
Poetry by Jared Carter, Connie Wanek, Joshua Corey, Heidy Steidlmayer, Kevin Meaux, Kurt S. Olsson, Diane Thiel, Andrew Shields, Maria Terrone, Gray Jacobik, Kay Ryan, Chris Forhan, Carl Dennis, Barry Spacks, Mark Mitchell, George Bradley, Molly Tenenbaum, Glenn J. Freeman, David Mason, and W. S. Merwin. Reviews by Bruce F. Murphy.
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October 1999
A special double issue devoted to long poems and sequences. Poetry by Charles Wright, Linda Pastan, Albert Goldbarth, David Schloss, Alfred Corn, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Logan, David Wojahn, David Bottoms, and Marilyn Hacker. J. D. McClatchy considers the career of Charles Wright.
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September 1999
Poetry by J. D. McClatchy, Rick Hilles, Yehuda Amichai (tr. by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld), A. E. Stallings, Robert B. Shaw, George Scarbrough, Paul Lake, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Dorothy Sutton, Miriam Vermilya, Joyce Sutphen, Jonathan Galassi, Heidy Steidlmayer, Gerard Chaliland (tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian, and Kim Addonizio. Prose by Bill Christophersen.
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August 1999
Poetry by Robert Bly, Dan Brown, Carl Dennis, Jack Stewart, Lianne Spidel, William Johnson, Clarinda Harriss, Rad Smith, Enid Shomer, Richard Dey, Edmund August, Paul Zimmer, John Brehm, David Wagoner, Rennie McQuilkin, Dan Campion, Ann Townsend, John Kinsella, and Daniel Halpern. Prose by Christian Wiman.
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July 1999
Poetry by Gregory Djanikian, Sigman Byrd, Leslie Monsour, Elizabeth Biller Chapman, Andrew Towle, Joyce Sutphen, Lisa Gorton, Bart Baxter, Charlie Smith, Andrew Feld, Jack Stewart, Christine Stewart, Alexander Lehrman, Lianne Spidel, Tom Sexton, Tony Sanders, Neal Bowers, W. F. Bolton, Tom Sleigh, Dennis O'Driscoll, Joyelle McSweeney David Wojahn reviews collections from Frederick Seidel, Alan Williamson, August Kleinzahler, Donald Revell, Rika Lesser and Michael Burkard, while David Orr takes up Raymond Carver, Michael Chitwood, and Greg Miller.
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June 1999
Poetry by Paulann Petersen, Richard Foerster, W. S. Merwin, Billy Collins, Georgia Shreve, Priscilla Atkins, Susan Donnelly, Kevin Craft, Megan Sexton, Marilyn Taylor, Stanley Plumly, Stanley Moss, James Scruton, Wilmer Mills, Hugh Steinberg, John Updike, Bob Brooks, C. K. Williams, Grace Butcher, Dick Allen, and Cathryn Essinger. Short Reviews by John Taylor & David Yezzi.
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May 1999
Poetry by Debra Allbery, F. D. Reeve, C. K. Williams, A. E. Stallings, Debra Bruce, Art Nahill, Rad Smith, J. W. Marshall, Paula Tatarunis, Rodney Jack, Floyd Skloot, Robin Cooper-Stone, Lianne Spidel, Stanley Plumly, John Allman, Christine Stewart, Robin Morgan, Henry M. Seiden, Michael McFee, Rennie McQuilkin, Stuart Mitchner, Ron Overton, Len Roberts, and Cortney Davis. Bill Christophersen reviews AFTER ALL: LAST POEMS, by William Matthews.
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April 1999
Poetry by Robert Bly, Judy Longley, Bern Mulvey, Jill McDonough, Gabriel Spera, Dabney Stuart, Art Homer, David Wagoner, Ann Snodgrass, Stuart Dybek, Philip Levine, Gary Stein, Catherine Field, Kevin Cantwell, Stephen Dunn, Philip Memmer, A. E. Stallings, Gregory Djanikian, Carl Sandburg. Sandra M. Gilbert takes on Harold Bloom's THE BEST OF THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 1988-1997, and several other volumes in David Lehman's BEST OF series. She also reviews THE YALE YOUNGER POETS ANTHOLOGY, edited by George Bradley.
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March 1999
Poetry by David Wagoner, Barry Silesky, Deborah Burnham, Roger Caldwell, Andrew Shields, Allison Funk, William Coleman, Allan Johnston, W. S. Merwin, Robert Morgan, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Carole Bernstein, Elizabeth Holmes, Jennifer Richter, Liz Rosenberg, Elizabeth Biller Chapman, David Lunde. F. D. Reeve reviews new books by Robert Gibb, Edward Hirsch, Larry Kramer, Naomi Shihab Nye, Len Roberts, and Lucien Stryk.
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February 1999
Poetry by Pablo Neruda, Stephen Dunn, Billy Collins,Rhina P. Espaillat, BJ Ward, Philip Levine, Mary Jo Salter, Robley Wilson, DC Berry, Paul Ruffin, Rodney Jones, Jean Nordhaus, Fleda Brown Jackson, Angela Shaw, Jennifer Tonge, Randy Blasing, Gary Soto, A. E. Stallings, Hugh Steinberg, Grace Schulman, Joseph Hutchison, Mark Bibbins, Neil Carpathios. Leslie Ullman reviews books by Linda Pastan, William Stafford, Donald Hall, and Mary Karr. Michael Scharf offers brief notices of new volumes by Stanley Moss, Laurie Kutchins, Cynthia Macdonald, Maura Stanton, William Logan, and Richard Foerster.
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January 1999
Poetry by Billy Collins, A. E. Stallings, Henry M. Seiden, Robert Bly, Dabney Stuart, Dixie Partridge, James McCorkle, Jack Barrack, Stephen Dobyns, Miles G. Watson, Don Bogen, Sarah Arvio, Jack R. Ridl, James Harms, Joanie V. Mackowski, Garrett Doherty, Ralph Sneeden, and Hayden Carruth. Christian Wiman writes on the uses of form.
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