Past Issues

December 2000
Poetry by Billy Collins, Linda Pastan, Joseph Campana, Jean Nordhaus, Susan Hahn, Michael Dobberstein, Mercedes Lawry, Elise Partridge, Carol Potter, Cleopatra Mathis, Elton Glaser, John Lundberg, Timothy Steele, R. T. Smith, J. Allyn Rosser. Bruce Murphy and Bill Christophersen review new books.
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October 2000
The combined October-November issue of POETRY Magazine is a special triple-size number devoted to contemporary poetry in French by 39 poets, some of whom are appearing in English for the first time. Co-edited with noted critic and essayist John Taylor and National Book Award winning poet Marilyn Hacker, the issue begins with Julien Gracq and other writers who began publishing early in the 20th century, and covers the latter half of the century, concluding with younger poets such as Jean-Michel Maulpoix and Pascalle Monnier. The contents are uniquely broad in that the editors considered important recent work by all Francophone poets, regardless of whether the author lives in France or is a French citizen.

The number features newly-commissioned translations by such noted poets as John Ashbery, John Montague, and Alfred Corn, as well as contributions from highly regarded scholar-translators, including Mary Ann Caws, Hoyt Rogers, and Andrew Shields. At least one work by each poet is presented in the original French. John Taylor's essay, "From Intimism to the Poetics of 'Presence': Reading Contemporary French Poetry" surveys the major movements in recent French poetry and provides background information for the writers included. Featured Poets: Pierre Martory, Robert Marteau, Jacques Réda, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jacques Roubaud, Charles Juliet, Claire Malroux.
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September 2000
Poetry by Philip Levine, Suzanne Buffam, Turner Cassity, David Ricks, Sandra M. Gilbert, Brent Pallas, Lisa Rosenberg, Matthew Brenneman, Roberta Spear, Judith Strasser, Gerard Malanga, Patrick Dunn, Charlie Smith, Leslie Ullman, Michael Steffen, James Kimbrell, Tom Disch. Robert B. Shaw reviews several new books on prosody.
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August 2000
Poetry by John Updike, Katherine Smith, Douglas Goetsch, Victoria Hallerman, Holly Hunt, John Brehm, Greg Williamson, Marvin Bell, Paul Lake, Michael Eilperin, Mary Gilliland, Art Nahill, Robin Robertson, Jason Gray, David Wagoner, A. E. Stallings, Derick Burleson, Elise Hempel, Wesley McNair, and Linda Pastan. Thomas M. Disch and David Orr review new books.
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July 2000
Poetry by Joyce Sutphen, Rhina P. Espaillat, Chris Forhan, Elizabeth Holmes, D. Nurkse, Richard Taylor, Kristin Fogdall, Rob Griffith, Michael Lind, Susan Hahn, Jennifer O'Grady, Albert Goldbarth, Judy Michaels, George Scarbrough, Richard Stern, Liu Yung (trans. by Julie Landau), Neal Bowers, Ha Jin, and Daryl Hine. Leslie Ullman and F. D. Reeve review new books.
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June 2000
Poetry by Kay Ryan, Peter Makuck, DC Berry, Mary Cornish, David R. Slavitt, Debra Bruce, Alan Feldman, Hugh Seidman, Elizabeth Katz, Meredith Cole, Kevin McFadden, Kevin Durkin, John Hazard, Robert Wrigley, Barton Sutter, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Talbot. Paul Breslin reviews recent publications by poets once associated with the Black Mountain School.
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May 2000
Poetry by James Tate, Dolores Stewart, Mark Turcotte, Ron Price, David Wagoner, K. Reynolds Dixon, Kenyotta Bradley, Turner Cassity, J. Allyn Rosser, Philip Asaph, Gary Soto, Barry Silesky, Stephen Corey, Andrew Mulvania, Lucien Stryk, John Updike, Esther Cameron, and Len Roberts. Henry Taylor reviews Miller Williams, Jim Harrison, Christian Wiman, Wendell Berry, and Michael Ondaatje.
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April 2000
Poetry by Billy Collins, Michael Chitwood, Dennis Held, Elton Glaser, Jeanne Murray Walker, Joanie V. Mackowski, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Jessica Hornik, Joyce Sutphen, Angela Shaw, Albert Goldbarth, Jack Myers, G. C. Waldrep, Mary Gilliland, Faye George, Gregory Djanikian, Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth, Joshua Mehigan, and Kevin Meaux. Ben Howard reviews poetry collections by Eamon Grennan, Kenneth Koch, Peter Cooley, and James Kimbrell, while David Yezzi takes up new books by Albert Goldbarth, Mary Jo Salter, Pimone Triplett, Margaret Holley, and Craig Arnold.
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March 2000
Poetry by Irving Feldman, David Clewell, Maudelle Driskell, Kathleen Lynch, Nikia Leopold, Rad Smith, Bruce Cohen, Max Garland, Annie Boutelle, Bob Hicok, Martin Galvin, Elizabeth Spires, Jean Nordhaus, Judith Kroll, Kathryn Maris, Kim Addonizio, Richard Tillinghast, and Dave Smith. John Taylor.
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February 2000
Poetry by Stephen Dunn, Barry Spacks, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Charlie Smith, Robert Bly, F. D. Reeve, Neal Bowers, Julianna Baggott, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Renée Ashley, Connie Wanek, Shannon M. Smith, Fleda Brown, Diane Thiel, Joyce Sutphen, Curt Anderson, Kevin McFadden, C. Dale Young, Justine Cook, Catherine Tufariello, Gary Metras, James Kimbrell, Dolores Stewart, Mark Jarman, Ronald Wardall, Jeffrey Harrison, Michele Wolf, Stephen Cushman, and Maudelle Driskell. John Taylor reviews books by Billy Collins, David Baker, Sharon Bryan, John Kinsella, Sidney Wade, and Jeanne Murray Walker.
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January 2000
Poetry by Pablo Neruda (translated by Alfred Yankauer), Michael Lind, Sandra M. Gilbert, Kathleen Lynch, J. Allyn Rosser, Michelle Boisseau, John Ashbery, Billy Collins, Jacques Réda (translated by Andrew Shields), Leslie Ullman, Jeff Greer, R. T. Smith, Robert L. Jones, Karl Kirchwey, Kenneth Koch. Robert B. Shaw considers tragic generations of poets, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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