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December 2006
New poems from Joel Brouwer, Claudia Emerson, Roddy Lumsden, David Baker, Dana Levin, Geoffrey Hill, Mary Ruefle, Charles O. Hartman, Alicia Ostriker, and W.S. Di Piero; Eight Takes from Brian Phillips; notebook pages by Clive James; Christina Pugh’s “Humor Anxiety;” and engravings of twelve poets from David Schorr.
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November 2006
New poems from Albert Goldbarth, Clive James, Laura Newbern, John Pursley III, Mary Kinzie, Lucas Howell, Charlie Smith, William Wenthe, Roger Mitchell, Linda Gregerson, Brian Swann, and Reginald Shepherd; a new verse drama translation of Pierre Corneille from Richard Wilbur; D.H. Tracy ponders some "Bad Ideas"; "The View from Here" returns with observations on poetry from Zen Buddhist Master Robert Aitken, science writer Dava Sobel, Minister Matt Fitzgerald, economist Robert Kavesh, and cellist Nicholas Photinos; Plus letters in response to John Barr's vision of "American Poetry in the New Century," from Stephen Yenser, David Wagoner, Sidney Wade, Michael Wiegers, and others.
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October 2006
New poems by Robert Pinsky, Eavan Boland, Robert VanderMolen, David Biespiel, Laura Kasischke, Lucia Perillo, Susan Hutton, Landis Everson, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and Jean Monahan; twelve Symphosius riddles, translated by Richard Wilbur; six poems from Gottfried Benn, translations and afterword by Michael Hofmann; notebook pages by W.S. Di Piero; and the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, questioned by Danielle Chapman.
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September 2006
New poems from D.A. Powell, Anne Stevenson, Michael Heffernan, Paisley Rekdal, Natalie Shapero, Galway Kinnell, Kevin McFadden, Christopher Middleton, Christine Garren, Linda Bierds, B.J. Ward, Jacob Polley, and Molly McQuade; Also, Eight Takes from Dan Chiasson, Adam Kirsch examines the impact of Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL fifty years later, and Poetry Foundation President John Barr discusses American poetry in the new century.
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July 2006
Back by popular demand for July/August—Poetry’s Humor Issue! New poems from Billy Collins, X.J Kennedy, Joanie Mackowski, Dean Young, Molly McQuade, Geoffrey Brock, John Updike, Eleanor Wilner, Albert Goldbarth, J. Allyn Rosser, Paul Muldoon, Andrew Hudgins, and more. The Poetess answers our readers’ most pressing queries; the well-known medium Peter Campion channels four voices from outside the poetry world in “The View From Here;” Maira Kalman does the cover; desperate, lonely, and hopeful poets post classifieds in the new “Want Ads” Section; David Orr reveals his briefs; five cartoonists show that a picture is sometimes worth a thousand poems; and past contributors submit insane and libelous “Letters to the Editor.”
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June 2006
An all poetry issue featuring new work by Mary Kinzie, Joshua Mehigan, Kay Ryan, Dana Levin, Clive James, Ralph Sneeden, Paul Finn, Averill Curdy, Robin Robertson, Bruce Smith, Michael Chitwood, Marianne Boruch, Jeffrey Harrison, Adam Zagajewski as translated by Clare Cavanagh, Todd Boss, Eamon Grennan John Hodgen, W.S. Di Piero, and Reginald Gibbons.
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May 2006
New poems by Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Merwin, A.F. Moritz, J. Allyn Rosser, Stefi Weisburd, David Mason, Rebecca Hoogs, John Koethe, and Kathleen Lynch. Brian Phillips considers one of the best living poets, Kay Ryan talks nonsense, and D.H. Tracy reviews eight new books.
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April 2006
Special Translation Issue in celebration of National Poetry Month. New translations of Stéphane Mallarmé, Bertolt Brecht, Wislawa Szymborska, Jorge Luis Borges, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others by Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, Michael Hofmann, Aleksandar Hemon, W.S. Merwin, Dana Gioia, A.E. Stallings, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, Marilyn Hacker, Carolyne Wright, et al. Special Translation Issue in celebration of National Poetry Month. New translations of Stephane Mallarme, Bertolt Brecht, Wislawa Szymborska, Jorge Luis Borges, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others by Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, Michael Hofmann, Aleksandar Hemon, W.S. Merwin, Dana Gioia, A.E. Stallings, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, Marilyn Hacker, Carolyne Wright, et al.
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March 2006
New poems by Sandra McPherson, Bill Coyle, Katherine Larson, Bob Hicok, Major Jackson, David Gewanter & Kelle Groom; Tony Hoagland examines the “Poem of Our Moment”; and Don Paterson, Kay Ryan, Michael Hofmann, Rosanna Warren, Conor O’Callaghan, Linda Gregerson, & H.L. Hix enthuse over their favorite forgotten poets.
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February 2006
New poems by Robert Pinsky, Wendy Cope, Albert Goldbarth, A.E. Stallings, Dean Young, Deborah Warren & David Barber; new translations of Rimbaud, by John Kinsella; Mary Kinzie remembers Julia Randall; William Logan considers the end of criticism; and George Szirtes discusses rhyme, meter, stanza & pattern.
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January 2006
New poems from Thylias Moss, Billy Collins, Louise Glück, Mary Karr, Tony Hoagland, A.F. Moritz, Megan Grumbling, Joshua Weiner, David Mason, Carolina Ebeid, Alexander Theroux, and Sean Bishop. Meghan O'Rourke, J. Allyn Rosser & Eleanor Wilner on "Women's Poetry." W.S. Di Piero looks at the life and letters of James Schuyler, and Eight Takes from D.H. Tracy. New poems from Thylias Moss, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Mary Karr, Tony Hoagland, A.F. Moritz, Megan Grumbling, Joshua Weiner, David Mason, Carolina Ebeid, Alexander Theroux, and Sean Bishop. Meghan O'Rourke, J. Allyn Rosser & Eleanor Wilner on "Women's Poetry." W.S. Di Piero looks at the life and letters of James Schuyler, and Eight Takes from D.H. Tracy.
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