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July 1998

Ginger Andrews, Peter Bethanis, Randy Blasing, David Bottoms, Donald Caswell, Michael Chitwood, and more.

July 1998

Cover art: Max Beckmann, "The Family," (Plate II of "Die Hölle"), 1919.

POEMS

Ginger Andrews

  • With a Wicked Little Jab
  • No Code
  • Not Sleeping Too Good Myself

Peter Bethanis

Randy Blasing

  • Daylight Saving

David Bottoms

  • A Sunday Dinner

Donald Caswell

  • High, Inside Fastball

Michael Chitwood

  • Duty and History

Richard Foerster

  • Fishline
  • Mirror
  • Garden
  • Scotch
  • Pocketwatch

Dan Gerber

  • My Father's Fields

Emily Grosholz

  • Pirates of the Caribbean

Jeffrey Harrison

  • My Double Non-Conversion

Frank Huyler

  • The Atheist Dreams of Heaven
  • The Deer in the Thicket

Kathrine Jason

  • Return of My Father

Robert King

  • The Expedition
  • Listening

Stephen Matanle

  • His Shoe

Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth

  • Practice

Isabel Nathaniel

  • Summer Whites

Sharon Olds

Linda Pastan

  • Bess
  • Travelogue
  • Armonk

Gerald Stern

  • Swifts
  • Scratch
  • Last Home
  • Old Scarf
  • Personal

A. E. Stallings

PROSE

John Taylor

  • Short Reviews of Graham, Hill, Elytis, Clampitt, Dennis, O'Driscoll

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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