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March 1999

Carole Bernstein, Deborah Burnham, Roger Caldwell, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Elizabeth Biller Chapman, William Coleman, and more.

March 1999

Cover art: Ernst Barlach, "Hornbläser," 1935.

POEMS

Carole Bernstein

Deborah Burnham

  • The Notebooks of Anna Magdalena Bach
  • Abishag the Shunamite

Roger Caldwell

  • François Couperin at Versailles
  • Die Neue Musik

Nancy Naomi Carlson

  • What Cannot Be Held

Elizabeth Biller Chapman

  • Liking Men, Mistress Quickly

William Coleman

  • Reading the Greeks Under a Blanket of Blue

Allison Funk

  • Mount Joy

Elizabeth Holmes

  • Sonogram
  • Early Labor
  • Second Birth

Allan Johnston

David Lunde

W. S. Merwin

Robert Morgan

Jennifer Richter

  • Annunciation

Liz Rosenberg

  • The Offspring

Barry Silesky

  • Music Lesson

David Wagoner

  • The Words-and-Music Men

Andrew Shields

  • Flugelhorn
  • Schism

PROSE

F. D. Reeve

  • The Size of It

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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