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April 1999

Robert Bly, Kevin Cantwell, Gregory Djanikian, Stephen Dunn, Stuart Dybek, Catherine Field, and more.

April 1999

Cover art: Käthe Kollwitz, "Ruht im Frieden seiner Hände," 1935-1936.

POEMS

Robert Bly

Kevin Cantwell

Gregory Djanikian

  • A Brief History of Border Crossings

Stephen Dunn

  • The Metaphysicians of South Jersey

Stuart Dybek

  • Gradually

Catherine Field

  • Act of the Mind

Art Homer

  • Pikune Free School

Philip Levine

Judy Longley

  • Thunderstorm the Day the War Ended

Jill McDonough

  • Kanji

Philip Memmer

  • Tabletop World

Bern Mulvey

  • Butsama

Carl Sandburg

  • [Wilderness Man]
  • Selling Spiel [on Maxwell Street]
  • Li Po and Lao Tse Come to Nebraska

Gary Stein

  • Subway

Dabney Stuart

  • Hindsight

David Wagoner

  • Madstone
  • The Elders

A. E. Stallings

  • Where We Moved To

PROSE

Sandra M. Gilbert

  • The Worst of the Best, Or, "Pessoa Schmessoa"

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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