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November 2003

A. F. Moritz, Billy Collins, Christopher Middleton, Debora Greger, J. T. Barbarese, Jeanne Murray Walker, and more.

November 2003

Cover art: Michael Kenna, "Bill Brandt's Snicket, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, 1985."

POEMS

Renée Ashley

  • Like a Child She is Eating Noodles, She is Eating Noodles Like a Child
  • Things as They Are When They Take You

J. T. Barbarese

  • The Landscape Wants To Be Understood Slowly

Rick Barot

  • Elegy

Debora Greger

  • Dances of 1964

Ron De Maris

Christopher Middleton

  • Sanctificat

Traci Elder O'Dea

  • One Week

Peter Spagnuolo

  • Proserpine Comes to Avenue A
  • Reversal

Nance Van Winckel

  • At Some Point the River Always Veers Away From the Road
  • The Last Family on Earth

Jeanne Murray Walker

Billy Collins

  • The Teacher

Kay Ryan

  • Repulsive Theory
  • Tune
  • Chinese Foot Chart
  • The Other Shoe
  • Least Action
  • The Light of Interiors

A. F. Moritz

  • Better Days
  • Simplicity
  • Tragic Vision and Beyond
  • The Jar

PROSE

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Peter Campion

  • Short Reviews of McClatchy, Vazirani, McGuckian, Seidel, Paulin, Kirsch

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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W. S. Di Piero

Sam Hamill

Anthony Hecht

Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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