Poetry Magazine

Dore Kiesselbach

• Turkey Fallen Dead from Tree

Jessica Greenbaum

• I Had Just Hung Up from Talking to You
• For You Today
• A Poem for S.
• I Love You More Than All the Windows in New York City

Kay Ryan

• Miser Time
• New Rooms

Tony Hoagland

• There Is No Word
• Note to Reality
• Don’t Tell Anyone

Natalie Shapero

• Your Other Heart

Steve Gehrke

• Epilogue
• The New Self

Robin Ekiss

• The Death of Silence

Adrian Matejka

• End of Side A
• Map to the Stars

Katharine Coles

• Tempo for a Winged Instrument

Mark Levine

• Unemployment (1)
• Unemployment (2)
• Unemployment (3)

Saskia Hamilton

• In the Corridor
• On the Ground
• Zwijgen

Brian Swann

• Slugs

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Paintings
• More Light

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s wide-angle vision.

Michael Hofmann

• Curried Dragon

• Diagnosing a fractured family.

Michael Robbins

• Perdita

• Why cats are better than people.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

• Mow Job

• A weed-whacking writer contemplates her lot.

Sarah Lindsay

• Elephants Terribles

• Taking painting to tusk.

Robyn Schiff

• Hell Mouth

• Singing the praises of a soap opera.

Ron Silliman

• Say Hey

• Of pens and pennants.

Averill Curdy

• Westerly

• The hard work of dying.

J. T. Barbarese

• Politics

• A portrait of an impoverished parish.

Mary Ruefle

• I Remember, I Remember

• On the handsome roofers, attentive cows, and sudden tears of youth.

Kayla Berkey

• Letter to the Editor

Paul Durica

• July 1986