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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1980

March 1980

 
  • Ai
  • Kathy Fagan
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Daniel Halpern
  • Robert Pack
Table of Contents

From this Issue

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A Place in the Forest

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Looking at a Mountain RangeWhile Listening to a Mozart Piano Concerto

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Boiling

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Multiple people reading Poetry magazine, each framed in colorful arched shapes. Red and black text reads. "Special Offer. 5 months of Poetry for $15"

Table of Contents

  • Dave Smith
    • A Place in the Forest
    • The Soft Belly of the World
    • Tide Pools
  • Robert Pack
    • Looking at a Mountain RangeWhile Listening to a Mozart Piano Concerto
    • The Kiss
  • Sharon Thomson
    • Boiling
    • Meditation
    • The Family Tree
  • Gary Young
    • To an Estranged Wife
    • Prayer
  • Brewster Ghiselin
    • Apocalypse
    • Equinox
  • Kathy Fagan
    • Daughter
  • Gary Soto
    • The Ashes
    • The Widow Perez
  • Daniel Halpern
    • Late
    • Return
  • Ai
    • Kristallnacht
    • The Psychiatrist
    • Winter in Another Country
Comment
  • Samuel Hynes
    • The Odds on Edward Thomas
    • Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (Ed. by R. George Thomas)
    • Edward Thomas: A Poet for His Country, by Jan Marsh
    • [Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost]
  • Alan Williamson
    • In a Middle Style
    • The Pregnant Man, by Robert Phillips
    • The Bus to Veracruz, by Richard Shelton
    • The Tale of Sunlight, by Gary Soto
    • Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, by Alice Walker
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  • Kathy Fagan
  • Brewster Ghiselin
  • Daniel Halpern
  • Samuel Hynes
  • Robert Pack
  • Dave Smith
  • Gary Soto
  • Sharon Thomson
  • Alan Williamson
  • Gary Young
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