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December 1980

 
  • Christopher Bursk
  • Martha Collins
  • Gary Gildner
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Edward Hirsch
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The Fears of the Poor

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Christmas

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Several Things

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Table of Contents

  • Vern Rutsala
    • The Fears of the Poor
    • Prospectus for Visitors
    • Skaters
  • Sharyn November
    • Christmas
  • Martha Collins
    • Several Things
    • The Story We Know
  • Christopher Bursk
    • Plywood
    • The Only Thing Worse than the Terror Itself Would Be the Silence Afterward
    • Jerusalem Road
  • Nancy Schoenberger
    • A Small Thing
    • Train to Seattle, Christmas Morning
  • Gary Gildner
    • Jabn
  • Conrad Hilberry
    • Christmas, Mexico
  • Roger Mitchell
    • Cinderella
  • Edward Hirsch
    • For the Sleepwalkers
  • Caroline Knox
    • Sol Invictus
    • Nancy Drew
    • The Cavendish Club
  • Thomas Lux
    • The Night so Bright a Squirrel Reads
    • After a Few Whiffs of Another World
    • It's the Little Towns I Like
    • His Spine Curved Just Enough
  • Judith Leet
    • Sum
    • On Participating in Four Forms of Planetary Motion
    • The Play of the Mind
    • Returning Lewis to His Freedom
Comment
  • Alan Williamson
    • Dim Human Avenues
    • Ashes: Poems New and Old and Seven Years from Somewhere, by Philip Levine
    • The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River, by Allen Grossman
    • The Everlastings, by Norman Dubie
    • Crossing, by John Matthias
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Christopher Bursk
  • Martha Collins
  • Gary Gildner
  • Conrad Hilberry
  • Edward Hirsch
  • Caroline Knox
  • Judith Leet
  • Thomas Lux
  • Roger Mitchell
  • Sharyn November
  • Vern Rutsala
  • Nancy Schoenberger
  • Alan Williamson
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