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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1984

May 1984

 
  • Gerald Anderson
  • Jim Anderson
  • Trent Busch
  • Robert Cording
  • Alice Derry
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New Stars

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The House

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The Bath

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Table of Contents

  • Greg Glazner
    • New Stars
    • The Valley
  • Alice Derry
    • The House
  • Laura Gilpin
    • The Bath
  • Julie Fay
    • Provenal Laundry
  • Pamela Uschuk
    • Meditations beside Kootenai Creek
  • Gerald Anderson
    • Consider This
  • Richard Foerster
    • Sleep
  • Lisa Zeidner
    • Safety in Numbers
    • What Really Happens When the Plane Goes Down
  • David Keller
    • The Doorstop in the Shape of a Calico Cat
    • Longing
  • Kay Ryan
    • The Egyptians
    • Marianne Moore Announces Lunch
  • Victoria Hallerman
    • We Grew up Playing Bomb Shelter
    • Seeing, Being Seen
  • Jim Anderson
    • Homework
    • Making the Strange Familiar
  • Trent Busch
    • Staying
    • Woman in a Swing
    • Aletha
  • Robert Cording
    • A Boy Adds Black Vultures to His Life-List
  • Alberta Turner
    • Stumping Wise
  • Edward Mayes
    • Random Panic in the U.S.A.
  • Sam Pereira
    • Something about Sailing
  • Harrison Wickless
    • Rejection Slip
Contents
  • Jim Elledge
    • Familiar and New Voices
    • People Live Here: Selected Poems, 1949-1983, by Louis Simpson
    • Proud and On My Feet, by J. W.Rivers
    • Shouting at No One, by Lawrence Joseph
    • To Continue, by Randy Blasing
    • Sad Days of Light, by Peter Balakian
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Gerald Anderson
  • Jim Anderson
  • Trent Busch
  • Robert Cording
  • Alice Derry
  • Jim Elledge
  • Julie Fay
  • Richard Foerster
  • Laura Gilpin
  • Greg Glazner
  • Victoria Hallerman
  • David Keller
  • Edward Mayes
  • Sam Pereira
  • Kay Ryan
  • Alberta Turner
  • Pamela Uschuk
  • Harrison Wickless
  • Lisa Zeidner
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