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September 1986

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Barri Armitage
Philip Dacey
Maria Flook
Mary Karr
Carolyn Kizer

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Table of Contents

Jay Parini
- Town Life
- The Mariner
William Trowbridge
- Walking Back
Leslie Ullman
- My Mother Is Not Watching
Carolyn Kizer
- Pearl
Susan Wood
Philip Dacey
- Upon Sending His Child Support Check to L. L. Bean and His Check for the Sleeping Bags to His Ex-Wife
Mary Karr
- Soft Mask
Jeanne Murray Walker
- Inspecting the Garden after Dark
- Seizure
Len Roberts
- The Moment
- Nights on Olmstead Street
Katherine Soniat
- Daughter
Barri Armitage
- Fall Ritual
- Weights
Judith Skillman
- The Worship of the Visible Spectrum
- Written on Learning of Arrhythmia in the Unborn Child
Maria Flook
- Child Burial

Comment

Greg Kuzma
- The Catastrophe of Creative Writing

Contributors
- - Jay Parini
  - William Trowbridge
  - Leslie Ullman
  - Carolyn Kizer
  - Susan Wood
- - Philip Dacey
  - Mary Karr
  - Jeanne Murray Walker
  - Len Roberts
  - Katherine Soniat
- - Barri Armitage
  - Judith Skillman
  - Maria Flook
  - Greg Kuzma