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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1987

May 1987

 
  • John Bensko
  • Malcolm Glass
  • Susan Hahn
  • Maxine Kumin
  • Sydney Lea
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Marianne, My Mother, and Me

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Small Green

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May 1968

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Table of Contents

  • Maxine Kumin
    • Marianne, My Mother, and Me
  • Susan Hahn
    • Small Green
    • Oral Interpretation
  • Sharon Olds
    • May 1968
    • After Making Love in Winter
  • J. Allyn Rosser
    • In the (Subjunctive) Mood
    • The Dropping of a Name
  • Richard Speakes
    • Code of EthicsCoin Laundry Association
    • Mama Loves Janis Joplin
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
    • Coming into History
    • Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come out of the Womb
  • Sydney Lea
    • Over Brogno
  • Liz Rosenberg
    • Fathers and Sons
    • Between Men and Women
    • My Husband Takes Some Photographs of Me
    • Where Were You?
Six Poets in Search of a History
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • Six Poets in Search of a History
    • Windows Facing East, by Caroline Finkelstein
    • Ghost Money, by Lynda Hull
    • Collected Poems, by Elizabeth Jennings
    • Time and the White Tigress, by Mary Barnard
    • The Pose of Happiness, by Gail Mazur
    • Dream Work, by Mary Oliver
    • [Robert Lowell, D. H. Lawrence]
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  • Susan Hahn
  • Maxine Kumin
  • Sydney Lea
  • Sharon Olds
  • Liz Rosenberg
  • J. Allyn Rosser
  • Richard Speakes
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
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