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March 1988

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

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Dannie Abse
Jack Butler
Thomas Carper
John Ciardi
Robert Cording

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Table of Contents

Lisel Mueller
Alison Stone
- Not Seeking New Worlds
William Ford
- The Summer of Twelve
- At Mt. Rushmore
Thomas Reiter
- Class Bully
Jon Davis
- Essay: The Yearbook
Robert Cording
- The Gravity of Anonymity
Carole Oles
- How He Celebrated Daily Mass
Jack Butler
- The Lord Is down in the Greek Theatre Again
Dannie Abse
- Smiling Through
John Ciardi
- Elegy for a Cave Full of Bones
P. H. Liotta
- The Story I Can't Tell
Gary Margolis
- The Groves of Argos
Gerald Stern
- The Bull-Roarer
William Logan
- The Age of Ballroom Dining
Richard Jackson
- Eight Ball
- A Hand in the Tree
Miklós Radnóti
- Letter to My Wife
- Foamy Sky (Tr. by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Frederick Turner)
Thomas Carper
- Nobody at Treblinka

Contributors
- - Lisel Mueller
  - Alison Stone
  - William Ford
  - Thomas Reiter
  - Jon Davis
  - Robert Cording
- - Carole Oles
  - Jack Butler
  - Dannie Abse
  - John Ciardi
  - P. H. Liotta
  - Gary Margolis
- - Gerald Stern
  - William Logan
  - Richard Jackson
  - Miklós Radnóti
  - Thomas Carper