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March 1988

 
  • Dannie Abse
  • Jack Butler
  • Thomas Carper
  • John Ciardi
  • Robert Cording
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Public Service Announcement

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Not Seeking New Worlds

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At Mt. Rushmore

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Table of Contents

  • Lisel Mueller
    • Public Service Announcement
    • Cavalleria Rusticana
    • Poem for My Birthday
    • Writing in the Eighties
    • Missing the Dead
  • Alison Stone
    • Not Seeking New Worlds
  • William Ford
    • At Mt. Rushmore
    • The Summer of Twelve
  • 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
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  • Dannie Abse
  • Jack Butler
  • Thomas Carper
  • John Ciardi
  • Robert Cording
  • Jon Davis
  • William Ford
  • Richard Jackson
  • P. H. Liotta
  • William Logan
  • Gary Margolis
  • Lisel Mueller
  • Carole Oles
  • Miklós Radnóti
  • Thomas Reiter
  • Gerald Stern
  • Alison Stone
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