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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1989

May 1989

 
  • Sue Barker
  • Randy Blasing
  • Chana Bloch
  • Joe Bolton
  • Daniel Daly
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If I Need to See You

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Grief

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The Dictionaries

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Table of Contents

  • Carl Dennis
    • If I Need to See You
    • Soon
    • Waking on Sunday
  • Erica Funkhouser
    • Grief
    • Tae Kwon Do
    • Apple Tree
  • Gary Soto
    • The Dictionaries
  • Randy Blasing
    • White Bread
    • Triptych
  • Linda Pastan
    • At the Equestrian Museum
    • Waku
    • The Hat Lady
    • Subway
  • Brendan Galvin
    • My Grandmother Steals Her Last Trout
  • Chana Bloch
    • The Family
    • A Future
  • Gregory Djanikian
    • Mrs. Caldera's House of Things
Incarnate Lights
  • Ben Howard
    • Incarnate Lights
    • Tales of the Supernatural, by Maura Stanton
    • Timepiece, by Jane Flanders
    • The Singing Underneath, by Jeffrey Harrison
    • The Gaza of Winter, by Donald Revell
    • Paper Bird, by Robin Behn
Contents
  • Ben Howard
    • New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur
    • Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems 1948-1988, by Daniel Hoffman
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  • Randy Blasing
  • Chana Bloch
  • Carl Dennis
  • Gregory Djanikian
  • Erica Funkhouser
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Ben Howard
  • Linda Pastan
  • Gary Soto
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