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POETRY Magazine cover of May 1995 issue

May 1995

 
  • Teresa Cader
  • Jared Carter
  • Turner Cassity
  • Michael Chitwood
  • Peter Cooley
Table of Contents

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Her Island

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An Actual Temple

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Orpheus

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Table of Contents

  • Rita Dove
    • Her Island
  • Reynolds Price
    • An Actual Temple
  • Carl Dennis
    • Orpheus
    • Old Woman
    • Book Fair
  • Peter Cooley
    • Transcendentals
  • Michael Chitwood
    • After the Missionaries
  • Turner Cassity
    • Christ of the Andes
  • Teresa Cader
    • Empress Shotoku Invents Printing in 770
  • Jared Carter
    • Hawkmoth
  • Ted Kooser
    • Lobocraspis Griseifusa
  • John Hollander
    • Arachne
  • Albert Goldbarth
    • Thread through History
    • A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14-Karat Gold Ashtray
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • Design of Gongs
    • Calling to Measure
  • Fred Dings
    • Words for a Perfect Evening
    • The Fire
    • Revelations
    • Migratory Flight
    • The Past
Spectrum
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Spectrum
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Teresa Cader
  • Jared Carter
  • Turner Cassity
  • Michael Chitwood
  • Peter Cooley
  • Carl Dennis
  • Fred Dings
  • Rita Dove
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • John Hollander
  • Ted Kooser
  • Reynolds Price
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Robert B. Shaw
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