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July 2002

Robert Murphy, "Pre-Conversion," 1995.
 
  • Neal Bowers
  • F. Reeve
  • George Garrett
  • Gary Whitehead
  • Michael Bugeja
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Table of Contents

Poetry
  • F. D. Reeve
    • Piecework
    • The Uniform
  • George Garrett
    • Postcard from the Villa Serbelloni
    • Another Version
    • Memorial Service
  • Gary J. Whitehead
    • The Experiment
    • First-Year Teacher to His Students
  • Michael J. Bugeja
    • The Land-Grant Professor Posts His Post-Tenure Review
    • The Land-Grant Professor Laments His Loss in All the Usual Places
  • Barry Rackner
    • Office Afterhours
  • Christopher Cokinos
    • Irresponsibility
  • Gregg Hodges
    • Wasn't It Good
  • Elizabeth Biller Chapman
    • Light Thickens
  • Sharon Bryan
    • Saying Things
    • Body and Soul
  • Maxine Kumin
    • Getting There
  • Jen Rouse
    • Incidents
    • Gas Money
  • Joseph Campana
    • First Job
  • Henry Taylor
    • The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
  • Kurt Lipschutz
    • The Attorney Arrives at His Office on April 16th
    • Dysfunctional Don
  • Ron Offen
    • Feeling My Oaths
  • Faye George
    • Free Range
    • Vitae
  • William Jay Smith
    • Madison Avenue Overture
  • Kelly Cherry
    • On the Work Ethic
Comment
  • Neal Bowers
    • University Poetry, Inc.
  • Bruce F. Murphy
    • Capitalism
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  • Maxine Kumin
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  • Bruce F. Murphy
  • Ron Offen
  • Barry Rackner
  • F. D. Reeve
  • Jen Rouse
  • William Jay Smith
  • Henry Taylor
  • Gary J. Whitehead
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