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October 1985

 
  • Stephen Berg
  • Michelle Boisseau
  • Philip Booth
  • Neal Bowers
  • John Dickson
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Sentimental Dangers

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Nights after Reading

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Losses

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Table of Contents

  • Andrew Hudgins
    • Sentimental Dangers
    • Compost: An Ode
  • Stephen Berg
    • Nights after Reading
    • From the Bridge
  • Neal Bowers
    • Losses
  • John Dickson
    • Fossil Fuel
  • Robin Seyfried
    • The Wives of the Poets
  • Bin Ramke
    • According to Ovid
  • Rita Dove
    • Old Folk's Home, Jerusalem
  • Philip Booth
    • Saying It
  • Martin McGovern
    • Toward an Epithalamion
    • All Hallows Eve / Anniversary
  • Alicia Ostriker
    • The Woman Who Ran Away
    • Sex
    • Encountering the Dead
  • Sherod Santos
    • The Unsleeping Genius of Misfortune
  • James Solheim
    • Existence One Thursday
  • Maurya Simon
    • The Way We Are
    • A Door in the Wind
  • Roberta Spear
    • Just South
  • Michelle Boisseau
    • Arbor Day
    • Counting
  • Mark Doty
    • Shaker Orchard
Short Reviews
  • Dave Smith
    • Short Reviews
    • Station Island, by Seamus Heaney
    • The Mural of Wakeful Sleep, by Laurence Lieberman
    • Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, by Raymond Carver
    • Collected Poems: 1957-1982, by Wendell Berry
    • Selected Poems and Sweet Will, by Philip Levine
    • New and Selected Poems: 1923-1985, by Robert Penn Warren
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  • Stephen Berg
  • Michelle Boisseau
  • Philip Booth
  • Neal Bowers
  • John Dickson
  • Mark Doty
  • Rita Dove
  • Andrew Hudgins
  • Martin McGovern
  • Alicia Ostriker
  • Bin Ramke
  • Sherod Santos
  • Robin Seyfried
  • Maurya Simon
  • Dave Smith
  • James Solheim
  • Roberta Spear
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