October 2002

Diane Ackerman
Dick Allen
John Ashbery
Marvin Bell
Wendell Berry

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

Like Your Face

The Adult Section

On His Reluctance to Take down the Christmas Ornaments

Diane Ackerman
- Like Your Face
Dick Allen
- The Adult Section
John Ashbery
- On His Reluctance to Take down the Christmas Ornaments
- Too Much Sleep Is Bad
Marvin Bell
- The Papers
Wendell Berry
- Sabbaths 2001
Michael C. Blumenthal
- I Think Constantly of Those Who Were Truly Great
Robert Bly
- Brahms
Philip Booth
- The Professor's Final Address
David Bottoms
- Melville in the Bass Boat
Neal Bowers
- Near Myth
Jean Burden
- Query
Turner Cassity
- The Grateful Minimalist
Billy Collins
- Poem
- Writing in the Afterlife
Carl Dennis
- A Colleague Confesses
Tom Disch
- Ars Poetica
Gregory Djanikian
- First Efforts
Stephen Dobyns
- Aphorisms
Rita Dove
- I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land
Stephen Dunn
- Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness
Sandra M. Gilbert
- Afternoon Walk: The Sea Ranch
Albert Goldbarth
- Zero: Terror / Lullaby
Laurence Goldstein
- War Babies, Sixty Years On
Eamon Grennan
- Shard
Marilyn Hacker
- Sonnet on a Line from Vnus Khoury-Ghata
Susan Hahn
- The Pity of Punctuation
Daryl Hine
- Canzone
Ellen Hinsey
- Interdiction
John Hollander
- Entwining
Ben Howard
- Prose Should Be Transparent
Richard Howard
- Another Translator
X J Kennedy
- Geometry
Galway Kinnell
- The Stone Table
John Kinsella
- Mulga Parrots
Carolyn Kizer
- After Horace
Kenneth Koch
- A Momentary Longing to Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
Yusef Komunyakaa
- from From Autobiography of My Alter Ego
Maxine Kumin
- Last Days
Brad Leithauser
- Routes
Philip Levine
- New Year's Eve, in Hospital
William Logan
- Song
J. D. McClatchy
- Pibroch
Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
- An Atheist's Blessing
Sandra McPherson
- Virtue Study
W. S. Merwin
- To the Blank Spaces
John Montague
- Adam's Apple
- Pilgrims
Les Murray
- The Hanging Gardens
Carol Muske-Dukes
- Love Song
John Frederick Nims
- Now That You're Here
D. Nurkse
- Saint Luke
Dennis O'Driscoll
- In Town
Mary Oliver
- White-Eyes
Linda Pastan
- All I Want to Say
Robert Pinsky
- Paschal
Peter Porter
- Afterburner
F. D. Reeve
- Home in Wartime
Pattiann Rogers
- God and His People
Kay Ryan
- Backward Miracle
David Saint John
- from The Face (XV)
George Scarbrough
- Letter to Shi-Te
Robert B. Shaw
- Waste
Charles Simic
- Autumn Sky
David R. Slavitt
- Dying Bird
Charlie Smith
- Arrangements
Dave Smith
- Coming down in Ohio
R. T. Smith
- Neglect
W. D. Snodgrass
- Pacemaker
Gary Soto
- Dirt
A.E. Stallings
- Sine Qua Non
Timothy Steele
- The Middle Years
Gerald Stern
- Matins
Lucien Stryk
- Gargoyles
James Tate
- Half-Eaten
John Tranter
- Whisper
David Wagoner
- For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
David Wojahn
- Scrabble with Matthews
Charles Wright
- Portrait of the Artist in a Prospect of Stone
Robert Wrigley
- Do You Love Me?