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September 1986

 
  • Barri Armitage
  • Philip Dacey
  • Maria Flook
  • Mary Karr
  • Carolyn Kizer
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The Mariner

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Walking Back

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My Mother Is Not Watching

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Table of Contents

  • Jay Parini
    • The Mariner
    • Town Life
  • William Trowbridge
    • Walking Back
  • Leslie Ullman
    • My Mother Is Not Watching
  • Carolyn Kizer
    • Pearl
  • Susan Wood
    • Distances
    • Eggs
    • Late-Bloomers
  • Philip Dacey
    • Upon Sending His Child Support Check to L. L. Bean and His Check for the Sleeping Bags to His Ex-Wife
  • Mary Karr
    • Soft Mask
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
    • Inspecting the Garden after Dark
    • Seizure
  • Len Roberts
    • The Moment
    • Nights on Olmstead Street
  • Katherine Soniat
    • Daughter
  • Barri Armitage
    • Weights
    • Fall Ritual
  • Judith Skillman
    • The Worship of the Visible Spectrum
    • Written on Learning of Arrhythmia in the Unborn Child
  • Maria Flook
    • Child Burial
Comment
  • Greg Kuzma
    • The Catastrophe of Creative Writing
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Barri Armitage
  • Philip Dacey
  • Maria Flook
  • Mary Karr
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Greg Kuzma
  • Jay Parini
  • Len Roberts
  • Judith Skillman
  • Katherine Soniat
  • William Trowbridge
  • Leslie Ullman
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
  • Susan Wood
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