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September 1987

 
  • Jennifer Atkinson
  • Dorothy Barresi
  • Randy Blasing
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Jared Carter
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Table of Contents

  • Christopher Buckley
    • Blue Autumn
  • Randy Blasing
    • Refuge
    • Golden Valley
    • Divining Rod
  • David M. Graham
    • Kinds of Jazz
    • The Mind's Eye
    • Comfortable Smoke
  • Mark De Foe
    • Dream Lover
    • Heat
  • Stephen Sandy
    • Bingham Hill
  • Jennifer Atkinson
    • Afterward
    • The Dogwood Tree
  • William E. Stafford
    • The Day Millicent Found the World
  • Alicia Ostriker
    • A Young Woman, a Tree
  • Dorothy Barresi
    • Comeuppance
    • Late Summer News
    • Lifting
  • Sherod Santos
    • All Souls
  • Tess Gallagher
    • Rijl
    • Small Garden near a Field
    • Dim House, Bright Face
  • Jared Carter
    • Galleynipper
  • Gerald Stern
    • Another Insane Devotion
    • It Was in Houston
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  • Stephen Sandy
  • Sherod Santos
  • William E. Stafford
  • Gerald Stern
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