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June 1989

 
  • Jared Carter
  • John Dickson
  • Stephen Dobyns
  • Miriam Goodman
  • Bruce Guernsey
Table of Contents

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Adam

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The Son of a Sailor

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The Search

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Table of Contents

  • Stephen Dobyns
    • Adam
    • Rootless
  • J. P. White
    • The Son of a Sailor
  • Bruce Guernsey
    • The Search
  • Harry Humes
    • My Father Planted Tomatoes in Coal Ash
  • Robert Wrigley
    • My Father's Fingernails
    • C. O.
  • J. W. Rivers
    • Respite
  • Jared Carter
    • Triage
  • John Dickson
    • Good Old Boy
  • Robert Hill Long
    • The Third River
  • Brent Hendricks
    • In His Sleep, My Father Inspects the Work of the Army Corps of Engineers
  • Lucien Stryk
    • Light
  • Jon Tribble
    • Fathers
  • Miriam Goodman
    • Father's Mirror
Comment
  • Mary Kinzie
    • Applied Poetry
    • Selected Poems of Anne Sexton (Ed. by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George)
    • I'm Deadly Serious, by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • Home Free, by Diana O'Hehir
    • Blood Pressure, by Sandra M. Gilbert
    • It Was Fever That Made the World, by Jim Powell
    • A Schedule of Benefits, by John N. Morris
    • [C. S. Lewis]
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  • Mary Kinzie
  • Robert Hill Long
  • J. W. Rivers
  • Lucien Stryk
  • Jon Tribble
  • J. P. White
  • Robert Wrigley
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