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May 1992

 
  • Susan Abraham
  • Kathleen Aguero
  • Bruce Berlind
  • Cathy Bowers
  • Neal Bowers
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Long Stretch Minimalist Sonnet

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Losing the Words

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Writing Poetry

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Table of Contents

  • Mona Van Duyn
    • Long Stretch Minimalist Sonnet
Minimalist Sonnets
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • Minimalist Sonnets
    • Closures
    • The Beginning
    • Insiders
  • Mona Van Duyn
    • Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat in the Kitchen
    • Passing Thought
    • Extra Time
  • Miriam Goodman
    • Losing the Words
  • Kinereth Gensler
    • Writing Poetry
  • Bruce Berlind
    • Sappho, Her Absences
  • James Laughlin
    • Little Bits of Paper
    • The Shameful Profession
  • Kathleen Aguero
    • Captain Colette
  • Josephine Jacobsen
    • Poetry Review
  • Cathy Smith Bowers
    • A Southern Rhetoric
  • Neal Bowers
    • Communications
  • Nicholas Samaras
    • The Answers
The Hemlock Society
  • Susan Hahn
    • May 5
  • Liz Rosenberg
    • Dying
  • George B. Moore
    • The Transformation of Nature
  • Constance Urdang
    • Transcendence
  • Richard Speakes
    • I Beseech Thee, and Thy Mercy
  • Susan Abraham
    • Dear God
  • Eric Pankey
    • Bric-a-Brac
Comment
  • Tom Disch
    • The Occasion of the Poem
    • Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology, by Albert Goldbarth
    • What Work Is and New Selected Poems, by Philip Levine
    • Between the Chains, by Turner Cassity
    • Someone Going Home Late, by Daryl Jones
    • Madoc: A Mystery, by Paul Muldoon
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Susan Abraham
  • Kathleen Aguero
  • Bruce Berlind
  • Cathy Smith Bowers
  • Neal Bowers
  • Tom Disch
  • Kinereth Gensler
  • Miriam Goodman
  • Susan Hahn
  • Josephine Jacobsen
  • James Laughlin
  • George B. Moore
  • Eric Pankey
  • Liz Rosenberg
  • Nicholas Samaras
  • Richard Speakes
  • Constance Urdang
  • Mona Van Duyn
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