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April 2001

Turner McGehee, "Exam," 2001.

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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  • Jim Barnes
  • Alain Bosquet
  • David Bottoms
  • Tom Disch
  • Pattiann Rogers
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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall

      By David Wagoner
      They’re tipping their battered derbies and striding forward
      In step for a change, chipper, self-assured,
      Their cardboard suitcases labeled
      Guest of Steerage. They’ve just arrived at the boot camp
      ...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Music

      By George Scarbrough
      Han-Shan sits on a flat stone
      In his garden and plays the flute,
      Mimicking the birds singing among
      The gourd vines or from the top
      Of the blue pine tree.

      Or he constructs a new trellis
      For the rambling...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams

      By Gary Schmidgall
      i.110

      "Much too long" you say, Velox, censorious,
      Of my epigrams—that's quite uproarious.
      You write none. Your brevity is glorious.

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      Scribere me quereris, Velox, epigrammata longa.
      ipse nihil scribis: tu breviora facis?

      vi.60...

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