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August 1978

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

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Jean Burden
John Ciardi
Brewster Ghiselin
Geoffrey Grigson
Caroline Knox

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1978

Table of Contents

Brewster Ghiselin
Geoffrey Grigson
Edward Wilson
- That Weekend Our Team Won
- The Living Corpse
Jean Burden
- Premonition in the Midst of Plenty
Ira Sadoff
- While Watching "Young and Innocent" I Think of My Mother
- The Mc Carthy Hearings
William E. Stafford
- Gasoline
John N. Morris
Ernest Sandeen
- In the Cage
- How Time Is Kept
John Ciardi
Linda Pastan
- Pain
- Excursion
James Tate
- With a Child All Day
Miller Williams
Robert Pack
- Rules
Caroline Knox

Comment

J. D. McClatchy
- Grace and Rude Will
Robert Pinsky
- More of the Story

Contributors
- - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Geoffrey Grigson
  - Edward Wilson
  - Jean Burden
  - Ira Sadoff
  - William E. Stafford
- - John N. Morris
  - Ernest Sandeen
  - John Ciardi
  - Linda Pastan
  - James Tate
  - Miller Williams