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December 1987

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

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Sandra Alcosser
David Bottoms
Alfred Corn
Richard Foerster
Dana Gioia

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1987

Table of Contents

Donald Revell
- St. Lucy's Day
Gail Mazur
- Ice
David Bottoms
- A Night, near Berkeley Springs
May Sarton
Sandra Alcosser
- But This Is Not the Yucatan
Alfred Corn
- An Xmas Murder
Dana Gioia
- The Gods of Winter
- Speaking of Love
Myra Sklarew
- The Messiah Reconsidered
David St. John
- The Doors
Henry H. Hart
- Mystery Play
Reynolds Price
- 31 December 1985
- Near a Milestone
Richard Foerster
- Mozart's Death

Comment

Harold Fromm
- If a Poem Is like a Picture, What's a History of Poetry like?

Contributors
- - Alfred Corn
  - Dana Gioia
  - Myra Sklarew
  - David St. John
  - Henry H. Hart
- - Reynolds Price
  - Richard Foerster
  - Harold Fromm