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February 1981

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

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Margaret Benbow
David Bottoms
Jared Carter
Carl Dennis
Brewster Ghiselin

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1981

Table of Contents

David Bottoms
Margaret Benbow
Carl Dennis
Lynne Lawner
- Sorceress
Michael Heffernan
- Ten Past Eleven
Jared Carter
- Ginseng
- Shaking the Peonies
David Ignatow
- A Cloud Creates
Margaret Shafer
- Photograph: Nina
Robley Wilson Jr.
- A Literary Lesson
Albert Goldbarth
Paul Smyth
- After the Windstorm
Brewster Ghiselin
- Semblance on Semblance
- Theft
Heather McHugh
Lawrence Raab

Comment

Vernon Shetley

Contributors
- - David Bottoms
  - Margaret Benbow
  - Carl Dennis
  - Lynne Lawner
  - Michael Heffernan
- - Jared Carter
  - David Ignatow
  - Margaret Shafer
  - Robley Wilson Jr.
  - Albert Goldbarth
- - Paul Smyth
  - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Heather McHugh
  - Lawrence Raab
  - Vernon Shetley