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February 1987

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

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Barri Armitage
T. Broughton
John Dickson
Stephen Dunn
Elton Glaser

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1987

Table of Contents

James Laughlin
- Request for Confirmation
- Absolute Love
Ting Shu
- To the Oak (Tr. by Carolyn Kizer, with Y. H. Zhao)
- Missing
David Ignatow
- The Self
- Listening
Albert Goldbarth
- A Hum
- At the Heart
- Parnassus
- Assembly
Elton Glaser
- Dancing Lessons
- Winter Inset
Alison Stone
- Rocket to Russia
- Foggy Notion
Barri Armitage
- Trading on Gravity
- Self-Portrait
John Dickson
David Rigsbee
- White
- The Mermaid
Grace Schulman
- After the Division
Reg Saner
- Headwaters
- Reaching Keet Seel
Walter McDonald
- When Children Think You Can Do Anything
- Losing a Boat on the Brazos
T. Alan Broughton
- Heroics
- Aeneas through the Looking Glass
Paul Zarzyski
- Measuring
Terry Savoie
- Father-Milk
Kevin Stein
- Terms
- Birds in a Circle
Stephen Dunn

Comment

Mary Karr
- Sexual Poetics

Contributors
- - James Laughlin
  - Ting Shu
  - David Ignatow
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Elton Glaser
  - Alison Stone
- - Barri Armitage
  - John Dickson
  - David Rigsbee
  - Grace Schulman
  - Reg Saner
  - Walter McDonald
- - T. Alan Broughton
  - Paul Zarzyski
  - Terry Savoie
  - Kevin Stein
  - Stephen Dunn
  - Mary Karr