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January 1985

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

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A. Ammons
Randy Blasing
David Clewell
Gregory Djanikian
William Ford

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1985

Table of Contents

Roger Weingarten
Edward Mayes
- Tonight Insomnia
Vern Rutsala
- Coming Home
- An American Morning
Boyer Rickel
- From Where It's Dark
Laurel Trivelpiece
Randy Blasing
- North End
William Ford
- Crossing Indian Land
- The Eskimo Ivory Exhibition
Albert Goldbarth
Gregory Djanikian
- These Are the Gifts
- The Theft
Miller Williams
- A Poem for Emily
Carolyne Wright
- Logos of the Sentimentalist
- The Ship in the Bottle
David Clewell
- New Year's Eve Letter to Friends
- Two Alley Songs for the Vegetable Man: St. Louis

Comment

A. R. Ammons
- Comment
Erich Heller
- The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (Ed. and tr. by Stephen Mitchell)

Contributors
- - Roger Weingarten
  - Edward Mayes
  - Vern Rutsala
  - Boyer Rickel
  - Laurel Trivelpiece
- - Randy Blasing
  - William Ford
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Gregory Djanikian
  - Miller Williams
- - Carolyne Wright
  - David Clewell
  - A. R. Ammons
  - Erich Heller