January 1988
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
                                                                    This issue is sold out.
                                                            
                        - Diane Ackerman
 - Christopher Buckley
 - Jon Davis
 - Albert Goldbarth
 - Jonathan Holden
 
                            Table of Contents
- 
                                            Albert Goldbarth
 - 
                                            Robert Pack
 - 
                                            Dean Young
 - 
                                            Lauren Mesa
 - 
                                            Michael Waters
 - 
                                            Diane Ackerman
 - 
                                            John Judson
 - 
                                            Christopher Buckley
 - 
                                            Jonathan Holden
 - 
                                            Pattiann Rogers
 
                            Comment
                        
                                        - 
                                            Alice Fulton
- Main Things
 - The Selected Poems: Expanded Edition and Sumerian Vistas, by A. R. Ammons
 - The Tattooed Lady in the Garden, by Pattiann Rogers
 - The Beautiful Noon of No Shadow, by Susan Ludvigson
 - Second Language, by Lisel Mueller
 - At the Edge of the Orchard Country, by Robert Morgan
 - Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women and The Nearness of You, by Carolyn Kizer [Fanny Osbourne Stevenson]
 
 
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                            Contributors
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- Albert Goldbarth
 - Robert Pack
 - Dean Young
 - Lauren Mesa
 - Michael Waters
 
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- Diane Ackerman
 - John Judson
 - Greg Pape
 - Christopher Buckley
 - Jonathan Holden
 
 
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