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January 1989

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

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Pamela Alexander
Angela Ball
Judith Berke
John Blair
Philip Booth

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Jan 1989

Table of Contents

Jeanne Murray Walker
Sharon Libera
- Second Child
Carole Oles
- For Evelyn
Rita Dove
- The Breathing, the Endless News
Angela Ball
- Tandem
- Body
Alice Friman
- Angel Jewell
Pamela Alexander
- Safe
- Six
Judith Berke
- Delmore
- The Retreat
Jim Powell
- Napoleon Reviendra
- The Crooked House
Sharon Olds
- Znamenskaya Square, Leningrad, 1941
- Earliest Memory
Michael McFee
- Ever After
Thomas Lux
- Backyard Swing Set
John Blair
- Winter Storm, New Orleans
- Cicada
Rodney Jones
- Carpe Diem
- An Explanation of the Exhibit
Kevin Stein
- Cheating
James Reiss
- Guatemalan Worry Dolls
Philip Booth
- Rule One
J. Allyn Rosser
- Clippings
- Remains
Paul Zarzyski
- The Antler Tree
Malcolm Glass
- The Truth about Polar Bears

Comment

Alfred Corn

Contributors
- - Jeanne Murray Walker
  - Sharon Libera
  - Carole Oles
  - Rita Dove
  - Angela Ball
  - Alice Friman
  - Pamela Alexander
- - Judith Berke
  - Jim Powell
  - Sharon Olds
  - Michael McFee
  - Thomas Lux
  - John Blair
  - Rodney Jones
- - Kevin Stein
  - James Reiss
  - Philip Booth
  - J. Allyn Rosser
  - Paul Zarzyski
  - Malcolm Glass
  - Alfred Corn