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July 1986

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

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Paul Alexander
Bruce Bawer
Marie Borroff
Turner Cassity
James Cole

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1986

Table of Contents

Maxine Kumin
Marie Borroff
- Understanding Poetry
James Cole
- Faculty Offices, circa 1985
David Keller
- The Applicants for the Correspondence Course
Tom Disch
William Hathaway
- In Each Day
Turner Cassity
- Inducted
- The Autoscopic Experience
Carolyne Wright
Gary Myers
- Invitation from a Deceased Spanish Poet
- Ode to Sleep
Robert B. Shaw
- Safe Harbor
Katherine Soniat
- Lighthouse Telephone
Kevin Cole
- Indoor Pool
- Autistic Boy
Paul Alexander
- The Swimmers
Bruce Bawer
- Beach

Contents

David Spurr
- Selected Poems, by John Ashbery

Contributors
- - Maxine Kumin
  - Marie Borroff
  - James Cole
  - David Keller
  - Tom Disch
- - William Hathaway
  - Turner Cassity
  - Carolyne Wright
  - Gary Myers
  - Robert B. Shaw
- - Katherine Soniat
  - Kevin Cole
  - Paul Alexander
  - Bruce Bawer
  - David Spurr