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June 1986

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

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Jennifer Atkinson
David Baker
David Bottoms
Christopher Buckley
Raymond Carver

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$Cover for Poetry Magazine, June\ 1986$

Table of Contents

Jennifer Atkinson
- Choosing Happiness
Raymond Carver
- The River
- A Tall Order
Roger Weingarten
- Barn Cat Summer
David Bottoms
Christopher Buckley
- Walking out the Appian Way past the Circus of Maxentius
- Evening in Santorini
Lawrence Raab
Robley Wilson Jr.
- Sunday at the Shore
- Hanging Curtains
David Baker
- Sunbathing
Lynda Hull
- Chinese New Year
- Insect Life of Florida
Aleda Shirley
Miller Williams
Ed Ochester
- Having Built the Coop
Josephine Jacobsen
- The Presences
Gregory Djanikian
- Grandmother's Rugs
- Clouds
Gary Soto
- The Seventieth Year
- Heaven

Comment

Peter Balakian
- The Poetry of Derek Walcott

Contributors
- - Jennifer Atkinson
  - Raymond Carver
  - Roger Weingarten
  - David Bottoms
  - Christopher Buckley
  - Lawrence Raab
- - Robley Wilson Jr.
  - David Baker
  - Lynda Hull
  - Aleda Shirley
  - Miller Williams
  - Ed Ochester