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June 1990

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

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Bruce Bond
David Bottoms
Andrea Hollander
Thomas Carper
Henri Coulette

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Table of Contents

Andrew Klavan
- This Morning
Michael Donaghy
- Cage
P. H. Liotta
- Epithalamion
John Daniel
- For Our Fifth Anniversary, Seven Days Late
- The Rising Wind
Laura Fargas
- To the Person Who Stole My Camera
Andrea Hollander
- Firmly Married
Thomas Carper
- Her Diamond Ring
David Bottoms
- Chinese Dragons
David Ignatow
- Between Us
Henri Coulette
- Correspondence
Enid Shomer
- The Last Father Poem
- Romantic, at Horseshoe Key
Richard Jones
- Song of the Old Man
- Certain People
Lee Partain
- How the Son Thanks the Father
Gary Fincke
- The REM Sleep of Birds
- The Double Negatives of the Living
James Laughlin
- The Sacks
- Ave Atque Vale
Walter McDonald
- Father's Straight Razor
Rennie McQuilkin
- Visit
Greg Kuzma
- Hearing Sirens
Caroline Finkelstein
- The Soul in the Bowl
Eric Nelson
- Pleasures of the Flesh
Bruce Bond
- Planetarium
Brad Leithauser
- First Birthday
Brooke Horvath
- My Girl
Liz Rosenberg
- All Those Hours Alone in the Dark
- The Common Life

Short Reviews

Robert B. Shaw

Contributors
- - Andrew Klavan
  - Michael Donaghy
  - P. H. Liotta
  - John Daniel
  - Laura Fargas
  - Andrea Hollander
  - Thomas Carper
  - David Bottoms
  - David Ignatow
- - Henri Coulette
  - Enid Shomer
  - Richard Jones
  - Lee Partain
  - Gary Fincke
  - James Laughlin
  - Walter McDonald
  - Rennie McQuilkin
  - Greg Kuzma
- - Caroline Finkelstein
  - Eric Nelson
  - Bruce Bond
  - Brad Leithauser
  - Brooke Horvath
  - Liz Rosenberg
  - Robert B. Shaw