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June 1994

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

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David Barber
Michael Blumenthal
John Dickson
Stephen Dunn
Rhina Espaillat

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POETRY Magazine cover of June 1994 issue

Table of Contents

Eric Pankey
- June Vagaries
- The Language of Flowers
Gerald Stern
- Mimi
- Light
- Did I Say
Alison Stone
- Persephone Returning
Christiane Jacox Kyle
- A Late Epithalamion
Stephen Dunn
- Bank Street
John Dickson
- Echoes of a Native Land
Eve Wood
- Arranged Marriage, China, 1921
Josephine Jacobsen
- The Ugly Old Lady

From Sappho

Sappho
- Fragment 105(a)
- Fragment 105(c)

Rhina P. Espaillat
- Gardening
Ann Shaffer
- Disturbing the Season
Carol Munn
- View of the Dead
David Barber
- Little Overture
- To the Trespasser
Henry M. Seiden
- Tinnitus
James Langlas
- Crossing
- Another Birthday
Michael C. Blumenthal
Bruce Lader
- Wait till You're Twenty-One
Ronald Wallace
- Hardware
Andrew Hudgins
- Tools: An Ode
Peter Richardson
- Addendum

Body and Soul

David Barber

Contributors
- - Eric Pankey
  - Gerald Stern
  - Alison Stone
  - Christiane Jacox Kyle
  - Stephen Dunn
  - John Dickson
  - Eve Wood
- - Josephine Jacobsen
  - Sappho
  - Rhina P. Espaillat
  - Ann Shaffer
  - Carol Munn
  - David Barber
  - Henry M. Seiden
- - James Langlas
  - Michael C. Blumenthal
  - Bruce Lader
  - Ronald Wallace
  - Andrew Hudgins
  - Peter Richardson