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May 1989

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

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Sue Barker
Randy Blasing
Chana Bloch
Joe Bolton
Daniel Daly

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1989

Table of Contents

Joe Bolton
- Elegy for Roland Barthes
Carl Dennis
Erica Funkhouser
Martin McGovern
- Processionalia
Gary Soto
- The Dictionaries
Randy Blasing
- White Bread
- Triptych
Linda Pastan
Brendan Galvin
- My Grandmother Steals Her Last Trout
Chana Bloch
- The Family
- A Future
Sue Tamminga Barker
- My Child
- A Woman's Song
Daniel Daly
- Milk Cartons
Gregory Djanikian
- Mrs. Caldera's House of Things
Jane O. Wayne
- The Finishing Touches
- Inheritance
Walter Griffin
- Mother's Day
William Virgil Davis
- Windows

Incarnate Lights

Ben Howard

Contents

Ben Howard
- New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur
- Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems 1948-1988, by Daniel Hoffman

Contributors
- - Joe Bolton
  - Carl Dennis
  - Erica Funkhouser
  - Martin McGovern
  - Gary Soto
  - Randy Blasing
- - Linda Pastan
  - Brendan Galvin
  - Chana Bloch
  - Sue Tamminga Barker
  - Daniel Daly
  - Gregory Djanikian
- - Jane O. Wayne
  - Walter Griffin
  - William Virgil Davis
  - Ben Howard