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May 1997

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

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Nancy Botkin
Kevin Craft
Brad Davis
Carl Dennis
Moira Egan

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Table of Contents

Poetry

Karen Fish
- Driving in Spring
Jessica Hornik
- Native
Charles Simic
- My Friend Someone
- All These Mirrors
Brad Davis
- Stepping Through Mercury
Alice Jones
- Coast
- Reach
Maria Terrone
- Madame Curie
- Drifts
Andrew Towle
- Vanished
John Kinsella
- The Disappearing
Jane P. Moreland
- The Catastrophic Thing
Carl Dennis
- Habit
- Cut Flowers
Roy Scheele
- Red Poppy
Kevin Craft
- Incense
Moira Egan
- Notes on a Potion
- The Perverse Whelk
Eamon Grennan
- Night by the Harbor
Kathleen Wakefield
- "You Shall Be Weeping and Crying"
F. D. Reeve
- Telephone
Alan Williamson
- Puccini Dying
Nancy Botkin
- Grief

Comment

Bruce F. Murphy
- The Big Poem
Andrew Frisardi
- Short Reviews

Contributors
- - Karen Fish
  - Jessica Hornik
  - Charles Simic
  - Brad Davis
  - Alice Jones
  - Maria Terrone
  - Andrew Towle
- - John Kinsella
  - Jane P. Moreland
  - Carl Dennis
  - Roy Scheele
  - Kevin Craft
  - Moira Egan
  - Eamon Grennan
- - Kathleen Wakefield
  - F. D. Reeve
  - Alan Williamson
  - Nancy Botkin
  - Bruce F. Murphy
  - Andrew Frisardi