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November 1988

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

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Michael Burns
Ralph Burns
Peter Cooley
John Daniel
Alice Fulton

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Table of Contents

Celia Gilbert
- The Sabbath
Roberta Spear
- The Old Ones at Dawn
Michael Burns
- Trying to Know
- The Widow on Route Three
Gary Margolis
- Some Nation Who's Been Slighted
Elizabeth Spires
- Black Fairy Tale
- Faberg's Egg
Lynda Hull
- Shore Leave
- Slick Packages
Alice Fulton
- A Union House
- Self-Storage
Brendan Galvin
- War in the Garden
- Kale Soup
J. D. Scrimgeour
- Two Lies about My Family
Michael McFee
- Shooting Baskets at Dusk
- Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann
Peter Cooley
- The Soul
- Holy Family: Audubon Zoo, New Orleans
Andrew Towle
- The Dead Sea at Dinner
John Daniel
- The Meal
- To the Scrub Jay on My Office Mate's Desk
Joseph Powell
- The Great Horned Owl
Walter Griffin
- Stanley Smith Is Dead
- Corvus
Walter McDonald
- The Songs We Fought For
- Coming Home
Eric Nelson
- Thanksgiving
- Miscarriage
Ralph Burns
- Lullaby

Five Latitudes

Ben Howard

Contents

Ben Howard
- Selected Poems: 1938-1988, by Thomas McGrath
- Selected Poems, by Jayanta Mahapatra

Contributors
- - Celia Gilbert
  - Roberta Spear
  - Michael Burns
  - Gary Margolis
  - Elizabeth Spires
  - Lynda Hull
  - Alice Fulton
- - Brendan Galvin
  - J. D. Scrimgeour
  - Michael McFee
  - Peter Cooley
  - Andrew Towle
  - John Daniel
  - Joseph Powell
- - Walter Griffin
  - Walter McDonald
  - Eric Nelson
  - Ralph Burns
  - Ben Howard