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October 1993

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

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Jeanne Beaumont
Dan Bellm
David Bottoms
Max Garland
Martha Greenwald

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POETRY Magazine cover of October 1993 issue

Table of Contents

David Wagoner
Charles Simic
W. S. Merwin
John Jackson
- The Dead Orchard
- Cardinals
Dan Bellm
- Silence
Robert Morgan
- Music of the Spheres
Leslie Ullman
- The Mountain outside My Window
James Scruton
- In the Age of the Radio Telescope
Linda Pastan
- Snow Showers, a Prothalamion
- In a Northern Country
Max Garland
- County Night
David Bottoms
- A Daughter's Fever
Donna Wolf Palacio
- Listening to Mozart
Deborah Pope
- Forecast
- Hotel, River View

Two Bowls

Jeanne Marie Beaumont
- The Fish Speak

Pamela Gross
- Some Notes in the Margin
Martha Greenwald
- The Story of the Day
- Sunday Afternoon Palindrome
Edward Hirsch
- The Renunciation of Poetry
Jean Nordhaus
Michael E. Hattersley
- Body Knowledge

Seers and Skeptics

Robert B. Shaw

Contributors
- - David Wagoner
  - Charles Simic
  - W. S. Merwin
  - John Jackson
  - Dan Bellm
  - Robert Morgan
  - Leslie Ullman
- - James Scruton
  - Linda Pastan
  - Max Garland
  - David Bottoms
  - Donna Wolf Palacio
  - Deborah Pope
  - Jeanne Marie Beaumont
- - Pamela Gross
  - Martha Greenwald
  - Edward Hirsch
  - Jean Nordhaus
  - Michael E. Hattersley
  - Robert B. Shaw