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September 1988

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

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Tina Barr
Robert Cording
Michael Donaghy
Donald Finkel
Jane Kenyon

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, Sept 1988

Table of Contents

Jane Kenyon
- Three Songs at the End of Summer
Lucien Stryk
- Dreaming to Music
Jim Simmerman
- Just to Love the Dog
- Moon Go Away, I Don't Love You No More
Jim Peterson
- The Pretender
Gail Mazur
- Foliage
Eric Pankey
- Work
- For Luck
Ronald Wallace
- The Fat of the Land
- Apple Cider
Laurel Trivelpiece
- Grazing
- Ceres
Robert Cording
- Feeding the Birds
- Ruffed Grouse
R. T. Smith
- Rushlight
- Self as Trout
Reynolds Price
- Juncture
Tina Barr
- Circe
Aleda Shirley
- The Glass Lotus
- The Last Dusk of August
Michael Donaghy
- Shibboleth
- Machines
Donald Finkel
- In Dickens' House
Jeffrey Skinner
- The Company of Heaven
David Ray
- Twigs

Contributors
- - Jane Kenyon
  - Lucien Stryk
  - Jim Simmerman
  - Jim Peterson
  - Gail Mazur
  - Eric Pankey
- - Ronald Wallace
  - Laurel Trivelpiece
  - Robert Cording
  - R. T. Smith
  - Reynolds Price
  - Tina Barr
- - Aleda Shirley
  - Michael Donaghy
  - Donald Finkel
  - Jeffrey Skinner
  - David Ray