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September 1994

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

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Diane Ackerman
Nina Bogin
Christopher Buckley
Nicholas Christopher
Billy Collins

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POETRY Magazine cover of September 1994 issue

Table of Contents

Gregory Djanikian
- Absences
W. S. Merwin
Nina Bogin
- Going up the Hudson after Twenty Years
Robert Gibb
- Saying Farewell to the Displays in the Carnegie Museum
Shannon Nelson-Deighan
- For the Imagists at the British Museum
Peter Kanelos
- In the Cave of Skulls
Rebecca A. W. Elson
- These Two Candles, Saint Pantelehm
Richard Foerster
Fatima Lim-Wilson
- Raising the Dead
R. T. Smith
- The Magdalene
Nicholas Christopher
- The Fire at the Foundling Hospital
Christopher Buckley
- Equinox
Diane Ackerman
- Natural Wonders
- City of Dreams
William Greenway
- Beneath the Plaza of Illustrious Hombres
- Dreams of the Blind Girl
Carl Dennis
- As If
Albert Goldbarth
- Away
- Y'Call Someplace Paradise, Kiss It Goodbye
Peter Cooley
- Poem on the First Day of School
Billy Collins
- Days

Contributors
- - Gregory Djanikian
  - W. S. Merwin
  - Nina Bogin
  - Robert Gibb
  - Shannon Nelson-Deighan
  - Peter Kanelos
- - Rebecca A. W. Elson
  - Richard Foerster
  - Fatima Lim-Wilson
  - R. T. Smith
  - Nicholas Christopher
  - Christopher Buckley
- - Diane Ackerman
  - William Greenway
  - Carl Dennis
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Peter Cooley
  - Billy Collins