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January 1989

 
  • Pamela Alexander
  • Angela Ball
  • Judith Berke
  • John Blair
  • Philip Booth
Table of Contents

From this Issue

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Going Home

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Second Child

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For Evelyn

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Table of Contents

  • Jeanne Murray Walker
    • Going Home
    • I Won't Read the Alphabet Book Once More
    • Birth
  • Sharon Libera
    • Second Child
  • Carole Oles
    • For Evelyn
  • Rita Dove
    • The Breathing, the Endless News
  • Angela Ball
    • Tandem
    • Body
  • Alice Friman
    • Angel Jewell
  • Pamela Alexander
    • Safe
    • Six
  • Judith Berke
    • Delmore
    • The Retreat
  • Jim Powell
    • Napoleon Reviendra
    • The Crooked House
  • Sharon Olds
    • Znamenskaya Square, Leningrad, 1941
    • Earliest Memory
  • Michael McFee
    • Ever After
  • Thomas Lux
    • Backyard Swing Set
  • John Blair
    • Winter Storm, New Orleans
    • Cicada
  • Rodney Jones
    • Carpe Diem
    • An Explanation of the Exhibit
  • Kevin Stein
    • Cheating
  • James Reiss
    • Guatemalan Worry Dolls
  • Philip Booth
    • Rule One
  • J. Allyn Rosser
    • Clippings
    • Remains
  • Paul Zarzyski
    • The Antler Tree
  • Malcolm Glass
    • The Truth about Polar Bears
Comment
  • Alfred Corn
    • Hindsight, Insight, Foresight
    • River Writing, An Eno Journal, by James Applewhite
    • The Apple That Astonished Paris, by Billy Collins
    • To the Place of Trumpets, by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
    • The Wonder of Seeing Double, by Robert B. Shaw
    • The Rain in the Trees, by W. S. Merwin
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Pamela Alexander
  • Angela Ball
  • Judith Berke
  • John Blair
  • Philip Booth
  • Alfred Corn
  • Rita Dove
  • Alice Friman
  • Malcolm Glass
  • Rodney Jones
  • Sharon Libera
  • Thomas Lux
  • Michael McFee
  • Sharon Olds
  • Carole Oles
  • Jim Powell
  • James Reiss
  • J. Allyn Rosser
  • Kevin Stein
  • Jeanne Murray Walker
  • Paul Zarzyski
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