October 1997

A. Ammons
John Ashbery
Marvin Bell
Eavan Boland
Philip Booth

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CLABBERBABBLE

PROXIMITY

SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS #26

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A. R. Ammons
- CLABBERBABBLE
John Ashbery
- PROXIMITY
- LAUGHING GRAVY
Marvin Bell
- SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS #26
Eavan Boland
- A DREAM OF COLONY
Philip Booth
- WRITING IT DOWN
David Bottoms
- OCCURRENCE IN THE BIG SKY
Neal Bowers
- THE PASSED
John Brehm
- SONGBIRD
Turner Cassity
- WALKING ON WATER
Billy Collins
- I GO BACK TO THE HOUSE FOR A BOOK
Alfred Corn
- AUDUBON'S GREEN-SHANK
Carl Dennis
- A PRIEST OF HERMES
Leonard Sanazaro
- CALIBAN'S SECOND SONG
Tom Disch
- TO AN UNREPENTANT PLAGIARIST
Rita Dove
- EVENING PRIMROSE
Stephen Dunn
- MUSIC
- NOISE
Stuart Dybek
- SWAN
Irving Feldman
- THEY SAY AND THEY REPEAT
Richard Foerster
- A TETRADRACHM OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alice Fulton
- ORNAMENTAL
Sandra M. Gilbert
- BASIL
Albert Goldbarth
- True
Eamon Grennan
- WORLD
Rachel Hadas
- FOUR SHORT STORIES
Susan Hahn
- FRIGID 1996
Dennis Haskell
- THE TALK
Seamus Heaney
- THREE-PIECE
Daryl Hine
- THE WORLD IS EVERYTHING THAT IS THE CASE
Edward Hirsch
- OSCAR GINSBURG
John Hollander
- Fire!
Richard Howard
- FAMILY VALUES
Rodney Jones
- THE POETRY READING
Donald Justice
- THE VOICE OF COL. VON STAUFFENBERG RISING FROM PURGATORY
X J Kennedy
- HARRIET
Richard Kenney
- BETWEEN
James Kimbrell
- ORPHEUS IN YONG ISLAND
Galway Kinnell
- MIDDLE PATH
John Kinsella
- DEATH OF A FARM BOY
Yusef Komunyakaa
- THE SONG THIEF
Maxine Kumin
- LYING IN BED AWAY FROM HOME
Brad Leithauser
- BLESSING FOR MALCOLM LOWRY
Philip Levine
- BLACK STONE ON TOP OF NOTHING
William Matthews
- JOB INTERVIEW
J. D. McClatchy
- LINES ON MY FACE
Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
- FORT WESTERN
Sandra McPherson
- TO A BOOK OF NEEDLES, 1918
Peter Meinke
- M?
W. S. Merwin
- WANTING TO SEE
- LATE GLIMPSE
- ACCOMPANIMENT
John Montague
- ROBERT, OLD STAGER
Stanley Moss
- JUDAS
Lisel Mueller
- EX MACHINA
Paul Muldoon
- APPLE SLUMP
Jack Myers
- STICKS AND STONES: ANOTHER STORY ABOUT THE BUDDHA
John Frederick Nims
- TWO MADRIGALS BY MICHELANGELO FOR VITTORIA COLONNA
Sharon Olds
- MOTHER
Mary Oliver
- THE STORM
- The Owl
Linda Pastan
- SELF-PORTRAIT
Reynolds Price
- A FINAL STAND
Pattiann Rogers
- SELF-RECOGNITION OF THE OBSERVER AS MOMENTARY CESSATION OF PROCESS
Kay Ryan
- GRAZING HORSES
David St. John
- RHAPSODY
Mary Jo Salter
- LIAM
George Scarbrough
- THE NEW BIOLOGY
Grace Schulman
- PRAYER
Philip Schultz
- EPITHALAMION
Lloyd Schwartz
- Song
Robin Seyfried
- BULK POETRY
Alan R. Shapiro
- BEDTIME STORY, 1979
Robert B. Shaw
- REMAINDERS
Charles Simic
- The Wooden Toy
Charlie Smith
- MUTE
Elizabeth Spires
- BRUISE
A.E. Stallings
- HOMECOMING
Timothy Steele
- GOING
Gerald Stern
- PAMET HARBOR
Ruth Stone
- SO BE IT
Lucien Stryk
- ONE
Wisława Szymborska
- A GREAT MAN'S HOUSE
Leslie Ullman
- CALYPSO, TWILIGHT
John Updike
- BRIDGE
David Wagoner
- FOR A ROW OF LAUREL SHRUBS
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- ANGELTIME
Theodore Weiss
- THAT SONG
C. K. Williams
- ICE
David Wojahn
- Arion
Charles Wright
- THE APPALACHIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD III
- OPUS POSTHUMOUS II