December 2008
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
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- Roddy Lumsden
- Todd Boss
- Joan Houlihan
- Ange Mlinko
- Fred D'Aguiar
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poemBy Roddy LumsdenYou bastards! It’s all sherbet, and follymakes you laugh like mules. Chancesdance off your wrists, each day ready,sprites in your bones and spite not yetswollen, not yet set. You gather handfulafter miracle handful, seeing straight,reaching the lighthouse in...
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poemBy Todd Bossto beat the froggiestof morning voices,my son gets out of bedand takes a lumpish songalong—a little lyriclearned in kindergarten,something about aboat. He’s found it inthe bog of his throatbefore his feet have hitthe ground, followsits wonky melody downthe hall and...
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poemBy Joan HoulihanShe had a death in me, knees drawn upand my bowl and cloth rinsed through with her.As morning takes night, field closes the hare,and ay would burrow into her.Over the altar, catalpas rattle,shadow and bother the branch.Is this her...
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Table of Contents
Poems
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Roddy Lumsden
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Ange Mlinko
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R. S. Gwynn
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Glenn Morazzini
Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows
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Nicky Beer
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Michael Rutherglen
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Roger Reeves
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Caki Wilkinson
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Alison Stine
Comment
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Fanny Howe
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Seamus Heaney and Dennis O'Driscoll
- Beyond All This Fiddle (as Seamus Heaney Interviewed by Dennis O'Driscoll)
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Michael Robbins
Letters
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Marjorie Perloff
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Neil Hampton
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William Logan