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January 1996

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

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A. Ammons
Cynthia Belmont
Randy Blasing
Neal Bowers
Andrea Hollander

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POETRY Magazine cover of December 1995 issue

Table of Contents

Stephen Dunn
- Loosestrife
Shmuel Ha Nagid
Andrea Hollander
- Reading Aloud to My Mother
Albert Goldbarth
Stanley Moss
- Swimmer
Alice Jones
- Solo
- Light
Karl Kirchwey
- Barium
A. R. Ammons
- Prey
Anne Rouse
- Testament
Laurie Greer
- Blessing of the Hands
- Snowdrops/Candlemas Bells
Cynthia Belmont
- Fields of Asphodel
Neal Bowers
- Say It with Flowers
Roberta Marggraff
- Vanishing
A.E. Stallings
- A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood
Randy Blasing
- Rock Country
Fred Dings
- The Man and the Cemetery Effigy
William H. Dickey
- The Death of John Berryman
Judy Longley
- Doppelgnger
Mary Gray Hughes
- Query
W. S. Merwin
- Portrait
- Completion

Comment

Ben Downing
- Brief Reviews

Contributors
- - Stephen Dunn
  - Shmuel Ha Nagid
  - Andrea Hollander
  - Albert Goldbarth
  - Stanley Moss
  - Alice Jones
  - Karl Kirchwey
- - A. R. Ammons
  - Anne Rouse
  - Laurie Greer
  - Cynthia Belmont
  - Neal Bowers
  - Roberta Marggraff
  - A.E. Stallings
- - Randy Blasing
  - Fred Dings
  - William H. Dickey
  - Judy Longley
  - Mary Gray Hughes
  - W. S. Merwin
  - Ben Downing