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July 2002

Robert Murphy, "Pre-Conversion," 1995.

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

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Neal Bowers
F. Reeve
George Garrett
Gary Whitehead
Michael Bugeja

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POETRY Magazine cover of July 2002 issue

From this Issue

- poem
  
  Memorial Service
  
  By George Garrett
  
  Forgiving the living is hard
  enough, shrugging away all the wounds
  delivered with kisses and curses,
  the thousand and one petty slights
  that bled me to an albino shade,
  that shadow me even in dreams.
  
  But the dead are...
  
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- poem
  
  Body and Soul
  
  By Sharon Bryan
  
  They grow up together
  but they aren't even fraternal
  
  twins, they quarrel a lot
  about where to go and what
  
  to do, the body complains
  about having to carry
  
  the soul everywhere as if
  it were some...
  
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- poem
  
  First Job
  
  By Joseph Campana
  
  All evening I hunted
  the bird that wanted
  a cage of glass,
  here where cemetery
  slides into creek, fronting
  what was once the largest
  indoor leather mill in the world.
  There the skins gathered
  for cleansing, coloring,
  scraping, shipping off....
  
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Table of Contents

Poetry

F. D. Reeve
- Piecework
- The Uniform
George Garrett
Gary J. Whitehead
- The Experiment
- First-Year Teacher to His Students
Michael J. Bugeja
- The Land-Grant Professor Posts His Post-Tenure Review
- The Land-Grant Professor Laments His Loss in All the Usual Places
Barry Rackner
- Office Afterhours
Christopher Cokinos
- Irresponsibility
Gregg Hodges
- Wasn't It Good
Elizabeth Biller Chapman
- Light Thickens
Sharon Bryan
- Saying Things
- Body and Soul
Maxine Kumin
- Getting There
Jen Rouse
- Incidents
- Gas Money
Joseph Campana
- First Job
Henry Taylor
- The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
Kurt Lipschutz
- The Attorney Arrives at His Office on April 16th
- Dysfunctional Don
Ron Offen
- Feeling My Oaths
Faye George
- Free Range
- Vitae
William Jay Smith
- Madison Avenue Overture
Kelly Cherry
- On the Work Ethic

Comment

Neal Bowers
- University Poetry, Inc.
Bruce F. Murphy
- Capitalism

Contributors
- - F. D. Reeve
  - George Garrett
  - Gary J. Whitehead
  - Michael J. Bugeja
  - Barry Rackner
  - Christopher Cokinos
  - Gregg Hodges
- - Elizabeth Biller Chapman
  - Sharon Bryan
  - Maxine Kumin
  - Jen Rouse
  - Joseph Campana
  - Henry Taylor
  - Kurt Lipschutz
- - Ron Offen
  - Faye George
  - William Jay Smith
  - Kelly Cherry
  - Neal Bowers
  - Bruce F. Murphy