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May 1988

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

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Robin Behn
Jack Butler
David Citino
Mark Cox
Gregory Djanikian

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1988

Table of Contents

Louis Simpson
- The People Next Door
Jack Butler
- The Key to Nothing
- Practice
Lawrence Joseph
- An Awful Lot Was Happening
Gregory Djanikian
- The Boy Who Had Eleven Toes
- Late at Night in Bed
Gary Soto
- Elegy ("The mountain, snow-covered...")
- Worry at the End of the Month
Victoria Hallerman
- Beneath the Interstate
W. S. Merwin
- The Overpass
Mark Cox
- Simile at the Side of the Road
Mary Ann Waters
- Bath
- Car
Jeffrey Harrison
- Bathtubs, Three Varieties
- The One That Got Away
Robin Behn
- Angels
- Open Heart
Stephen Dobyns
David Citino
- In the Kitchen, He Recalls a Passage from Suetonius
- Charcoal Sketch of Aged Couple in Peasant Dress, circa 1880

Short Reviews

Vernon Shetley

Contributors
- - Louis Simpson
  - Jack Butler
  - Lawrence Joseph
  - Gregory Djanikian
  - Gary Soto
- - Victoria Hallerman
  - W. S. Merwin
  - Mark Cox
  - Mary Ann Waters
  - Jeffrey Harrison
- - Robin Behn
  - Stephen Dobyns
  - David Citino
  - Vernon Shetley