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May 1995

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

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Teresa Cader
Jared Carter
Turner Cassity
Michael Chitwood
Peter Cooley

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POETRY Magazine cover of May 1995 issue

Table of Contents

Rita Dove
- Her Island
Reynolds Price
- An Actual Temple
Carl Dennis
Peter Cooley
- Transcendentals
Michael Chitwood
- After the Missionaries
Turner Cassity
- Christ of the Andes
Teresa Cader
- Empress Shotoku Invents Printing in 770
Janet Macfadyen
- Hymn
Jared Carter
- Hawkmoth
Ted Kooser
- Lobocraspis Griseifusa
John Hollander
- Arachne
Albert Goldbarth
- Thread through History
- A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14-Karat Gold Ashtray
Caroline Finkelstein
- Garden in the Field
Dannye Romine Powell
- She Never Thought of Vegetables
Pattiann Rogers
- Design of Gongs
- Calling to Measure
Fred Dings
James Williams
- Arrival

Spectrum

Robert B. Shaw
- Spectrum

Contributors
- - Teresa Cader
  - Janet Macfadyen
  - Jared Carter
  - Ted Kooser
  - John Hollander
  - Albert Goldbarth
- - Caroline Finkelstein
  - Dannye Romine Powell
  - Pattiann Rogers
  - Fred Dings
  - James Williams
  - Robert B. Shaw