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September 1996

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

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Maria Benet
Randy Blasing
Billy Collins
Cathryn Essinger
Irving Feldman

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Table of Contents

Randy Blasing
- WISHFUL THINKING
Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
- A BROOD OF CRITICS; A MISCHIEF OF POETS
Richard Foerster
- THE BOOK COVER
Lianne Spidel
- My Twenthy-Eighth Grade Book
Jeanne Murray Walker
- DRIVING TO MY SON'S CONCERT
Jill Gonet
- EXISTENTIAL GOOD HUMOR
- DAUGHTERS AND SONS
Cathryn Essinger
- NOT TO REPLY
- THE PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR DISCUSSES THE NATURE OF THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND
Charlie Smith
- VISITATION
Jay Parini
- THE LAKE HOUSE IN AUTUMN
Sandra M. Gilbert
- AUTUMN/COMO/ESSAY
Billy Collins
- DRIVING THROUGH THE LIGHT
Jack Myers
- IT'S NOT MY CUP OF TEA
Henry Taylor
- ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT OF DESTRUCTION
Irving Feldman
- YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
Maria M. Benet
- RECURSION
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
- AT EPIDAURUS

Comment

Paul Breslin
- HEANEY'S REDRESS

Contributors
- - Randy Blasing
  - Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
  - Richard Foerster
  - Lianne Spidel
  - Jeanne Murray Walker
  - Jill Gonet
- - Cathryn Essinger
  - Charlie Smith
  - Jay Parini
  - Sandra M. Gilbert
  - Billy Collins
  - Jack Myers
- - Henry Taylor
  - Irving Feldman
  - Maria M. Benet
  - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
  - Paul Breslin