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Diane Ackerman
Like Your Face
Dick Allen
The Adult Section
John Ashbery
On His Reluctance To Take Down the Christmas Ornaments
Too Much Sleep Is Bad
Marvin Bell
The Papers
Wendell Berry
Sabbaths 2001
Michael Blumenthal
I Think Constantly of Those Who Were Truly Great
Robert Bly
Brahms
Philip Booth
The Professor's Final Address
David Bottoms
Melville in the Bass Boat
Neal Bowers
Near Myth
Jean Burden
Query
Turner Cassity
The Grateful Minimalist
Billy Collins
Poem
Writing in the Afterlife
Carl Dennis
A Colleague Confesses
Tom Disch
Ars Poetica
Gregory Djanikian
First Efforts
Stephen Dobyns
Aphorisms
Rita Dove
"I have been a stranger in a strange land"
Stephen Dunn
Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness
Sandra Gilbert
Afternoon Walk: The Sea Ranch
Albert Goldbarth
Zero: Terror / Lullaby
Laurence Goldstein
War Babies, Sixty Years On
Eamon Grennan
Shard
Marilyn Hacker
Sonnet on a Line from Venus Khoury-Ghata
Susan Hahn
The Pity of Punctuation
Daryl Hine
Canzone
Ellen Hinsey
Interdiction
John Hollander
Entwining
Ben Howard
Prose Should Be Transparent
Richard Howard
Another Translator
X. J. Kennedy
Geometry
Galway Kinnell
The Stone Table
John Kinsella
Mulga Parrots
Carolyn Kizer
After Horace
Kenneth Koch
A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice From One Long Dead
Yusef Komunyakaa
from Autobiography of My Alter Ego
Maxine Kumin
Last Days
Brad Leithauser
Routes
Philip Levine
New Year's Eve, in Hospital
William Logan
Song
J. D. McClatchy
Pibroch
Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth
An Atheist's Blessing
Sandra McPherson
Virtue Study
W. S. Merwin
To the Blank Spaces
John Montague
Adam's Apple
Pilgrims
Les Murray
The Hanging Gardens
Carol Muske-Dukes
Love Song
John Frederick Nims
Now That You're Here
D. Nurkse
Saint Luke
Dennis O'Driscoll
In Town
Mary Oliver
White-Eyes
Linda Pastan
All I Want To Say
Robert Pinsky
Paschal
Peter Porter
Afterburner
F. D. Reeve
Home in Wartime
Pattiann Rogers
God and His People
Kay Ryan
Backward Miracle
George Scarbrough
Letter to Shi-te
Robert Shaw
Waste
David Slavitt
Dying Bird
Charlie Smith
Arrangements
Dave Smith
Coming Down in Ohio
R. T. Smith
Neglect
W. D. Snodgrass
Pacemaker
Gary Soto
Dirt
David St. John
from The Face
A. E. Stallings
Sin Qua Non
Timothy Steele
The Middle Years
Gerald Stern
Matins
Lucien Stryk
Gargoyles
James Tate
Half-Eaten
John Tranter
Whisper
David Wagoner
For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
David Wojahn
Scrabble with Matthews
Charles Wright
Portrait of the Artist in a Prospect of Stone
Robert Wrigley
Do You Love Me?
Poets of Interest in this issue:
 John Ashbery |
 David Bottoms |
 Gregory Djanikian |
 Rita Dove |
 Stephen Dunn |
 Albert Goldbarth |
 Susan Hahn |
 Richard Howard |
 Kenneth Koch |
 Yusef Komunyakaa |
 Philip Levine |
 Sandra McPherson |
 W. S. Merwin |
 D. Nurkse |
 Robert Pinsky |
 James Tate |
 David Wojahn |
 Charles Wright |