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May 1991

 
  • Heather Allen
  • Jack Barrack
  • Jeanne Beaumont
  • Carole Bernstein
  • Derick Burleson
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Spring Letter

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Filling in the Past

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After This

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Table of Contents

  • Carl Dennis
    • Spring Letter
  • John Dickson
    • Filling in the Past
  • Derick Burleson
    • After This
    • Skipping School
  • Heather Allen
    • The Country of Childhood
  • R. T. Smith
    • Gristlewolf
    • St. Gristle Nocturne
    • Gristle and Heron
  • Valerie Wohlfeld
    • Thinking the World Visible
  • Walter Pavlich
    • Running near the End of the World
    • On a Run near the Water Project
  • Edward Micus
    • Crows
  • Skyler Lovelace
    • Rock, Scissors, Paper
  • Rick Lott
    • Exile
  • Bruce Ducker
    • The Cricket in the City
  • Robert Patrick Dana
    • Rat
  • Jack Barrack
    • Beached Whales
  • Robert Hudzik
    • The Luck of Creatures
  • Carole Bernstein
    • Three-Toed Sloth
  • Florence Grossman
    • Cobwebs
  • Pattiann Rogers
    • Amen
  • Jack Stewart
    • Fishing
    • Bluepoints
  • Theodore Worozbyt
    • Mollusk
  • Jeanne Marie Beaumont
    • Pearl Hour
Comment
  • Robert B. Shaw
    • Rereading Randall Jarrell
    • Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life, William H. Pritchard
    • Selected Poems, by Randall Jarrell (Ed. by William H. Pritchard)
    • [Robert Lowell]
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Heather Allen
  • Jack Barrack
  • Jeanne Marie Beaumont
  • Carole Bernstein
  • Derick Burleson
  • Robert Patrick Dana
  • Carl Dennis
  • John Dickson
  • Bruce Ducker
  • Florence Grossman
  • Robert Hudzik
  • Rick Lott
  • Skyler Lovelace
  • Edward Micus
  • Walter Pavlich
  • Pattiann Rogers
  • Robert B. Shaw
  • R. T. Smith
  • Jack Stewart
  • Valerie Wohlfeld
  • Theodore Worozbyt
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