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Image of Poetry magazine cover September 1996

September 1996

 
  • Maria Benet
  • Randy Blasing
  • Billy Collins
  • Cathryn Essinger
  • Irving Feldman
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WISHFUL THINKING

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A BROOD OF CRITICS; A MISCHIEF OF POETS

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THE BOOK COVER

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