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August 2003

A.R. Ammons, Untitled, 1980.
 
  • Robin Becker
  • Lillias Bever
  • Chana Bloch
  • Dan Brown
  • Derick Burleson
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Why Are Your Poems So Dark?

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The Night Before

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Never Night

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Table of Contents

Poetry
  • Linda Pastan
    • Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
  • Tania Runyan
    • The Night Before
  • Derick Burleson
    • Never Night
  • Jonathan Fink
    • The Prague Astronomical Clock
  • Paul Grant
    • Our Lady of the Homilies
    • Just Another Paradigm Shift
  • Ann Davis
    • Ars Poetica inside an Evans Photograph
  • Alison Stine
    • What Is Missing
  • Lianne Spidel
    • Where Have You Been, Joseme McCloyer?
  • Robin Becker
    • A Pasture of My Palm
  • David M. Katz
    • Claims of Home
    • Satan over Cocktails
  • Bill Tinley
    • Gethsemane Revisited
  • John Savoie
    • Into the City
  • Chana Bloch
    • Waiting for the Messiah
  • Dan Brown
    • As Seen at the Uffizi
  • Peter Porter
    • Isaiah's Knee
    • On the One Hand
  • Susan Rolston
    • My God
  • Lillias Bever
    • Mehmet Sniffing a Rose
  • Kevin McFadden
    • Room, Ottoman
    • Campfire, Lignum
    • Dubious, Water View
  • Peter Meinke
    • Marine Forecast
  • Mary Oliver
    • At Black River
    • Breakage
Comment
  • Bruce F. Murphy
    • The Courage of Robinson Jeffers
  • Christina Pugh
    • Short Reviews
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Robin Becker
  • Lillias Bever
  • Chana Bloch
  • Dan Brown
  • Derick Burleson
  • Ann Davis
  • Jonathan Fink
  • Paul Grant
  • David M. Katz
  • Kevin McFadden
  • Peter Meinke
  • Bruce F. Murphy
  • Mary Oliver
  • Linda Pastan
  • Peter Porter
  • Christina Pugh
  • Susan Rolston
  • Tania Runyan
  • John Savoie
  • Lianne Spidel
  • Alison Stine
  • Bill Tinley
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