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October 2012

Bernard Williams, "Sawhorse Pegasus," 2012
 
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  • Joshua Mehigan
  • Laura Kasischke
  • Todd Boss
  • John Poch
  • Campbell McGrath
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Table of Contents

POEMS
  • Joshua Mehigan
    • Down in the Valley
    • The Cement Plant
    • The Professor
  • Todd Boss
    • Accounting
  • Laura Kasischke
    • You’ve Come Back to Me
    • The Second Death
    • Ativan
    • Game
  • John Poch
    • Good Year
    • Elegy for a Suicide
  • Gail Wronsky
    • Light chaff and falling leaves or a pair of feathers
  • Campbell McGrath
    • Releasing the Sherpas
    • Nox Borealis
    • Pentatina for Five Vowels
  • Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
    • September 2011
    • The Span
  • Kathleen Jamie
    • Moon
    • The Stags
FROM 100 YEARS
  • Josephine Miles
    • Heir
  • Paul Goodman
    • “Dreams Are the Royal Road to the Unconscious”
  • Marie Ponsot
    • A Visit
    • Private and Profane
  • Sara Teasdale
    • The Answer
    • The Long Hill
  • James Laughlin
    • My Ambition
  • Edward Dahlberg
    • From “Five Poems”
  • Michael Donaghy
    • Cage
  • Louis MacNeice
    • Prognosis
    • Obituary
COMMENT
  • Christian Wiman
    • Mastery and Mystery
  • C. K. Williams
    • Nature and Panic
  • Abigail Deutsch
    • In the Penile Colony
BACK PAGE
  • Paul Durica
    • October 1947
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Todd Boss
  • Edward Dahlberg
  • Abigail Deutsch
  • Michael Donaghy
  • Paul Durica
  • Paul Goodman
  • Kathleen Jamie
  • Laura Kasischke
  • James Laughlin
  • Louis MacNeice
  • Campbell McGrath
  • Joshua Mehigan
  • Josephine Miles
  • Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
  • John Poch
  • Marie Ponsot
  • Sara Teasdale
  • C. K. Williams
  • Christian Wiman
  • Gail Wronsky
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