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February 1984

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Beth Bentley
Paul Breslin
Alfred Corn
William Dickey
Brooks Haxton

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1984

Table of Contents

Alfred Corn
- From Notes from a Child of Paradise
Michael Ryan
Edward Hirsch
- Fever
- Poor Angels
Vassar Miller
- On a Weekend in September
John M. Ridland
- Swimming for Jeni
Beth Singer Bentley
- A Sentimental Education
Erika Mumford
- Pierre Loti Visits the Maharaja of Travancore
William H. Dickey
- Rather than Musick
- Novgorod
Paul Breslin
- Orpheus
Mary Tisera
- On Ash Wednesday
Irene McKinney
- Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
Richard Newcomb
- People Get the Faces
- Pressing and Mending
Brooks Haxton
- Tongue
- Bones
Jordan Smith
- Days of 1974

Brief Reviews

Penelope Mesic

Contents

Penelope Mesic
- In a U-Haul North of Damascus, by David Bottoms
- In the House of the Judge, by Dave Smith

Contributors
- - Beth Singer Bentley
  - Erika Mumford
  - William H. Dickey
  - Paul Breslin
  - Mary Tisera
- - Irene McKinney
  - Richard Newcomb
  - Brooks Haxton
  - Jordan Smith
  - Penelope Mesic