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June 1978

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

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Gray Burr
Charles Gullans
Charles Hartman
Colette Inez
Tom Johnson

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1978

Table of Contents

Robert Pinsky
- from From an Explanation of America
H. T. Kirby-Smith
- The Commercial Traveler Remembers Lost Love
- Eric on the Drums
Colette Inez
- Meeting in Germany
Lucien Stryk
- Cherries
Gary Soto
- Salt
Grace Schulman
- Blessed Is the Light
Leonard Trawick
Gray Burr
Alan Williamson
- Childless Couple
- Sandy
Tom Johnson
- How Plato Was Right
- Wallace Stevens
Katha Pollitt
- Eggplant
David Louis Posner
- Dionysiou
- Weasel
X J Kennedy
Charles Gullans
- Philosopher Standing, Holding a Book
Charles O. Hartman
- Daddy Long-Legs
- Double Mock Sonnet

From Laughing with One Eye

Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- Nightfishing

Comment

David Bromwich
- The Way to "Sunday Morning"
Judith Moffett
- A Wry Amaze of Attention

Contributors
- - Robert Pinsky
  - H. T. Kirby-Smith
  - Colette Inez
  - Lucien Stryk
  - Gary Soto
  - Grace Schulman
- - Leonard Trawick
  - Gray Burr
  - Alan Williamson
  - Tom Johnson
  - Katha Pollitt
  - David Louis Posner
- - X J Kennedy
  - Charles Gullans
  - Charles O. Hartman
  - Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  - David Bromwich
  - Judith Moffett