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May 1994

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

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Dan Bellm
Randy Blasing
Jorge Borges
George Bradley
Michael Chitwood

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POETRY Magazine cover of May 1994 issue

Table of Contents

Sandra McPherson
- The Study of Genius
Lynne McMahon
- All Lycra and Spandex
- Zachary at Three
Dan Bellm
- Before Words
Stefanie Marlis
- Saturn
Jean Nordhaus
- The Natural Sonneteer
Mark Cox
- Sonata
Jorge Luis Borges
- On His Blindness
- From Fragments of an Apocryphal Evangelist
Judson Mitcham
- The Foolishness of God Is Wiser than Men
John Richard Reed
- Second Coming
Jack Stewart
- At Home with Angels
Michael Chitwood
- Church Piano
- What Day Is This?
Randy Blasing
- At Length
Vern Rutsala
- Listening to a Russian Choir
Robert Cording
- Astapovo
Sam Magavern
- Master, Man, and Woman
György Petri
- Horace Has a Bad Day
Carl Dennis
- Loss
- Still Life
Susan Kelly-DeWitt
- Odalisque
Charlene Stull
- Down This Hill
Mary B. Moore
- Doors
George Bradley
- Blue That Believes in Nothing
James Harms
- From Ocean Park to Healdsburg
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
- Willem DeKooning Declared Incompetent
Steven Cramer
- The Work

From A to Y

Robert B. Shaw
- From A to Y

Contributors
- - Sandra McPherson
  - Lynne McMahon
  - Dan Bellm
  - Stefanie Marlis
  - Jean Nordhaus
  - Mark Cox
  - Jorge Luis Borges
  - Judson Mitcham
  - John Richard Reed
- - Jack Stewart
  - Michael Chitwood
  - Randy Blasing
  - Vern Rutsala
  - Robert Cording
  - Sam Magavern
  - György Petri
  - Carl Dennis
  - Susan Kelly-DeWitt
- - Charlene Stull
  - Mary B. Moore
  - George Bradley
  - James Harms
  - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
  - Steven Cramer
  - Robert B. Shaw