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August 1994

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

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Molly Bendall
Caroline Finkelstein
William Ford
Samuel Green
August Kleinzahler

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POETRY Magazine cover of August 1994 issue

Table of Contents

Maxine Kumin
- In a Different Country
- Youth Orchestra, with Dogs
Caroline Finkelstein
Theodore Worozbyt
- The Guitar
William Ford
- Love in Middle Age
Samuel Green
- At the Pond's Edge
Don Share
- For Laura
John Updike
August Kleinzahler
- Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46
- The Damselfly
Molly Bendall
- Fête on the Lake
Reginald Shepherd
- A Brief Manual for Swimmers
- Phenomenology
Pattiann Rogers
- Rapture of the Deep: The Pattern of Poseidon's Love Song
Gabriella Mirollo
- The Poet at Two Rejects the Beach
Karen Volkman
- From Shore
Mary Lucina
- Footprints
Paulann Petersen
- Lullaby
- When I Walk
Robert B. Shaw
Shannon Nelson-Deighan
- Victorian Hummingbird Case
Greg Williamson
- Taxidermy
A. K. Ramanujan
- Foundlings in the Yukon

Comment

Bruce F. Murphy
- Modes

Contributors
- - Maxine Kumin
  - Caroline Finkelstein
  - Theodore Worozbyt
  - William Ford
  - Samuel Green
  - Don Share
  - John Updike
- - August Kleinzahler
  - Molly Bendall
  - Reginald Shepherd
  - Pattiann Rogers
  - Gabriella Mirollo
  - Karen Volkman
  - Mary Lucina
- - Paulann Petersen
  - Robert B. Shaw
  - Shannon Nelson-Deighan
  - Greg Williamson
  - A. K. Ramanujan
  - Bruce F. Murphy