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January 1993

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

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Eavan Boland
Edgar Bowers
Deborah Burnham
Billy Collins
John Companiotte

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Table of Contents

Michael Donaghy
- Lives of the Artists
- The Heirloom
Deborah Burnham
- When the Unimaginable Becomes Easy
- Forgetting
Bibhu Prasad Padhi
- A Glass of Clear Water
Billy Collins
- Thesaurus
Ronald Wallace
- Grandfather, His Book
William Matthews
John Companiotte
- Words I've Lost Forever
- Burial at Sea
Miriam Flock
- If Ontogeny Does Not Recapitulate Phylogeny, Then What Is Metaphor?
Robert Morgan
- π
Edgar Bowers
- John
Margaret Holley
- The Gallery of Owls
- Galileo in the Snow
Robert B. Shaw
- A Pair of Bookends
- Florilegium
Sherod Santos
- Dalai Lama
Jack Turner
- Re-Creation
Jeffrey Harrison
- Political Poem
Henry Sloss
- The Parthenon
Eavan Boland
- In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own
Rosemary Willey
- All the Needs

Secular Believers

Ben Howard

Contents

Ben Howard
- Selected Poems, by Derek Mahon

Contributors
- - Michael Donaghy
  - Deborah Burnham
  - Bibhu Prasad Padhi
  - Billy Collins
  - Ronald Wallace
  - William Matthews
  - John Companiotte
- - Miriam Flock
  - Robert Morgan
  - Edgar Bowers
  - Margaret Holley
  - Robert B. Shaw
  - Sherod Santos
  - Jack Turner
- - Jeffrey Harrison
  - Henry Sloss
  - Eavan Boland
  - Rosemary Willey
  - Ben Howard