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June 1985

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

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Thomas Carper
Turner Cassity
Carl Dennis
Tom Disch
Richard Foerster

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1985

Table of Contents

Tom Disch
- The Return to Nature
Jane Kenyon
- Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School
- Inertia
Ellen Bryant Voigt
- The Lesson
Jim Simmerman
J. P. White
Jonathan Holden
Richard Moore
- For Gertrude
- Signals
William Zaranka
- Twenty-Two Motels
- Diorama
- Paperweights
- Miniatures
Joseph Gastiger
- Why I Need Glasses
Carl Dennis
- Little League
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
- Doing Laundry on Sunday
Turner Cassity
Richard Foerster
- Transfigured Nights
- EEG
Thomas Carper

Short Reviews

David Wojahn

Contributors
- - Tom Disch
  - Jane Kenyon
  - Ellen Bryant Voigt
  - Jim Simmerman
  - J. P. White
- - Jonathan Holden
  - Richard Moore
  - William Zaranka
  - Joseph Gastiger
  - Carl Dennis
- - Brigit Pegeen Kelly
  - Turner Cassity
  - Richard Foerster
  - Thomas Carper
  - David Wojahn