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June 1988

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

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Dorothy Barresi
David Bottoms
Debra Bruce
Geraldine Connolly
Allison Funk

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, June 1988

Table of Contents

Philip Levine
- The Right Cross
William Greenway
Geraldine Connolly
- Lydia
Carole Oles
- The Interpretation of Baseball
Allison Funk
- This Scar
Peter Meinke
- Exodus with Children
- The Dead Tree
Debra Bruce
- An Argument about a Tree
Dorothy Barresi
- Chin Music

Two Poems after Paul Klee

Nina Nyhart

Len Roberts
- Learning on Olmstead Street
- The Seven Steps
Jack Myers
- Visitation Rites
James Harms
- Penance
Wesley McNair
- After My Stepfather's Death
Bin Ramke
- Taking a Message
David Bottoms
- In the Kitchen, Late
- Barriers
Jack Ridl
- American Suite for a Lost Daughter
Robert Wrigley

Aestheticians and the Pit of the Self

Peter Stitt

Contributors
- - Philip Levine
  - William Greenway
  - Geraldine Connolly
  - Carole Oles
  - Allison Funk
  - Peter Meinke
- - Debra Bruce
  - Dorothy Barresi
  - Nina Nyhart
  - Len Roberts
  - Jack Myers
  - James Harms
- - Wesley McNair
  - Bin Ramke
  - David Bottoms
  - Jack Ridl
  - Robert Wrigley
  - Peter Stitt