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June 2001

Maurice de Vlaminck, Untitled, from Almanach pour 1908, Paris. 1908.

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

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  • Francesca Abbate
  • Ralph Angel
  • Wendell Berry
  • John Brehm
  • Cathleen Calbert
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POETRY Magazine cover of June 2001 issue
From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen

      By Charles Wright
      Midmorning like a deserted room, apparition
      Of armoire and table weights,
      Oblongs of flat light,
                                            the rosy eyelids of lovers
      Raised in their ghostly insurrection,
      Decay...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Layabout

      By John Brehm
      Do nothing and everything will be done,   
      that's what Mr. Lao Tzu said, who walked   
      around talking 2,500 years ago and   

      now his books practically grow on trees   
      they're so popular and if he were   
      alive today beautiful women would

      rush up to...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Eve's Design

      By Moira Linehan
      Then there's the Yemeni legend
      of Eve in the Garden knitting
      a pattern on the serpent's back,
      the snake unfinished like the rest
      of creation, the first woman
      thinking to add design, a sheath ...

      Read More

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