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May 1987

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

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John Bensko
Malcolm Glass
Susan Hahn
Maxine Kumin
Sydney Lea

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1987

Table of Contents

Maxine Kumin
- Marianne, My Mother, and Me
John Bensko
- The Implied Author
Mekeel McBride
- My Story as Told by Someone Else
- The Earliest Maps
Sally Bennett Segall
- Finding the Lion
Susan Hahn
- Small Green
- Oral Interpretation
Alison Stone
- Spofford Hall
- Brandeis Senior Year
Sharon Olds
- May 1968
- After Making Love in Winter
J. Allyn Rosser
- In the (Subjunctive) Mood
- The Dropping of a Name
Richard Speakes
- Code of EthicsCoin Laundry Association
- Mama Loves Janis Joplin
Malcolm Glass
- Superstitions
Jeanne Murray Walker
- Coming into History
- Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come out of the Womb
Sydney Lea
- Over Brogno
Liz Rosenberg
Lisa Zeidner
- A Bomb

Six Poets in Search of a History

Sandra M. Gilbert

Contributors
- - Maxine Kumin
  - John Bensko
  - Mekeel McBride
  - Sally Bennett Segall
  - Susan Hahn
- - Alison Stone
  - Sharon Olds
  - J. Allyn Rosser
  - Richard Speakes
  - Malcolm Glass
- - Jeanne Murray Walker
  - Sydney Lea
  - Liz Rosenberg
  - Lisa Zeidner
  - Sandra M. Gilbert