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May 1998

Thomas Hart Benton, "Threshing," 1941.

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

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  • Kath Anderson
  • Jorge Andrade
  • David Baker
  • Neal Bowers
  • Maria Cariño
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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Biography for the Use of Birds

      By Jorge Carrera Andrade
      I was born in the century of the death of the rose
      when the motor had already driven out the angels.
      Quito watched as the last stagecoach rolled away,
      and at its passing the trees ran past in perfect order,
      and also the hedges...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine FOR GRANT WOOD

      By Margaret Mackinnon
      A shy man seeks perfection in his art:
      Across vast acres, color and shape of tidiness,
      Iowa's unruly grass submits, blade by blade.
      The blue of Mother's dishes tints the sky.

      Across vast acres, color and shape of tidiness,
      sloping rows...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine THE ODD LAST THING SHE DID

      By Brad Leithauser
      A car is idling on the cliff.
      Its top is down. Its headlights throw
      A faint, bright ghost-shadow glow
      On the pale air. On the shore, so far
      Below that the waves' push and drag
      Is dwindled to a hush—a...

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