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October 2004

Unknown Photographer, "Crocodile."

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

Frank Bidart
Eleanor Wilner
Eavan Boland
W. Di Piero
Stephen Dobyns

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POETRY Magazine cover of October 2004 issue

Table of Contents

Poetry

Frank Bidart
- The Third Hour of the Night

Comment

Eleanor Wilner
- Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?
Eavan Boland
- Antagonism: Marianne Moore
W. S. Di Piero
- Antagonism: Philip Larkin
Stephen Dobyns
- Antagonism: Robert Frost
William Logan
- Antagonism: Gerard Manley Hopkins
J. D. McClatchy
- Antagonism: Rainer Maria Rilke
Kay Ryan
- Antagonism: Walt Whitman
Rosanna Warren
- Antagonism: H. D.
Dan Chiasson and Averill Curdy
- The Big Three: An Exchange on Prizes

Letters

Michael Thurston
- Letter to the Editor
Dan Chiasson
- Letter to the Editor
W. E. Butts
- Letter to the Editor
David Orr
- Letter to the Editor
Garrett Doherty
- Letter to the Editor
Adam Kirsch
- Adam Kirsch Responds

Contributors
- - J. D. McClatchy
  - Kay Ryan
  - Rosanna Warren
  - Dan Chiasson
  - Averill Curdy
  - Michael Thurston
- - W. E. Butts
  - David Orr
  - Garrett Doherty
  - Adam Kirsch