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September 2003

Arthur Rothstein, Black & White photograph, 1936.

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

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Diane Ackerman
Mark Aiello
Lisa Barnett
Elinor Benedict
Andrea Hollander

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POETRY Magazine cover of September 2003 issue

From this Issue

- poem
  
  The Shoes
  
  By Brent Pallas
  
  When they first came
  their mouths agape
  their bodies shining
  like beetles about to stir
  
  every edge poised
  for the multitude of steps
  some moment
  of leaping not yet taken
  
  their hides stiff
  shielding some tenderness
  within, warming...
  
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- poem
  
  Anagrammer
  
  By Peter Pereira
  
  If you believe in the magic of language,
  then Elvis really Lives
  and Princess Diana foretold I end as car spin.
  
  If you believe the letters themselves
  contain a power within them,
  then you understand
  what makes outside tedious,
  how desperation becomes a rope ends it.
  
  The circular...
  
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- poem
  
  Love Recidivus
  
  By Lisa Barnett
  
  Whatever it may be, we may suppose
  it is not love, for love must leave its trace
  like contraband seized and displayed in rows;
  is not sufficient reason to erase
  
  the careful lives we have so far lived through—...
  
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Table of Contents

Poetry

Dave Smith
- Shoes
Brent Pallas
- The Shoes
Eamon Grennan
Diane Ackerman
- Cranial Sacral
Kevin Murray
Mark Aiello
- Chapter One
John Hollander
- Tales of Three Brothers
- And Most of All, I Wanna Thank
Peter Pereira
- Anagrammer
- Turbidophilia
Hailey Leithauser
- Form
- Guidelines: Writing the Sonnet
Sandra M. Gilbert
- February 11, 2003
Andrea Hollander
- Poem in October
Lisa Barnett
- Love Recidivus
Rachel Rose
- Sheets
Greg Sellers
- Tangent White
Judith B. Herman
- Black Gloves
James Kimbrell
- My Psychic
William Walden
- A Posy of Love Poems
- Unqualified
Laurence Goldstein
- English Drawings and Watercolors, 1550-1850
Susan Hahn
- Pity the Skin
A. V. Christie
- Limbic
David Moolten
- Melting Pot
Ed Parris
Elinor Benedict
- Sudden Calm at Maywood Shores
Jacqueline Malone
- Summer's Last Tomatoes
W. S. Merwin

Comment

Sandra M. Gilbert
- Of First and Last, and Midst

Contributors
- - Dave Smith
  - Brent Pallas
  - Eamon Grennan
  - Diane Ackerman
  - Kevin Murray
  - Mark Aiello
  - John Hollander
  - Peter Pereira
  - Hailey Leithauser
- - Sandra M. Gilbert
  - Andrea Hollander
  - Lisa Barnett
  - Rachel Rose
  - Greg Sellers
  - Judith B. Herman
  - James Kimbrell
  - William Walden
  - Laurence Goldstein
- - Susan Hahn
  - A. V. Christie
  - David Moolten
  - Ed Parris
  - Elinor Benedict
  - Jacqueline Malone
  - W. S. Merwin