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February 2004

Jonathan Elderfield, from Living Under South Street.

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

Amy Beeder
Anne-Marie Cusac
Carol Frost
Dabney Stuart
David Baker

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POETRY Magazine cover of February 2004 issue

Table of Contents

Poetry

Amy Beeder
Robert Wrigley
- Mouth
- Letter to a Young Poet
David Swerdlow
- Buy a Chimney Cap, I Think, Then
Anne-Marie Cusac
- The Bees
Ralph Sneeden
- No River Road
- Double Nocturne
Reginald Gibbons
- The Young Woman
Elizabeth Hadaway
- Was You Born Here?
- Living with Ballads: Sidna Allen
R. T. Smith
- Outsider Art
David Baker
- Breathing In
Dabney Stuart
- Talon
Joel Brouwer
- Lions Are Interesting
- The Spots
Linda Pastan
- A Rainy Country
- Leaving the Island
Carol Frost
Sherod Santos
William Olsen
- A Fallen Bat

Comment

Michael Hofmann
- Stare at the Monster
Brian Phillips
- Ten Takes

Letters

Sandra M. Gilbert
- Letter to the Editor

Contributors
- - Amy Beeder
  - Robert Wrigley
  - David Swerdlow
  - Anne-Marie Cusac
  - Ralph Sneeden
  - Reginald Gibbons
- - Elizabeth Hadaway
  - R. T. Smith
  - David Baker
  - Dabney Stuart
  - Joel Brouwer
  - Linda Pastan
- - Carol Frost
  - Sherod Santos
  - William Olsen
  - Michael Hofmann
  - Brian Phillips
  - Sandra M. Gilbert