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June 1995

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

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George Bilgere
Alain Bosquet
Paul Breslin
William Dickey
John Foy

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POETRY Magazine cover of June 1995 issue

Table of Contents

Rodney Jones
Paul Breslin
- You Are Here
Enid Shomer
- Black Drum
David Wagoner
- My Father Laughing in the Chicago Theater
- The Pink Boy
Lynn Powell
- Preparation for an Elegy
George Bilgere
- At the Vietnam Memorial
John Foy
- 12 ("The question isn't...")
Jean Liebenthal
- Explorer
Carolyn Kizer
- Medicine
William H. Dickey
- Semi-Private
Alison Stone
- Not Cure, Not Denial
J. Allyn Rosser
- Before the Sickness Is Official
Henry Taylor
- For William Stafford
William Logan
- Larkin
Judith Strasser
- On Reading Descartes' Error
Matthew Sweeney
- Writing to a Dead Man
Jeffrey Harrison
- Convenience Store
William M. Thompson Jr.
- 60
Alain Bosquet
Faye George
- Only the Words
William Greenway
- Yearn
Jennifer Rose
- Valedictory

Brief Reviews

Bruce F. Murphy
- Brief Reviews

Contributors
- - Rodney Jones
  - Paul Breslin
  - Enid Shomer
  - David Wagoner
  - Lynn Powell
  - George Bilgere
  - John Foy
  - Jean Liebenthal
- - Carolyn Kizer
  - William H. Dickey
  - Alison Stone
  - J. Allyn Rosser
  - Henry Taylor
  - William Logan
  - Judith Strasser
  - Matthew Sweeney
- - Jeffrey Harrison
  - William M. Thompson Jr.
  - Alain Bosquet
  - Faye George
  - William Greenway
  - Jennifer Rose
  - Bruce F. Murphy