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March 2004

Declan Haun, Untitled, circa 1960s.

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

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Meghan O'Rourke
Atsuro Riley
Bill Knott
Charles Wright
David Hedges

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POETRY Magazine cover of March 2004 issue

From this Issue

- poem
  
  Map
  
  By Atsuro Riley
  
  Daddy goes.
  Trolling and trawling and crawfishing and crabbing and bass-boating and trestle-jumping bare into rust-brackish water and cane-poling for bream and shallow-gigging too with a nail-pointy broomstick and creek-shrimping and cooler-dragging and coon-chasing and dove-dogging and duck-bagging and squirrel-tailing...
  
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- poem
  
  Bedtime Story
  
  By Charles Wright
  
  The generator hums like a distant ding an sich.
  It's early evening, and time, like the dog it is,
  ...
  
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- poem
  
  Country Love Song
  
  By Melanie Almeder
  
  I try to think of the cup of a hand,
  of legs in a tangle, and not the thistle
  
  though even it, purpled, spiking away,
  wants to be admired, wants to say, whistle
  ...
  
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Table of Contents

Poetry

Atsuro Riley
- Picture
- Story
- Map
- Turn
- Strand
Meg Kearney
- Carnal
Charles Wright
- Bedtime Story
- The Wrong End of the Rainbow
Jody Gladding
- For Piano and Strings
- Softwoods
W. S. Merwin
- To My Legs
- To the Ancient Order of Legs
Melanie Almeder
- Country Love Song
William Logan
- The Tree Frogs
J. Allyn Rosser
- Then Too There Is This
Joan Murray
- White Bridge Road
John Lee Clark
- My Understanding One Day of Foxgloves
David Hedges
- On Stirring the Pot
Bill Knott

Comment

Meghan O’Rourke
- Subject Sylvia
Steven Cramer
- Firsts
- Et Al

Contributors
- - Atsuro Riley
  - Meg Kearney
  - Charles Wright
  - Jody Gladding
  - W. S. Merwin
- - David Hedges
  - Bill Knott
  - Meghan O’Rourke
  - Steven Cramer