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October 1983

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

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Marvin Bell
Christopher Bursk
Madeline De Frees
Brendan Galvin
Dana Gioia

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1983

Table of Contents

Pattiann Rogers
Dana Gioia
Marvin Bell
Robert Long
David Kresh
- St. Jude Pray for Us Almost without Hope
- To Rio
Madeline De Frees
- The Dovecove: Its Head Keepers
Michael Milburn
- The Initial-Tree
Donald Hall
- At Eagle Pond
Jonathan Holden
- Full Moon, Rising
- Scraping the House
Carole Oles
- Preparing for Weather
Tom Sleigh
- The Very End
Christopher Bursk
- After Being by Myself All Day
- Late Afternoon Shadows
Elizabeth Spires
- The Playground
- My Daughter
Brendan Galvin

Comment

Peter Stitt

Contributors
- - Pattiann Rogers
  - Dana Gioia
  - Marvin Bell
  - Robert Long
  - David Kresh
- - Madeline De Frees
  - Michael Milburn
  - Donald Hall
  - Jonathan Holden
  - Carole Oles
- - Tom Sleigh
  - Christopher Bursk
  - Elizabeth Spires
  - Brendan Galvin
  - Peter Stitt