Issue 25, 1979
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POET TITLE
Carol Tarlen   AFTER THE BOMB
Vivian Jokl   WRITTEN WHILE CONSIDERING
Paul Jenkins   WHO WEARS A WRISTWATCH
Lois Lindblad   WRITING THE MODERN POEM
Donna M. Lane   BEING THE FIRST
Charles Vandersee   AVAILABLE NOW
Dorothy Lee   KAREN
Alan Lewis   THE WORSHIP OF ATTIS
John Kay   I LIVE AS IF
Ernest Kroll   THE CROSSING
David Kirby   SOME PEOPLE
Nixeon Civille Handy   CATERWAUL
Madeleine Hennessy   POEM FOR A DRY NIGHT
Jim Hall   FOR MY MOTHER
Tom Hansen   O YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL
David Tucker   WHO
R. A. Johnson   TOLEDO, MIDSUMMER
Walter McDonald   DREAMS TO HAVE
Anne Webster   A HISTORY OF NURSING
Jack Driscoll   FOUR SKETCHES
  THE FEAR OF WRITING
David Dayton   DUSK
Roberta Metz   SUBWAY
Morrie Warshawski   THE BRIGHT LIGHT
Linda Moyer   THREE RAG DOLLS
Keith Moul   AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
Patrick A. Milliken   SPENDING THE NIGHT
Mark D. Miller   A YOUNG MAN
Paul Weinman   THE FROG SAT BACK
Hastings Wyman Jr.   ELLEN'S HOSTILITY
Phillip McCaffrey   RESCUE ON LAKE ANNE
Jerry McGuire   LATE TALK
Jane P. Moreland   IN THE DINER
David Wann   WRONG SUSPECT
William Slaughter   SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IS
Robert Siegel   SOW MOON
Joel Rudinger   YESTERDAY I FED THE FISH
John J. Ronan   COWS
Barbara Ras   A GIFT
Wesli Court   LOVE IN EXILE
Franz Douskey   GARDEN
Van Thi Van   NEW FOUND LAND
Albert Santoli   R & R
Charles Bukowski   A DRINK TO THAT
  COMBAT PRIMER
  PLATONIC
Andrew Harvey   GLADIATOR
Donald Lev   THE FATE OF A CITY
Lola Haskins   I WANT THIS POEM
Russell Edson   THE OLD WOMAN'S CAT
Thomas Dillon Redshaw   YARROW CHARM
Leo Romero   DALLAS
Carol Henrie   I KNOW YOU DREAM
Ron Lanyi   TO MY SLAYER
James McGlyn   I TOLD HER
Leonard Gilley   HEREDITY
MacDonnell Gordon   RAIN
Antonio Cisneros   HERO OF OUR TIMES
Joan Colby   PIONEERING THE HEARTLAND
Jerome Sala   STONES
Chuck Oliveros   PTERODACTYL
Marc J. Sheehan   SCOTT JOPLIN 1868-1917
Nina Nyhart   BEES
Robert Red Hawk   BRUJO
Larry Rapoport   SHORT PROGRESSION
Mario Petaccia   THE ANONYMOUS POET
Elizabeth Patton   THE AGING STUD
May Sarton   AFTER ALL THESE YEARS