Issue 26, Spring 1985
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Articles, Features, and Photos:

POET TITLE
W. H. Auden   SHORTS
Stanley Kunitz   THE ILLUMINATION
Anne Sexton   THE FIREBOMBERS
Allen Ginsberg   MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH
Michael Harlow   POEM
Norman Rosten   LETTER NO. 1
Stephen Stepanchev   COUNTERFEITERS
Muriel Rukeyser   LOOKING AT EACH OTHER
Robert Lax   FROM HISTORIES
Joel Lawrence   HOW TO GET RID OF ANTS
Charles Bukowski   STYLE
Marjorie Finnell   WAITING
Helen Adam   A TALE BEST FORGOTTEN
Andrew Glaze   A CHOICE
Linda King   GREEN JELLO
Ken McLaren   HERE I AM
Charles Haseloff   TRIADS
David J. Dwyer   ARIANA OLISBOS: WORKS & DAYS/PROLOGOS
Karl Shapiro   THE HEILIGENSTADT TESTAMENT (BEETHOVEN DYING)
John Updike   CUNTS
Richard Hugo   IN YOUR WAR DREAM
Jackson Mac Low   19TH ODE FOR IRIS—6:07 P.M. SAT 25 JULY 1970
Norman Stock   SHIP HIS BODY BACK
  I MUST LOOK SAFE
Betty Cue   THE SIXTH GRADE MEETS MR. DEBUSSY
Robert Dugan   THE EARTH TONIGHT
Diane Levenberg   THE CRIPPLER
Leo Connellan   IN LOBSTER NIGHT
Dennis Bernstein   GETTING TOUGH
Lola Haskins   THIS IS HOW I LIKE IT
  I WANT THIS POEM TO SCREAM
Elisavietta Ritchie   ELEGY FOR THE OTHER WOMAN
Carol Purdy   DEAR MR. PACKARD
Patricia Farewell   I JUST WANT TO ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS