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Poetry Magazine 2008- January Articles Made to Measure, The Red Sea Devotion: The Garment District Nocturnal, Divine Rights Devotion: The Burnt-Over District Stephen Edgar Bruce Smith callas lover, cruel, cruel summer The History of Mothers of Sons D.A. Powell Lisa Furmanski Man of War, Argonaut's Vow Pink Ocean Carol Frost Stuart Dybek The Solipsist The Taste of Silence Troy Jollimore Adam Kirsch Citation Responsibilities Joshua Mehigan Joanie V. Mackowski Repetition,The Late Worm, Clamor and Quiet Cut Out For It Ange Mlinko Kay Ryan Closing the Circle Getting Where We're Going Jhumpa Lahiri John Brehm A Night in Brooklyn The Dead Remember Brooklyn The Rain-Streaked Avenues of Central Queens D. Nurkse Moose Dreams, Dogwood William Johnson Biographer Samuel Menashe La Porte Rachel Webster There's Nothing More Wendy Videlock Poetry Magazine 2008- Feb. Articles Midsummer, Dawn Leaving Prague: A Notebook Louise Glück Alexei Tsvetkov bon bon il est un pays, Mort de A.D. Four Takes à elle l’acte calme, Ascension D. H. Tracy La Mouche, Arènes de Lutèce Samuel Beckett Letter to the Editor James Matthew Wilson Fowling Piece Heidy Steidlmayer Letter to the Editor Sean Lysaght An Old Woman’s Painting Letter to the Editor Jim Carmin Lynn Emanuel Letter to the Editor Michael Hudson Full Fathom Jorie Graham Letter to the Editor Robert Longoni J. Learns the Difference Between Letter to the Editor Adam Zagajewski Poverty and Having No Money Jeffrey Schultz Stemming from Stevens Lisa Williams Ladybirds Larissa Szporluk Rose Thorns Molly McQuade Kertész: Latrine,Ross: Children of the Ghetto,Ross: Yellow Star Doisneau: Underground Press Sudek: Tree Petersen: Kleichen and a Man Kolár: Housing Estate George Szirtes Sincerity and Its Discontents in American Poetry Now Peter Campion Poetry Magazine 2008- March Articles Nights on Planet Earth Campbell McGrath Letter to the Editor William Watt Containment, The Catch Letter to the Editor Michael A.E. Stallings Marcinkowski The Violinist at the Window, 1918 Letter to the Editor Edward McCrorie Jorie Graham Letter to the Editor George Gulick New Folk, Ode to Big Trend Stick Elegy, Cocktails with Orpheus Clive James responds: Clive James Mystic Bounce Terrance Hayes Letter to the Editor Robert Kramer The French Prisoner, On the Wall of a Letter to the Editor Michael Farry KZ Lager, Van Gogh's Prayer János Pilinszky Cy Twombly, "Night Watch" Cy Twombly, "Beyond (A System for Passing)" H. L. Hix Lemnos, The Red Portrait Karl Kirchwey Conversion Comedy Ange Mlinko Johnny One Note "Pacific Surfliner" Now Arriving San Diego W. S. Di Piero Myrrha to the Source, From the Towers Space Bar Heather McHugh Six Books Joel Brouwer Poetry Magazine 2008- April Articles "Poetry rejoices..." "Phoebus was gone, all gone, his journey Your Hair of Snakes and Flowers over" Håkan Sandell Anonymous The Crane Dance Wasps, Snail, Jackfruit Yannis Ritsos Floating Sweet Dumpling Lamenting Widow In Memoriam, July 19, 1914 Ho Xuan Huong Anna Akhmatova For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut‚Äö "Our sweet companions-sharing your Takashi Hiraide bunk and your bed‚" Marina Tsvetaeva Up on Top, Barley Field Olav H. Hauge The Trees Delete Themselves Inside a Fog-Sphere Memories Are a House, The Son of the Francis Ponge Wall Avot Yeshurun Aesomes, Loners Jean Follain To Put It Differently Natan Zach San Biagio, at Montepulciano Yves Bonnefoy Charms for Love Anonymous Creative Writing Miroslav Holub To His Lady Giacomo Leopardi Mu'allaqa Imru'al-qays Immortal Instant Marko Vesović Tigris Song, Baghdad Song Ibn Al-`Arabi Day in Autumn, The Beggars Rainer Maria Rilke The Rape of Europa Ovid The Song of the Birds Anonymous What is it to be human? Waldo Williams Black Stone on a White Stone Miguel César Vallejo Because of this Modest Style Ramón López Velarde From the Artist's Sketchbook Annette M'Baye In the Lake Region Tomas Venclova "For years my heart inquired of me‚" Hafez Poetry Magazine 2008- May Articles Monaco Skink Spencer Reece Rodney Jones The Decision, The Pear, Seawater Islands Apart: A Notebook Stiffens Cloth, All the Difficult Hours Eavan Boland and Minutes Jane Hirshfield Curious Specimens: An Exchange Cate Marvin & Joshua Mehigan Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem Yvonne Zipter The Plight of the Poet-Critic Carmine Starnino Nebraska, Hands Are Wood Provincetown Fourth Fugitive Train Seth Abramson A.E. Stallings I Imagine My Father’s Death Accessibility Blues Bryan D. Dietrich Christina Pugh Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis Liz Waldner Infidelity Philip White Empire Mark Irwin Colonoscopy Sonnet Sandra M. Gilbert Sustenance, Get Up, John, Landscape with Scavengers and Bonelight Chris Dombrowski The Cause Daniel Tobin Ensor, They Come Cathy Park Hong Poetry Magazine 2008- June Articles For Edwin Wilson, For Emily Wilson Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso A. R. Ammons Death Donald Revell Written on the eve of my 20th high school reunion, which I was not able to A Lowrider Loudly Brings Us attend, Two Violins, Sublunary What To Do A.E. Stallings W. S. Di Piero It includes the butterfly and the rat, the Pompeii shit Two Stones with One Bird Birdsong, face it, some male machine Charles Bernstein Marianne Boruch Anything But the Case The Approaches Glyn Maxwell Harry Clifton It Was a Bichon Frisé's Life . An Aubade A Not Unruffled Surface Joel Brouwer Ange Mlinko The Consultant for the Mayor Voyager Robert VanderMolen Roman Room Todd Hearon My Life as a Subject On Marriage Parting Song Meghan O'Rourke 4:13 am Jill Alexander Essbaum republic D.A. Powell Djinn Missing Persons And So the Skin . Hoop Coexistence: A Lost and Almost Found Apartment Poem Rae Armantrout Peter Cole The Apophatic Ludlow Nance Van Winckel Against Conceit Ornithogalum Dubium Daddy: 1933 Roddy Lumsden Geoffrey Brock Puppet-Maker Charles Simic Beirut Tank Letter to the Editor Daniel Robbins Stranding For the Executive Director of the Fallen Letter to the Editor Massimo Bacigalupo Tom Sleigh Letter to the Editor Ed Allen Time to Play The Green Car Letter to the Editor Hassel Ledbetter Landis Everson Letter to the Editor Charles Thomas Bird at the Window Sophie Cabot Black Letter to the Editor Joanne Growney The Years Letter to the Editor Ruth Berman Night For Adam Michael Hofmann Instructions to an Artisan Amit Majmudar Letter to the Editor Joseph Bednarik Letter to the Editor Marilyn Chin Letter to the Editor Gwendolyn Jensen Letter to the Editor The Editors Letter to the Editor T.S. Kerrigan Letter to the Editor Ginny Thompson Letter to the Editor Robert King Letter to the Editor Llyn Clague Letter to the Editor Lynn Levin Letter to the Editor Kathleen M. Du Haime Letter to the Editor Dian Duchin Reed Letter to the Editor Ammon Allred Poetry Magazine 2008- Jul / Aug. Articles Work Song Joshua Mehigan Old Smile at the Roast Glyn Maxwell The Theory 0f Hats Plaisir Stephen Dunn Marvel David Biespiel Psalm Philip Memmer Silent Prophet The Breather Billy Collins Carl Dennis My Hair Robin Behn Trout Kathryn Starbuck Selected Recent and New Errors Dean Prof of Profs Young Geoffrey Brock The Play of Light and Shadow My Moses D. Nurkse Wendy Videlock Thistles Heidy Steidlmayer The Storm Is Over Soft Spots Biology Stephen O’connor Alchemy Jason Guriel Introduction Peter Gizzi Marble-Sized Song "Any fool can get into an ocean..." Albert Goldbarth [Response to the Loyalty Oath] A Second Train Song for Gary Philosopher Orders Crispy Pork [Letter to Gary Bottone] Dark View Heather McHugh "Imagine Lucifer..." A Poem For Dada Day At The Place A Lock of Her Hair Robert Wrigley April 1, 1958 Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision" Song That Can Only Be Sung Once Helen: A Revision Tom Sleigh Jack Spicer A Duet Introduction Adam Seelig Kevin McFadden Killing Him: A Radio Play A shopkeeper's story Bob Hicok Yehuda Amichai Explaining It William Johnson Cook the Hell Out of 'Em W. S. Di Piero Because He Was Flesh Fanny Howe The Roads Taken Haki Madhubuti No Tiara, No Crown Robert Pinsky Into the Abeyance Michael Hofmann Finding Again the World Eleanor Wilner Learning from Lexington Marjorie Perloff The Soul Grown Refined Vivian Gornick The Politics of Poetry David Orr Letter to the Editor John Balaban Letter to the Editor Joseph Bednarik Letter to the Editor Michael Wiegers Letter to the Editor Ankur Saha Letter to the Editor Rod Riesco Poetry Magazine 2008- Sept. Articles Ten Moons Sasha Dugdale Letter to the Editor Bruce Grant Nether Letter to the Editor Kimiko Hahn What Is the Field? Leila Wilson Letter to the Editor Mitsuye Yamada Clary Atsuro Riley Letter to the Editor Afaa Michael Rest before you sleep Dionisio D. Weaver Martinez Letter to the Editor Joy Harjo Bait Goat Crocodile Tears Kay Ryan Letter to the Editor Eric Bourland Gas Station Rest Room Letter to the Editor D. W. Cunningham 24/7 Alan Shapiro Letter to the Editor Andrew Epstein Iraqi Boy Elizabeth Arnold Letter to the Editor Gediminas Trimakas Dressing Down, 1962 Lesley Wheeler Letter to the Editor Nancy Flynn Arrival The X-Ray Heidy Steidlmayer Letter to the Editor Evan Jones The Duffel Bag David Harsent Letter to the Editor Nicholas Bradley What loves, takes away Eleanor Wilner Letter to the Editor Robin Winning Barking Jim Harrison Introduction Jean Hartley & Jim Orwin Little Low Heavens Clive James Four Takes D. H. Tracy Letter to the Editor John Poch Letter to the Editor Barnaby Thieme Poetry Magazine 2008- October Articles Tell the Bees A Good Fish Derek Sheffield The So-called Singer of Nab Elegy for the Quagga "There's Something Haunting and Unreliable Narration Nihilistic About Your Hairdresser" Makris Is Fallen The Editors Stubbornly Zucchini Shofar Elizabeth Bishop was introduced to Small Moth Robert Lowell in late 1946 or early Sarah Lindsay 1947.