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POETRY / Autumn 1979

Last Things

By Joyce Carol Oates

Combing my hair, a sudden snarl
in the pink teeth.

How silent, death entering.

Spring 1996

Immaculate Measure

By Elena Karina Byrne
Winter 1980

Relief of Children

By Wendy Salinger
Winter 1996

When My Mother Visited

By John McKernan
Autumn 1977

From the Notebook

By David St. John
Autumn 1995

Surfaces

By Stanley Marcus
Spring 1978

The Hotel Childhood of John Dos Passos

By Townsend Ludington
Spring 1995

Before Thanksgiving

By Bruce Beasley
Summer 1978

Evelyn Waugh: A Man At Bay

By Richard Jones
Autumn 1994

Wrestling With My Brother

By Adele Slaughter