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• The Dread Museum 
  Steven Cramer Dec. 29, 1999
  
• only the crossing counts 
  C.D. Wright Dec. 22, 1999
  
• The Sensible Present Has Duration 
  Dan Chiasson Dec. 15, 1999
  
• God's Grandeur 
  Dec. 7, 1999
  
• A Question Answered 
  William Blake Dec. 1, 1999
  
• Spring Sonnet, with my sister's favorite bit of Deborah ... 
  Jacqueline Osherow Nov. 24, 1999
  
• Pupils Slip Up 
  Aaron Fogel Nov. 16, 1999
  
• The Round-Up 
  Karen Fish Nov. 10, 1999
  
• The Fisherman and the Dryad 
  Stuart Dischell Oct. 22, 1999
  
• Prayer 
  Tom Sleigh Oct. 20, 1999
  
• The Point of the Lambs 
  Carl Phillips Oct. 13, 1999
  
• The Retort Room 
  Heather McHugh Oct. 6, 1999
  
• Dance 
  Daniel Halpern Oct. 2, 1999
  
• Missing Person 
  J. Allyn Rosser Sept. 29, 1999
  
• In Horsegrazing Siena 
  Jim Powell Sept. 15, 1999
  
• Body on the Brain 
  Steven Cramer Sept. 15, 1999
  
• See Saw 
  David Gewanter Sept. 1, 1999
  
• Poem 
  Edward Weismiller Aug. 25, 1999
  
• As It Rains 
  James Harris Aug. 18, 1999
  
• Summer Kitchen 
  Donald Hall Aug. 11, 1999
  
• Dragonfly 
  Patricia Traxler Aug. 4, 1999
  
• Fugue 
  Daniel Halpern July 21, 1999
  
• Illuminated Manuscript 
  Sherod Santos July 14, 1999
  
• Joker 
  Irving Feldman July 7, 1999
  
• Letter Found Blown Against a Fence 
  Edward Weismiller June 30, 1999
  
• Asynchronic 
  Alfred Corn June 23, 1999
  
• To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me He Has Lost His Memory 
  W.S. Merwin June 16, 1999
  
• My Eyes Your Eyes for Lily
  Daniel Halpern June 9, 1999
  
• At the Gym 
  Mark Doty June 2, 1999
  
• Missoula Winter: the Thaw, the Ice Floes, and the Boy 
  Patricia Traxler May 26, 1999
  
• Autobiographical 
  Ed Skoog May 19, 1999
  
• This Train 
  Carl Phillips May 12, 1999
  
• God 
  Michael Ryan May 5, 1999
  
• Male/Female 
  Patricia Clark April 28, 1999
  
• His Excuse for Loving 
  Ben Jonson April 22, 1999
  
• Roman Park, Noon 
  Karl Kirchwey April 15, 1999
  
• Epitaph on a Hare 
  William Cowper April 8, 1999
  
• The Source 
  W.S. Merwin April 1, 1999
  
• The Colonists 
  Eavan Boland March 25, 1999
  
• Sunday 
  Rita Dove March 18, 1999
  
• Larry Levis Visits Easton, Pa., During a November Freeze 
  Gerald Stern March 11, 1999
  
• The Drummer Boy 
  Ron Padgett March 4, 1999
  
• The Apotheosis of Delacroix 
  Mary Maxwell Feb. 25, 1999
  
• Horizon 
  Gail Mazur Feb. 18, 1999
  
• After Catullus 
  Sherod Santos Feb. 11, 1999
  
• Learning Window 
  James Longenbach Feb. 4, 1999
  
• Seasons Journal haiku/senryu
  Barry Spacks Jan. 28, 1999
  
• Orfeo 
  Louise Glück Jan. 21, 1999
  
• The Horses 
  Edwin Muir Jan. 14, 1999
  
• Parkersburg 
  Mark Halliday Jan. 7, 1999