Description: A Sampling of the Contents June Jordan, Mid-Year Report: For Haruko Jonathan Holden, Why We Bombed Haiphong Katharyn Howd Machan, No, Superman Was Not the Only One Rafael Campo, Superman Is Dead Kathleen de Azevedo, Famous Women?Claudette Colbert Susan Swartwout, The Gypsy Teaches Her Grandchild Wolfen Ways Edward Field, The Bride of Frankenstein William Trowbridge, Kong Breaks a Leg at the William Morris Agency David Wojahn, Francis Ford Coppola and Anthropologist Interpreter Teaching Gartewienna Tribesmen to Sing "Light My Fire," Philippine Jungle, 1978 Chrystos, Soap Bubbles Joseph Like, James Dean & the Pig Frank O''Hara, Four Little Elegies Sharon Olds, The Death of Marilyn Monroe Judy Grahn, [I have come to claim / Marilyn Monroe''s body] Dennis Cooper, From "Some Adventures of John Kennedy, Jr." Jim Elledge, The Man I Love and I Have a Typical Evening the Night Richard M. Nixon Dies William Trowbridge, Viet Kong Ai, Blue Suede Shoes Maureen Seaton, A Story of Stonewall David Lehman, The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke Martin Espada, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll Daniel Mark Epstein, Mannequins Rita Dove, After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed Maxine Chernoff, Breasts Julia Alvarez, Against Cinderella Olga Broumas, Rapunzel Katharyn Howd Machan, Hazel Tells LaVerne Robin Becker, Peter Pan in North America Audre Lorde, The Day They Eulogized Mahalia Juan Felipe Herrera, Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual Timothy Liu, Echoes Jonathan Holden, Liberace Joy Harjo, We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future Marilyn Hacker, Mythology Gary Soto, Dizzy Girls in the Sixties Jan-Mitchell Sherrill, Woodstock Pedro Pietri, The First Rock and Roll Song of 1970 Maureen Seaton, Blonde Ambition Pamela Stewart, Punk Pantoum Paula Gunn Allen, Teaching Poetry at Votech High, Santa Fe, the Week John Lennon Was Shot Yusef Komunyakaa, Never Land Angela Jackson, Billie in Silk Bruce Weigl, Homage to Elvis, Homage to the Fathers Mary A. Koncel, Come Back, Elvis, Come Back to Holyoke Connie Deanovich, From "Ephemera Today on All My Children" Daniel Hoffman, In the Days of Rin-Tin-Tin klipschutz, Funicello at 50 Dorothy Barresi, When I think About America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramden) Dennis Cooper, David Cassidy Then Tim Dlugos, Gilligan''s Island Gary Soto, TV in Black and White William Carpenter, Ghosts Carol J. Pierman, The Apparition Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Jennifer M. Pierson, Thrift Shop Ladies Baron Wormser, Shoplifting Larry Levis, Whitman Paul Zimmer, Romance Mark Doty, Days of 1981 David Baker, 8-Ball at the Twilite Jim Daniels, Ted''s Bar and Grill William Matthews, A Story Often Told in Bars: The Reader''s Digest Version Robin Becker, Dreaming at the Rexall Drug Sharon Bryan, Lunch with Girl Scouts Michael Pettit, Vanna White''s Bread Pudding Thom Tammaro, ''mericn fst fd Jim Daniels, Short-Order Cook William Hathaway, Why That''s Bob Hope Charles Bernstein, Of Time and the Line Albert Goldbarth, The Counterfeit Earth! Paul Violi, Harold and Imogene James Tate, The Motorcyclists Louise Erdrich, The Lady in the Pink Mustang Mark Wunderlich, Take Good Care of Yourself Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lost Parents Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Off from Swing Shift Emily Hiestand, Moon Winx Motel Martin Espada, Transient Hotel Sky at the Hour of Sleep Paul Allen, Tattoo #47, "Happy Dragon" Sandra McPherson, Pornography, Nebraska Alberto Rios, The Man She Called Honey, and Married Contributors Indexes

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