- Joe Allen: Deer-Time
- Paula Gunn Allen: Wool Season
- George Amabile: Clean Through • John Hoogstraten's Goodwill Hat
- Marvin Bell: Homage to the Runner: A Column
- Emile Capouya: On Poetry And The Common Life by M. L. Rosenthal (Reviewed By Emile Capouya)
- Constantine Cavafy: Candles • In The Cafe (Translated By Richard Lattimore)
- W. S. Di Piero: On Film: A Column: The Passenger
- Norman Dubie: The Obscure • Monologue of Two Moons, Nudes with Crests. 1938.
- Stephen Dunn: Fable of the 20th Century • Fable for the Mad and the Respectable
- Charles Fair: Three Impressions: A Column
- Albert Goldbarth: John & The Lusitania • Slate
- Brad Gooch: The Only Light In The Laboratory
- Richard Hugo: Poetry In The Classroom: Writing Off The Subject
- Stanley Kauffmann: Album of Comic-Book Life
- Henry V. Larom: Patched Up Man
- Denise Levertov: Woman Alone • A Mystery (Oaxaca, Mexico) • Wedding-Ring
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A Group of Poets Selected by Denise Levertov
- Denise Levertov: Introductory Note
- Henry Braun: The Thief of Permission
- Robert Dana: Moving
- Carol Heckman: From 13 Celebrations
- Nellie Hill: The Neighbor's Guest • Voyeur
- Stephen Kessler: In The Late Sun • A Version of Vicente Aleixandre's I Am Destiny
- Ted Kooser: Old Soldiers' Home
- Hilda Morley: Untitled
- Ned O'Gorman: Biting Down on Fish
- Susan Sherman: America
- Clarence Major: Open Letters: A Column
- David Porter: On Ted Hughes
- A. G. Sobin: The November Suicides • Sharon, Glum in the Dark Chair, Reads • Departure at Dusk: The Airport Corridors, The Late Autumn Plane
- Pamela Stewart: To the Countryside • The Lake
- Lillian Vallee: On The Revolution of Things by Miron Bialoszewski (Translated by Andrzej Busza and Bogdan Czajkowski). (Reviewed By Lillian Vallee)
- Linda Wagner: The Latest Creeley
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Various: Writ By Hand: An Anthology of Student Poems: A Special APR Supplement
- Poems by students from Cincinnati OH; Syracuse NY; Philadelphia PA; and Manhattan Beach CA.