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The Best American Poetry 1989

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Web page titled "Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall" at the Web site of the Library of Congress, ("Hall was married for 23 years to the poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995.")accessed October 9, 2007
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One of the poems Hall selected for this edition was written by his wife,
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Index


The Best American Poetry series
David Lehman
Donald Hall
Jane Kenyon
A. R. Ammons
Poetry
John Ashbery
Beth Bentley
The Gettysburg Review
Elizabeth Bishop
American Poetry Review
Robert Bly
Catherine Bowman
The Paris Review
George Bradley
The New Yorker
David Budbill
Michael Burkhard
Epoch
Amy Clampitt
Boulevard
Tom Clark
Exquisite Corpse (magazine)
Clark Coolidge
o•blék
Douglas Crase
The Yale Review
Robert Creeley
New American Writing

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