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Poetry — From the November 1909 issue
Poetry — From the August 1909 issue
Poetry — From the March 1909 issue
Poetry — From the September 1908 issue
Poetry — From the September 1907 issue
Poetry — From the June 1907 issue
Poetry — From the October 1906 issue
Poetry — From the August 1906 issue
Poetry — From the June 1906 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1906 issue
Poetry — From the August 1902 issue
Poetry — From the November 1901 issue
Poetry — From the December 1898 issue
Poetry — From the September 1898 issue
Poetry — From the October 1897 issue
Poetry — From the July 1896 issue
Poetry — From the July 1895 issue

Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:

Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.

In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Nadia Shira Cohen.

