Pembroke Magazine number 17 (1985) features an exchange of letters between MacLeish and Macleod.  And North Carolina's official poet laureate Ragan is spotlighted in the North Carolina Writers' Conference section.

        Currently, Chappell, cowinner with John Ashbery of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry for 1983-84, is a contributing editor.  In number 17 Chappell offers an essay on the poetry of Bayes.  And Texas poet and editor Paul Ruffin contributes an article on David Ray.  There is fiction by J. W. Rivers, LaVerne Harrell Clark, and David Hopes, plus a long autobiographical poem, "Big Sur: Premavira," by Wendell B. Anderson.  The poem concerns Anderson's time with Henry Miller, Crews, and others at Big Sur during the 1940s.