| Jonathan Aaron, The End of Out of the Past |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Beth Anderson, from A Locked Room |
| Appeared in: Poetry Project Newsletter |
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| Nin Andrews, Dedicated to the One I Love |
| Appeared in: Gargoyle |
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| Wendell Berry, Some Further Words |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Frank Bidart, Curse |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Diann Blakely, Rambling on My Mind |
| Appeared in: Bomb |
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| Bruce Bond, Art Tatum |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Catherine Bowman, from 1000 Lines |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Rosemary Catacalos, Perfect Attendance: Short Subjects Made from the Staring Photos of Strangers |
| Appeared in: The Progressive |
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| Joshua Clover, Aeon Flux:June |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Billy Collins, Litany |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Michael S. Collins, Six Sketches: When a Soul Breaks |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Carl Dennis, World History |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Susan Dickman, Skin |
| Appeared in: Rhino |
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| Rita Dove, Fox Trot Fridays |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Stephen Dunn, Open Door Blues |
| Appeared in: Brilliant Corners |
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| Stuart Dybek, Journal |
| Appeared in: Tin House |
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| Charles Fort, The Vagrant Hours |
| Appeared in: Mississippi Review |
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| James Galvin, Ponderosa |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Amy Gerstler, An Offer Received in This Morning's Mail: |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Louise Glück, Landscape |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Michael Goldman, Report on Human Beings |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| Ray Gonzalez, Max Jacob's Shoes |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Linda Gregg, Beauty |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Mark Halliday, The Opaque |
| Appeared in: Colorado Review |
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| Michael S. Harper, Rhythmic Arrangements (on prosody) |
| Appeared in: LUNA |
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| Matthea Harvey, Sad Little Breathing Machine |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| George Higgins, Villanelle |
| Appeared in: 88 |
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| Edward Hirsch, The Desire Manuscripts |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Tony Hoagland, Summer Night |
| Appeared in: 88 |
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| Richard Howard, Success |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Rodney Jones, Ten Sighs from a Sabbatical |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Joy Katz, Some Rain |
| Appeared in: Pleiades |
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Dragon |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Galway Kinnell, When the Towers Fell |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Carolyn Kizer, After Horace |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Jennifer L. Knox, Love Blooms at Chimsbury After the War |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Kenneth Koch, Proverb |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| John Koethe, Y2K (1933) |
| Appeared in: Pleiades |
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| Ted Kooser, In the Hall of Bones |
| Appeared in: Third Coast |
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| Philip Levine, The Music of Time |
| Appeared in: Rattle |
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| J. D. McClatchy, Jihad |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| W. S. Merwin, To Zbigniew Herbert's Bicycle |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Stanley Moss, A History of Color |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Heather Moss, Dear Alter Ego |
| Appeared in: Croonenbergh's Fly |
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| Paul Muldoon, The Loaf |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| Peggy Munson, Four Deaths That Happened Daily |
| Appeared in: Spoon River Poetry Review |
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| Marilyn Nelson, Asparagus |
| Appeared in: Rattapallax |
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| Daniel Nester, Poem for the Novelist Whom I Forced to Write a Poem |
| Appeared in: Spinning Jenny |
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| Naomi Shihab Nye, What Happened to Everybody |
| Appeared in: LUNA |
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| Ishle Yi Park, Queen Min Bi |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Robert Pinsky, Anniversary |
| Appeared in: The Washington Post Magazine |
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| Kevin Prufer, What the Paymaster Said |
| Appeared in: Witness |
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| Ed Roberson, Sequoia sempervirens |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Vijay Seshadri, The Disappearances |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Myra Shapiro, For Nazim Hikmet in the Old Prison, Now a Four Seasons Hotel |
| Appeared in: Rattapallax |
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| Alan Shapiro, Sleet |
| Appeared in: Third Coast |
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| Bruce Smith, Song with a Child's Pacifier in It |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Charlie Smith, There's Trouble Everywhere |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Maura Stanton, Translating |
| Appeared in: Mid-American Review |
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| Ruth Stone, Lines |
| Appeared in: PMS |
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| James Tate, The Restaurant Business |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| William Tremblay, The Lost Boy |
| Appeared in: LUNA |
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| Natasha Trethewey, After Your Death |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| David Wagoner, On Being Asked to Discuss Poetic Theory |
| Appeared in: 88 |
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| Ronald Wallace, In a Rut |
| Appeared in: Poetry Northwest |
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| Lewis Warsh, Premonition |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Susan Wheeler, In Sky |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Richard Wilbur, Man Running |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| C. K. Williams, The World |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Terence Winch, My Work |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| David Wojahn, Scrabble with Matthews |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Robert Wrigley, Clemency |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Anna Ziegler, After the Opening, 1932 |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, Reading the Bones: a Blackjack Moses nightmare |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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