| A.R.Ammons, In View of the Fact |
| Appeared in: Epoch |
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| John Ashbery, In Dearest, Deepest Winter |
| Appeared in: Crazyhorse |
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| Maureen Bloomfield, The Catholic Encyclopedia |
| Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review |
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| Catherine Bowman, I Want to Be Your Shoebox |
| Appeared in: Open City |
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| Stephanie Brown, Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane |
| Appeared in: POOL |
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| Charles Bukowski, The Beats |
| Appeared in: New York Quarterly |
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| Elena Karina Byrne, Irregular Masks |
| Appeared in: The Los Angeles Review |
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| Victoria Chang, Seven Changs |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Shanna Compton, To Jaques Pepin |
| Appeared in: Gastronomica |
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| James Cummins, The Poets March on Washington |
| Appeared in: Jacket |
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| Jamey Dunham, Urban Myth |
| Appeared in: Sentence |
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| Stephen Dunn, Five Roses in the Morning |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Karl Elder, Everything I Needed to Know |
| Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily |
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| Lynn Emanuel, The Revolution |
| Appeared in: Slate |
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| Elaine Equi, Pre-Raphaelite Pinups |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Clayton Eshleman, The Magical Sadness of Omar Caceres |
| Appeared in: Fence |
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| Andrew Feld, 19--: An Elegy |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Beth Ann Fennelly, I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese. |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Edward Field, In Praise of My Prostate |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Richard Garcia, Adam and Eve's Dog |
| Appeared in: Notre Dame Review |
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| Amy Gerstler, Watch |
| Appeared in: The Sycamore Review |
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| Leonard Gontarek, Blue on Her Hands |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Jessica Goodheart, Advice for a Stegosaurus |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| George Green, The Searchers |
| Appeared in: Court Green |
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| Arielle Greenberg, The Turn of the Screw |
| Appeared in: American Letters & Commentary |
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| Marilyn Hacker, For Kateb Yacine (Algerian playwrite, novelist, poet, and activist, 1929-89) |
| Appeared in: New England Review, PN Review |
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| Matthea Harvey, I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run |
| Appeared in: 88 |
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| Stacey Harwood, Contributors' Notes |
| Appeared in: LIT |
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| Terrance Hayes, Variations on Two Black Cinema Treasures |
| Appeared in: CROWD |
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| Samuel Hazo, Seesaws |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Anthony Hecht, Motes A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Propogation of the Species |
| Appeared in: In Posse Review |
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| Lyn Hejinian, from The Fatalist |
| Appeared in: Bomb |
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| Ruth Herschberger, Remorse After a Panic Attack in a Wisconsin Field, 1975 |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Jane Hirshfield, Burlap Sack |
| Appeared in: Runes |
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| Tony Hoagland, In a Quiet Town by the Sea |
| Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review |
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| Vicki Hudspith, Ants |
| Appeared in: Mudfish |
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| Donald Justice, A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| Mary Karr, A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Garret Keizer, Hell and Love |
| Appeared in: Image |
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Wolf |
| Appeared in: 32 Poems |
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| Galway Kinnell, Shelley |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Rachel Loden, In the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily |
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| Sarah Manguso, Hell |
| Appeared in: Conduit |
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| Heather McHugh, Ill-Made Almighty |
| Appeared in: 32 Poems, Verse Daily |
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| D. Nurske, Space Marriage |
| Appeared in: Fence |
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| Steve Orlen, Song: I Love You. Who are You? |
| Appeared in: Gulf Coast |
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| Eugene Ostashevsky, Dear Owl |
| Appeared in: jubilat |
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| Linda Pastan, Death Is Intended |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Adrienne Rich, Dislocations: Seven Scenarios |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| James Richardson, All the Ghosts |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Mary Ruefle, How I Became Impossible |
| Appeared in: Court Green |
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| Kay Ryan, Home to Roost |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Jerome Sala, Media Effects |
| Appeared in: Insurance Magazine |
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| Mary Jo Salter, Costanza Bonarelli |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Christine Scanlon, The Grilled Cheese Sandwich An Elusive Essential to Social Success |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street, Good Foot |
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| Jason Schneiderman, Moscow |
| Appeared in: Shankpainter |
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| Julie Sheehan, Hate Poem |
| Appeared in: Pleiades |
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| Charles Simic, Sunlight |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Louis Simpson, An Impasse |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| W.D. Snodgrass, For Hughes Cuenod -- in his 100th year. |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion, Early Music America |
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| Gary Snyder, Waiting for a Ride |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Maura Stanton, Twenty Questions |
| Appeared in: POOL |
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| Dorothea Tanning, End of the Day on Second |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| James Tate, The Swing |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Chase Twichell, Marijuana |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| David Wagoner, For a Man Who Wrote CUNT on a Motel Bathroom Mirror |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Rosanna Warren, From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker, Pleine Marge |
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| Marlys West, Ballad of the Subcontractor |
| Appeared in: Notre Dame Review |
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| Susan Wheeler, from The Maud Project |
| Appeared in: Salt |
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| Richard Wilbur, Some Words Inside of Words (for children and others) |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Cecilia Woloch, Bareback Pantoum |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Charles Wright, A Short History of My Life |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Mattew Yeager, A Big Ball of Foil in a Small New York Apartment |
| Appeared in: New York Quarterly |
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| Kevin Young, Black Cat Blues |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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