| Johnathon Aaron, The Voice from Paxos |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| Ai, Evidence: From a Reporter's Notebook |
| Appeared in: Pequod |
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| Dick Allen, Talking with Poets |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Julia Alvarez, Bookmaking |
| Appeared in: Green Mountains Review |
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| John Ash, Cigarettes |
| Appeared in: Mudfish |
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| John Ashbery, Of Dreams and Dreaming |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| George Bradley, Great Stone Face |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Joseph Brodsky, In Memory of My Father: Australia |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Gerald Burns, Double Sonnet for Mickey |
| Appeared in: Temblor |
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| Amy Clampitt, A Whippoorwill in the Woods |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Marc Cohen, Blue Lonely Dreams |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Alfred Corn, Infernal Regions and the Invisible Girl |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Stephen Dobyns, Desire |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Stephen Dunn, Bringing It Down |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Carolyn Forche, The Recording Angel |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Alice Fulton, The Fractal Lanes |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Louise Glück, Celestial Music |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Jorie Graham, The Phase After History |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Melissa Green, The Consolation of Boethius |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Debora Greger, The Afterlife |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Linda Gregerson, Safe |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Allen Grossman, The Ether Dome (An Entertainment) |
| Appeared in: Western Humanities Review |
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| Thom Gunn, The Beautician |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Donald Hall, Tubes |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Brooks Haxton, Garden |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Daniel Hoffman, Who We Are |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| John Hollander, The See-Saw |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Paul Hoover, Desire |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Ron Horning, Second Nature |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Richard Howard, What Word Did the Greeks Have for It? |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Josephine Jacobsen, The Woods |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Donald Justice, Body and Soul |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Vickie Karp, Elegy |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Robert Kelly, A Flower for the New Year |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come |
| Appeared in: Harvard Magazine |
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| Karl Kirchwey, The Diva's First Song (White's Hotel, London) |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Carolyn Kizer, Marriage Song |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Kenneth Koch, A Time Zone |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| John Koethe, Morning in America |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Mark Levine, Work Song |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Laurence Lieberman, Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue |
| Appeared in: Pequod |
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| Elizabeth Macklin, At the Classics Teacher's |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| J. D. McClatchy, An Essay on Friendship |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| James McManus, Smash and Scatteration |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| James Merrill, The "Ring" Cycle |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Susan Mitchell, Sky of Clouds |
| Appeared in: Provincetown Arts |
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| Gary Mitchner, Benedick's Complaints: Much Ado About Nothing |
| Appeared in: Western Humanities Review |
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| A. F. Moritz, Protracted Episode |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Thylias Moss, Lunchcounter Freedom |
| Appeared in: Gargoyle |
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| Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942 |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Bob Perelman, Chronic Meanings |
| Appeared in: Temblor |
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| Robert Polito, Evidence |
| Appeared in: Pequod |
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| Katha Pollitt, Night Subway |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Susan Prospere, Into the Open |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Jack Roberts, The New Reforms |
| Appeared in: Sites |
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| Sherod Santos, Two Poems |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Lloyd Schwartz, Leaves |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Robyn Selman, Past Lives |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| David Shapiro, The Seasons |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Laurie Sheck, Living Color |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Charles Simic, Country Fair |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| David R. Slavitt, The Wound |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Charlie Smith, The Woman as Figure |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Elizabeth Spires, The Haiku Master |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| David St. John, Merlin |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Ruth Stone, For Seven Women |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Patricia Storace, War Movie: Last Leave, 1944 |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| James Tate, I Am a Finn |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Molly Tenenbaum, Reminiscence Forward |
| Appeared in: Fine Madness |
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| David Trinidad, Reruns |
| Appeared in: Brooklyn Review |
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| Chase Twichell, Revenge |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Derek Walcott, Omeros |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Rosanna Warren, Song |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Susan Wheeler, Lasting Influence |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Charles Wright, Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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