| Ai, Back in the World |
| Appeared in: Quarterly West |
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| Sherman Alexie, The Exaggeration of Despair |
| Appeared in: Urbanus |
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| Agha Shahid Ali, Return to Harmony 3 |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| A. R. Ammons, from "Strip" |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Nin Andrews, That Cold Summer |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| L. S. Asekoff, Rounding the Horn |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| John Ashbery, The Problem of Anxiety |
| Appeared in: Arshile |
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| Marianne Boruch, Camouflage |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Catherine Bowman, No Sorry |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Joseph Brodsky, Love Song |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Stephanie Brown, Feminine Intuition |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Joshua Clover, The Map Room |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Billy Collins, Lines Lost Among Trees |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Gillian Conoley, The Sky Drank In |
| Appeared in: American Letters & Commentary |
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| Jayne Cortez, The Heavy Headed Dance |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Robert Creeley, Won't It Be Fine? |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Carl Dennis, History |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| William Dickey, The Death of John Berryman |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Robert Dow, How Should I Say This? |
| Appeared in: The Massachusetts Review |
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| Thomas Sayers Ellis, Atomic Bride |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Irving Feldman, You Know What I'm Saying? |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Herman Fong, Asylum |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Dick Gallup, Backing into the Future |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Martin Galvin, Introductions |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Amy Gerstler, A Fan Letter |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Allen Ginsberg, Is About |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Dana Gioia, The Litany |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Elton Glaser, Smoking |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Kate Gleason, After Fighting for Hours |
| Appeared in: Green Mountains Review |
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| Albert Goldbarth, Complete with Starry Night and Bourbon Shots |
| Appeared in: Quarterly West |
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| Jorie Graham, Thinking |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Donald Hall, The Porcelain Couple |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Daniel Halpern, Her Body |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Robert Hass, Interrupted Meditation |
| Appeared in: Colorado Review |
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| Bob Hicok, Heroin |
| Appeared in: Indiana Review |
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| Paul Hoover, California |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Christine Hume, Helicopter Wrecked on a Hill |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Harry Humes, The Butterfly Effect |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Don Hymans, Passacaglia |
| Appeared in: Colorado Review |
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| Lawson Fusao Inada, Making It Stick |
| Appeared in: Many Mountains Moving |
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| Richard Jackson, The Poem That Was Once Called "Desperate" But Is Now Striving to Become the Perfect Love Poem |
| Appeared in: North American Review |
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| Gray Jacobik, Dust Storm |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| George Kalamaras, Mud |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Jennifer L. Knox, The Bright Light of Responsibility |
| Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse |
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| Philip Kobylarz, A Bill, Posted |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, Jeanne Duval's Confession |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| Elizabeth Kostova, Suddenly I Realized I Was Sitting |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| Denise Levertov, The Change |
| Appeared in: Seneca Review |
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| Larry Levis, Anastasia and Sandman |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Matthew Lippman, Hallelujah Terrible |
| Appeared in: Seneca Review |
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| Beth Lisick, Empress of Sighs |
| Appeared in: Clockwatch Review |
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| Khaled Mattawa, Heartsong |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| William Matthews, Vermin |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Josip Novakovich, Shadow |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| Geoffrey Nutter, from "A Summer Evening" |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Catie Rosemurgy, Mostly Mick Jagger |
| Appeared in: Cream City Review |
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| Clare Rossini, Valediction |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Mary Ruefle, Topophilia |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Hillel Schwartz, Recruiting Poster |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Maureen Seaton, Fiddleheads |
| Appeared in: Green Mountains Review |
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| Vijay Seshadri, Lifeline |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Steven Sherrill, Katyn Forest |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| Charles Simic, The Something |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Charlie Smith, Beds |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Leon Stokesbury, Evening's End |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Mark Strand, Morning, Noon and Night |
| Appeared in: The Times Literary Supplement |
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| Jack Turner, The Plan |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Karen Volkman, Infernal |
| Appeared in: Chelsea |
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| Derek Walcott, Italian Eclogues |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| Rosanna Warren, Diversion |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Lewis Warsh, Downward Mobility |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Terence Winch, Shadow Grammar |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Eve Wood, Recognition |
| Appeared in: Santa Monica Review |
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| Charles Wright, Disjecta Membra |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Dean Young, Frottage |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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