| Dick Allen, The Selfishness of the Poetry Reader |
| Appeared in: The Café Review |
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| John Balaban, Story |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Coleman Barks, Bill Matthews Coming Along (1942-1997) |
| Appeared in: Figdust |
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| George Bilgere, Catch |
| Appeared in: The Sewanee Review |
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| Elizabeth Bishop, Foreign-Domestic |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| Chana Bloch, Tired Sex |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Philip Booth, Narrow Road, Presidents' Day |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| John Brehm, Sea of Faith |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Hayden Carruth, Because I Am |
| Appeared in: Seneca Review |
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| Lucille Clifton, the mississippi river empties into the gulf |
| Appeared in: River City |
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| Billy Collins, Dharma |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Robert Creeley, Mitch |
| Appeared in: Solo |
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| Lydia Davis, Betrayal |
| Appeared in: Hambone |
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| Debra Kang Dean, Taproot |
| Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review |
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| Chard deNiord, Pasternak |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Russell Edson, Madam's Heart |
| Appeared in: The Prose Poem |
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Buddha in the Woodpile |
| Appeared in: Blasts |
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| Dan Gerber, My Father's Fields |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Louise Glück, Vita Nova |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Ray Gonzalez, Breastbone |
| Appeared in: The Bitter Oleander |
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| John Haines, The Last Election |
| Appeared in: Many Mountains Moving |
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| Donald Hall, Smile |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Jennifer Michael Hecht, September |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Bob Hicok, What Would Freud Say? |
| Appeared in: Cream City Review |
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| Jane Hirshfield, The Envoy |
| Appeared in: Blue Sofa |
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| Tony Hoagland, Lawrence |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| John Hollander, Beach Whispers |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Amy Holman, Man Script |
| Appeared in: Literal Latte |
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| David Ignatow, The Story of Progress |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Gray Jacobik, The Circle Theatre |
| Appeared in: Alkali Flats |
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| Josephine Jacobsen, Last Will and Testament |
| Appeared in: Potomac Review |
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| Louis Jenkins, Two Prose Poems |
| Appeared in: Rosebud |
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| Mary Karr, The Patient |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| X. J. Kennedy, A Curse on a Thief |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Galway Kinnell, Why Regret? |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Carolyn Kizer, The Erotic Philosophers |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Ron Koertge, 1989 |
| Appeared in: Solo |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, Scapegoat |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| William Kulik, The Triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| James Laughlin, Nunc Dimittis |
| Appeared in: DoubleTake |
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| Dorianne Laux, The Shipfitter's Wife |
| Appeared in: DoubleTake |
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| Li-Young Lee, The Sleepless Grape |
| Appeared in: Water Stone |
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| Denise Levertov, First Love |
| Appeared in: Kalliope |
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| Philip Levine, The Return |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| David Mamet, A Charade |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Gigi Marks, The Swim |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| William Matthews, Misgivings |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Wesley McNair, The Characters of Dirty Jokes |
| Appeared in: Mid-American Review |
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| Czeslaw Milosz, A Ball |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Joan Murray, From "Sonny's Face. Sonny's Hands" |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Sharon Olds, What It Meant |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Mary Oliver, Flare |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Franco Pagnucci, And Now |
| Appeared in: Acorn |
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| Molly Peacock, Say You Love Me |
| Appeared in: Fence |
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| Alberto Ríos, Writing from Memory |
| Appeared in: Meridian |
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| David Ray, Hemingway's Garden |
| Appeared in: New Millennium Writings |
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| Adrienne Rich, Seven Skins |
| Appeared in: The Progressive |
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| Kay Ryan, That Will to Divest |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Sonia Sanchez, Last recording session/for papa joe |
| Appeared in: Painted Bride Quarterly |
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| Revan Schendler, The Public and the Private Spheres |
| Appeared in: Salmagundi |
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| Myra Shapiro, Longing and Wonder |
| Appeared in: Common Sense |
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| Charles Simic, Barber College Haircut |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Louis Simpson, A Shearling Coat |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Thomas R. Smith, Housewarming |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Marcia Southwick, A Star Is Born in the Eagle Nebula |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| William Stafford, Ways to Live |
| Appeared in: Cream City Review |
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| Peggy Steele, The Drunkard's Daughter |
| Appeared in: Blue Sofa |
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| Ruth Stone, A Moment |
| Appeared in: Paterson Literary Review |
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| Larissa Szporluk, Deer Crossing the Sea |
| Appeared in: Green Mountains Review |
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| Diane Thiel, The Minefield |
| Appeared in: Tor House Newsletter |
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| David Wagoner, Thoreau and the Crickets |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Richard Wilbur, This Pleasing Anxious Being |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| C.K. Williams, Archetypes |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| Charles Wright, American Twilight |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Timothy Young, The Thread of Sunlight |
| Appeared in: The Journal of Family Life |
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