| Kim Addonizio, Virgin Spring |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Pamela Alexander, Semiotics |
| Appeared in: Boston Book Review |
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| A. R. Ammons, Shot Glass |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Julianna Baggott, Mary Todd on Her Deathbed |
| Appeared in: Quarterly West |
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| Erin Belieu, Choose Your Garden |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Richard Blanco, Mango, Number 61 |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Janet Bowdan, The Year |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Grace Butcher, Crow Is Walking |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Lucille Clifton, Signs |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Billy Collins, Man Listening to Disc |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Jim Daniels, Between Periods |
| Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review |
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| Linh Dinh, The Most Beautiful Word |
| Appeared in: Xconnect |
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| Gregory Djanikian, Immigrant Picnic |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Denise Duhamel, Incest Taboo |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Christopher Edgar, Birthday |
| Appeared in: The Germ |
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| Karl Elder, Alpha Images |
| Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal |
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| Lynn Emanuel, Walt. I Salute You! |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| B. H. Fairchild, Mrs. Hill |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Charles Fort, We Did Not Fear the Father |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Frank X. Gaspar, Seven Roses |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Elton Glaser, And in the Afternoons I Botanized |
| Appeared in: Parnassus |
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| Ray Gonzalez, For the Other World |
| Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review |
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| Jennifer Grotz, The Last Living Castrato |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Thom Gunn, The Dump |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Mark Halliday, Before |
| Appeared in: Xconnect |
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| Barbara Hamby, Ode to the Lost Luggage Warehouse at the Rome Airport |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Forrest Hamer, Goldsboro Narratives |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Brenda Hillman, Air for Mercury |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Marsha Janson, Considering the Demise of Everything |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Mark Jarman, Epistle |
| Appeared in: Meridian |
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| Rodney Jones, Plea for Forgiveness |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Patricia Spears Jones, Ghosts |
| Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review |
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| Donald Justice, Ralph: A Love Story |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| Olena Kalytiak Davis, Six Apologies, Lord |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| David Kirby, At the Grave of Harold Goldstein |
| Appeared in: Parnassus |
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| Carolyn Kizer, The Oration |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Lynne Knight, The Muse of the Actual |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, The Goddess of Quotas Laments |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Thomas Lux, Henry Clay's Mouth |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Lynne McMahon, We Take Our Children to Ireland |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| W. S. Merwin, The Hours of Darkness |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Susan Mitchell, Lost Parrot |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Jean Nordhaus, Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Mary Oliver, Work |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Michael Palmer, I Do Not |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Paul Perry, Paris |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Carl Phillips, 'All art...' |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Robert Pinsky, Samurai Song |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Donald Platt, History & Bikinis |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Stanley Plumly, Kunitz Tending Roses |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Lawrence Raab, Permanence |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Thomas Rabbitt, The Beach at Falmouth Heights, Summer, 1952 |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| Mary Jo Salter, Au Pair |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Rebecca Seiferle, Welcome to Ithaca |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Brenda Shaughnessy, Postfeminism |
| Appeared in: Chelsea |
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| Laurie Sheck, from Black Series |
| Appeared in: Seneca Review |
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| Reginald Shepherd, Semantics at Four P.M. |
| Appeared in: American Letters & Commentary |
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| Richard Siken, The Dislocated Room |
| Appeared in: Indiana Review |
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| Cathy Song, Mother of Us All |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Gary Soto, Chit-Chat with the Junior League Women |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Gabriel Spera, In a Field Outside the Town |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| A. E. Stallings, Asphodel |
| Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal |
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| Susan Stewart, Wings |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Adrienne Su, The English Canon |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Pamela Sutton, There Is a Lake of Ice on the Moon |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Dorothea Tanning, No Palms |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Natasha Trethewey, Limen |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Quincy Troupe, Song |
| Appeared in: Tin House |
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| Reetika Vazirani, Rahim Multani |
| Appeared in: Meridian |
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| Paul Violi, As I Was Telling David and Alexandra Kelley |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Derek Walcott, Pissarro at Dusk |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Richard Wilbur, Fabrications |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Susan Wood, Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| John Yau, Borrowed Love Poems |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Dean Young, The Infirmament |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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