| A. R. Ammons, The Damned |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| John Ash, The Sweeping Gesture |
| Appeared in: Broadway |
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| John Ashbery, Notes from the Air |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Marvin Bell, Victim of Himself |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Stephen Berg, First Song/Bankei/1653/ |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jealousy |
| Appeared in: Empathy |
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| Hayden Carruth, Crucifixion |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Anne Carson, The Life of Towns |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Raymond Carver, Wake Up |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Amy Clampitt, My Cousin Muriel |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Killarney Clary, "Boys on street corners in Santa Ana..." |
| Appeared in: Who Whispered Near Me |
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| Robert Creeley, Thinking |
| Appeared in: Harvard Magazine |
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| Christopher Davis, Dying in Your Garden of Death to Go Back into My Garden |
| Appeared in: The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future |
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| Tom Disch, The Crumbling Infrastructure |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Norman Dubie, Of Politics & Art |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Aaron Fogel, The Chessboard Is on Fire |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| James Galvin, To the Republic |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Suzanne Gardinier, This Land |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Amy Gerstler, The Ice Age |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Linda Gregg, The War |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Thom Gunn, Duncan |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Donald Hall, Praise for Death |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Daniel Halpern, Bell & Capitol |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| Robert Hass, Berkeley Eclogue |
| Appeared in: Human Wishes |
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| Seamus Heaney, Crossings |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Anthony Hecht, Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie |
| Appeared in: The Sewanee Review |
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| Emily Hiestand, On Nothing |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Brenda Hillman, No Greener Pastures |
| Appeared in: Fortress |
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| John Hollander, An Old-Fashioned Song |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Virginia Hooper, Climbing Out of the Cage |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Richard Howard, The Victor Vanquished |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Fanny Howe, Perfection and Derangement |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Rodney Jones, On the Bearing of Waitresses |
| Appeared in: Transparent Gestures |
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| Galway Kinnell, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Edward Kleinschmidt, Gangue |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It |
| Appeared in: Dien Cai Dau |
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| Denise Levertov, Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Philip Levine, Scouting |
| Appeared in: Western Humanities Review |
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| Thomas Lux, Time |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Nathaniel Mackey, Slipped Quadrant |
| Appeared in: Avec |
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| Kevin Magee, Road |
| Appeared in: Hambone |
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| Thomas McGrath, Afternoon of a McGrath |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Lynne McMahon, Barbie's Ferrari |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Jane Mead, Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| James Merrill, Quatrains for Pegasus |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| W. S. Merwin, The Morning Train |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Jane Miller, Adoration |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| Susan Mitchell, Havana Birth |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Paul Monette, The Worrying |
| Appeared in: Love Alone |
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| Laura Moriarty, La Malinche |
| Appeared in: Temblor |
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| Thylias Moss, There Will Be Animals |
| Appeared in: Pyramid of Bone |
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| Melinda Mueller, Teratology |
| Appeared in: Fine Madness |
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| Laura Mullen, They |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Alice Notley, (2 pages from a long poem in progress) |
| Appeared in: How(ever) |
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| Michael Palmer, Six Hermetic Songs |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Robert Pinsky, Pilgrimage |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Jendi Reiter, Service Includes Free Lifetime Updating |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Joan Retallack, Japanese Presentation, I & II |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Donald Revell, The Old Causes |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Adrienne Rich, Living Memory |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Michael Ryan, Switchblade |
| Appeared in: God Hunger |
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| James Schuyler, Haze |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Frederick Seidel, AIDS Days |
| Appeared in: These Days |
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| Charles Simic, The Initiate |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Gustaf Sobin, Transparent Itineraries: 1984 |
| Appeared in: Voyaging Portraits |
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| Elizabeth Spires, Primos |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| David St. John, Last Night with Rafaella |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Gerald Stem, Saving My Skin from Burning |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Mark Strand, Orpheus Alone |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| James Tate, Distance from Loved Ones |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Sidney Wade, Aurora Borealis and the Body Louse |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Rosanna Warren, The Cormorant |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Richard Wilbur, A Wall in the Woods: Cummington |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Eleanor Wilner, Reading the Bible Backwards |
| Appeared in: Sarah's Choice |
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| Charles Wright, Saturday Moming Joumal |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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