| Jonathan Aaron, Mr. Moto's Confession |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Agha Shahid Ali, The Floating Post Office |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Dick Allen, The Cove |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| A. R. Ammons, Now Then |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Daniel Anderson, A Possum's Tale |
| Appeared in: Raritan |
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| James Applewhite, Botanical Garden: The Coastal Plains |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Craig Arnold, Hot |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Sarah Arvio, from "Visits from the Seventh" |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| John Ashbery, Wakefulness |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Frank Bidart, The Second Hour of the Night |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Robert Bly, A Week of Poems at Bennington |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| George Bradley, In an Old Garden |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| John Bricuth, from "Just Let me Say This About That" |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Anne Carson, TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Turner Cassity, Symbol of the Faith |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Henri Cole, Self-Portrait as Four Styles of Pompeian Wall Painting |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Billy Collins, Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Alfred Corn, Jaffa |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| James Cummins, Echo |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Tom Disch, What Else Is There |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Denise Duhamel, The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope |
| Appeared in: Salt Hill |
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| Lynn Emanuel, Like God |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Irving Feldman, Movietime |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Emily Fragos, Apollo's Kiss |
| Appeared in: Chelsea |
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| Debora Greger, Mass in B Minor |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Allen Grossman, Weird River |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Thom Gunn, To Cupid |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Marilyn Hacker, Again, The River |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Rachel Hadas, Pomegranate Variations |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Donald Hall, Letter with No Address |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Joseph Harrison, The Cretonnes of Penelope |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Anthony Hecht, Rara Avis in Terris |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Daryl Hine, The World Is Everything That Is the Case |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Edward Hirsch, The Lectures on Love |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Richard Howard, The Job Interview |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Andrew Hudgins, The Hanging Gardens |
| Appeared in: River Styx |
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| Mark Jarman, The Word "Answer" |
| Appeared in: Connecticut Review |
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| Donald Justice, Stanzas on a Hidden Theme |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Karl Kirchwey, Roman Hours |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Carolyn Kizer, Second Time Around |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Kenneth Koch, Ballade |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| John Koethe, The Secret Amplitude |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Rika Lesser, About Her |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Phillis Levin, Ontological |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| Philip Levine, Drum |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Rebecca McClanahan, Making Love |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| J. D. McClatchy, Descartes's Dream |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Heather McHugh, Past All Understanding |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Sandra McPherson, Chalk-Circle Compass |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| W. S. Merwin, The Chinese Mountain Fox |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Robert Mezey, Joe Simpson [ 1919-1996] |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| A. F. Moritz, Artisan and Clerk |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Thylias Moss, The Right Empowerment of Light |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| William Mullen, Enchanted Rock |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Eric Ormsby, Flamingos |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Jacqueline Osherow, Views of La Leggenda della Vera Croce |
| Appeared in: Western Humanities Review |
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| Robert Pinsky, Ode to Meaning |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Reynolds Price, The Closing, the Ecstasy |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Wyatt Prunty, March |
| Appeared in: Connecticut Review |
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| Stephen Sandy, Four Corners, Vermont |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Alan Shapiro, The Coat |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Robert B. Shaw, A Geode |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Charles Simic, Ambiguity's Wedding |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Mark Strand, The View |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| James Tate, Dream On |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Sidney Wade, A Calm November. Sunday in the Fields. |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Derek Walcott, Signs |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| Rosanna Warren, 'Departure' |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Rachel Wetzsteon, from "Home and Away" |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Susan Wheeler, Shanked on the Red Bed |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Richard Wilbur, For C. |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| C. K. Williams, The Bed |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| Greg Williamson, The Dark Days |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Charles Wright, Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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