| John Ashbery, They Knew What They Wanted |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Caleb Barber, Beasts and Violins |
| Appeared in: Poet Lore |
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| Mark Bibbins, Concerning the land to the South of Our Neighbors to the North |
| Appeared in: La Petite Zine |
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| Bruce Bond, Ringtone |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Marianne Boruch, The Doctor |
| Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review |
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| Fleda Brown, Roofers |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Catherine Carter, The Book of Steve |
| Appeared in: Asheville Poetry Review |
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| Suzanne Cleary, From the Boy's Own Book: A Compleat Encyclopedia of All the Diversions Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative, of Boyhood and Youth, by William Clarke |
| Appeared in: Margie |
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| Billy Collins, The Great American Poem |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Rob Cook, The Song of America |
| Appeared in: Fence |
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| James Cummins, Freud |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Mark Doty, Apparition (Favorite Poem) |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Denise Duhamel, How It Will End |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street, Good Foot |
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| Alice Friman, Getting Serious |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Margaret Gibson, Black Snake |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Douglas Goetsch, First Time Reading Freud |
| Appeared in: New York Quarterly |
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| Albert Goldbarth, Zones |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Barbara Goldberg, The Fullness Thereof |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Michael J. Grabell, Definition of Terms |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Debora Greger, Eve in the Fall |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| Jennifer Grotz, The Record |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Barbara Hamby, Ode to Aireheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris |
| Appeared in: Indiana Review |
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| Sarah Hannah, The Safe House |
| Appeared in: Painted Bride Quarterly |
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| Jerry Harp, Houses |
| Appeared in: Pleiades |
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| Jim Harrison, Sunday Discordancies |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Dolores Hayden, Grave Goods |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Terrance Hayes, A House is Not a Home |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| K. A. Hays, The Way of All the Earth |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Bob Hicok, Mum's the Word |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Daniel Hoffman, A Democratic Vista |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| Richard Howard, Arthur Englander's Back in School |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| P. Hurshell, In Winter |
| Appeared in: Calyx |
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| Michael Johnson, How to Be Eaten by a Lion |
| Appeared in: Mid-American Review |
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| Tina Kelley, To Yahweh |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Maud Kelly, What I Think of Death, If Anyone's Asking |
| Appeared in: American Literary Review |
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| Lance Larsen, Why do you keep putting animals in your poems? |
| Appeared in: Indiana Review |
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| Phillis Levin, Open Field |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Philip Levine, Words on the Wind |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Sarah Lindsay, Tell the Bees |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Thomas Lux, The Happy Majority |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Joanie Mackowski, Boarding: Hamaris thysbe |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Christine Marshall, Sweat |
| Appeared in: Cimarron Review |
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| Cleopatra Mathis, Canis |
| Appeared in: Provincetown Arts |
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| J.D. McClatchy, Lingering Doubts |
| Appeared in: Parnassus |
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| W. S. Merwin, The Silence of the Mine Canaries |
| Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review |
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| Jude Nutter, The Insect Collector's Demise |
| Appeared in: The Missouri Review |
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| Sharon Olds, Self-Exam |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Mary Oliver, Red |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Linda Pastan, Insomnia |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Kevin Prufer, On Mercy |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Keith Ratzlaff, Turn |
| Appeared in: The Journal |
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| Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| James Richardson, Subject, Verb, Object |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Pattiann Rogers, A Blind Astronomer in the Age of Stars |
| Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review |
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| Gibbons Ruark, John Clare's Finches |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| John Rybicki, This Tape Measure Made of Light |
| Appeared in: Third Coast |
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| Betsy Sholl, Gravity and Grace |
| Appeared in: Image |
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| Martha Silano, Love |
| Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review |
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| Mitch Sisskind, Like a Monkey |
| Appeared in: Jacket |
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| Tom Sleigh, At the Pool |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Vincent Stanley, At the New York Public Library, I heard Derek Walcott dismiss the prose poem |
| Appeared in: Fulcrum |
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| Pamela Sutton, Forty |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Alexandra Teague, Heartlines |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Craig Morgan Teicher, Ulitmately Justice Directs Them |
| Appeared in: No Tell Motel |
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| Natasha Trethewey, Liturgy |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Derek Walcott, A Sea-Change |
| Appeared in: Harper's |
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| Jeanne Murray Walker, Holding Action |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Ronald Wallace, No Pegasus |
| Appeared in: Margie |
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| Charles Harper Webb, Her Last Conflagration |
| Appeared in: Salt Hill |
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| Lisa Williams, Leaving Saint Peter's Basilica |
| Appeared in: Measure |
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| Carolyne Wright, This dream the world is having about itself . . . |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Debbie Yee, Cinderella's Last Will & Testament |
| Appeared in: OCHO |
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| Kevin Young, I shall be released |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Matthew Zapruder, Never to Return |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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