| Elizabeth Alexander, Rally |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Sherman Alexie, Valediction |
| Appeared in: Cave Wall |
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| Rae Armentrout, Soft Money |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| John Ashbery, Postlude and Prequel |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Julianna Baggot, To My Lover, Concerning the Yird-Swine |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Erin Belieu, When at a Certain Party in NYC |
| Appeared in: 32 Poems |
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| Cara Benson, Banking |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Jaswinder Bolina, Mine is the First Rodeo, Min Is the Last Accolade |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| Catherine Bowman, The Sink |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Turner Cassidy, Off the Nollendorfplatz |
| Appeared in: The Sewanee Review |
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| Michael Cerelli, Dead Ass |
| Appeared in: New York Quarterly |
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| Billy Collins, Here and There |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Olena Kalytiak Davis, Three Sonnets |
| Appeared in: Green Mountains Review |
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| Matthew Dickman, Coffee |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Michael Dickman, From the Lives of My Friends |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Denise Duhamel, My Strip Club |
| Appeared in: DMQ Review |
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| Cornelius Eady, Emmett Till's Glass-Top Casket |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Jill Alexander Essbaum, Stays |
| Appeared in: Gulf Coast |
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| Alan Feldman, In November |
| Appeared in: upstreet |
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| Farrah Field, From The Amy Poems |
| Appeared in: LIT |
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| Carolyn Forche, Morning on the Island |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Everything is Nervous |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Benjamin S. Grossberg, The Space Traveler Talks Frankly about Desire |
| Appeared in: Cave Wall |
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| Jennifer Grotz, Poppies |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Robert Hass, August Notebook: A Death |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Terrance Hayes, Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Appeared in: jubilat |
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| K.A. Hayes, Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| Bob Hicok, Having Intended to Merely Pick on an Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry |
| Appeared in: New Ohio Review |
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| Jane Hirshfield, The Cloudy Vase |
| Appeared in: McSweeney's |
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| Paul Hoover, God's Promises |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Andrew Hudgins, The Funeral Sermon |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Major Jackson, From Holding Company |
| Appeared in: The Believer |
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| Allison Joseph, Notebooks |
| Appeared in: River Styx |
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| L. S. Klatt, Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 |
| Appeared in: The Believer |
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| Jennifer L. Knox, Kiri Te Kanawa Singing O Mio Babbino Caro |
| Appeared in: LIT |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, A Voice on an Answering Machine |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| James Longenbach, Snow |
| Appeared in: Salmagundi |
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| Bridget Lowe, The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Maurice Manning, The Complaint against Roney Laswell's Rooster |
| Appeared in: New South |
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| Morton Marcus, Pears |
| Appeared in: Sentence |
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| Jill McDonough, Dear Gaybashers |
| Appeared in: DMQ Review |
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| Erika Meitner, Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Paul Muldoon, The Side Project |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Jude Nutter, Word |
| Appeared in: The Sycamore Review |
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| Jeni Olin, Pillow Talk |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Eric Pankey, Cogitatio Mortis |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Alan Michael Parker, Family Math |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Catherine Pierce, Postcards from Her Alternate Lives |
| Appeared in: Court Green |
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| Robert Pinsky, Horn |
| Appeared in: New Ohio Review |
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| Katha Pollitt, Angels |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| D. A. Powell, Bugcatching at Twilight |
| Appeared in: The Cincinnati Review |
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| Gretchen Steele Pratt, To my father on the anniversary of his death |
| Appeared in: Post Road |
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| James Richardson, Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays from Vectors 3.0 |
| Appeared in: The Literary Review |
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| Anne Marie Rooney, What my heart is turning |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Mary Ruefle, Provenance |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Mary Jo Salter, The Afterlife |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| James Schuyler, The Smallest |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Charles Simic, Nineteen Thirty-Eight |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Matthew Buckly Smith, Nowhere |
| Appeared in: Iron Horse Literary Review |
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| Patricia Smith, Motown Crown |
| Appeared in: Rattle |
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| David St. John, Ghost Aurora |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily |
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| Gerald Stern, Dream IV |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Bianca Stone, Pantoum for the Imperceptible |
| Appeared in: Maggy |
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| Mark Strand, The Poem of the Spanish Poet |
| Appeared in: Salmagundi |
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| Mary Jo Thompson, Thirteen Months |
| Appeared in: Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily |
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| Natasha Trethewey, Elegy |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Lee Upton, Drunk at a Party |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| David Wagoner, Thoreau and the Lightning |
| Appeared in: Ecotone |
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| Rosanna Warren, The Latch |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Rachel Wetzsteon, Time Pieces |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion, Early Music America |
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| Richard Wilbur, Ecclesiastes II:I |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| C. K. Williams, A Hundred Bones |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| David Wojahn, Mix Tape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Charles Wright, Toadstools |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Stephen Yenser, Cycladic Idyll: An Aplogia |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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