| Dan Albergotti, Weapons Discharge Report |
| Appeared in: storySouth |
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| John Ashbery, Commotion of the Birds |
| Appeared in: Harper's |
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| Mary Jo Bang, Admission |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| David Barber, On a Shaker Admonition |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Bruce Bond, Homage to a Painter of Small Things |
| Appeared in: Raritan |
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| John Brehm, Intrigue in the Trees |
| Appeared in: The Sun |
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| Jericho Brown, Bullet Points |
| Appeared in: BuzzFeed |
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| Cyrus Cassells, Elegy with a Gold Cradle |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Isaac Cates, Fidelity and the Dead Singer |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Alison Cobb, I Forgive You |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Leonard Cohen, Steer Your Way |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Michael Collier, A Wild Tom Turkey |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Billy Collins, The Present |
| Appeared in: New Ohio Review |
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| Carl Dennis, Two Lives |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Claudia Emerson, Spontaneous Remission |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| David Feinstein, Kaddish |
| Appeared in: jubilat |
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| Caolyn Forche, The Boatman |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Vievee Francis, Given to These Proclivities, By God |
| Appeared in: Cherry Tree |
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| Reginal Gibbons, Canasta |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Margaret Gibson, Passage |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Aracelis Girmay, from The Black Maria |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Jeffrey Harrison, Higher Education |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Terrance Hayes, Ars Poetica with Bacon |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| W.J.Herbert, Mounting the Dove Box |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Tony Hoagland, Cause of Death: Fox News |
| Appeared in: The Sun |
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| John Hodgen, Hamlet Texts Guildenstern about Playing upon the Pipe |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| David Brendan Hopes, Certain Things |
| Appeared in: New Ohio Review |
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| Major Jackson, The Flâneur Tends a Well-Liked Summer Cocktail |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| John James, History (n.) |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Rodney Jones, Homecoming |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Fady Joudah, Progress Notes |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Meg Kearney, Grackle |
| Appeared in: The Massachusetts Review |
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| Emily Van Kley, Dear Skull |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| John Koethe, The Age of Anxiety |
| Appeared in: Raritan |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, from The Last Bohemian of Avenue A |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Danusha Lameris, The Watch |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Dorianne Laux, Lapse |
| Appeared in: Plume |
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| Philip Levine, Rain in Winter |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Amit Majmudar, Kill List |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Jamaal May, Things That Break |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Judson Mitchan, White |
| Appeared in: Cave Wall |
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| John Murillo, Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds, |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Nickole Brown, The Dead |
| Appeared in: Cave Wall |
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| Joyce Carol Oates, To Marlon Brando in Hell |
| Appeared in: Salmagundi |
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| Sharon Olds, Ode to the Glans |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Mattew Olzmann, Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz |
| Appeared in: Poem-a-Day |
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| Gregory Orr, Three Dark Proverb Sonnets |
| Appeared in: Mississippi Review |
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| Carl Phillips, Rockabye |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Halo |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Robert Pinsky, Names |
| Appeared in: Salmagundi |
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| Stanley Plumly, Poliomyelitis |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Dan Beachy-Quick, Apophatic |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Paisley Rekdal, Assemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Michael Ryan, The Mercy Home |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Sherod Santos, I Went for a Walk in Winter |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Taije Silverman, Where to Put It |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Charles Simic, Seeing Things |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Danez Smith, last summer of innocence |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Maggie Smith, Good Bones |
| Appeared in: Waxwing |
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| R. T. Smith, Maricón |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| David St. John, Emanations |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| A. E. Stallings, Shattered |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Pamela Sutton, Afraid to Pray |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Chase Twichell, Sad Song |
| Appeared in: Salmagundi |
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| James Valvis, Something |
| Appeared in: The Sun |
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| Wendy Videlock, Deconstruction |
| Appeared in: The Hopkins Review |
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| Lucy Wainger, Scheherazade |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Crystal Williams, Double Helix |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Chrisian Wiman, Prelude |
| Appeared in: The Sewanee Review |
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| Monica Youn, Greenacre |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| C. Dale Young, Precatio simplex |
| Appeared in: The Collagist |
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| Dean Young, Infinitives |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Kevin Young, Money Road |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Matthew Zapruder, Poem for Vows |
| Appeared in: Poem-a-Day |
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