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  • Travis Smith, The Mulberry Novel (poem)
    Bring Me the Book of Overturned Laws (poem)
    Table of Abbreviations (poem)
  • Cynan Jones, The Rabbit
  • Nina Bogin, The White Month (poem)
  • Gro Dahle, The Dust, The Shadow, The Dog, and Me  (poem)
  • Malcolm Barrett, Tanka Book (poem)
    Empty Filed 1: Bright, Boundless Field (poem)
    “Maybe it’s true…” (poem)
  • Arielle Greenberg, A Way Out (poem)
    Woodland Valley Waldorf Fair  (poem)
    Pastoral: Uncoupling (poem)
  • Josefine Klougart, One of Us Is Sleeping
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips, 
    Étude on Man (poem)
    Hart and Abercromby Étude (poem)
    Orpheus, Roaming (poem)
    The Question (poem)
  • Julia Thacker, A Guide for Caregivers (poem)
    Dear Earth (poem)
    Roma Amor (poem)
  • Erica X Eisen,  Monday’s Child
  • Glyn Maxwell, Emily Dickinson Lesson
  • George Kalogeris,
    Antigone  (poem)
  • Mary Jo Salter, Vierge Ouvrante (poem)
  • John Moran,  Undeniable Sausage
    Friday (poem)
    Arrangements (poem)
    One Mistake (poem)
    Complicated Republican (poem)
  • Serhiy Zhadan,   Voroshilovgrad
  • Anthony Madrid, Pants Pants Pants (poem)
    Four Four Four (poem)
    Try Never (poem)
  • Marin Buschel, Quiz Night Champion
  • Erick Verran, Waiting for the Overnight to Toulouse (poem)
    Czech Fossil (poem)
    Titian’s Chariot (poem)
  • Quentin Mahoney, Pistis Sophia, Revisited (poem)
  • Michael Kimball, Two People Can Go Amazing
  • Ester Naomi Perquin, So to Speak (poem)
  • April Bernard, Found Sonnet: Samuel Johnson  (poem)
    Werner Herzog in the Amazon  (poem)
    Samaria (poem)
    When I Was Thirteen, I Saw Uncle Vanya (poem)
    Trying to Like Spenser (poem)
  • E. O. Nessuna, Thirteen Cakes for Ignazio
  • Elliott Reed, Slice Hypotenuse
  • Steve Kronen, Croatoan  (poem)
    Realms of Old (poem)
    This Is How (poem)
  • Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Nothing Was Made (poem)
    The Gargantuan City (poem)
    Shadows (poem)
  • Matt Zambito, Thou Shalt Not “Off” Thyself (poem)
  • Aaron Thier, Mr. Eternity
  • Ron de Maris, Three White Horses (poem)
  • Giles Harvey, How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?
  • Glen Pourciau, Getaway
  • Michael Palmer, Poem Devoid of Meaning  (poem)
    Strange Now  (poem)
  • Jean McGarry, The Baby but One
  • Grace Schulman, Fireplace Bay (poem)
  • James Stotts, sonnet for our anniversary  (poem)
    my father’s lung  (poem)
    though  (poem)
    sonnet  (poem)
    for j. harrison  (poem)
  • Robert Wrigley, Mother Country  (poem)
  • Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Actual Things with Characteristics  (poem)
    Chilled Feet (poem)
    Recognizing the Signs of Death (poem)
    Preliminary Orders (poem)
    Sound Raging (poem)
    Notes on Sources
  • Maria Stepanova, Last Songs  (poem)
  • Bożena Keff, Persephone  (poem)
  • Rosanna Warren, The Mud Hole  (poem)
  • Les Murray, Continuous Creation  (poem)
    Parental Job Swap (poem)
  • Karen Leona Anderson, From  (poem)
    Honey  (poem)
    Dollhouse  (poem)
  • Friedrich Hölderlin, The Rhine  (poem)
    The Only One  (poem)
    Patmos  (poem)
    Remembrance (poem)
    To Zimmer  (poem)
  • Howard Altmann, The Birds  (poem)
    The Man at the Hotel Bar  (poem)
  • Derek Walcott, Milky Way  (poem)
    Music of the Future  (poem)
    Pelican Island  (poem)
    Pelican Man (poem)
    In the Heart of Old San Juan  (poem)
    Paramin  (poem)
    Lapeyrouse Umbrella  (poem)
  • Susan Wheeler, History of the Anti-Papacy  (poem)
    My Brother Jasper  (poem)
    Not Ideas About the Things but the Thing-Not-Idea  (poem)
  • Bob Elmendorf, Solstice  (poem)
    Fireflies  (poem)
    The Horticulturalist  (poem)
    Parthenogenesis  (poem)
  • Barry Gifford, Passage on a Slow Freighter (poem)

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  • Jeannie Vanasco, Attention All Students
    The Chamber
    Classified
    The Blasphemer
    The Dictator Takes to His Telescope
  • Rav Grewal-Kök, Not the Hood
    An Empty House
  • Srikanth Reddy, Pop Quiz (poem)
  • Eugene Lim, First Days on Father Island
  • Jacqueline Waters, from Commodore (poem)
  • César Aira, The Cart
  • A. L. Snijders, A Woman
    Africa
    Eva
    The Baker’s Wife
    Town Line
    In Louth
  • Eugene Ostashevsky, Three poems
  • Ange Mlinko, Hershey Suite (poem)
    Milkweed (poem)
    In the Gods (poem)
    Black Swan (poem)
    Trouville (poem)
    The Bayou Tapestry (poem)
    Listening Posts (poem)
  • Major Jackson, Every Island is Filled with Loneliness (poem)
    Urban Renewal xxi. (poem)
    Urban Renewal xxv. Salobreña
  • Melissa Green, “In Francesco’s del Cairo’s Herodias with the Head of St. John” (poem)
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips, An Excuse for Mayhem (poem)
    The Descent of Jupiter Over the Maroon Bells (poem)
  • Eliot Weinberger, The Creation
    Hsiao Kuan
    The Frog Room
    Hsieh Ling-Yün
    The Dead
    The Mara
    The Lushei
    Agate
    William Sharpe
  • Ryszard Krynicki, You are (poem)
    Save me, guide me (poem)
    I can’t help you (poem)
  • Darcie Dennigan, Between the Acts (poem)
  • Rebecca Lilly, Wellhead
  • Susan Landry, Russian Scientists Bore Into Ancient Antarctic Lake (poem)
  • Dan Sofaer, Early Lesbians (poem)
  • Jeff Horn, Castor
  • Jordan Zandi, Snow Children (poem)
  • Per Pettersen, The King Is Dead
    Before the War
  • Chris Preddle, The Servant Pines (poem)
    Cape Cod (poem)
  • Georgi Gospodinov, Minotaur
  • John Moran, What Feeds Them
  • Ron DeMaris, Vermeer: Tavern Keeper (poem)
  • Gerbrand Bakker, Mandarin Ducks
  • Cynthia Zarin, Dear and Blackbirds (poem)
  • Tim Parks, Brotherly Love
  • Les Murray, Goths in Leipzig (poem)
    Under the Lube Oil (poem)
    All of Half Way (poem)
    Winter Garden (poem)
    Raising an Only Child (poem)
  • Menno Wigman, The Way of All Books (poem)
    To My Dick (poem)
    Old West* (poem)
  • Tim Parks, Mrs. P
  • James Stotts, amusements (poem)
  • Linda Gregerson, Thinking About Thinking in Marianne Moore
  • A. M. Clark, “And then I beg You, take this heart of mine” (poem)
    What’s Hollowed Out (poem)
  • Glyn Maxwell, Picnic (poem)
  • Barry Spacks, Name-Day Song (poem)

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  • Joy Williams, “The Mission”
  • Tung-Hui Hu, “Woman, Shut-In for Six Years, Found by Distant Relative” (poem)
    “Liver” (poem)
    “1079: William the Conqueror Creates New Forest” (poem)
  • Maria Stepanova, “Fish” (poem)
  • Jordan Zandi, “Chamber Music” (poem)
  • Sam Savage, “Ducks”
    “Twelve Stories”
    “Balloons”
    “Rita”
    “Thespa”
  • Geoffrey O’Brien, “The Chimes” (poem)
    “For the Unworshipped Gods” (poem)
    “The Coast of Skeletons (1930)” (poem)
    “Jungle” (poem)
    “Kleist” (poem)
    “An Averted Face” (poem)
    “Another One for Joel” (poem)
    “Monsieur Zero” (poem)
    “September 3rd” (poem)
    “Senseless” (poem)
    “A Yard at Daybreak” (poem)
    “Silence” (poem)
    “The Woman Who Loved Mist” (poem)
  • Susan Wheeler, “Eleanor 2012, Shrove Tuesday 1976” (poem)
  • Mark Strand, “An Unforgettable Poem”
    “A Forgotten Poem”
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips, “Two Poems” (poem)
  • James Arthur, “Talking Song” (poem)
    “Frankenstein’s Monster” (poem)
    “Road” (poem)
  • Dean Young, “A Drawing of Conception” (poem)
    “What Kept Me Alive” (poem)
    “Flash Powder” (poem)
  • Caleb Crain, “Quitting Time”
  • Lydia Davis, “My Village” (poem)
  • Carl Phillips, “From a Land Called Near-Is-Far” (poem)
    “Foliage” (poem)
  • Cynthia Zarin, “The Impulse Wants Company” (poem)
    “Fawn” (poem)
    “Flowers” (poem)
  • Marilyn Hacker, “Four Ghazals” (poem)
  • W. G. Sebald, “Letters to a Translator”
  • Bruce Lawder, “Monument Against Fascism”
    “The Last Boat”
    “Rain”
  • A. M. Clark, “Not There” (poem)
    “The Prodigal” (poem)
  • Howard Altmann, “In Dark Waters” (poem)
  • Arthur Solway, “Anima Mundi” (poem)
    “Airport Blues” (poem)
  • AntHony Madrid, “Limericks” (poem)
  • Andrei Bitov, “Posthumous Notes of the Tristram Club”
  • Michael Klein, “Things That Might Be True” (poem)
    “The Medium” (poem)
    “The Motivation of the Actor” (poem)
    “A Movie about a Homosexual” (poem)
    “Music for the Theater” (poem)
  • Peter Cherches, “A Certain Document”
  • Nicholas Christopher, “The Secret Life of Lois Lane” (poem)
  • April Bernard, “The Nockamixon Road”
  • Randi Ewing, “Old Toad”
  • Young Rader, “The Riparian Book”
    “Passage”
  • Marin Buschel, “The Motel Report”
  • Rosanna Warren, “‘Mots en Liberté, Dinamisme Plastique!’: Max Jacob’s Paris, 1911–1914”
  • Rachel Stern, “The Last Plague”
  • Kyra Simone, “The View from the Tower”
  • Stig Dagerman, “Our Need for Consolation is Insatiable”
  • Benjamin Fundoianu, “The smell of autumn rain…” (poem)
  • Glyn Maxwell, “Gospel According to Matthew” (poem)
  • Les Murray, “The Privacy of Typewriters” (poem)
    “Grooming with Nail Clippers” (poem)
  • Karl Kirchwey, “A Letter from Istanbul” (poem)
  • Ron De Maris, “Yucca” (poem)

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  • Gary Snyder, “Starting the Spring Garden and Thinking of Tom Jefferson” (poem)
  • Eamon Grennan, “At the Fish Market” (poem)
  • John Moran, “Clog Warrior”
  • Sigrid Nunez, “Love and Fiction”
  • Alice Fulton, “Active Night” (poem)
    “After the Angelectomy” (poem)
    “Custom Clamshell Cases” (poem)
    “Personal Reactor” (poem)
    “Sheep Pen” (poem)
  • Ann Beattie, “Company”
  • Les Murray, “When Two Percent Were Students” (poem)
    “High Speed Trap Space” (poem)
  • Bruce Lawder, “Desert Marriages” (poem)
  • Jeet Thayil, “Life Sentence” (poem)
    “Saint X”
  • Henri Cole, “The Paranoid Forest” (poem)
  • Nikolai Leskov, “A Little Mistake”
  • Mark Halliday, “La Marquise de Gloire” (poem)
    “Index of First Lines” (poem)
    “Index of Second Lines” (poem)
    “Tangen” (poem), “Double Reverse” (poem)
    “Just In Time” (poem)
  • Stig Dagerman, “Evening Promenades”
  • Arkady Dragomoshchenko, “Ludwig Josef Johan” (poem)
  • Charles Simic, “The Foundlings” (poem), “Stories” (poem)
  • Wolfgang Koeppen, scenes from Youth
  • Tomasz Rózycki, “A Grandson Returns” (poem)
  • Misty Woodford, “In the Future, Consider Us Both Sides of the River” (poem)
    “Fenestra” (poem)
  • Anakana Schofield, “Before Arbour Hill”
  • James Logenbach, “One More Thing” (poem), “Pastoral” (poem)
  • CJ Evans, “Inquiry Into Cinder” (poem)
  • Don Russ, “O Mother Pasiphaë” (poem)
  • Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., “The Jeweled Deer” (poem)
    “Circumambulation” (poem)
    “The Festival of Navaratri” (poem)
    “In the Hills” (poem)
    “Kalı Meditation” (poem)
    “Blake Goes Home” (poem)
    “Ghazal” (poem)
  • Jean Valentine, “Hospice” (poem)
    “After: Isn’t there something” (poem)
    “After: Down on the street” (poem)
  • Marilyn Hacker, “The Stranger’s Mirror” (poem)
  • Cynthia Zarin, “Meltwater” (poem)

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  • Lewis Horton, “Please, Turn Off Your Cell Phones and Leaf Blowers”
  • Nicholas Christopher, “A Novel in Ten Chapters” (poem)
  • Arkady Dragomoshchenko, “The tree’s wintry empire—that’s what” (poem)
  • Rosanna Warren, “Passage” (poem)
    “Rosh Ha-shanah”(poem)
    “Alberto de Lacerda” (poem)
    “Traffic” (poem)
  • Les Murray, “Flood Time Night Shelter” (poem)
    “Powder of Light” (poem)
    “Non-Swarming Bees” (poem)
  • Gary Snyder, “Anger, Cattle, and Achilles” (poem)
  • Barry Yourgrau, “The Sea”
    “Fuzzy and the Grapes”
  • Giles Harvey, “The Writing Life”
    “Elegy for an Imaginary Philosopher” (poem)
  • Kenneth Bernard, Five Wittgenstein Poems (poems)
  • Pavel Lembersky, “Humble Beginnings”
    “Status Quo”
    “So Long, Dos Passos”
  • Evan Rehill, “The Spade”
  • William Logan, “The Sunny South” (poem)
  • Prudence Crowther, “Bartleby: The Corrections”
  • James Kelman, “this has no title”
  • Melissa Monroe, “Team” (poem)
  • David Shields, “Saving My Life”
  • Paul Muldoon, “A Pillar” (poem)
  • Melissa Green, “Maudlin Speaks of Trees” (poem)
    “Maud as a Maid” (poem)
    “Mad Maud’s Complaint” (poem)
    “Mad Maud at the River” (poem)
    “Mad Maud and the Swans” (poem)
    “Mad Maud at the Cat & Bitch Yard” (poem)
    “Mad Maud’s Four Dreams” (poem)
    “Mad Maud’s Song” (poem)
    “Maud and the Abram Man” (poem)
  • Chris Preddle, “Heloise” (poem)
    “Mary” (poem)
  • Abby Rosebrock, “Spring Speaks” (poem)
    “Pitch” (poem)
    “Conduct Manual” (poem)
    “The Augustines of Email” (poem)
    “Natasha” (poem)
    “March Dream” (poem)
    “Scene” (INT. car)” (poem)
    “Future Baby” (poem)
    “The Seventh Day” (poem)
  • Patricia Storace, “Two Portraits of Women Reading” (poem)
  • Jamaica Kincaid, “See Now Then”
  • Kate Bernheimer, “Goodnight”
  • Travis Kurowski, “Once, I built a great machine” (poems)
  • Jean McGarry, “Rella”
  • James Lasdun, “Watcher” (poem)
    “Dust” (poem)
  • Kirmen Uribe, “That Tiny Playful God” (poem)
    “Birth” (poem)
    “In Hiding” (poem)
    “Father’s House, Even I” (poem)
  • Elizabeth Macklin, “The Erraldoiak in Times Square” (poem)
  • Carol Muske-Dukes, “The Painter Reconsiders His Canvas” (poem)
  • Padgett Powell, “The New World”
  • Steven Cramer, “Clang” (poems)
  • Magdalena Tulli, “Bronek”
  • Zuzanna Ginczanka, “Non omnis moriar” (poem)
  • Revan Schendler, “Messenger”
  • George Kalogeris, “Astoria” (poem)
    “Tsitari” (poem)
  • Rosanna Warren, “Live Like a Poet! At Home in the Bateau Lavoir”
  • Martin Edmunds, “Chez Nous” (poem)

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  • Mary Jo Salter, “Voice of America” (poem)
  • Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., “In the Alleyway of the Beloved” (poem)
    “When We Thawed the Tomb” (poem)
    “The Stave Church at Urnes” (poem)
  • Glyn Maxwell, “This Whiteness” (poem)
  • Eliot Weinberger, “Changs Dreaming”
  • Juan José Saer, “The Traveler”
  • Susanna Lang, “Night Letters” (poem)
  • April Bernard, “The Fixed Idea”
  • Ryszard Krynicki, “That’s Your Problem” (poem)
    “Pigeons” (poem)
  • James Stotts, “i’m with the dogs” (poem)
    “i went out under the warm winds of midnight ” (poem)
  • C. K. Williams, “La Chatte ” (poem)
  • Mark Strand, “Students of the Ineffable” (poem)
    “You Can Always Get There From Here” (poem)
    “The Gallows in the Garden (poem)
    “There Was Nothing To Be Done” (poem)
    “In the Afterlife” (poem)
    “Nocturne of the Biscuits” (poem)
    “Exhaustion at Sunset” (poem)
  • Jamaica Kincaid “The Dean and Mrs. Hess”
  • Nina Bogin “The Blue Threshold” (poem)
  • Steve Kronen, “Francis, Xanthus, & Mr. Ed” (poem)
    “1948” (poem)
    “A Kind of Quarried Marble” (poem)
  • Daniel Pritchard, “Idol” (poem)
  • Robert Wrigley, “Now Here” (poem)
    Nevertheless, “It’s Gone(poem)
  • Jo Pitkin, “Luna Moths” (poem)
  • Adam Zagajewski, “And the Lovely Garonne(poem)
    “Music of the Lower Spheres” (poem)
    “Silhouettes(poem)
    “Mute City” (poem)
    “Leonardo” (poem)
    “Dozing Over a Volume of Cavafy” (poem)
    “It Was a Holiday” (poem)
    “Like King Asini” (poem)
  • John Edminster, “Devotional Poems”
  • Barry Spacks, “Three Poems”
  • Anna Swir, “Thoughts of a Fourteen-Year-Old Nurse” (poem)
    “The Last Polish Uprising” (poem)
    “The Rats Remain” (poem)
  • Cynthia Zarin, “Hancock Graveyard (New Hampshire)” (poem)
    “Shark” (poem)
    “Mirror” (poem)
  • Ron De Maris, “The Thinker at the End of the Sea” (poem)
    “Losing It” (poem)
  • Kathryn Davis, “The Rain of Beads”
  • Eugene Ostashevsky, “Three Poems of a Pirate and His Parrot”
  • Elmer Diktonius, “Big and Little Me” (poem)
    “The Modern Madonna” (poem)
  • Daniel Sofaer, “Poem for a Basque Fortune Teller” (poem)
  • Dennis Saleh, “Crescent” (poem)
    “Becalmed” (poem)
    “Merít Upon the Riverbank” (poem)
    “Xanthopsic” (poem)
    “Yellowmore” (poem)
    “Yellowton” (poem)
    “Sable” (poem)
    “Tired Poem” (poem)
  • Melissa Green, “Taxonomy” (poem)
  • Lev Loseff, “This city’s alive, building upward and outward” (poem)
  • Leonid Lipavsky, “Conversations”
  • Wislawa Szymborska, “Poem in Honor” (poem)
  • Judith Berke, “Turner Classic Movies (poem)
  • Elena Sigman, “Raccoon”
  • Dave Lucas, “Lunar Calendar” (poem)
  • Jesse Donaldson, “The End of Constants”
  • Simm Landres, “Grooving to Buxtehude” (poem)
  • Ingrid Winterbach, “Happenstance”
  • Karl Kirchwey, “Mutabor” (poem)
  • John A. Griffin, “Epoché” (poem)

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