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Title Author Year
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
deer & salt block Joshua Marie Wilkinson 2009
I Have Never Been Anything Like Pink Kazuko Shiraishi 1982
What Is a Soprano G. C. Waldrep 2009
My Autopsy (Excerpt) Michael Dickman 2009
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window Ernesto Cardenal 2009
Children in a Field Angela Shaw 2009
We Address Norma Cole 2009
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
Woman at the Window Theodore Deppe 2009
Nocturne Wayne Miller 2009
Blue or Green James Galvin 2009
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea [The martyr couldn’t believe his eyes] Dunya Mikhail 2009
This Nest, Swift Passerine [Excerpt] Dan Beachy-Quick 2009
Dangerous Astronomy Sherman Alexie 2009
Goldfish Are Ordinary Stacie Cassarino 2009
Below the Earth Keith Waldrop 2009
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us] Gregory Orr 2009

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