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Jan/Feb 2017
Vol. XXXIX No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes: What Place Literary Contests?
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David H. Lynn
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2016 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize
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Kirsten Reach
Short Fiction Prize Introduction -
Eve Gleichman
Butter -
Dan Reiter
Dance of the Old Century -
Adam Soto
The Babymoon
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Kirsten Reach
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Fiction
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Katherine Zlabek
If There Is Need of Blessings -
Mary Terrier
He Comes to Feed the Horses
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Katherine Zlabek
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Nonfiction
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Dorothy Gallagher
Yalta -
David Winner
Aunt Dorle’s Master Lovers
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Dorothy Gallagher
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Poetry
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Joshua Bennett
Praise Song for the Table in the Cafeteria Where All the Black Boys Sat Together during A Block, Laughing Too Loudly -
Joshua Bennett
X -
Rosalie Moffett
Taxonomy -
David St. John
In Bangkok -
Kevin Prufer
Cruelties -
Kevin Prufer
Technology -
Kevin Prufer
The Vast Economies -
D. Nurkse
The School of Loneliness -
Mary Ann Samyn
A Romantic Notion -
Mary Ann Samyn
Beautiful Secret Something -
Mary Ann Samyn
Bounded -
Kimberly Johnson
Female -
Erin Adair-Hodges
Portrait of the Mother: 1985 -
Erin Adair-Hodges
I Am Twenty-One -
Erin Adair-Hodges
In the Black Forest -
Shara Lessley
Letter to Bruce in Paradise, Indiana -
Shara Lessley
Letter to Rania in Amman -
Giovanni Pascoli
The Night Hour -
Charity Ann Gingerich
Something about Defiance— -
Marcus Wicker
Silencer with Blues & Birds on a Wire -
Andrés Cerpa
Portrait & Shadow -
Andrés Cerpa
Seasonal without Spring: Winter -
Mikko Harvey
Ode to Flesh-Eating Bacteria
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Joshua Bennett
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Review
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David Baker
Representative Men
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David Baker
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Nov/Dec 2016
Vol. XXXVIII No. 6
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Editor's Notes
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2016 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Natalie Shapero
Young Poets Introduction -
Alyssa Mazzoli
Death Uses a Lot of Laundry Detergent -
Carissa Chen
Parable -
Annalise Lozier
ƒ(x)
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Natalie Shapero
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The Longer Lyric
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David Baker
Introduction: The Longer Lyric -
Kevin Prufer
Fireworks -
Arthur Sze
The Glass Constellation -
Annie Kim
Postcolonial Album: 1980 -
Page Hill Starzinger
Speculus -
Philip Metres
Duets: A Film in Stills -
Dan Beachy-Quick
A Century of Meditation
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Gordon Lish
Declaration of Dependence -
Nathan Poole
Exit Wound -
Laura Maylene Walter
The Necrophiliac’s Almanac -
Erika Krouse
When in Bangkok
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Gordon Lish
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Nonfiction
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Hayley Katzen
Cut Down to Size
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Hayley Katzen
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Poetry
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Ted Kooser
Locust Trees in Late May -
Ted Kooser
In November -
Chad Davidson
Love Poem -
W. S. Di Piero
In the Marina -
W. S. Di Piero
The Sidewalk Harvest -
Paisley Rekdal
Assemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi -
Carl Phillips
Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers -
Carl Phillips
If You Go Away -
Carl Phillips
His Master’s Voice -
Carl Phillips
Maybe So -
Jennifer Luebbers
Genesis -
Danniel Schoonebeek
The Likes of You
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Ted Kooser
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Sept/Oct 2016
Vol. XXXVIII No. 5
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Editor's Notes
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
The Poetics of Science
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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Art
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Suzanne Stryk
Living Proof
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Suzanne Stryk
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Fiction
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Andrew Ladd
Degenerate Progenitors -
Anne Valente
Good-bye, Saint Louis
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Andrew Ladd
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Nonfiction
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Helen Betya Rubinstein
On Not Eating the Marshmallow -
Hilda Johnston
On the Book of Sand -
Jill Sisson Quinn
Begetting -
Sara Talpos
Lab Notebook: Identifying Unknowns -
Andrew Bomback
The Search -
Mairead Small Staid
The Animal Cell or, on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body
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Helen Betya Rubinstein
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Poetry
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Leah Falk
Turing at Lascaux -
Justin Wymer
Vinculum -
Justin Wymer
Edge Habitat -
Alice Major
Welcome to the Anthropocene -
Bruce Bond
The Birth of the X-ray -
Bruce Bond
Turing -
Bruce Bond
Wings -
Kelly Cherry
Radiation -
Kelly Cherry
Geophysics -
Jesse De Angelis
Poem by the Mars Rover -
John James
History (n.) -
Bruce Snider
Chemistry -
Clare Rossini
The Man Transfused with the Blood of a Sheep -
Clare Rossini
Anatomy, Brief History of -
Diane K. Martin
Excusez-moi de Vous Déranger¹ -
Diane K. Martin
Geo Logic -
Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Discoveries -
Rafael Campo
Poem for Ebola -
Rafael Campo
On the Beauty of Science
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Leah Falk
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July/Aug 2016
Vol. XXXVIII No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes: Submissions Then and Now
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David H. Lynn
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Drama
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Fiction
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Neil Mathison
Wintering Over
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Neil Mathison
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Nonfiction
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Nick Neely
The Afterlife -
David Bergman
The Pleasures of Poise
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Nick Neely
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Poetry
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Laura Kasischke
The Whole -
Javier Zamora
Let Me Try Again -
Michael Ryan
A Divorce -
Marilyn Hacker
Calligraphies -
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
The Mothers and the Mediterranean -
Fady Joudah
Progress Notes -
Rodney Jones
Homecoming -
Safiya Sinclair
One Hundred Amazing Facts about the Negro, with Complete Proof, II -
Safiya Sinclair
One Hundred Amazing Facts about the Negro, with Complete Proof, III
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Laura Kasischke
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Review
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David S. Reynolds
Walt Whitman and the Bohemians
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David S. Reynolds
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May/June 2016
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes: Literature and the Anthropocene
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David H. Lynn
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Nature's Nature
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David Baker
Introduction: Nature’s Nature -
T. R. Hummer
Prehistoric -
T. R. Hummer
In a Small Park with Bench, Jacaranda, and Bird’s Skull -
T. R. Hummer
Dove -
Ann Townsend
The Late Ash Trees -
Ann Townsend
The Mind Is Its Own Place -
David Wojahn
A Cache of Photos of the Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -
Laura Kasischke
For the Return of the Bee -
Laura Kasischke
On the Nature of Things -
Sam Taylor
[Wikipedia, or the Late Style of Orpheus] -
Sam Taylor
[Channels] -
Sam Taylor
[The Afterlife] -
Sam Taylor
[You’d Have to Be a Fool] -
Philip Metres
Personal Climate Change -
Matthew Olzmann
Plasticity -
Matthew Olzmann
Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed into a Bar of Chocolate -
Matthew Olzmann
Return to Sender -
Melissa Ginsburg
Séance -
Melissa Ginsburg
Emergency -
Javier Zamora
To Abuelita Nelly -
Javier Zamora
Aftermath -
Kimiko Hahn
Brilliance, a Valentine -
Kimiko Hahn
II -
Kimiko Hahn
III -
Kimiko Hahn
IV -
Kimiko Hahn
V -
Kimiko Hahn
VI -
Kimiko Hahn
VII -
Fady Joudah
Traditional Anger (in the Sonoran Desert) -
Marianne Boruch
It Moves -
Marianne Boruch
We’re Not Insects -
William Wright
Understory -
Tyler Mills
Repository -
Melissa Tuckey
Vanities -
Melissa Tuckey
Magnitude -
Lee Upton
Our Ice -
Justin Phillip Reed
From “Paroxysm” -
Benjamin Landry
Listen -
Benjamin Landry
Myotis lucifugus -
Benjamin Landry
Witness -
Marco Wilkinson
Shepherd’s Purse
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Gregory Spatz
We Unlovely, Unloved -
Catherine Brady
Guadalajara -
Rion Amilcar Scott
Three Insurrections
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Gregory Spatz
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Nonfiction
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Rebecca McClanahan
Tears, Silence, Song
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Rebecca McClanahan
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Mar/Apr 2016
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Poetry in Transylvania
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David Baker
Introduction: Poetry in Transylvania -
Amir Or
Sunset -
Radu Vancu
[What’s one of your dead telling you,] -
Kateryna Babkina
Painkillers and Sleeping Pills -
Gökçenur Ç.
Rules of Making Love -
Tara Skurtu
Tourniquet
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David Baker
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Drama
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Tennessee Williams
The Taj Mahal with Ink-Wells (Theatre Guild Office)
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Tennessee Williams
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Fiction
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Ron Carlson
Don’t Let Your Bicycle Get Taken by a Thief -
Corinna Vallianatos
Visitation -
Amit Majmudar
Secret Lives of the Detainees -
Katherine Karlin
Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin
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Ron Carlson
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Nonfiction
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Eleanor Stanford
Grammar for an Unwritten Language (Cape Verde, West Africa)
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Eleanor Stanford
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Poetry
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Kevin Young
Homage to Phillis Wheatley -
Tomaž Šalamun
Delivering Milk in a Bus -
Tomaž Šalamun
Zeus and Hera -
Tomaž Šalamun
I Want Verse Taut -
Michael Ryan
The Mercy Home -
Sasha Steensen
13 -
Sasha Steensen
16 -
Sasha Steensen
24 -
Sasha Steensen
25 -
Sasha Steensen
32 -
Billy Collins
Sixteen Years Old, I Help Bring in the Hay on My Uncle John’s Farm with Two French-Canadian Workers -
Sarah Blake
Neutron Star -
Stanley Plumly
Dutch Elm -
Stanley Plumly
Dream -
Stanley Plumly
Against Sunset -
Stanley Plumly
Elegy -
Paul Otremba
Old Long Since -
David Bottoms
Dress Blues
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Kevin Young
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Review
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Jeffrey Meyers
Paths of Glory
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Jeffrey Meyers
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Jan/Feb 2016
Vol. XXXVIII No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Short Fiction Prize Introduction -
Shasta Grant
Most Likely To -
Rob Howell
Mars or Elsewhere -
Courtney Sender
Black Harness
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Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
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"Oh Abuse": Poets Regarding Pain
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David Baker
Introduction: “Oh Abuse”: Poets Regarding Pain -
Bob Hicok
Court of Law -
Bob Hicok
Constitutional -
Shara McCallum
Oh Abuse -
Solmaz Sharif
Desired Appreciation
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Roger Rosenblatt
Have I Told You About This? -
Rachel Pastan
Old Joke -
Leslie Blanco
Mi Amor, Mi China, Mi Delirio -
Paula Closson Buck
The Dalai Lama’s Smile
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Roger Rosenblatt
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Nonfiction
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Dorothy Gallagher
Snow -
Kenneth McClane
Sparrow Needy -
Jonathan Farmer
Who Know in Singing Not to Sing: Poetry and Decorum in the Fallen World
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Dorothy Gallagher
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Poetry
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Phillip B. Williams
Luminous, Whatever Honey -
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks -
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Red-breasted Nuthatches -
Nate Klug
Aporia -
Nate Klug
Anniversary -
Katie Willingham
Notes on Relief -
Joshua Kryah
The End of Something
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Phillip B. Williams
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Nov/Dec 2015
Vol. XXXVII No. 6
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Walking with Poets
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David Baker
Introduction: Walking with Poets -
Cole Swensen
from “Henry David Thoreau: ‘Walking'” -
Cole Swensen
William Blake -
Cole Swensen
Thomas De Quincey -
Cole Swensen
Gérard de Nerval -
David Kirby
The Juggler of Notre-Dame -
Lloyd Schwartz
Unexpected Oracles -
Stanley Plumly
Early Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Walks
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David Baker
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Fiction
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T. C. Boyle
The Five-Pound Burrito -
Judy Troy
Sorry -
Roohi Choudhry
This Is What We Could Have Been -
Angela Pelster
Isography
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T. C. Boyle
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Nonfiction
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Jaquira Díaz
Ordinary Girls -
Troy Jollimore
“Trapped in My Rib-Cage Something Throes and Aches!”: Berryman at 100
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Jaquira Díaz
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Poetry
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Robert Wrigley
Conservator’s Statement -
Christopher Kondrich
Geometry of Echo -
Sandra M. Gilbert
Sodoma, Monks at Table with St. Benedict (Monte Oliveto Maggiore) -
Wayne Miller
The First Year -
Anna Akhmatova
Requiem 1935-1940 -
John Witte
Colony Collapse -
Ocean Vuong
After a Lynching Postcard, with the Lynchings Chemically Removed
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Robert Wrigley
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Review
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Sept/Oct 2015
Vol. XXXVII No. 5
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Natalie Shapero
Young Poets Introduction -
Caitlin Chan
Tlingit Farewell: Glacier Bay, 1966 -
Gavin Murtha
I Spent a Lot of Time in There -
Emily Zhang
Story for the Salt
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Natalie Shapero
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Fiction
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Joyce Carol Oates
Fleuve Bleu -
Linda Woolford
After Lola -
Keya Mitra
The Sacred Gifts of Cows and Cheetahs
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Nonfiction
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Amy Wright
Mēl -
David Wojahn
Devotion and Witness
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Amy Wright
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Poetry
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Kazim Ali
How to Spend All One’s Blue -
Kazim Ali
Son of History -
Brenda Hillman
[& heard a humming, like the] -
Brenda Hillman
On a Day, in the World -
Philip Metres
Palæstinae quatuor facies [1720] -
Philip Metres
Kufr / Yar, Babi / Qassim -
Philip Metres
[] -
Jeffrey Skinner
The Body Is Necessary But Not Sufficient -
Corey Van Landingham
Love Letter to Nike Alighting on a Warship -
Corey Van Landingham
The President Took No Questions -
Beth Bachmann
hamartia -
Beth Bachmann
surface -
Beth Bachmann
location (echo) -
John Kinsella
The Way of the Red Flag -
John Kinsella
Grey Heron at Churchill Moat -
Dave Lucas
Narcissus Himself -
Kathy Fagan
Widows and Brides -
Kathy Fagan
Structural Engineering -
Jennifer Militello
Nkisi Nkondi -
Jennifer Militello
Oxymoronic Love
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Kazim Ali
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July/Aug 2015
Vol. XXXVII No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Laura van den Berg
The Other Daughter -
Jamie Lyn Smith
Nature Preserve -
Lily Tuck
Labyrinth Two
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Laura van den Berg
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Nonfiction
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Derek Mong
Ten New Ways to Read Ronald Johnson’s “Radi os” -
Floyd Collins
Language and Memory
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Derek Mong
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Poetry
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Phillis Levin
Burgundy Scarf -
William Stobb
What Is Happening -
William Stobb
Earl of Rochester -
Arthur Sze
Python Skin -
Elizabeth Spires
Mountains of the Heart -
Albert Goldbarth
The Secret of the Universe -
Albert Goldbarth
She Dies and Is Buried and Her People -
Albert Goldbarth
The Story of Up -
Karen An-hwei Lee
On Lightening -
Karen An-hwei Lee
On Apophasis -
Alan Feldman
Uncontested -
Alan Feldman
Two Walks -
Natalie Eilbert
Edenic -
Karyna McGlynn
Blue-Eyed Boyfriends -
Karyna McGlynn
I Can’t Stop Being Performative
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Phillis Levin
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May/June 2015
Vol. XXXVII No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
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David Baker
Nature’s Nature: A Gathering of Poetry Introduction -
Arthur Sze
Sight Lines -
Andrew Grace
Field Guide for How to Pioneer the Midwest -
Meg Kearney
Scarlet Tanager, 1893 -
Albert Goldbarth
Sea (and Other) Tails -
Carl Phillips
Meanwhile, and Anyway -
Roger Desy
stones -
Amy Wright
Micrographia, or, Some Physiological Observations of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon -
Emily Wilson
Mappa Mundi -
Emily Wilson
Little Bigelow -
Emily Wilson
For the Wind -
Page Hill Starzinger
Dive-bomb -
John Kinsella
A Polysituated Ode with Occasional Demi-boustrophedon -
Joshua Corey
The Spoils -
Solmaz Sharif
Inspiration Point, Berkeley -
Brent House
Pastoral -
Brent House
Pastoral -
Allison Hutchcraft
Swampland. Bog. Mare aux Songes. “Sea of Dreams” -
Allison Hutchcraft
Out the Birds, Out -
Allison Hutchcraft
Seeds, or the Collapsed Bodies -
Allison Hutchcraft
So Legged, So Footed, and Who’s Left to Care? -
Camille T. Dungy
Trophic Cascade -
G.C. Waldrep
Vocation -
G.C. Waldrep
Fox-Breath (para-chantry) -
G.C. Waldrep
blind rose -
G.C. Waldrep
wild turkeys on sunday -
G.C. Waldrep
darkling copse -
Rusty Morrison
Escape Fable -
James McCorkle
The Water Column -
F. Daniel Rzicznek
Horse Blood Medicine -
Clare Rossini
The Song of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow -
Clare Rossini
The Great Chain of Being -
Clare Rossini
Manhattan Saturday -
Joanna Klink
Dream of Hands -
Joanna Klink
Noctilucent -
Joanna Klink
Processional
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Amy Gustine
All the Sons of Cain -
Elizabeth Denton
Puck’s Here
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Amy Gustine
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Nonfiction
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Elaine Bleakney
Alive Together -
Garret Keizer
Hokusai’s Octopus: A Romp at the Edge of the Deep
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Elaine Bleakney
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Mar/Apr 2015
Vol. XXXVII No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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David H. Lynn
Editor’s Notes
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David H. Lynn
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Fiction
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Dominic Russ-Combs
The Grant Pill -
Rolf Yngve
A Prerogative -
Katherine Robinson
North Bay Hotel -
L. Shapley Bassen
Triptych
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Dominic Russ-Combs
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Nonfiction
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Matt Donovan
Garden of the Fugitives -
Matthew Gavin Frank
The Clouding of the Clear Clam Chowder -
Randy Fertel
Carpe Vitam: How to Do Things with Spontaneity
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Matt Donovan
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Poetry
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Julio Machado
Ghazal of Hungers -
Sarah Mangold
[Shall we fabricate our soil] -
Amanda Calderon
Composite Tiger -
Amanda Calderon
The Khan’s Wife -
David Barber
Carton Fantastique -
David Barber
Franklin Arithmetic -
Erika Meitner
Post-Game-Day Blessing -
Erika Meitner
On the Road -
Patricia Clark
The Slit -
Chūya Nakahara
Dreary Morning -
Jane Hirshfield
My Pronoun -
Jane Hirshfield
Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom -
Nick Flynn
When I Was a Girl -
Carol Muske-Dukes
Mayhem -
Bruce Beasley
The Name of the Island Was Marriage -
Sarah Mangold
[a robin thrush or blackbird]
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Julio Machado
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