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May 7, 2012
The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Winners
May 1, 2018 — Laura Roque Wins 2018 KR Short Fiction Contest We are pleased and excited to announce the winners of the eleventh annual Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. […]
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Poetry
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Meena Alexander
Garden in Nazareth -
Jeff Gundy
Meditation on Narrative, Dogma, and Flight -
David Koehn
Perishable Gods -
Hugh Martin
This Morning, We Carry Body Bags, -
Danielle Pafunda
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison -
Michael Ryan
Daredevil; Sabbatical -
Marjorie Stelmach
Dust; Interior Shot -
Stefanie Wortman
Lucky
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Meena Alexander
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Fiction
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John Patrick Bishop
Chaesa -
Jason Lee Brown
Left Leg, Just Above the Knee -
Ashleigh Pedersen
Sleeping Giant -
Kerry Ryan
The Cleverness of Crows -
Lori White
Last Turnout -
Xu Xi
All About Skin
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John Patrick Bishop
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Essay
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Paula Carter
Aaron Hibbs Attempts to Break the World Record for Hula Hoop -
Greg Gerke
On Influence: Starting and Stopping Cracks -
Amit Majmudar
The Servant of Two Masters -
Marco Wilkinson
Arctium Lappa
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Paula Carter
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Review
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Laura Farmer
Boys Enter the House: Justin Torres’ We the Animals -
Kelly Fordon
Prickly Bright: Lia Purpura’s Rough Likeness -
Andy Frazee
On The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan -
Hilary Plum
The Ocean in Your Mouth: Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems -
Daniel Poppick
Toward Being Of: Chris Martin’s Becoming Weather -
Dan Rosenberg
Muscular Heaps: Yván Yauri’s Fire Wind -
Kascha Semonovitch
The Art of Facts and Artifacts: Jeffrey Yang’s Vanishing-Line -
G. C. Waldrep
“Go Quotiently”: Contemporary British Poetry from Shearsman -
Eric Weinstein
California State of Mind: Jennifer Denrow’s California
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Laura Farmer
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Poetry
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Lee Bradbury
A Little Nightmare; Shackleford after a Hurricane -
W.M. Lobko
My Brother, My Gastroenterologist -
Lucia Perillo
Wild Birds Unlimited -
Catherine Pierce
The Mother Warns the Tornado; On the Origins of the Tornado -
Hope Maxwell Snyder
Memory in the Wine -
Mark Strand
Anywhere Could Be Somewhere; Not To Miss The Great Thing -
Angela Voras-Hills
Chateaubriand; Nothing to Undo That Can’t Be Done Again
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Lee Bradbury
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Fiction
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Margo Berdeshevsky
Square Black Key -
Stephen Haynie
Grandfather’s Wake -
Meghan Kenny
The Last Four Seasons -
John Kinsella
The Purple Suit -
Karin Lin-Greenberg
Care -
Kent Nelson
Predators -
Jason Nemec
A Brief Sexual History and Its Catalyst -
Tamara Shores
The Greatest Slut in the World
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Margo Berdeshevsky
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Essay
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H. L. Hix
One Hundred Definitions of Poetry, Each Unsound -
Elizabeth Lopatto
Come On, Pilgrim -
W. Scott Olsen
The Beautiful Line -
Adania Shibli
Translated by Suneela Mubayi
On East-West Dialogue
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H. L. Hix
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Short Fiction Contest
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Fan Li
Chiasmus -
Anna Kovatcheva
September -
Nichols Ford Malick
The Boy in the Lake
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Fan Li
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Review
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Rachel Abramowitz
The Importance of Being Difficult: Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems -
Jeremy Bass
Measured Abandon: Mark Doty’s The Art of Description and Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness -
Jesse Donaldson
Ducks on the Pond: Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding -
Kristen Evans
The Beauty of Waste, the Waste of Beauty: Anna Moschovakis’ You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake -
Aimee Pokwatka
Stories in the Best Way: Caitlin Horrocks’ This is Not Your City -
Dan Rosenberg
Into the Foreign Tissue: Anja Utler’s engulf — enkindle -
Craig Santos Perez
Racial Profiling: Three First Books by Latino Poets -
Kascha Semonovitch
Life, Lines: Susan Howe’s That This and Julie Carr’s Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines -
John Steen
“It’s the silence which has chosen me”: Claude Royet-Journoud’s The Whole of Poetry is Preposition -
Lindsay Turner
“Stubborn as a”: Shane McCrae’s Mule
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Rachel Abramowitz
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Fiction
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Chelsea Bolan
The Consolidation of Spaces -
Jess Lacher
Remainders -
Phong Nguyen
The Wheel of History -
Colette Sartor
Daredevil -
Connor Wroe Southard
Warrior’s Day -
Kathy West
Blind, in the Museum
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Chelsea Bolan
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Poetry
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Weston Cutter
Way off the Water; Revelation -
Jeffrey Greene
A Sestina for a Cannibal -
David Kutz-Marks
Two Lungs, On a Quarter Century, Kids in Oblivion, Glowing at the Wreck -
Kevin McLellan
Tributary -
Christa Romanosky
Cavalcade -
José Eugenio Sánchez
an outline for the reconstruction of events;jeannie duval’s cheek tickled by a paris fly 1852;helpless (and in my mind I still need a place to go) -
Mathias Svalina
Behind the Sheets of Shuddering Cellophane
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Weston Cutter
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Essays
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Inara Cedrins
The Merchandise Mart -
Anne Kaier
Tuesday Night Rehearsal -
Judy Labensohn
Gretel -
Sejal Shah
Street Scene
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Inara Cedrins
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Reviews
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David Bartone
On James L. White’s The Salt Ecstasies -
Jensen Beach
All Happy Families: Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang -
Adam Parker Cogbill
On Shann Ray’s American Masculine -
Jesse Donaldson
On Mark Richard’s House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer’s Journey Home -
Sarah C. Harwell
Connecting the Fragments: Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City -
Caryl Pagel
Notes on Texture Notes by Sawako Nakayasu -
Hilary Plum
Point and Line: Joseph Cardinale’s The Size of the Universe -
Christian TeBordo
On Roy Kesey’s Pacazo
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David Bartone
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Poetry
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Timothy Liu
On Broadway -
Campbell McGrath
September 11 -
Wyatt Prunty
Ash -
Tom Sleigh
Persian Miniature -
Robert Wrigley
A Photograph of Philip Levine, on the Brooklyn Promenade, May 2000, Lower Manhattan in the Background
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Timothy Liu
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Fiction
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Daniel Torday
Undress
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Daniel Torday
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Essay
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Amitav Ghosh
The Greatest Sorrow: Times of Joy Recalled in Wretchedness -
Rebecca McClanahan
‘And We Shall be Changed’: New York City, September, 2001
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Amitav Ghosh
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Poetry
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Timothy Liu
On Broadway -
Campbell McGrath
September 11 -
Wyatt Prunty
Ash -
Tom Sleigh
Persian Miniature -
Robert Wrigley
A Photograph of Philip Levine, on the Brooklyn Promenade, May 2000, Lower Manhattan in the Background
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Timothy Liu
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Fiction
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Daniel Torday
Undress
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Daniel Torday
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Essay
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Amitav Ghosh
The Greatest Sorrow: Times of Joy Recalled in Wretchedness -
Rebecca McClanahan
‘And We Shall be Changed’: New York City, September, 2001
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Amitav Ghosh
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October 14, 2011
Past Recipients of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Past Award Recipients Click on any of the links to read the winning poems from previous years 2013 • 513 Entrants First […]
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Poems
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Identi-kit -
Point of View at Noon -
In This House -
Christmas Morning -
Contours—Homage to Cézanne -
Subatomic Symphony -
Epitaph for an Un-Named Priestess -
Pfarr-Schmerz (Village-Anguish) -
Not Pastoral Enough -
The Lady of Shalott: Ode -
The Garden of Proserpine -
Sonnet -
Canzon -
Cordelia: or, ‘A Poem Should not Mean, but Be’
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Essays
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Sara Crangle
Curved Lines: Forrest-Thomson, Klee, & the Smile -
Gareth Farmer
Selection Restrictions, Individuals, Acorns, and Oaks: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Analytical Linguistics -
Ian Patterson
Containers, Pulses, Lentils: Tel Quel and Veronica Forrest-Thomson -
Neil Pattison
“The mirrors are tired of our faces”: Changing the Subject in the Poetry of Veronica Forrest-Thomson -
Sophie Read
Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s Acts of Articulation -
Keston Sutherland
Veronica Forrest-Thomson for Readers
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Sara Crangle
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Poetry
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Darin Ciccotelli
Incredulity of Thomas -
Mark Conway
Electric Chair -
Katy Didden
The Soldier on Routine -
Alice Fulton
A Lightenment On New Year’s Eve -
Rodney Jones
The Art of Heaven -
Maureen McLane
Belfast -
Jennifer Militello
A Dictionary of Preserving the Hydrangea’s Bloom -
Susanna J. Mishler
Anniversary at the Evening Café -
Maureen Morehead
Ode to the Workshop Poem -
Siobhan Phillips
A Vocation -
William Schutt
Beauty Spot -
Martha Silano
Hope is the thing with -
Elizabeth Wade
Anatomy
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Darin Ciccotelli
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Fiction
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Jennifer Bannan
This Crisis Brought to You by Me -
Nickolas Butler
The Chainsaw Soiree -
Kelly Fordon
Use Everything in Your Arsenal -
Kelly Luce
Reunion -
Vojislav Pejovic
Whole Life -
Joseph Scapellato
Life Story -
E. Lily Yu
The Lamp at the Turning
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Jennifer Bannan
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Essay
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Marcia Aldrich
Marilyn Monroe’s Feet -
Kristen Cosby
Echoes -
Sharon Dolin
Andalusian Wind -
Jennifer MacKenzie
The Dog-Killer of Khartoum -
Lesley Wheeler
Rhymes with Poetess
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Marcia Aldrich
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Review
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Marie-Helene Bertino on Alan Heathcock
On Alen Heathcock’s Volt -
Hannah Brooks-Motl on Lisa Robertson
On Lisa Robertson’s R’s Boat -
Kristen Evans on Kevin Goodan
On Kevin Goodan’s Winter Tenor -
Amit Majmudar on Johannes Kepler
Kepler’s Snowflake -
Aimee Pokwatka on Lindsay Hunter
On Lindsay Hunter’s Daddy’s -
Christopher Robinson on Joanie Mackowski
The Protean Brain: Joanie Mackowski’s View From a Temporary Window -
Dan Rosenberg on Joshua Marie Wilkinson
On Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook -
Kascha Semonovitch on Carl Phillips
A Dream in Horses: Carl Phillips’s Double Shadow
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Marie-Helene Bertino on Alan Heathcock
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Poetry
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Nicky Beer
Scene 43, Take 1: Interior, Sushi Restaurant -
Jennifer Chang
Some Say the Lark Makes Sweet Division -
Gro Dahle
Excerpts from A Hundred Thousand Hours -
Alex Dimitrov
The Composer’s Lover -
Albert Goldbarth
Photographs of the Interiors of Dictators’ Houses -
Leslie Harrison
Eve -
Anna Journey
Elegy Where I Initially Refuse to Eat Sand, The Spirit of the Hour Visits Big Pappa’s Barbeque Joint, Moose Head Mounted on the Wall of Big Pappa’s Barbeque Joint, & Mercy -
Katherine Larson
Metamorphosis & Solarium -
Gareth Lee
Romance in a Time of Rockets & Gift -
Rose McLarney
Don’t I Know -
Daniel Poppick
The Animals are Undisturbed -
Raisa Tolchinsky
Saint -
Catherine Wing
The Brain Truck
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Nicky Beer
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Fiction
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Matthew Baker
A Sort of Infinity -
Amy Bonnaffons
Black Stones -
Meagan Ciesla
Incubator Baby World’s Fair, 1939 -
John Kinsella
Sissy -
Reese Okyong Kwon
The Stations of the Sun -
Kevin McIlvoy
The Last Things We Said -
Pat Smyklo
The Architecture of the Place is Killing Me
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Matthew Baker
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Essay
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Joelle Biele
Pulled by the Hair: Deborah Digges and the Power of Myth -
Atar Hadari
What I Learned About Writing in Drama School, or Kissing in Drag -
Amit Majmudar
The Ludlum Identity -
Nick Papandreou
Two Brothers and Their Father, Under Indictment, Athens, May, 1989
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Joelle Biele
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Review
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Jeremy Bass on James Longenbach
Difficult Simplicity: On James Longenbach’s The Iron Key -
Andy Frazee on Michael Burkard
On Michael Burkard’s Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990 -
Burke Hilsabeck on Adam Levin
A Review of Adam Levin’s The Instructions -
M. Lynx Qualey on Adonis
A Review of Adonis: Selected Poems -
Kascha Semonovitch on Thomas Sayers Ellis
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis: This Book Is Not “Like” Anything You’ve Ever Read -
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter on Charles Simic
A Review of Charles Simic’s Master of Disguises -
Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley
“a severe but brilliant mother mosaic so go in”: On Alice Notley’s Reason and Other Women -
Alexander Yates on Peter Mountford
On Peter Mountford’s A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism
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Jeremy Bass on James Longenbach
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Interview
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Geeta Kothari with Robert Yune
Poetry
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Nicky Beer
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Jennifer Chang
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Gro Dahle
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Alex Dimitrov
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Albert Goldbarth
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Leslie Harrison
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Anna Journey
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Katherine Larson
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Gareth Lee
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Rose McLarney
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Daniel Poppick
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Raisa Tolchinsky
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Catherine Wing
Fiction
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Matthew Baker
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Amy Bonnaffons
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Meagan Ciesla
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John Kinsella
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Reese Okyong Kwon
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Kevin McIlvoy
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Pat Smyklo
Essay
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Joelle Biele
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Atar Hadari
What I Learned About Writing in Drama School, or Kissing in Drag
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Amit Majmudar
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Nick Papandreou
Two Brothers and Their Father, Under Indictment, Athens, May, 1989
Review
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Jeremy Bass on James Longenbach
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Andy Frazee on Michael Burkard
On Michael Burkard’s Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990
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Burke Hilsabeck on Adam Levin
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M. Lynx Qualey on Adonis
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Kascha Semonovitch on Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Lauren Goodwin Slaughter on Charles Simic
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Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley
“a severe but brilliant mother mosaic so go in”: On Alice Notley’s Reason and Other Women
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Alexander Yates on Peter Mountford
Interview
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Geeta Kothari with Robert Yune
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Lee K. Abbott
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Lee K. Abbott
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Nancy Zafris
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Lee K. Abbott
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Judith Ortíz Cofer
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Judith Ortíz Cofer
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Jaquira Díaz
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Judith Ortíz Cofer
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Fady Joudah
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Fady Joudah
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E.L. Doctorow
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E.L. Doctorow
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David Lynn
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E.L. Doctorow
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Umberto Eco
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David Lynn
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David Lynn
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Helen Forman
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Helen Forman
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Thomas Stamp
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Helen Forman
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Michael S. Harper
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Michael S. Harper
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Ronald A. Sharp
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Michael S. Harper
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Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
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Sven Birkerts
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Seamus Heaney
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John Hollander
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John Hollander
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Rosanna Warren
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John Hollander
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Galway Kinnell
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Galway Kinnell
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Andrew Grace
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Galway Kinnell
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Maxine Kumin
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Maxine Kumin
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Jill Bialosky
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Maxine Kumin
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Deborah A. Miranda
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Philip Levine
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Philip Levine
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David Lynn
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Philip Levine
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Irene McKinney
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Irene McKinney
To My Reader -
RJ Gibson
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Irene McKinney
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W.S. Merwin
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W.S. Merwin
Canso -
David Baker
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David Baker
William’s Hand -
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Two Poems in Memory of Merwin -
John Kinsella
Villanelle of Watering the Trees
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W.S. Merwin
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Stanley Plumly
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Stanley Plumly
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Maggie Smith
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Stanley Plumly
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Mark Strand
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Mark Strand
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Natalie Shapero
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Mark Strand
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Joelle Biele
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Wislawa Szymborska
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Eleanor Ross Taylor
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Eleanor Ross Taylor
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Debra Nystrom
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Eleanor Ross Taylor
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Derek Walcott
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Derek Walcott
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Ronald A. Sharp
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Derek Walcott
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Richard Wilbur
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Richard Wilbur
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Ronald A. Sharp
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Richard Wilbur
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Nancy Willard
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Nancy Willard
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Ronald A. Sharp
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Nancy Willard
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C. K. Williams
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C. K. Williams
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C. K. Williams
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Miller Williams
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Miller Williams
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David Baker
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Miller Williams
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Karenne Wood
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Karenne Wood
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Janet McAdams
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Karenne Wood
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Jake Adam York
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Jake Adam York
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David H. Lynn
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Jake Adam York
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Poetry
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John Allman
Algorithms -
Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
Why We Must Have Canonical Hours and Islands -
Tung-Hui Hu
Cosmos Revealed Behind a Dense Curtain of Poppies -
Dana Levin
Five Skull Diadem -
James Midgley
Lingerie -
Hannah Sanghee Park
On Her Having Arrived -
Brian Swann
The Snake -
Christian Teresi
Wonder Woman Explains the Act of Contrition to Ophelia -
Christian C. Thompson
Nothing in Nature -
Eleni Vakalo
From Diary of Age (Imerologio tis ilikias)
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John Allman
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Fiction
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M. Chase Colton
I’m an Old Cowhand -
Alex Epstein
Excerpts from Lunar Savings Time -
Joseph Fazio
A Temporary Fix -
Julie Iromuanya
The Wife -
Jess Lacher
Mary Butcher -
Rose Swartz
Lab Report -
Natalie Sypolt
Diving
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M. Chase Colton
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Short Fiction Contest
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Megan Anderegg Malone
Death Threat -
Chris Feliciano Arnold
Salt -
Diana Kole
Listened
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Megan Anderegg Malone
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Review
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Dan Chelotti on Kevin Young
Review of The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing -
Dan Rosenberg on Christian Hawkey
Ventrakl: Georg Trakl Redubbed for the Twenty-first Century -
Jason Schneiderman on Atsuro Riley
Review of Atsuro Riley’s Romey’s Order -
Jay Thompson on S. Gridley, J. Cross & L. Phillips
Operations of Mind: Sarah Gridley’s Green is the Orator, John Cross’s Staring at the Animal, and Lance Phillips’s These Indicium Tales -
Alexander Yates on Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding
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Dan Chelotti on Kevin Young
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Essay
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Interview
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David H. Lynn with Roger Rosenblatt
Poetry
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John Allman
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Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
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Tung-Hui Hu
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Dana Levin
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James Midgley
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Hannah Sanghee Park
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Brian Swann
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Christian Teresi
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Christian C. Thompson
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Eleni Vakalo
Fiction
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M. Chase Colton
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Alex Epstein
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Joseph Fazio
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Julie Iromuanya
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Jess Lacher
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Rose Swartz
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Natalie Sypolt
Short Fiction Contest
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Megan Anderegg Malone
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Chris Feliciano Arnold
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Diana Kole
Review
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Dan Chelotti on Kevin Young
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Dan Rosenberg on Christian Hawkey
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Jason Schneiderman on Atsuro Riley
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Jay Thompson on S. Gridley, J. Cross & L. Phillips
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Alexander Yates on Benjamin Percy
Essay
Interview
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David H. Lynn with Roger Rosenblatt
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