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Contents
Rick Barot
· Many Are Called
· Eight Elegies
· Reading Plato
Dan Beachy-Quick
· Prologue
· Psalm (Traherne)
· Unworn
· Afterword
Joshua Beckman
· [Final poem for the gently sifting public begins on the streetsÉ]
· [I like your handsome drugs. Your pleasantÉ]
· [The thirst of the crowd. We laid the body downÉ]
[The canals. The liquor coming throughÉ]
· Ode to an Air Traffic Controller
Josh Bell
· Poem to Line My Casket With, Ramona
· Zombie Sunday (had we but world enough and time)
· Meditation on The Consolation of Philosophy
· Sleeping with Artemis
David Berman
· Democratic Vistas
· April 13, 1865
· Community College in the Rain
· From His Bed in the Capital City
Erica Bernheim
· I Love How Your Eyes Close Every Time You Kiss Me
· Anne Boleyn
· Pavese Said Death Will Come Bearing Your Eyes
Mark Bibbins
· Just Yesterday
· All But Lost
· Groupie
· Slutty
Sherwin Bitsui
· The Northern Sun
· Apparition
· Chrysalis
Richard Blanco
· Elegant Endings
· We're Not Going to Malta
· Perfect City Code
· How It Begins/How It Ends
Joel Brouwer
· Aesthetics
· Divorce
· Hamartia Symbolized by the Stray
· Kelly, Ringling Bros. Oldest Elephant, Goes On Rampage
· The Spots
Oni Buchanan
· The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia
· The Girls
· The Term
· Room 40
· Transporter
Stephen Burt
· Ocean State
· Persephone (Unplugged)
· Paysage MoralisÄ
· Morningside Park
Dan Chiasson
· My Ravine
· Vermont
· Boston
· Song for a Play
· The Elephant
Carrie St. George Comer
· The Long Goodbye
· Shelburne Falls
· Arbor
Olena Kalyitiak Davis
· sweet reader, flannelled and tulled
· Thirty Years Rising
· All the Natural Movements of the Soul
· the unbosoming
· keep some stuff for yourself
Monica de la Torre
· How to Look at Mexican Highways
· Driven by a Strange Desire
· Golfers in the Family
Timothy Donnelly
· Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit
· Three Panels Depending on the Heart
· Birdsong From Inside the Egg
· The New Intelligence
Ben Doyle
· The War Is Over
· Forensics
· Our Man
Thomas Sayers Ellis
· Sticks
· Atomic Bride
· Slow Fade to Black
· Zapruder
Andrew Feld
· On Fire
· Intermission
· The Boxers
Monica Ferrell
· Myths of the Disappearance ("I rise like a red balloon . . .")
· Geburt des Monicakinds
· Stories from the Tower
Miranda Field
· Children's House
· Miraculous Image
· Scold's Mask
· Subway
· Housefire
Nick Flynn
· Swarm
· Hive
· Emptying Town
· Cartoon Physics, part 1
· Cartoon Physics, part 2
Katie Ford
· Flesh
· Nocturne
· The Hands of the Body Without the Body and Nothing to Hold
· Colosseum
Arielle Greenberg
· Afterwards, There Will Be a Hallway
· Berlin Series
· Nostalgia, Cheryl, is the Best Heroin
· Saints
Jennifer Grotz
· The Last Living Castrato
· Not Body
· The Wolf
· Kiss of Judas
Matthea Harvey
· Ideas Go Only So Far
· Abandoned Conversation With the Senses
· Definition of Weather
· Our Square of Lawn
· Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
Terrance Hayes
· Wind In A Box ("I claim in the last hour of this known hysterical breathing . . .")
· The Blue Terrance
· The Elegant Tongue
· A Postcard From *Okemah
· Talk
Steve Healey
· My Wrist Split Open
· As Western Culture Declined Without Its Knowing
· Where Spring Is
Thomas Heise
· Corrections
· My Pietê
· Zombie
Brian Henry
· The Pyramid
· Skin
· Rooms
· Submarine
Christine Hume
· Explanation
· Hume's Suicide of the External World
· Sampler City
· Comprehension Questions
Major Jackson
· Blunts
· Euphoria
· Pest
· Don Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz CafÄ
Lisa Jarnot
· Poem Beginning With a Line by Frank Lima
· The New Life
· Song of the Chinchilla
· The United States of America
· The Girl Who Couldn't Be Loved
A.Van Jordan
· Beggar's Song
· Kind of Blue
· Public Radio Plays Eddie Harris
Ilya Kaminsky
· Author's Prayer
· Dancing in Odessa
· Maestro
Sally Keith
· Orphean Song
· Mechanics
· The Gallery
· Subtraction Song
Suji Kwock Kim
· Occupation
· Monologue for an Onion
· On Sparrows
James Kimbrell
· Empty House
· Letters to a Vanishing FiancÄe
· Salvation
· My Psychic
Joanna Klink
· Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
· Porch and Snow
· Mariana Trench
· And Having Lost Track
Noelle Kocot
· An Ordinary Evening
· Bad Aliens
· Gypsy Summer
· Civilization Day
· I Am Like a Desert Owl, An Owl Among the Ruins
Katy Lederer
· Sympathy and Envy
· A Dream of Mimesis
· In Las Vegas
Dana Levin
· Ars Poetica (the idea)
· Chill Core
· Glass Heart
· Cinema VeritÄ
Maurice Manning
· First
· A Condensed History of Beauty
· On Death
· On God
· boss of ashes boss of dust
Sabrina Orah Mark
· Hello
· The Babies
· The Mustache
· Transylvania, 1919
· The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter
Corey Marks
· Portrait of a Child
· Three Bridges
· After the Shipwreck
Khaled Mattawa
· I Was Buried in Janzoor
· Growing Up With A Sears Catalogue in Benghazi, Libya
· Echo & Elixir 1
· Echo & Elixir 2
Jeffrey McDaniel
· Logic in the House of Sawed-Off Telescopes
· Lineage
· Opposites Attack
· The Archipelago of Kisses
· Dear America
Joyelle McSweeeney
· Still Life W/Influences
· The Wind Domes
· Persuasion
Sarah Messer
· Look,
· With This Change to Indoor Lighting
· Rendered Dog
· Marriage Proposal
Ethan Paquin
· Hearing Music Through Dark Trees
· Capstone
· When I Don't Think of This World
Alan Michael Parker
· Driving Past My Exit
· The Vandals
· The Vandals Dying
· Practicing Their Diffidence, The Vandals
D.A. Powell
· [sleek mechanical dart: the syringe noses into the blue vein marking the target of me]
· [when you touch down upon this earth.little reindeers]
· [tall and thin and young and lovely the michael with kaposi's sarcoma goes walking]
· [writing for a young man on the redtrain: "to his boy mistress"]
· [coda & discography]
Kevin Prufer
· For the Unfortunates
· The End of the City
· A Car Has Fallen From a Bridge
· The Rise of Rome
· On Finding a Swastika Carved on a Tree in the Hills Above Heidelberg
Srikanth Reddy
· Corruption
· Scarecrow Eclogue
· Second Circle
· Evening With Stars
· Burial Practice
Paisley Rekdal
· Strawberry
· Stupid
· What Was There to Bring Me to Delight But to Love and Be Loved?
· A Crash of Rhinos
Matthew Rohrer
· Childhood Stories
· From The World at Night ("I went out one night with people from workÉ")
· My Government
· We Never Should Have Stopped at Pussy Island
Tessa Rumsey
· More Important Than the Design of Cities Will Be the Design of Their Decay
· Man-Torpedo-Boat
· Assembling My Shepherd ("Thrown out of a third story window on acid late spring")
· Never Morocco
· Big Rig the Baroque Sky
Patty Seyburn
· The Alphabetizer Speaks
· First Bookshelf
· What I Disliked about the Pleistocene Era
Robyn Schiff
· At the Shedd Aquarium
· Chanel No. 5
· Vampire Finch
· Woodpecker Finch
· House of Dior
Brenda Shaugnessy
· Your Name On It
· Epithalament
· Post-Feminism
· You Love, You Wonder
· Panopticon
Richard Siken
· Boot Theory
· A Primer For the Small Weird Loves
· Saying Your Names
Tracy K. Smith
· Self-Portrait as the Letter Y
· History
· Duende
Juliana Spahr
· localism or t/here
· December 1, 2002
· December 4, 2002
· January 28, 2003
Larissa Szporluk
· Meteor
· One Thousand Bullfrogs Rejoice
· Holy Ghost
· Eohippus
· Elsewhere
Brian Teare
· First Person Plural as a House
· Set for a Southern Gothic
· Detail From "Set From a Southern Gothic"
· Dead House, Sonnet
· Trick Noir
Ann Townsend
· They Call You Moody
· Touch Me Not
· Modern Love
Natasha Trethewey
· Miscegenation
· Genus Narcissus
· Countess P; Ôs Advice for New Girls
· Native Guard
Pimone Triplett
· For the Mother Tongue
· Next to Last Prayer
· Portraits at the Epicenter
Karen Volkman
· [Now I promise . . . ]
· [If it be event . . . ]
· The Case
· May
· Kiss Me Deadly
G.C. Waldrep
· The Miracles of St. Sebastian
· What Begins Bitterly Becomes Another Love Poem
· Hotel d'Avignon
· Canada!
Joe Wenderoth
· As Hour and Year Collapsed
· Send New Beasts
· Narrative Poem
· Where I Stand With Regard to the Game
Greg Williaamson
· Italics, Mine
· Nervous Systems
· Junkyard
Emily Wilson
· [Wind in bare vinesÉ]
· Relict
· Coal Age
· The Fossil Garden
Suzanne Wise
· Testimony
· Confession
· Fifty Years in the Career of an Aspiring Thug
· Advice
Rebecca Wolff
· Press Play
· Sybil
· Lamb, Willow: An Arch Dolefulness Has Taken Me This Far
Mark Wunderrlich
· Amaryllis
· Voluntary Servitude
· Fourteen Things We're Allowed to Bring to the Underworld
· Predictions About a Black Car
Monica Youn
· Naglfar
· Night Ferry to Naxos 1
· Night Ferry to Naxos 2
· Flatlanders
C. Dale Young
· Proximity
· Torn
· Infidelity
Kevin Young
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2.
3.
4.
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Matthew Zapruder
· Canada
· School Street
· Whoever You Are
Andrew Zawacki
· Credo
· Velocity among the Ruins of Angel Republic
· Vertigo
· [one of me stuttered and oneÉ]
Rachel Zucker
· Diary: Underworld ("Only a mother . . .")
· Not Knowing Nijinsky or Diaghilev
· In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger
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American poetry -- 21st century.