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- DOUG ANDERSON: Undress, She Said
- MAGGIE ANDERSON: Windfall: New and Selected Poems
- THOMAS ASLIN: Salvage
- JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: Finding Cuba
- DAVID BAKER: Changeable Weather
- DAVID BAKER: Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry
- JOHN BALABAN: Path, Crooked Path
- NED BALBO: The Trials of Edgar Allan Poe and Other Poems
- MELISSA BALMAIN: Walking in on People
- MICHAEL BAZZETT: The Interrogation
- LINDA BIERDS: First Hand
- DEBORAH BOGEN: Landscape with Silos
- PAULA BOHINCE: Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
- MICHAEL MOMBARDIER: What We Do
- MARIANNE BORUCH: Grace, Fallen From
- DAVID BOTTOMS: Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems
- DAVID BOTTOMS: Vagrant Grace
- MARGUERITE BOUVARD: The Unpredictability of Light
- JERRY BRADLEY: South of the Boredom
- T. ALAN BROUGHTON: A World Remembered
- JERICHO BROWN: Please
- STEPHANIE BROWN: Domestic Interior
- JULIE BRUCK: Monkey Ranch
- CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY: Star Journal
- LAUREN CAMP: One Hundred Hungers: Poems
- LAUREN CAMP: Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico
- ELIOT CARDINAUX: On the Long Blue Night
- JARED CARTER: After the Rain
- JARED CARTER: Cross this Bridge at a Walk
- JARED CARTER: Darkened Rooms of Summer
- JARED CARTER: Les Barricades Mystérieuses: Thirty-Two Villanelles
- JARED CARTER: Work, for the Night Is Coming
- PATRICIA CLARK: The Canopy
- PATRICIA CLARK: My Father on a Bicycle
- MARTHA COLLINS: White Papers
- MARK CONWAY: Any Holy City
- MARYANN CORBETT: In Code
- ROBERT W. CRAWFORD: Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man
- BARBARA CROOKER: Line Dance
- BARBARA CROOKER: More
- BARBARA CROOKER: Radiance
- BARBARA CROOKER: Some Glad Morning
- RACHEL CUSTER: Flatback Sally Country
- GEFFREY DAVIS: Night Angler
- JOHN PAUL DAVIS: Climbing a Burning Rope
- CARL DENNIS: Another Reason
- CARL DENNIS: Night School
- ALEX DIMITROV: Together and by Ourselves
- SHARON DOLIN: Serious Pink
- RITA DOVE: American Smooth
- JEHANNE DUBROW: Dots and Dashes
- REBECCA DUNHAM: Cold Pastoral
- LYNNELL EDWARDS: The Highwayman’s Wife
- CLAUDIA EMERSON: Late Wife
- ALEJANDRO ESCUDE: The Book of the Unclaimed Dead
- EVE EWING: Electric Arches
- B.H. FAIRCHILD: Local Knowledge
- PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Necessary Light
- PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Duties of the Spirit
- PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Duties of the Spirit
- PATRICIA FARGNOLI: Then, Something
- LOISA FENICHELL: Wandering in All Directions of This Earth
- BETH ANN FENNELLY: Open House
- JIM FERRIS: The Hospital Poems
- DIANE GILLIAM FISHER: Kettle Bottom
- ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Blue Window
- ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Dream Cabinet
- ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Mississippi
- ANN FISHER-WIRTH: Paradise Is Jagged
- KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN: Famous
- RACHE CONTRENI FLYNN: Tongue
- JEFF FRIEDMAN: Black Threads
- JEFF FRIEDMAN: Taking Down the Angel
- CAROL FROST: Alias City
- BRENDAN GALVIN: Ocean Effects
- DAVID GRAHAM AND KATE SONTAG, EDS.: After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
- JORIE GRAHAM: Never
- WILLIAM GREENWAY: Everywhere at Once
- MARILYN HACKER: Names
- H. PALMER HALL: Foreign and Domestic
- H. PALMER HALL: Reflections on Writing, Publishing & Other Things
- GWEN HART: Lost and Found
- YONA HARVEY: Hemming the Water
- BRENDA HILLMAN: Cascadia
- JANET HOLMES: The Green Tuxedo
- CATHY PARK HONG: Dance Dance Revolution
- MARIE HOWE: Magdaline
- TOM C. HUNLEY: Here Lies
- KASEY JUEDS: Keeper
- DONALD JUSTICE: Collected Poems
- ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: Wild Greens
- ILYA KAMINSKY: Dancing in Odessa
- MARY KARR: Sinners Welcome
- SARAH KENNEDY: The Gold Thread
- CHARLES KELL: Ishmael Mask
- ATHENA KILDEGAARD: Ventriloquy
- TED KOOSER: Delights & Shadows
- NORBERT KRAPF: Bloodroot: Indiana Poems
- MARILYN KRYSL: Swear the Burning Vow: Selected and New Poems
- LANCE LARSEN: In All Their Animal Brilliance
- LI-YOUNG LEE: Behind My Eyes
- BRAD LEITHAUSER: The Oldest Word for Dawn
- LYNN LEVIN: Imaginarium
- PHILIP LEVINE: The Mercy
- LARRY LEVIS: Elegy
- LARRY LEVIS: The Gazer Within
- LARRY LEVIS: The Selected Levis
- KATHRYN LEVY: Losing the Moon
- LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: Flight from the Mother Stone
- DIANE LOCKWARD: Eve’s Red Dress
- DIANE LOCKWARD: The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement
- DIANE LOCKWARD: What Feeds Us
- RACHEL LODEN: Hotel Imperium
- BOBBIE LURIE: Letter from the Lawn
- JOANIE MACKOWSKI: View from a Temporary Window
- MARY MAKOFSKE: Traction
- CHARLOTTE MANDEL: Rock Vein Sky
- SARAH MANGUSO: Siste Viator
- DAVID MASON: Sea Salt
- WILLIAM MATTHEWS: Search Party
- CAMPBELL MCGRATH: Pax Atomica
- IRENE MCKINNEY: Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?
- AMY MECKLER: What All the Sleeping Is For
- JOSHUA MEHIGAN: Accepting the Disaster
- JOSHUA MEHIGAN: The Optimist
- PHILIP METRES: To See the Earth
- JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY: Litany for Wound and Bloom
- JUDITH MONTGOMERY: Red Jess
- JULIE L. MOORE: “Full Worm Moon”
- KAY MULLEN: Homecoming
- KAY MULLEN: A Long Remembering: Return to Vietnam
- CARY NELSON, ED.: The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War
- ERIC NELSON: Horse Not Zebra
- KATHY NELSON: The Ledger of Mistakes
- SUSANNAH NEVISON: Lethal Theater
- KATE NORTHROP: Things Are Disappearing Here
- ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: Lovers’ Almanac
- DAVID ORR: Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
- GREGORY ORR: The Blessing
- GREGORY ORR: The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
- GREGORY ORR: Poetry as Survival
- ALICIA OSTRIKER: The Book of Seventy
- FRANK PAINO: Obscura
- MICHAEL PALMER: The Lion Bridge
- CHRISTINE PERRIN: Bright Mirror
- KEVIN PILKINGTON: In the Eyes of a Dog
- MARIANNE POLOSKEY: Climbing the Shadows
- LAURA VAN PROOYEN: Our House Was on Fire
- RICKY RAY: Fealty
- SUSAN RICH: The Alchemist’s Kitchen
- DON SCHOFIELD: Approximately Paradise
- SHEROD SANTOS: The Perishing
- SHEROD SANTOS: The Pilot Star Elegies
- SHEROD SANTOS: A Poetry of Two Minds
- MARGOT SCHILPP: The World’s Last Night
- ELAINE SEXTON: Sleuth
- VIVIAN SHIPLEY: Fair Haven
- VIVIAN SHIPLEY: Hardboot: Poems New and Old
- VIVIAN SHIPLEY: When There Is No Shore
- MARTHA SILANO: The Little Offices of the Immaculate Conception
- ANN SILSBEE: The Book of Ga
- ANN SILSBEE: Orioling
- A.E. STALLINGS: Olives
- MELISSA STEIN: Terrible Blooms
- MEGHAN STERLING: These Few Seeds
- ALISON STINE: Wait
- MARK STRAND: The Weather of Words
- MARILYN L. TAYLOR: Subject to Change
- SUSAN TERRIS: Poetic License
- LARRY D. THOMAS: A Murder of Crows
- CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: Keeping My Name
- BRIAN TURNER: Phantom Noise
- PAMELA USCHUK: Wild in the Plaza of Memory
- WENDY VIDELOCK: Nevertheless
- JUDITH VOLLMER: The Water Books
- G.C. WALDREP: feast gently
- WILLIAM WALTZ: Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America
- MICHAEL WATERS: Caw
- INGRID WENDT: Evensong
- INGRID WENDT: Surgeonfish
- MARK W. VAN WIENAN, ED: Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War
- SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS: Ashes in Midair
- ROSEMARY WINSLOW: Green Bodies
- CHARLES WRIGHT: Littlefoot
- CHARLES WRIGHT: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
- CHARLES WRIGHT: Oblivion Banjo
- CHARLES WRIGHT: Scar Tissue
- CHARLES WRIGHT: Sestets
- FRANZ WRIGHT: Wheeling Motel
- ROBERT WRIGLEY: The True Account of Myself as A Bird
- DAVID BAKER: “Excerpt from ‘Introduction’ to Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry”
- EDWARD BYRNE: “Life and Language: On the 50th Anniversary of Robert Lowell’s Life Studies”
- EDWARD BYRNE: “Twentieth Anniversary Editor’s Note”
- LAURA EBBERSON: “Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetic Voice: Reconciling Influences”
- W.D. EHRHART: “Words for John Balaban”
- JEFFREY FRANK: “Poetry and the Cosmopolitan: Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems”
- DAVID GRAHAM: “Voluminous Underwear: or, Why I Write Self-Portraits”
- DAVID GRAHAM: “The Ultra-Talk Poem & Mark Halliday”
- H. PALMER HALL: “John Balaban’s Vietnamese Translations”
- H. PALMER HALL: “Why I Still Write about the War”
- JONATHAN HOLDEN: “William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage”
- CLAIRE KEYES: “Marianne Boruch and the Art of Surprise”
- LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “James Dickey: Four Commentaries”
- JOHN LINSTROM: “Seeking a Center for Ecopoetics”
- ALEXANDER LONG: “Lunch with Larry”
- ALEXANDER LONG: “The Natural Prayer of the Soul: The Shared Gaze of James Wright and Larry Levis”
- WALT MCDONALD: “Advice I Wish I’d Been Told”
- ANDREW MULVANIA: “Confessions of St. Charles: Confession as Spiritual Autobiography in the Work of Charles Wright”
- JOSEPH POWELL: “On the Newer Bees in Darwin’s Garden”
- KATE SONTAG: “Mother, May I?: Writing with Love”
- ANGELA TARASKIEWICZ: “String Theory: The Poetry of A.E. Stallings”
- INGRID WENDT: “Turning to Poems”
- JENNIFER YAROS: “Nature and the Self: Dickinson, Bishop, Plath, and Oliver”
- EVAN SCOTT BRYSON: “Q&A with John Balaban”
- EDWARD BYRNE: “A.E. Stallings Interviewed by Edward Byrne”
- EDWARD BYRNE: “Conversation with Elise Paschen”
- EDWARD BYRNE: “Q&A with Brian Turner”
- BARBARA CROOKER: “Ingrid Wendt Interviewed”
- JOUGH DEMPSEY: “Q&A with Jared Carter”
- CHRIS ELLIS: “Q&A with Jonathan Holden”
- SONDRA GASH: “Q&A with Diane Lockward”
- KAREN MCCARTHY: “Q&A with Bernardine Evaristo”
- KATHLEEN MULLEN: “Seeing into the Predictable: An Interview of Catherine Tufariello”
- ANDREW MULVANIA: “Q&A with Sherod Santos”
- LINDA SIMONE: “Ready to Eat the Sky: An Interview of Kevin Pilkington”
- MATTHEW THORBURN: “‘What Transports Us’: An Interview with Elaine Sexton”
- DARRYL TIPPENS: “Evidence of Grace: An Interview with Walt McDonald”
- RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE: “La Poesia Está en El Corazón: Virgil Suarez’s Transformation from Novelist to Poet”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Abraham Rattner: Still Life Composition No. 3”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Al Held”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Art Green”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Charles Demuth”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Charles White: Solid as a Rock”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “David Hockney: Slow Rise”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Ed Paschke: Strano”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Elizabeth Nourse: Le Gouter”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Ellen Lanyon: Silk Cabbby”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Fare”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Frank V. Dudley: Shadows and Sunlit Silence”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Frederic Edwin Church: Mountain Landscape”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “George Ames Aldrich”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Georgia O’Keeffe: Rust Red Hills”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Hazel Hannell: Still Life, 1946”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “James Garrett Faulkner”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Jeanette Pasin Sloan”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Jim Dine: Rancho Woodcut Art”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Jim Nutt”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “John August Swanson: Festival of Lights”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “John James Audubon: Purple Grackle”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Kara Walker: no world”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Madame Butterfly: A Spectacular Woodcut Triptych by Helen Frankenthaler”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Martin Puryear”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Neil Goodman”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Paul Sierra: Family Portrait”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Richard Hunt”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Richard Loving: Watering System”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Robert Brauer”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Robert Cottingham: W. 12th”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Robert Lostutter”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Sadao Watanabe: Listening”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Santuaria de Chimayo”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Study for a Drawing: Stuart Davis”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Su Kwak”
- GREGG HErTZLIEB: “Thomas H. Kapsalis: Still Life and Cloth”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Timothy Van Laar: Shadow Pictures”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Vera Klement”
- GREGG HERTZLIEB: “William Conger”