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Elizabeth Alexander,   Race
Agha Shahid Ali,   Ghazal
Scott Anderson,   Carpentry
David Antin,   The Noise of Time
Rae Armantrout,    As One
---     Imaginary Places
John Ashbery,   Going Away Any Time Soon
---     The Spacious Firmament
David Baker,   Holiday Bunting
María Baranda,   Epistle of the Shipwreck   (translated by Mónica de la Torre)
Charles Baudelaire,   Autumn Song  (translated by Stephen Monte)
Jeanne Marie Beaumont,    Making History
Cal Bedient,    No. 2 Pencil Quaquaversal Shout
---     You Can Be the Subject of Wild Admiration in Ten Days
Joshua Bell,   Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona
---     Zombie Sunday
Aaron Belz,   Direction
April Bernard,   Pierced
---     Procedurals
---     Not Rome
Charles Bernstein,   Stele for Lost Time
Lisa C. Beskin,   The Sound of Music
---    An Inner Life for Dummies
Mark Bibbins,  Isla Mujeres
---     from Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs
Sophie Cabot Black,   Break Me to Prove I Am Unbroken
---    The Tooth
---    Cougar
Stephen Bluestone,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Donald Hall)
Daniel Bosch,   Winner, First Annual Poetry Contest, (introduced by Jane Miller)
Michelle J. Boese, An Audit by the Patio
Lucie Brock-Broido,    Boy at the Border of His Own Allegory
Lee Ann Brown,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Elaine Equi)
Stephen Burt,   A Sudden Rain in the Green Mountains
Hayden Carruth,   Graves
Anne Carson   Helen
---    Victory Must Be a Supremely Glorious Experience
Cyrus Cassells,   The Toss
Paul Celan,   With wine and being lost (Translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh)
---    Frankfurt, September (Translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh)
---    Threesome, Foursome (Translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh)
---    Your heart manholed (Translated from the German by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh)
James Cervantes,   from Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life
Joshua Clover,   Year Zero
Michael Coffey,   Holiday à la Carte
Michael Collier,   The Rancher
Gillian Conoley,   Three Women then a Still Life
Mark Conway,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido)
Joshua Corey,   The Kitchen of Francesca and Paolo
---   Un Chasseur de l’Hôtel des Étoiles Aveugles
---   Caliban’s Orchestra
Alfred Corn,   Maui’s Concerto for Island and Developer
---   "The Report of My Death Is an Exaggeration"
Caroline Crumpacker,   The First Line of My Dissertation
Mairym Cruz-Bernal,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Deborah Digges)
Dante,   Canto XXIX: Purgatorio  (translated and introduced by W.S. Merwin)
---   Canto XIII: The Wood of the Suicides  (translated and introduced by Robert Pinsky)
Christina Davis,   The Poet Donates Her Body to Science, 
---   Severance
Jordan Davis,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by David Shapiro)
Susan Davis,   La Musica Nova
Cort Day,   Not a Cloud in the Sky
---    Mouth
Monica de la Torre,   Poems of Depth
Gerardo Deniz,   Rerum Novarum (translated by Monica de la Torre)
---   Romulus Augustulus (translated by Monica de la Torre)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa,   By the wayside
Ray DiPalma,  Sequel #3
---      Sequel #17
Stuart Dischell,   Evening III
Anne Doolittle,    Poems from The Floor of the Mall
Ben Doyle,   Weathers
Karen Drayne    Paper Sacrifice
Denise Duhamel and Maurreen Seaton,   The Origin of Olive Oil
Jamey Dunham,   Laurie’s House
Craig Dworkin,   Cyril Method
Christopher Edgar,   Third Annual Poetry Contest Winner (introduced by John Ashbery)
Stephen Ellis,    Murder Mystery
Thomas Sayers Ellis,   View-Master
Lynn Emanuel,   Portrait of the Author as Raoul
---     Like God,
Angie Estes, Requiem
Monica Ferrell,   Fear
Miranda Field,    Housefire
---     Poet’s Sampler (introduced by James Longenbach)
Barbara Fischer,   Arachne: Recent Memory
Robert Fitterman,    Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Bruce Andrews)
Orides Fontela,    Poet’s Sampler(introduced by Brenda Hillman)
Josey Foo,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Arthur Sze)
Emily Fragos,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Marie Ponsot)
---     The Vermeer Lady
---     Hall of Records
Barbara Claire Freeman,    St. Ursula’s Origin
Benjamin Friedlander,    Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Robert Creeley)
Margaret Funkhouser,   Matelot Turnstile
John Gallaher,   A Guidebook to When THings Were Better
---   A Guidebook to The Afterlife
James Galvin,    Ponderosa
---     Show and Tell
Forrest Gander,   The Ceremony of Opening the Mouth and the Eyes
Amy Gerstler,   Spring Tonic
David Gewanter,   Boy’s Poem
Stephen Robert Gibson, Poet's Sampler (introduced by Marie Howe)
Peter Gizzi,   Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
---   Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil
Patricia Goedicke,   Love Song and Magnificat (O Short Prince)
Jorie Graham,   The Guardian Angel of the Private Life
---   Underneath (9)
---   Bouleversement
Loren Graham,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Susan Wheeler)
Linda Gregg,   Calamities
Richard Greenfield,   Piece Together
Eamon Grennan,   Papyrus
Allen Grossman,   Thunderstruck
---    SHAZAM!
Beth Gylys,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by David Lehman)
Rachel Hadas,   Orange
---     Sunset
Joseph Harrison ,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Rachel Hadas)
Karri Harrison,   The Mutiny on the Bounty
Laura Hartmark,   Argentina
Matthea Harvey,    Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
---   by bicycle
Brian Henry,   Discretionary Income
---   A Man, His Dog, and Some Fish: An Aubade
Claire Hero,  Exhibit: Leftover Model from the Museum of History
---     Momentary Gardens
E. A. Hilbert,   Amphitheaters
Mary Crockett Hill, The Farmers of Good Dirt
Brenda Hillman,   Proud Energy
---     Air for Mercury
---     Half the Half-Nocturnes
Paul Hoover,   American Gestures
---     The Task
Joan Houlihan,   Unrelenting
Richard Howard,   Dorothea Tanning’s Cousins
---     Attachments
Christine Hume,   A Million Futures of Late
Don Hymans,   Facing South by True North
Mark Irwin,   Because
Devin Johnston, The Art of Autobiography
Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry,   Apostrophe (deftly turned phrase)
Galway Kinnell,   Telephoning In Mexican Sunlight
John Kinsella, Poltergeist House Eclogue
Joanna Klink,  Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Allen Grossman)
---     Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
---     Sea by Dusk
Bill Knott    Dearth Demise
---     Echo Near the End
---     Poem That Wants to Be Ash
---     (L)ID
---     (L)Poem
---     (L)Portrait
Yusef Komunyakaa,   Outside the Blue Nile
Carolyn Koo,   Poet Sampler (introduced by Paul Hoover)
Aaron Kunin,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Peter Gizzi)
John Latta    Daunting
---     Romp and Storm
Brett Fletcher Lauer,    Towards Lethargy: A Solo for One Voice
---    Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Matthew Rohrer)
David Lehman    December 14
---     January 1
---     To the Author of Glare
---     A Quick One Before I Go (November 14)
Dana Levin,   Lenin’s Bath
Mark Levine,   Counting the Forests
Robert Lietz,   Gettin Out
Kate Lilley,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by John Tranter)
Tan Lin,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Charles Bernstein)
Thomas David Lisk,    The Sleep Coffins
Timothy Liu,    Prothalamion
---     Prothalamion
James Longenbach,    Two Travelers
Elizabeth Macklin,   Happy Jacks on Our Saturday Morning
---   The Definite Article
Joanie Mackowski,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Richard Kenney)
Sarah Manguso,   Wild Goose Chase
Fred Marchant,   Butterfly Chair
Harry Mathews,   Butter and Eggs
John Matthias,   The Key of C Does Not Know My Biography
---     That Music is the Spur to all Licentiousness
---     Received by Angels Singing Like the Birds
Gail Mazur,   Revenant
Ida McCall, Arrange Me, Mysterious Men
Pattie McCarthy,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Cole Swensen)
Michael Jay McClure,   We Love You
Walter McDonald,   Uncle Douglas and the Whirring Blades
Kathleen McGookey,   Brave Faces
Heather McHugh,   Of the Woe That Swallows Hue
---     Arm and Pec (the 2 adillos)
Richard Meier,   Correct Mistake
Lynn Melnick,   These Pretty Years
---   Monstrous
W. S. Merwin,   Canto XXIX:Purgatorio  
Joe Millar,   Gin
Carol Moldaw,   In Memorium: Franklin Walker III 1954-1988
Steven Monte,   At first you don’t succeed
Paul Naylor,    Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis
---   Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers
Kirk Nesset,    I Will, I Will Not
Charles North,   Sonnet
Geoffrey G. O’Brien,   The snow was the future perfect of snow
Marlon Ohnesorge-Fick,    Crows
Imre Oravecz,   Today, Accidentally
Eric Ormsby,   Jaham and the Old Poet
Jay Parini,   Street Boys
Ethan Paquin,   More Like Montpelier
Deborah W. Patillo,   Closer
---   Vale
Bradley Paul,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by John Yau)
John Peck,   Barn Doorway in July
Darryl Phelps,   The Crime
Carl Phillips,   A Touring Man Loses His Way
---   The Deposition
---   Like Cuttings for a Wreath of Praise and Ransom
---   Mastery
Kevin Pilkington,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Thomas Lux)
Robert Pinsky,   Canto XIII: The Wood of the Suicides
Stanley Plumly,   Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
D. A. Powell,   [these moves were not acquired overnight...]
---     [because as lives are aching I am lucky: a poisonal cup]
---      Winner, Fourth Annual Poetry Contest, (introduced by Carl Phillips)
P. F. Potvin,    The Attention Lesson
Anna Rabinowitz,   So Little Cause
Alicia Rabins,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Claudia Rankine)
Bin Ramke, Thou Hast Blessed the Work of His Hands
Claudia Rankine,    In this sense, beyond
---     A short narrative in service of plot entitled Proximity of Exposed to Posed
---     from Please Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Stephen Ratcliffe,   from REAL
Liam Rector,   One for the Guys
Donald Revell,   Concord
---     The Memory of New England
Martha Rhodes,   Why She Hurries Out, Then Home
Frances Richard,   Plus Appetite
Arthur Rimbaud, Les Corbeaux (translated by John Kinsella)
David Rivard,   Message to the Bride
Cristina Rivera-Garza,   Poet’s Sampler (Introduced by Lynn Emanuel)
Robin Robertson,   Tryst
Matthew Rohrer   Homage to My Waitress
Jennifer Rose,   First Frost in the Suburbs
Tessa Rumsey,   Countdown to Pearl String of Planets
Kay Ryan,   Caps
Peter Sacks,   Channel
---     Election
Tomaz Salamun,   Letter to Artaud
Andrew Salkey,   After the War on the Land
Maureen Seaton,   Miss Molly Rockin’ in the House of Blue Light
Jennifer Scappettone,    Sonnet Macaronic
---     III
Robyn Selman,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Lloyd Schwartz)
Alan Shapiro,   In the Land of the Inheritance
Pragetta Sharma,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Forest Gander)
Brenda Shaughnessy,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Richard Howard)
Laurie Sheck,   from Black Series
---     Seaweeds
Reginald Shepherd,   syntax
Peter Jay Shippy,   America: Before the Last War
Spencer Short,   The Bedbug Variations
Charles Simic,   Talking to Little Birdies
---     Night Picnic
Laura Sims,   For Girls Only
Tom Sleigh,   After Midnight
Katherine Soniat,   Goshen Gap
---     The Dream Salon
Gilbert Sorrentino,   Jersey City Palms
---    In Memoriam Richard and Yael
Susan Stewart,   When I’m Crying, I’m Not Speaking
---    When I’m Speaking, I’m Not Crying
Emma Straub,   Deconstructing Stefan, or Destructing Stefan
Stephanie Strickland,   The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot (Second Annual Poetry Contest Winner)
Jesper Svenbro,   Rainbows (translated by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson)
---   Saint-Merri (translated by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson)
Cole Swensen,   Recipes for the Red (from Such Rich Hour)
---     Preface (from Such Rich Hour)
Thomas Swiss,   The River
Arthur Sze,  Thermodynamics
Wislawa Szymborska A Photograph of a Crowd
Dorothea Tanning 9 table settings
---     Flea Market (Rainy Day)
James Tate,    The Gentle Beckendorfs
James Tate,    Lust for Life
Brian Teare,   From “[ Adam ]in fragments/with a poem engraved/down the thighs”
Tom Thompson,   It’s a Small Design, Frost
David Trinidad,   Searching for Anne’s Grave
Sam Truitt,    Poet’s Sampler (introduced by C. D. Wright)
Mark Turpin,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Robert Pinsky)
Lee Upton,   Censorship
Corinna Vallianatos,   A Genius Made
Karen Volkman,   Seasonal
---     We did things more
---     And the urge is less
---     Sonnet
---     Sonnet
Liz Waldner,   Orpheus Under the Table
---     Seattle, Third and Pike
Kerri Webster,   Hotel Eidetic; Hotel Voluptuary; Hotel Famish
Darren Wershler-Henry and Bill Kennedy,   Apostrophe (deftly turned phrase)
Mac Wellman,   Of Isms and Prisms
Susan Wheeler,   Winner, Sixth Annual Poetry Contest (introduced by Richard Howard)
Ken White,   Accumulative
Sam White, Tuesday Night
Alan Williamson,   Rilke’s Argument with Don Giovanni
Max Winter,   Winner, Fifth Annual Poetry Contest (introduced by James Tate)
Suzanne Wise,   Highway to English
Rebecca Wolff,   4:30 Lakeshore Limited Was in the Past
Greg Wrenn,   Poet’s Sampler (Introduced by D. A. Powell)
Franz Wright,   Getting Off Work
Mark Wunderlich,   Through an Opening Door
---     From a Vacant House
John Yau,   Borrowed Love Poems
Jane Yeh,   Correspondence
Nikolai Zabolotsky,   Time
Matthew Zapruder,   Ten Questions for Mona
Andrew Zawacki,   Ventriloquy
---     Credo
Harriet Zinnes,   Eidetic
Karen Zusman,   From one light to another
---     Right down to the melody of rain...
Martha Zweig,   Poet’s Sampler (introduced by Heather McHugh)

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