Poem

Bright Burial

Winner of the 2009 Discovery Poetry Contest.

  • Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo

[It’s not true that the world is an unending return]

Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska

  • Tadeusz Dąbrowski

After Wang Ximeng’s Blue and Green Horizontal Landscape Scroll, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Sze

  • Xi Chuan
  • Arthur Sze

Mayflower Compact

  • Mark Walston

Cotton Mather Preaches on Satan

  • Mark Walston

Homecoming Dance

  • Jess Sauer

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Evaporation 2

  • Forrest Gander

The Red Cipher

  • Craig Morgan Teicher

Diabolus in Musica

  • Christina Mengert

Antietam Primer

  • Mary Pinard

Poet’s Sampler: Marsha Pomerantz

  • Marsha Pomerantz

Ten Vices

  • James Longenbach

Finally April and the Birds Are Falling Out of the Air with Joy

  • Anne Carson

The Feast

  • David Baker

Blink

  • Linda Gregerson

E is for Everything

  • Mary Jo Bang

Poem for John McCain

  • Matthew Zapruder

Fawn

  • Joseph Campana

Outpatient Procedure

  • Alan Gilbert

The Documents

  • Mathias Svalina

Flemish

  • Caroline Knox

Poet’s Sampler: Kristin Fitzsimmons

  • Kristin Fitzsimmons

Miss Peach: The Novel

  • Catie Rosemurgy

As One Bereft of Reason

  • Ken White
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