Poem

Third Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Christopher Edgar

Introduction by John Ashbery

  • Christopher Edgar

Night Picnic

  • Charles Simic

Poet’s Sampler: Loren Graham

Introduced by Susan Wheeler

  • Loren Graham

So Little Cause

  • Anna Rabinowitz

Ventriloquy

  • Andrew Zawacki

Amphitheaters

  • E. A. Hilbert

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A Million Futures of Late

  • Christine Hume

Recipes for Red (From Such Rich Hour)

  • Cole Swensen

Monstrous

  • Lynn Melnick

Year Zero

  • Joshua Clover

Purgatorio, Canto XXIX

Translated by W. S. Merwin

  • W.S. Merwin

The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

Winner of the Second Annual Poetry Contest

  • Stephanie Strickland

Air for Mercury

  • Brenda Hillman

A Photograph of a Crowd

  • Wisława Szymborska

A Knock on the Door

  • James Tate

Elsewhere, things tend

  • Claudia Rankine

Like God,

  • Lynn Emanuel

Papyrus

  • Eamon Grennan

Poet’s Sampler: Jeff Clark

  • Heather McHugh
  • Jeff Clark

Logic

  • Emily Fragos

The Master of Ceremonies

  • Charles Simic

Talking to Little Birdies

  • Charles Simic

Outside the Blue Nile

  • Yusef Komunyakaa
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