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Leslie Marie Aguilar |
Poem for the Educated Black Woman … |
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Christeene Alcosiba |
What Remains Is Given Up to the Fire |
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Pia Aliperti |
Boiler |
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Dick Allen |
from The Zen Master Poems |
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David Alpaugh |
Strip Taze |
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David Alpaugh |
Space Monkey |
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Arlene Ang |
Tonsillitis |
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Arlene Ang |
A Driving Student Adjusts the Seat |
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Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz |
Op-Ed for the Sad Sack Review |
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Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz |
At the Office Holiday Party |
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Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz |
Things That Happen During Pet-Sitting … |
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Robert Archambeau |
The People’s Republic of Sleepless… |
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James Arthur |
Sad Robots |
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Matthew Babcock |
Passage |
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Kathleen Balma |
Roadkill on the Path to Salvation |
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Li Bai |
Alone on Mount Jingting |
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Caleb Barber |
I Went in With My Hands Up |
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John Wall Barger |
Three Photos of Jayne Mansfield |
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Tony Barnstone |
Jack Logan, Fighting Airman |
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Tony Barnstone |
Bad Usage |
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Tony Barnstone |
Why I’m Not a Carpenter |
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Tony Barnstone |
The Truth Is That He Never |
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Tony Barnstone |
Young Woman Drinking… |
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Ellen Bass |
How I Became Miss America |
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Michele Battiste |
Once More, With Feeling |
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Grace Bauer |
Our Waitress’s Marvelous Legs |
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Ruth Bavetta |
Elegy for My 1958 Volkswagen |
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Michael Bazzett |
The Usefulness of Marriage |
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Michael Bazzett |
The Last Expedition |
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Francesca Bell |
With a Little Education |
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Francesca Bell |
Narrow Openings |
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Heather Bell |
Love Letter to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill |
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Lytton Bell |
Jane’s Heartbreak Yard Sale |
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Marvin Bell |
from A Conversation with Marvin Bell |
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Karen Benke |
Joyride |
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C. Wade Bentley |
Storytelling |
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Roy Bentley |
Ringo Starr Answers Questions … |
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Kristin Berkey-Abbott |
Currencies |
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F.J. Bergmann |
Uses of Metaphor |
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Gregory Betts |
Lingers Tear Gas |
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Darla Biel |
When My Ex Called in Sick |
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Michelle Bitting |
Mammary |
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Michael Blaine |
Jayus |
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Laurie Blauner |
The Hit Man Absentmindedly… |
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Laurie Blauner |
Peculiar Crimes |
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Sally Bliumis-Dunn |
Meaning |
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Sally Bliumis-Dunn |
Gratitude |
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Michael Boccardo |
Weighing In |
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Bruce Bond |
Boo |
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Jan Bottiglieri |
Dear Atlas, |
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Russell Bradbury-Carlin |
Rooms Change When We Argue |
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Amanda J. Bradley |
To Thomas Pynchon Regarding... |
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Myra Binns Bridgforth |
3PM Clients Must Not Be Boring |
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Rachael Briggs |
Singularity |
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Traci Brimhall |
At a Party on Ellis Island, Watching… |
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J. Scott Brownlee |
City Limits |
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Grace Bruenderman |
Piraha |
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Andrea Hollander Budy |
Eating Mashed Potatoes |
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Andrea Hollander Budy |
Delta Flight 1152 |
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Andrea Hollander Budy |
Field Hospital |
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Chris Bullard |
Back Story |
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Jane Byers |
Baseball |
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Patricia Callan |
Clearking at the Ideal Laundry |
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Allison Campbell |
What to Know |
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Marlon O. Carey |
Every Element Is Relevant |
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Wendy Taylor Carlisle |
Circus |
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Pablo Garcia Casado |
Dinner (tr. by Chris Michalski, performed by The CS Field Trio)
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Grace Cavalieri |
Why They Stayed Together |
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David Cavanagh |
Fugue |
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David Cazden |
The Joy of Cooking School |
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Sam Cheuk |
Dramaturgy |
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Rohan Chhetri |
Not the Exception |
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Michael Chitwood |
Summer Job |
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Teresa Mei Chuc |
Playground |
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Antonia Clark |
Famous Last Words |
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Martha Clarkson |
How She Described Her Ex-Husband… |
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Thomas Cochran |
Fishing |
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Cathryn Cofell |
Leaves of Grass/Suicide/Psychic Hotlines |
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Brendan Constantine |
So God Will Know You |
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Anne Coray |
Call it Love |
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Anne Coray |
Letter From a Brother |
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Claudia Cortese |
Sarah’s Mother Makes Her Long Dresses… |
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Nina Corwin |
Speaking of Tongues |
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Steven Coughlin |
Another City |
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Hope Coulter |
Morning Haul |
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Sage Cohen |
What’s Wrong With |
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Chris Crawford |
So Gay |
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Kelly Cressio-Moeller |
Waiting for Charon in the ER |
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Barbara Crooker |
The Fifties |
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Barbara Crooker |
Question Mark and the Mysterians |
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Nika Cruz |
Under the Shadows |
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Paul F. Cummins |
Undercover |
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Jim Daniels |
Lip Gloss, Belgium |
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Carol V. Davis |
Salt |
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David M. deLeon |
Not Everything I Do Is Magic |
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Paul Dickey |
Wheat State Salvation |
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Michael Diebert |
Retail |
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Kim Dower |
Why People Really Have Dogs |
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Kim Dower |
How Was Your Weekend, |
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Kim Dower |
Boob Job |
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Caitlin Doyle |
Backward Sonnet for a Forward Thinker |
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James Doyle |
The Flippant Zeitgeist |
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Stevie Edwards |
What I Mean by Ruin Is… |
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Sally Ehrman |
Magic on the Other Side of This |
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Meaghan Elliott |
How to Drown Kittens in 1958 |
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Ray Emanuel |
4% of Everything or Nothing |
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Alejandro Escudé |
Précis |
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Rhina P. Espaillat |
Familiar Faces |
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Anna Evans |
Crash |
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Anna Evans |
Feeling Compassion for Others |
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R.G. Evans |
The Things That Mother Said |
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Robert Fanning |
Watching My Daughter Through the One-Way … |
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Joseph Fasano |
Mahler in New York |
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Joseph Fasano |
North Country |
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Patricia Fargnoli |
Fun |
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Doris Ferlinger |
Lookists |
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Michael Ferris |
Think of the Children! |
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Megan Fernandes |
The Flight to Sacramento |
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Brian Fitzpatrick |
Sleep Half Sleep (Silence) with Reasons |
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Charlene Fix |
Dear FSG |
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Kelly Fordon |
Tell Me When It Starts to Hurt |
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Linda Nemec Foster |
Playground |
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Linda Nemec Foster |
The Dream of Trees |
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Drew Foti-Straus |
Film Color, 1950 |
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Alan Fox |
Silk Woman |
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Matthew Gavin Frank |
After Senza Titolo, 1964 |
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Catherine Freeling |
The Robbery |
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Cal Freeman |
Farrier |
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Joy Gaines Friedler |
Assisted Living |
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Katie F-S |
Two Bits |
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Peter Funk |
The Town Drunk’s Last Stand |
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Gary Gach |
Haiku |
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Jeannine Hall Gailey |
I Forgot to Tell You the Most Important… |
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Jeannine Hall Gailey |
Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding |
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Jeannine Hall Gailey |
Elemental |
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Kay Putney Gantt |
What Difference Could We Make |
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Rhonda Ganz |
Cryogenesis |
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Conrad Geller |
The Coyote in the Graveyard |
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Conrad Geller |
The Destination |
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Kristin George Bagnadov |
Holding Light |
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Dan Gerber |
On My Seventieth Birthday |
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan |
Shame Is the Dress I Wear |
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan |
The Cedar Keepsake Box |
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Ted Gilley |
The People Across the Street |
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Valentina Gnup |
We Speak of August |
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Idris Goodwin |
Why Do They Call Bill Clinton the First… |
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Myles Gordon |
The Beat Goes On |
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Jack Granath |
After the Japanese |
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Chris Green |
My Brother Buries His Dog |
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Timothy Green |
Cooking Dinner |
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Sonia Greenfield |
Sago, West Virginia |
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Benjamin S. Grossberg |
The Space Traveler’s Moon |
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Albert Haley |
Barcelona |
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Sam Hamill |
Eyes Wide Open (credits) |
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Sam Hamill |
On Being Invited to Submit… |
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francine j. harris |
Katherine with the lazy eye. short… |
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Mark D. Hart |
Incompetence |
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Lola Haskins |
The Fruit Detective |
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Lola Haskins |
Creek Light |
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Penny Harter |
Blue Sky |
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Robert Haynes |
On the Rule of SB-1070 |
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Rebecca Hazelton |
Elise as Android … |
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Jamey Hecht |
First Divorce |
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Susan L. Helwig |
What Need or Duty |
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Donna C. Henderson |
Tinnitus |
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Donna Henderson |
Shenpa |
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Patrick Hicks |
Sitting on the Berlin Wall |
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David Brendan Hopes |
James Dickey Died Owing Me a Bar Tab |
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Amorak Huey |
Rock J. Squirrel Goes Alone … |
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Amorak Huey |
Mick Jagger’s Penis Turns 69 |
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David James |
How to Make Amends |
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David James |
The Famous Outlaw |
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Lesley Jenike |
A Golden Retirement |
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| NEW! |
Edison Jennings |
Blue Plate Special |
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| NEW! |
Edison Jennings |
Brown Eyed Girl |
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Luke Johnson |
The Hearth, Like a Bocce Ball |
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| NEW! |
Joel F. Johnson |
Oakbrook Estates |
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Allan Johnston |
Waitress |
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Zilka Joseph |
Puzzle |
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Zilka Joseph |
Waiting Inside |
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Bo Juyi |
Springtime in Loyang |
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Courtney Kampa |
Avante-Garde |
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Courtney Kampa |
The Miscarriage |
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Courtney Kampa |
Self-Portrait by Someone Else
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Sean Karns |
Jar of Pennies |
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Glenn Kletke |
Sledding |
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Deborah P. Kolodji |
Basho After Cinderella |
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Danusha Laméris |
Arabic |
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Sara E. Lamers |
November |
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Eugenia Leigh |
Destination: Beautiful |
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M.L. Liebler |
Underneath My American Face |
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Diane Lockward |
The Mathematics of Your Leaving |
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Sandy Longhorn |
Self-Portrait: November |
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Gregory Loselle |
from The Whole of Him Collected, #10 |
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Bob Lucky |
Wouldn’t You Confess? |
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Krista Lukas |
Patio Tomatoes |
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Alison Luterman |
Say Yes to the Dress |
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Alison Luterman |
Big Naked Man |
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M |
While My Mother Rots in Memory Care… |
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M |
Salt |
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M |
To a Husband Saved by Death at 48 |
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M |
For Those Who Never Know … |
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Taylor Mali |
What Teachers Make |
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Charles Manis |
Flu Season and A Living Will |
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David T. Manning |
Not My World |
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Michelle Margolis |
The Blessings of Dreams |
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Bruce McBirney |
Midnight |
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Stephen McDonald |
Flow |
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Glenn McKee |
A Beauty Spot |
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Glenn McKee |
Another Night Nobody Came Alive |
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Michael Meyerhofer |
Pasteurization |
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Devon Miller-Duggan |
Old Blue |
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Mario Milosevic |
You Don’t Know Because You’ve… |
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Annie Mountcastle |
Labor |
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Mathias Nelson |
Dip My Pacifier in Whiskey |
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Mathias Nelson |
I Only Dance for My Mother |
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Harry Newman |
Early Snow |
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Harry Newman |
Primitives |
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Hannah Faith Notess |
To the Former Self in Art Class |
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Judith Tate O’Brien |
Sawdust |
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Loretta Obstfeld |
My Life with Jeff Goldblum … |
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Grace Ocasio |
Ars Poetica |
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John Paul O’Connor |
Breakfast |
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John Paul O’Connor |
Beans |
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John Paul O’Connor |
Stone City |
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William O’Dalyfeaturing music by Louis Valentine Johnson |
To the Antiphonlist |
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Wendy Oleson |
Eat Your M&M |
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Jason Olsen |
My Best Friend’s Wife |
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Brett Ortler |
What the Dead Tell Us About Charon |
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Todd Outcalt |
Ont he First Anniversary of His Wife’s… |
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Jeremy Dae Paden |
After My Copy of Levertov’s … |
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Nancy Pagh |
Spring Salmon at Night |
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Molly Peacock |
from A Conversation with Molly Peacock |
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Robert Peake |
Road Sign on Interstate 5 |
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Joel Peckham |
Body Memory |
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Kate Peper |
Don’t You Miss the Phone Booth– |
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Jennifer Perrine |
Home Visit: Danny |
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Jennifer Perrine |
Home Visit: Jenny |
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Jessica Piazza |
Panophilia |
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Patrick M. Pilarski |
Your Village |
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Marilyn Gear Pilling |
The Dog |
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Donald Platt |
Caddy |
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Christine Poreba |
Between Missing and Found |
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Jack Powers |
Rob Smuniewski Is Dead |
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Ken Poyner |
The Robotics Problem |
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Catherine Esposito Prescott |
To a Hurricane |
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Richard Prins |
The God Zoo |
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| NEW! |
Melissa Queen |
Learn to Sail with Your Dad |
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Peg Quinn |
When the Buddha Farmed Nebraska |
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Saara Myrene Raappana |
A Battleship Examines Its Faith |
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Doug Ramspeck |
Bottomlands Widow |
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Jessy Randall |
Poetry Comic #1 |
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Jessy Randall |
Poetry Comic #2 |
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Dian Duchin Reed |
Holy Cats |
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Richard Robbins |
The Tattooed Woman |
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Kirk Robinson |
The Breaks |
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Larry Rogers |
Mr. Rescue |
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David Romtvedt |
American Election |
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Rachel Rose |
What We Heard About the Americans |
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Rachel Rose |
What We Heard About the Canadians |
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E. Shaun Russell |
Archetypes |
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Michael Salcman |
The Night Before |
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Hayden Saunier |
Self-Portrait with the Smithfield Ham… |
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Hayden Saunier |
The One and the Other |
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Jacob Scheier |
Single Man’s Song |
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| NEW! |
Barbara Schmitz |
Pretty Sure |
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Jan Seabaugh |
Czechs Mix |
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Diane Seuss |
What Is at the Heart of It… |
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Glenn Shaheen |
Feral Cats |
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Glenn Shaheen |
Chinese Spies |
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Lee Sharkey |
Berlioz |
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Michael Shea |
Letter to a Young Bombmaker |
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Thadra Sheridan |
After the Bowling Stopped |
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Carrie Shipers |
Apology for Being Small |
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Heidi Shuler |
Trials of a Teenage Transvestite’s Single Mother |
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Jinen Jason Shulman |
Constellation |
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Paul Siegell |
6.22.00 – PHiSH – Alltel Pavilion, NC |
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Martha Silano |
What the Grad Students Said |
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Martha Silano |
La Gioconda |
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Karen Skolfield |
Ode to the Fan |
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Mary McLaughlin Slechta |
The Hour of Our Belief |
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Marc Kelly Smith |
I Wanted to Be |
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Patricia Smith |
Building Nicole’s Mama |
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Laurence Snydal |
Eye in the Sky |
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Ephraim Scott Sommers |
To Myself as a Statue in Central Park |
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Lianne Spidel |
Ambassador Bridge |
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Terry Spohn |
Shelf Life |
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John L. Stanizzi |
Defiantly |
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John L. Stanizzi |
S-Plan |
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Jill Stein |
Lunch with My Parents |
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| NEW! |
Lolita Stewart-White |
If Only |
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Paul Suntup |
Olive Oil |
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| NEW! |
Sarah Sweeney |
Tripping at the NC State Cultural Fair |
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Carol A. Taylor |
A Fading Memory |
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Abigail Templeton |
U.S. Unemployed Jumps to 12.5 Million |
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Mark Terrill |
Ways In, Ways Out |
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Jamie Thomas |
1973 |
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Davey Thompson & Cameron Tully |
The Chair |
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Lynne Thompson |
Overheard at Starbucks |
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Lynne Thompson |
Lament: I Am Implication |
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Lynne Thompson |
Psalm for Working Women |
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Melinda Thomsen |
Major League Salaries |
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Deborah Tobola |
Dream/Time |
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Emma Törzs |
Watching Fireworkds Alone |
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Emily Kagan Trenchard |
This Is the Part of the Story I’d Rather Not Tell |
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Brian Trimboli |
Things My Son Should Know… |
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Ann Tweedy |
Nature Essay |
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R.A. Villanueva |
Teacher’s Prayer |
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Vance Voyles |
After |
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| NEW! |
William Walsh |
The Movie Star’s Secret |
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Thom Ward |
The Invention of How |
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Thom Ward |
The Thing in Question |
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Charles Harper Webb |
BLACKDOOG™ |
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Lesley Wheeler |
Rim Walkers |
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Lesley Wheeler |
Science Fiction |
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Laurelyn Whitt |
Bunahan |
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Marcus Wicker |
Self Dialogue Reading Etheridge Knight |
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Ian Williams |
Hero |
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Martin Willitz, Jr. |
Pacific Dogwood |
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L. Lamar Wilson |
Dreamboys |
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| NEW! |
Matthew Wimberley |
Tabula Rasa |
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Jessica Young |
Instructions Included with Telescope |
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Michael T. Young |
The Risk of Listening to Brahms |
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Natalie Young |
Discussing Earth’s Insects |
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