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Robert Shetterly |
| "Emma Goldman", acrylic on board, one of a series of portraits of "Americans who tell the truth." Each portrait is inscribed with a quotation from the subject. Emma Goldman's is "The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism." |
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Mary Greene |
| design |
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Marion K. Stocking |
| Editor's Note |
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Lucille Clifton |
| blood |
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| mercy |
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Karen Lee |
| Faith by Hearing |
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Sarah Madsen |
| Pleas |
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Maggie Smith |
| Psalm (1) |
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| Psalm (2) |
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Ranjani Neriya |
| Imagene |
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Claire Fanger |
| Eros in Etherland |
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| Nothing Happening between Two People in Amsterdam |
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| Exhibit in the Museum Called Foreverness |
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Martha Carlson-Bradley |
| Extended Family |
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Albert Goldbarth |
| Patoot and Poopik |
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| Geese Jazz |
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| Poet-Spouse Observer-Thoughts |
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| Heart Heart Heart Heart Heart Heart Heart |
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Mary Kane |
| Ideas of Departure |
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Conrad Hilberry |
| Drift |
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William Winfield Wright |
| The Incontinent Burglar |
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| The Slightest Wind |
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Matthew Lippman |
| Caught Up in the Trees |
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Martin Walls |
| Despatches from The Republic of Winter |
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| 1978 |
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Elizabeth Tibbetts |
| Sonnet for a Nurse |
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Nancy White |
| Man Overboard |
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
| Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second before Waking Up |
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| BOOKS IN BRIEF |
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer |
| Grab Bag |
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| Harvey Shapiro, ed., Poets of World War II |
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| J. D. McClatchey, ed., Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems |
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| John Updike, ed., Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems |
41 |
| Harold Bloom, ed., Walt Whitman: Selected Poems |
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| Albert Goldbarth, Pieces of Payne |
42 |
| Albert Goldbarth, Dark Waves and Light Matter |
42 |
| Albert Goldbarth, Many Circles: New & Selected Essays |
42 |
| Ruth Moon Kempher, Always the Beautiful Answer: A Prose Poem Primer |
43 |
| David Lehman, ed., Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present |
43 |
| John D'Agata, ed., The Next American Essay |
43 |
| J. D. McClatchey, ed., Robert Frost |
44 |
| J. D. McClatchey, ed., American Wits |
44 |
| J. D. McClatchey, ed., Richard Wilber |
44 |
| Tom Ross and Marilyn Ross, The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing |
44 |
| Denise Levertov, Selected Poems |
45 |
| Robert Bly, The Thousands |
45 |
| Jonathan Williams, A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude |
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| Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy, ed., The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing |
46 |
| Derick Burleson, Ejo: Poems, Rwanda, 1991-1994 |
47 |
| Charles Harper Webb, ed., Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology |
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