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Abby Shahn |
| right panel, "A Field of Blackbirds," egg tempera and mixed media on paper, 1999. For more of the artist's work, visit www.abbyshahn.com |
Cover |
Mary Greene |
| design |
Cover |
Carl Adamshick |
| Valentine's Day 1955 |
6 |
Adam Chiles |
| Free Write, Period A |
7 |
Beth Simon |
| Dinner and After Dinner |
8 |
| Fossil Walrus Calculus |
9 |
Margaret Aho |
| Meister Eckhart speaks High German |
10 |
| Directions |
12 |
Hadara Bar-Nadav |
| Four Reds for Rothko |
15 |
Ben Lerner |
| [HE HAD ENOUGH RESPECT FOR PAINTING], from Angle of Yaw |
19 |
| [THE AIRCRAFT ROTATES], from Angle of Yaw |
20 |
| [THE ROSE], from Angle of Yaw |
21 |
Ander Monson |
| For Orts |
22 |
Susan Maxwell |
| Milkweed |
23 |
Mary Kane |
| 13 Haiku About My Husband and Current State of Happiness |
24 |
| Woman Carrying Rock No. 1: Poem in a Changing Booth |
26 |
Andrew Baruch Wachtel, translator |
| We Go, by Anzhelina Polonskaya |
28 |
Robert Chute |
| Aristophanes at the Woodpile |
30 |
Brian Teare |
| To Other Light |
31 |
Tony Brinkley |
| 15, from Gomorrah, a sequence |
40 |
| 16, from Gomorrah, a sequence |
41 |
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| BOOKS IN BRIEF |
Marion K. Stocking, reviewer |
| Paul Muldoon, ed., The Best American Poetry 2005 |
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