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jorge luis borges (TR. TERESE COE)
Remorse
Rain
Labyrinth (1)
Things (1)
To the Coyote

andrew joron
I Am the Door
No Telling

stephanie strickland
from Huracan’s Harp

ben mazer
On Landis Everson

landis everson
This Is a Love Poem
The Very Last Minute
He Likes Rabbits
The Pursuit of Happenings
Short Breaths

maxine chernoff
Scenes from Ordinary Life
The Commons

claudia keelan
Little Elegy (New Orleans and Biloxi)
Little Elegy (1977-1991)

ben lerner
from déjà lu

laura mullen
Stratocumulus
By and By

bruce beasley
Stray Apostrophes

andrew zawacki
from Arrow’s shadow

mario montalbetti
Fin desierto (End desert)

tomaž Šalamun
Blue Citroën Visa
Silhouette and Eternity
Bread
Afternoon, at the Table, above the Underworld

brian henry
Epithalamium
Even &
A Minor Insurrection
Habitual Present

elizabeth robinson
Anti-Anatomical Conclusion, or Stealing the Trespass from the Thief

ray dipalma
The Darkness beyond the Glare

edward smallfield
(16.11.05)
(Vivaldi—for Valerie)

matthew cooperman
Still: Eating
Still: To Do

lisa samuels
Open your eyes to the terrible sculpture of bedclothes

john olson
The Prodigality of Green
Some Wanton Reflections
Nostrum

christopher arigo
The illusion of damage may be useful

ken gordon
Introduction to QuickMuse Feature: David Lehman and Kevin Young, January 4, 2007

david lehman
Poem
The Real Thing
Poem in Three Parts
Variations on a Theme

kevin young
James Brown at B. B. King’s on New Year’s Eve
Teething
Necropolis
New Year’s Letter

brenda hillman
On Song, Lyric, and Strings (essay)

cal bedient
Low Water Letter

dara wier
A Little Box of Horn Forks in the Road

julie carr
Noun Poem
Poem Poem

noah eli gordon & joshua marie wilkinson
from Figures for a Darkroom Voice

brian strang
dark adapt

steve dickison
from Disposed

tiff dressen
Humalysis

mary burger
from The Man Without Stumps

james brook
Dream and Melancholy of the Watchmaker
Qasida of the Body

khaled mattawa
Zenith

joel lewis
American Past Time
Enemy of the State
Wasn’t Born to Follow

kevin christianson
On Andrzej Bursa

andrzej bursa
Café for Dogs in the City of Bonn

dawn-michelle baude
from Finally: A Calendar

michael sikkema
Code Over Code

hugh behm-steinberg
Were
My Realism

barry silesky
The Idea

joseph noble
from Invenzioni e Stravaganze

donna stonecipher
Inlay (Elaine Scarry)

rodney koeneke
Humanism Is Cheese
A Birthday Poem for Nada Gordon

chad sweeney
The Sentence
Landscape

jordan stempleman
Love
Unlike Weight

william hunt
What or Whom

j. michael martinez
Xicano
White

steve wilson
Throatpoke Triolet
Triolet: Starfruit Tree with Mynah

linda norton
Sonnet in Search of a Moor
A Parakeet

françois luong
from The Kohne Symmetry

jane joritz-nakagawa
#52
Song

rebecca stoddard
from The Woodblock Prints

sawako nakayasu
Desert Ant

curtis bonney
Displacement
My Effective Properties

elizabeth marie young
The Painted Tiger Tiger Hates His Symmetry and Fights His Way Out of the Frame to His Creator’s Great Delight

barbara claire freeman
St. Ursula’s Mirror, 1
St. Ursula’s Mirror, 2

nancy kuhl
Catalog and Lexicon

michael tod edgerton
Orphic (Narcissus from Beneath)

kim hayes
a younger model
I adored

james jackson
Things to Do While Avoiding the Question

a. e. clark
subway #1
mississippi (fishwife)

kate colby
from Unbecoming Behavior

stacy nathaniel jackson
Photic
Maser