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NEW AMERICAN WRITING

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WILL ALEXANDER
Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) 
The Bluish Mathematics of Darkness 
Cadstral Summary

SHARON MESMER
My Editor 
My Supper Once Had a Song Inside (after Violeta Parra) 
Interlocutor (after Marcia Nardi) 
Notes on the Poems

DONALD REVELL
Communards

CLAUDIA KEELAN

Captivity Narrative 

GARY SOTO
Travel Plans 
What I Have to Say in the Matter 
The Sadness of the World 

MAXINE CHERNOFF
Three Poems from Diary

SANDRA SIMONDS
Daybook Conjurations 

G. C. WALDREP
Elam House (Austin, Minnesota) 
Elam House (Austin, Minnesota) 
Elam House (Austin, Minnesota) 

TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN
Trans. Brian Henry
In the Factory and Chimneys 
Adam 
“The clouds are magnificent” 
The First Day of the Occupation

BUYANISHIG
Trans. Wang Ping
Transparent Rope
Mongolian Long Song 
Horsehead Fiddle 
Horse 
Ocean Poem 
Crows 
A Dying Eagle Flies to the Highest Sky

KIM OK
Trans. Ryan Choi
Autumn 
Death

ANDREW JORON
The Reduction 
Written on the Tongue (for John Yau) 

MARC VINCENZ
The First Lecture (from Station H20) 
Phases of the Moon 

LAUREN CAMP
Self-Portrait with Agnes Martin 
Tending 

DAVID LEHMAN
From Daily Poems:
Traces (August 8, 2020) 
The Kentucky Derby (September 5, 2020) 
Binaries (October 29, 2020) 

WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
[Dreamt I peed] 
[59th anniversary today] 
[Read Martin Herbert]

JACLYN PIUDIK
Echolocation
The Axiologies of Lipstick 
LISA ISAACSON
Upstairs, with Neck Mirror 
Venison 

REBECCA LILLY
Glimpses & Ramblings 
Light Revenants 
Wicca for Depression 

DAVID SHAPIRO
Hesitation 
A Lost Poem of Jesus 

JOSEPH LEASE
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YVES BONNEFOY

Trans. Hoyt Rogers
From The Wandering Life:
Strabo the Geographer 
Glaucus the God 
As Far as I Know You 
The Clock 
The Wandering Life 

HOYT ROGERS
After the Rockslide 
Erosion 
Gifts 

MARJORIE STEIN
[tomorrow’s rain] 
world order 

JANE ZWART
Ars Poetica 
Ode to Breath 
Hardware Store By-laws 

MARK IRWIN
Livestream 
Was into Space 
A Swarm of Patience

JOSEPH NOBLE
Five Poems from Mirror Song / Winding Grace 

​MARK DUCHARME

Complicated Grief 
We 
The Happiness Threshold 

DENISE NEWMAN
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin 
Federal Lands are Stirring 
Buying and Selling Happen Right Here 
The Nuclear Scientist Is Assassinated on the Road to His Country Home 

MICHAEL ANANIA
In Myriads (for Lucas Klein) 
“The people know the present” 

HAZEL WHITE
From What’s Not the Same as a Purchase? 

DANIEL LAWLESS
Not Fireflies— 
The Paten 

MARTINE BELLEN
A Deafening Prayer 

SYLVIA LEGRIS
Voucher Specimen (2020-12-18) 
Voucher Specimen (2020-02-02) 

ANGELA BALL
Malefactor Return at Earliest Convenience 
They Dragged Her Soul through the Gutter of Scandal

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
Star-Struck 

BRUCE BEASLEY

Little Faiths 

MURIEL NELSON
That Traveling Dream 

CHRIS STROFFOLINO
“I was afraid to say sorry because I thought you’d think I wanted something from you”

BRUCE BOND
Vault 

JOHN HODGEN

For My Father, Disciplinarian 

DAVID ROCK
The Same Old Darkness 
Confirmation Hearing 

DOBBY GIBSON
Flutter Kick 
The Persistence of the Present Tense 

KARIN RANDOLPH
Airport Syndrome 
Take Control. Repeat. Repeating. 

PETER BUSHYEAGER
Woods 

GEORGE KALAMARAS

Olga Votsi Confronts the Depth of the Sea 
Lord Byron Discovers the Poetry of Cesar Vallejo Inscribed in the Delphic Stone

DAN CAMPION
Terrestrial Bias 
Sleep Deprived 

KEVIN NEAL
Christmas Morning 

CHARLES BYRNE
Remove 
Abacus 
The sedge wren 

IRINA MASHINSKI
Excerpts from The Naked World
The Thaw 
Tatars 
The Accordion 
Scarlet 
The Bronze Horseman. Natasha. 
The Fire on the Snow 
Jew 
The Motif: Silence. 

TOM HANSEN
Fantasia in D 

JOSEPH ZACCARDI
Words in the Abyss 

D. S. WALDMAN
Still Life with Chrysalis 

LAWRENCE R. SMITH
Cedar 

CINDY KING
Rave On 
Man vs. Himself 

RICK SNYDER
The Monsters 

GARY YOUNG
[Back in Wyoming}
[My brother’s barber]
[Benjamin Britten was so appalled] 

ROSE AUSLANDER
In the True World 

NATHANIEL ROSENTHALIS
Byzantium 
Dead Would 
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