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Ilya Kaminsky
poems from Deaf Republic
As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy’s Face with a Newspaper
Firing Squad
For His Wife
I, This Body
The Townspeople Circle the Boy’s Body23rd Annual Levis Reading Prize
a reading by prize winner Ilya KaminskyColin Bailes
Review | Deaf Republic by Ilya KaminskyLarry Levis
Winter Stars
Manuscript Variations: “Winter Stars”
My Parents and One Good Line I Wrote at Sixteen
Hal Crowther
Godforsaken: Of Death and Daffodils
G.C. Waldrep
Canto Selah
three from elegy for simone weil
Renault / Paris / 1935
Watch the Lame Beast Turn
Adelma (Harrisville, N.H.)
Merleau-Ponty
Cate Lycurgus
A Dream Dependent
Patricia Clark
Diptych with Window View & Hiroshige Print
How to Swallow the Snake
Kubota Garden
Nima Yushij
translated from Persian by Kaveh Bassiri
Raven
Emily Franklin
April in Wiltshire
Japan, Autumn
J.P. Grasser
The Blonde Heart of Wheat
Goshen, Virginia
Line Dance
George Ferrandi
A Studio Glimpse: The Wilds
Oksana Maksymchuk
Alla Through the Looking Glass
Suspicious Activity
David Campos
Malware
The Singularity Keeps to Himself
Jesse Lee Kercheval
The Long Way Home
Remembering Eleanor Ross Taylor at One Hundred
Dan O’Brien
Anger
Disaster
A Nurse’s Tattoo
On Symbols
Sebastián Hasani Páramo
After El Hombre by Rufino Tamayo
Portrait of Boy with Guitar
Self-Portrait with Thunder & Exhaustion
Wesley Gibson
from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Bruce Bond
Pärt
Scar 21
Scar 22
Scar 26
Elena Karina Byrne
Francis Bacon Swallows the Head Whole,
Tony Oursler and His Dummy Watchers Live On
Daniel Groves
More Fun . . .
Villanelle (avec Evel Knievel)
Susan Rich
First Carpool Retrospective
What I Learned from Bewitched
Steve Scafidi
The Bull Leaper’s Birthday
The Jewel
Anne Bloomsburg
For the Female Folk Singer
Tyler Mills
Big Heart, Little Heart
Imaging
Rattlesnake
Tree
Austin Segrest
My Mother’s Morning Walks
A Reading from Scholarship Boy 
A Conversation between Larry I. Palmer & Jeffrey Blount
Inge Pedersen
translated from Danish by Marilyn Nelson
Mail
Erica Wagner
Delaware & Raritan. 1850.
A Conversation with Emily Nemens & Christine Schutt
Daneen Wardrop
mind’s ear
mind’s eye
Mountain Lake Triptych (Introduction)
Susan Glasser
The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale
