2019. XLIII. Introduction / Bill Henderson
What has irony done for us lately / Pam Houston
The tornado auction / Karen Russell
Into the mystery / Tony Hoagland
The tell-tale heart / Anthony Marra
The armed letter writers / Olufunke Ogundimu
Dancing / Robert Hass / Singular Dream / Mary Ruefle
What's wrong with you? What's wrong with me? / J.M. Holmes
Murder tourism in middle America / Justin St. Germain
The great meal / Jung Hae Chae
The storm / Michael Collier
Kylie wears Balmain / Sarah Resnick
Secrets deep in tiger forests / Poe Ballantine
Barbie Chang wants to be someone / Victoria Chang
A fish in the tree / John Landretti
All politics / Jessica Burstein
My hobby needed a hobby / Dana Roeser
Spectral evidence / Victor Lavalle
I love you but I've chosen darkness / Claire Vaye Watkins
Like someone asleep in a cinema / Mary Jo Bang
The bar beach show / Olabajo Dada
A country scene / Rick Moody
The Imagination Resettlement Program / Eli Barrett
Christian soldiers / Hal Crowther
No time like the present / Gabriel Brownstein
Kernals / David J. Rothman
A flock, a siege, a murmuration / Su-Yee Lin
Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary! / Andrew Mitchell
The clearing / Allison Adair
Guerrilla marketing / Sanjay Agnihotri
The wonder of the look on her face / Brian Doyle
UDFJ-39546284 / Rick Barot
Faith for my father circa 1980 / Erik Campbell
The whitest girl / Brenda Peynado
The hunter / Gabriel Daniel Solis
One definition of time / Albert Goldbarth
Acceptance speech / David Naimon
I kept getting books about birds / Catherine Pierce
Let the devil sing / Allegra Hyde
The white road / Daniel Tobin
A suburban weekend / Lisa Taddeo
Autism screening questionnaire: speech and language delay / Oliver De La Paz
Do I look sick to you? / C.J. Hribal
Field theories / Samiya Bashir
How do you raise a black child? / Cortney Lamar Charleston
Pathetic Fallacy / Emilia Phillips
Pedal, pedal, pedal / Heather Sellers
Kra-Din / Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
Blue coming / Thylias Moss
Codeswitch decomposing into Lil Wayne Lyric / Julian Randall
Transition: the renaming of hope / Molly Cooney
Just the one episode / John Ashbery
From "Interruptive" / Phillip Williams
Brace yourself / Leslie Jill Patterson
Powder house / Molly Gallentine.
2020. The arms of Saturday night / Cally Fiedorek
Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn
Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera
The human soup / Maureen Stanton
The history of sound / Ben Shattuck
A fable / Graham Barnhart
Fat swim / Emma Copley Eisenberg
An endless story / Louise Glück
Hi ho cherry-o / Becky Hagenston
The almadraba / Maia Jenkins
Say it with your whole black mouth / Danez Smith
"General: unskilled" / Ryan Eric Dull
Monticello house tour / Kiki Petrosino
The peaches of August / Toi Derricotte
The entertainer / Whitney Collins
Reza's restaurant. Chicago 1997 / Kaveh Akbar
Monsters / Margaret Wardlaw
Scandalous women in history / Malerie Willens
That's the job / Edward Hirsch
The last voyage of the Alice B. Toklas / Jason Brown
How to mourn the dead / Nausheen Eusuf
The ugly American / Shara Lessley
Walking in fast-falling dusk what is between us besides / Mary Szybist
Stories that fit my hands / Rebecca McClanahan
Rewinding an overdose on a projector / Sean Shearer
Human traffic / Bruce Cohen
Versal / Francine J. Harris
The important transport / Diane Williams
Footprints in the order of disappearance / Fady Joudah
The cure for racism is cancer / Tony Hoagland
Dearest water / Nancy Takacs
Pattycakes / Claire Davis
The effect of heat on poor people / Farah Ali
Is all writing environmental writing? / Camile T. Dungy
Four short essays personifying a future in which white supremacy has ended / Chen Chen
New bees / Claire Luchette
American landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon / Roger Reeves
Bad northern women / Erin Singer
The white orchard / Arthur Sze
Double vi station / Jeffery Harrison
I confess: my cultural misappropriation / Allan Gurganus
Skin-light / Natalie Diaz
An open letter to white women concerning 'The handmaid's tale' and America's cultural amnesia / Tiffany Midge
Wild pansy / Lisa Bellamy
Stay there / Leslie Pietrzyk
Five and a possible / Alison C. Rollins
Bon voyage, Charlie / Dan Pope
Jailbait / Ottessa Moshfegh
Draft/Mouth / Peter LaBerge
Citizenship / Javier Zamora
A deliberate thing I once said to my skin / Megan Baxter
In that time / Richard Bausch
In the studio at the end of day / Catherine Barnett
Dante on broadway / Hal Crowther
If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith
Petronia Petronia Jyekundensis / Jan Verberkmoes
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Every poem is my most Asian poem / Chen Chen
Remembering the alchemists / Richard Hoffman
Reality TV / Michael Kardos
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O despot! My despot! / Patrick Dacey
A small needful fact / Ross Gay
Old women taking about death / Jennifer L. Knox
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Night cows / Jennifer Bowen Hicks
In a time of peace / Ilya Kaminsky
Recon/men / Devon Halliday
Young Americans / Jabari Asim
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Gutted / Cathryn Klusmeier
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Mother won't buy polypropylene / Patricia Cleary Miler
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A little like God / Molly McCloskey
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Seven flowers / Triin Paja
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The crying room / Lucas Southworth
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Love & the memory of it / Jay Hopler
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Half spent / Alice McDermott
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Fireflies / Kamilah Aisha Moon
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Sunny talks / Lydia Conklin
The others spoke / Tim Shepard
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The future is a click away / Allegra Hyde
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Two people / James Longenbach
What if Putin laughed / Steve Stern
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La bohème / Clifford Thompson
The presence of order / Yona Harvey
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The Ba'al Shem's daughter / Glenn Gitomer
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Chemo becomes me / Lily Jarman-Reisch
Everychild / Alix Christie
Lake Qarun, Jan. 19, '22 / Sara Elkamel
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Two breaths / Christina Rivera Cogswell
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Self portrait as Mary Magdalene in the style of Gentileschi / Kameryn Alexa Carter
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A most generous offer / Joy Guo
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Marmalade / Fred D'Aguiar
Toward a unified theory / Wayne Miller
Butterfly / Peter Kessler
Dear damage / Ashley Marie Farmer
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Where I am white / Andy Chen
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