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January 2009
Poems by C.K. Williams, Kim Addonizio, Anne Winters; previously unpublished Langston Hughes, introduced by Arnold Rampersad; Michael Hofmann on Bishop and Lowell.
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December 2008
New poems by Todd Boss, Fred D'Aguiar, R.S. Gwynn, Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, Ange Mlinko, and Glenn Morazzini; a portfolio of new work from 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship winners Nicky Beer, Roger Reeves, Michael Rutherglen, Alison Stine, and Caki Wilkinson; a notebook by Fanny Howe; Dennis O'Driscoll interviews Seamus Heaney; Michael Robbins comments on new books by Frank Bidart, Marianne Boruch, Reginald Gibbons, and Ruth Stone; and letters to the editor from Marjorie Perloff and William Logan on reviewing Hart Crane.
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November 2008
Poems by Roberto Bolaño, newly translated by Laura Healy; a visual poetry portfolio edited by Geof Huth, featuring new work by mIEKAL aND, Michael Basinski, derek beaulieu, Peter Ciccariello, Bob Dahlquist, K.S. Ernst, Sheila Murphy, Jesse Patrick Ferguson, Philip Gallo, Scott Helmes, Joel Lipman, gustave morin, and jörg piringer; new poems by Billy Collins, Stephen Edgar, Elaine Equi, Philip Levine, William Logan, Fiona Sampson, Jorge Sánchez, and Mary Szybist; and Adam Kirsch on the scarcity of recognition, Carmine Starnino on five Irish poets, Ange Mlinko on reverie, and Robert Archambeau on poetry, politics, and leanings left.
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October 2008
Poems by Sarah Lindsay, Adrian Blevins, Craig Arnold, John Repp, Eric Ekstrand, Laura Kasischke, D.A. Powell, John Hennessy, Jill Osier, Maurice Manning, Derek Sheffield; a portfolio of letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop; William Logan on reviewing Hart Crane; Jason Guriel on Jorie Graham, Allen Grossman, Davis McCombs, and Sarah Hannah; Letters to the Editor
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September 2008
Poems by Sasha Dugdale, Leila Wilson, Atsuro Riley, Dionisio D. Martínez, Kay Ryan, Alan Shapiro, Elizabeth Arnold, Lesley Wheeler, Heidy Steidlmayer, David Harsent, Eleanor Wilner, and Jim Harrison; a portfolio of drawings and doodles by Philip Larkin; Clive James on what makes a poem memorable-or not; D.H. Tracy on David Yezzi, Karen Volkman, Cate Marvin, and Richard Kenney; Letters to the Editor
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July/August 2008
Poetry’s SUMMER BREAK double issue features new poems by Joshua Mehigan David Biespiel, Carl Dennis, Kathryn Starbuck, Geoffrey Brock, Wendy Videlock, Jason Guriel, Albert Goldbarth, Heather McHugh, Robert Wrigley, Tom Sleigh, Kevin McFadden, Bob Hicok, Glyn Maxwell, Philip Memmer, Billy Collins, Robin Behn, Dean Young, D. Nurkse, Heidy Steidlmayer, Stephen O’Connor, and Jack Spicer; a new translation of a radio play by Yehuda Amichai; cartoons by Bruce McCall; a crossword puzzle by Myles Mellor; and prose from David Orr, Vivian Gornick, Marjorie Perloff, Eleanor Wilner, Haki R. Madhubuti, Michael Hofmann, Fanny Howe, and W.S. Di Piero.
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June 2008
An all poetry issue featuring new work by A.R. Ammons, Charles Simic, A.E. Stallings, Tom Sleigh, Geoffrey Brock, Harry Clifton, Nance Van Winckel, Sophie Cabot Black, W.S. Di Piero, Robert VanderMolen, Joel Brouwer, Roddy Lumsden, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Meghan O’Rourke, Landis Everson, Todd Hearon, Marianne Boruch, D.A. Powell, Ange Mlinko, Charles Bernstein, Peter Cole, Rae Armantrout, Donald Revell, and Glyn Maxwell.
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May 2008
New poems from Spencer Reece, Jane Hirshfield, Yvonne Zipter, Seth Abramson, Andrew Hudgins, Bryan D. Dietrich, Liz Waldner, Philip White, Mark Irwin, Sandra M. Gilbert, Chris Dombrowski, Daniel Tobin, Cathy Park Hong, and Rodney Jones; prose from Eavan Boland, Cate Marvin, Joshua Mehigan, Carmine Starnino, A.E. Stallings, and Christina Pugh.
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April 2008
Translation Issue: this special issue features poems translated from eighteen languages, including new versions from Anna Akhmatova, Håkan Sandell, Yves Bonnefoy, Miroslav Holub, Rainer Maria Rilke, Olav Hague, Ho Xuan Huong, and Ovid, among others; translated and with commentary by Mary Kinzie, Forrest Gander, Marilyn Chin, Don Paterson, Eavan Boland, Robert Bly, Frederick Seidel, Peter Cole, Menna Elfyn, Daryl Hine, and many more.
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March 2008
New poems—each accompanied by a Q&A with the author—from Campbell McGrath, Jánoz Pilinsky (translated by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri), H.L. Hix, Karl Kirchwey, A.E. Stallings, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Ange Mlinko, W.S. Di Piero, and Heather McHugh; and prose from Joel Brouwer.
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February 2008
New poems from Louise Glück, Samuel Beckett, Heidy Steidlymayer, Lynn Emanuel, Jeffrey Schultz, Lisa Williams, Jorie Graham, Larissa Szporluk, and George Szirtes; and prose from Peter Campion, Alexei Tsvetkov, and D.H. Tracy.
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January 2008
New poems from Stephen Edgar, Anne Winters, D.A. Powell, Carol Frost, Troy Jollimore, Joshua Mehigan, Kay Ryan, John Brehm, D. Nurkse, William Johnson, Samuel Menashe, Rachel Webster, Wendy Videlock, Bruce Smith, and Lisa Furmanksi; and prose from Stuart Dybek, Jason Guriel, Adam Kirsch, Joanie Mackowski, Ange Mlinko, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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