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Richard Siken
“History”
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Cameron Awkward-Rich
“Inner Life”
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Alex Dimitrov
“Paris”
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Felicia Zamora
“Xibalbá :: Offerings”
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Featured Work in Volume 54, No. 04
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Richard Siken
“History”
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Margaret Ray
“Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil! at the Public Pool”
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Joshua Bennett
“Anchorage, Alaska”
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Susan Nguyen
“Future Grief”
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  • Sylvia Jones
Sylvia Jones
“Don't Start Me the Lying”
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Ellen Bass
“What I Like About Poetry”
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