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Jenny Browne
“Until the Sea Closed Over Us and the Light Was Gone”
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Jay Deshpande
“Sonnet written walking under the mess some magnolia made”
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Carrie Fountain
“The Jungle”
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Jericho Brown
“Duplex (I begin with love)”
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Jenny Browne
“Until the Sea Closed Over Us and the Light Was Gone”
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Mark Doty
“Not Enough Beds”
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Faylita Hicks
“Foreign Bodies”
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Matthew Draughter
“Celestial-: On the Topic of Unloving”
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Cassie Donish
“Three Poems”
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Phuong T. Vuong
“Traversence”
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