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1594: The Grass Could Be Yours by Emily Lee Luan

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1593: Halloween in the Anthropocene by Karyna McGlynn

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1386: [encore] Night of the Living, Night of the Dead by Kim Addonizio

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1363: [encore] Notes on Beachgrass by Yong-Yu Huang

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1360: [encore] Wind, Blue Sky by Susan Aizenberg

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1354: [encore] Checkout by Caroline Bird

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1352: [encore] Blue by Jodie Hollander

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1351: [encore] The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi

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1350: [encore] Real Estate by Richard Siken

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1349: [encore] Sati by Vandana Khanna

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1345: [encore] Arrangements by Adrienne Chung

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1344: [encore] Cento Between the Ending and the End by Cameron Awkward-Rich

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Alynda Segarra: Holes by Eileen Myles (Extended Version)

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Alynda Segarra: Holes by Eileen Myles

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1342: [encore] And Then It Was Less Bleak Because We Said So by Wendy Xu

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1339: [encore] Wind-Related Ripple in the Wheatfield by Mikko Harvey

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1338: [encore] Are you bringing fruits, plants, seeds, by Karen Llagas

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R.K. Russell: They/Them by Danez Smith (Extended Version)

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R.K. Russell: They/Them by Danez Smith

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1337: [encore] New York Address by Linda Gregg

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1335: [encore] Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris

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1334: [encore] Étude by Amy Gerstler

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David Duchovny: Dream Song 1 by John Berryman (Extended Version)

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David Duchovny: Dream Song 1 by John Berryman

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1333: [encore] Crossing the Line by E. Ethelbert Miller

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1430: [encore] Earth Shovel by Dan Albergotti

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1359: [encore] Lotioning My Mother’s Back by Ama Codjoe

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[encore] 1501: at the baggage claim in JFK by Lo Naylor

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[encore] 1445: Hackberry by Cecily Parks

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[encore] 1568: Panegyric by Leila Farjami

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[encore] 1507: How to Dress a Star by Nicholas Goodly

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[encore] 1347: Animal Prudence by Kathy Fagan

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[encore] 1336: I Find Myself Defending Pigeons by Keith S. Wilson

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[encore] 1369: Six Hours Lost, Land Between the Lakes by Kathleen Driskell

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[encore] 1520: The New City by Hieu Minh Nguyen

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[encore] 1412: Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story) by Amorak Huey

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[encore] 1427: A toast to something beautiful flapping in the wind by J. Hope Stein

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[encore] 1491: The Plum You're Going to Eat Next Summer by Gayle Brandeis

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[encore] 1358: Parts of a Body House by Erika Meitner

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[encore] 1478: If Night You Were a City by Adam Wiedewitsch

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[encore] 1362: For You Who Have Loved Old Dogs by Silas House

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[encore] 1373: Protection Spell Jar by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

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1586: WHITMAN: by Larry Levis

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1585: Dialogue on Violence by Jayne Cortez

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1584: Missed Time by Ha Jin

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1583: Are You Not Tired Yet? by Mohammed al-Khatib, translated by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor

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1582: Visitor's Center by T Bambrick

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From Death of an Artist | Petra Mathers and Her Michael

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1581: Stop Thinking & End Your Problems by Elisa Gabbert

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1580: Story of My Life by Jameson Fitzpatrick

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1579: Rain by Jennifer Grotz

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1578: Lover of Cars by Olivia Sokolowski

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1577: Portrait of the Speaker Riding a Greyhound Bus by Eduardo Martinez-Leyva

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[encore] 1486: from Perihelion: A History of Touch by Franny Choi

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[encore] 1438: The Long Now by Robin Beth Schaer

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[encore] 1355: Rancho Bar by Margot Kahn

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[encore] 1340: From the Sky by Sara Abou Rashed

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[encore] 1464: Somewhere Else by Adam J. Gellings

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[encore] 1466: Poem about everything except— by Amy Lemmon

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[encore] 1482: XII. Southern Constellations by Brandon Kilbourne

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[encore] 1410: Go by Kathleen Ossip

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[encore] 1387: Different Kinds of Sadness by Jenny Molberg

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[encore] 1469: Pardon My Heart by Marcus Jackson

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1576: What I Am Telling You, Jessica, Is That Those Chickens Are Fine by K.T. Landon

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1575: ode to the afternoon by Zeina Hashem Beck

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1574: Black Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Spires

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1573: Dialogue with the Oldest Tree in the U.S., whose Location is a Closely-Guarded Forest Service Secret by Nina Sudhakar

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1572: Summer Strawberries by Cat Wei

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1571: Guava Jelly by Quinn Franzen

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1570: Wabi-Sabi by Catherine Esposito Prescott

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1569: Someday by Mary Oliver

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1568: Panegyric by Leila Farjami

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1567: Assistance by Abbie Kiefer

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1566: What I Wanted to Keep Private by Melissa Crowe

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1565: bilingual by Mckendy Fils-Aimé

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1564: Young Widow at the Kitchen Window by Donna Spruijt-Metz

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1563: Return Path by Lesley Wheeler

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1562: Listening to Vespertine for Twenty Hours Straight by Derrick Austin

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1561: So Much Space for Song by James Crews

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1560: Gratification to the survivors of daily damnations by Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi

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1559: Florida Doll Sonnet by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton

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1558: Late Work by Andrés Cerpa

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1557: All Trains Are Going Local by Timothy Liu

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1556: Articulation of Solace by Yongyu Chen

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1555: Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye

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1554: Nobody's Job by Ronna Bloom

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1553: When you have to remind me to do the dishes by Isaac Pickell

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1552: Mother Church No. 3 by Robin Coste Lewis

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1551: Laurelhurst by David Biespiel

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1550: The Interpretation of Dreams by Kate Farrell

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1549: Thirst Trap by Caleb Curtiss

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1548: You're Supposed to Enjoy Dying by Colin Pope

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1547: Northern Flicker Reconsidered by Susan Rich

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1546: Pocket Dial by James Davis May

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1545: Panis Angelicus by Carol Muske-Dukes

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1544: Versions of Girlhood by Tina Chang

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1543: What the Suitcase Bearing My Family Name Might Have Contained When It Arrived at Auschwitz by Ava Nathaniel Winter

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1542: What We Wanted by Carol Moldaw

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1541: Poem to Watch over You by Omotara James

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1540: Boombox Ode: Enjoy the Silence by K. Iver