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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

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1539: Pluto by Maggie Dietz

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1538: Maps by Yesenia Montilla

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1537: Against Melancholy by Nathan McClain

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1536: i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen

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1535: Goldfish by Francisco Márquez

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1534: There Is Always Space in My Life for More Life by Natasha Rao

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1533: The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith

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1532: Blue by Laura Villareal

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1531: Cheap Magic by Arielle Hebert

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1530: At the End of a Good Week, the Van Broke Down by Mary Ardery

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1529: Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew by Ross Gay

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1528: Isobutyl Nitrite by Kieron Walquist

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1527: Native Grasses by Lynnell Edwards

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1526: Missing by Mary Morris

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1525: The Burning Kite by Ouyang Jianghe, translated by Austin Woerner

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1524: Coral, Again by Juliana Spahr

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1523: The Village by Marc Harshman

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1522: The Long Run by Linda Gregerson

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Bonus Episode — PASSAGES: On Morrison featuring Tracy K. Smith and Namwali Serpell

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1521: You Try To Fix It by Liz Ahl

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1520: The New City by Hieu Minh Nguyen

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1519: At the Entrance of a Love Poem, I Hesitate by Maya C. Popa

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1518: On Being Told I Should Write a Memoir by Jan-Henry Gray

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1517: Liquefying by Chloe Yelena Miller

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1516: Citrus Paradisi by Arah Ko

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1515: True Story by Camille T. Dungy

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1514: A Love Poem Will Not Save the World by C. Russell Price

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1513: Climacteric by Kelly Gray

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1512: Terra Vita by Lisa Hiton

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1511: Dispatch as Prologue or Epilogue by Megan Gannon

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1510: The Magicians at Work by Nicky Beer

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1509: Something there is that doesn’t love by Armen Davoudian

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1508: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Wayne Miller

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1507: How to Dress a Star by Nicholas Goodly

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1506: You Reading This, Be Ready by William Stafford

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1505: Queen of Collapse by Hadara Bar-Nadav

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1504: The Beginning by Katherine Gibbel

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1503: Cloud Hands by Arthur Sze

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1502: On My History of Kissing Everyone At Parties by Isabelle Correa

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1501: at the baggage claim in JFK by Lo Naylor

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1500: You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious by Purvi Shah

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1499: Spring in War-Time by Sara Teasdale

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1498: Twenty Questions by Jayrold Trasporte

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1497: Intaglio by Emma Aylor

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1496: Love Song to the Alpacas of Solomon Lane by Kenzie Allen

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1495: Pathway by Paula Bohince

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1494: Graduation by Edgar Kunz

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1493: Stadium by Heather Tone

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1492: Community by Emily Bright

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1491: The plum you're going to eat next summer by Gayle Brandeis

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1490: Smalltown Lift by Brian Blanchfield

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1489: Sonnet Overheard at Phone Booth by Elane Kim

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1488: Anniversary by Edward Salem

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1487: The Problem with Early Warnings by Charles Rafferty

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1486: from Perihelion: A History of Touch by Franny Choi

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1485: Scheduling the Bone Scan by Katie Farris

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1484: Crossing by C. Rees

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1483: How to Write by Anne Waldman

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1482: XII. Southern Constellations by Brandon Kilbourne

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[encore] 1381: What Is This Air Changing, This Warm Aura, These Threads of Air Vibrating Rows of People by Ariel Yelen

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[encore] 1460: Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly

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[encore] 1429: Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart

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[encore] 1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse

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[encore] 1444: Congratulations! Your Grief Is About to Stop Being Relevant! by Bridget Bell

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1481: from Mosaic by Supritha Rajan

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1480: Reverse Requiem by Ina Cariño

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1479: After Dinner by James Ciano

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1478: If Night You Were a City by Adam Wiedewitsch

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1477: Surety by Anna Zumbahlen

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1476: The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

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1475: Out of These Wounds, the Moon Will Rise by Jay Hopler

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1474: Epistemic Distance by Emma Bolden

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1473: Solar Eclipse by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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1472: The Road to Baghdad by Seth Brady Tucker

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1471: It Was Like This: You Were Happy by Jane Hirshfield

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1470: Common Denominators by Cynthia Arrieu-King

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1469: Pardon My Heart by Marcus Jackson

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1468: Five Paragraph Essay on Time by Kathleen Flenniken

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1467: Geranium by Karen Solie

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1466: Poem about everything except— by Amy Lemmon

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1465: Or am I a room with a roof taken off, still holding onto my idea of ceiling by Kelly Hoffer

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1464: Somewhere Else by Adam J. Gellings

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1463: Sleep by Matthew Dickman

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1462: Perspective, Coyoacán by Corey Van Landingham

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1461: Word for It by Kevin Craft

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1460: Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things by Donika Kelly

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1459: February by Jim Moore

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1458: on projection by Raena Shirali

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1457: an excerpt from THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller

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1456: Rubicon by Carl Phillips

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1455: Historical Site by Tommye Blount

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1454: Katherine with the Lazy Eye. Short. And Not a Good Poet by francine j. harris

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1453: Closing Time; Iskandariya by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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1452: A Backstory Beyond My Recounting by Paulann Petersen

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1451: Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

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1450: Home by Warsan Shire

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1449: Nightline: September 20, 1982 by June Jordan