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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

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1448: Orchestra by Russell Brakefield

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1447: Gratitude by Cornelius Eady

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1446: Mistake by Heather Christle

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1445: Hackberry by Cecily Parks

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

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1443: Come Back! by Camille Guthrie

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1442: Apocatastasis by G.C. Waldrep

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1441: Birthday Wish by David Groff

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1440: New Year by Kate Baer

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1439: I Have Lost It by Monica Ferrell

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1438: The Long Now by Robin Beth Schaer

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1437: Now that we’ve been married all these years, by Keetje Kuipers

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1436: Vacation by Sara Moore Wagner

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1435: ars poetica, 2019 by Airea D. Matthews

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1434: Waiting for the Call I Am by Wyatt Townley

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1433: Given to Rust by Vievee Francis

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1432: The Good Guy by Blas Falconer

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1431: Going Home by Joan Kwon Glass

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1430: Earth Shovel by Dan Albergotti

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1429: Midlife Crisis by Jane Zwart

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1428: In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” by Nicole Sealey

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

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1426: One-Way Gate by Jenny George

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1425: The Ship by Bianca Stone

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1424: White Hot Star by W. Todd Kaneko

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1423: Puzzle by Randall Mann

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1422: Dear Delinquent by Ann Townsend

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1421: My 1994 by Stephanie Burt

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1420: Losing the Band by Ashley D. Escobar

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1419: Ladies' Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner by Jenny Johnson

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1418: Whitetail in the Rain Moving About by Melissa Ginsburg

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1417: My Mother's Love by James Allen Hall

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Bonus Episode: Maggie Smith on This Old House Radio Hour

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1416: Nursery by Kiki Petrosino

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1415: Elephants Born Without Tusks by Alison C. Rollins

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1414: This dark is the same dark as when you close by R.A. Villanueva

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1413: On Proliferation by Cass Donish

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

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[encore] 1376: Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn

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[encore] 1343: /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile

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[encore] 1368: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace

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[encore] 1332: Tea by Leila Chatti

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1364: Hiking Moraine State Park by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

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1411: Amalgam by Rebecca Foust

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1410: Go by Kathleen Ossip

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1409: Sal, 1950 by Paula Colangelo

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1408: Noah's Nameless Wife Takes Inventory by C.T. Salazar

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1407: At the Base of the Mountain by Amanda Hawkins

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1406: Paperweight by Ryan Teitman

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1405: Entry by Chet'la Sebree

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1404: Before Lunar New Year, Our Mothers Go Missing by Uyen Phuong Dang

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1403: Echo by Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander

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1402: Gloria Mundi by Michael Kleber-Diggs

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1401: LeaveTaking by Rita Dove

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1400: The Eulogy I Didn’t Give (I) by Bob Hicok

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1399: Alarm Clock by Jennifer Maier

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1398: A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem by Rachel Dillon

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1397: Palinode by Lisa Low

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1396: Panama by Sarah Green

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1395: The Night Angler by Geffrey Davis

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1394: Puerto Rico Goes Dark by Juan J. Morales

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1393: The Night Where You No Longer Live by Meghan O’Rourke

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1392: Local Mission by Kai Carlson-Wee

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1391: Never-ending Birds by David Baker

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1390: The Poem Climbs the Scaffold and Tells You What It Sees by Natasha Oladokun

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1389: Sehnsucht by Michael Dumanis

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1388: When I learn Catastrophically by Martha Silano

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1387: Different Kinds of Sadness by Jenny Molberg

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1386: Night of the Living, Night of the Dead by Kim Addonizio

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1385: At Night by Stanley Plumly

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1384: I do not mention the war in my birthplace to my six-year-old son but somehow his body knows by Julia Kolchinsky

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1383: The Situation in Our City by Ciona Rouse

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1382: Lamb by Richie Hofmann

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

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1380: Like Apple from Seed by Molly Johnsen

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1379: Arkansabop by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

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1378: poem where no one is deported by José Olivarez

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1377: The Crux by Megan Peak

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1376: Laura, I Want You Pulling Your Hair Back by Natalie Dunn

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1375: Dear Absent, by Marcus Wicker

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1374: The Terror of New Love! by Tiana Clark

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1373: Protection Spell Jar by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

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1372: My Body Knows Its Limits by Page Hill Starzinger

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1371: At Last the New Arriving by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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1370: Soot by Kaveh Akbar

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

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1368: Do You Consider Writing to be Therapeutic? by Andrew Grace

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1367: Abundance by Rick Barot

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1366: Nostalgia by Matthew Minicucci

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1365: Noise Cancelling by Devon Walker-Figueroa

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1364: Hiking Moraine State Park by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

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1363: Notes on Beachgrass by Yong-Yu Huang

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

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1361: Earth, Sometimes I Try to Play It Casual, by Catherine Pierce

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1360: Wind, Blue Sky by Susan Aizenberg

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1359: Lotioning My Mother’s Back by Ama Codjoe