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1358: Parts of a Body House by Erika Meitner

1357: Country Night by Laura Newbern

1356: The Song of Songs of Songs of Songs by Jeremy Radin

1355: Rancho Bar by Margot Kahn

1354: Checkout by Caroline Bird

1353: Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

1352: Blue by Jodie Hollander

1351: The Happy Middle by Hedgie Choi

1350: Real Estate by Richard Siken

1349: Sati by Vandana Khanna

1348: Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye

1347: Animal Prudence by Kathy Fagan

1346: The Difficult Countryside by John Gallaher

1345: Arrangements by Adrienne Chung

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

1343: /’mīgrent/ by Tiana Nobile

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

1341: Lake by Noah Falck

1340: From the Sky by Sara Abou Rashed

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

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

1337: New York Address by Linda Gregg

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

1335: Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris

1334: Étude by Amy Gerstler

1333: Crossing the Line by E. Ethelbert Miller

1332: Tea by Leila Chatti

[encore] 784: Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds

[encore] 768: Lately I Am Trying by Sanna Wani

[encore] 520: I Worry My Mother Will Die and I Will Know Nothing by Asa Drake

[encore] 792: Trash by Joshua Bennett

[encore] 688: [since feeling is first] by E.E. Cummings

[encore] 264: Sleeping with the Chihuahua by Tami Haaland

[encore] 351: Fish Heads by R.A. Villanueva

[encore] 278: Thanks by W.S. Merwin

Maggie Smith is the New Host of The Slowdown

[encore] 237: Workshop by Jacob Shores-Argüello

[encore] 961: Nocturne by Oliver Baez Bendorf

[encore] 1107: Accessory to War by Kim Stafford

[encore] 1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez

[encore] 1094: 00000000 by Erin Marie Lynch

[encore] 1005: eco-hood by Melania Luisa Marte

[encore] 624: Sunflowers in the Median

[encore] 526: Saudade

[encore] 645: It’s 9:30am, I’ve ran four miles, cried four times, & eaten two chicken sandwiches

[encore] 510: Let Me

[encore] 788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash

[encore] 382: Another Night at Sea Level by Meg Day

[encore] 442: Climbing China's Great Wall by Afaa M. Weaver

[encore] 454: On a Spaceship Somewhere, Long After Empire's Collapse by Jesús I. Valles

[encore] 470: Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry by Jericho Brown

[encore] 393: Song In Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster by Tess Taylor

[encore] 1175: Hunger by Kelli Russell Agodon

[encore] 1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye

[encore] 1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim

[encore] 1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

[encore] 1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

[encore] 664: Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

[encore] 677: Practicing by Ciona Rouse

[encore] 541: Little Grey Dreams by Angelina Weld Grimké

[encore] 617: Places With Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez

[encore] 710: Acknowledgments by Nkosi Nkululeko

[encore] 463: To be of use by Marge Piercy

[encore] 403: The Book of Genesis by Morgan Parker

[encore] 387: Stop Looking At My Last Name Like That by Michael Torres

[encore] 448: Telephone of the Wind by Eddie Kim

[encore] 377: Moon Pull by Carlina Duan

[encore] 871: Flesh (“You in your ecstasy of coffee”) by Deborah Landau

[encore] 1104: Black Book of Creation by Shanta Lee Gander

1332: Slow Take: An Evening of Poetry and Reflection with The Slowdown and The Porch

[encore] 969: Us by Zaffar Kunial

[encore] 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

[encore] 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't by Traci Brimhall

[encore] 531: anti-immigration by Evie Shockley

[encore] 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez

[encore] 516: In Response to Feeling Alone by t. liem

[encore] 603: Sligo Abbey by Rebecca Lindenberg

[encore] 373: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado

[encore] 459: The Feeling by Ari Banias

[encore] 303: Telling My Father by James Crews

[encore] 9: Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal by Kaveh Akbar

[encore] 311: Listen, by Barbara Crooker

[encore] 821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen by Justin Marks

[encore] 1113: Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi

[encore] 1168: Refusing Rilke's "You must change your life" by Remica Bingham-Risher

[encore] 1201: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

[encore] 1029: If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein

[encore] 600: I Imagine the Butches' Stripper Bar by Jill McDonough

[encore] 760: Song by Charif Shanahan

[encore] 647: Walking Across Fire Island by Shelley Wong

[encore] 571: Golden Age by Chris Santiago

[encore] 708: Bruised Peaches by Bronwen Tate

[encore] 236: Polaroid Ode by Cori Winrock

[encore] 389: Kissing the Opelu by Donovan Kūhiō

[encore] 168: What Does It Say by Tess Gallagher

[encore] 386: Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong by Ocean Vuong

[encore] 496: a brief meditation on breath by Yesenia Montilla

[encore] 1025: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne

[encore] 995: Dear—, by DéLana R.A. Dameron

[encore] 1202: If only by Dawn Lundy Martin