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    • Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion
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    • The Moment of Greatest Alienation
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    • The Oriole & The Ovenbird
    • The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems
    • Call My Name
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    • MUCH
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    • The Hatchet and the Hammer
    • In September They Draw Down The Lake
    • ALL ELSE FALLS TO SHADOW
    • Atlas of Lost Places
    • Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship
    • The Missing Ones
    • Passing Through Blue Earth
    • Self-Portraits
    • Calling the Garden from the Grave
    • Coronary Truth
    • The Strangers Burial Ground
    • Memoirs of a Witness Tree
    • Lesbian Fashion Struggles
    • Inclined to Riot
    • Birkenstock Blues
    • Reconstructed Happiness
    • Jackpot
    • Life, One Not Attached to Conditionals
    • Keep This to Yourself
    • To Those Who Were Our First Gods
    • 3arabi Song
    • Survival in Two Volumes
    • The Street Medic
    • Queer Hagiographies
    • Retracing My Steps
    • The Unexploded Ordnance Bin
    • Teaching While Black
    • [re]construction of the necromancer
    • We Are All Things
    • Split Map
    • Wolf Daughter
    • November Quilt
    • The Fire Eater
    • BOYS
    • A Nation (Imagined)
    • Bad Anatomy
    • Carry On (elegies)
    • She May Be a Saint
    • Café of Unintelligible Desire
    • THE DEAD KID POEMS
    • Word Hot
    • My Father’s Kites and Corporal Muse
    • FOOTNOTE
    • FEED
    • Refugia
    • Sublime Subliminal
    • Each Wild Thing’s Consent
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  • The Interviews
    • Interview with John Whitney Steele
    • They Become Stars: History as Poetry
    • Alexis Rhone Fancher & Arya F. Jenkins
    • Burgi Zenhaeusern & Nancy Naomi Carlson
    • Zeina Hashem Beck and Issam Zineh
    • Diane Elayne Dees
    • FRANCINE WITTE
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  • Risa’s Updates
    • Happy Birthday, a little late …
    • Readers and Writers ALERT!
    • Catalog of Chapbooks
    • Back from AWP and Ready to Review
    • The Poetry Cafe in the Spotlight!
  • Meet the Reviewers!
    • Kubra Nazir
    • Lisa Hall Brownell
    • Ellen Miller-Mack
    • Nadja Maril
    • Mary Warren Foulk
    • Maria McLeod
    • Jennifer Saunders
    • Nikki Gonzalez
    • Lennart Lundh
    • Sharon Waller Knutson
    • Lori Green
    • Ruth Crossman
    • Deborah Bacharach
    • Christine Dooley Ellis
    • Geri Mendoza Gutwein
    • Olivia Loftis
    • Deborah Kahan Kolb
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    • Charles Farmer
    • S.M. Tsai
    • Emily Mohn-Slate
    • Carmine DiBiase
    • Cheryl Caesar
    • Don Beukes
    • Sylvia Byrne Pollack
    • Nancy Knowles
    • Diane Elayne Dees
    • Bill Rector
    • Christine Orchanian Adler
    • John W. Bing
    • Elijah B Pringle, III
    • Albert DeGenova
    • Herman Sutter
    • Diane Elayne Dees
    • Randal A. Burd, Jr.
    • Risa Denenberg
    • Sam Preminger
    • Frank Jude Boccio
    • Mary Ellen Talley
    • Nancy Naomi Carlson
    • Samantha Kolber
    • Wendy DeGroat
    • Issam Zineh
    • Jen Rouse
    • Burgi Zenhaeusern
    • Arya F. Jenkins
    • Mother Want
    • Sarah Stockton
    • Jeri Frederickson
    • Siân Killingsworth
    • Jennifer Saunders
    • Linera Lucas
    • Lauren Davis
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  • Catalog of Chapbooks
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The Poets and Reviewers

Maria McLeod
Jennifer Saunders
Amy Lee Heinlen
Ruth Crossman
Tyg
Lydia Davis
Gail Martin
Rebecca Foust
Wendy DeGroat
Leslie Clinton
Sharon Waller Knutson
Sarah Nichols
Elliott Colla
Lennart Lundh
Margo Taft Stever
Deborah Bacharach
Kelly Sargent
Michele Bombardier
Bill Rector
Ruelaine Stokes
Zeina Hashem Beck
Lawrence E. Hussman
Jeri Frederickson
Deborah Kahan Kolb
JinJin Xu
Susanna Lang
Meg Files
Laura Cesarco Eglin
Liz Marlo
Cheryl Caesar
Alexis Rhone Fancher
J.M. Allen
Adam Deutsch
Jen Rouse
Morgan Galladay
Kubra Nazir
Amelia Diaz Ettinger
Penelope Scambly Schott
Risa Denenberg
Diane Elayne Dees
Huma Sheikh
Nadja Maril
Peggy Schimmelman
Cheryl Caesar
Christine Orchanian Adler
Lisa Hall Brownell
Kerrin McCadden
Hanna V. Warren
Francine Witte
Mary Ellen Talley
Lauren Davis
Marjorie Moorhead
Natasha Kochicheril Moni
Diane Moomey
Sylvia Byrne Pollack
LD Green
Trish Hopkinson
Erica Abbott
S.M. Tsai
Ron Scully
Joel Peckham
Lynn Strongin
Matthew E. Henry
Caitlin Scarano
Cynthia Neely
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Albert DeGenova
Issam Zineh
Jefferson Carter
Jayne Moore Waldrop
Susan Serafin Jess
Gina Hietpas
Frank Jude Boccio
Yamini Pathak
Don Beukes
Sam Preminger
Allison Joseph
Joan Kwan Glass
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Rena Priest
Suzanne Simmons
Burgi Zenhaeusern
John Whitney Steele
Geri Mendoza Gutwein
Arya F. Jenkins
Nancy Kay Peterson
Chana Kraus-Friedberg
Daniel Edward Moore
Peter Snow
Lisa Dordal
Charles Farmer
Laura Schulkind
Kristin Berger
Angela Patton
Emily Mohn-Slate
Jeri Theriault
Siân Killingsworth
Linera Lucas
Ganzeer
Audra Puchalski
Hannah Cohen
Jesi Bender
Herman Sutter
Alison Pelegrin
John W. Bing
Jeff Santosuosso
Jeanne Morel
Leigh Lucas
Elijah B. Pringle III
Caroline Earleywine
Bill Cushing
Jennifer Mariani
Kimberly Ann Priest
Jose Hernandez Diaz
Samantha Kolber
Brittney Corrigan
Carmine Di Biase
Sarah Stockton
Randal Burd
Amy Watkins
Mary Warren Foulk
Nikki Gonzalez
Heather Wyatt
Nickole Brown
Julia Caroline Knowlton
Joe Amaral
Christine Dooley Ellis
KMA Sullivan
Rebecca Connors
Rebecca Connors
Nancy Knowles
Emily Paige Wilson
Liza Porter
Ellen Miller-Mack
Mary Meriam
Olivia Loftis
Wesley D. Gray
Lori Green
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