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May 2008

Karen Caldicott, "The answer is...," 2008.
 
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  • Spencer Reece
  • Jane Hirshfield
  • Yvonne Zipter
  • Seth Abramson
  • Bryan Dietrich
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Monaco

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The Decision

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Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem

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Table of Contents

Poems
  • Spencer Reece
    • Monaco
  • Jane Hirshfield
    • The Decision
    • The Pear
    • Seawater Stiffens Cloth
    • All the Difficult Hours and Minutes
  • Yvonne Zipter
    • Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem
  • Seth Abramson
    • Nebraska
    • Hands Are Wood
    • Provincetown Fourth
  • Andrew Hudgins
    • The Imagined Copperhead
    • Blowfly
  • Bryan D. Dietrich
    • I Imagine My Father’s Death
  • Liz Waldner
    • Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis
  • Philip White
    • Infidelity
  • Mark Irwin
    • Empire
  • Sandra M. Gilbert
    • Colonoscopy Sonnet
  • Chris Dombrowski
    • Sustenance
    • Get Up, John
    • Landscape with Scavengers and Bonelight
  • Daniel Tobin
    • The Cause
  • Cathy Park Hong
    • Ensor
    • They Come
  • Rodney Jones
    • Skink
Comment
  • Eavan Boland
    • Islands Apart: A Notebook
  • Cate Marvin, Joshua Mehigan
    • Curious Specimens: An Exchange
  • Carmine Starnino
    • The Plight of the Poet-Critic
  • A.E. Stallings
    • Fugitive Train
  • Christina Pugh
    • Accessibility Blues
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  • Mark Irwin
  • Rodney Jones
  • Cate Marvin
  • Joshua Mehigan
  • Christina Pugh
  • Spencer Reece
  • A.E. Stallings
  • Carmine Starnino
  • Daniel Tobin
  • Liz Waldner
  • Philip White
  • Yvonne Zipter
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