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“The Burning Bush” by Jericho Brown
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“To a Locomotive in Winter” by Walt Whitman
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Rachel Wetzsteon reading selections from her sequence “Home and Away” in the Paris Review Audio Series
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“Promised Land Valley, June ’73” by Alfred Corn
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“Hotel Lautréamont” by John Ashbery
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“Rich in Vitamin C” by J.H. Prynne
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“Sakura Park” by Rachel Wetzsteon
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“Adoration of the Shepherds / A Pastoral Scene” by Odi Gonzales
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“Auld Lang Syne” by Robert Burns
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“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
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E-Verse is deeply saddened by the death of the poet Rachel Wetzsteon
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“At the Entering of the New Year” by Thomas Hardy
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“Te Deum” by Charles Reznikoff
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“The Old Year” by John Clare
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Paul Siegell’s Figure Poem “06.25.00 – PHiSH – ALLTEL PVILION, NC” from the new issue of Rattle magazine
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“Poem” by Jill Alexander Essbaum
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Ernest Hilbert Reads His Poem “Cover to Cover”
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“Hopper” by David Lehman
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“On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia” by A.E. Stallings
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“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
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“A Hill” by Anthony Hecht
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“Food Lion, Winchester, Tennessee” by Joe Osterhaus
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“Sweet Romanian Tongue” by James Schuyler
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“back to the machine gun” by Charles Bukowski
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“Study” by Rick Barot
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“Ovid in the Third Reich” by Geoffrey Hill
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Heather Green translates excerpts from Tristan Tzara’s “The Cast Iron of the Years” from Where the Wolves Drink (Part One)
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“Gettysburg” by Herman Melville
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