New poems from Spencer Reece, Jane Hirshfield, Yvonne Zipter, Seth Abramson, Andrew Hudgins, Bryan D. Dietrich, Liz Waldner, Philip White, Mark Irwin, Sandra M. Gilbert, Chris Dombrowski, Daniel Tobin, Cathy Park Hong, and Rodney Jones; prose from Eavan Boland, Cate Marvin, Joshua Mehigan, Carmine Starnino, A.E. Stallings, and Christina Pugh. Table of Contents >>

Cathy Park Hong
Ensor
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Jane Hirshfield
The Decision
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Liz Waldner
Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis
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Eavan Boland
Islands Apart: A Notebook
There has been a gradual, perhaps calcifying professionalism which requires of a poet a standard of behavior and communality which poets were once exempted from. I was never uncritical of that exemption. But now, somehow, I wish I saw more of it.
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At the end of May Poetry will announce the 2008 winner of the Ruth Lilly Prize, one of the largest and most prestigious literary honors in the country. Established in 1986, the prize awards $100,000 to a living American poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. Past recipients include, among others, John Ashbery (1992), Yusef Komunyakaa (2001) and Kay Ryan (2004).
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