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    Beloved Communities, Lasting Divisions: Poets on Country, Culture, and Kinship

    Ned Balbo
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    Everything Old is New Again: A.E. Stallings and This Afterlife

    Ethan McGuire
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    Club Silencio

    John Wall Barger
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    Rhyme’s Crimes

    Brian Brodeur
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    Ekphrasis and the Lennon Lyric: A Review of Lynchings: Postcards from America

    Joshua Eric Williams
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    What Happened to the Apple-Ipecac Pie?: The Coen Brothers and Shake­spear­ean Tragedy

    Cynthia Lewis
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    Birds of America; Or, Tell Me a Story About Farming, Haunted Houses, and Poetry in Motion: Down on the Farm

    Maurice Manning
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    Our Auden

    Mary Jo Salter
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    Place and the Composition of Poetic Self

    Maurice Manning
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    Rediscovering Southern Poetry

    Daniel Cross Turner
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    Nibbling Animals: Jason Guriel’s On Browsing and James Pollock’s Durable Goods

    Peter Vertacnik
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    “For When the Days Seem Absent Any Answers”: Poets of Skepticism and Faith

    Ned Balbo
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    “There Is One End for Everyone”: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary American Literary Ballads

    Brian Brodeur
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    “A poet, dangerous and steep”: reintroducing Josephine Jacobsen

    Jane Greer
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    Work Done? David Mason’s Pacific Light

    Kjerstin Kauffman
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    Populism and Experimental Ecopoetics: Ed Roberson’s City Eclogue

    Christopher Suarez
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    The International Brigades in the Poetry of the Spanish Civil War: Populist Rhetorical Strategies

    Marco Antolin
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    Afterglow: An Appreciation of Robert B. Shaw’s What Remains to Be Said

    A. E. Stallings
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    The Ends of Things and What We Are

    Daniel Tobin
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    Point Blank: The Transparent Pleasures of Kirsch’s Memoir in Verse

    Sunil Iyengar
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