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Volume 7 2008
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Poetry

Michele Battiste

Study of a Stroll

Richard Cecil

Hero Artist

Mark Conway

Ideogram of the Dreaming Man Lying Down (With Book); March

Jordan Davis

Coming Soon

Kathleen Flenniken

Interlude for Dancers

Rodney Gomez

Birds in Space

Karen Hildebrand

On the Subway, after the Ballet

Matthew Hittinger

Mothers Eating Other Mothers’ Young
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William Jolliff

Mrs. Watterson and the Apocalypse

Nicolas Mansito III

The Crime was in Granada (A translation of Antonio Machado)

Jett McAlister

Elegy

Daniel Polikoff

Trig Point

Doug Ramspeck

Gravity

Anna Ross

Flight  
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Danielle Sellers

Winter Elegy

Paul Sohar

Joint Communiqué with Zbigniew Herbert (A translation of Sándor Kányádi)

John Thomas

Nostalgeurysm

Greg Wrenn

At Keats’ Grave Again  
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Matt Zambito

First Fervor

Symposium on the Line:Theory and Practice in Contemporary Poetry

Kazim Ali

On the Line: A Short Vociferation

Marianne Boruch

Secret Life  
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Brent Cunningham

Remarks / On the Foundation / Of the Line: A Personal History

J. P. Dancing Bear

A Line Apart

Christina Davis

Some Lines about the Poetic Line

Annie Finch

Grails and Legacies: Thoughts on the Line

Graham Foust

Only the Broken Breathe

Noah Eli Gordon

Explosive Exactitude: On the Single Line Stanza

Arielle Greenberg

The Hyperextension of the Line

Sarah Gridley

Slash

H. L. Hix

Outta Line

Cynthia Hogue

Out of Joint: An Ir/reverent Meditation on the Line

Catherine Imbriglio

Lines and Spaces

Karla Kelsey

Lineation in the Land of the New Sentence

Ben Lerner

“What I cannot say is / Is at the vertex”: some working notes on failure and the line

Dana Levin

Some Notes on the Line

Joanie Mackowski

“And then a Plank in Reason, Broke”

Jenny Mueller

Minding the Gaps: The Line Approaching Retirement

Laura Mullen

Line / Break

Patrick Phillips

Harold and the Purple Crayon: The Line as a Generative Force

Donald Platt

On the Origin and Practice of a “Signature” Line

Paisley Rekdal

Two Takes on Poetic Meaning and the Line

Mary Ann Samyn

Clarity and Mystery: Some Thoughts on the Line

Ravi Shankar

Breadthless Length

Evie Shockley

A Few Lines on the Line

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Some Notes on the Poetic Line in G.C. Waldrep and Lily Brown

Sam Witt

Thermal Signatures; The Radical Reworkings of the Line

Fiction

April Ayers Lawson

Beautiful Feet  
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Seth Taylor

Foxhole

Nonfiction

R. Narvaez

Why I Hate Florida  
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Interview

Sarah Barber

A Conversation with Carl Phillips