Mary Crow
No. 38
The Terrible Stories
Lucille Clifton
No. 39
The Heat of Arrivals
Ray Gonzalez
No. 40
Jimmy & Rita
Kim Addonizio
No. 41
Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum
Michael Waters
No. 42
Against Distance
Peter Makuck
No. 43
The Night Path
Laurie Kutchins
No. 44
Radiography
Bruce Bond
No. 45
At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties
David Ignatow
No. 46
Trillium
Richard Foerster
No. 47
Fuel
Naomi Shihab Nye
No. 48
Gratitude
Sam Hamill
No. 49
Diana, Charles, & the Queen
William Heyen
No. 50
Plus Shipping
Bob Hicok
No. 51
Cabato Sentora
Ray Gonzalez
No. 52
We Didn’t Come Here for This
William B. Patrick
No. 53
The Vandals
Alan Michael Parker
No. 54
To Get Here
Wendy Mnookin
No. 55
Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems
David Ignatow
No. 56
Dusty Angel
Michael Blumenthal
No. 57
The Tiger Iris
Joan Swift
No. 58
White City
Mark Irwin
No. 59
Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969–1999
Bill Knott
No. 60
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems: 1988–2000
Lucille Clifton
No. 61
Tell Me
Kim Addonizio
No. 62
Smoke
Dorianne Laux
No. 63
Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems
Michael Waters
No. 64
Rancho Notorious
Richard Garcia
No. 65
Jam
Joe-Anne McLaughlin
No. 66
A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems
Edited, with an Introduction by Michael Waters
No. 67
Small Gods of Grief
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
No. 68
Book of My Nights
Li-Young Lee
No. 69
Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies
Charles Harper Webb
No. 70
Double Going
Richard Foerster
No. 71
What He Took
Wendy Mnookin
No. 72
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande
Ray Gonzalez
No. 73
Mules of Love
Ellen Bass
No. 74
The Guests at the Gate
Anthony Piccione
No. 75
Dumb Luck
Sam Hamill
No. 76
Love Song with Motor Vehicles
Alan Michael Parker
No. 77
Life Watch
Willis Barnstone
No. 78
The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940–2001
Louis Simpson
No. 79
Is
Wayne Dodd
No. 80
Late
Cecilia Woloch
No. 81
Precipitates
Debra Kang Dean
No. 82
The Orchard
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
No. 83
Bright Hunger
Mark Irwin
No. 84
Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems
Lola Haskins
No. 85
Curious Conduct
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
No. 86
Mercy
Lucille Clifton
No. 87
Model Homes
Wayne Koestenbaum
No. 88
Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey
Barton Sutter
No. 89
Angels for the Burning
David Mura
No. 90
The Rooster’s Wife
Russell Edson
No. 91
American Children
Jim Simmerman
No. 92
Postcards from the Interior
Wyn Cooper
No. 93
You & Yours
Naomi Shihab Nye
No. 94
Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems 1986–2005
Ray Gonzalez
No. 95
Off-Season in the Promised Land
Peter Makuck
No. 96
The Hoopoe’s Crown
Jacqueline Osherow
No. 97
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
W. D. Snodgrass
No. 98
Splendor
Steve Kronen
No. 99
Woman Crossing a Field
Deena Linett
No. 100
The Burning of Troy
Richard Foerster
No. 101
Darling Vulgarity
Michael Waters
No. 102
The Persistence of Objects
Richard Garcia
No. 103
Slope of the Child Everlasting
Laurie Kutchins
No. 104
Broken Hallelujahs
Sean Thomas Dougherty
No. 105
Peeping Tom’s Cabin: Comic Verse 1928–2008
X. J. Kennedy
No. 106
Disclamor
G.C. Waldrep
No. 107
Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death
Christopher Kennedy
No. 108
Sleeping with Houdini
Nin Andrews
No. 109
Nomina
Karen Volkman
No. 110
The Fortieth Day
Kazim Ali
No. 111
Elephants & Butterflies
Alan Michael Parker
No. 112
Voices
Lucille Clifton
No. 113
The Moon Makes Its Own Plea
Wendy Mnookin
No. 114
The Heaven-Sent Leaf
Katy Lederer
No. 115
Struggling Times
Louis Simpson
No. 116
And
Michael Blumenthal
No. 117
Carpathia
Cecilia Woloch
No. 118
Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone
Matthew Shenoda
No. 119
Sharp Stars
Sharon Bryan
No. 120
Cool Auditor
Ray Gonzalez
No. 121
Long Lens: New and Selected Poems
Peter Makuck
No. 122
Chaos Is the New Calm
Wyn Cooper
No. 123
Diwata
Barbara Jane Reyes
No. 124
Burning of the Three Fires
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
No. 125
Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line
Sean Thomas Dougherty
No. 126
Your F
ather on the Train of Ghosts
G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher
No. 127
Ennui Prophet
Christopher Kennedy
No. 128
Transfer
Naomi Shihab Nye
No. 129
Gospel Night
Michael Waters
No. 130
The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home
Janice N. Harrington
No. 131
Kingdom Animalia
Aracelis Girmay
No. 132
True Faith
Ira Sadoff
No. 133
The Reindeer Camps and Other Poems
Barton Sutter
No. 134
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965–2010
No. 135
To Keep Love Blurry
Craig Morgan Teicher
No. 136
Theophobia
Bruce Beasley
No. 137
Refuge
Adrie Kusserow
No. 138
The Book of Goodbyes
Jillian Weise
No. 139
Birth Marks
Jim Daniels
No. 140
No Need of Sympathy
Fleda Brown
No. 141
There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick
Michael Teig
No. 142
The Keys to the Jail
Keetje Kuipers
No. 143
All You Ask for Is Longing: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014
Sean Thomas Dougherty
No. 144
Copia
Erika Meitner
No. 145
The Chair: Prose Poems
Richard Garcia
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