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  1. A Note from the Poetry Editor
  2. John Skoyles
  3. p. 9
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0040
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  1. Real Estate
  2. Fleur Adcock
  3. p. 13
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0010
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  1. A Debate
  2. John Agard
  3. p. 14
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0029
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  1. Museum (1590)
  2. Patience Agbabi
  3. p. 15
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0048
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  1. What You Should Leave
  2. Dick Allen
  3. p. 16
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0065
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  1. Predictive Text, and: Nearing Warminster
  2. Gillian Allnutt
  3. pp. 17-18
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0082
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  1. Fragment
  2. Keith Althaus
  3. p. 19
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0099
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  1. Motherbird
  2. Moniza Alvi
  3. p. 20
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0003
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  1. White Lightning
  2. Nin Andrews
  3. p. 21
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0022
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  1. The Subconscious
  2. Simon Armitage
  3. p. 23
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0041
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  1. Two Birds
  2. Emily Berry
  3. p. 24
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0058
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  1. Sisyphus, and: Self-Portrait as a Soul
  2. Sujata Bhatt
  3. pp. 25-28
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0075
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  1. This Is Cinerama
  2. Ryan Black
  3. pp. 29-31
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0092
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  1. Night of Echoes, and: Airtime, and: Secret Alphabets, and: The Script of Sleep
  2. Rachael Boast
  3. pp. 32-35
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0109
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  1. Down into St. Cuthbert’s Swallet
  2. Sean Borodale
  3. pp. 36-37
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0014
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  1. The Breathing
  2. Marianne Boruch
  3. pp. 38-39
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0033
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  1. Annunciation in Gray and Black, and: A brief digression on the picaresque, and: In Praise of Flight
  2. John Burnside
  3. pp. 40-43
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0052
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  1. Quaaludes
  2. Matthew Caley
  3. pp. 44-45
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0069
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  1. In Defense of Darkness
  2. Kayo Chingonyi
  3. p. 46
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0086
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  1. Tiger, Tiger
  2. Polly Clark
  3. pp. 47-48
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0103
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  1. The Brown Hare, and: The Mothering
  2. Gillian Clarke
  3. pp. 49-50
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0007
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  1. Bunny
  2. Sophie Collins
  3. p. 51
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0026
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  1. The Lady on the Lid, and: Côté coeur
  2. David Constantine
  3. pp. 52-53
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0045
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  1. Westerns
  2. Fred D’Aguiar
  3. pp. 54-55
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0062
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  1. The most emotionally disturbing (or upsetting) thing
  2. Nia Davies
  3. pp. 56-57
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0079
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  1. Bóithre / Chaos Theory
  2. Louis de Paor
  3. pp. 58-59
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0096
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  1. Out of line
  2. Imtiaz Dharker
  3. p. 60
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0000
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  1. The Conclave, and: A Pasture for Gazelles
  2. Peter Didsbury
  3. pp. 61-62
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0018
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  1. Narrative
  2. Stephen Dobyns
  3. pp. 63-64
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0037
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  1. Revenant
  2. Maura Dooley
  3. p. 65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0055
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  1. In Secret, and: The Lamplighter
  2. Helen Dunmore
  3. pp. 66-67
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0072
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  1. “Wondrous Strange”
  2. Douglas Dunn
  3. p. 68
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0089
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  1. Ysgol Gân y drudwns / Singing School for Starlings
  2. Menna Elfyn
  3. pp. 69-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0106
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  1. Meditations on Yellow
  2. Ruth Fainlight
  3. pp. 71-72
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0011
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  1. The Snow Queen
  2. Vicki Feaver
  3. p. 73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0030
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  1. A Wand of Rosewood
  2. Elaine Feinstein
  3. pp. 74-75
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0049
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  1. My Feelings
  2. Nick Flynn
  3. pp. 76-77
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0066
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  1. After Dürer
  2. Emily Fragos
  3. p. 78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0083
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  1. The Grain of Truth
  2. John Glenday
  3. p. 79
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0100
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  1. Stone Trees
  2. Vona Groarke
  3. pp. 80-81
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0004
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  1. Heartland
  2. Philip Gross
  3. pp. 82-83
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0023
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  1. New Orleans Dithyramb
  2. Barbara Hamby
  3. pp. 84-85
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0042
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  1. Gas Attack, and: Escaping Kanitu, March 1988, and: Dispute over a Mass Grave
  2. Choman Hardi
  3. pp. 86-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0059
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  1. from Salt
  2. David Harsent
  3. pp. 90-91
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0076
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  1. Fish-Fight at the Basilica Cisterns, and: June Dolphin
  2. W. N. Herbert
  3. pp. 92-93
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0093
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  1. The Case of the Inconvenient Corpse
  2. Tracey Herd
  3. pp. 94-95
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0110
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  1. Costa Del Dento
  2. Rita Ann Higgins
  3. pp. 96-97
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0015
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  1. Lobo-Lobo, and: Swimming Chickens
  2. Selima Hill
  3. pp. 98-99
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0034
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  1. Faulkner
  2. Tony Hoagland
  3. pp. 100-101
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0053
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  1. Upon Reading That Among the Twenty-five Thousand Pages of Love Letters That Passed Between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Over a Period of Thirty Years, He Had Once Confessed to Her How Much He Had Wanted to Photograph Her Throat
  2. John Hodgen
  3. pp. 102-103
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0070
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  1. Cavafy: Subrosa, and: Midterms
  2. Michael Hofmann
  3. pp. 104-105
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0087
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  1. Beck
  2. Matthew Hollis
  3. p. 106
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0104
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  1. Envoi
  2. Sarah Howe
  3. p. 107
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0008
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  1. All De Doo-Dah Day
  2. Andrew Hudgins
  3. pp. 108-109
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0027
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  1. Night Steps
  2. Major Jackson
  3. p. 110
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0046
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  1. Would Jane Eyre Come to the Information Desk?
  2. Jackie Kay
  3. p. 111
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0063
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  1. Enemy of the State, and: Return of the Native
  2. Suji Kwock Kim
  3. pp. 112-115
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0080
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  1. Harmonium
  2. Michael Klein
  3. pp. 116-117
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0097
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  1. Psalm
  2. Dorianne Laux
  3. p. 118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0001
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  1. Fluctuations of Going
  2. Gwyneth Lewis
  3. pp. 119-120
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0019
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  1. Tobacco
  2. Luljeta Lleshanaku
  3. pp. 121-122
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0038
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  1. The Trilobite
  2. Michael Longley
  3. p. 123
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0056
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  1. from By Numbers
  2. Roddy Lumsden
  3. pp. 124-125
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0073
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  1. Ode to the Eraser as Big as a Bus, and: Ode While Awaiting Execution
  2. Thomas Lux
  3. pp. 126-128
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0090
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  1. Foghar eile / another autumn
  2. Aonghas MacNeacail
  3. p. 129
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0107
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  1. Thirsting
  2. Olivia McCannon
  3. p. 130
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0012
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  1. Encounters with Dust
  2. Medbh McGuckian
  3. pp. 131-132
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0031
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  1. Freudiana
  2. Jamie McKendrick
  3. pp. 133-134
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0050
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  1. The Blues, and: The Patternings, and: The Old Professor
  2. Paula Meehan
  3. pp. 135-137
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0067
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  1. Ask Aloud
  2. Anne Michaels
  3. p. 138
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0084
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  1. At the Checkout
  2. Esther Morgan
  3. p. 139
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0101
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  1. My Seventeenth-Century Girlhood
  2. Sinéad Morrissey
  3. pp. 140-141
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0005
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  1. Murmuration
  2. Helen Mort
  3. pp. 142-143
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0024
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  1. Laying the Fire
  2. Andrew Motion
  3. pp. 144-146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0043
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  1. Plume
  2. Paul Muldoon
  3. pp. 147-148
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0060
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  1. The Shilling and the Princess
  2. Grace Nichols
  3. p. 149
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0077
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  1. World’s End
  2. Sean O’Brien
  3. p. 150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0094
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  1. Clotho, and: The Man With No Name as Vital Principle: A Ghazal
  2. Caitríona O’Reilly
  3. pp. 151-152
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0111
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  1. The Willow Forest
  2. Frank Ormsby
  3. p. 153
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0016
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  1. Mama Amazonica, and: Jaguar Girl, and: My Wolverine
  2. Pascale Petit
  3. pp. 154-161
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0035
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  1. At Peckham Rye
  2. Clare Pollard
  3. p. 162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0054
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  1. Nickname
  2. Jacob Polley
  3. p. 163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0071
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  1. Anthropologies, and: Shoplifter of the world
  2. Kate Potts
  3. pp. 164-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0088
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  1. Fallujah, Basra: A Poem in Four Voices
  2. Shazea Quraishi
  3. pp. 167-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0105
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  1. A Courtship
  2. Deryn Rees-Jones
  3. pp. 169-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0009
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  1. from The Golden Abacus
  2. Roger Reeves
  3. pp. 172-178
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0028
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  1. <3
  2. Sophie Robinson
  3. pp. 179-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0047
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  1. Now Is When, and: Classroom Incident, and: Death of a Priest
  2. Michael Ryan
  3. pp. 181-185
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0064
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  1. The Dangerous Seductiveness of Rhymes
  2. Lawrence Sail
  3. p. 186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0081
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  1. The Plagiarist
  2. Eva Salzman
  3. p. 187
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0098
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  1. Some Tentative Definitions: “B”
  2. Jacob Sam-La Rose
  3. p. 188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0002
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  1. Mermaids, and: Her Blue Body Full of Light
  2. Warsan Shire
  3. pp. 189-190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0020
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  1. A piece of osmium about the size of a paper grocery bag weighs as much as a new car a small Honda Accord for instance…, and: Maybe
  2. Penelope Shuttle
  3. pp. 191-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0039
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  1. Limerence
  2. Ciara Shuttleworth
  3. p. 194
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0057
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  1. Middle School Summer
  2. Aaron Smith
  3. p. 195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0074
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  1. Atropa Belladonna
  2. Austin Smith
  3. p. 196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0091
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  1. The leavening, and: Frankenstein on Orkney
  2. Pauline Stainer
  3. pp. 197-198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0108
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  1. In Passing
  2. Anne Stevenson
  3. p. 199
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0013
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  1. Stars
  2. Greta Stoddart
  3. p. 200
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0032
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  1. My Problem
  2. Matthew Sweeney
  3. p. 201
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0051
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  1. Grace, and: Animal Inside
  2. George Szirtes
  3. pp. 202-204
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0068
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  1. I Am Pretending There Was No Restaurant
  2. Chrys Tobey
  3. p. 205
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0085
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  1. The Deer
  2. James Valvis
  3. pp. 206-207
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0102
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  1. Yes I admit that I have ate, and: You know that intermingled time of night and day
  2. Mark Waldron
  3. pp. 208-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0006
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  1. Etching, drypoint
  2. Ahren Warner
  3. p. 210
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0025
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  1. How to Walk Backwards into a Black & White House
  2. Amy Woolard
  3. pp. 211-212
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0044
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  1. Of Ownership
  2. Karen McCarthy Woolf
  3. p. 213
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0061
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  1. Summer Poem #3
  2. Matthew Zapruder
  3. p. 214
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0078
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  1. A Profile by Christina Patterson
  2. About Neil Astley
  3. pp. 215-218
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0095
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  1. Editors’ Shelf: Book Recommendations from Our Advisory Editors
  3. pp. 219-220
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0112
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  1. Editors’ Corner: New Works by Our Advisory Editors
  3. p. 220
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0017
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  1. Introduction
  2. Neil Astley
  3. pp. 10-12
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0021
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  1. Contributors’ Notes: Spring 2015
  3. pp. 220-233
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/plo.2015.0036
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