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PROSE/POETRY SAMPLER

Prose
A Season of Regret by James Lee Burke
Mule by Brad Vice
Our Former Lives in Art by Jennifer S. Davis
The Best Friend by Chris Offutt
Dog Song by Ann Pancake

Poetry
Storyville Diary by Natasha Trethewey
History Lesson by Claudia Emerson
Gone Again by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Red Bird by Mary Oliver
Courting by David Huddle
Mr. Downchild by Diann Blakely
4 A.M. by Linda Pastan
Bop: The North Star by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
The Death of Sardanapalus by Steve Gherke
The United States by Rodney Jones
Written on a Due Date for a Son Never Born by David Wojahn 

Essays
I Shot a Man in Corleone... by David Kirby
On Rejection by Bret Anthony Johnston
The Bible Tells Me So by Jeffrey Hammond 
Building the House by Mary Oliver
Seeking the Empire of Women with Tom Wolfe by Robin LeBlanc

Interview
An Interview with Claudia Emerson by Sarah Kennedy

Book Review
David Wojahn's Interrogation Palace reviewed by Christopher Matthews

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