"Discovery" 92nd Street Y Poetry Contest Winners

Frances Justine Post, Bridgette Bates, Barbara Claire Freeman, and Cynthia Lowen

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Poems

Grace

Desirée Alvarez

(Dialogue in a country graveyard)

Matvei Yankelevich

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D.A. Powell

Bill Brandt

Gerard Melanga

Sparrow

Melissa Kwasny

Autobiography

Samuel Menashe

To Reap the Field

Tomaž Šalamun

You Are at Home Here

Tomaž Šalamun

Let's

Martha Zweig

Overturn

Martha Zweig

The Lieutentant, Returned

Iain Haley Pollock

Tradition, With Industry

Geoff Bouvier

Conifers

Mark Bibbins

The Drawing

Sarah Orah Mark

Letters from the Boreal Hermitess

Jennifer Chang

Variants on Binding

Stephanie Anderson

Red Glass Necklace

John Spaulding

The Whole False History of Human Beings

Arthur Vogelsang

A Skeleton I Made From Skeletons I Found

Scott Topper

The Ghost Back Home

Fred Muratori

Winner of the tenth annual Boston Reivew poetry contest: Elizabeth Willis

Introduced by Susan Stewart

Essays

The Writing Cure

Don Share's Squandermania
Erin Belieu

Ghosts

Susan Howe's Souls of the Labadie Tract
Andrew Zawacki

The Speed of Life

Laura Kasischke's Lilies Withouy
Stephen Burt

Seeing Voices

Hannah Weiner's Hannah Weiner's Open House
Joyelle McSweeney

The Truth of Things

Robert Haas's Time and Materials
Katie Peterson

An Unfinished Story

Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust
Kathryn Crim

Modern Hints

Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève
Jennifer Grotz

Neither Settled Nor Easy

C.D. Wright's One Big Self: An Investigation
Alan Gilbert

Microreviews

His Face In The Mirror

Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems: 1956-1998
W. Martin

The Testament of Mr. Cogito

Zbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political
Allissa Valles

Enlivened Parties

Joanna Klink's Circadian and Geoffrey G. O'Brien's Green and Gray
Reginald Shepherd

Microreviews

Poet's Sampler: John W. Evans

Introduced by Campbell McGrath