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Preludes: Selected poems from the
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1140:Terri Witek
1040:John Updike
1007:Mark Strand
939:Jane Shore
801:Ed Ochester
688:Audre Lorde
648:John Koethe
563:John Holmes
513:Donald Hall
460:Kay Gabriel
445:Kimon Friar
407:David Ferry
332:Alfred Corn
327:Jane Cooper
302:John Ciardi
297:Franny Choi
267:Howard Buck
191:C.L. Barber
177:Robert Bagg
163:W. H. Auden
140:Kaveh Akbar
76:Donald Hall
39:The contest
1559:Categories
1309:2018-03-14
1277:2018-03-14
1249:2018-03-14
1216:2018-03-14
1188:References
909:May Sarton
791:Hoa Nguyen
766:Edwin Muir
761:Fred Moten
593:Erica Hunt
475:Dana Gioia
387:Alan Dugan
230:W.W. Bison
186:Ari Banias
126:Samuel Ace
99:James Agee
826:John Peck
382:Mark Doty
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74:in 1948,
1416:Research
1168:Preludes
1155:John Yau
1202:"Kudos"
48:History
1488:People
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