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1 09/16/2008 Gwendolyn Brooks
2 10/17/2008 Kay Ryan
3 11/18/2008 Hayden Carruth
4 12/03/2008 Rodney Jones
5 12/19/2008 Jean Valentine
6 01/06/2009 Theodore Roethke
7 01/26/2009 Galway Kinnell
8 02/04/2009 Heather McHugh
9 02/19/2009 Ted Kooser ——— dull
10 03/04/2009 C.K. Williams
11 03/19/2009 Maxine Kumin
12 04/02/2009 Marilyn Hacker
13 04/16/2009 Yusef Komunyakaa
14 04/30/2009 August Kleinzahler
15 05/13/2009 Charles Wright
16 05/28/2009 Elizabeth Bishop
17 06/12/2009 David Wagoner
18 06/24/2009 William Carlos Williams
19 07/10/2009 Linda Gregg
20 07/22/2009 J. V. Cunningham
21 08/05/2009 Philip Levine ——– laboring men – Detroit
22 08/20/2009 Amy Clampitt
23 09/02/2009 Li-Young Lee
24 09/16/2009 Yvor Winters
25 10/08/2009 Louise Bogan
26 10/14/2009 Gerald Stern
27 10/28/2009 James Tate
28 11/11/2009 Mark Strand
29 12/01/2009 Kenneth Koch
30 12/10/2009 Robert Hass
31 12/30/2009 John Ashbery
32 01/06/2010 William Stafford
33 01/21/2010 James Schuyler
34 02/03/2010 Weldon Kees
35 02/17/2010 Anne Sexton
36 03/03/2010 Howard Nemerov ——- I liked him
37 03/31/2010 W.D. Snodgrass
38 04/14/2010 E. E. Cummings
39 04/28/2010 Thomas McGrath left off here
40 05/12/2010 Barbara Guest
41 05/26/2010 W.S. Merwin
42 06/09/2010 Robert Duncan
43 06/24/2010 Jane Kenyon
44 07/07/2010 Delmore Schwartz
45 07/21/2010 Carolyn Forché
46 08/09/2010 George Oppen
47 08/18/2010 William Matthews
48 09/01/2010 Josephine Miles
49 09/15/2010 Carl Sandburg
50 09/29/2010 Sharon Olds
51 10/13/2010 Billy Collins
52 10/27/2010 Allen Tate
53 11/10/2010 Anthony Hecht
54 11/24/2010 Denise Levertov
55 12/08/2010 Conrad Aiken
56 12/22/2010 Robert Bly
57 01/05/2011 Robert Hayden
58 01/19/2011 Stanley Kunitz
59 02/02/2011 Thylias Moss
60 02/16/2011 Wallace Stevens
61 03/02/2011 Louis Simpson
62 03/16/2011 Kenneth Rexroth
63 03/30/2011 Mona Van Duyn
64 04/13/2011 Lucille Clifton
65 05/03/2011 Robert Creeley
66 05/19/2011 Muriel Rukeyser
67 06/01/2011 Carolyn Kizer
68 06/15/2011 Robinson Jeffers
69 06/29/2011 Jorie Graham
70 07/13/2011 A.R. Ammons
71 07/27/2011 Michael Palmer
72 08/10/2011 Robert Pinsky
73 08/24/2011 Richard Hugo
74 09/08/2011 Adrienne Rich
75 11/30/2011 Gary Snyder
76 12/14/2011 Alan Dugan
77 01/04/2012 Charles Simic
78 01/25/2012 Gertrude Stein
79 03/14/2012 Lorine Niedecker
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