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The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
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by Peter Campion and Jake Adam York

The Ghost Sports: Baseball

August 6th, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
by Sarah Blake, P. Scott Cunningham, Michael Heald, Lynn Melnick, Deborah Paredez, Nick Ripatrazone, Patrick Rosal, Lytton Smith, Alison Stine and Jake Adam York

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by Andy Young

March 3rd, 2013

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