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Distraction

By Wis?awa Szymborska, from Map: Collected and Last Poems, due out next year from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Szymborska (1923–2012), a Polish poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in…

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Poem Begun on a Train

By Raphael Rubinstein, from Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, published in August by Black Ocean. Rubinstein is the author of several books, most recently The Miraculous (Paper Monument).

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A Cottony Fate

By Jane Hirshfield, from the Summer 2014 issue of The Paris Review. Hirshfield’s most recent book of poems is Come, Thief (Knopf).

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The Lucky Ones

By Jill Bialosky, from the Spring 2014 issue of The Kenyon Review. Bialosky’s fourth poetry collection, The Players, will be published next year by Knopf.

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We’re Going to Get Married

By Jeff Dolven, from a collection in progress. Dolven is the author of Speculative Music, published last year by Sarabande.

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Ode to a Man in Dress Clothes

By Gretchen Marquette, published in the Summer issue of The Paris Review. Marquette lives and works in Minneapolis.

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Pockets

By Patrizia Cavalli, from My Poems Won’t Change the World: Selected Poems, a bilingual edition to be published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Cavalli is the author of…

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Grace and the Chilcot Inquiry

By Nick Laird, from Go Giants, to be published in September by W. W. Norton. Laird is the author, most recently, of the novel Glover’s Mistake.

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