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Mary Clearman Blew
Neil Carpathios
Elizabeth Dodd
Jesse Graves
Fenton Johnson
William Johnson
Maxine Kumin
Robert Morgan
Ronald Sharp
David Starkey

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Darrell Spencer

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Kael Alford

POETRY
Bruce Bond
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Hunt Hawkins
Daniel Hoffman
Julie Suk
Natasha Trethewey

Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers
a poem by Maxine Kumin

Thomas Hardy was borne into the Poets’ Corner
at Westminster without his heart. Rumor
had it eaten by the surgeon’s cat
perched on the mortuary slab as it
awaited burial, and a pig’s substituted
to be interred in the old churchyard
as the great man had requested: At Stinsford
I shall sleep quite calmly, whatever happens. . . .

—Read the rest of the poem