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Volume 49.4

ESSAY  Patricia Foster
FICTION  Richard Dokey, Sara Schaff, Linda Woolford
POETRY  Pia Borsheim, Tina Mozelle Braziel, Patricia Corbus, Daniel Donaghy, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Melissa Holm, Susan Hunter, Andrea Jurjevic, Alison Pelegrin, Doug Ramspeck, Brandon Rushton, R. T. Smith, G. C. Waldrep
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Natasha Trethewey Selects Winner, Runners-up of our 2016 Witness Poetry Prize

View the 2016 winner, runners-up, and finalists of our Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York. Read about York and past winners.

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Undocumented Writers

A collection of writing from the undocumented experience, with an introduction by guest editor Christopher Soto of Undocupoets

Of Rivers:
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Poets respond to Langston Hughes's poem "The Negros Speaks of Rivers"

Poetry & the New Black Masculinity

Essays by Ross Gay, Kevin Simmonds, and Danez Smith

Teaching Citizen

Writers and educators share their experiences teaching Claudia Rankine's award-winning Citizen: An American Lyric