Humor

Poetry's funny sometimes. 

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Opening Remarks and "What's Happening in the Arby's Managers Group Chat in York, Nebraska?"
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Uncollected. Written in collaboration with James Butler-Gruett, Eliza Rodha, and Jenna Smith.

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"what the mirror said"
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Clifton, Lucille. Two-Headed Woman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

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"Goodtime Jesus"
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Tate, James. Riven Doggeries. New York: Ecco, 1979.
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"Litany"
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Collins, Billy. Litany. New York: Random House, 2002.

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"Fall Term: 5"
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From a manuscript in progress titled "Underworld Lit." 

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"Flat Hedgehogs"
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Gilbert, Jack. Refusing Heaven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

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On the Genesis of 100 Chinese Silences and "Chinese Silence No. 1"
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Yu, Timothy. 100 Chinese Silences. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2016. 

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"One-Star Reviews of the Taj Mahal"
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Differs from published version.

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Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. Oceanic. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2018.

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"Ye Bruthers Dogg"
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Anderson, Jon. In Sepia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.
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"Emoticon"
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Božičević, Ana. Stars of the Night Commute. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010.

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"Storytelling"
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Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1981.

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"Shoplifting Vienna Sausages"
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Performance piece incorporating two poems. Published versions of both poems bear the title "ginen the legends of juan malo [a malologue]." Differs from published versions.

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Perez, Craig Santos. from unincorporated territory [guma']. Richmond: Omnidawn Publishing, 2014.

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"i am not a paid protestor"
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Differs from published version.

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Herrera, Juan Felipe. Every Day We Get More Illegal. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2020.

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"Parrot"
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Differs from published version; Urrea shares this chapter from memory.

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Urrea, Luis Alberto. The House of Broken Angels. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

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"student evaluation of instruction: obituary edition"
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Hopler, Jay. Still Life. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2022.

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"Epic Tale of Love in Tucson"
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Unpublished.

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"The Bark"
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Ruefle, Mary. The Book. Seattle: Wave Books, 2023.

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Lucille Clifton
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James Tate
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Lois Shelton
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Srikanth Reddy
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Cybele Knowles
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Jack Gilbert
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Christine Krikliwy
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Billy Collins
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Christine Krikliwy
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Timothy Yu
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Hannah Ensor
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Hannah Ensor
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Jon Anderson
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Lois Shelton
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Ana Božičević
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Cybele Knowles
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Leslie Marmon Silko
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Nancy Carrick Holbert
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Craig Santos Perez
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Cybele Knowles
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Juan Felipe Herrera
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Paola Valenzuela
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Luis Alberto Urrea
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Paola Valenzuela
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Logan Phillips
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Jeff Smith
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Mary Ruefle
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Paola Valenzuela
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