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Breaking into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings
By Luke Hankins (Editor), Nomi Stone (Editor), Kaveh Akbar (Contribution by), Agha Shahid Ali (Contribution by), Sarah Ghazal Ali (Contribution by), Rae Armantrout (Contribution by), Cam Awkward-Rich (Contribution by), Ellen Bass (Contribution by), Jericho Brown (Contribution by), Anne Carson (Contribution by), Tiana Clark (Contribution by), Lucille Clifton (Contribution by), Leonard Cohen (Contribution by), Wendy Cope (Contribution by), Morri Creech (Contribution by), Robert Creeley (Contribution by), Natalie Diaz (Contribution by), James Dickey (Contribution by), Rita Dove (Contribution by), B. H. Fairchild (Contribution by), Keith Flynn (Contribution by), Carrie Fountain (Contribution by), Vievee Francis (Contribution by), Ross Gay (Contribution by), Jack Gilbert (Contribution by), Aracelis Girmay (Contribution by), Louise Glück (Contribution by), Jorie Graham (Contribution by), Linda Gregg (Contribution by), Paul Guest (Contribution by), francine j. harris (Contribution by), Robert Hass (Contribution by), Robert Hayden (Contribution by), Terrance Hayes (Contribution by), Jane Hirshfield (Contribution by), Sarah Holland-Batt (Contribution by), Jay Hopler (Contribution by), Marie Howe (Contribution by), Thomas James (Contribution by), Denis Johnson (Contribution by), Ilya Kaminsky (Contribution by), Brigit Pegeen Kelly (Contribution by), David Kirby (Contribution by), Yusef Komunyakaa (Contribution by), Stanley Kunitz (Contribution by), Danusha Laméris (Contribution by), Li-Young Lee (Contribution by), Larry Levis (Contribution by), Paige Lewis (Contribution by), Osip Mandelstam (Contribution by), Cleopatra Mathis (Contribution by), William Matthews (Contribution by), Nathan McClain (Contribution by), W. S. Merwin (Contribution by), Philip Metres (Contribution by), Czeslaw Milosz (Contribution by), Harryette Mullen (Contribution by), John Murillo (Contribution by), Yehoshua November (Contribution by), Sharon Olds (Contribution by), Matthew Olzmann (Contribution by), Frank Paino (Contribution by), Morgan Parker (Contribution by), Linda Pastan (Contribution by), Carl Phillips (Contribution by), Spencer Reece (Contribution by), Jordan Rice (Contribution by), Jose Antonio Rodriguez (Contribution by), Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Contribution by), Nicole Sealey (Contribution by), Diane Seuss (Contribution by), Charif Shanahan (Contribution by), Richard Siken (Contribution by), Danez Smith (Contribution by), Maggie Smith (Contribution by), Tracy K. Smith (Contribution by), William Stafford (Contribution by), Ruth Stone (Contribution by), Cole Swensen (Contribution by), Wislawa Szymborska (Contribution by), R. S. Thomas (Contribution by), Mosab Abu Toha (Contribution by), Natasha Trethewey (Contribution by), Jean Valentine (Contribution by), Ocean Vuong (Contribution by), Christian Wiman (Contribution by), Ross White (Contribution by), C. D. Wright (Contribution by), Charles Wright (Contribution by), Franz Wright (Contribution by), James Wright (Contribution by), Monica Youn (Contribution by), Adam Zagajewski (Contribution by)
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By Luke Hankins (Editor), Nomi Stone (Editor), Kaveh Akbar (Contribution by), Agha Shahid Ali (Contribution by), Sarah Ghazal Ali (Contribution by), Rae Armantrout (Contribution by), Cam Awkward-Rich (Contribution by), Ellen Bass (Contribution by), Jericho Brown (Contribution by), Anne Carson (Contribution by), Tiana Clark (Contribution by), Lucille Clifton (Contribution by), Leonard Cohen (Contribution by), Wendy Cope (Contribution by), Morri Creech (Contribution by), Robert Creeley (Contribution by), Natalie Diaz (Contribution by), James Dickey (Contribution by), Rita Dove (Contribution by), B. H. Fairchild (Contribution by), Keith Flynn (Contribution by), Carrie Fountain (Contribution by), Vievee Francis (Contribution by), Ross Gay (Contribution by), Jack Gilbert (Contribution by), Aracelis Girmay (Contribution by), Louise Glück (Contribution by), Jorie Graham (Contribution by), Linda Gregg (Contribution by), Paul Guest (Contribution by), francine j. harris (Contribution by), Robert Hass (Contribution by), Robert Hayden (Contribution by), Terrance Hayes (Contribution by), Jane Hirshfield (Contribution by), Sarah Holland-Batt (Contribution by), Jay Hopler (Contribution by), Marie Howe (Contribution by), Thomas James (Contribution by), Denis Johnson (Contribution by), Ilya Kaminsky (Contribution by), Brigit Pegeen Kelly (Contribution by), David Kirby (Contribution by), Yusef Komunyakaa (Contribution by), Stanley Kunitz (Contribution by), Danusha Laméris (Contribution by), Li-Young Lee (Contribution by), Larry Levis (Contribution by), Paige Lewis (Contribution by), Osip Mandelstam (Contribution by), Cleopatra Mathis (Contribution by), William Matthews (Contribution by), Nathan McClain (Contribution by), W. S. Merwin (Contribution by), Philip Metres (Contribution by), Czeslaw Milosz (Contribution by), Harryette Mullen (Contribution by), John Murillo (Contribution by), Yehoshua November (Contribution by), Sharon Olds (Contribution by), Matthew Olzmann (Contribution by), Frank Paino (Contribution by), Morgan Parker (Contribution by), Linda Pastan (Contribution by), Carl Phillips (Contribution by), Spencer Reece (Contribution by), Jordan Rice (Contribution by), Jose Antonio Rodriguez (Contribution by), Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Contribution by), Nicole Sealey (Contribution by), Diane Seuss (Contribution by), Charif Shanahan (Contribution by), Richard Siken (Contribution by), Danez Smith (Contribution by), Maggie Smith (Contribution by), Tracy K. Smith (Contribution by), William Stafford (Contribution by), Ruth Stone (Contribution by), Cole Swensen (Contribution by), Wislawa Szymborska (Contribution by), R. S. Thomas (Contribution by), Mosab Abu Toha (Contribution by), Natasha Trethewey (Contribution by), Jean Valentine (Contribution by), Ocean Vuong (Contribution by), Christian Wiman (Contribution by), Ross White (Contribution by), C. D. Wright (Contribution by), Charles Wright (Contribution by), Franz Wright (Contribution by), James Wright (Contribution by), Monica Youn (Contribution by), Adam Zagajewski (Contribution by)
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-Selected as a 2026 Recommended Book for ELLE Magazine by Maggie Smith
Breaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those that reverse expectation, embody paradox, or enact their logic in their formal DNA. In their introductory craft essay, co-editors Luke Hankins and Nomi Stone grapple with questions of closure, wholeness, pleasure, power, unive...
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