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POETRY / Spring 2008

The Great American Poem

By Billy Collins
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ESSAYS / Fall 2009

The Death of the American Dream

By Luke S. H. Wright
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Spring 1930

Europe Sees America

By Luc Durtain
ESSAYS / Winter 2014

Necessary Utterance

By Natasha Trethewey
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ESSAYS / Fall 2004

Ditching the Rubric on Gun Control: Notes from an American Moderate

By John Casteen
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EDITOR'S DESK / Summer 2021

The Dialectic of Patriotism

By Paul Reyes
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