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A painting of a dog. Rhodesian Ridgeback by Carl Friedrich Schulz.

Arcade

Esther Schor
July 1, 2019
Denise at Her Dressing Table by Mary Cassatt,  1908-09.

Beauty

Sara Wallace
July 1, 2019
A wall of pottery. A Change in the Weather by Edmund de Waal, 2007.

Clay

Luis H. Francia
July 1, 2019
Lester Young and Billie Holiday talk to each other. Credit:  Lester Young and Billie Holiday, public domain.

Deep Song

Cornelius Eady
July 1, 2019
Raphaelle Peale, Still Life with Cake, 1818

Easier Done

Constantine Contogenis
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Finalists

Geoffrey Hill
July 1, 2019
Men play pool in a bar at night. The Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888.

Five Prose Poems

Charles Baudelaire
July 1, 2019
A bronze sculpture of a boy. Augusta Savage, Gamin, 1929.

Four Days

Cornelius Eady
July 1, 2019