The end of Out of the past / Jonathan Aaron --
from A locked room / Beth Anderson --
Dedicated to the one I love / Nin Andrews --
Some further words / Wendell Berry --
Rambling on my mind / Diann Blakely --
Art tatum / Bruce Bond --
from 1000 lines / Catherine Bowman --
Perfect attendance : short subjects made from the staring photos of strangers / Rosemary Catacalos --
Aeon Flux : June / Joshua Clover --
Litany / Billy Collins --
Six sketches : when a soul breaks / Michael S. Collins --
World history / Carl Dennis --
Fox trot Fridays / Rita Dove --
Open door blues / Stephen Dunn --
Journal / Stuart Dybek --
The vagrant hours / Charles Fort --
Ponderosa / James Galvin --
An offer received in this morning's mail : / Amy Gerstler --
Landscape / Louise Glück --
Report on human beings / Michael Goldman --
Max Jacob's shoes / Ray Gonzalez --
The opaque / Mark Halliday --
Rhythmic arrangements (on prosody) / Michael S. Harper --
Sad little breathing machine / Matthea Harvey --
Villanelle / George Higgins --
The desire manuscripts / Edward Hirsch --
Summer night / Tony Hoagland --
Success / Richard Howard --
Ten sighs from a sabbatical / Rodney Jones --
The dragon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --
When the towers fell / Galway Kinnell --
After Horace / Carolyn Kizer --
Love blooms at Chimsbury after the war / Jennifer L. Knox --
Proverb / Kenneth Koch --
Y2K (1933) / John Koethe --
In the hall of bones / Ted Kooser --
The music of time / Philip Levine --
Jihad / J.D. McClatchy --
To Zbigniew Herbert's bicycle / W.S. Merwin --
Dear alter ego / Heather Moss --
A history of color / Stanley Moss --
The loaf / Paul Muldoon --
Four deaths that happened daily / Peggy Munson --
Asparagus / Marilyn Nelson --
Poem for the novelist whom I forced to write a poem / Daniel Nester.
What happened to everybody / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Queen Min Bi / Ishle Yi Park --
Anniversary / Robert Pinsky --
What the paymaster said / Kevin Prufer --
Sequoia sempervirens / Ed Roberson --
The disappearances / Vijay Seshadri --
For Nazim Hikmet in the old prison, now a Four Seasons Hotel / Myra Shapiro.--
Song with a child's pacifier in it / Bruce Smith --
There's trouble everywhere / Charlie Smith --
Translating / Maura Stanton --
The restaurant business / James Tate --
The lost boy / William Tremblay --
After your death / Natasha Trethewey --
On being asked to discuss poetic theory / David Wagoner --
In a rut / Ronald Wallace --
Premonition / Lewis Warsh --
In sky / Susan Wheeler --
Man running / Richard Wilbur --
The world / C.K. Williams --
My work / Terence Winch --
Scrabble with Matthews / David Wojahn --
Clemency / Robert Wrigley --
After the opening, 1932 / Anna Ziegler --
Reading the bones : a Blackjack Moses nightmare / Ahmos Zu-Bolton II.