“19 Lake Street” by Chase Twichell
“A Live Dog Being Better Than a Dead Lion” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
“A Night at the Opera” by Richard Cecil
“A Poem for ‘Magic’” by Quincy Troupe
“A Skeleton of Color” by Victoria Chang
“A Slow Night on Texas Street” by James Kimbrell
“An Argument” by David Mura
“And Red Eye Gravy with Everything” by Elton Glaser
“Anna” by Anne Michaels
“Anyway” by James Richardson
“Below Freezing on Pinelog Mountain” by David Bottoms
“Black Zodiac” by Charles Wright
“Blanket” by Stephen Cramer
“Blast Site” by Jane Miller
“Boy at the Patterson Falls” by Toi Derricotte
“Card Game Blind River” by Sandra Alcosser
“Cemetery Nights” by Stephen Dobyns
“Cenotaph” by Eric Pankey
“China Mail” by Charles Wright
“City of Fire” by Valentina Gnup
“Closed Mill” by Maggie Anderson
“Cloud River” by Charles Wright
“Coltrane’s Teeth” by Bruce Bond
“Comet Hale-Bopp” by Davis McCombs
“Country Wisdoms” by Maggie Angerson
“Crossing New York State” by Karen Donovan
“Drought” by Lisa Lewis
“Duet” by Amy Gerstler
“El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles” by Dorothy Barresi
“Elegiac Variations” by Eric Pankey
“Farewell to the Body” by Barbara Moore
“Father Outside” by Nick Flynn
“Fugue” by Amy Gerstler
“Genie’s Prayer Under the Kitchen Sink” by Rita Dove
“Ghosts” by Mary Oliver
“Globule” by Alicia Ostriker
“Going Deep for Jesus” by Jan Beatty
“Grand Street” by Susan Aizenberg
“Halfway Through the Book I’m Writng” by Lynn Emanuel
“Her Smoke (her trick)” by Nick Flynn
“Homage to Paul Cézanne” by Charles Wright
“Homecoming” by Eric Pankey
“Host” by Bruce Bond
“How to Make Rain” by Kevin Young
“In an Urban School” by Toi Derricotte
“In Transit with Walker” by Karen Donovan
“Incompatibles in the Wild Light” by Elton Glaser
“Infusion” by Tina Barr
“Inland” by Chase Twichell
“It Does No Good” by Stephen Dobyns
“Jackson Hotel” by Lynda Hull
“Klezmer” by Richard Chess
“Landing” by James Kimbrell
“Landrum’s Diner, Reno” by Dorianne Laux
“Memoriam” by Anne Michaels
“Messengers” by Peter Cooley
“My Number” by Sandra Alcosser
“Nerve Storm” by Amy Gerstler
“Pit Pony” by William Greenway
“Premonitions” by Davis McCombs
“Quaker Oats” by Rita Dove
“Ray at 14” by Dorianne Laux
“Reasons of Ice” by Eric Pankey
“Reply to Lapo Gianni” by Charles Wright
“Residue” by Nick Flynn
“Returning in Winter” by Eric Pankey
“Riverbed” by David Wagoner
“Scavengers at the Palm Beach County Landfill” by David Bottoms
“Self-Portrait in 2035” by Charles Wright
“Separated City” by Earl S. Braggs
“Silos” by Rita Dove
“Snow” by Charles Wright
“Song” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
“Spitting in the Leaves” by Maggie Anderson
“St. Peter Claver” by Toi Derricotte
“Suite for Grandfather & Grandmother” by David Mura
“Sun Ship (take 2)” by Jennifer Boydston
“Swampscape with Oil Platform” by Elton Glaser
“The Buddha’s Last Instruction” by Mary Oliver
“The Bureau of Unclaimed Property” by Sandra Alcosser
“The Burial” by Lynn Emanuel
“The Class” by Alicia Ostriker
“The Corpses” by Lynn Emanuel
“The Feel of Not to Feel It” by Aleda Shirley
“The Garage Sale as a Spiritual Exercise” by Tom Disch
“The Gatehouse Heaven” by James Kimbrell
“The Instruction Manual” by Lynn Emanuel
“The Light the Dead See” by Frank Stafford
“The One For Me” by Amy Gerstler
“The Outline I Inhabit” by Olena Kalytiak Davis
“The Pier” by James Kimbrell
“The Rivers Where They Touch” by Aleda Shirley
“The Secret Life of Capital” by Campbell McGrath
“The Soul Is Not Colorless” by Brendan Galvin
“The Wandering Year” by Aleda Shirley
“Three Poems for the New Year” by Charles Wright
“Transit Gloria Mundi” by Geoffrey Brock
“True Descenders” by James Kimbrell
“Villa Maria” by Enid Shomer
“Wow & Flutter” by Kurt Brown
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