49th birthday trip (what are you on) / Samuel Menashe --
How many times / Marie Howe --
History of poetry / Peter Cooley --
Social security / Terence Winch --
Student theme / Ronald Wallace --
Smell and envy / Douglas Goetsch --
Blue willow / Jody Gladding --
Tuesday 9:00 AM / Denver Butson --
Ordinance on arrival / Naomi Lazard --
96 Vandam / Gerald Stern --
What he thought / Heather McHugh.
White towels / Richard Jones --
It's raining in love / Richard Brautigan --
Moderation kills (excusez-moi, je Suis sick as a dog) / David Kirby --
Mrs Midas / Carol Ann Duffy --
Oldest living thing in L.A. / Larry Levis --
Little father / Li-Young Lee --
Alzheimer's / Bob Hicok --
Book of hand shadows / Marianne Boruch --
Sidekick / Ronald Koertge --
Poetry reading at West Point / William Matthews --
Only one of my deaths / Dean Young --
I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady --
Love poem 1990 / Peter Meinke --
Passer-by, these are words / Yuves Bonnefoy --
Rain / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Myopic Child / Yannis Ritsos --
At the other end of the telescope / George Bradley --
Praise song / Lucille Clifton --
Man into whose yard you should not hit your ball / Thomas Lux --
Farewell / Edward field --
Partial explanation / Charles Simic --
Poem for Adlai Stevenson and yellow jackets / David Young.
Late passenger / C. S. Lewis --
On a 3 1/2 oz. lesser yellowlegs. departed Boston August 28, shot Martinique September 3 / Eamon Grennan --
After us / Connie Wanek --
Fathers / Elizabeth Holmes --
High school band / Reed Whittemore --
Dearborn North apartments Chicago, Illinois / Lola Haskins --
Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer / Chris Forhan --
Bruise of this / Mark Wunderlich --
1-800-HOT-RIBS / Catherine Bowman --
Printer's errors / Aaron Fogel --
Cartoon physics, part 1 / Nick Flynn --
Advice from the experts / Bill Knott --
She didn't mean to do it / Daisy Fried --
Six one-line film scripts / Tom Andrews --
I finally managed to speak to her / Hal Sirowitz --
Before she died / Karen Chase --
In the well / Andrew Hudgins --
Sonogram / Paul Muldoon --
Love like salt / Lisel Mueller --
Through the window of the all-night restaurant / Nicholas Christopher --
Assassination of John Lennon as depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 / David Wohjahn.
Barbie's Ferrari / Lynne McMahon --
A romance for the wild turkey / Paul Zimmer --
Ye white Antarctic birds / Lisa Jarnot --
St. Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --
Killing the animals / Wesley McNair --
Old liberators / Robert Hedin --
Sentimental moment or why did the Baguette cross the road? / Robert Hershon --
Grammar / Tony Hoagland --
Plague victims catapulted over walls into besieged city / Thomas Lux --
In Tornado weather / Judith Kerman --
Portuguese in Mergui / George Green --
No return / William Matthews --
Panic bird / Robert Phillips --
A hunger / Benjamin Saltman --
Otherwise / Jane Kenyon --
Happy marriage / Taslima Nasrin --
At Navajo monument valley tribal school / Sherman Alexie --
Hamlet off-stage: laertes cool / D. C. Berry --
Lesson / Forrest Hamer --
Football / Louis Jenkins.
Fat is not a fairy tale / Jane Yolen --
Sister cat / Frances Mayes --
On swimming / Adam Zagajewski --
Song beside a sippy cup / Jenny Factor --
Watching the Mayan women / Luisa Villani --
Queen Herod / Carol Ann Duffy --
Video blues / Mary Jo Salter --
Smoking / Elton Glaser --
Old men playing basketball / B. H. Fairchild --
Gratitude to old teachers / Robert Bly --
June 11 / David Lehman --
Vegetarian physics / David Clewell --
My life / Joe Wenderoth --
Nuclear winter / Edward Nobles --
Message bottle #32 / J. Allyn Rosser --
Waves / Robin Robertson --
No. 6 / Charles Bukowski --
Tuesday morning, loading pigs / David Lee --
For Mohammed Zeid, Age 15 / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Small comfort / Katha Pollitt --
Telephone repairman / Joseph Millar --
What I would do / Marc Petersen --
Meadow / Kate Knapp Johnson.
Rotary / Christina Pugh --
Sax's and selves / Mark Halliday --
Black leather because bumblebees look like it / Diane Wakoski --
Beyond recall / Sharon Bryan --
Alley cat love song / Dana Gioia --
Goodbye to the old life / Wesley McNair --
For "fiddle-de-de" / John Hollander --
Country fair / Charles Simic --
Part of Eve's discussion / Marie Howe --
Birth day / Elise Paschen --
On not flying to Hawaii / Alison Luterman --
Poem of chalk / Philip Levine --
My father's hats / Mark Irwin --
Of politics & art / Norman Dubie --
Loud music / Stephen Dobyns --
Elevator music / Henry Taylor --
A wreath to the fish / Nancy Willard --
Ballplayer / Evie Shockley --
Green one over there / Katia Kapovich --
In Simili materia / Timothy Russell --
Words for worry / Li-Young Lee --
In praise of BIC pens / David Hilton.
Other world / Robert Wrigley --
Grammar lesson / Steve Kowit --
Fast break / Edward Hirsch --
Invention of heaven / Dean Young --
Saturday at the canal / Gary Soto --
Doing without / David Ray --
Deth of Santa Claus / Charles Webb --
Ladies and gentlemen in outer space / Ron Padgett --
Thanksgiving / Mac Hammond --
Dog's death / John Updike --
Hound song / Donald Finkel --
A metaphor crosses the road / Martha McFerren --
Swan at Edgewater Park / Ruth L. Schwartz --
Blizzard / Phillis Levin --
Where is she / Peter Cherches --
Coffee in the afternoon / Alberto Rios --
One morning / Eamon Grennan --
Animals / Miller Williams --
God says yes to me / Kaylin Haught --
Perfect heart / Shara McCallum --
Birthday / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan --
Not swans / Susan Ludvigson --
I wish in the city of your heart / Robley Wilson --
Accompanist / William Matthews --
Wolf of Gubbio / William Matthews.
Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins --
Selecting a reader / Ted Kooser --
Not bad, dad, not bad / Jan Heller Levi --
Singing back the world / Dorianne Laux --
Pink car / Mark Halliday --
Acting / Suzanne Cleary --
Cord / Leanne O'Sullivan --
Ode: the Capris / Mark Halliday --
Bringing my son to the police station to be fingerprinted / Shoshauna Shy --
On the death of a colleague / Stephen Dunn --
Space heater / Sharon Olds --
Numbers / Mary Cornish --
Lines / Martha Collins --
Listen / Miller Williams --
Unholy sonnets / Mark Jarman --
Poem for salt / Leroy V. Quintana --
Where I was / Dan Brown --
Hoop snake / Rebecca Wee --
Bestiary for the fingers of my right hand / Charles Simic --
Summer I was Sixteen / Geraldine Connolly --
Did I misss anything / Tom Waymna --
Song of smoke / Kevin Young --
Autobiographia / G.E. Patterson.