Ghazal / Agha Shahid Ali -- Ars poetica / Tom Andrews -- What is poetry? / John Ashbery -- Dreaming at the Rexall Drug / Robin Becker -- Book of the dead man (#10) / Marvin Bell -- Hairdresser / Molly Bendall -- Gaiety of form / Robert Bly -- Against the muse / Michelle Boisseau -- See Spot run / Earl S. Braggs -- Ars poetica / Christopher Buckley -- Big money / Ralph Burns -- Impossible indispensability of the ars poetica / Hayden Carruth -- here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton -- Letter from my mother in Spanish / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- River / Mark Cox -- Westering / Mary Crow -- In the gardens of fabulous desire / Robert Dana -- Ars poetica / Kate Daniels -- Fish tank / Glover Davis -- Redwing blackbirds / Fred Dings -- Ars poetica / Rita Dove -- Of politics, & art / Norman Dubie -- How it is / Peter Everwine -- Music for death / Carol Frost -- Art class / James Galvin -- Credo / Brewster Ghiselin -- Subjectivity / Jorie Graham -- Life of literature / Linda Gregg -- Ox cart man / Donald Hall -- Descendent / Judith Hall -- Arse poetica / Sam Hamill -- Osprey / C.G. Hanzlicek -- Spring drawing 2 / Robert Hass -- Secreto de mis brazos ; Secret of my arms / Juan Filipe Herrera -- Chain of species / Emily Hiestand -- Little furnace / Brenda Hillman -- Sortes virgilianae / Edward Hirsch -- Justice without passion / Jane Hirshfield -- Stay with me / Garrett Hongo -- House on 15th S.W. / Richard Hugo -- Cubism, Barcelona / Lynda Hull -- Ohio abstract : Hart Crane / T.R. Hummer -- On language / Mark Irwin -- For a long time I have wanted to write a happy poem / Richard Jackson -- Potato planting / Jean Janzen -- What only poetry can do / Mark Jarman -- Faith / Judy Jensen -- Bridge / Rodney Jones -- Ars poetica / Claudia Keelan -- Safe subjects / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Ars poetica : a found poem / Maxine Kumin -- Poem / Ann Lauterbach -- Accident / Sydney Lea -- Ars poetica / Carol Lem -- Simple truth / Philip Levine -- Poem you asked for / Larry Levis -- Poesia / Victor Martinez -- Sad stories told in bars : the "Reader's digest" version / William Matthews -- Tapestries / Colleen J. McElroy -- Ars poetica : or: who lives in the ivory tower / Thomas McGrath -- What he thought / Heather McHugh -- Toward Eve / Lynne McMahon -- Two men trading dance movements at Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall, Baton Rouge / Sandra McPherson -- Air / W.S. Merwin -- To the muse / Carol Muske -- Pulling in the nets / Chad Oness -- Stan Laurel tutors a would be comedian / Walter Pavlich -- Roots of pessimism in model rocketry, the fallacy of its premise / Lucia Maria Perillo -- Consenting / Donald Revell -- Teodoro Luna's two kisses / Alberto Rios -- And continuing / David Rivard -- Shoveling white the snow keeps falling / Len Roberts -- And language can't find me / Margarita Luna Robles -- Reaching the audience / Pattiann Rogers -- On not being able to write / Marieve Rugo -- To enter that rhythm where the self is lost / Muriel Rujeyser -- For a blow up doll found in a canal / Dixie Salazar -- Unconscious / Dennis Saleh -- Sometimes mysteriously / Luis Omar Salinas -- Abandoned railway station / Sherod Santos -- Because the eye is a flower whose root is the hand / Dennis Schmitz -- Lip's lounge / Peter Sears -- Nature, one might say / Eve Shelnutt -- Problems with the story / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Prodigy / Charles Simic -- Ars poetica / Maura Simon -- Braly Street / Gary Soto -- Diving for Atlantis / Roberta Spear -- Woman on the dump / Elizabeth Spires -- Old writer's welcome to the new / William Stafford -- Another insane devotion / Gerald Stern -- Gin / David St. John -- Word silence / Chase Twichell -- Stickball till dawn / Jon Veinberg -- Ars poetica / Ann Vnucak -- Song and story / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- With words / Diane Wakoski -- Impossible / Bruce Weigl -- Human form / David Wojahn -- Ars poetica / Charles Wright -- Ars poetica : some recent criticism / James Wright -- Poetry / Robert Wrigley -- Seven days : an ars poetica / Gary Young.
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