To Whistler, American / Ezra Pound -- Xopikoe / Richard Aldington -- General William Booth enters into heaven / Nicholas Vachel Lindsay -- Epigram / H. D. -- Tenzone / Ezra Pound -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- Proof of immortality / William Carlos Williams -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- from Lustra: I, III / Ezra Pound -- from Irradiations: I, II, VI, X, XI / John Gould Fletcher -- Illicit / D. H. Lawrence -- The code -- heroics / Robert Frost -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The magi / William Butler Yeats -- To Kaaon / Ezra Pound -- The coming of war: Actaeon / Ezra Pound -- Moonrise / H. D. -- Peace / Rupert Brooke -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- from Discordants: IV / Conrad Aiken -- The answer / Sara Teasdale -- Beethoven / John Hall Wheelock -- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens -- The scholars / William Butler Yeats -- In memory of Bryan Lathrop / Edgar Lee Masters -- The lake isle / Ezra Pound -- from Epigrams / Rabindranath Tagore -- La figlia che piange / T. S. Eliot -- Mr. Apollinax / T. S. Eliot -- Morning at the window / T. S. Eliot
The wave symphony / Arthur Davison Ficke -- Marriage / William Carlos Williams -- Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg -- In tall grass / Carl Sandburg -- Evening song / Sherwood Anderson -- Reciprocity / John Drinkwater -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Thursday / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Le medecin malgre lui / William Carlos Williams -- Nostalgia / D. H. Lawrence -- from Propertius: IV / Ezra Pound -- Walt Whitman / Emanuel Carnevali -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- End of the comedy / Louis Untermeyer -- The horrid voice of science / Vachel Lindsay -- Song / Sara Teasdale -- Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens -- The weeping Burgher / Wallace Stevens -- The indigo glass in the grass / Wallace Stevens -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The curtains in the house of the metaphysician / Wallace Stevens -- The paltry nude starts on a spring voyage / Wallace Stevens -- Danny / Malcolm Cowley -- To W. C. W. M.D. / Alfred Kreymborg -- Atavism / Elinor Wylie -- Cubist Portrait / Marjorie Allen Seiffert -- The golden fleece / Oscar Williams -- The poet at night-fall / Glenway Wescott -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon / Wallace Stevens -- Another Weeping Woman / Wallace Stevens -- Of the manner of addressing clouds / Wallace Stevens -- Of heaven considered as a tomb / Wallace Stevens
The witch of coos / Robert Frost -- Wild Orchard / William Carlos Williams -- In high places / Harriet Monroe -- Knowledge / Louise Bogan -- Monody to the sound of zithers / Kay Boyle -- Champs d'honneur / Ernest M. Hemingway -- Chapter heading / Ernest M. Hemingway -- Pastoral / Marion Strobel -- Static autumn / Yvor Winters -- The flower-boat / Robert Frost -- Chicago / Lola Ridge -- Thessalian / Winifred Bryher -- For instance / Robert McAlmon -- Head itself / Laura Riding Gottschalk -- Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Crimson tent / John Dos Passos -- At Melville's tomb / Hart Crane -- The streets of air / Malcolm Cowley -- To a seaman dead on land / Kay Boyle -- In the beginning was a word / Robert Graves -- Contemporary / Hortense Flexner -- O Carib Isle! / Hart Crane -- Under the hill / Richard Eberhart -- Hoar Frost / Morton Dauwen Zabel -- Birds in snow / H. D. -- Epistle to the rapalloan / Archibald MacLeish -- Marching song / George Dillon -- Sonnet [women have loved before...] / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Fruit of loneliness / May Sarton -- Kansas City West bottoms / Edward Dahlberg
Hypocrite swift / Louise Bogan -- Sailor / Langston Hughes -- Sonnets of the blood I, II, IV, VII, IX / Allen Tate -- Kansas boy / Ruth Lechlitner -- Extract / Paul Frederic Bowles -- Winter night / Cecil Day Lewis -- Fearful symmetry / Basil Bunting -- Watershed / Robert Penn Warren -- The steeple-jack / Marianne Moore -- The hero / Marianne Moore -- Reliquary / Hart Crane -- Purgatorio / Hart Crane -- The sad indian / Hart Crane -- Reply / Hart Crane -- Enrich my resignation / Hart Crane -- Winter sketches / Charles Reznikoff -- Condemned / Cecil Day Lewis -- 4th of July / William Carlos Williams -- Empty dwelling places / Kenneth Patchen -- On inhabiting an orange / Josephine Miles -- At Woodward's gardens / Robert Frost -- Night-music / Muriel Rukseyser -- "Long live the weeds" / Theodore Roethke -- A farewell / Harriet Monroe -- Journey to Iceland / W. H. Auden -- We lying by seasand / Dylan Thomas -- Poem [you, my photographer] / Delmore Schwartz -- My love was light / Thomas Lanier Williams -- Paris, 7 a.m. / Elizabeth Bishop -- A miracle for breakfast / Elizabeth Bishop -- From the country to the city / Elizabeth Bishop -- Song / Elizabeth Bishop
Past midnight / Edmund Wilson -- Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren -- At Carmel Highlands / Janet Lewis -- [In the naked bed, in Plato's cave] / Delmore Schwartz -- Four poems / Dylan Thomas -- The marginal field / Stephen Spender -- The sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens -- Sonnet [the crumbled rock of London] / Roy Fuller -- Stanzas in meditation I, IV, V, VI / Gertrude Stein -- Perdita / Louis MacNeice -- Raleigh was right / William Carlos Williams -- [Anyone lived in a pretty how town] / E. E. Cummings -- Things / Walter de la Mare -- Antiques / Walter de la Mare -- Then... / Edwin Muir -- University / Karl J. Shapiro -- The bloody sire / Robinson Jeffers -- Memory / Babette Deutsch -- Immanent / Walter de la Mare -- from Conscript: III / Peter De Vries -- To Violet / Basil Bunting -- Henry James at Newport / Weldon Kees -- Upon the heavenly scarp / A. M. Klein -- The dark morning / Thomas James Merton -- The springboard / Louise MacNeice -- [What if a much of a which of a wind] / E. E. Cummings -- Sigmund Freud / Howard Nemerov -- The emancipators / Randall Jarrell -- Tennis trophy / John Frederick Nims -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke
Fable of the ant and the word / Mary Barnard -- First snow on an airfield / John Ciardi -- Losses / Randall Jarrell -- Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- Journal / John Ciardi -- Part for the whole / Robert Francis -- The higher empricism / Francis C. Golffing -- Poem for my twentieth birthday / Kenneth Koch -- The green eye / James Merrill -- The return / Theodore Roethke -- The ghost / Robert Lowell -- Night of battle / Yvor Winters -- Motive / Muriel Rukeyser -- The broken bowl / James Merrill -- Love poem / John Frederick Nims -- Niagara Falls / Alan Dugan -- Schoolyard in April / Kenneth Koch -- "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" / Paul Goodman -- The dirty word / Karl Shapiro -- The fat man in the mirror / Robert Lowell -- [If(touched by love's own secret)we,like homing] / E. E. Cummings -- The party / Margaret Avison -- The ultimate poem is abstract / Wallace Stevens -- Small prayer / Weldon Kees -- Return of the goddess Artemis / Robert Graves -- The death of a toad / Richard Wilbur -- 4. Terror and love as fugitives / Henry Rago -- The traveler / John Berryman -- Lear / William Carlos Williams -- The sleeping beauty: variation of the prince / Randall Jarrell
The children of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- from Things of August: 1, 3, 8 / Wallace Stevens -- The cage / John Berryman -- The self unsatisfied runs everywhere / Delmore Schwartz -- The poem / Babette Deutsch -- Little ode / Paul Goodman -- "A world without objects is a sensible emptiness" / Richard Wilbur -- Alceste in the wilderness / Anthony Hecht -- The beauty of things / Robinson Jeffers -- To an anthologist / Theodore Roethke -- Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal / James Merrill -- The foreboding / Robert Graves -- The instrument / Kathleen Raine -- Nijinsky / Parker Tyler -- The shield of Achilles / W. H. Auden -- After the Persian / Louise Bogan -- Then the ermine: / Marianne Moore -- The river of heaven / William Carlos Williams -- Sestina in time of winter / Patrick Anderson -- From the embassy / Robert Graves -- The illiterate / William Meredith -- Prison song / Alan Dugan -- The word of water / E. L. Mayo -- Marginalia / Richard Wilbur -- The alphabet / Karl Shapiro -- Horatian ode / Joseph Warren Beach -- Aging / Randall Jarrell -- Chez Jane / Frank O'Hara -- The island in the evening / Fairfield Porter -- High fidelity / Thom Gunn
Landed: a valentine / Richard Howard -- Radio / Frank O'Hara -- Bachelor / William Meredith -- O pearl and breasted world / George Barker -- Permanently / Kenneth Koch -- Birth of Venus / Constance Urdang -- Metamorphosis / Sylvia Plath -- from Inscriptions on Chinese paintings / Witter Bynner -- Metaphysical / Robert Fitzgerald -- The approach to Thebes / Stanley Kunitz -- The unsettled motorcyclist's vision of his death / Thom Gunn -- The king's speech / Howard Moss -- Wreaths / Geoffrey Hill -- A mark of resistance / Adrienne Rich -- A morning letter / Robert Duncan -- Holding the mirror up to nature / Howard Nemerov -- In time of gold / H. D. -- Shepherd / William Stafford -- Mirror / James Merrill -- Demands of the muse / Vernon Watkins -- To the snake / Denise Levertov -- Skykomish river running / Richard F. Hugo -- Close-up / A. R. Ammons -- Dream / Josephine Miles -- The fire at Alexandria / T. Weiss -- The death of myth-making / Sylvia Plath -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The spider / Richard Eberhart -- Returning to roots of first feeling / Robert Duncan -- Nude descending a staircase / X. J. Kennedy
Song / Robert Creeley -- In favor of one's time / Frank O'Hara -- Population / George Oppen -- Gravelly run / A. R. Ammons -- Inside the river / James Dickey -- [How many moments must(amazing each] / E. E. Cummings -- The illustration -- a footnote / Denise Levertov -- The blessing / James Wright -- For the passing of Groucho's pursuer / John Hollander -- Notes for a history of poetry / David Daiches -- The astronomers of Mont Blanc / Edgar Bowers -- Stars over the Dordogne / Sylvia Plath -- The black art / Anne Sexton -- [The high ones die, die] / John Berryman -- Death's the classic look / John Ciardi -- From Heraclitus / Alan Dugan -- For his father / William Meredith -- The mad scene / James Merrill -- If the birds knew / John Ashbery -- Fever 103 / Sylvia Plath -- Snow line / John Berryman -- After Lorca / Ted Hughes -- The words / David Wagoner -- Seeing Auden off / Philip Booth -- Here lies... / Stevie Smith -- Like Rousseau / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) -- About my poems / Donald Justice -- Metaphysic of snow / Donald Finkeel -- Things we dreamt we died for / Marvin Bell -- from Through the smoke hole / Gary Snyder
"The wish to be believed" / Mona Van Duyn -- The correspondence-school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students / Galway Kinnell -- Swan and shadow / John Hollander -- The beast in the space / W. S. Graham -- Uses of poerty / Winfield Townley Scott -- Slowly, slowly wisdom gathers / Mark Van Doren -- Cwmrhydyceirw elegiacs / Vernon Watkins -- Implosions / Adrienne Rich -- The cows at night / Hayden Carruth -- Demonstration / Hugh Seidman -- The king's men / William Heyen -- Fire island / May Swenson -- Invocation / Denise Levertov -- The game / Stanley Kunitz -- Handbook of versification / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Counterparts / Stephen Dobyns -- The messenger / Thom Gunn -- Homosexuality / Frank O'Hara -- Hope / F. D. Reeve -- Black maps / Mark Strand -- Nightletter / Charles Wright -- Play / A. R. Ammons -- The magi / Louise Gluck -- Climbing you / Erica Jong -- Lost / David Wagoner -- The life beside this one / John N. Morris -- Crematorium / John Betjeman -- Poetry / Greg Kuzma -- The vowels of another language / Tom Disch -- Dido: swarming / Kathleen Spivack
Negatives / Charles Wright -- To D -- , dead by her own hand / Howard Nemerov -- The poet's farewell to his teeth / William Dickey -- Parabola / A. D. Hope -- On hearing a new escalation / Richard Hugo -- May, 1972 / James Schuyler -- Winter drive / James McAuley -- July 4th / May Swenson -- The desire of water / Mark Jarman -- Death & Empedocles 444 b.c. / Horace Gregory -- Verse translator / John Frederick Nims -- Last days / Richard Hugo -- from The way down: they return / Jay Macpherson -- Elegy for yards, pounds, and gallons / David Wagoner -- from Songs of the transformed: siren song / Margaret Atwood -- Ode to pornography / Jack Anderson -- Signs / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- The pleasure of ruins / J. D. McClatchy -- An astronomer's journal / Jane Shore -- from Essay on psychiatrists XIV. their speech, compared with wisdom and poetry / Robert Pinsky -- A younger poet / Peter Schjedahl -- Waiting rooms / Howard Nemerov -- "Can I tempt you to a pond walk?" / James Schuyler -- Translation / Rika Lesser -- Fragmenti / Ezra Pound -- The ice-cream wars / John Ashbery -- Ash / Jayanta Mahapatra -- Poem [green things are flowers] / Frank O'Hara -- On the pier / Brenda Hillman -- Hog heaven / Robert Siegel
The ring / Diane Wakoski -- Antigua / Gary Soto -- Photographs of old New York / Alfred Corn -- A valentine for Matthew Arnold / William Logan -- from Three notes toward definitions: of faith / Timothy Steele -- Elegy / Sandra M. Gilbert -- After the solstice / Daryl Hine -- The muse of satire / Mary Kinzie -- Man and boy / John N. Morris -- Love and how it becomes important in our day to day lives / Miller Williams -- from The Venetian vespers: III / Anthony Hecht -- The guild / Sharon Olds -- Strolls / A. R. Ammons -- One page in The American Heritage Dictionary / Carole Oles -- Poems / Tom Disch -- X ray / Dannie Abse -- The rest / Lawrence Raab -- Poem beginning with a lone of Wittgenstein / Donald Hall -- For an early retirement / Donald Hall -- Easter morning / A. R. Ammons -- Late echo / John Ashbery -- Waving goodbye / Gerald Stern -- After minor surgery / Linda Pastan -- Static / Barton Sutter -- A shape for it / Michael Ryan -- Closer / Albert Goldbarth -- June fourth / Gerald Stern -- Dying / Robert Pinsky -- The poetry bug / Barry Spacks -- A poet of our climate / Katha Pollitt
Survivor, walking / Stephen Sandy -- A cloud creates / David Ignatow -- On coming to nothing / Richard Moore -- A schedule of benefits / John N. Morris -- A history of photography / Baron Wormser -- Diogenes tries to forget / Mary Karr -- Flesh tones / Richard Lattimore -- Torture / Paul Engle -- Chinese Courtesy / Paul Engle -- A death / Thomas P. Lynch -- I am learning to abandon the world / Linda Pastan -- Dusting / Rita Dove -- What is left to say / Lisel Mueller -- Failing in the presence of ants / Gary Soto -- Edgewater hospital / Albert Goldbarth -- Wings and seeds: for my birth mother / Sandra McPherson -- How to regain your soul / William Stafford -- Corners / Stephen Dunn -- Flirtation / Rita Dove -- Anthem / Anthony Hecht -- Sapphics / Daryl Hine -- Their bodies / David Wagoner -- The origin of order / Pattiann Rogers -- The boy shepherd's simile / David Bottoms -- Inverse Proportions / Jack Matthews -- Doing the evolution shuffle / Alice Fulton -- from Chronometrics IV. hourglass / Robert B. Shaw -- Chanson philosophique / Timothy Steele -- Narcissus and Echo / Fred Chappell -- My confessional sestina / Dana Gioia
Bitch / Carolyn Kizer -- Poor angels / Edward Hirsch -- Dodona: asked of the oracle / Amy Clampitt -- Big cars / Wesley McNair -- Rearview mirror / Robert Morgan -- The disappointments of childhood / Michael Blumenthal -- Janus / Laurence Perrine -- Limerick / Laurence Perrine -- Cloud painter / Jane Flanders -- Reading the writing / John N. Morris -- Preparing to live among the old / Stephen Corey -- Flight / B. H. Fairchild -- The poet at eighteen / Dick Allen -- Happiness / Raymond Carver -- Sweet will / Philip Levine -- Athene / Amy Clampitt -- Fierce girl playing hopscotch / Alice Fulton -- Why fortune is the empress of the world / Turner Cassity -- Cruising with the Beach Boys / Dana Gioia -- Fossil fuel / John Dickson -- According to ovid / Bin Ramke -- Hawk Hill / Reynolds Price -- Illinois: at night, Black Hawk's statue broods / J. W. Rivers -- A calling / Maxine Kumin -- Oh keep the poet hence / Thomas Carper -- Written in my dream by W. C. Williams / Allen Ginsberg -- Cold quilt / Michael McFee -- In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn -- Postscripts to an elegy / Gibbons Ruark -- My two lives / Ernest Sandeen
Elegy for John, my student dead of AIDS / Robert Cording -- And the grass did grow / Ralph Angel -- Pole vaulting / Maura Stanton -- Coming into history / Jeanne Murray Walker -- Morning jitters / John Ashbery -- Available now: archaic torsos of both sexes / Gregory Orr -- Refuge / Randy Blasing -- To my mother / Wendell Berry -- Prayer for my father / Robert Bly -- Armored hearts / David Bottoms -- The inverse square law of the propagation of light / Christopher Buckley -- The bearer / Hayden Carruth -- Against poetry / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Coordinating conjunction / John Hollander -- Witness / David Ignatow -- Nurture / Maxine Kumin -- My ambition / James Laughlin -- After the alphabets / W. S. Merwin -- When I am asked / Lisel Mueller -- Waiting on Elvis, 1956 / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dreamwood / Adrienne Rich -- To his pulse / Robert B. Shaw -- The immortal / Charles Simic -- To himself / Mark Strand -- Trolling for blues / Richard Wilbur -- We are listening / Diane Ackerman -- Reading the facts about frost in The Norton Anthology / George Starbuck -- Other-directed / Turner Cassity -- The lace makers / Stanley Moss -- Faberge's egg / Elizabeth Spires
The breathing, the endless news / Rita Dove -- First reader / Billy Collins -- Sun king sulking / Peter Porter -- Heading out / Philip Booth -- For the Calvinists / Ben Howard -- Inspiration / Stephen Stepanchev -- I can't speak / Alicia Ostriker -- Peasants waiting for rain / G. S. Sharat Chandra -- Summer at North Farm / Stephen Kuusisto -- Utopian melodies / Stephen Dobyns -- For the bullies of West Morris High / Steven Cramer -- from The six-cornered snowflake / John Frederick Nims -- Written in blood / Sue Owen -- Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright -- Brieves from The Book of Kells / R. T. Smith -- Forgetfulness / Billy Collins -- from An essay on friendship: VII / J. D. McClatchy -- Little essay on communication / Stephen Dunn -- Mrs. Adam / Kathleen Norris -- The dead Cartesian / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- The death of Antinous / Mark Doty -- Correspondence / Henri Coulette -- Evening walk / Charles Simic -- Tenth-year elegy / Neal Bowers -- As a child, sleepless / W. D. Snodgrass -- Defining time / Carl Dennis -- Not responsible / Caroline Finkelstein -- Quotations for a winter evening / David Jauss -- Take a hike / Jim Simmerman -- Out of our hands / Cathy Song
The things of the world / Robert Sargent -- Chickamauga / Charles Wright -- We have not long to love / Tennesse Williams -- A few last lines of laundry / Eamon Grennan -- The tree of life / Margaret Holley -- Dead man interview / Neal Bowers -- The cave of AIDS / Mark Scott -- To a young diver / Marilyn Taylor -- Winged torso of eros / Daniel Hall -- Final notations / Adrienne Rich -- Mingus at the snowplace / William Matthews -- Meaner than a junkyard dog; or, Turner's evil twin / Turner Cassity -- Search party / W. S. Merwin -- Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander -- The digs in Escondido Canyon / Walter McDonald -- You are right / Cathryn Essinger -- Adirondack moosehead / Jeffrey Harrison -- Having it out with melancholy / Jane Kenyon -- Last words / William Matthews -- A telegram from the muse / William Matthews -- Anniversary / William Greenway -- Soul / Alan Shapiro -- The parents they would be / Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth -- The resurrection of the body / Eric Pankey -- Balkan / Gabriel Spera -- A not so good night in the Sand Pedro of the world / Charles Bukowski -- Music of the spheres / Robert Morgan -- In the age of the radio telescope / James Scruton -- The book of the dead man (#33) / Marvin Bell -- The essential story / Charlie Smith
To reason / Carl Dennis -- Psyche and Eros in Florida / Debora Greger -- Tools: an ode / Andrew Hudgins -- Ways of talking / Ha Jin -- Democracy / Derick Burleson -- Watching dogwood blossoms fall in parking lot off route 46 / August Kleinzahler -- The failure of similes / Richard Foerster -- Poem on the first day of school / Peter Cooley -- Duesenberg, 1929 / Herbert Morris -- Arch of Titus / Barry Goldensohn -- On me, the imported skies / Willy Clay -- Fermi lab: Sisyphus of quarks / Pearl Andelson Sherry -- Getting through / Deborah Pope -- Angling / Elise Paschen -- Goggles and helmet / Donald Hall -- Happiness / Jane Kenyon -- After the missionaries / Michael Chitwood -- At the Vietnam Memorial / George Bilgere -- For William Stafford / Henry Taylor -- A poem of unrest / John Ashbery -- TV movie / Jack Turner -- Does poetry matter? / Christopher Bursk -- A dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also / Seamus Heaney -- The throwback / Paul Muldoon -- Mother Ireland / Eavan Boland -- The arrival of the Titanic / William Dickey -- Without / Donald Hall -- Marginalia / Billy Collins -- After making love / Stephen Dunn -- Horseshoes / David Bottoms
A postcard from Greece / A. E. Stallings -- The Friday night fights / Ronald Wallace -- Lover release agreement / J. Allyn Rosser -- Drowning in wheat / John Kinsella -- The obligation to be happy / Linda Pastan -- Twelfth birthday / Rachel Hadas -- Variation on a theme of Baudelaire / David Ricks -- Introduction to methods of mathematical physics / Lisa Rosenberg -- Hooray for Hollywood / Tom Disch -- From ruin / Julie Suk -- The suit / Seamus Heaney -- The voice of Col. von Stauffenberg rising from purgatory / Donald Justice -- Middle-path / Galway Kinnell -- Add-water instant blues / Robin Morgan -- Hotwire / Leslie Ullman -- The obsolescence of thou / Rodney Jones -- Visiting hours are over / Chana Bloch -- The baobab tree 1996 / Susan Hahn -- The patient / Mary Karr -- At an island farm / Brad Leithauser -- The devil's workshop / Yusef Komunyakaa -- At the poetry reading / John Brehm -- For Allen Ginsberg / X. J. Kennedy -- The invention of secrecy / David Citino -- Becune Point / Derek Walcott -- Natural Selection / Alan Shapiro -- Sonnet / Billy Collins -- The dark between / Philip Schultz -- "Find work" / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Old movies / Robley Wilson -- Dead language lesson / A. E. Stallings -- The offspring / Liz Rosenberg -- Psalm for an anniversary / Grace Schulman
Driving West in 1970 / Robert Bly -- Detroit, tomorrow / Philip Levine -- Risk / C. K. Williams -- Wight / Stanley Plumly -- Crow is walking / Grace Butcher -- Immigrant picnic / Gregory Djanikian -- Tomorrow / Dennis O'Driscoll -- [Kazak] / David Schloss -- Pride / Yusef Komunyakaa -- from Paragraphs from a day-book / Marilyn Hacker -- To my old poems / Kenneth Koch -- Industrial teflon comes into domestic use / Fleda Brown -- The problem was / Joyce Sutphen -- Platonic love / Curt Anderson -- The charioteer / Faye George -- Battlefield / Mark Turcotte -- Saying goodbye to very young children / John Updike -- Test / Kay Ryan -- Dust / Wendell Berry -- After finding a one hundred dollar bill / DC Berry -- Zen living / Dick Allen -- Land / Agha Shahid Ali -- Academic / John Skoyles -- What became / Wesley McNair -- How we made a new art on old ground / Eavan Boland -- [His live was the practice] / Stephen Dobyns -- To Luck / W. S. Merwin -- Han-Shan fashions a myth / George Scarbrough -- Two evangelists / Robert West -- In glass / Catherine Tufariello -- How to write a villanelle / Elisavietta Ritchie -- For Micha's mother, who signs / Robert Fink -- Update on the last judgment / Ellen Hinsey -- Lament for the makers / W. S. Merwin
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