Forward / by David Lehman -- Introduction / by Mark Doty -- Terminal nostalgia / Sherman Alexie -- Receipt : midway entertainment presents / Karen Leona Anderson -- Accounts / Rae Armantrout -- For furious nursing baby / Julianna Baggot -- Outside / David Baker -- Child holding potato / Rick Barot -- At the end of life, a secret / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Of his bones are coral made / Frank Bidart -- Pill / Bruce Bond -- Notre Dame / Stephanie Brown -- Sonnet of exemplary sentences / Anne Carson -- Dorothy Wordsworth / Jennifer Chang -- Sparrow / Joseph Chapman -- Basic / Heather Christle -- Broom / Henri Cole -- Delivery / Billy Collins -- More than twice, more than I can count / Peter Cooley -- To the Angelbeast / Eduardo C. Corral -- Back matter / Erica Dawson -- The imagined / Stephen Dunn -- A story begins / Elaine Equi -- Spirit in the dark / Robert Gibb -- Self-portrait with no internal navigation / Kathleen Graber -- Helianthus annuus (sunflower) / Amy Glynn Greacen.
One train's survival depends on the other derailed / James Allen Hall -- The rose has teeth / Terrance Hayes -- Collision / Steven Heighton -- Moaning action at the gas pump / Brenda Hillman -- In a kitchen where mushrooms were washed / Jane Hirshfield -- A proposed curriculum change / Richard Howard -- Magdalene -- the seven devils / Marie Howe -- Memphis / Amorak Huey -- Aria / Jenny Johnson -- So where are we? / Lawrence Joseph -- Tenor / Fady Joudah -- Death is something entirely else / Joy Katz -- How to tie a knot / James Kimbrell -- Poem / Noelle Kocot -- Either or / Maxine Kumin -- Hollow boom soft chime : the Thai elephant orchestra / Sarah Lindsay -- The autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim / Amit Majmudar -- Mrs. Mason and the poets / David Mason -- Becca / Kerrin McCadden -- Song / Honor Moore -- Void and compensation (Facebook) / Michael Morse -- Hate mail / Carol Muske-Dukes -- Daffodil / Angelo Nikolopoulos -- In Provincetown, and Ohio, and Alabama / Mary Oliver -- Where do we go after we die / Steve Orlen -- Song / Alicia Ostriker -- Sober then drunk again / Eric Pankey -- Samara / Lucia Perillo -- Improvisation on Yiddish / Robert Pinsky -- Self-portrait as Dido to Aeneas / Dean Rader -- The road to Emmaus / Spencer Reece -- Wax / Paisley Rekdal -- Middle school / Mary Ruefle.
Girl with gerbil / Don Russ -- Playacting / Kay Ryan -- The gods / Mary Jo Salter -- The afterlife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Rain / Frederick Seidel -- Artless / Brenda Shaughnessy -- Our posthumous lives / Peter Jay Shippy -- Everything that ever was / Tracy K. Smith -- The drag queen dies in New Castle / Bruce Snider -- The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter / Mark Strand -- Sunflower / Larissa Szporluk -- The turnpike / Daniel Tobin -- Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright on dissecting the white negro, 1851 / Natasha Trethewey -- The split / Susan Wheeler -- The lesson / Franz Wright -- Minding rites / David Yezzi -- Restoration ode / Dean Young -- Expecting / Kevin Young -- Magazines where the poems were first published.
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