Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Man and wife / Katie Chase -- Blessing of the animals / Brenda Miller -- White egrets / Derek Walcott -- Retreat / Wells Tower -- Methodical / Bob Hicok -- North of ordinary / John Rolfe Gardiner -- American income / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Bendithion / Harrison Solow -- Love in the orangery / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Across the universe / Andrew McCuaig -- Olive trees / Louis Glück -- The heir / Jack Livings -- Fathers / Joseph Millar -- North of / Marie Bertino -- What they're doing / Dan Albergotti -- Shadow boxing / Jeremy Collins -- Airport Economy Inn / Tom Sleigh -- Tabriz / Elizabeth Tallent -- Posthumous man / David Baker -- Rickshaw runner / Naomi J. Williams -- Chances Are, Lafayette, Indiana / Sarah Green -- Love bade me welcome / Christian Wiman -- Saturday night / Eleanor Wilner -- Progressive dinner / John Barth -- Love or something / Chris Forhan -- Window of possibility / Anthony Doerr -- Blindness / Ciaran Berry -- Uncle / Suzanne Rivecca -- Dream / Paul Hostovsky -- Eleven ways to consider air / Brandon R. Schrand -- You have flown to the dangerous country / Elizabeth Spires -- Elder jinks / Edith Pearlman -- Door psalm / Heidi Hart -- Mormons in heat / Don Waters -- Ritual / Susan Mitchell -- Essay on what is want / John D'Agata -- Just now / Peter Campion -- Bang bang in a boy voice / Akhim Yuseff Cabey -- Devotion : redshift / Bruce Smith -- Prowlers / Jack Driscoll -- Lichen / Robert Wrigley -- Reasons for and advantages of breathing / Lydia Peelle -- No other paradise / Kurt Brown -- Errands in the forest / William deBuys -- Returning home in the MG just before dawn / Gerry LaFemina -- The epicurean / Louis B. Jones -- The owl / Susan Stewart -- Zanzibar / Beena Kamlani -- The water-brooks / Mary Kinzie -- The voice of the past / Floyd Skloot -- A Berryman concordance against this silence / Elena Karina Byrne -- Cultivation / Shannon Cain -- Rain / Keith Althaus -- Ave Maria / Micaela Morrissette -- I didn't sleep / Marvin Bell -- The Russian / Ethan Coen -- Poem in the manner of Coleridge / Matthew Rohrer -- Scarecrow / Betsy Boyd -- Ghosts / Charles Baxter -- Audubon diptych / Matt Donovan -- Old Macdonald had a farmer's market / Bill McKibben -- Angel with big book / Kathryn Maris -- My accidental jihad / Krista Bremer -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- The Pushcart Prize fellowships -- Contributors' notes -- Index.
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