Ghazal: "A language of loss ..." / Agha Shahid Ali --
Ghazal: "But first the screened mirror ..." / Agha Shahid Ali --
Lenox Hill / Agha Shahid Ali --
Rooms Are Never Finished / Agha Shahid Ali --
Midwest: Ode / David Baker --
Ohio Fields After Rain / David Baker --
Pulp Fiction / David Baker --
Romanticism / David Baker --
The Book of the Dead Man (#35) / Marvin Bell --
The Book of the Dead Man (#61) / Marvin Bell --
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps (#6) / Marvin Bell --
In a New Leaf / Stephen Berg --
For the Twentieth Century / Frank Bidart --
Grand Forks: 1997 / Lynda Bierds --
The Ponds: Franz Kafka, June 1, 1924 / Linda Bierds --
The times / Lucille Clifton --
What I think when I ride the train / Lucille Clifton --
Brave Sparrow / Michael Collier --
Pay-Per-View / Michael Collier --
The Swimmer / Michael Collier --
Bloodwork / Alfred Corn --
New York Three Decades On / Alfred Corn --
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska / Alfred Corn --
Falling Water / Peter Davison --
Little Death / Peter Davison --
On Mount Timpanogos / Peter Davison --
Guillotine Windows / Deborah Digges --
Lilacs / Deborah Digges --
Winter Barn / Deborah Digges --
Days of Me / Stuart Dischell --
A Fugitive Heart / Stuart Dischell --
October Notes / Wayne Dodd --
Elizabeth Bishop, Croton, Watercolor / Mark Doty --
Sea Grape Valentine / Mark Doty --
Against Flight / Rita Dove --
Evening Primrose / Rita Dove --
Sic Itur ad Astra / Rita Dove --
Hummingbird / Cornelius Eady --
Speed / Cornelius Eady --
Arlington Street / Nancy Eimers --
Crossroads Mall / Nancy Eimers --
Lunar Eclipse / Nancy Eimers --
Tributaries / Roland Flint --
Laughter and Stars / Tess Gallagher --
Owl-Spirit Dwelling / Tess Gallagher --
Urgent Story / Tess Gallagher --
Downstroke / Forrest Gander --
Travelers / Forrest Gander --
Vita Nova / Louise Gluck --
The Burning Heart / Louise Gluck --
Formaggio / Louise Gluck --
Vita Nova / Louise Gluck --
Eyes Like Leeks / Linda Gregerson --
Noah's Wife / Linda Gregerson --
The Boy / Marilyn Hacker --
Invocation / Marilyn Hacker --
The Birds of the Holy Land / Daniel Hall --
Neoclassical / Daniel Hall --
Desperados / Daniel Halpern --
Her Body / Daniel Halpern --
How to Forgive the Father Who Screams at His Son / Michael S. Harper --
Matchbook: The Spinnaker (Sausalito) / Michael S. Harper --
Paradise / Michael S. Harper --
Arrangement / Jeffrey Harrison --
Family Dog / Jeffrey Harrison --
My Grandfather's Necktie / Jeffrey Harrison --
A Geology / Brenda Hillman --
Heinrich Heine / Edward Hirsch --
The Magic Mirror / Edward Hirsch --
Ocean of Grass / Edward Hirsch --
Portrait of a Writer / Edward Hirsch --
Filling in the Graves at a Cherokee Site / Richard Jackson --
Reincarnation of a Lovebird / Richard Jackson --
Fox Night / Mark Jarman --
George Herbert / Mark Jarman --
The Garden of the Trumpet Tree / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --
The Orchard / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --
How Could She Not / Galway Kinnell --
Why Regret? / Galway Kinnell --
Eclogue at Twilight / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Kosmos / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Nude Interrogation / Yusef Komunyakaa --
The Song Thief / Yusef Komunyakaa --
The Hammock / Li-Young Lee --
The Lily / Li-Young Lee --
Cumulus / Phillis Levin --
A Portrait / Phillis Levin --
"He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do" / Philip Levine --
If You Are Here / Philip Levine --
Keats in California / Philip Levine --
Pasadena Elegy / Philip Levine --
The Unknowable / Philip Levine --
Anastasia & Sandman / Larry Levis --
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. / Larry Levis --
The Two Trees / Larry Levis --
From Gradeschool Window Watching Local Bookie Arrested / Thomas Lux --
The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball / Thomas Lux --
Marine Snow at Mid-Depths and Down / Thomas Lux --
Plague Victims Catapulted over Walls into Besieged City / Thomas Lux --
A Dove / Campbell McGrath --
El Balserito / Campbell McGrath --
Las Vegas / Campbell McGrath --
Manitoba / Campbell McGrath --
Etymological Dirge / Heather McHugh --
The Father of the Predicaments / Heather McHugh --
A Salt: Three Variations on Five Senses / Heather McHugh --
Above the Red Deep-Water Clays / James McMichael --
Posited / James McMichael --
The Bar at The Andover Inn, 1995 / William Matthews --
Big Tongue / William Matthews --
Manners / William Matthews --
Mingus in Shadow / William Matthews --
227 Waverly Place / W.S. Merwin --
Another River / W.S. Merwin --
Night Turn / W.S. Merwin --
Sheep Passing / W.S. Merwin --
What Is a Garden / W.S. Merwin --
Oblique Muscle (Meditation on a Famous Blindness) / Carol Muske --
Our Kitty / Carol Muske --
Live Jazz, Franklin Park Zoo / Marilyn Nelson --
The Perceiving Self / Marilyn Nelson --
Washboard Wizard / Marilyn Nelson.
On Plans to Decimate the Entire British Herd / William Olsen --
The Great Wheel / Steve Orlen --
Onomastics & the Falling Snow / Steve Orlen --
The Excavation / Gregory Orr --
If There's a God ... / Gregory Orr --
The Talk / Gregory Orr --
Analfabeta / Jacqueline Osherow --
Phantom Haiku/Silent Film / Jacqueline Osherow --
The Trees Are Gone / Jay Parini --
Another Autumn / Linda Pastan --
To Penelope / Linda Pastan --
Interior: The Kill / Carl Phillips --
Interior: Retreat / Carl Phillips --
The Truth / Carl Phillips --
The Green Piano / Robert Pinsky --
The Haunted Ruin / Robert Pinsky --
Ode to Meaning / Robert Pinsky --
To Television / Robert Pinsky --
Catbird Beginning with a Cardinal / Stanley Plumly --
Cheer / Stanley Plumly --
A Little Ovid Late in the Day / Bin Ramke --
Livery of Seisin / Bin Ramke --
A Theory of Fantasy / Bin Ramke --
Common Crows in a Winter Tree / Alberto Rios --
From the Life of Don Margarito / Alberto Rios --
Los Voladores de Papantla / Alberto Rios --
Clarity / David Rivard --
The Favored / David Rivard --
Guests of the Wedding / David Rivard --
The Ocean, Naming It / Peter Sacks --
The Tree / Peter Sacks --
Honeymoon in Florence / Ira Sadoff --
Long Island / Ira Sadoff --
The Rapture / Ira Sadoff --
Another Kiss / David St. John --
Fragment / David St. John --
Her Painting / David St. John --
The Beach Chair / Alan Shapiro --
The Singer / Alan Shapiro --
Thrush in Summer / Alan Shapiro --
Happiness / Jane Shore --
Play Dead / Jeffrey Skinner --
Stay / Jeffrey Skinner --
The Invasion / Tom Sleigh --
Joy on a Sunday / Tom Sleigh --
Spring Morning / Tom Sleigh --
"Come Back, or Send Somebody" / Arthur Smith --
Lights from a Pier / Arthur Smith --
My Mother's Name in English / Arthur Smith --
Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers / Dave Smith --
Mussel Work / Dave Smith --
St. Augustine's Goldfinch / Dave Smith --
A Portrait of Larry with Trogons / Marcia Southwick --
A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog / Marcia Southwick --
1999 / Elizabeth Spires --
"In Heaven It Is Always Autumn" / Elizabeth Spires --
Two Chairs on a Hillside / Elizabeth Spires --
About Women / Gerald Stern --
Larry Levis Visits Easton, Pa., During a November Freeze / Gerald Stern --
Last Blue / Gerald Stern --
I Will Love the Twenty-First Century / Mark Strand --
An Afternoon Stroll / James Tate --
Scattered Reflections / James Tate --
The Workforce / James Tate --
Commuter Marriage: Homecoming / Henry Taylor --
For William Matthews / Henry Taylor --
The Line / Arthur Vogelsang --
Liquids in Quantities / Arthur Vogelsang --
Which Way? / Arthur Vogelsang --
The Art of Distance, I / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Plaza del Sol / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
What I Remember of Larry's Dream of Yeats / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
The French Toy / Diane Wakoski --
Silver Shoes / Diane Wakoski --
Island in the Charles / Rosanna Warren --
L'Oiseau de nuit / Rosanna Warren --
Depths / C.K. Williams --
The Lie / C.K. Williams --
After Propertius / David Wojahn --
Word Hoard Against the Gnostics / David Wojahn --
Cervical Jazz: A Girlfriend Poem / C.D. Wright --
Girlfriends / C.D. Wright --
The Revolving House or or Another Girfriend Poem / C.D. Wright --
Spring Street Girlfriend / C.D. Wright --
The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI / Charles Wright --
Opus Posthumous III / Charles Wright --
Sky Diving / Charles Wright --
St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear / Charles Wright.