First hour / Sharon Olds --
Floating rib / Lucia Perillo --
To the dust of the road / W. S. Merwin --
Prayer in my boot / Naomi Shihab Nye --
To my twenties / Kenneth Koch --
Hurdles / Katia Kapovich --
I need to be more French. Or Japanese. / Beth Ann Fennelly --
Waiting for my clothes / Leanne O'Sullivan --
Oh, what a red sweater / Alan Michael Parker --
Boulevard du Montparnasse / Mary Jo Salter --
To stammering / Kenneth Koch --
Trick pear / Suzanne Cleary --
Busses / Frederick Morgan --
Bedecked / Victoria Redel --
Dinner out / Christopher Howell --
Slow children at play / Cecilia Woloch --
Soccer moms / Paul Muldoon --
What i did / Jim Daniels --
What I want / George Bilgere --
What I do / Douglas Goetsch --
Late valentine, with daisies / Kevin Stein --
Tariff / Michelle Boisseau.
Passport: a manifesto / Carol Muske-Dukes --
Interchanges / Yannis Ritsos --
Machines / Michael Donaghy --
Please come late / Hugo Williams --
Romanticism / David Baker --
Night of the full moon / Alison Marsh Harding --
Discretion / Robert Wrigley --
In praise of my young husband / Cathleen Calbert --
Little flowers / W. S. DiPiero --
Arrival / Michael Longley --
Foot thing / Jane Routh --
Hammock / Cecilia Woloch --
Heart's Itch / Rebecca Wee --
Mrs. Darwin / Carol Ann Duffy --
Russian greatcoat / Theodore Deppe --
Samurai / Ricardo Pau-Llosa --
Eleven thousand and one / Darcie Dennigan --
Instinct / C.K. Williams --
Even ornaments of speech are forms of deceit / Ron Koertge --
Dorie off to Atlanta / Mark Halliday --
Girls, look out for Todd Bernstein / Jason Bredle --
Ever after / Joyce Sutphen --
Before the sickness is official / J. Allyn Rosser --
Crescendo / Leanne O'Sullivan --
Wedding ring / Lynne McMahon.
Acceptance speech / Lynn Powell --
Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood --
In California / Margaret Levine --
Sounds of the day / Norman MacCaig --
Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz --
A Monorhyme for the shower / Dick Davis --
A Jacquard shawl / Ted Kooser --
By daylight / Elizabeth Macklin --
I am going to start living like a mystic / Edward Hirsch --
National cold storage company / Harvey Shapiro --
Painting a room / Katia Kapovich --
Birthday poem / Erin Murphy --
Invitations overhead / Stephen Dobyns --
Understudy / Daniel Lusk --
Popular mechanics / Edward Nobles --
By her own hand / Alice Fulton --
Hate poem / Julie Sheehan --
Do you love me / Robert Wrigley --
He told her he loved her / Stephen Dobyns --
From Woody's restaurant,Middlebury / Greg Delanty --
An apology / F.J. Bergmann --
What kind of fool am I / Don McKay --
Why it often rains in the movies / Lawrence Raab --
Lives of the poets / Louis Simpson --
Blurbs / Julianna Baggott --
Long afternoons / Adam Zagajewski --
Shakespearean sonnet / R. S. Gwynn --
Writing on not writing / Jack Myers --
Booksigning / James Tate --
Publication date / Franz Wright --
Poetry reading last night in the Royal Hibernian Hotel / Paul Durcan --
Keats / Christopher Howell --
Anagrammer / Peter Pereira --
Warrant / Charles Bernstein --
Chapter one / Mark Aiello --
What is written / John Ashbery --
Famous / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Appeal to the grammarians / Paul Violi --
Out there / Mark Perlberg --
Illumination / Anthony Hecht --
Highway 12, just east of Paradise, Idaho / Robert Wrigley --
Man-made / Kirsten Kaschock --
Mr. Dithers explains it all to you / David Kirby --
Snowbanks North of the house / Robert Bly --
At the cottage of Messer Violi / Paul Violi.
Jeep Cherokee / Bruce A. Jacobs --
La Brea / Glyn Maxwell --
A shadow of a nest / Gary Margolis --
In the rear-view mirror / Robert Shaw --
Two disappeared into a house / Yehuda Amichai --
Yea, though I walk / Virginia Hamilton Adair --
Current / Mark Halliday --
I said yes but I meant no / Dean Young --
Iron train / Adam Zagajewski --
Long paces / Timothy Steele --
Passenger pigeons / Robert Morgan --
A toast to the Baltimore Oriole / Don McKay --
Windowgrave / Eamon Grennan --
Knowledge / Philip Memmer --
Charlie Chan wins again / Ron Padgett --
Outside the mainway market / Catherine Doty --
Leaving tralee / Ben Howard --
Local 32B / Michael Donaghy --
Chicken / Kim Addonizio --
Solitude / Kerry Hardie --
To Roanoke with Johnny Cash / Bob Hicok --
Air Larry / Joseph Harrison.
Thomas Eakins: a dream of powers / Philip Dacey --
Nothing in that drawer / Ron Padgett --
Leaving the Island / Linda Pastan --
Takeoff / Timothy Steele --
You can change your life through psychic power / James Tate --
At the UN-National Monument along the Canadian border / William Stafford --
Current / Stuard Dybek --
Off-track betting / Ron Koertge --
Unflushed urinals / Donald Justice --
Extinguishable / Bill Knott --
If you don't / Diane Thiel --
To help the monkey cross the river / Thomas Lux --
Where did I leave off / Virginia Hamilton Adair --
Happiness / Jane Kenyon --
Mirrors at 4 A.M. / Charles Simic --
In the coffee house / Tony Towle --
Why I don't take naps in the afternoon / Dan Gerber --
A traversing / Pattiann Rogers --
Requiem / Abigail Gramig --
Bohemian blues / Philip Nikolayev --
Retro creation / Aidan Rooney-Cespedes --
Reading the obituary page / Linda Pastan --
Waking late / Robin Robertson.
First photograph of Hitler / Wislawa Szymborska --
Soldiers / Gregory Djanikian --
Timely enumerations concerning Sri Lanka / Oliver Rice --
End and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska --
On parting / Cate Marvin --
Valentine / Carol Ann Duffy --
From blossoms / Li-Young Lee --
Onions / William Matthews --
Reading Hemingway / James Cummins --
Grapefruit / Gerald Stern --
Mishima on a plate / Joey Roth --
Olive oil / Paul Suntup --
Rest on the flight into Egypt / Debora Greger --
Buddha's dogs / Susan Browne --
Long meadow / Vijay Seshadri --
Dogs in dutch paintings / David Graham --
October cats / Rachel Hadas --
A display of mackerel / Mark Doty --
Corgis of Queen Elizabeth / Diane Wald --
Salt Lick / May Sarton --
Aanabhrandhanmar means "mad about elephants" / Aimee Nezhukumatathil --
Fox in the National Museum of Wales / Robert Minhinnick --
A cowardice of husbands / David Kirby --
Stephen Duck and Edward Chicken / George Green --
Ibid at the book party / Christina Daub --
Reading: winter / C. K. Williams.