From the Book - 26th anniversary ed.
Cavemen in the hedges / Stacy Richter
Narrow road to the deep north / Gary Andahlo
Gratitude / Robert Cording
About tere who was in Palomas / Dagoberto Gilb
Tomorrow's bird / Ian Frazier
At horticulture park / Marianne Boruch
Returning to Providence / David Plante
Suitcase song / Albert Goldbarth
An official reply / Ha Jin
My night with Philip Larkin / Rachel Loden
Ashes of August / Kim Barnes
Inventory / Eamon Grennan
Semper Paratus / Alyson Hagy
Kinds of sleep / Kevin Prufer
Secrets of bats / Jess Row
Short history of the shadow / Charles Wright
Creeley cursing in church / Rick Campbell
Big-breasted pilgrim / Ann Beattie.
Three crows / Carol Potter
Bad seed : a guide / Nicola Mason
Khwaja Khadir / David James Duncan
It is hard not to love the world / Jim Moore
Mourning door / Elizabeth Graver
In transit / John Hollander
Reflections of an uncertain Jew / Andre Aciman
Poet's voice / Michael S. Harper
Melba Kuperschmid returns / Peter M. Orner
Bike ride with older boys / Laura Kasischke
Self and attirbutes / Susan Wheeler
Thief of Tay Ninh / Kevin Bowen
Limen / Natasha Trethewey
Labor / Madison Smartt Bell
Bit-o-honey / Bernard Cooper
Story of the door / David Huddle
By a swimming pool outside Syracusa / Billy Collins.
Death as a fictitious event / Bert O. States
Part of the story / Stephen Dobyns
Pain thinks of the beautiful table / Laurie Lamon
The price of eggs in China / Don Lee
Seven types of ambiguity / Dan Chaon
I am Mrs. Lorca / Rafael Campo
Beethoven, Monet, technology and us / Burton Raffel
Yellow fever / Barbara Hamby
Recitation / Scott Cairns
A little learning / Sharon Dilworth
Archaeology / Margaret Gibson
Blood sport / Thomas Lynch
In praise of coldness / Jane Hirshfield
Things not seen in a rear-view mirror / Debra Marquart
Palace at 4:00am / Debora Greger
Inheritance / Kwame Dawes
Funktionslust / Melissa Pritchard
To the tune of a small, repeatable, and passing kindness / Carl Phillips
Children of this land / Wole Soyinka
Fugue / Elizabeth Alexander.