The Pushcart prize, XXIV, 2000: best of the small presses

The mansion on the hill / Rick Moody

In search of miracles / memoir by Ann Hood

Building a painting a home / poem by Bob Hicock

Seed / Mary Yuarki Waters

Mitch / poem by Robert Creeley

The first men / Stacey Richter

The sheriff goes to church / Robert Coover

Lizard / poem by Susan Hahn

The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston

The houses of double women / Julian Anderson

The dog years / poem by Tony Hoagland

The illustrated encyclopedia of the animal kingdom / Dan Chaon

Borrowed finery / memoir by Paula Fox

Faithfulness / poem by Forrest Gander

Also love you / poem by Reginald Shepherd

Nachman / Leonard Michaels

The serenity prayer / Elisabeth Sifton

All the aphrodisiacs / poem by Cathy Hong

Snow dreams / Tom Bailey

At Niaux / poem by Laurie Sheck

Miss Famous / Robert Boswell

Gravitas / poem by Elizabeth Alexander

Carlos / poem by Theodore Deppe

Neon effects / Emily Hiestand

The gardens of Kyoto / Kate Walbert

The loop, the snow, their daughters, the rain / Liza Wieland

Olympic Rain Forest / poem by Jane Cooper

The disappearing teapot / memoir by Alice Mattison

Sand, flies & fish / poem by Mong-Lan

What I eat / Charlotte Morgan

From the Prado Rotunda: the family of Charles IV, and others / poem by Alicia Ostriker

Oblivion, Nebraska / Peter Moore Smith

Odd collections / Alexander Theroux

Errata mystagogia / poem by Bruce Beasley

The dead boy at your window / Bruce Holland Rogers

Invisible man / poem by Jas. Mardis

Dear Mother / Harry Mathews

The girls learn to levitate / poem by Adrienne Su

The march of the novel through history: the testimony of my grandfather's bookcase / Amitav Ghosh

A meditation / poem by Gail N. Harada

The talking cure / Frederick Busch

Provenance / poem by Joseph Stroud

Very, very red / Diane Williams

The poor angel / poem by Ray Gonzales

A party on the way to Rome / poem by Christopher Howell

What they did / David Means

Diary / poem by Susan Wood

Basha Leah / memoir by Brenda Miller

For Brigit in Illinois / poem by Renee Ashley

Harry Ginsberg / Charles Baxter

The sky blue dress / poem by Cathy Song

Love or nothing / poem by Hugh Coyle

Self knowledge / Richard Bausch

Son of Stet / poem by John Kistner

The sea in mourning / poem by Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

The wedding jester / Steve Stern

Swan / poem by Oleh Lysheha

Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta / poem by Reetika Vazirani

Living to tell the tale / memoir by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Deer table legs / poem by Katayoon Zandvakili

Love letters / poem by Michael Burkard.