Introduction / Bill Henderson
The Columbus School for Girls / Liza Wieland
Mine own John Berryman / Philip Levine
From the meadow / Peter Everwine
Red lipstick / Yolanda Barnes
Blood brother / Ayla Nutku Bachman
On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner
Reading with the poets / Stanley Plumly
Prolegomena / Ken Bernard
Inscriptions / Eavan Boland
Simplicities/ William H. Gass
Rubber life / Francine Prose
Insomnia / Timothy Geiger
Wheatfield under clouded sky / Campbell McGrath
The telegraph relay station / Norman Lavers
A day at the St. Regis with Dame Edith / Perdita Schaffner
Circumstances / Richard jackson
Four days : earthquake / Fary Young
Freeway bypass (detail from map) / Fred Pfeil
Hush hush / Steven Barthelme
Mannequins / Laurie Sheck
To a wren on calcary / Larry Levis
Against decoration / Mary Karr
A note on the type / Alexander Theroux
Vespers : parousia / Louise Glück
Border watch / Gretchen Legler
Four stories / Lydia Davis
Oh, by the way / Ed Ochester
My father's body / William Matthews
Acts of kindness / Mary Michael Wagner
To the muse / Carol Muske
Critterworld / Steve Watkins
Quick eats / Charles Simic
Worldly beauty / T.R. Hummer
A clarion for the quincentenary / Eliot Weinberger
When I was saved / Andrew Hudgins
Good heavens / Pattiann Rogers
Like hands on a cave wall / Karen Minton
Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb
Snow figure / David Baker
Lost fugue for Chet / Lynda Hull
I would call it derangement / Gerald Stern
The wrestler's heart / Gary Soto
The other League of Nations / Alberto Alvaro Rios
Twelve o'clock / Carolyn Kizer
Train whistles in the wind and rain / Henry Carlie
Kerflooey / Sharon Sheehe Stark
Black and blue / Charles Wright
Glimpses : Raymond Carver / Sam Halpert, James Linville
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