Poets and Poems Included
Listed in alphabetical order by author's name:
| Poet | Poem | Publication where poem previously appeared |
| Kazim Ali | "The Art of Breathing" | Barrow Street |
| Jeannette Allee | "Crimble of Staines" | Field |
| Rae Armantrout | "Scumble" | American Poet |
| Mary Jo Bang | "The Opening" | Verse |
| Nicky Beer | "Still Life with Half-Turned Woman and Questions" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| Marvin Bell | "The Method" | Crazyhorse |
| Christian Bok | "Vowels" | New American Writing |
| Louis E. Bourgeois | "A Voice from the City" | Sentence |
| Geoffrey Brock | "Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: Dec. 2, 1859" | Subtropics |
| Matthew Byrne | "Let Me Count the Ways" | Poet Lore |
| Macgregor Card | "Duties of an English Foreign Secretary" | Fence |
| Julie Carr | "marriage" | POOL |
| Michael Collier | "Common Flicker" | TriQuarterly |
| Billy Collins | "The News Today" | Bookforum |
| Robert Creeley | "Valentine for You" | Crazyhorse |
| Linh Dinh | "Continuous Bullets over Flattened Earth and A Super-Clean Country" |
New American Writing |
| Mike Dockins | "Dead Critics Society" | The Atlanta Review |
| Sharon Dolin | "Tea Lay" | New American Writing |
| Denise Duhamel | "Language Police Report" | Sentence |
| Stephen Dunn | "Where He Found Himself" | Iowa Review |
| Russell Edson | "See Jack" | Sentence |
| Elaine Equi | "Etudes" | the tiny |
| Landis Everson | "Lemon Tree" | American Poetry Review |
| Thomas Fink | "Yinglish Strophes IX" | Barrow Street |
| Helen Ransom Forman | "Daily" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Louise Gluck | "Archaic Fragment" | Poetry |
| Albert Goldbarth | "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | New Letters |
| Donald Hall | "The Master" | American Poetry Review |
| Mark Halliday | "Best Am Po" | POOL |
| Forrest Hamer | "Initiation" | American Poetry Review |
| Matthea Harvey | "From The Future of Terror/Terror of the Future Series" | Bomb |
| Robert Hass | "Bush's War" | American Poetry Review |
| Jane Hirshfield | "Critique of Pure Reason" | Ploughshares |
| Daniel Johnson | "Do Unto Others" | Barrow Street |
| Richard Kenney | "Auguries" | Southwest Review |
| Milton Kessler | "Comma of God" | Sentence |
| Galway Kinnell | "Hide-and-Seek, 1933" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| David Kirby | "Ode to the Personals" | Five Points |
| Julie Larios | "What Bee Did" | The Cortland Review |
| Brad Leithauser | "A Good List" | The New Criterion |
| Ben Lerner | "From Angle of Yaw" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| Joanie Mackowski | "When I was a dinosaur" | POOL |
| Amit Majmudar | "By Accident" | The Antioch Review |
| Sabrina Orah Mark | "The 10 Stages of Beatrice" | Conduit |
| Campbell McGrath | "Ode to the Plantar Fascia" | POOL |
| Leslie Adrienne Miller | "On Leonardo's Drawings" | The Kenyon Review |
| Marilyn Nelson | "Etymology" | Literary Imagination |
| Meghan O'Rourke | "Peep Show" | The Kenyon Review |
| Ed Ochester | "Voltaire at Cirey, 1736" | Barrow Street |
| Gregory Orr | "From Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved" |
RATTLE |
| Danielle Pafunda | "Dear Pearce & Pearce, Inc." | Denver Quarterly |
| Chad Parmenter | "A Tech's Ode to Genome Computer" | The Kenyon Review |
| Susan Parr | "Swooping Actuarial Fauna and Ecstatic Cling" | Alaska Quarterly Review |
| Peter Pereira | "Nursmaid's Elbow" | New England Review |
| Robert Pinsky | "Stupid Meditation on Peace" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Pinsky | "Louie Louie" | American Poetry Review |
| David Rivard | "The Rev. Larry Love is Dead" | TriQuarterly |
| Marya Rosenberg | "If I Tell You You're Beautiful, Will You Report Me?: A West Point Haiku Series" |
Hanging Loose |
| Natasha Saje | "F" | Beloit Poetry Journal |
| Frederick Seidel | "The Death of the Sha" | Raritan Quarterly Review |
| Alan Shapiro | "Country Western Singer" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| David Shumate | "Drawing Jesus" | Gulf Coast |
| Carmine Starnino | "Money" | New American Writing |
| Brian Turner | "What Every Soldier Should Know" | American Poet |
| Arthur Vogelsang | "The Family" | Colorado Review |
| Cody Walker | "Coulrophobia" | Tarpaulin Sky |
| Kary Wayson | "Flu Song in Spanish" | Alaska Quarterly Review |
| Charles Harper Webb | "Big" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Joe Wenderoth | "The Home of the Brave" | Sacramento News & Review |
| Richard Wilbur | "From Opposites and More Opposites" | American Poet |
| George Witte | "At Dusk, the Catbird" | The Vocabula Review |
| Theodor Worozbyt | "An Experiment" | Crazyhorse |
| Harriet Zinnes | "Remiss Rebut" | Colorado Review |
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