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About This Book -- Kim Addonizio: Collapsing Poem -- Onset -- The Moment -- Maggie Anderson: And then I arrived at the powerful green hill -- How the Brain Works -- Try -- Beautiful War -- Jimmy Santiago Baca: Tire Shop -- Jan Beatty: My Father Teaches Me Light -- My Father Teaches Me Desire -- My Father Teaches Me Longing -- Modern Love -- Jacqueline Berger: At the Holiday Crafts Fair -- The Magic Show -- Celebrity Cooking -- George Bilgere: Greatness -- Trash -- The Fall -- Laundry Chute -- Peter Blair: Discussing the Dream of Culture with Professor Kwaam -- November Full Moon -- The Day after the Coup -- Planting Rice with Nipun, Ubol Province -- Chana Bloch: The New World -- Reprieve -- Sometimes I Want to Sink into Your Body -- Brothers -- The Messiah of Harvard Square -- Laure-Anne Bosselaar: The Pleasures of Hating -- After a Noisy Night -- Plastic Beatitude -- Andrea Hollander Budy: In the Garden -- Ex -- Nineteen Thirty-Eight -- Graveyard Shift -- Rick Campbell: Fair Warning -- Road House -- Poetry Makes Nothing Happen -- Heart of Dependent Arising -- Lucille Clifton: the times -- moonchild -- what I think when I ride the train -- august -- study the masters -- to my last period -- my dream about being white -- Billy Collins: Consolation -- Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes -- Workshop -- Steven Cramer: The Benevolence of the Butcher -- On Hold -- Sketches at the Hayden Rec Center -- Jim Daniels: Short-Order Cook -- Where Else Can You Go -- Todd Davis: Craving -- Accident -- Puberty -- Theodicy -- Toi Derricotte: Boy at the Patterson Falls -- Bird -- Not Forgotten -- Shoe Repair Business -- After Reading at a Black College -- Matthew Dickman: Some Days -- Michael Dickman: Scary Parents -- Patricia Dobler: An Afterlife -- Field Trip to the Mill -- Your Language Is Lost at Sea -- Uncle Rudy Explains the Events of 1955* -- On Murray Avenue -- Stephen Dobyns: Stars -- Wisdom -- Leaf Blowers -- Rita Dove: Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove -- Daystar -- Aircraft -- Straw Hat -- Roast Possum -- Denise Duhamel: How It Will End -- Blue Beard's One Hundredth Wife -- Oriental Barbie -- Stephen Dunn: Empathy -- Don't Do That -- Sacred -- Cornelius Eady: Dance at the Amherst County Public Library -- Almost Grown -- Lynn Emanuel: Dear Final Journey... -- The Murder Writer -- The Revolution -- Ellipses -- The Occupation -- Claudia Emerson: Animal Funerals, 1964* -- Cold Room -- Secure the Shadow -- B.H. Fairchild: Rave On -- A Photograph of the Titanic -- Frank X. Gaspar: One Thousand Blossoms -- Hurricane Douglas, Hurricane Elida -- Bodhidharma Preaches the Wake-up Sermon -- Ross Gay: Summer -- Alzheimer's -- The Truth -- Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 AM -- Robert Gibb: The Writing Class -- For the Poets in the Prisons of America -- What the Heart Can Bear -- Beckian Fritz Goldberg: Lie Awake Lake -- Wren -- Fourth Month -- Story Problem -- Leonard Gontarek: Study/White -- Study/Trees -- Study/Crow -- Sarah Gridley: Posthumous -- Work -- Medieval Physics -- Against the Throne and Monarchy of God -- Summer Reading -- Corrinne Clegg Hales: The Rich -- To Make It Right -- Forgiven -- "Young Nubian Woman" -- Barbara Hamby: I Beseech Thee, O Yellow Pages -- The Language of Bees -- Betrothal in B Minor -- Ode to My 1977 Toyota -- Mathea Harvey: The Golden Age of Figureheads -- If Scissors Aren't the Answer, What's a Doll to Do? -- Inside the Good Idea -- Yona Harvey: To Describe My Body Walking -- Blessing Blue Crabs -- Discovering Girdles -- Raza Ali Hasan: From 67 Mogul Miniatures: 1/11/28/38/60 -- Robert Hass: A Story about the Body -- The Apple Trees at Olema -- Misery and Splendor -- Terrance Hayes: The Same City -- Snow for Wallace Stevens -- All the Way Live -- A Plate of Bones -- Samuel Hazo: God and Man -- My Roosevelt Coup¢e -- Toasts for the Lost Lieutenants -- Ballad of a Returnee -- Bob Hicok: Solstice: voyeur -- Bars poetica -- 1935* -- Cutting edge -- Mary Crockett Hill: A Theory of Everything -- All about It -- Pantoum for Attachment -- Young People Today -- Jane Hirshfield: First Light Edging Cirrus -- The Supple Deer -- Narrowness -- A Hand Is Shaped for What It Holds or Makes -- Perishable, It Said -- Tony Hoagland: The News -- Suicide Song -- Phone Call -- Two Trains -- Marie Howe: What the Living Do -- Practicing -- The Copper Beech -- Gray Jacobik: The Tapeworm -- Skirts -- The 750 Hands -- Mark Jarman: Butterflies under Persimmon -- In the Tube -- The Wind -- Astragaloi -- Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: Confederate Pride Day at Bama -- Don't Know What Love Is -- Hagar to Sarai -- Ilya Kaminsky: In Praise of Laughter -- Aunt Rose -- My Mother's Tango -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly: Black Swan -- The Dragon -- Elegy -- Susan Kelly-DeWitt: Egrets at Bolinas Lagoon -- Pomegranates -- Apple Blossoms -- Crossing the Mojave at Night -- Jane Kenyon: Happiness -- Eating the Cookies -- Prognosis -- Pharoah -- Maurice Kilwein Guevara: Do§na Josefina Counsels Do§na Concepci¢on before Entering Sears -- Fast Forward -- How Grammar School Is Changing -- Elizabeth Kirschner: From My Life as a Doll: "Why do I love the winter garden so?" -- "Once Mother came" -- "While boys milked my breasts" -- "In the psych ward" -- "While my words" -- Romella Kitchens: The Reflected Face of the Sea -- Florida -- Ted Kooser: Selecting a Reader -- Geronimo's Mirror -- Old Soldiers' Home -- Laundry -- Nancy Krygowski: The Bus Comes, the Girl Gets On -- Heaven, as We Know It -- Maxine Kumin: Jack -- Family Reunion -- February -- On Being Asked to Write a Poem in Memory of Anne Sexton. Dorianne Laux: Pearl -- Family Stories -- Twilight -- Dust -- Sydney Lea: The Vanishing -- Ars Vitae -- Fathomless -- Li-Young Lee: The Hammock -- Words for Worry -- Praise Them -- Julia B. Levine: Vigil -- Fontanelle -- Nights on Lake Michigan -- My Gemini -- Miriam Levine: Candlewood -- Staying In -- Surfer at Wellfleet -- Aaron's Retreat -- Philip Levine: The Wandering Poets -- The Gatekeeper's Children -- Words on the Wind -- 1934* -- Larry Levis: The Poet at Seventeen -- My Story in a Late Style of Fire -- Ada Lim¢on: Selecting Things for Vagueness -- Centerfold -- The Lost Glove -- The Firemen Are Dancing -- Anne Marie Macari: Earth Elegy -- Praying Mantis -- Steller's Sea Cow -- Sun Bathing -- Gary Margolis: Self-Portrait in the Garden -- The Burning Bush of Basketball -- Lincoln on the Battlefield of Antietam, October 3, 1862* -- On the Way to the Sitter's -- William Matthews: The Cloister -- Housecooling -- Mingus at The Showplace -- A Night at the Opera -- Jo McDougall: Telling Time -- Dirt -- Why I Get Up Each Day -- Summer -- The Good Hand -- Waiting Room -- Cancer -- Tempting the Muse -- Luck -- What We Need -- Jane Mead: Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make -- Passing a Truck Full of Chickens at Night on Highway Eighty -- W.S. Merwin: Blueberries after Dark -- The Song of the Trolleys -- The Pinnacle -- No -- Little Soul -- Recognitions -- The Odds -- To Paula in Late Spring -- Judson Mitcham: Surrender -- The Multitude -- History of Rain -- Writing -- Marilyn Nelson: Egyptian Blue -- Bedside Reading -- Cafeteria Food -- Dave Newman: The God in Walt Whitman -- 9/11 -- Bo Diddley -- Naomi Shihab Nye: Sure -- Lunch in Nablus City Park -- Dusk -- Swerve -- Famous -- Ed Ochester: Changing the Name to Ochester -- Fred Astaire -- Monroeville, PA -- Retired Miners -- The Canaries in Uncle Arthur's Basement -- For Ganesha, Hindu God of Good Fortune -- Alicia Suskin Ostriker: Stream-Entering -- Sonnetina: The Storm -- The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog -- Gaia Regards Her Children -- Nancy Pagh: Blackberries -- Ten Reasons Your Prayer Diet Won't Work -- Anchoring -- I Believe I Could Kneel -- Gailmarie Pahmeier: Homegrown Roses -- Hometown Girl at 30* -- Home Maintenance -- A Home Full of Color -- Linda Pastan: Rain -- Ars Poetica -- Snow Shower -- Norah Pollard: The Sum of a Man -- Narragansett Dark -- Kiss -- Dawn Potter: Nostalgia -- Why I Didn't Finish Reading David Copperfield -- Eclogue -- Liam Rector: In My Memory Eddie -- Alberto Rios: Refugio's Hair -- In My Hurry -- The Gathering Evening -- Pattiann Rogers: The Snow of Things -- Co-evolution: Flowers, Tongues, and Talents -- In the Silence Following -- Kay Ryan: Blandeur -- The Fabric of Life -- The Best of It -- Grazing Horses -- Sheryl St. Germain: Addiction -- Sestina for the Beloved -- Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce -- Ruth L. Schwartz: Come with Me -- Sex -- Trees in Wind -- Highway Five Love Poem -- Perseid -- Tim Seibles: Four Takes of a Similar Situation or The World Must Be Retarded -- The Caps On Backward -- Latin -- Rebecca Seiferle: The Shearing -- Bitter Herb -- Homophobia -- Muse -- Faith Shearin: Shopping -- Retriever -- The Name of a Fish -- Deborah Slicer: Mousey and Me -- December 10* -- After Metaphysics, or When the Fly Leaves the Flybottle -- Pastoral -- Gerald Stern: Casals -- In Beauty Bright -- Died in the Mills -- Norman Riding -- The Farewell -- Virgil Suarez: A History of Rain -- La Sangre Llama -- After Lorca's "The Ballad of the Sleepwalker" -- Jaibas -- Julie Suk: Rounds -- Where We Are -- Divorce -- Stalking -- Geode -- Mary Szybist: The Troubadours etc. -- Annunciation as Fender's Blue Butterfly with Kincaid's Lupine -- The Lushness of It -- Philip Terman: As My Child Climbs the Apple Tree, I Think of the Ancient Sephardic Poet Jehudah Halevi -- Mrs. Titus -- Hasidim in New Square, New York, Hear Carp Speaking in Hebrew -- The Stocking Bank -- Sue Ellen Thompson: The Visit -- In the Apartments of the Divorced Men -- Dr. Colin Simms -- In Praise of Cancer -- The Blue Blanket -- John Samuel Tieman: Clean -- Editing -- Prodigal -- Basho in St. Louis -- James Tolan: Blood Sport -- Giggles before the Void -- Evening Trees -- The Purple Crayon -- Natasha Tretheway: Photograph of a Bawd Drinking Raleigh Rye -- Incident -- Miscegenation -- James Paul Tyner: After Jumping Some Kids and Taking Their Money, 1988* -- Hollywood Trash -- Bones in the Grapevines -- At a Barbecue for R.C. One Week after He Is Out of Iraq -- Jean Valentine: High School Boyfriend -- Barrie's Dream, the Wild Geese -- Snow Landscape, in a Glass Globe -- Judith Vollmer: Early Snow -- Spill -- She Kept Me -- Thom Ward: Logos -- Road Test, Defiance, Ohio -- Anticipation -- Charles Harper Webb: Cocksucker -- Tenderness in Men -- Vikings -- Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: To Set Everything Right -- The Morning After: An Elegy -- When My Daughter Tells Me She Has a Boyfriend -- The Women in My Family -- Poem Written from a Single Snapshot -- Broken World -- Lori Wilson: My Mother Likes to Tell -- Green Glass Bird -- Slap -- Michael Wurster: Newsboy -- Inheritance -- Poem about America -- Those Missing Towers -- Dean Young: I See a Lily on Thy Brow -- Cotton in a Pill Bottle -- How I Get My Ideas Acknowledgm.