Praise be to Eve / Guy Owen -- The falls / James Dickey -- For Jake Flickner / Dallas Wiebe -- Edgar's story. Desecrations on a theme / X.J. Kennedy -- Tilghman Point / Paul Baker Newman -- Lady of leisure / Vassar Miller -- The attic, the house. The risk / William Matthews -- Cavafy / Joanne de Longchamps -- Arches and shadows / Annie Dillard -- Claring away / Charles David Wright -- A night song for Anne Jones / Julia Randall -- Periphery / A.R. Ammons -- High country / robert Morgan -- Office girls. Deliveries from Viet Nam / Gary Sange -- King Francis and the maid / E.G. Burrows -- To my children, fearing for them / Wendell Berry -- Two old people / Robert Watson -- The sons / Larry Rubin -- The comet / Heather Ross Miller -- The warehouse chute / Dabney Stuart -- Goat & boy / Coleman Barks -- A question of identity / Catharine Savage Brosman -- Yvor Winters / Paul Ramsey -- Language of flowers / Jean Farley -- A family romance / Howard Nemerov --

The flying change. The muse once more / Henry Taylor -- Heights, depths, silence, unseasing sound of the surf / Denise Levertov -- How America came to the mountains / Jim Wayne Miller -- Letter to Borges / David Kirby -- The new Dolores leather bar. Adding rattles / Turner Cassity -- 6 lines for Chi K'ang. November. Venetian spring / Charles Wright -- The comesticators / Sharon Olds -- Dawn Wind unlocks the river sky / Fred Chappell -- Trainer's temper bars him from his beloved elephants / Susan Ludvigson -- My father's friends / W.S. Doxey -- Drift / Linda Pastan -- Seeds / Julie Suk -- Vertigo / Will Wells -- Out of the sea, at Hatteras / Dave Smith -- Without guilt, the rural carrier reads a postcard / T.R. Hummer -- Understanding. Cool / Heather McHugh -- He makes a house call / John Stone -- How it passes / Carolyn Kizer -- The summer / Sam ragan -- York Harbor morning / George Garrett -- The rider / Stephen Dunn -- Creation myth / Wendell Berry -- Two untitled poems / David Ignatow -- Hogpen. Plankroad / Robert Morgan -- St. Louis pencil salesman blues / Ronald Wallace -- Lines after Larkin: the pornographic movie / Adrianne Marcus -- Drought / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Getting experience. How, having given up the classical temper for the romantic, we try to find meaning in death / Miller Williams -- Yom Kippur / Chana Bloch -- Snow log / A.R. Ammons -- Another sentimental journey / James Seay -- There was a song. In the restaurant / Gerald W. Barrax -- A couple, a domestic interior / Timothy Steele -- Murder / Philip Appleman -- Crazy Tuttle / Juanita Tobin -- L'Histoire / Billy Collins -- The birthday / Philip Dacey -- Don't leave hungry / Dleanor Ross Taylor -- Mother talking in the porch swing / William Stafford --

The poet visits Egypt and Israel / Maxine Kumin -- Refuge / Ruth Daigon -- Mary Mihalik / Ed Ochester -- Loss of power / Judson Micham -- Shrine / R.T. Smith -- Solstice / Judith Kitchen -- Pure Jesus, early morning shift / Dorothy Barresi -- The rest / Neal Bowers -- A tumbleweed from Texas / Michael McFee -- Burials / Susan Ludvigson -- Umpire / Dabney Stuart -- Summer Darkness / Jane Hoogestraat -- Taking stock of feelings / Ed Zahniser -- The defiance of heroes / Charlie Smith -- Chipped tooth / Memye Curtis Tucker -- A wreath of stars: Symsonia, Kentucky, 1914 / Joe Bolton -- New South / Betty Adcock -- Daddy-long-legs / Deborah Pierce Nicklas -- Somewhere: how can we leave it now? / Nance Van Winckel -- La Tristeza / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The shadow / David R. Slavitt -- Grass / Nancy Simpson -- For the woman in her station wagon weeping at a red light / Edward Wilson -- Last Sunday in October / Billy Collins -- Spider eggs / Ted Kooser -- Tree of Babel / James Applewhite -- Sonnets for a diabetic / Peter Meinke -- There was a place we could have met / Bettie Sellers -- It begins / Mark Doty -- Off / Albert Goldbarth -- Helen approaching / P.C. Bowman -- Garbarge / Eric Trethewey -- Jericho's / Kathryn Stripling Byer -- Running again in Hollywood Cemetery / Ron Smith -- Bonsai / Jody Bolz -- Forever Mountain / Fred Chappell -- Carp / B.D. Love --

Against healing / Paul Allen -- Paleolithic / Cathy Smith Bowers -- Georgic: for my friends who never find any / David Axelrod -- Los Alamos / Simeon Berry -- It seems to her now / Phebe Davidson -- After / Peter Makuck -- Living mysteries / Margaret Holley -- Mammogram / Deborah Pope -- The weight of knowledge / Charles Harper Webb -- Psychic healers / kathy Evans -- Desire / Nathalie F. Anderson -- Glass house / Jesse Lee Kercheval -- The word / Barbara Hamby -- Webs (1) / Mark Halperin -- making love at the budget Host Hotel / Robert Collins -- Coming into the River parishes / Katherine Soniat -- The silence we cannot imagine / Graham Duncan -- Somewhere in a house where you are not / Debra Marquart -- A legacy / Neal Bowers -- Passion week, 1966 / Rebecca McClanahan -- The trouble now / James Kimbrell -- Mounding potatoes / Bill Brown -- Singing hymns to go to sleep / Michael Chitwood -- Preserves. Stable / Claudia Emerson -- Words for the body / Lisa Erb Stewart -- Permission / Andrea Hollander Budy -- First kiss / Wayne Johns -- To write the New Yorker poem / R.T. Smith -- Hard water / Will Wells -- Body and soul / B.H. Fairchild -- Laying out the dead / Becky Gould Gibson -- Not counting the men / Judith Tate O'Brien -- Finishing the puzzle / Randolph Thomas -- Did you know I love you / Lyn Lifshin -- Crossing the border / Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- Paying the anesthesiologist / Starkey Flythe Jr. -- American insomnia / Gwen Ebert --

Anyways / Suzanne Cleary -- Walk / Philip Memmer -- Being, I / Lou Lipsitz -- New York postcard sonnets, #6 / Philip Dacey -- Mose Whipple says good-bye / William Jolliff -- Ode / Kurt Leland -- Last time / Carrie Shipers -- Were we speaking, had you asked / Greg Rappleye -- For Tityrus / Andrew Grace -- Let's drink now / David Hernandez -- At Kellogg's Landing / Robert Bense -- "Gowned Waiting" / Enid Shomer -- A note on rejection / Marc J. Sheehan -- On the first day of middle school, my daughter walks into a cloud / Harriet Brown -- HAZMAT / Katherine E. Young -- For Okra / Cathy Smith Bowers -- Plenty to go / Allan Peterson -- Calf-bearer / Temple Cone -- Names of small fish / Georgette Perry -- In the garden / Robert Cording -- Doll house / Michelle Detorie -- Drought / Joan Mitchell -- Matins / Peter Makuck -- Mysteries / Jay Rogoff -- The sympathy of dust / Edison Jennings -- Richland Dock, 1956 / Kathleen Flenniken -- the sum total / Gary Fincke -- Hearth / Ron Rash -- Profile of a young woman / Stephen Gibson -- Getting to know you / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Thorn / Jim Daniels -- Thought upon waking / Linda Pastan -- Pine tree, mountain / Ellen Wehle -- Deep-running / Bill Brown -- Hymn of invitation / Debra A. Daniel -- Philip sleeping / Lee Rossi -- Golden gate / Arthur Smith -- Shovel / David Citino -- Libretto for insomnia / Paul Guest -- At twenty-eight / Amy Fleury -- Someone naked and adorable / David Kirby -- The names of birds / James Scruton -- Trillium / Fleda Brown -- At a loss. Toll / Robert West -- Retriever / Veronica Patterson -- Door / Chana Bloch.