Rally / Elizabeth Alexander --
Valediction / Sherman Alexie --
Soft money / Rae Armantrout --
Postlude and prequel / John Ashbery --
To my lover, concerning the yird-swine / Julianna Baggott --
When at a certain party in NYC / Erin Belieu --
Mine is the first rodeo, mine is the last accolade / Jaswinder Bolina --
The Sink / Catherine Bowman --
Off the Nollendorfplatz / Turner Cassity --
Dead ass / Michael Cirelli --
Here and there / Billy Collins --
Three sonnets [Sonnet (division), Sonnet (motion), Sonnet (silenced)] / Olena Kalytiak Davis --
Coffee / Matthew Dickman --
From the lives of my friends / Michael Dickman --
My strip club / Denise Duhamel --
Emmett Till's glass-top casket / Cornelius Eady --
Stays / Jill Alexander Essbaum --
In November / Alan Feldman --
The Amy poems ("Amy survives another apocalypse" and "You're really starting to suck, Amy") / Farrah Field --
Morning on the island / Carolyn Forché --
Everything is nervous / Beckian Fritz Goldberg --
The space traveler talks frankly about desire / Benjamin S. Grossberg --
Poppies / Jennifer Grotz --
August notebook : a death / Robert Hass --
Lighthead's guide to the galaxy / Terrance Hayes --
Just as, after a point, Job cried out / K.A. Hays --
Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry / Bob Hicok --
The cloudy vase / Jane Hirshfield --
God's promises / Paul Hoover --
The Funeral sermon / Andrew Hudgins --
From Holding company ("Bereft", "Lying", "The Giant swing ending in a split," " Narcissus") / Major Jackson --
Notebooks / Allison Joseph --
Andrew Wyeth, painter, dies at 91 / L. S. Klatt --
Kiri Te Kanawa singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" / Jennifer Knox --
A Voice on an answering machine / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Snow / James Longenbach --
The Pilgrim is bridled and bespectacled / Bridget Lowe --
The Complaint against Roney Laswell's rooster / Maurice Manning --
Dear gaybashers / Jill McDonough --
Elegy with construction sounds, water, fish / Erika Meitner --
The Side project / Paul Muldoon --
Pillow talk / Jeni Olin --
Cogitatio Mortis / Eric Pankey --
Family math / Alan Michael Parker --
Postcards from her alternate lives / Catherine Pierce --
Angels / Katha Pollitt --
Bugcatching at twilight / D.A. Powell --
To my father on the anniversary of his death / Gretchen Steele Pratt --
Even more aphorisms and ten-second essays from vectors 3.0 / James Richardson --
What my heart is turning / Anne Marie Rooney --
Provenance / Mary Ruefle --
Ghost aurora / David St. John --
The Afterlife / Mary Jo Salter --
The Smallest / James Schuyler --
Nineteen thirty-eight / Charles Simic --
Nowhere / Matthew Buckly Smith --
Motown crown / Patricia Smith --
Dream IV / Gerald Stern --
Pantoum for the imperceptible / Bianca Stone --
The Poem of the Spanish poet / Mark Strand --
Thirteen months / Mary Jo Thompson --
Elegy / Natasha Trethewey --
Drunk at a party / Lee Upton --
Thoreau and the lightning / David Wagoner --
The Latch / Rosanna Warren --
Time pieces / Rachel Wetzsteon --
Ecclesiastes II:I / Richard Wilbur --
A Hundred bones / C. K. Williams --
Mix tape to be brought to her in rehab / David Wojahn --
Toadstools / Charles Wright --
Cycladic idyll : an apologia / Stephen Yenser.