Introduction / Bill Henderson
Anna Liffey / Eavan Boland
The first day / Elizabeth Spires
Wilma Bremer's funeral / Marie Sheppard Williams
Something like happiness / Stephen Dunn
Theories of illusion / Maureen Seaton
Last things / Debra Spark
My friend / David St. John
Super night / Charles Baxter
The era of the Vari-Vue / Gary Fincke
My father's Chinese wives / Sandra Tsing Loh
The storm chasers / William Olsen
The end of the world / Michael Collins
Solo, New Orleans / Diann Blakely Shoaf
Eighteenth-century medical illustration : the infant in its little room / Ann Townsend
The nearness of the world / Steven Huff
Film noir : train trip out of Metropolis / Lynn Emanuel
The barbarians are coming / Marilyn Chin
The swing of of things / Jennifer C. Cornell
History books / Thomas Lux
The more I like flies / Reginald McKnight
Anaconda / Dennis Sampson
The undesirable table / Joyce Carol Oats
Stillborn / Maribeth Fischer
A history of paisley / Agha Shahid Ali
Kingdom of the sun / Alice Schell
Sung from a hospice / Cyrus Cassells
The instinct for bliss / Melissa Pritchard
Dante's inferno, canto XXXIV / Robert Pinsky
Elizabeth Bishop / Frank Bidart
Closing out the visit / John Barth
Will work for food / Stanley Plumly
Mother-tongue / Nora Cobb Keller
Conversations on the plurality of worlds / Molly Bendall
When words became windows / Sven Birkerts
Chinese food in the fifties / Alberto Rios
The late style / James Robison
Of royal issue / Brigit Peggen Kelly
The women come and go / Cornelia Nixon
Sadness, an improvisation / Donald Justice
Updike and I / John Updike
Evolution : a science fiction / Melinda Mueller
A little thing like that / A.R. Ammons
False water society / Ben Marcus
In the pasture of dead horses / Julia Wendell
A happy vacancy / Stephen Dobyns
Elizabeth, listening / Sabina Grogan
Six days : some rememberings / Grace Paley
Phlox Diffusa / Sandra McPherson
The ring of brightest angels around heaven / Rick Moody
The deconstruction of Emily Dickinson / Galway Kinnell
Charles the obscure / Charles Simic
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