In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
Anti-romantic / Marie Ponsot
The young / Roddy Lumsden
Valéry as dictator / LeRoi Jones
Eros turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson
It was a bichon frisé's life
The hereafter / August Kleinzahler
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
From "eight variations" / Weldon Kees
For love / Robert Creeley
sorrows / Lucille Clifton
On visiting a borrowed country house in Arcadia / A.E. Stallings
Bedtime story / Charles Wright
In the naked bed, in Plato's cave / Delmore Schwartz
Mingus at the Showplace / William Matthews
Men at forty / Donald Justice
Meditation on a grapefruit / Craig Arnold
The Hampton Institute album / Josephine Miles
My chosen landscape / P.K. Page
Florist's root cellar / Theodore Roethke
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon / Wallace Stevens
from Briggflatts / Basil Bunting
After the diagnosis / Rodney Jack
Pig song / Margaret Atwood
Blues Alabama / Michael S. Harper
Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg
Of late / George Starbuck
Protocols / Randall Jarrell
The prisoners of war / Tom Disch
A dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also / Seamus Heaney
At Melville's tomb / Hart Crane
O Daedalus, fly away home / Robert Hayden
A not so good night in the San Pedro of the world / Charles Bukowski
Final notations / Adrienne Rich
The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden
He has / Albert Goldbarth
What I like / Alice Fulton
Rendezvous / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fever 103* / Sylvia Plath
In the thriving season / Lisel Mueller
Magnificat / Eleanor Wilner
Or, / Thomas Sayers Ellis
No swan so fine / Marianne Moore
The traveler / John Berryman
Sparrow trapped in the airport / Averill Curdy
Transactions / Rae Armantrout
The children of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks
What if a much of a which of a wind / E.E. Cummings
Mu'allaqa / Frederick Seidel
The peacock at Alderton / Geoffrey Hill
Green red brown and white / May Swenson
Inheriting my grandmother's nightmare / Anne Stevenson
Little blessing for my floater / Jeanne Murray Walker
Prayer's end / Brooklyn Copeland
"Any fool can get into an ocean..." / Jack Spicer
Fabrication of ancestors / Alan Dugan
Dark ceiling / Edward Dorn
Search party / W.S. Merwin
Three poems / Lorine Niedecker
Our bodies / Denise Levertov
The blessing / James Wright
Grass on the cliff / Robinson Jeffers
Big city speech / W.S. Di Piero
from "Cahoots" / Cid Corman
Hamlen Brook / Richard Wilbur
Old folk's home, Jerusalem / Rita Dove
Paterson, book V : the river of heaven / William Carlos Williams
"For you : Anthophilous, lover of flowers" / Reginald Dwayne Betts
On leaving the bachelorette brunch / Rachel Wetzsteon
How to a cook a wolf / Adrian Blevins
Gravelly run / A.R. Ammons
Returning to roots of first feeling / Robert Duncan
Sweeping the states / Jacob Saenz
Blues in stereo / Langston Hughes
Korean mums / James Schuyler
Birthplace : New Rochelle / George Oppen
Song of the tangle / Gary Snyder
A child's garden of gods / Belle Randall
The widow's yard / Isabella Gardner
Lines for a book / Thom Gunnn
From "The third hour of the night" / Frank Bidart
The illiterate / William Meredith
Changeling / Rhina P. Espaillat
The mad scene / James Merrill
The beast in the space / W.S. Graham
The fisherman / William Butler Yeats.