Introduction by Billy Collins
First Hour, by Sharon Olds
The Alien, by Greg Delanty
The Floating Rib, by Lucia Perillo
To the Dust of the Road, by W.S. Merwin
Prayer in My Boot, by Naomi Shihab Nye
To My Twenties, by Kenneth Koch
Hurdles, by Katia Kapovich
I need to be More French. Or Japanese, by Beth Ann Fennelly
Waiting for my Clothes, by Leanne O'Sullivan
Oh, What a Red Sweater, by Alan Michael Parker
Boulevard du Montparnasse, by Mary Jo Salter, To Stammering, by Kenneth Koch
Trick Pear, by Suzanne Cleary
The Albatross, by Kate Bass
The Busses, by Frederick Morgan
Bedecked, by Victorial Redel
Dinner Out, by Christopher Howell
Slow Children at Play, by Cecilia Woloch
Soccer Moms, by Paul Muldoon
What I Did, by Jim Daniels
What I Do, by Douglas Goetsch
Late Valentine, with Daisies, by Kevin Stein
Tariff, by Michelle Boisseau
Passport: A Manifesto, by Carol Muske-Dukes
Interchanges, by Yannis Ritsos
Machines, by Michael Donaghy
Please Come Late, by Hugo Williams
Romanticism, by David Baker
The Night of the Full Moon, by Alison Marsh Harding
Discretion, by Robert Wrigley
In Praise of My Young Husband, by Cathleen Calbert
The Little Flowers, by W.S. Di Piero
Arrival, by Michael Longley
The Foot Thing, by Jane Routh
The Hammock, by cecilia Woloch
Heart's itch, by Rebecca Wee
Mrs. Darwin, by Carol Ann Duffy
The Russian Greatcoat, by Theodore Deppe
Samurai, by Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Eleven Thousand and One, by Darcie Dennigan
Instinct, by C.K. Williams
"Even Ornaments of Speech Are Forms of Deceit," by Ron Koertge
Dorie Off to Atlanta, by Mark Halliday
Girls, Look Out for Todd Bernstein, by Jason Bredle
Ever After, by Joyce Sutphen
Before the Sickness Is Official, by J. Allyn Rosser
Crescendo, by Leanne O'Sullivan
Wedding Ring, by Lynne McMahon
Acceptance Speech, by Lynn Powell
The Clasp, by Sharon Olds
Variation on the Word 'Sleep, ' by Margaret Atwood
In California, by Margaret Levine
Sounds of the Day, by Norman MacCaig
Encounter, by Czeslaw Milosz
A Monorhyme for the Shower, by Dick Davis
A Jacquard Shawl, by Ted Kooser
By Daylight, by Elizabeth Mackin
I am Going to Start Living Like A Mystic, by Edward Hirsch
National Cold Storage Company, by Harvey Shapiro
Painting a Room, by Katia Kapovich
Birthday Poem, by Erin Murphy
The Invitations Overhead, by Stephen Dobyns
Understudy, by Daniel Lusk
Popular Mechanics, by Edward Nobles
By Her Own Hand, by Alice Fulton
Hate Poem, by Julie Sheehan
Do You Love Me? by Robert Wrigley
He Told Her He Loved Her, by Stephen Dobyns
From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury, Greg Delanty
An Apology, by F.J. Bergmann
What Kind of Fool Am I? by Don McKay
Why It Often Rains in the Movies, by Lawrence Raab
On Parting, by Cate Marvin
Valentine, by Carol Ann Duffy
From Blossoms, by Li-Young Lee
Onions, by William Matthews
Reading Hemingway, by James Cummins
Grapefruit, by Gerald Stern
Mishima on a Plate, by Joey Roth
Olive Oil, by Paul Suntup
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Debora Greger
Budda's Dogs, by Susan Browne
The Long Meadow, by Vijay Seshadri
The Dogs in Dutch Paintings, by David Graham
October Cats, by Rachel Hadas
A Display of Mackerel, by Mark Doty
the corgis of queen elizabeth, by Diane Wald
Anabhrandhanmar Means "Mad About Elephants," by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Fox in the National Museum of Wales, by Robert Minhinnick
A Cowardice of Husbands, by David Kirby
Stephen Duck and Edward Chicken, by George Green
Ibid at the Book Party, by Christina Daub
Reading: Winter, by C.K. Williams
Lives of the Poets, by Louis Simpson
Blurbs, by Julianna Baggott
Long Afternoons, by Adam Zagajewski
Shakespearean Sonnet, by R.S. Gwynn
Writing on Not Writing, by Jack Myers
The Booksigning, by James Tate
Publication Date, by Franz Wright
The Poetry Reading Last Night in the Royal Hibernian Hotel, by Paul Durcan
Keats, by Christopher Howell
Anagrammer, by Peter Pereia
Warrant, by Charles Bernstein
Chapter One, by Mark Aiello
What Is Written, by John Ashbery
Famous, by Naomi Shihab Nye
Appeal to the Grammarians, by Paul Violi
Out There, by Mark Perlberg
Illumination, by Anthony Hecht
Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho, by Robert Wrigley
Man-Made, by Kirsten Kaschock
Mr. Dithers Explains It All to You, by David Kirby
Snowbanks North of the House, by Robert Bly
At the Cottage of Messer Violi, by Paul Violi
Jeep Cherokee, by Bruce A. Jacobs
A Shadow of a Nest, by Gary Margolis
In the Rear-View Mirror, by Robert Shaw
Two Disappeared into a House, by Yehuda Amichai
Yea, Though I Walk, by Virginia Hamilton Adair
The Current, by Mark Halliday
Iron Train, by Adam Zagajewski
Long Paces, by Timothy Steele
Passenger Pigeons, by Robert Morgan
A Toast to the Baltimore Oriole, by Don McKay
Windowgrave, by Eamon Grennan
Knowledge, by Philip Memmer
Charlie Chan Wins Again, by Ron Padgett
Outside the Mainway Market, by Catherine Doty
Leaving Tralee, by Ben Howard
Local 32B, by Michael Donaghy
Chicken, by Kim Addonizio
Solitude, by Kerry Hardie
To Roanoke with Johnny Cash, by Bob Hicok
Air Larry, by Joseph Harrison
Thomas Eakins: A Dream of Powers, by Philip Dacey
Nothing in That Drawer, by Ron Padgett
Leaving the Island, by Linda Pastan
Takeoff, by Timothy Steele
You Can Change Your Life Through Psychic Power, by James Tate
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border, by William Stafford
Off-Track Betting, by Ron Koertge
Unflushed Urinals, by Donald Justice
Extinguishable, by Bill Knott
If You Don't, by Diane Thiel
To Help the Monkey Cross the River, by Thomas Lux
Where Did I Leave Off? by Virginia Hamilton Adair
Happiness, by Jane Kenyon
Mirrors at 4 A.M., by Charles Simic
In the Coffee House, by Tony Towle
Why I Don't Take Naps in the Afternoon, by Dan Gerber
A Traversing, by Pattiann Rogers
Requiem, by Abigail Gramig
Bohemian Blues, by Philip Nikolayev
Retro Creation, by Aidan Rooney-C�espedes
Reading the Obituary Page, by Linda Pastan
Waking Late, by Robin Robertson
The First Photograph of Hitler, by Wislawa Szymborska
The Soldiers, by Gregory Djanikian
Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka, by Oliver Rice
The End and the Beginning, by Wislawa Szymborska
Request, by Lawrence Raab
Notes on the Contributors