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Poetry Archives

WILLIAM AARNES: “Kindly”
NEIL AITKEN: “Searching My Father’s Books”
CHANTEL ACEVEDO: “Rubies in Her Ears”
SHANTA ACHARYA: “Snowy Egret”
ALLISON ADAIR: “First Plow at Red Mountain Pass”
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON: “Unsustainable”
JONATHAN ALEXANDER: “Its Own Music”
SHERMAN ALEXIE: “Homily”
GIL ALLEN: “Blueberries”
GILBERT ALLEN: “Primary Research”
CATHY ALLMAN: “My Neighbor’s Bypass”
IDRIS ANDERSON: “Rim”
IDRIS ANDERSON: “What the Vultures Say”
MARILYN ANNUCCI: “Happened”
RANE ARROYO: “Surviving Utah”
HERMAN ASARNOW: “Double Fault”
CYNTHIA ATKINS: “Google Me”
AMANDA AUCHTER: “Photograph, April 1956”
AMANDA AUCHTER: “Wasteland of Parts”
DAVID B. AXELROD: “Autographs”
SUSAN AYRES: “Midwinter Eclipse”
CRYSTAL BACON: “Margaret’s Heart”
SARA BACKER: “A Stranger Asks”
SCOTT BADE: “A Manner of Glass“
WILLIAM BAER: “The Stand-In”
JASMINE V. BAILEY: “Procession of Santa Lucia”
DAVID BAKER: “Humble House”
DAVID BAKER: “Midwest: Georgics”
DAVID BAKER: “Separation”
JOHN BALABAN: “Finishing Up the Novel After Some Delay”
JOHN BALABAN: “For John Haag, Logger, Sailor, Housepainter, Poet, Professor, and Grower of Orchids”
JOHN BALABAN: “A Gift of Morning Water”
NED BALBO: “Dead Man Walking”
NED BALBO: “For My Stepdaughter, Who Missed the Apparition”
NED BALBO: “From the Maelstrom”
NED BALBO: “Marco Polo Reaches Kobiom, at the Edge of the Desert”
NED BALBO: “On Goodbyes”
BARRY BALLARD: “Autumn”
BARRY BALLARD: “Paper Trees”
BARRY BALLARD: “The Re-invited”
JON BALLARD: “The Peach Orchard”
WALTER BARGEN: “Paperwork”
WALTER BARGEN: “Prague Floods, 2002”
WALTER BARGEN: “Visual Appeal”
WALTER BARGEN: “War Feathers”
WENDY BARKER: “Beyond a Certain Age, I Look for Paris in Paris”
WENDY BARKER: “In the Gallery”
DON BARKIN: “Deus Ex Diorama”
LISA BARNETT: “The Night Watchman of Alcatraz”
LISA BARNETT: “What Happens After You Die”
TONY BARNSTONE: “Oh, Great, He Gets To Go on Vacation”
TINA BARR: “At the Infirmary”
TINA BARR: “Target with Plaster Casts, 1955″
CAROL BARRETT: “Morning Constitutional”
JUDITH BARRINGTON: “Frequencies”
JACKIE BARTLEY: “The Moon through Blue Glass”
ANNETTE BASALYGA: “Going Blind”
CLAIRE BATEMAN: “Another Poem on Blue”
CLAIRE BATEMAN: “Blink”
CLAIRE BATEMAN: “Flight Path”
CLAIRE BATEMAN: “Plunge”
CLAIRE BATEMAN: “Pudding”
GRACE BAUER: “Brief Elegy”
JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: “How She Became a Ziegfeld Girl”
JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: “Uprooted”
MICHAEL BAZZETT: “The Wasp in March”
J.P. DANCING BEAR: “Chiroptera“
J.P. DANCING BEAR: “Island Like a Heart”
J.P. DANCING BEAR: “Riverbed in Twilight”
J.P. DANCING BEAR: “Stone City”
ANEMONE BEAULIER:“Nothing Like”
CRAIG BEAVEN: “Geology”
PHILIP BELCHER: “Another Good Morning”
STEVE BELLIN-OKA: “Vita Poetica”
NATHANIEL BELLOWS: “Mercy”
C. WADE BENTLEY: “Third Rail”
ROY BENTLEY: “Boat in the Attic”
ROY BENTLEY: “My Father’s Love Letter”
ROY BENTLEY: “Rimbaud Dying”
STEPHEN BENZ: “St Ambrose’s Boarding School”
MAXIANNE BERGER: “Childless at the Shoestore”
MAXIANNE BERGER: “Exposure”
JILL BERGKAMP: “Recess Across from the Bordello”
PAM BERNARD: “Dawn Weeps Gold Through My Misdeeds”
PAM BERNARD: “Field Notes”
PAM BERNARD: “How Circumstance”
PAM BERNARD: “Imago Mundi”
PAM BERNARD: “War Work”
ROBERT JAMES BERRY: “Maps”
MARY BIDDINGER: “The Last Man She Ever Knew”
MARY BIDDINGER: “Other Countries”
MARY BIDDINGER: “Saint Monica Burns It Down”
MARY BIDDINGER: “Treaty Line”
DANIEL BIEGELSON: “We Carry Ourselves Everywhere”
GEORGE BILGERE: “Strange Opera”
MICHELLE BITTING: “The Exterminator’s Wife”
MICHELLE BITTING: “Premiere”
MICHELLE BITTING: “Wheel of Fortune”
HARLAN BJORNSTAD: “Perennial Selection”
SHEILA BLACK: “Romance”
SHEILA BLACK: “What I Know of You”
KIMBERLY BLAESER: “Apprenticed to Justice”
SALLY BLIUMIS-DUNN: “Beets”
CHANA BLOCH: “Try, Try Again”
MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL: “Autobiography of a Face”
DEBORAH BOGEN: “Dakota Schism”
DEBORAH BOGEN: “October”
DEBORAH BOGEN: “November”
DEBORAH BOGEN: “Vigil”
ACE BOGGESS: “‘What Is Your Favorite Movie'”
KATHLEEN SHEEDER BONANNO: “Still Life”
DAVID BOND: “At the Annual Thresherman’s Show”
DAVID BOND: “Catalpa”
PAUL BONE: “Hanging the Ceiling”
ELLY BOOKMAN: “Las Vegas, 1981”
KARINA BOROWICZ: “Genie the Imprisoned Child”
KARINA BOROWICZ: “The Old Country”
PIA BORSHEIM: “Shopping”
NANCY BOTKIN: “A Crowd Inside”
DAN BOURNE: “At a Rest Stop Near Lake Erie”
DAN BOURNE: “In Warsaw, Near the Viaduct”
JO BRACHMAN: “Letter Home”
JO BRACHMAN: “Whatever the History Between Us”
ANNE BRITTING BOWMAN: “Looking Back up the Hospital Drive”
JAMES BRASFIELD: “Northern Bay”
TARA BRAY: “Ice Fishermen Through a Library Window”
MATTHEW BRENNAN: “At the Esterhazy Palace”
MATTHEW BRENNAN: “Spring in Town”
SCOTT BRENNAN: “Toboggan”
GAYLORD BREWER: “Apologia to Mars and Moon”
KIM BRIDGFORD: “A Crown for the Divorcee at Fifty-Nine”
KIM BRIDGFORD: “Iceland”
KIM BRIDGFORD: “Postcard of Speckled Eggs, Iceland”
KIM BRIDGFORD: “Remembrance”
KIM BRIDGFORD: “Tightrope Walker”
RONDA BROATCH: “I Want To Tell You”
RONDA BROATCH: “Impermanence”
RONDA BROATCH: “Love Song”
RONDA BROATCH: “Reasons for Your Forgetting”
RONDA BROATCH: “Woman Feeds on the Fragments of a Day Without Rain”
ANNE C. BROMLEY: “Monsoon Theatre”
MICHELLE BROOKS: “Speak Without Blood”
SUSANNA BROUGHAM: “Scald Freeze”
T. ALAN BROUGHTON:“Acceleration”
T. ALAN BROUGHTON: “Bird in the Garage”
T. ALAN BROUGHTON: “The Dead, Reclining”
T. ALAN BROUGHTON: “Discoveries”
T. ALAN BROUGHTON: “I Always Wanted to Fly”
T. ALAN BROUGHTON: “Keepers of the Dead”
AARON BROWN: “To the Stars Through Difficulty”
SARAH BROWNSBERGER: “A Golden Plover”
DEBRA BRUCE: “Classroom Introductions”
DEBRA BRUCE: “Women’s Divorce Group”
JULIE BRUCK: “Snapshot at Uxmal, 1972”
NICK BRUNO: “Malinconia”
CLAUDIA BUCKHOLTS: “Measuring the Spaces”
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY: “Aging Empricism”
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY: “Bottom Line”
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY: “Late Report”
CHRIS BULLARD: “Narcissus”
SARA BURANT: “Timeless”
E.G. BURROWS: “The Beach at Moon’s Resort”
SARAH BUSSE: “Folding the Clothes”
KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER: “Beachwalkers”
LAURA BYLENOK: “Elegy with Snow”
JOSEPH CAPISTA: “Lost Children”
SARAH CAREY: “Paris Voices”
KAREN CARISSIMO: “Christine”
SARAH CARLETON: “Flood Zone”
MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY: “Woodcut Illustrations”
JARED CARTER: “Artifice“
JARED CARTER: “Dark Transit”
JARED CARTER: “Daydream”
JARED CARTER: “Hidden Door”
JARED CARTER: “Honor System”
JARED CARTER: “John Brown and His Men, with Some Account of the Roads Traveled to Reach Harper’s Ferry”
JARED CARTER: “Journeyman”
JARED CARTER: “The Pool at Noon”
JARED CARTER: “Prophet Township”
JARED CARTER: “Scything a Path”
JARED CARTER: “Treadwheel”
JARED CARTER: “Vespers”
JARED CARTER: “War”
JARED CARTER: “Weed-Eater”
JARED CARTER: “While Cleaning Out the Garage”
KEVIN CASEY: “Thrift Store Coats”
PATRICIA CASPERS: “Year of Drought”
MICHAEL CATHERWOOD: “Three Variations on the Suspension of Time”
JANINE CERTO: “Elegy for W.S. Merwin”
JAMES CERVANTES: “Spring Loaded”
CHRISTOPHER CESSAC: “Romance, Wisconsin”
CATHERINE CHAMPION: “Winter Solstice”
JOSEPH CHANEY: “The Snowplows”
ROBIN ROSEN CHANG: “Sagrada Familia”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “Bowing to the Ostrich”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “Pine Cone at My Porch Door”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “Provisioning, Moab, Utah”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “Six True Things”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “Tethering Words”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “Triggering Town”
ROBIN CHAPMAN: “White Canoe”
MIKE CHASAR: “Echinoidea Freddy”
SUSANNA CHILDRESS: “Why Every Man Should Knit”
JAMES CIHLAR: “The Council Bluffs Drive-In Theater”
GEORGE DAVID CLARK: “Numismatist and Laughing Girl”
PATRICIA CLARK: “After Lightning”
PATRICIA CLARK: “Elegy for Wilma”
PATRICIA CLARK: “Feasting, Then Falling”
PATRICIA CLARK: “Gold Espadrilles”
PATRICIA CLARK: “Grove”
PATRICIA CLARK: “It Was Raining in Middlesburg“
PATRICIA CLARK: “Olentangy Elegy”
PATRICIA CLARK: “Turning Away from the River”
PATRICIA CLARK: “When the Hawk Refuses to Fly”
JOANNE M. CLARKSON: “Not My Father’s Arms”
LIZ N. CLIFT: “Dirt, Like a Lover’s Hand on the Small of My Back”
LIZ N. CLIFT: “Love Story”
LIZ N. CLIFT: “Quarry”
LIZ N. CLIFT: “Strangers”
BRAD CLOMPUS: “Elephant House, 1977”
STEPHEN CLOUD: “Dead End in Istanbul”
SUSAN COHEN: “Anthropometry”
SUSAN COHEN: “Valentine”
DOUGLAS COLE: “Standing on the Water”
RICHARD COLE: “A City Is the People You Know There”
KATHARINE COLES: “Collector”
KATHARINE COLES: “Hawks”
BILLY COLLINS: “Fiftieth Birthday Eve”
NICK CONRAD: “Mountain”
NICK CONRAD: “Muir Woods”
MARK CONWAY: “Having Gone to the Ends of the Earth”
MARK CONWAY: “Orpheus Speaks”
MARK CONWAY: “No Orpheus, No Way Home”
CHRISTINA COOK: “Elegant Wreckage”
PETER COOLEY: “The Climbers”
TODD COPELAND: “Nine Mile Mountain”
WILL CORDIERO: “Zion”
ALFRED CORN: “Antarctic”
ALFRED CORN: “Bond Street Underground”
ALFRED CORN: “Swiss Army Knife”
STEVE COUGHLIN: “Driving at Twilight”
NICK COURTRIGHT: “The Scoreboard”
BARBARA LYDECKER CRANE: “The Opera Box”
KELLY CRESSIO-MOELLER: “White Stones”
BARBARA CROOKER: “All There Is To Say”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Big Love”
BARBARA CROOKER: “The Comet and the Opossum”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Diorama”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Driving Under the Clerestory of Leaves”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Ears of Wheat, 1890”
BARBARA CROOKER: “The Flowering Orchard, 1888”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Impressionism”
BARBARA CROOKER: “In the Late Summer Garden”
BARNARA CROOKER: “Late Painting: Path Under the Rose Arches 1920-1922“
BARBARA CROOKER: “Lemons”
BARBARA CROOKER: “One Word”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Oriental Poppies”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Pinched Nerve”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Swans”
BARBARA CROOKER: “White Lilacs”
BARBARA CROOKER: “Women Picking Olives, 1889“
CHRISTINE CUCCIO: “New Jersey Spring”
CALEB CURTISS: “A Kind of Purple”
HEIDI CZERWIEC: “Reverse Railroad”
HEIDI CZERWIEC: “Victorian Daguerreotype Series (Late 19th Century)”
CYRIL DABYDEEN: “Anaconda’s Doubt”
PHILIP DACEY: “Song of the Dented Can”
PHILIP DACEY: “Choreographing Whitman: Timber Creek”
RACHEL DACUS: “Flight”
RACHEL DACUS: “Flame”
RACHEL DACUS: “Grains of Monet”
RACHEL DACUS: “What Respite”
CATHERINE DALY: “Buttercup”
BARBARA DANIELS: “Dawn Roofers”
JIM DANIELS: “All in the Presentation: Spring Water, Michigan, 1977”
JIM DANIELS: “Comic Short, December Night, Pittsburgh”
JIM DANIELS: “Communism, Marlboros, Peaches”
JIM DANIELS: “Small Fall Miracle”
JIM DANIELS: “The Trestle and the Thorns”
KAT D’ANGELO: “Greenbelt”
LIGHTSEY DARST: “June”
SCOTT DAVIDSON: “The Weight of What Can Fall”
CAROL V. DAVIS: “Early Morning, Beijing”
CAROL V. DAVIS: “Long Shadows”
CAROL V. DAVIS: “Master Class”
CAROL V. DAVIS: “On the Trans-Siberian Railway”
CAROL V. DAVIS: “Porto and Sherry Sandeman (an advertising poster, 1931)”
CAROL V. DAVIS: “Singer and His Sewing Machine”
PAMELA DAVIS: “Flight”
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS: “The End of the Week”
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS: “In a Parking Lot”
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS: “The Pond in Winter”
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS: “Still Life”
KWAME DAWES: “Among the Dithering Feathers”
KWAME DAWES: “Rituals Before the Poem”
LUCILLE LANG DAY: “Autumn, the Girl”
LUCILLE LANG DAY: “Birds of San Pancho”
MICHAEL DECHANE: “Three Times She Peels a Grapefruit”
MARK DEFOE: “The 17-Year Magicicada Are Gone Now”
MARK DEFOE: “At a Website I Am Asked for My Mother’s Name”
MARK DEFOE: “The Desperate Acts of Aging Men”
MARK DEFOE: “Sestina for a Cold Solstice”
MARK DEFOE: “When We Pass”
TENEICE DURRANT DELGADO: “Susan”
HEATHER DERR-SMITH: “Impartation”
JEANINE DERUSHA: “Robert Segee’s Confession”
PAUL DICKEY: “Dean’s Tree Service”
PAUL DICKEY: “Workshop on Metrics”
MICHAEL DIEBERT: “Razorback Gift Shop”
GAIL DIMAGGIO: “Hawk-Nature”
MARC ALAN DI MARTINO: “Crabs”
MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “Autobiography”
MOCHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “Chiaroscuro”
MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “Greenville Road”
MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “Our Story”
MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “November as Meditation”
MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “Ruck”
MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: “Weight”
JEANNINE DOBBS: “I Confess, I Wanted To Be June”
LYNN DOMINA: “Boundary Water”
LYNN DOMINA: “Creeping Things”
LYNN DOMINA: “Wreath”
DANIEL DONAGHY: “Snapshot: Four Turkeys at the Feeders”
SUSAN DONNELLY: “Ceiling Fan”
SUSAN DONNELLY: “Congo School”
SUSAN DONNELLY: “The Guardian”
SUSAN DONNELLY: “Mrs. Maher’s Iron”
SUSAN DONNELLY: “Night Train with Thunder”
SUSAN DONNELLY: “Who Would True Valour See”
SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY: “The Snow Capped Mountains That Surround the City Begin to Dance”
MERRILL OLIVER DOUGLAS: “Home”
GEORGE DREW: “No Wonder I’m Still Thinking About Johnny Cash”
JOHN DREXEL: “No History, No Geography”
WENDY DREXLER: “Needlepoint Sampler”
JOHN DRURY: “Going to a Ballgame with the Budapest String Quartet”
JOHN DRURY: “In the Green Room”
JOHN DRURY: “Round Up”
MATTHEW DUFFUS: “The Question”
REBECCA DUNHAM: “Forgiveness”
REBECCA DUNHAM: “Rebecca”
REBECCA DUNHAM: “Toast of the Terrarium”
REBECCA DUNHAM: “Letter-Elegy”
REBECCA DUNHAM: “Two Photographs”
KEITH DUNLAP: “The Pharmacist”
CORNELIUS EADY: “Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Hat”
CORNELIUS EADY: “The Inaugural Poem, January, 1961”
LYNNELL EDWARDS: “Easter Monday”
LYNNELL EDWARDS: “High School Reunion Weekend”
LYNNELL EDWARDS: “Hunt”
LYNNELL EDWARDS: “The Offices of Flowers”
LYNNELL EDWARDS: “Suite for Red River Gorge”
LYNNELL EDWARDS: “To Rake Leaves”
W.D. EHRHART: “Coaching Winter Track inTime of War”
W.D. EHRHART: “Golfing with My Father”
AMY EISNER: “2012”
GEORGE EKLUND: “Homage to Jim”
SUSAN ELBE: “Constellations”
SUSAN ELBE: “Will Come Back”
CHRIS ELLIS: “The Aquarium”
CHRIS ELLIS: “Finding the Dragon”
CHRIS ELLIS: “Heavy Snow”
CHRIS ELLIS: “Morning”
CLAUDIA EMERSON: “Ground Truth”
CLAUDIA EMERSON: “Vacancy”
GREGORY EMILIO: “Rapture”
TERRI KIRBY ERICKSON: “Albino Opossum”
MYRON ERNST: “The Carousel at the End of August”
MYRON ERNST: “On Being Old in Winter”
CATHRYN ESSINGER: “All Hallows”
KATHERINE SANCHEZ ESPANO: “Glassmaking”
JOHN ESTES: “Round About”
R.G. EVANS: “Certain Words”
R.G. EVANS: “Forecast”
BERNARDINE EVARISTO: “The Betrothal”
BERNARDINE EVARISTO: “Londinium Tour Guide (Unofficial)”
BERNARDINE EVARISTO: “The Price You Pay, My Beautiful Wife”
JEFF EWING: “Crossing Lake Tinn”
WILLIAM FARGASON: “On Dishes and My Father”
WILLIAM FARGASON: “What We Are Given”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Anniversaries”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Cold River Season”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Dreamwork”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Hallows”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Hopper’s Paintings”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Memory”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Midnight in the Moabi Tree”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Near Deafness”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Oh, So You’re Doing a Handbook Again”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “The Places Between”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “Sag Harbor Sundown”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “The Swankeeper”
PATRICIA FARGNOLI: “The Weight”
JEFF FEARNSIDE: “Genus Lupinus“
ALAN FELDMAN: “Repairing the Deck”
JENNIFER FETT: “Islamorada”
CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS: “A Walk in an Open Gallery”
ROBERT FILLMAN: “He Plants Seeds”
ANNIE FINCH: “Each in Our Own Craft”
ANNIE FINCH: “Fawns “
ANNIE FINCH: “Wine-Glass Woman”
GARY FINCKE: “Before Salk”
GARY FINCKE: “Competitive Eating”
GARY FINCKE: “The Face-Blind”
GARY FINCKE: “The Malignancy of Stars”
GARY FINCKE: “The Properties of Birds”
GARY FINCKE: “The Rain After Sunrise”
GARY FINCKE: “What’s Next?”
LINDA M. FISCHER: “Fruit Fright”
LINDA M. FISCHER: “Household”
LINDA M. FISCHER: “Interiors”
LINDA M. FISCHER: “Quickening”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Day 59”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Frequencies”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Happiness”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Mayumi”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Sister”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Sumac”
ANN FISHER-WIRTH: “Sweetgum Country”
CHARLES FISMAN: “Diwali Morning”
CHARLES FISHMAN: “Passing September”
BRENT FISK: “Pine Lake, Late Summer”
STACIA FLEEGAL: “Standing Guard”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “The Absent Place”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “An Ordinary Sunday”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “Echoes”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “My Father’s Roses”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “What Stillness”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “Where There Is Rejoicing, There Should Be Trembling”
LAURA DAVIES FOLEY: “The Vortex”
RUTH FOLEY: “January Thaw”
WILLIAM FORD: “Dragging at Richmond”
WILLIAM FORD: “Fisherman”
WILLIAM FORD: “The House of Music”
WILLIAM FORD: “Mom’s Eightieth Birthday”
WILLIAM FORD: “My Old Paperbacks”
WILLIAM FORD: “Orange County Church”
REBECCA FOUST: “Elocution Lesson”
REBECCA FOUST: “On the Wagon”
REBECCA FOUST: “Prodigal”
KATE FOX: “Kathleen Scott-Young’s Sonnet to Mallory”
KATE FOX: “No More”
KATE FOX: “That Evening Sun”
JENNIFER FRANKLIN: “Memento Mori: Apple Orchard”
CAL FREEMAN: “Ars Poetica While Reading The Death and Life of the Great Lakes“
DAISY FRIED: “Jackie’s Wedding”
DAISY FRIED: “Liberalism”
JEFF FRIEDMAN: “Night of the Bat”
JEFF FRIEDMAN: “Two Salesmen (Sunday Night, Fall 1961)”
ALICE FRIMAN: “Blue”
ALICE FRIMAN: “Of Crockery and Mythic Tales”
ALICE FRIMAN: “This April”
ALICE FRIMAN: “The Visitation”
ANDREW FRISARDI: “No Photo”
CAROL FRITH: “Figures on the Street”
CAROL FROST: “One Fine Day”
KATE GALE: “Poker Players”
BRENDAN GALVIN: “A Neolithic Meditation”
PAMELA GARVEY: “The Wasp Nest Growing Inside Our Window Frame”
KATE GASKIN: “The Weight of It”
PAMELA GEMIN: “Bottom of the Cup”
PAMELA GEMIN: “Desire”
PAMELA GEMIN: “Raspberries”
PAMELA GEMIN: “What’s Going On”
KAREN GEORGE: “Impression”
REGINALD GIBBONS: “After Weng Wei”
REGINALD GIBBONS: “Logic”
REGINALD GIBBONS: “Refuge”
STEPHEN GIBSON: “’80s New York City Noir”
STEPHEN GIBSON: “Bocca Baciata”
STEPHEN GIBSON: “Masolino’s The Temptation of Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel“
JOHN GILGUN: “Ahab’s Son”
JOHN GILGUN: “The Ant in the Shadow of This Blade of Grass”
THERESE GLEASON: “Self-Portrait with Migraine”
BENJAMIN GOLDBERG: “Inverse Icarus”
SIERRA GOLDEN: “Elegy for a Boat”
ELLEN GOLDSTEIN: “You Ask If I Have Plans”
JESSICA GOODFELLOW: “Search Party, Called Off”
BRENT GOODMAN: “Monona Bay”
HENRIETTA GOODMAN: “Navigation”
DAVID GRAHAM: “Annabelle’s Story”
DAVID GRAHAM: “Cold Comfort”
DAVID GRAHAM: “Controlled Skid”
DAVID GRAHAM: “Self-Portrait Against Dream”
DAVID GRAHAM: “Strange Glitter”
DAVID GRAHAM: “These Are the Days of Deer Flies and Mosquitoes”
TAYLOR GRAHAM: “Available Light”
TAYLOR GRAHAM: “Listening for Answers”
TAYLOR GRAHAM: “Monday on the Lake”
TAYLOR GRAHAM: “Talavera”
PETER GRANDBOIS: “The light is different, after”
ETHAN GRANT: “Observation Hours”
JESSE GRAVES: “Elegy”
JULIANA GRAY: “May Morning, Dachau”
TIMOTHY GRAY: “Samaritan”
CARRIE GREEN: “Selecting Oranges in Lue Gim Gong’s Grove”
WILLIAM GREENWAY: “Good Stories”
CAROLYN GUINZIO: “Floor & Wall”
BEN GUNSBERG: “Escape from Classical Music”
HEDY HABRA: “The Keyhole”
MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY: “My Mother in the Darkroom”
ROBERT HAHN: “Fish-Fry on the Georgia Coast”
ANNE HAINES: “Swallowed”
JAMES HALL: “Death Redistributes”
H. PALMER HALL: “A Dream of Hoops”
H. PALMER HALL:“Ghost Lights”
H. PALMER HALL: “New Names”
H. PALMER HALL: “Relics in Verse of an Old War”
H. PALMER HALL: “Something”
H. PALMER HALL: “A Sonnet for Napalm”
H. PALMER HALL: “Vietnam Roulette”
CAROL HAMILTON: “Following Yeats and Gonne”
CAROL HAMILTON: “Tourists”
KALIMA HAMILTON: “Kindle”
PAMELA HAMMOND: “Near a Desert Monastery”
CHERA HAMMONS: “Outflow”
JEFF HARDIN: “Last Summer”
EDWARD HARKNESS: “In the High Sierra”
ELIZABETH HARLIN-FERLO: “Drift”
JAMES HARMS: “Accidental Happiness”
JAMES HARMS: “Keep My Word”
JAMES HARMS: “Such Utter Foreignness of Contact”
BARRY HARRIS: “In Your Dreams”
JUDITH HARRIS: “Before Dawn”
GWEN HART: “Spell”
PENNY HARTER: “Archaeology”
PENNY HARTER: “The Lens of Fire”
TIM HAWKINS: “Southern Gothic”
JOHN HAZARD: “What Gander Knows”
KATHLEEN HELLEN: “Pastel”
ELISE HEMPEL: “Blind Dates Back Then”
ELISE HEMPEL: “The Cardinal”
ELISE HEMPEL: “Mosaic”
ELISE HEMPEL: “Sunday Morning at ACE”
ELISE HEMPEL: “Today’s Mail”
SARA HENNING: “Terra Firma”
DANIEL HENRY: “Jumpshots in the Dark”
DANIEL HENRY: “Love Poem (with Plane Crash)”
GREGG HERTZLIEB: “Scraper”
JOHN HICKS: “Exotic”
GRAHAM HILLARD: “Sidewinder”
BERNHARD HILLILA: “Grant Park Concert”
BERNHARD HILLILA: “Plaza Beach Motel”
BERNHARD HILLILA: “Sand Mining”
IVAN HOBSON: “At the Fair’s Speed-Pitch Booth”
JULEIGH HOWARD HOBSON: “Last Stand”
KATHERINE HOERTH: “My Husband Washing His Old Mustang”
JOHN HOGAN: “Thurifer”
LYNN HOGGARD: “September Shadows Landscape”
JONATHAN HOLDEN: “The History of the Wedge”
JONATHAN HOLDEN: “Knowing”
JONATHAN HOLDEN: “The Names of the Rapids”
KEN HOLLAND: “Sink Hole”
MARGARET HOLLEY: “Fractal Nocturne”
MARGARET HOLLEY: “Night Radio”
MARGARET HOLLEY: “Nocturne”
KAREN PAUL HOLMES: “She Knows the Names of Shells”
THOMAS ALAN HOLMES: “Dish”
SUZANNE MARIE HOPCROFT: “Mollusk”
RANDALL HORTON: “A Blues Birthed into Go-Go”
ANN HOSTETLER: “Heirlooms”
ANN HOSTETLER: “Topeka, Indiana”
PAUL HOSTOVSKY: “Bagpiper Among the Geese”
RAY HOUCHIN: “Hymn to Her”
ADAM HOULE: “The Vine Knife”
JESSICA HUDGINS: “Spring”
T.R. HUMMER: “Evening Report”
T.R. HUMMER: “Everything That Is the Case”
TOM C. HUNLEY: “It’s Not So Hard to Write a Sonnet, Man”
TOM C. HUNLEY: “Um”
BETHANY SCHULTZ HURST: “Ice Cave: Shoshone, Idaho”
JASON HUSKEY: “34-Counter”
JOSEPH HUTCHISON: “White Peak”
JOHN HYLAND: “Next Door”
COLETTE INEZ: “Doors”
MARGARET B. INGRAHAM: “Tints of Yellow Spring”
CHARLOTTE INNES: “Preceding Darkness”
ROMANNA IORGA: “Mieluta”
CHARLES ISRAEL: “At the South Carolina Home for the Feeble-Minded, 1857”
Z. MICHAEL JACK: “Postcard, 1959: Coon Rapids, Iowa. Halcyon Days”
Z. MICHAEL JACK: “1955: An Incendiary Year in the Register, Claiming”
ROB JACKSON: “Red Tide”
LUCAS JACOB: “Keeping Time”
GRAY JACOBIK: “The Apple Tree”
GRAY JACOBIK: “Sasturgi: Wind-Sculpted Snow”
RHODA JANZEN: “Fingerling Lice Cup”
RHODA JANZEN: “First Time”
ANDREW JARVIS: “Cast Away”
ANDREW JARVIS: “Rail Man”
EDISON JENNINGS: “Elegy, Two Years Later”
EDISON JENNINGS: “Feathered Heraldry”
GWENDOLYN JENSEN: “Circus”
HALVARD JOHNSON: “Nimbus”
HALVARD JOHNSON: “Obligation”
LUKE JOHNSON: “Parakeet”
MARCI RAE JOHNSON: “Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland”
MARCI RAE JOHNSON: “William Blake Contemplates Enlightenment”
MICHAEL JOHNSON: “Once a Whaling Station”
DARYL JONES: “My Mother’s Purse”
DOUG JONES: “Coverings”
MADISON JONES: “Bon Voyage”
MARIE C. JONES: “Cape Cod”
NATHAN S. JONES: “Man Looking into the Sea”
RAINA JONES: “Shadowcasting”
ALLISON JOSEPH: “Ballade for Motherless Daughters”
ALLISON JOSEPH: “Ghazal for My Sisters”
ALLISON JOSEPH: “Little Epiphanies”
ALLISON JOSEPH: “Petition”
DAVID JOSEPH: “Childhood”
ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: “Holy Agony”
ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: “Skin”
Rosalind Kaliden: “The Secret’s Always in the Snapshots”
MARILYN KALLET: “Dr. Robert Darwin Weighs In”
JULIE KANE: “Frequencies”
JEN KARETNICK: “Millipedes in the Wet Season”
JEN KARETNICK: “Reflection at Umatilla”
JEN KARETNICK: “The Sound of Zero Copula”
JEN KARETNICK: “Trophic Cascade”
JULIA KASDORF: “Seasonal Work”
GREG KEELER: “Our Lusts”
GREG KEELER: “Our Pleasant Assassins”
GREG KEELER: “Recipe for Late September”
GREG KEELER: “Under the River’s Rush”
ROBIN KEMP: “Climbing”
DIANE KENDIG: “Ghost Bike”
ROBERT LEE KENDRICK: “Measures”
ROBERT LEE KENDRICK: “Offerings”
ROBERT LEE KENDRICK: “Planted”
ROBERT LEE KENDRICK: “Spore”
LAURA KENNELLY: “Pre-Op”
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL: “Bang”
RUSS KESLER: “Fisherman”
RUSS KESLER: “From a Fifties Childhood”
RUSS KESLER: “Self Portrait”
CLAIRE KEYES: “Sand into Stone”
MOLLY SUTTON KIEFER: “She Writes to Her Husband”
ATHENA KILDEGAARD: “Asters”
ATHENA KILDEGAARD: “In the Kirkegaard, December”
ATHENA KILDEGAARD: “Middle Age”
ATHENA KILDEGAARD: “Nocturne”
ATHENA KILDEGAARD: “A Story About What to Cherish”
ATHENA KILDEGAARD: “Tenderness”
DAVID KIRBY: “Joe Louis in Idaho”
DAVID KIRBY: “Negative Reviews of Famous Italian Cultural Sites”
LEIGH KIRKLAND: “Flautist at the Al Fresco Wedding”
ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER: “The Creamy Gardenia”
ELIZABETH KNAPP: “After the Flood”
JAFF KNORR: “Alfalfa”
JEFF KNORR: “Hands”
JEFF KNORR: “Release”
JEFF KNORR: “Winter Turkeys”
JOHN KNOX: “Pentecost: 30 June 1993”
JAN KOENEN: “August”
SANDRA KOHLER: “Burning”
SANDRA KOHLER: “Woken”
JESSICA DE KONINCK: “The Funhouse”
VERONICA KORNBERG: “Heirloom”
MIRIAM N. KOTZIN: “Remission”
MIRIAM N. KOTZIN: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Poetry Reading”
KAREN KOVACIK: “Flooding the House”
NORBERT KRAPF: “The Blueberry Bush”
NORBERT KRAPF: “Goodnight Irene”
NORBERT KRAPF: “Hearing Poems in My Ancestral Dialect“
NORBERT KRAPF: “Still Dark”
LEONARD KRESS: “Songlines”
LEN KRISAK: “Conflation”
JUDY KRONENFELD: “Her Vacated House”
JUDY KRONENFELD: “Malaise”
THEA S. KUTICKA: “At the Department of Motor Vehicles”
CHERYL LACHOWSKI: “The Burn”
CHERYL LACHOWSKI: “Looking West”
STEPHEN LACKAYE: “Trick”
SARA LAMERS: “In My Religion”
LAURIE LAMON: “Not in a Certain Light”
LAURIE LAMON: “Walking the Dog in the Dark”
ELIZABETH LANGEMAK: “Marriage”
SANDY LANGHORN: “The Summer Saint”
W.F. LANTRY: “Seed”
MICHAEL LAUCHLAN: “Finch”
MICHAEL LAUCHLAN: “Middle Distance”
MICHAEL LAUCHLAN: “Midway”
REBECCA LAUREN: “Dearth”
SEAN LAUSE: “Walls”
DORIANNE LAUX: “Mine Own Phil Levine”
MICHAEL LAVERS: “One Version of a Dream”
MERCEDES LAWRY: “Canted”
MERCEDES LAWRY: “Eye Exam”
MERCEDES LAWRY: “Range of Motion”
MERCEDES LAWRY: “Skagit Valley, First of March”
MERCEDES LAWRY: “Whiskey Songs”
JENNA LE: “Georgia O’Keeffe’s White Flower“
ANNA LEAHY: “Cornfields”
GARY LECHLITER: “Bobby Signs Bluegrass”
MELINDA LEPERE: “Amputations”
DONALD LEVERING: “Apple Tree—My Son Enters Recovery”
DONALD LEVERING: “The Great Plains in Fog”
MIRIAM LEVINE: “Star Magnolia”
KATHLEEN BREWIN LEWIS: “Sapelo”
LISA LEWIS: “A Threat in May”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “Angel at the Helm”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “The Ballad of Jack-Tar Rum”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “Exodus of Butterflies”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “Frontyard Burials”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “Ode to Radio Antilles”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “Stick Paramours”
LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: “White Shadow, Yank Hitcher”
ROBERT LIETZ: “Adapting the Cuisine”
ROBERT LIETZ: “Street-Class Harmonies (1)”
APRIL LINDNER: “Her Hands”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Grandmother of the Groom”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Keeping a Tropical Plant Alive in the North”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “In Praise of the Nearly Forgotten”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Lullaby One Year Later”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Mercies”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Mother and Father, Father and Mother”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “My Mother’s Shoes”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Prayer on Janet’s Birthday”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Talking to My Father About God”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “Walking an Old Woman into the Sea”
FRANNIE LINDSAY: “When I write a poem, I want someone”
MOIRA LINEHAN: “Before Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot”
MOIRA LINEHAN: “The Late”
MOIRA LINEHAN: “Late in the Late Years”
JOHN LINSTROM: “Out of State”
JOHN LINSTROM: “What Was Precious”
MARY LINXWEILER: “Fearless”
MARY LINXWEILER: “Mistaken Words”
JULIA LISELLA: “Frequencies”
THOMAS DAVID LISK: “Metaphors and Sausage”

DIANE LOCKWARD: “April at the Arboretum”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “How Heavy the Snow”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “‘How is a Shell Like Regret'”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “Hunger in the Morning”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “Last Dance”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “Sinkholes”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “Sweet Images”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “Temptation by Water”
DIANE LOCKWARD: “The Temptation of Mirage”
RACHEL LODEN: “Continental Drift”
RACHEL LODEN: “Reconstructed Face”
V.P. LOGGINS: “Beads”
ALEXANDER LONG: “On Distance”
JOEL LONG: “Cold June”
NANCY CHEN LONG: “Umbra”
LISA LOW: “Letter to Kath”
JOANNE LOWERY: “At the Farmer’s Market, Death”
JOANNE LOWERY: “Columbus Day Weekend”
KIM LOZANO: “At the Titanic Museum”
SHERYL LUNA: “Elegy for Narcissus”
BRIAN LUTZ: “Rip”
MARGARET MACKINNON: “At the Circus, 1925”
MARGARET MACKINNON: “How It Might Have Been”
MARGARET MACKINNON: “Mary Shelley’s Dream”
MARGARET MACKINNON: “Your Garden in Winter”
JENNIFER MACPHERSON: “Aphasia”
AUSTIN MACRAE: “Cycling”
MARK MADIGAN: “The Drumming Out”
MARK MADIGAN: “Forsythia”
MARK MADIGAN: “Locust”
AL MAGINNES: “Old Records”
AL MAGINNES: “The Moon as Absence and Desire”
AL MAGINNES: “The Wax Cylinder: Whitman Reading”
AL MAGINNES: “Weather That Takes Us Home”
AMIT MAJMUDAR: “Autumnal”
AMIT MAJMUDAR: “Elegy with Van Gogh’s Ear”
AMIT MAJMUDAR: “Squanderlust”
MARY MAKOFSKE: “Another Art”
MARY MAKOFSKE: “Guard Dog”
MARY MAKOFSKE: “In the Braille Garden”
MARY MAKOFSKE: “A Town Without a River”
PETER MAKUCK: “New Year’s Day, Bogue Banks”
HEATHER MARING: “Taco Bell, Hannibal, Missouri”
LIZ MARLOW: “Elegy for the Travel Companion”
DIANE K. MARTIN: “As It Never Was”
DIANE K. MARTIN: “Life Drawing”
DAVID MASON: “Bristlecone Pine”
STEPHEN MASSIMILLA: “Plum Summer”
CHRISTA MASTRANGELO: “O”
SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS: “Miracle Day”
SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS: “Wild”
SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS: “Zones of Providence”
WILLIAM MATTHEWS: “On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H.”
LUCIAN MATTISON: “Goring”
CAROLINE MAUN: “The Pier”
TIM MAYO: “The Gospel of Numbers Not in Service”
JOAN MAZZA: “Pastina”
CATHY MCARTHUR: “Rooms”
GREG MCBRIDE: “Crossing Over”
GREG MCBRIDE: “Dead Man’s Word”
GREG MCBRIDE: “Freight”
GREG MCBRIDE: “Heart Attack”
GREG MCBRIDE: “I’m Old, I Hear Things”
GREG MCBRIDE: “Night Game”
GREG MCBRIDE: “The Occupation”
GREG MCBRIDE: “Whistled Alive”
MARILYN MCCABE: “Lakeshore Limited”
MELANIE MCCABE: “Brood X”
MELANIE MCCABE: “Language Lessons”
MELANIE MCCABE: “Making Meanings”
MELANIE MCCABE: “The Night Divers”
JANET MCCANN: “The Bookstore on Broadway in Albany: AWP Conference 1999”
JANET MCCANN: “Taking Off the Face”
TODD MCCARTY: “The Language of Stalks and Water”
KATHLEEN MCCLUNG: “What I Forgot”
JOEL MCCOLLOUGH: “Cards Every Friday”
JOEL MCCOLLOUGH: “Scroll”
SJOHNNA MCCRAY: “The Widower”
JOHN MCDERMOTT: “Broken Jukeboxes Half Buried in Sand”
WALT MCDONALD: “Grandmother’s House at Kitty Hawk”
WALT MCDONALD: “Leaving the Scene”
WALT MCDONALD: “The War in Bosnia”
WALT MCDONALD: “The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor”
RON MCFARLAND: “Vaulting Ambition”
ROSE MCLARNEY: “Guts, Gleam”
SUSAN MCLEAN: “The Mirror’s Desolation”
SUSAN MCLEAN: “Rationale”
T.J. MCLEMORE: “The Farm”
BOB MCNAMARA: “Digging Morning Glory”
MOLLY MELLINGER: “Dziadek”
HELENA MESA: “Invitation”
MICHAEL MEYERHOFER: “The First Law of Thermodynamics”
MICHAEL MEYERHOFER: “Portrait of a Midwestern Exile on Wheels”
MICHAEL MEYERHOFER: “Rearview Mirror”
CHELLE MIKO: “Pickpocket”
PEGGY MILLER: “Trees and Air”
TERRY MINCHOW-PROFFITT: “This Blanched Abrasion We Call ‘In'”
TERRY MINCHOW-PROFFITT: “Gasoline”
MICHAEL MINGO: “Indiscriminate Archive”
NORMAN MINNICK: “For a Wounded Hawk”
NANCY MITCHELL: “Ceremony”
THOMAS MITCHELL: “I Used to Fish with My Father”
THOMAS MITCHELL: “Kayaking, Long Island Sound”
WENDY MNOOKIN: “After Her Husband Dies”
JEFF MOCK: “A Brief History of the Future”
JEFF MOCK: “The Riches of the Garden”
JEFF MOCK: “Undoing”
JOHN MOESSNER: “Tornado”
DAVID MOHAN: “My Mother’s Red Hair”
NICHOLAS MOLBERT: “Small Bodies”
JUDITH MONTGOMERY: “Blue Crow and Shadow”
JUDITH MONTGOMERY: “Death Slips Up at Ristorante Monte Carlo”
JUDITH MONTGOMERY: “Defiance”
JUDITH MONTGOMERY: “On the Comb as Outward and Visible Sign”
JUDITH MONTGOMERY: “Vacation”
SARAH FAWN MONTGOMERY: “Tornado at the Dig Site”
GEORGE MOORE: “Saint Agnes Outside the Walls”
JULIE L. MOORE: “Afterlife”
JULIE L. MOORE: “Barn Burning”
JULIE L. MOORE: “Big Basin Sagebrush”
JULIE L. MOORE: “Pairing”
COLIN MORTON: “Footprints”
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI: “Autumn”
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI: “My Brother’s House”
TRAVIS MOSSOTTI: “Picked Clean”
BENJAMIN MUELLER: “White Egret”
MAUREEN MULHERN: “6:00 a.m.”
RICK MULKEY: “Connecting the Dots”
KATHLEEN MULLEN: “Cleome”
KATHLEEN MULLEN: “Narcissus”
KAY MULLEN: “An Dinh Palace”
KAY MULLEN: “If I Could”
KAY MULLEN: “Never the Same”
KAY MULLEN: “Sidewalk Artist”
KAY MULLEN: “Up Close”
KAY MULLEN: “Who Knows”
KAY MULLEN: “With Intention”
KAY MULLEN: “You Ask Why I Left”
PETER MUNRO: “Observants”
PETER MUNRO: “Storm Ducks”
PETER MUNRO: “Through the Stars, a Predator”
ELISABETH MURAWSKI: “Tulips”
JIM MURPHY: “Basement Occupations”
JED MYERS: “Pull of the Moon”
STEVE MYERS: “Ascending Ben Lomond”
STEVE MYERS: “Brief Conversation, Milbridge, ME”
ERIC NELSON: “In Her Memory”
MURIEL NELSON: “Ground”
MURIEL NELSON: “In a Fog”
PAUL NELSON: “Busy”
PAUL NELSON: “Making Me Look”
JEFF NEWBERRY: “Pantoum on a Line by Weldon Kees”
RICHARD NEWMAN: “Old Lady at the Beach”
ALFRED NICOL: “Blizzard”
JOEY NICOLETTI: “Bread”
JOEY NICOLETTI: “The Cook-Out”
JOEY NICOLETTI: “Maintenance”
JOEY NICOLETTI: “Reverse Graffiti”
JOEY NICOLETTI: “Risotto Elegy”
JOHN A. NIEVES: “Garage Door”
JOHN A. NIEVES: “Grain Moon”
JOHN A. NIEVES: “Historiography”
JOHN A. NIEVES: “Pamphleteer Tercets”
JOHN A. NIEVES: “Table for One, Party of Two”
JOHN A. NIEVES: “Through Ends of Autumn”
DOUGLAS NORDFORS: “A Mennonite Girl Wearing the Latest Life Jacket”
JEAN NORDHAUS: “All There Is of Light”
JEAN NORDHAUS: “As If to Say”
MIL NORMAN-RISCH: “Downingsville Road, Vermont”
WILLIAM NOTTER: “On the Come-Along”
EDWARD NUDELMAN: “Photo”
RICHARD O’CONNELL: “Voladores”
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: “A Catholic Kid Considers Her Options”
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: “Feast & Famine”
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: “The Hunt”
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: “Night”
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL: “Sonnet for St. Sylvia”
SUSAN OKIE: “Interior with Young Woman”
CAROLYN OLIVER: “At the Columbus Park of Roses”
DION O’REILLY: “The man who bathed me in the burn ward”
AL ORTOLANI: “Saturday at the Pawn Shop”
AL ORTOLANI: “The Sleep of Emmett Kelly”
APRIL OSSMANN: “The Mechanical Home Care Bed”
APRIL OSSMAN: “Venture”
ALICIA OSTRIKER: “Surface/Draft 6”
MARTIN OTT: “Breathless”
JOHN OWEN: “Grief Harbor, 1995”
JAMES OWENS: “Albedo”
JAMES OWENS: “Brief Turns of Weather”
JAMES OWENS: “Temple”
DARLENE PAGAN: “The Quarry”
WILLIAM PAGE: “The Flush of Hearts”
WILLIAM PAGE: “The Heathen”
WILLIAM PAGE: “Illusions”
WILLIAM PAGE: “Swifts”
NANCY PAGH: “Oars”
FRANK PAINO: “For a Couple Who Died Two Days Apart”
JON PALZER: “Advice for Night Time”
ERIC PANKEY: “Dwelling Place”
ERIC PANKEY: “Time-Lapse”
ERIC PANKEY: “The Truant Moment”
ERIC PANKEY: “The Worksite”
ELISE PASCHEN: “Cicadas”
ELISE PASCHEN: “Hive”
ELISE PASCHEN: “Moving In”
LEE PASSARELLA: “Immanence”
RICHARD PAU-LLOSA: “Caudillo Rising”
RICHARD PAU-LLOSA: “Flight to L.A.”
MEGAN PEAK: “Gulf Coast, 6th Grade”
JANUARY PEARSON: “News of a Fathers Death”
JOANNA PEARSON: “The Conjoined Twins”
JOEL PECKHAM: “Blind Spots”
JOEL PECKHAM: “My Son, Five, Dancing”
JOEL PECKHAM: “Nightwalking”
MARY PEELEN: “Hemicrania”
NICOLE PEKARSKE: “On the Birth of My Mother’s Youngest Brother”
ALISON PELEGRIN: “Bestiary of the Bayou State”
MARGARET PERRY: “At Stes. Maries de la Mer, Summer 1977”
MARGARET PERRY: “Snow Apples”
ALLAN PETERSON: “Singing and a House”
ALLAN PETERSON: “Superstition”
ALLAN PETERSON: “Touched Often”
ALLAN PETERSON: “Visible in Strings”
ROGER PFINGSTON: “Drought Bouquet”
ROGER PFINGSTON: “A Moment in Passing”
ROGER PFINGSTON: “Mountain Fog”
ROGER PFINGSTON: “Parking, 1958”
DAYE PHILLIPPO: “Edge Effect”
KEVIN PILKINGTON: “Capri”
KEVIN PILKINGTON: “Mingus”
KEVIN PILKINGTON: “Parthenon”
KEVIN PILKINGTON: “Promises”
KEVIN PILKINGTON: “Sunset in the Refrigerator”
STANLEY PLUMLY: “‘The Morning America Changed'”
MARIANNE POLOSKEY: “Beyond the Fence”
MARIANNE POLOSKEY: “Cape May”
MARIANNE POLOSKEY: “Graveyard at Saarbruecken”
COLIN POPE: “Echo”
COLIN POPE: “Packing Up the House”
JOHN POPIELASKI: “Detachment”
CONNIE POST: “How to Watch a Bird Die”
ROSE POSTMA: “In the Delivery Room, After Hours of Hard Labor”
ANDREA POTOS: “Burren Messenger”
CAROL POTTER: “Night-Crawlers”
DONNA PUCCIANI: “Jet Lag”
COURTNEY QUEENEY: “The Other Woman”
SAARA MYRENE RAAPPANA: “Torch”
KEVIN RABAS: “Reseed”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Birthmark”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Bright Snake”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Cemetery Grass”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Fanfare”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Fourteen Omens in Nine Days”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “History of Solitude”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Map of the World”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Moon Epistles”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Mud Eulogies”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “The Names in the Clearing”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “October Snow”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Old Men Weeding Their Gardens”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Old World Prayers”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Waterbourne”
DOUG RAMSPECK: “Wood Smoke”
D’ARCY RANDALL: “Frequencies”
GREG RAPPLEYE: “The Apprentice Lithographer’s Story”
GREG RAPPLEYE: “Sun Gems CA. 1864–1865”
ROCHELLE RATNER: “Fish Tank”
RICK RAUCH: “Loblolly Pines”
CLAUDIA REDER: “Self-Portrait at Fifty”
JEREMY REED: “Three Months After the Fire”
ELIZABETH REES: “After Apollinaire”
MICHELE REESE: “Plant Life”
ANNE DELANA REEVES: “Driving Down Rachel Anderson Road”
THOMAS REITER: “Called Back”
THOMAS REITER: “Forcing the Forsythia”
THOMAS REITER: “Kit Elegy”
THOMAS REITER: “My Grandmother’s Journey, 1891”
THOMAS REITER: “Pokeweed”
THOMAS REITER: “A Redbud Tree in Ground Fog”
CAROL COFFEE REPOSA: “Lines Composed in the Computer Classroom”
THOMAS REYNOLDS: “Klamanth Jazz Festival”
REBECCA REYNOLDS: “From Latin Insula or Island”
SUSAN RICH: “Aperture”
SUSAN RICH: “Waving Goodbye to River Road”
SUSAN RICH: “You Might Consider”
KATIE RICHARDS: “Stimulation”
TAD RICHARDS: “Three Days”
ROBERT RICHSTONE: “Light Fails on the Morning”
KATHERINE RIEGEL: “Some River”
JAMES RIOUX: “Possum”
DANA ROBBINS: “The Pretzel Cart”
LIZ ROBBINS: “China Poem”
KIM ROBERTS: “Theodolites”
SUZANNE ROBERTS: “Rain in Venice”
ANN ROBINSON: “New York Train Station”
ANDRÉS RODRIGUEZ: “The Late Age”
ZACH ROGOW: “Film Noir”
JOHN RONAN: “Wallpaper”
JOHN J. RONAN: “Arrowhead”
KATHLEEN ROONEY: “Robinson’s Car Is Nothing Like a Prairie Schooner”
LAURA SOBBOTT ROSS: “Darwin and the Eye”
SEAN DAVID ROSS: “Yartzeit”
LEE ROSSI: “Lasting Things”
LEE ROSSI: “Snake Skin”
SUZANNE MANIZZA ROSZAK: “Electric Boat”
SUZANNE MANIZZA ROSZAK: “My Mother Weaving Shawls in a Wisconsin Field”
DAVID ROTHMAN: “Some Accusations”
ROBERT ROTHMAN: “Winterwork”
JOHN RUFF: “In the Dark Room”
JOHN RUFF: “Isabel’s View”
JOHN RUFF: “‘July, 1935–1943′ (from a painting by Charles Burchfield)”
JOHN RUFF: “Some Thoughts on Angela’s Painting of a Kingfisher Among Lotuses and Fish”
STEPHEN RUFFUS: “A Changed Man Regards Winter”
HELEN RUGGIERI: “After The Hands by Paul Delvaux: A Family Portrait”
LINWOOD RUMNEY: “After the Blueberry Harvest”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “August Night”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “Broadmoor”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “For This Your Journey”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “Hillside at Laugharne”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “How Dawn Begins”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “I Noticed the Peaches”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “Looking for the Story Line”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “Old Light of Stars”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “On Desdemona Sands”
LEX RUNCIMAN: “Two Stories and an Epilogue”
TANYA RUNYAN: “Bonner Heritage Farm”
DON RUSS: “Myself in You”
GIANNA RUSSO: “Winter Solstice, Paris Street”
F. DANIEL RZICZNEK: “Green Tree Memento”
DANIEL SAALFELD: “Snake Meat”
MICHAEL SALCMAN: “Metonomy: Part for the Whole”
RALPH SALISBURY: “At Play in the Earth of Uncle Jimmy’s Grave”
RON PAUL SALUTSKY: “Camping“
NICHOLAS SAMARAS: “Repetitions of Oswiecim”
JORDAN SANDERSON: “Oral Hygiene”
MICHAEL SANDLER: “When Heifetz Played for One”
SHEROD SANTOS: “Airport Security”
SHEROD SANTOS: “Black Corsage (1880-1918)”
SHEROD SANTOS: “A Theory of Asylum”
SHEROD SANTOS: “A Writer’s Life”
MIA SARA: “Asking for Trouble”
TERRENCE SAVOIE: “The Blue Ribbon”
TERRENCE SAVOIE: “Ma Mère”
ADAM SCHEFFLER: “Memento”
RICHARD SCHIFFMAN: “Aftermath”
RICHARD SCHIFFMAN: “April Apparition”
MARGOT SCHILPP: “The Fish Channel”
MARGOT SCHILPP: “If You Agree I’m Telling the Story”
MARGOT SCHILPP: “Revisiting Gauguin”
MARGOT SCHILPP: “Secrets”
MARGOT SCHILPP: “Simplify”
MARGOT SCHILPP: “Words a Hospitality”
MATTHEW W. SCHMEER: “Chess”
DON SCHOFIELD: “First Journey Alone”
J.D. SCHRAFFENBERGER: “Kentucky News Butch”
STEVEN D. SCHROEDER: “Here Be Dragons”
STEVEN SCHROEDER: “South from Sweetwater”
LAURA SCHULKIND: “Machu Picchu”
MAGGIE SCHWED: “Man Dining (The Artist’s Father)”
NIC SEBASTIAN: “the novices practice forgiveness”
NIC SEBASTIAN: “The Olive Farmer”
SHANE SEELY: “Viewmaster”
AUSTIN SEGREST: “Montevallo”
PETER SERCHUK: “Facing the Wall”
PETER SERCHUK: “Lisa”
PETER SERCHUK: “Nature Walk”
PETER SERCHUK: “Not Like This Rose”
PETER SERCHUK: “Reveille for a Winter Morning”
PETER SERCHUK: “Wedding Song”
DIANE SEUESS: “Maybe the Fishmonger, Who Hands over the Dead”
AMIE SHARP: “West Tennessee, 1980”
DEEMA K. SHEHABI: “Of Harvest and Flight”
STEVEN SHER: “The Day George Steinbrenner Died”
ALIMA SHERMAN: “Khartoum”
CARRIE SHIPERS: “Edison’s Talking Doll”
VIVIAN SHIPLEY: “Digging Up Peonies”
VIVIAN SHIPLEY: “First Blood”
BRITTON SHURLEY: “The Red-winged Blackbird”
RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: “Evening in Vezelay”
RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: “Parmigianino Thinking”
RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: “Requiem”
MARTHA SILANO: “Another Closer”
MARTHA SILANO: “Because I Knew”
MARTHA SILANO: “No Refunds, No Exchanges”
ANN SILSBEE: “Bluer Than Sapphire”
BETH SIMON: “The Girl of Sixteen Who Desires”
BETH SIMON: “Rock, Bird”
BETH SIMON: “Taste Is”
BRIAN SIMONEAU: “A Constant Reminder”
BRIAN SIMONEAU: “Spring Cleaning”
JEFFREY SKINNER: “Event Horizons”
FLOYD SKLOOT: “At Rowan Oak”
FLOYD SKLOOT: “Labor Day Party”
FLOYD SKLOOT: “The Moonlight Manuscript, 1696”
FLOYD SKLOOT: “The Reading”
FLOYD SKLOOT: “Sock Basketball”
KAREN SKOLFIELD: “Art Project: Earth”
KAREN SKOLFIELD: “Most Lauded Advances in Medical Technology from the Global War on Terror”
KAREN SKOLFIELD: “Sailor’s Creek Battlefield”
KAREN SKOLFIELD: “Soldier Rendered as All Five Types of Sand Dunes”
LAUREN GOODWIN SLAUGHTER: “Tornado Season”
LEE SLONIMSKY: “Pythagoras Goes to Work”
DAVE SMITH: “Ailanthus”
DAVE SMITH: “Glasses”
ROSANNE SMITH: “The Sandhill Cranes”
KATHERINE SONIAT: “The Swing Girl”
KATE SONTAG: “American Honeymoon Lyric, Circa 1987”
KATE SONTAG: “Migration”
KATE SONTAG: “Second Nature”
BARRY SPACKS: “Two Portraits in a Gallery”
SUSAN DELANEY SPEAR: “Long Epiphany”
RICHARD SPILMAN: “Morning Frost”
VINCENT SPINA: “Before Dawn: Otavalo Market”
A.E. STALLINGS: “The Boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx”
A.E. STALLINGS: “The Eldest Sister to Psyche”
A.E. STALLINGS: “Persephone to Psyche”
JOANNIE STANGELAND: “Drowning”
JOANNIE STANGELAND: “Self-Portrait with Crows”
JANNIE STANGELAND: “Then the Wind Kicks In”
JOANNIE STANGELAND: “The Verbs Will Not Conjugate”
JOANNIE STANGELAND: “When the Nights Lie Down White”
JOANNIE STANGELAND: “Wishing You”
CATHERINE STAPLES: “Hacking Out”
REBECCA STARKS: “If This Be the Season”
ALLEN STEIN: “Carpe Diem (As If You Could)”
MARJORIE STELMACH: “Scorpion Eggs”
RICARDO STERNBERG: “Paulito’s Birds”
CAROLINE STEARNS: “Sunday Drives”
JEANINE STEVENS: “A Date at the La Brea Tar Pits”
JEANINE STEVENS: “The Meaning of Monoliths”
JEANINE STEVENS: “Sunday”
CHRISTINE STEWART-NUNEZ: “Art Lessons”
ALISON STINE: “Child Bride”
ALISON STINE: “Marriage”
DONALD STINSON: “As in Certain Paintings of Paul Klee”
DONALD STINSON: “On Three Hats of My Father’s”
LYNN STRONGIN: “Ghostly”
JOHN STRULOEFF: “Resolve”
VIRGIL SUAREZ: “Caribe”
VIRGIL SUAREZ: “Isla de la Juventud”
VIRGIL SUAREZ: “Song for the Banyan”
VIRGIL SUAREZ: “Song for the Cucuyo”
VIRGIL SUAREZ: “Uncle Isidoro”
GEORGE SUCH: “Veiled”
MATTHEW SUMPTER: “Homecoming”
BARTON SUTTER: “White Feather”
TERESE SVOBODA: “Octopus”
ELIZABETH SWADOS: “The Dark Ages”
ELEANOR SWANSON: “Everglades”
ADAM TAVEL: “Apastron”
ADAM TAVEL: “My Wife’s Swimming Lessons at Hampshire Heights Apartments”
ADAM TAVEL: “On a Biographical Pamphlet of Luther Ladd, First Martyr of the Civil War, Who Died During the 1861 Baltimore Riot”
ADAM TAVEL: “Patter”
MARILYN TAYLOR: “Poem for a 75th Birthday”
MARILYN TAYLOR: “Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat”
ALEXANDRA TEAGUE: “Hurricane Season”
ELAINE TERRANOVA: “Mahler”
MARIA TERRONE: “Nearly blind now, my mother is having visions”
MARIA TERRONE: “Rothko’s Grave”
MARIA TERRONE: “Speaking in Tongues”
LARRY D. THACKER: “Gone Missing”
MARK THALMAN: “Family Photos, Waitsburg, Washington, 1910”
LARRY THOMAS: “Dory”
LARRY THOMAS: “Goldfish”
LARRY THOMAS: “Oyster”
LARRY THOMAS: “Plumbago”
LARRY THOMAS: “Signs”
ROBERT THOMAS: “Sonnet with Purgatory and Scratch”
KEVIN THOMASON: “The Auction Shed”
MATTHEW THORBURN: “Heaney’s Voice”
DWAYNE THORPE: “Freeze Frame”
TERRY TIERNEY: “When It Was Dark Enough”
LIZ TILTON: “Alto”
DANIEL TOBIN: “BB”
DANIEL TOBIN: “Hearth ‘n Kettle”
DANIEL TOBIN: “Hope Chest”
DANIEL TOBIN: “The House”
J.C. TODD: “Who’s Missing”
CARINE TOPAL: “Black Sea Port, 1941”
J.L. TORRES: “Legacy”
ALISON TOWNSEND: “Great Horned Owl”
TONY TRIGILIO: “Back Porch, Blackout”
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: “Death of a Doorman”
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: “Flowering Pear”
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: “Light Riddles”
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: “Small Girl in a Gift Shop”
ROBIN TUNG: “A New Earth”
BRIAN TURNER: “Al-A’imma Bridge”
BRIAN TURNER: “The Battle of Fucine Lake, AD 52”
BRIAN TURNER: “Helping Her Breathe”
BRIAN TURNER: “In the Guggenheim Museum”
BRIAN TURNER: “Molotov Cocktails”
CHRISTINA-MARIE UMSCHEID: “Alanson”
LEE UPTON: “The Bottled Minotaur”
PAM USCHUK: “Another Easter Snowstorm”
PAT VALDOTA: “Lost”
SALLY VAN DOREN: “Shill”
SUSAN VARNOT: “Impressionism”
KATHRINE VARNES: Four Sonnets from “His Next Ex-Wife”
KATHRINE VARNES: “Frequencies”
CINDY VEACH: “Sewing Lessons”
PETER VERTACNIK: “Peonies in July”
ELIZABETH VIGNALI: “Shoal”
ANGELA VOGEL: “Rosebud, or Now That I Am Older”
CONSTANCE VOGEL: “At the Pool in the YWCA”
BENJAMIN VOGT: “Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954”
CONNEMARA WADSWORTH: “Twenty Years After”
MARK WAGENAAR: “Winter Song”
JEANNE WAGNER: “Buying a Can of Shipwreck Blue”
JEANNE WAGNER: “Civil Twilight”
JEANNE WAGNER: “Picture of My Mother with Parkinson’s”
LYNN WAGNER: “Woman Blowing Soap Bubbles”
SHARI WAGNER: “First Flight”
SHARI WAGNER: “The Naturalist”
DAVI WALDER: “Dr. Levi-Montalcini’s Passion”
DAVI WALDER: “Fighting with Nothing”
VALERIE WALLACE: “Travel”
MARTIN WALLS: “A Bend in Onondaga Creek”
WILLIAM WALSH: “The Big Cat Tracks My Grandmother”
WILLIAM WALSH: “Fly Fishing in Times Square, 2015”
WILLIAM WALSH: “Homage: For My Father”
WILLIAM WALSH: “Visiting Secretariat in 1974”
WILLIAM H. WANDLESS: “Sojourner’s Séance”
YUN WANG: “Winter Seascape”
LAURA LEE WASHBURN: “Cheyenne Valley, Autumn”
LAURA LEE WASHBURN: “How To Live in This World”
LAURA LEE WASHBURN: “Perspective: Visiting the Homestead”
LAURA LEE WASHBURN: “A Poem in the Midst of History, 2015”
ROBERT N. WATSON: “Visitation”
BOB WATTS: “Map of the Unknown World”
CHARLES HARPER WEBB: “Best Policy”
CHARLES HARPER WEBB: “No Showman”
CHARLES HARPER WEBB: “Restless Leg Syndrome”
KATHRYN WELD: “People Learn Glaciers Move Years After a Guide Is Lost”
WILL WELLS: “The Stamps He Sent Me”
SCOTT WELVAERT: “Pushing a Dodge Charger into a Gas Station”
INGRID WENDT: “Armistice”
INGRID WENDT: “‘Heart and Soul'”
INGRID WENDT: “The Keeper of Secrets”
INGRID WENDT: “True to Form”
CAROL WESTBERG: “Edible, Inedible”
SARAH WETZEL: “Ghosts of Sophia Loren”
SARAH WETZEL: “Martini with Borges Eyes”
SARAH WETZEL: “Postcard from the Expedition”
LESLEY WHEELER: “Damage Reports”
LESLEY WHEELER: “Frequencies”
LESLEY WHEELER: “Red Wolf Howl”
LESLEY WHEELER: “Tornado Season”
JENNIFER WHEELOCK: “Unison”
JAMES R.WHITLEY: “Postcard from Orbis Tertius”
JAMES R.WHITLEY: “Nights of Gin and Ashes”
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS: “Self-Portrait with Mojave”
JESS WILLIARD: “Trip”
ANNE WILSON: “Taranto”
LORI WILSON: “When to Wake Is to Head Down a Road”
STEVEN WINN: “Masaya”
STEVEN WINN: “Ruin”
ROSEMARY WINSLOW: “Kingdom of Cloth, Three Women, A Naked Boy”
LAURA MADELINE WISEMAN: “Friendship Bracelet”
FRANCINE WITTE: “When Supper Was a Thing”
GEORGE WITTE: “Constellations”
VINCENT WIXON: “Simple Pleasures”
VINCENT WIXON: “Stonework”
VALERIE WOHLFELD: “A Dare”
VALERIE WOHLFELD: “Heart: Specimen”
VALERIE WOHLFELD: “Rune”
VALERIE WOHLFELD: “Villanelle: Wedding Portrait”
PUi YING WONG: “Spring, Beijing”
ANNIE WOODFORD: “Flying Kites with Elizabeth Bishop”
CHARLES WRIGHT: “Is”
CHARLES WRIGHT: “I’ve Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life . . .”
CHARLES WRIGHT: “Nostalgia”
CHARLES WRIGHT: “Road Warriors”
CHARLES WRIGHT: “WKPT, Kingsport, Tennessee”
KIRK M. WRIGHT: “Explaining the Moon”
LEILANI WRIGHT: “Flash Flood”
JENNIFER YAROS: “Jack-O’-Lantern”
JENNIFER YAROS: “Sisters”
NICK YINGLING: “Development”
KATHERINE E. YOUNG: “Birdsong”
MICHAEL T. YOUNG: “Flight Patterns”
MICHAEL T. YOUNG: “Inheritance”
MICHAEL T. YOUNG: “Waterfall”
MICHAEL T. YOUNG: “Ways to Open”
JANE ZWART: “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin”
FREDRICK ZYDEK: “Family Secrets”