Poetry Archives

 

WILLIAM AARNES: "Kindly"

JONATHAN ALEXANDER: "Its Own Music"

SHERMAN ALEXIE: "Homily"

GIL ALLEN: "Blueberries"

RANE ARROYO: "Surviving Utah"

HERMAN ASARNOW: "Double Fault"

CYNTHIA ATKINS: "Google Me"

AMANDA AUCHTER: "Photograph, April 1956"

AMANDA AUCHTER: "Wasteland of Parts"

CRYSTAL BACON: "Margaret's Heart"

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: "From the Maelstrom"

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: "Visual Appeal"

TONY BARNSTONE: "Oh, Great, He Gets To Go on Vacation"

JUDITH BARRINGTON: "Frequencies"

JACKIE BARTLEY: "The Moon through Blue Glass"

ANNETTE BASALYGA: "Going Blind"

CLAIRE BATEMAN: "Another Poem on Blue"

CLAIRE BATEMAN: "Flight Path"

CLAIRE BATEMAN: "Pudding"

JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: "How She Became a Ziegfeld Girl"

JILL PÉLAEZ BAUMGAERTNER: "Uprooted"

J.P. DANCING BEAR: "Chiroptera"

J.P. DANCING BEAR: "Island Like a Heart"

NATHANIEL BELLOWS: "Mercy"

STEPHEN BENZ: "St Ambrose's Boarding School"

MAXIANNE BERGER: "Childless at the Shoestore"

MAXIANNE BERGER: "Exposure"

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"

MICHELLE BITTING: "The Exterminator's Wife"

MICHELLE BITTING: "Premiere"

SHEILA BLACK: "Romance"

KIMBERLY BLAESER: "Apprenticed to Justice"

MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL: "Autobiography of a Face"

DEBORAH BOGEN: "October"

DEBORAH BOGEN: "November"

ACE BOGGESS: "'What Is Your Favorite Movie'"

DAVID BOND: "At the Annual Thresherman's Show"

ANNE BRITTING BOWMAN: "Looking Back up the Hospital Drive"

GAYLORD BREWER: "Apologia to Mars and Moon"

KIM BRIDGFORD: "Iceland"

KIM BRIDGFORD: "Postcard of Speckled Eggs, Iceland"

KIM BRIDGFORD: "Remembrance"

RONDA BROATCH: "Impermanence"

RONDA BROATCH: "Woman Feeds on the Fragments of a Day Without Rain"

ANNE C. BROMLEY: "Monsoon Theatre"

MICHELLE BROOKS: "Speak Without Blood"

T. ALAN BROUGHTON: "Bird in the Garage"

T. ALAN BROUGHTON: "Discoveries"

SARAH BROWNSBERGER: "A Golden Plover"

NICK BRUNO: "Malinconia"

CHRIS BULLARD: "Narcissus"

E.G. BURROWS: "The Beach at Moon's Resort"

KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER: "Beachwalkers"

KAREN CARISSIMO: "Christine"

JARED CARTER: "Dark Transit"

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: "The Pool at Noon"

JARED CARTER: "Prophet Township"

JARED CARTER: "Scything a Path"

JARED CARTER: "Weed-Eater"

JARED CARTER: "While Cleaning Out the Garage"

MICHAEL CATHERWOOD: "Three Variations on the Suspension of Time"

JAMES CERVANTES: "Spring Loaded"

CHRISTOPHER CESSAC: "Romance, Wisconsin"

ROBIN CHAPMAN: "Bowing to the Ostrich"

MIKE CHASAR: "Echinoidea Freddy"

PATRICIA CLARK: "Grove"

PATRICIA CLARK: "Turning Away from the River"

BRAD CLOMPUS: "Elephant House, 1977"

KATHARINE COLES: "Collector"

KATHARINE COLES: "Hawks"

BILLY COLLINS: "Fiftieth Birthday Eve"

NICK CONRAD: "Mountain"

MARK CONWAY: "Having Gone to the Ends of the Earth"

MARK CONWAY: "Orpheus Speaks"

MARK CONWAY: "No Orpheus, No Way Home"

PETER COOLEY: "The Climbers"

ALFRED CORN: "Bond Street Underground"

ALFRED CORN: "Swiss Army Knife"

BARBARA CROOKER: "All There Is To Say"

BARBARA CROOKER: "The Comet and the Opossum"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Driving Under the Clerestory of Leaves"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Impressionism"

BARBARA CROOKER: "In the Late Summer Garden"

BARBARA CROOKER: "Lemons"

BARBARA CROOKER: "One Word"

BARBARA CROOKER: "White Lilacs"

CHRISTINE CUCCIO: "New Jersey Spring"

HEIDI CZERWIEC: "Reverse Railroad"

HEIDI CZERWIEC: "Victorian Daguerreotype Series (Late 19th Century)"

CYRIL DABYDEEN: "Anaconda's Doubt"

CATHERINE DALY: "Buttercup"

LIGHTSEY DARST: "June"

CAROL V. DAVIS: "Porto and Sherry Sandeman (an advertising poster, 1931)"

KWAME DAWES" "Among the Dithering Feathers"

KWAME DAWES: "Rituals Before the Poem"

MARK DEFOE: "At a Website I Am Asked for My Mother's Name"

HEATHER DERR-SMITH: "Impartation"

JEANINE DERUSHA: "Robert Segee's Confession"

MICHAEL DIEBERT: "Razorback Gift Shop"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Autobiography"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Greenville Road"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Our Story"

MICHAEL DOBBERSTEIN: "Weight"

JEANNINE DOBBS: "I Confess, I Wanted To Be June"

DANIEL DONAGHY: "Snapshot: Four Turkeys at the Feeders"

SUSAN DONNELLY: "Congo School"

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY: "The Snow Capped Mountains That Surround the City Begin to Dance"

JOHN DREXEL: "No History, No Geography"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Rebecca"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Toast of the Terrarium"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Letter-Elegy"

REBECCA DUNHAM: "Two Photographs"

CORNELIUS EADY: "Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat"

CORNELIUS EADY: "The Inaugural Poem, January, 1961"

LYNNELL EDWARDS: "Easter Monday"

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"

GEORGE EKLUND: "Homage to Jim"

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"

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"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Anniversaries"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Cold River Season"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Hopper's Paintings"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Midnight in the Moabi Tree"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Oh, So You're Doing a Handbook Again"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "The Places Between"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "Sag Harbor Sundown"

PATRICIA FARGNOLI: "The Swankeeper"

JENNIFER FETT: "Islamorada"

CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS: "A Walk in an Open Gallery"

ANNIE FINCH: "Each in Our Own Craft"

ANNIE FINCH: "Fawns"

ANNIE FINCH: "Wine-Glass Woman"

GARY FINCKE: "Before Salk"

ANN FISHER-WIRTH: "Frequencies"

ANN FISHER-WIRTH: "Happiness"

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: "Echoes"

WILLIAM FORD: "The House of Music"

REBECCA FOUST: "Elocution Lesson"

DAISY FRIED: "Jackie's Wedding"

DAISY FRIED: "Liberalism"

JEFF FRIEDMAN: "Night of the Bat"

JEFF FRIEDMAN: "Two Salesmen (Sunday Night, Fall 1961)"

ALICE FRIMAN: "This April"

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"

PAMELA GEMIN: "Bottom of the Cup"

PAMELA GEMIN: "Desire"

PAMELA GEMIN: "Raspberries"

PAMELA GEMIN: "What's Going On"

REGINALD GIBBONS: "After Weng Wei"

REGINALD GIBBONS: "Logic"

REGINALD GIBBONS: "Refuge"

JOHN GILGUN: "Ahab's Son"

JOHN GILGUN: "The Ant in the Shadow of This Blade of Grass"

ELLEN GOLDSTEIN: "You Ask If I Have Plans"

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"

TAYLOR GRAHAM: "Listening for Answers"

WILLIAM GREENWAY: "Good Stories"

CAROLYN GUINZIO: "Floor & Wall"

ANNE HAINES: "Swallowed"

H.PALMER HALL: "A Dream of Hoops"

H. PALMER HALL:"Ghost Lights"

H. PALMER HALL: "New Names"

H. PALMER HALL: "Something"

H. PALMER HALL: "A Sonnet for Napalm"

H. PALMER HALL: "Vietnam Roulette"

CAROL HAMILTON: "Tourists"

JAMES HARMS: "Keep My Word"

GWEN HART: "Spell"

PENNY HARTER: "Archaeology"

PENNY HARTER: "The Lens of Fire"

DANIEL HENRY: "Jumpshots in the Dark"

GREGG HERTZLIEB: "Scraper"

BERNHARD HILLILA: "Grant Park Concert"

BERNHARD HILLILA: "Plaza Beach Motel"

BERNHARD HILLILA: "Sand Mining"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "The History of the Wedge"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "Knowing"

JONATHAN HOLDEN: "The Names of the Rapids"

RANDALL HORTON: "A Blues Birthed into Go-Go"

ANN HOSTETLER: "Heirlooms"

PAUL HOSTOVSKY: "Bagpiper Among the Geese"

T.R. HUMMER: "Evening Report"

T.R. HUMMER: "Everything That Is the Case"

JASON HUSKEY: "34-Counter"

JOSEPH HUTCHISON: "White Peak"

COLETTE INEZ: "Doors"

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"

GRAY JACOBIK: "The Apple Tree"

GRAY JACOBIK: "Sasturgi: Wind-Sculpted Snow"

RHODA JANZEN: "Fingerling Lice Cup"

RHODA JANZEN: "First Time"

HALVARD JOHNSON: "Nimbus"

HALVARD JOHNSON: "Obligation"

DOUG JONES: "Coverings"

MARIE C. JONES: "Cape Cod"

NATHAN S.JONES: "Man Looking into the Sea"

ALLISON JOSEPH: "Little Epiphanies"

DAVID JOSEPH: "Childhood"

ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU: "Holy Agony"

MARILYN KALLET: "Dr. Robert Darwin Weighs In"

JULIE KANE: "Frequencies"

JEN KARETNICK: "Millipedes in the Wet Season"

JULIA KASDORF: "Seasonal Work"

GREG KEELER: "Our Pleasant Assassins"

GREG KEELER: "Under the River's Rush"

ROBIN KEMP: "Climbing"

LAURA KENNELLY: "Pre-Op"

JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL: "Bang"

RUSS KESLER: "From a Fifties Childhood"

RUSS KESLER: "Self Portrait"

CLAIRE KEYES: "Sand into Stone"

ATHENA KILDEGAARD: "Middle Age"

DAVID KIRBY: "Funny Anything"

DAVID KIRBY: "Joe Louis in Idaho"

LEIGH KIRKLAND: "Flautist at the Al Fresco Wedding"

ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER: "The Creamy Gardenia"

JEFF KNORR: "Hands"

JEFF KNORR: "Winter Turkeys"

JOHN KNOX: "Pentecost: 30 June 1993"

JAN KOENEN: "August"

JESSICA DE KONINCK: "The Funhouse"

MIRIAM N. KOTZIN: "Remission"

KAREN KOVACIK: "Flooding the House"

NORBERT KRAPF: "The Blueberry Bush"

NORBERT KRAPF: "Still Dark"

THEA S. KUTICKA: "At the Department of Motor Vehicles"

CHERYL LACHOWSKI: "The Burn"

CHERYL LACHOWSKI: "Looking West"

SARA LAMERS: "In My Religion"

DORIANNE LAUX: "Mine Own Phil Levine"

GARY LECHLITER: "Bobby Signs Bluegrass"

LISA LEWIS: "A Threat in May"

LAURENCE LIEBERMAN: "Angel at the Helm"

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: "Mercies"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Prayer on Janet's Birthday"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Talking to My Father About God"

FRANNIE LINDSAY: "Walking an Old Woman into the Sea"

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 is a Shell Like Regret'"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "Hunger in the Morning"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "Last Dance"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "Temptation by Water"

DIANE LOCKWARD: "The Temptation of Mirage"

RACHEL LODEN: "Continental Drift"

RACHEL LODEN: "Reconstructed Face"

JOEL LONG: "Cold June"

JOANNE LOWERY: "At the Farmer's Market, Death"

JENNIFER MACPHERSON: "Aphasia"

AL MAGINNES: "The Moon as Absence and Desire"

HEATHER MARING: "Taco Bell, Hannibal, Missouri"

CHRISTA MASTRANGELO: "O"

SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS: "Miracle Day"

SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS: "Zones of Providence"

WILLIAM MATTHEWS: "On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H."

GREG MCBRIDE: "Dead Man's Word"

GREG MCBRIDE: "The Occupation"

JANET MCCANN: "The Bookstore on Broadway in Albany: AWP Conference 1999"

JANET MCCANN: "Taking Off the Face"

JOEL MCCOLLOUGH: "Cards Every Friday"

JOEL MCCOLLOUGH: "Scroll"

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"

MOLLY MELLINGER: "Dziadek"

MICHAEL MEYERHOFER: "Portrait of a Midwestern Exile on Wheels"

CHELLE MIKO: "Pickpocket"

PEGGY MILLER: "Trees and Air"

NORMAN MINNICK: "For a Wounded Hawk"

JUDITH MONTGOMERY: "Death Slips Up at Ristorante Monte Carlo"

JUDITH MONTGOMERY: "Vacation"

JULIE L. MOORE: "Afterlife"

RICK MULKEY: "Connecting the Dots"

KATHLEEN MULLEN: "Cleome"

KATHLEEN MULLEN: "Narcissus"

KAY MULLEN: "An Dinh Palace"

KAY MULLEN: "You Ask Why I Left"

JIM MURPHY: "Basement Occupations"

STEVE MYERS: "Brief Conversation, Milbridge, ME"

ERIC NELSON: "In Her Memory"

MURIEL NELSON: "In a Fog"

PAUL NELSON: "Busy"

JEFF NEWBERRY: "Pantoum on a Line by Weldon Kees"

RICHARD NEWMAN: "Old Lady at the Beach"

JOEY NICOLETTI: "The Cook-Out"

JOEY NICOLETTI: "Maintenance"

MIL NORMAN-RISCH: "Downingsville Road, Vermont"

RICHARD O'CONNELL: "Voladores"

ALICIA OSTRIKER: "Surface/Draft 6"

MARTIN OTT: "Breathless"

JAMES OWENS: "Temple"

ELISE PASCHEN: "Cicadas"

ELISE PASCHEN: "Hive"

ELISE PASCHEN: "Moving In"

LEE PASSARELLA: "Immanence"

RICHARD PAU-LLOSA: "Flight to L.A."

JOANNA PEARSON: "The Conjoined Twins"

JOEL PECKHAM: "Blind Spots"

JOEL PECKHAM: "My Son, Five, Dancing"

JOEL PECKHAM: "Nightwalking"

NICOLE PEKARSKE: "On the Birth of My Mother's Youngest Brother"

MARGARET PERRY: "At Stes. Maries de la Mer, Summer 1977"

MARGARET PERRY: "Snow Apples"

ALLAN PETERSON: "Singing and a House"

ALLAN PETERSON: "Superstition"

ROGER PFINGSTON: "Mountain Fog"

ROGER PFINGSTON: "Parking, 1958"

KEVIN PILKINGTON: "Capri"

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"

JOHN POPIELASKI: "Detachment"

DONNA PUCCIANI: "Jet Lag"

KEVIN RABAS: "Reseed"

DOUG RAMSPECK: "Bright Snake"

DOUG RAMSPECK: "Waterbourne"

D'ARCY RANDALL: "Frequencies"

GREG RAPPLEYE: "The Apprentice Lithographer's Story"

GREG RAPPLEYE: "Sun Gems CA. 1864-1865"

ROCHELLE RATNER: "Fish Tank"

MICHELE REESE: "Plant Life"

THOMAS REITER: "Forcing the Forsythia"

CAROL COFFEE REPOSA: "Lines Composed in the Computer Classroom"

THOMAS REYNOLDS: "Klamanth Jazz Festival"

REBECCA REYNOLDS: "From Latin Insula or Island"

F. DANIEL RZICZNEK: "Green Tree Memento"

SUSAN RICH: "Aperture"

SUSAN RICH: "Waving Goodbye to River Road"

SUSAN RICH: "You Might Consider"

TAD RICHARDS: "Three Days"

KATHERINE RIEGEL: "Some River"

JAMES RIOUX: "Possum"

SUZANNE ROBERTS: "Rain in Venice"

ANDRÉS RODRIGUEZ: "The Late Age"

SEAN DAVID ROSS: "Yartzeit"

LEE ROSSI: "Snake Skin"

DAVID ROTHMAN: "Some Accusations"

JOHN RUFF: "'July, 1935-1943' (from a painting by Charles Burchfield)"

HELEN RUGGIERI: "After The Hands by Paul Delvaux: A Family Portrait"

LEX RUNCIMAN: "Broadmoor"

LEX RUNCIMAN: "How Dawn Begins"

LEX RUNCIMAN: "I Noticed the Peaches"

DON RUSS: "Myself in You"

DANIEL SAALFELD: "Snake Meat"

MICHAEL SALCMAN: "Metonomy: Part for the Whole"

JORDAN SANDERSON: "Oral Hygiene"

SHEROD SANTOS: "Black Corsage (1880-1918)"

SHEROD SANTOS: "Airport Security"

SHEROD SANTOS: "A Writer's Life"

TERRENCE SAVOIE: "Ma Mére"

RICHARD SCHIFFMAN: "Aftermath"

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"

NIC SEBASTIAN: "The Olive Farmer"

PETER SERCHUK: "Not Like This Rose"

PETER SERCHUK: "Reveille for a Winter Morning"

DEEMA K. SHEHABI: "Of Harvest and Flight"

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: "Digging Up Peonies"

VIVIAN SHIPLEY: "First Blood"

RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: "Evening in Vezelay"

RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS: "Parmigianino Thinking"

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"

JEFFREY SKINNER: "Event Horizons"

FLOYD SKLOOT: "At Rowan Oak"

FLOYD SKLOOT: "Labor Day Party"

FLOYD SKLOOT: "The Moonlight Manuscript, 1696"

LEE SLONIMSKY: "Pythagoras Goes to Work"

DAVE SMITH: "Ailanthus"

DAVE SMITH: "Glasses"

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"

VINCENT SPINA: "Before Dawn: Otavalo Market"

JOANNIE STANGELAND: "When the Nights Lie Down White"

CATHERINE STAPLES: "Hacking Out"

RICARDO STERNBERG: "Paulito's Birds"

JEANINE STEVENS: "A Date at the La Brea Tar Pits"

JEANINE STEVENS: "The Meaning of Monoliths"

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"

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"

TERESE SVOBODA: "Octopus"

ELIZABETH SWADOS: "The Dark Ages"

MARILYN TAYLOR: "Poem for a 75th Birthday"

MARILYN TAYLOR: "Rondeau: Old Woman with Cat"

ALEXANDRA TEAGUE: "Hurricane Season"

LARRY THOMAS: "Goldfish"

LARRY THOMAS: "Oyster"

DWAYNE THORPE: "Freeze Frame"

LIZ TILTON: "Alto"

DANIEL TOBIN: "BB"

DANIEL TOBIN: "Hearth 'n Kettle"

DANIEL TOBIN: "Hope Chest"

DANIEL TOBIN: "The House"

J.L. TORRES: "Legacy"

ALISON TOWNSEND: "Great Horned Owl"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Death of a Doorman"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Flowering Pear"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Light Riddles"

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO: "Small Girl in a Gift Shop"

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"

SALLY VAN DOREN: "Shill"

SUSAN VARNOT: "Impressionism"

KATHRINE VARNES: Four Sonnets from "His Next Ex-Wife"

KATHRINE VARNES: "Frequencies"

ANGELA VOGEL: "Rosebud, or Now That I Am Older"

CONSTANCE VOGEL: "At the Pool in the YWCA"

BENJAMIN VOGT: "Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954"

LYNN WAGNER: "Woman Blowing Soap Bubbles"

DAVI WALDER: "Dr. Levi-Montalcini's Passion"

DAVI WALDER: "Fighting with Nothing"

VALERIE WALLACE: "Travel"

MARTIN WALLS: "A Bend in Onondaga Creek"

WILLIAM H. WANDLESS: "Sojourner's Séance"

LAURA LEE WASHBURN: "How To Live in This World"

Bob Watts: "Map of the Unknown World"

SCOTT WELVAERT: "Pushing a Dodge Charger into a Gas Station"

INGRID WENDT: "Armistice"

INGRID WENDT: "The Keeper of Secrets"

INGRID WENDT: "True to Form"

LESLEY WHEELER: "Frequencies"

LESLEY WHEELER: "Tornado Season"

JAMES R.WHITLEY: "Postcard from Orbis Tertius"

JAMES R.WHITLEY: "Nights of Gin and Ashes"

ANNE WILSON: "Taranto"

STEVEN WINN: "Masaya"

ROSEMARY WINSLOW: "Kingdom of Cloth, Three Women, A Naked Boy"

VINCENT WIXON: "Simple Pleasures"

VALERIE WOHLFELD: "Heart: Specimen"

VALERIE WOHLFELD: "Villanelle: Wedding Portrait"

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"

FREDRICK ZYDEK: "Family Secrets"