Jean Valentine: The Carriers, Gray, Hospital: far from home, Hospital: Dearest, Hosptial: strange lights, Hospital: it was euphoria, Hosptial: scraps, Lord of the world! Soft, But your touch was everywhere, Lord, Mattress on the floor, The Eleventh Brother (2), Once I was girls and boys—now, Jesus said, Fix Anything
Alicia Ostriker: Ecclesiastes as Witness: A Personal Essay
John Updike: Elegy for a Real Golfer, Bird Caught in My Deer Netting
Alan Dugan: Life Comparison, Variation on a Theme by Stevens, Jewels of Indoor Glass, Cop-Shooting: On a Newspaper Photograph, Untitled Poem, Boast, Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli
Mary Leader: Ubi Sunt, Husbandry, Three Tortoises
Reginald Shepherd: Come This Far
Stanley Plumly: Studio (In the Studio)
Antonin Artaud: I Spit on the Innate Christ, To Be Christ Is Not To Be Jesus Christ (translated by Clayton Eshleman and Bernard Bador)
Clayton Eshleman: A Note on Antonin Artaud
Maxwell King: Elegy for Ingrid
Glenna Luschei: Waterlilies
Martha Kinney: Let Me Go (Postcard from the Trembly Bird)
Ross Gay: Song of the Pig Who Gave the Poet, Age 3, Worms
John Yau: Poetry in Motion (A column)
Elaine Sexton: Monoprint of a Shoe, Denizen, Turnstile
Robert Pinsky: Pliers, Banknote, The Dig, If the Dead Came Back, Louie Louie, The Poet on the Poem: Louie Louie
Margo Tamez: The Digging Hole, What She Knows, Playing Hangman
Ira Sadoff: Book Review: Dreaming Creatures (Stern, Gerald, What I Can't Bear Losing, New York: W.W. Norton, 2003; Williams, C.K., The Singing, New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 2003)
Ira Sadoff: Something Vagabond Stokes the Furnace