Diane Ackerman

Like Your Face

Robert Bly

Brahms

Philip Booth

The Professor's Final Address

David Bottoms

Melville in the Bass Boat

Neal Bowers

Near Myth

Jean Burden

Query

Turner Cassity

The Grateful Minimalist

Billy Collins

Poem ("It's like writing a short letter")
Writing in the Afterlife

Carl Dennis

A Colleague Confesses

Dick Allen

The Adult Section

Tom Disch

Ars Poetica

Gregory Djanikian

First Efforts

Stephen Dobyns

"One was born with an intonation..."
"The seamless arguments he wove..."
"The mansion of his ambition..."
"Love is unqualified."
"Ashamed to ask why..."
"As the hands infer the brain..."
"By not believing in evil..."
"That others praised his modesty..."
"Each destination..,"
"Every bad idea..."
"His ear imposes the faces..."
"You are the song"
"Even his tombstone..."
"Pocket full of keys..."
"His righteousness increased..."
"Rabbit trusts..."
"By choosing praise over achievement..."

Rita Dove

"I have been a stanger in a strange land"

Stephen Dunn

Sisyphus and the Sudden Lightness

Sandra M. Gilbert

Afternoon Walk: The Sea Ranch

Albert Goldbarth

Zero: Terror / Lullaby

Laurence Goldstein

War Babies, Sixty Years On

Eamon Grennan

Shard

Marilyn Hacker

Sonnet on a Line from Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Susan Hahn

The Pity of Punctuation

Daryl Hine

Canzone

Ellen Hinsey

Interdiction

John Hollander

Entwining

Ben Howard

Prose Should Be Transparent

Richard Howard

Another Translator

X. J. Kennedy

Geometry

Galway Kinnell

The Stone Table

John Ashbery

Too Much Sleep Is Bad
On His Reluctance To Take Down the Christmas Ornaments

John Kinsella

Mulga Parrots

Carolyn Kizer

After Horace

Kenneth Koch

A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead

Yusef Komunyakaa

From Autobiography of My Alter Ego ("Summers when Mother & I...)

Maxine W. Kumin

Last Days

Brad Leithauser

Routes

Philip Levine

New Year's Eve, in Hospital

William Logan

Song

J. D. McClatchy

Pibroch

Marvin Bell

The Papers

Joe-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth

An Atheist's Blessing

Sandra McPherson

Virtue Study

W. S. Merwin

To the Blank Spaces

John Montague

Pilgrims
Adam's Apple

Les A. Murray

The Hanging Gardens

Carol Muske-Dukes

Love Song

John Frederick Nims

Now That You're Here

D. Nurske

Saint Luke

Dennis O'Driscoll

In Town

Wendall Berry

Sabbaths 2001

Mary Oliver

White-Eyes

Linda Pastan

All I Want To Say

Robert Pinsky

Paschal

Peter Porter

Afterburner

F. D. Reeve

Home in Wartime

Pattiann Rogers

God and His People

Kay Ryan

Backward Miracle

David Saint John

From The Face (XV)

George Scarbrough

Letter to Shi-te

Robert B. Shaw

Waste

Charles Simic

Autumn Sky

David R. Slavitt

Dying Bird

Charlie Smith

Arrangements

Dave Smith

Coming Down in Ohio

R. T. Smith

Neglect

W. D. Snodgrass

Pacemaker

Gary Soto

Dirt

A. E. Stallings

Sine Qua Non

Timothy Steele

The Middle Years

Gerald Stern

Matins

Lucien Stryk

Gargoyles

James Tate

Half-Eaten

John Tranter

Whisper

David R. Wagoner

For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop

David Wojahn

Scrabble with Matthews

Michael C. Blumenthal

I Think Constantly of Those Who Were Truly Great

Charles Wright

Portrait of the Artist in a Prospect of Stone

Robert Wrigley

Do You Love Me?