Introduction / Bill Henderson
Election eve / Evan Connell
Sidereal desire / Eleanor Wilner
A jeweler's eye for flaw / Christie Hodgen
Ecclesiastes / Khaled Mattawa
The dystopianist, thinking of his rival is interrupted by a knock on the door / Jonathan Lethem
A measure of acceptance / Floyd Skloot
The girl in the back seat returns to Pittsburgh / Julia Kasdorf
He ain't Jesus / Malinda McCollum
Shrike tree / Lucia Perillo
At five in the afternoon / George Steiner
Near-extinct birds of the Central Cordillera / Ben Fountain III
Commerce / Michael Waters
The high road / Joan Silber
Song of the Little Zion Baptist Church / Bruce Smith
Cain's legacy / Richard Jackson
Losing my religion / Tracy Mayor
When I died / Mark Irwin.
Little text / Betty Adcock
Lost cities / Rachel Cohen
Before long / Valerie Laken
Ikaria (the night watchers) / Kira Henehan
Three girls / Joyce Carol Oates
Morning glory Harley / Terese Svoboda
Sauteing the platygast / Dean Paschal
Bonfires / Rosanna Warren
Literary devices / Richard Powers
Richard Nixon's 1972 Christmas bombing campaign as gospel / Quan Barry
John Muir's Alaskan rhapsody / Edward Hoagland
The dragon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Why the sky turns red when the sun goes down / Ryan Harty
Poem for the wheat penny (1909-1958) / Judith Hall
Roy Orbison's last three notes / BJ Ward.
Children of God / Eric Puchner
Like water / Elizabeth Spires
Bi bi hua / M. Elaine Mar
Queen City, skins / R.T. Smith
Kavita through glass / Emily Ishem Raboteau
Irish mountain / Pinckney Benedict
Beautiful Nero / Kevin Prufer
The return of the dark children / Robert Coover
Primer of words / David Baker
The lonely doll / Antonya Nelson
Five landscapes / Cole Swensen
Likely lake / Mary Robison
Quarter past blue / Robert Thomas
Poem to some of my recent purchases / Dorothy Barresi.
