| Jonathan Aaron, Dance Mania |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Agha Shahid Ali, I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| John Ash, The Ungrateful Citizens |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| John Ashbery, Poem at the New Year |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Robin Behn, Midwestern Villanelle |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Charles Bernstein, How I Painted Certain of My Pictures |
| Appeared in: Hambone |
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| George Bilgere, Healing |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Elizabeth Bishop, Dear, My Compass... |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Robert Bly, The Crippled Godwit |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Lucie Brock-Broido, Inevitably, She Declined |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Joseph Brodsky, Homage to Gerolamo Marcello |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Hayden Carruth, Sex |
| Appeared in: The Sewanee Review |
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| Billy Collins, Nostalgia |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Robert Creeley, Other |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Kathleen de Azevedo, Famous Women--Claudette Colbert |
| Appeared in: Fine Madness |
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| Carl Dennis, Spring Letter |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Deborah Digges, My Amaryllis |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Stephen Dunn, Smiles |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Susan Firer, The Bright Waterfall of Angels |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Alice Fulton, A Little Heart-to-Heart with the Horizon |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Tess Gallagher, We're All Pharaohs When We Die |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Amy Gerstler, On Wanting to Grow Horns |
| Appeared in: Witness |
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| Jack Gilbert, Voices Inside and Out |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Louise Glück, Vespers |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Jill Gonet, Body Will |
| Appeared in: ZYZZYVA |
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| Jorie Graham, Manifest Destiny |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Allen Grossman, Poland of Death (IV) |
| Appeared in: Tikkun |
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| Marilyn Hacker, Elysian Fields |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Donald Hall, Spring Glen Grammar School |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Daniel Halpern, Infidelities |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Robert Hass, My Mother's Nipples |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Vickie Hearne, St. Luke Painting the Virgin |
| Appeared in: Raritan |
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| Juan Felipe Herrera, Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Edward Hirsch, Man on a Fire Escape |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Daniel Hoffman, Identities |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| John Hollander, Days of Autumn |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Richard Howard, Like Most Revelations |
| Appeared in: Boston Pheonix |
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| Lynda Hull, Lost Fugue for Chet |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Lawrence Joseph, Some Sort of Chronicler I Am |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Galway Kinnell, The Man on the Hotel Room Bed |
| Appeared in: The Ohio Review |
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| Carolyn Kizer, Twelve O'clock |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Phyllis Koestenbaum, Admission of Failure |
| Appeared in: Epoch |
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| Sharon Krinsky, Mystery Stories |
| Appeared in: Brooklyn Review |
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| Maxine Kumin, Saga: Four Variations on the Sonnet |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Evelyn Lao, Green |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| Li-Young Lee, This Hour and What Is Dead |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Dionisio D. Martínez, Across These Landscapes of Early Darkness |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Mekeel McBride, All Hallows' Eve |
| Appeared in: North American Review |
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| James McCorkle, " . . .The Storm is Passing Over"; She Sang |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Jerry McGuire, Terminal |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Sandra McPherson, Choosing an Author for Assurance in the Night |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Robert Morgan, Honey |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Thylias Moss, An Anointing |
| Appeared in: Epoch |
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| Carol Muske, Red Trousseau |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Mary Oliver, Rain |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Michael Palmer, Eighth Sky |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Robert Pinsky, Avenue |
| Appeared in: Boston Pheonix |
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| Lawrence Raab, The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Liam Rector, The Night the Lightning Bugs Lit Last in the Field Then Went Their Way |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Donald Revell, Plenitude |
| Appeared in: New Letters |
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| Adrienne Rich, For a Friend in Travail |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Len Roberts, We Sat, So Patient |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Lynda Schraufnagel, Trial |
| Appeared in: Western Humanities Review |
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| Elizabeth Spires, Good Friday. Driving Westward. |
| Appeared in: The New Criterion |
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| Rachel Srubas, I Want to Marry You |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| David St. John, Lucifer in Starlight |
| Appeared in: Denver Quarterly |
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| Richard Tillinghast, Anatolian Journey |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Lewis Turco, Kamelopard |
| Appeared in: The Formalist |
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| Chase Twichell, Word Silence |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Rosanna Warren, Necrophiliac |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Ioanna-Veronika Warwick, Eyeglasses |
| Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse |
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| C. K. Williams, The Knot |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Charles Wright, Winter-Worship |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Franz Wright, Depiction of Childhood |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Stephen Yenser, Vertumnal |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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