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| Preface | |
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| Editor's Note to the Reader | |
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| First Poem for You | |
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| Onset | |
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| The Way of the World | |
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| Night of the Living, Night of the Dead | |
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| The Magical Glass: Addonizio on Duende and Desire | |
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| Veterans Day | |
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| Cities of the Fifties (A Glose) | |
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| Being Taught | |
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| Lost Love | |
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| The Cove | |
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| Then | |
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| Dignity | |
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| Still Waters | |
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| Allen on Transforming New Formalism and New Narrative | |
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| Starlight | |
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| Patriotics | |
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| Snow Figure | |
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| Benton's Clouds | |
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| My Suspicious Best: Baker on the Double-Exposed Narrative | |
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| Snowbanks North of the House | |
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| Bly on Assertions and Associations | |
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| Ars Poetica: The Influence of Lady Mary Wroth | |
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| Bugeja on the Sonnet Crown | |
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| In Search of the Mythology of Do Wah Wah | |
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| The California Crack | |
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| You Judge a Man By the Silence He Keeps | |
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| Prove It Why Don't You | |
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| All of That | |
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| Neruda | |
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| Hand Dance | |
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| Muse & Mastery—Coleman on the Poet-in-Progress | |
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| A History of Weather | |
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| Questions About Angels | |
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| Nightclub | |
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| The Ride of Poetry: Collins on Metaphor and Movement | |
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| Ego | |
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| Superego | |
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| Id | |
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| Duhamel on the Serial Poem | |
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| Desire | |
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| Tenderness | |
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| Something Like Happiness | |
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| Ars Poetica | |
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| The Guardian Angel | |
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| A Postmortem Guide | |
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| Imagining Myself My Father | |
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| Midwest | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| A Commentary on "Artful Talk," Dunn on Drift and Counterdrift | |
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| Sirens | |
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| Windy City | |
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| Three Nocturnes | |
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| Today, Tonight | |
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| Overhead Fan | |
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| Inspiration | |
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| Dybek on Pleasure and Mystery | |
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| Kiva Floor at Abo | |
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| Federico Garcia Lorca's Desk | |
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| I am Afraid of the Moon | |
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| Kick the Heart | |
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| Under the Freeway in El Paso | |
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| White | |
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| The Composition of Landscape: Gonzalez on Place and Imagination | |
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| The Wish | |
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| Bottom of the Ocean | |
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| Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem Radical Neck | |
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| To Err is Humid | |
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| Process of Elimination | |
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| Hicok on Getting Out of Your Poem's Way | |
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| For What Binds Us | |
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| The Love of Aged Horses | |
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| The Weighing | |
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| Three Foxes By the Edge of the Field at Twilight | |
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| The Poet | |
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| In Praise of Coldness | |
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| Tree | |
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| The Envoy | |
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| Hirshfield on Mysterious Making, Revision as Instruction, and the Hunt for a Way to Go On | |
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| Sestina | |
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| Corrections | |
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| The Gift | |
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| February 10 | |
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| Lehman on the Writer's Life | |
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| In Flagrante Delicto | |
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| Lui on Being Caught Red-Handed in the Act of Writing (A Self Interview) | |
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| Indian Summer Gives Way to the Land of the Rising Sun | |
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| Adiss Again, My Blessed Angel of Thunderheads and Urine | |
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| One Man's Opinion: Louis on Madness and Inspiration | |
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| Capitalist Poem #5 | |
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| Rock and Roll | |
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| The Past Seen as Burning Fields | |
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| Delphos, Ohio | |
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| The Prose Poem | |
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| The Orange | |
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| McGrath on Creating Your Own Rules | |
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| Ode to Good Men Fallen Before Hero Came | |
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| The Poet, Trying to Surprise God | |
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| Rage | |
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| Liquid Paper | |
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| Scars | |
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| The Secret Code | |
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| Seven & Seven | |
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| A Meditation on You & Wittgenstein | |
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| Assisted Living | |
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| Zinc Fingers | |
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| Meinke the Potential of Form | |
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| When I am Asked | |
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| The Triumph of Life | |
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| Mueller on Persistence | |
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| I Go Back to May | |
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| The Missing Boy | |
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| Little Things | |
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| The Race | |
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| The Knowing | |
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| The Promise | |
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| 5" a Peek | |
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| His Costume | |
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| The Space Heater | |
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| Silence, With Two Texts | |
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| Olds on Rhythm and Revision | |
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| Lee Ann Roripaugh | |
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| Pearls | |
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| The Woman Who Loves Insects | |
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| Octopus in the Freezer | |
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| Roripaugh on Revision and Love | |