| Tom Andrews, Evening Song |
| Appeared in: Rivendell |
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| Ralph Angel, Exceptions and Melancholies |
| Appeared in: Runes |
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| Rae Armantrout, Framing |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| John Ashbery, Pavane pour Helen Twelvetrees |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| Joshua Beckman, * * * |
| Appeared in: Bird Dog |
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| Marvin Bell, Poseur |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Charles Bernstein, Ku(na)hay |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Ciaran Berry, Electrocuting an Elephant |
| Appeared in: Crazyhorse |
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| Frank Bidart, If See No End In Is |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Robert Bly, Wanting Sumptuous Heavens |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| John Casteen, Night Hunting |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Laura Cronk, Entering |
| Appeared in: Lyric |
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| Kate Daniels, Homage to Calvin Spotswood |
| Appeared in: storySouth |
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| Lydia Davis, Men |
| Appeared in: 32 Poems |
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| Erica Dawson, Parallax |
| Appeared in: Sewanee Theological Review |
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| Cornelius Eady, Handymen |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Moira Egan, Millay Goes Down |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Peter Everwine, Aubade in Autumn |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Carolyn Forche, The Museum of Stones |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Chris Forhan, Rock Polisher |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| John Gallaher, In the Book of the Disappearing Book |
| Appeared in: LIT |
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| James Galvin, Girl Without her Nightgown |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Louise Gluck, Threshing |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Jorie Graham, Futures |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Robert Hass, I Am Your Waiter Tonight And My Name Is Dmitri |
| Appeared in: Volt |
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| Bob Hicok, O my pa-pa |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Brenda Hillman, Phone Booth |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Tony Hoagland, Muchness |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Garrett Hongo, Cane Fire |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Richard Howard, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Castor and Pollux |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Mark Jarman, Snoring |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| George Kalamars, Francis Ponge Is on Fire |
| Appeared in: Sentence |
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| Mary Karr, Recuperation From The Dead Love Through Christ And Isaac Babel |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Maxine Kumin, Though He Tarry |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Adrie Kusserow, Skull Trees, South Sudan |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Alex Lemon, from Halleluja Blackout |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Philip Levine, Of Love and Other Disasters |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| J.D. McClatchy, Resignation |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Davis McCombs, The Last Wolf in Edmonson County |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| W. S. Merwin, A Letter to Su Tong P'o |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Susan Mitchell, Ritual |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Paul Muldoon, The Water Cooler |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| D. Nurkse, The Gate of Abraham |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Debra Nystrom, Every Night |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Meghan O'Rourke, The Window at Arles |
| Appeared in: Gulf Coast |
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| Ron Padgett, Method, or Kenneth Koch |
| Appeared in: The Sienese Shredder |
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| Michael Palmer, The Classical Study (4) |
| Appeared in: Fulcrum |
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| D. A. Powell, Cosmos, late blooming |
| Appeared in: Subtropics |
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| Alberto Rios, The Rain That Falls Here |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Tim Ross, then let fall your horrible pleasure |
| Appeared in: Gulf Coast |
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| John Rybicki, Three Lanterns |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Ira Sadoff, American |
| Appeared in: Brilliant Corners |
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| Sherod Santos, World News |
| Appeared in: Raritan |
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| Frederick Seidel, Evening Man |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| Charles Simic, Listen |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| R.T.Smith, Pentecost |
| Appeared in: Notre Dame Review |
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| Patti Smith, Tara |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Dave Snyder, Hexagon: on Truth |
| Appeared in: Quarterly West |
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| Lisa Ross Sparr, Cricket |
| Appeared in: Meridian |
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| David St. John, The Aurora of the New Mind |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Kathryn Starbuck, The Shoe |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Alan Sullivan, Divide and Conquer |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Chad Sweeney, The Sentence |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Mary Szybist, The Troubadours etc. |
| Appeared in: Meridian |
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| James Tate, National Security |
| Appeared in: Volt |
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| Natasha Trethewey, On Captivity |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Lee Upton, Thomas Hardy |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Dara Wier, Faithful |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| C. K. Williams, Light |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Franz Wright, Passing Scenes (While Reading Basho) |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Lynn Xu, [Language exists because] |
| Appeared in: Phoebe |
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| C. Dale Young, Sepsis |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| David Young, The Dead from Iraq |
| Appeared in: ABZ:A Poetry Magazine |
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| Dean Young, No Forgiveness Ode |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Kevin Young, from Book of Hours |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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