| A. R. Ammons, Garbage |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| John Ashbery, Baked Alaska |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Michael Atkinson, The Same Trouble with Beauty You've Always Had |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| Stephen Berg, Cold Cash |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Sophie Cabot Black, Interrogation |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Stephanie Brown, Chapter One |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Charles Bukowski, Three Oranges |
| Appeared in: OnTheBus |
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| Hayden Carruth, At His Last Gig |
| Appeared in: The Ohio Review |
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| Tom Clark, Statue |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Killarney Clary, "An Unlikely One Will Guide Me..." |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Marc Cohen, Sometimes in Winter |
| Appeared in: Santa Monica Review |
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| Billy Collins, Tuesday, June 4th, 1991 |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Peter Cooley, Macular Degeneration |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| Carolyn Creedon, litany |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Barbara Cully, Repressed Theme |
| Appeared in: Free Lunch |
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| Carl Dennis, The Window in Spring |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Tim Dlugos, Healing the World from Battery Park |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Stephen Dobyns, Favorite Iraqi Soldier |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Denise Duhamel, Feminism |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| Stephen Dunn, The Vanishings |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Roger Fanning, Shoelace |
| Appeared in: Phoebe |
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| Alice B. Fogel, The Necessity |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Tess Gallagher, One Kiss |
| Appeared in: Fine Madness |
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| Albert Goldbarth, Life Is Happy, |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Jorie Graham, What the Instant Contains |
| Appeared in: Epoch |
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| Allen Grossman, Great Work Farm Elegy |
| Appeared in: Colorado Review |
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| Thom Gunn, The Butcher's Son |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Donald Hall, Pluvia |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Mark Halliday, Vegetable Wisdom |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Daniel Halpern, Argument |
| Appeared in: Western Humanities Review |
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| Paul Hoover, Theory |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| David Ignatow, Absolutely |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Josephine Jacobsen, Hourglass |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Rodney Jones, Grand Projection |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Donald Justice, Invitation to a Ghost |
| Appeared in: Sewanee Theological Review |
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| Robert Kelly, Mapping |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Jane Kenyon, Having It Out with Melancholy |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Pamela Kircher, Looking at the Sea |
| Appeared in: The Ohio Review |
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| Kenneth Koch, Talking to Patrizia |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Phyllis Koestenbaum, Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor |
| Appeared in: Poetry New York |
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| Stanley Kunitz, Chariot |
| Appeared in: The Gettysburg Review |
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| Denise Levertov, In California During the Gulf War |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Lisa Lewis, The Urinating Man |
| Appeared in: Poetry East |
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| Thomas Lux, Grim Town in a Steep Valley |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Elizabeth Macklin, The Nearsighted |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Tom Mandel, Open Rebuke (Concealed Love) |
| Appeared in: Hambone |
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| James McMichael, from The Person She Is |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Sandra McPherson, Waiting for Lesser Duckweed: On a Proposal of lssa's |
| Appeared in: Iowa Review |
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| W.S. Merwin, The Stranger |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Susan Mitchell, Rapture |
| Appeared in: Provincetown Arts |
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| A. F. Moritz, April Fool's Day, Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
| Appeared in: The Spoon River Quarterly |
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| Mary Oliver, Poppies |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Ron Padgett, Advice to Young Writers |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Michael Palmer, Who Is to Say |
| Appeared in: Epoch |
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| Lucia Maria Perillo, Skin |
| Appeared in: Ontario Review |
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| Wang Ping, Of Flesh and Spirit |
| Appeared in: The World |
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| Lawrence Raab, Magic Problems |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Adrienne Rich, Not Somewhere Else, But Here |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Laura Riding, Makeshift |
| Appeared in: Chelsea |
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| Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Hugh Seidman, Icon |
| Appeared in: Pequod |
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| Charles Simic, This Morning |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Louis Simpsom, Suddenly |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Gary Snyder, Ripples on the Surface |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Gerald Stern, Coleman Valley Road |
| Appeared in: Black Warrior Review |
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| Ruth Stone, That Winter |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Mark Strand, from Dark Harbor |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| James Tate, In My Own Backyard |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| John Updike, To a Former Mistress, Now Dead |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Ellen Bryant Voigt, Song and Story |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Susan Wheeler, A Filial Republic |
| Appeared in: No Roses Review |
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| C. K. Williams, A Dream of Mind: The Gap |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Dean Young, The Business of Love Is Cruelty |
| Appeared in: Poetry East |
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