| A. R. Ammons, Motion Which Disestablishes Organizes Everything |
| Appeared in: The Hudson Review |
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| Ralph Angel, Shadow Play |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Rae Armantrout, Bases |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| John Ash, Memories of Italy |
| Appeared in: Disbelief |
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| John Ashbery, One Coat of Paint |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Ted Berrigan, My Autobiography |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Chinese Space |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| George Bradley, Noch Einmal, an Orpheus |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Stefan Brecht, Momentariness |
| Appeared in: Tyuonyi |
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| Joseph Brodsky, To Urania |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Nicholas Christopher, Miranda inReno |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Marc Cohen, Mecox Road |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Wanda Coleman, Essay on Language |
| Appeared in: Heavy Daughter Blues |
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| Clark Coolidge, A Monologue |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Alfred Corn, New Year |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Douglas Crase, Dog Star Sale |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Robert Creeley, The Dream |
| Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse |
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| Tom Disch, In Memoriam |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Kenward Elmslie, Top O' Silo |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| Alice Fulton, Losing It |
| Appeared in: Epoch |
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| Amy Gerstler, marriage |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Jorie Graham, On Difficulty |
| Appeared in: The End of Beauty |
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| Deborah Greger, Snow White and Rose Red |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Allen Grossman, The Piano Player Explains Himself |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Barbara Guest, Words |
| Appeared in: Tyuonyi |
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| Rachel Hadas, Nourishment |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Donald Hall, Prophecy |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Robert Hass, Thin Air |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Seamus Heaney, A Shooting Script |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Anthony Hecht, Envoi |
| Appeared in: The Yale Review |
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| Gerrit Henry, The Confessions of Gerrit |
| Appeared in: Mudfish |
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| John Hollander, An Old Story is Retold |
| Appeared in: Partisan Review |
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| Richard Howard, The Foreigner Remembered by a Local Man |
| Appeared in: For Nelson Mandela |
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| Donald Justice, Nostalgia of the Lakefronts |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Robert Kelly, Hercules Musarum |
| Appeared in: Tyuonyi |
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| Kevin Killiam, Pasolini |
| Appeared in: Shiny International |
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| August Kleinzahler, Soda Water with a Boyhood Friend |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Carolina Knox, Movement Along the Frieze |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Kenneth Koch, What People Say About Paris |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| John Koethe, Mistral |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Philip Lamantia, Unachieved |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Ann Lauterbach, Psyche's Dream |
| Appeared in: Before Recollection |
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| David Lehman, Operation Memory |
| Appeared in: Shenandoah |
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| Philip Levine, A Walk with Tom Jefferson |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Nathaniel Mackey, Degree Four |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| Michael Malinowitz, Funeral March for a Papagallo |
| Appeared in: Aerial |
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| Tom Mandel, Hungry and Waiting |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Harry Matthews, Histoire |
| Appeared in: Armenian Papers |
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| Bernadette Mayer, Holding the Thought of Love |
| Appeared in: Exquisite Corpse |
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| James Merrill, Farewell Performance |
| Appeared in: Grand Street |
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| Eileen Myles, Public Television |
| Appeared in: Shiny International |
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| A. L. Nielson, Route E |
| Appeared in: Aerial |
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| Ron Padgett, Light As Air |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Michael Palmer, From C |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Bob Perelman, Politics |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Robert Pinsky, The Hearts |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Donald Revell, St. Lucy's Day |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Joe Ross, From Act I, Scene II of Guards of the Heart |
| Appeared in: Aerial |
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| Leslie Scalapino, Jumping-jack flash |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| James Schuyler, Let's All Hear It for Mildred Bailey! |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| David Shapiro, Empathy for David Winfield |
| Appeared in: Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball |
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| Charles Simic, St Thomas Aquinas |
| Appeared in: Antaeus |
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| Gary Snyder, Walking the New York Bedrock Alive in the Sea of Information |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Ruth Stone, The Latest Hotel Guest Walks Over Particles That Revolve in Seven Other Dimensions Controlling Latticed Space |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| May Swenson, Dummy, 51, to Go to Museum. Ventriloquist Dead at 75 |
| Appeared in: In Other Words |
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| James Tate, Neighbors |
| Appeared in: Sonora Review |
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| Lydia Tomkiw, Six of Ox Is |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Derek Walcott, Elsewhere |
| Appeared in: The Arkansas Testament |
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| Rosanne Wasserman, Inuit and Seal |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Majorie Welish, Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved |
| Appeared in: O.blek |
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| Susan Wheeler, What Memory Reveals |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Richard Wilbur, Trolling for Blues |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Alan Williamson, Recitation for Dismantling the Hydrogen Bomb |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| John Yau, Genghis Chan: Private Eye |
| Appeared in: Sulfur |
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| Geoffrey Young, Drive, It Said |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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