| Nin Andrews, Notes for a Sermon on the Mount |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| Rae Armantrout, The Plan |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| John Ashbery, Crossroads in the Past |
| Appeared in: The New York Review of Books |
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| Angela Ball, Jazz |
| Appeared in: The Nebraska Review |
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| Mary Jo Bang, Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Cal Bedient, When the Gods Put on Meter |
| Appeared in: Colorado Review |
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| Elizabeth Bishop, Vague Poem |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Robert Bly, The French Generals |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Lee Ann Brown, Sonnet Around Stephanie |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Michael Burkard, Notes About My Face |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Trent Busch, Heartland |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Amina Calil, Blouse of Felt |
| Appeared in: Faucheuse |
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| Anne Carson, Longing, a documentary |
| Appeared in: The Threepenny Review |
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| Joshua Clover, Ceriserie |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Billy Collins, Snow Day |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Robert Creeley, En Famille |
| Appeared in: Boston Book Review |
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| Lydia Davis, A Mown Lawn |
| Appeared in: McSweeney's |
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| R. Erica Doyle, Ma Ramon |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Christopher Edgar, The Cloud of Unknowing |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Thomas Sayers Ellis, T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Amy England, The Art of the Snake Story |
| Appeared in: Quarter After Eight |
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| Alan Feldman, Contemporary American Poetry |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| James Galvin, Little Dantesque |
| Appeared in: Fence |
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| Louise Glück, Time |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Jewelle Gomez, My Chakabuku Mama: a comic tale |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Jorie Graham, Gulls |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| Linda Gregerson, Waterborne |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Linda Gregg, The Singers Change, The Music Goes On |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Allen Grossman, Enough rain for Agnes Walquist |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Donald Hall, Her Garden |
| Appeared in: The Times Literary Supplement |
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| Anthony Hecht, Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-Seven |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Lyn Hejinian, Nights |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| Brenda Hillman, The Formation of Soils |
| Appeared in: The Journal |
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| Jane Hirshfield, In Praise of Coldness |
| Appeared in: Tin House |
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| John Hollander, What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought |
| Appeared in: The New Republic |
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| Richard Howard, After 65 |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Fanny Howe, Doubt |
| Appeared in: Seneca Review |
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| Olena Kalytiak Davis, Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Shirley Kaufman, The Emperor of China |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Galway Kinnell, The Quick and the Dead |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| David Kirby, Dear Derrida |
| Appeared in: The Kenyon Review |
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| Carolyn Kizer, The Ashes |
| Appeared in: The Texas Review |
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| Kenneth Koch, To World War Two |
| Appeared in: Harper's |
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| Noelle Kocot, Consolations Before an Affair, Upper West Side |
| Appeared in: Another Chicago Magazine |
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| John Koethe, Songs of the Valley |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| Yusef Komunyakaa, Seven Deadly Sins |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Mark Levine, Wedding Day |
| Appeared in: Northwest Review |
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| Sarah Manguso, The Rider |
| Appeared in: American Letters & Commentary |
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| J. D. McClatchy, Tattoos |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| Colleen J. McElroy, Mae West Chats It Up with Bessie Smith |
| Appeared in: Crab Orchard Review |
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| Heather McHugh, My One |
| Appeared in: jubilat |
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| Harryette Mullen, Music for Homemade Instruments |
| Appeared in: Facture |
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| Carol Muske Dukes, Our Kitty |
| Appeared in: Evansville Review |
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| Alice Notley, Where Leftover Misery Goes |
| Appeared in: Chain |
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| Sharon Olds, His Costume |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Kathleen Ossip, The Nature of Things |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Grace Paley, Here |
| Appeared in: The Massachusetts Review |
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| Michael Palmer, Untitled (February 2000) |
| Appeared in: Conjunctions |
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| John Peck, A Metal Denser Than, and Liquid |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Lucia Perillo, The Ghost Shirt |
| Appeared in: Pequod |
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| Carl Phillips, The Clearing |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Robert Pinsky, Jersey Rain |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Claudia Rankine, A short narrative of breasts and womb in service of Plot entitled |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Adrienne Rich, Architect |
| Appeared in: The Paris Review |
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| James Richardson, Vectors: Forty-five Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Rachel Rose, "What We Heard About the Japanese" and "What the Japanese Perhaps Heard" |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Mary Ruefle, Furtherness |
| Appeared in: American Letters & Commentary |
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| James Schuyler, Along Overgrown Paths |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Charles Simic, Night Picnic |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Susan Stewart, Apple |
| Appeared in: TriQuarterly |
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| Larissa Szporluk, Meteor |
| Appeared in: The Journal |
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| James Tate, The Diagnosis |
| Appeared in: LIT |
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| Bernard Welt, I stopped writing poetry... |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Dean Young, Sources of the Delaware |
| Appeared in: Volt |
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| Rachel Zucker, In Your Version of Heaven I Am Younger |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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