| John Ashbery, Alcove |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Sandra Beasley, Unit of Measure |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Mark Bibbins, The Devil You Don't |
| Appeared in: Glass Technology |
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| Todd Boss, My Dog Has No Nose |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Fleda Brown, Roofers |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Fleda Brown, The Dead |
| Appeared in: Southern Poetry Review |
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| Anne Carson, Wildly Constant |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Tom Clark, Fidelity |
| Appeared in: Vanitas |
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| David Clewell, This Poem Had Better Be about the World We Actually Live In |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Michael Collier, An Individual History |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Billy Collins, Grave |
| Appeared in: The Atlantic Monthly |
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| Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man |
| Appeared in: The Agriculture Reader |
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| Kate Daniels, from A Walk in Victoria's Secret |
| Appeared in: Women's Review of Books |
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| Peter Davis, Four Addresses |
| Appeared in: Double Room |
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| Tim Dlugos, Come in from the Rain |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Denise Duhamel, Play |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Thomas Sayers Ellis, Presidential Blackness |
| Appeared in: The Oxford American |
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| Lynn Emanuel, Dear Final Journey, |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Elaine Equi, What Is It about Hands? |
| Appeared in: LIT |
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| Jill Alexander Essbaum, Apologia |
| Appeared in: Image |
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| B. H. Fairchild, On the Waterfront |
| Appeared in: The Sewanee Review |
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| Vievee Frances, Smoke under the Bale |
| Appeared in: Callaloo |
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| Louise Glück, At the River |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Albert Goldbarth, What's Left |
| Appeared in: Boulevard |
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| Amy Glynn Greacen, Namaskar |
| Appeared in: Sewanee Theological Review |
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| Sonia Greenfield, Passing the Barnyard Graveyard |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Kelle Groom, Oh don't |
| Appeared in: Witness |
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| Gabriel Gudding, And What, Friends, Is Called a Road? |
| Appeared in: Action Yes Online Quarterly |
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| Kimiko Hahn, The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu |
| Appeared in: Court Green |
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| Barbara Hamby, Five Lingo Sonnets |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Terrance Hayes, I Just Want to Look |
| Appeared in: MiPoesias |
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| Bob Hicok, The Cunning Optimism of Language |
| Appeared in: Conduit |
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| Rodney Jones, North Alabama Endtime |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Michaela Kahn, If I ring my body like a bell of coins, will the shock waves of that sound cause oil rigs & volcanoes to errupt? |
| Appeared in: Sentence |
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| Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Rome |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Corinne Lee, Six from Birds of Self-Knowledge |
| Appeared in: Verse |
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| Hailey Leithauser, Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon |
| Appeared in: Pleiades |
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| Dolly Lemke, I never went to that movie at 12:45 |
| Appeared in: Columbia Poetry Review |
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| Maurice Manning, A Man with a Rooster in His Dream |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Adrian Matejka, Seven Days of Falling |
| Appeared in: Prairie Schooner |
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| Shane McCrae, Pietà |
| Appeared in: West Branch |
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| Jeffrey McDaniel, The Grudge |
| Appeared in: Sonora Review |
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| W. S. Merwin, Identity |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Sarah Murphy, Letter to the Past after Long Silence |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Eileen Myles, The Perfect Faceless Fish |
| Appeared in: The Brooklyn Rail |
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| Camille Norton, The Prison Diary of Bartlett Yancy Malone |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Alice Notley, From Eurynome's Sandals |
| Appeared in: Chicago Review |
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| Sharon Olds, Q |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Gregory Pardlo, Written by Himself |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant |
| Appeared in: Poets & Writers |
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| Carl Phillips, Heaven and Earth |
| Appeared in: Witness |
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| Adrienne Rich, Domain |
| Appeared in: Michigan Quarterly Review |
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| James Richardson, Vectors 2.3: Fifty Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| J. Allyn Rosser, Children's Children Speak |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| James Schuyler, Having My Say-So |
| Appeared in: The Sienese Shredder |
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| Tim Seibles, Allison Wolff |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| David Shapiro, A Visit |
| Appeared in: The Hat |
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| Charles Simic, Carrying on like a Crow |
| Appeared in: The London Review of Books |
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| Frank Stanford, Blue Yodel of Those Who Were Always Telling Me |
| Appeared in: ABZ:A Poetry Magazine |
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| Gerald Stern, Stoop |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Stephen Campbell Sutherland, SATs |
| Appeared in: Open City |
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| James Tate, Depression |
| Appeared in: Conduit |
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| David Trinidad, Black Telephone |
| Appeared in: Tin House |
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| Chase Twichell, The Dark Rides |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| John Updike, Peggy Lutz, Fred Muth 12/13/08 |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Derek Walcott, 21 |
| Appeared in: A Public Space |
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| G. C. Waldrep, Their Faces Shall Be as Flames |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| J. E. Wei, In the Field |
| Appeared in: Sentence |
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| Dara, Wier |
| Appeared in: Open City |
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| Terence Winch, Objects of Spiritual Significance |
| Appeared in: Glass Technology |
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| Catherine Wing, The Darker Soon |
| Appeared in: 32 Poems |
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| Mark Wunderlich, Coyote, with Mange |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Matthew Yeager, From A Jar of Balloons or The Uncooked Rice |
| Appeared in: Sixth Finch |
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| Dean Young, Off the Hook Ode |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Kevin Young, Lime Light Blues |
| Appeared in: Tin House |
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