| Kim Addonizio, Divine |
| Appeared in: Fifth Wednesday Journal |
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| Sherman Alexie, Pachyderm |
| Appeared in: The Awl |
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| Nathan Athanderson, Stupid Sandwich |
| Appeared in: New Ohio Review |
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| Nin Andrews, The Art of Drinking Tea |
| Appeared in: MiPoesias |
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| John Ashbery, Resisting Arrest |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Wendy Barker, Books, Bath Towels, and Beyond |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Jan Beatty, Youngest Known Savior |
| Appeared in: Redivider |
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| Bruce Bond, The Unfinished Slave |
| Appeared in: The Antioch Review |
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| Traci Brimhall, Dear Thanatos, |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Jericho Brown, Hustle |
| Appeared in: The Believer |
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| Andrei Codrescu, Five One-Minute Eggs |
| Appeared in: The House Organ |
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| Billy Collins, Foundling |
| Appeared in: Slate |
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| Martha Collins, [white paper 24] |
| Appeared in: Harvard Review |
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| Kwame Dawes, Death |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Connie Deanovich, Divestiture |
| Appeared in: New American Writing |
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| Timothy Donnelly, Apologies from the Ground Up |
| Appeared in: A Public Space |
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| Stephen Dunn, The Statue of Responsibility |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Daisy Fried, This Need Not Be a Comment on Death |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Amy Gerstler, Womanishness |
| Appeared in: Court Green |
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| Louise Glück, Afterword |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Henry's Song |
| Appeared in: Plume |
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| Terrance Hayes, New Jersey Poem |
| Appeared in: The Los Angeles Review |
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| Rebecca Hazelton, Book of Forget |
| Appeared in: AGNI |
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| Elizabeth Hazen, Thanatosis |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| John Hennessy, Green Man, Blue Pill |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| David Hernandez, All-American |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Tony Hoagland, Wrong Question |
| Appeared in: Fifth Wednesday Journal |
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| Anna Maria Hong, A Parable |
| Appeared in: Boston Review |
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| Major Jackson, Why I Write Poetry |
| Appeared in: Ploughshares |
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| Mark Jarman, George W. Bush |
| Appeared in: Five Points |
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| Lauren Jensen, it's hard as so much is |
| Appeared in: Mid-American Review |
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| A. Van Jordan, Blazing Saddles |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Lawrence Joseph, Syria |
| Appeared in: The Nation |
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| Anna Journey, Wedding Night:We Share an Heirloom Tomato on Our Hotel Balcony Overlooking the Ocean in Natalie Wood Drowned |
| Appeared in: The Southern Review |
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| Laura Kasischke, Perspective |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Victoria Kelly, When the Men Go Off to War |
| Appeared in: Southwest Review |
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| David Kirby, Pink is the Navy Blue of India |
| Appeared in: Plume |
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| Noelle Kocot, Aphids |
| Appeared in: Conduit |
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| John Koethe, Eggheads |
| Appeared in: The Virginia Quarterly Review |
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| Dorothea Lasky, Poem for Anne Sexting |
| Appeared in: Conduit |
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| Dorianne Laux, Song |
| Appeared in: River Styx |
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| Amy Lawless, It Can Feel Amazing to Be Targeted by a Narcissist |
| Appeared in: The Common |
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| Amy Lemmon, I take your T-shirt to bed again . . . |
| Appeared in: Vitrine: a printed museum |
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| Thomas Lux, Outline for My Memoir |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Anthony Madrid, Once upon a Time |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Sally Wen Mao, XX |
| Appeared in: Gulf Coast |
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| Jen McClanaghan, My Lie |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Campbell McGrath, January 17 |
| Appeared in: PEN America |
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| Jesse Millner, In Praise of Small Gods |
| Appeared in: Gulfshore Life |
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| D. Nurske, Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes |
| Appeared in: Poetry |
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| Ed Ochester, New Year |
| Appeared in: American Poetry Review |
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| Paisley Rekdal, Birthday Poem |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| Adrienne Rich, Endpapers |
| Appeared in: Granta |
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| Anne Marie Roonie, Lake Sonnet |
| Appeared in: Subtropics |
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| J. Allyn Rosser, Intro to Happiness |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Mary Ruefle, Little Golf Pencil |
| Appeared in: Ecotone |
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| Maureen Seaton, Chelsea/Suicide |
| Appeared in: Columbia Poetry Review |
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| Tom Seibles, Sotto Voce: Othello, Unplugged |
| Appeared in: Alaska Quarterly Review |
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| Vijay Seshadri, Trailing Clouds of Glory |
| Appeared in: Field |
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| Peter Jay Shippy, Western Civilization |
| Appeared in: The Common |
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| Mitch Sisskind, Joe Adamczyk |
| Appeared in: Harpur Palate |
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| Aaron Smith, What It Feels Like to Be Aaron Smith |
| Appeared in: Court Green |
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| Stephanie Strickland, Introductions |
| Appeared in: Barrow Street |
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| Adrienne Su, On Writing |
| Appeared in: New England Review |
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| James Tate, The Baby |
| Appeared in: jubilat |
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| Emma Trelles , Florida Poem |
| Appeared in: Terrain.org |
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| David Trinidad, from Payton Place:A Hauku Soap Opera, season Two, 1965-1966 |
| Appeared in: Carbon Copy Magazine |
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| Jean Valentine, 1945 |
| Appeared in: Plume |
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| Paul Violi, Now I'll Never Be Able to Finish That Poem to Bob |
| Appeared in: Hanging Loose |
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| David Wagoner, Casting Aspersions |
| Appeared in: The Georgia Review |
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| Stacey Waite, The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV |
| Appeared in: Columbia Poetry Review |
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| Richard Wilbur, Sugar Maples, January |
| Appeared in: The New Yorker |
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| Angela Veronica Wong, It Can Feel Amazing to Be Targeted by a Narcissist |
| Appeared in: The Common |
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| Wendy Xu, Where the Hero Speaks to Others |
| Appeared in: MAKE |
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| Kevin Young, Wintering |
| Appeared in: The American Scholar |
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| Matthew Zapruder, Albert Einstein |
| Appeared in: The Believer |
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