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Contents

Introduction

The charm of 5:30; Now II / David Berman

Flowering Judas; firm against the pattern / Brett Eugene Ralph

Arizona; subtraction forever / Bernd Sauermann

Distance from loved ones; the radish / James Tate

The devils; that little something / Charles Simic

Hair; theory of beauty (Tony) / Mark Doty

I'm over the moon; why is the color of snow? / Brenda Shaughessy

Six apologies, Lord; look at Lesbia now! / Olena Kalytiak Davis

World's bliss; our violent times / Alice Notley

Stanzas before time; of the "East" river's charm / John Ashbery

Like God; my subjectivity / Lynn Emanuel

Heated passions; Flor ars hippocratica / Tomaz Salamun

From somewhere steam is drawn; suppose what is left behind / Thomas Kane

Umbra penumbra; identity poem / Brandom Som

Riding the richest (after Damocles) of North America; in / Francine J. Harris

Upon waking; untitled / Denis Johnson

In this strange time (an unwritten Gogol story); no one / Michael Burkard

That was another Patrick Lawler; Patrick Lawler writes about "Patrick Lawler" / Patrick Lawler - Chew; doll repair shop / Linda Tomol Pennisi

Leaving a trail (for Keith); toward you (another for Keith) / Mary Stebbins

Disgraceland; the fall and rise of the domestically violent empire / Mary Karr

The anti-leading lady dissociates; eloping alone / Courtney Queeney

The blue terrance; Ghazalhead / Terrance Hayes

"From"; the atom discovers string theory DC comics, June-July 1964 #13 "Weapon watches of Cronos" / A. Van Jordan

Issues involving interpretation; 41 / Ruth Ellen Kocher

Thanks; from love in the time of war / Yusef Komunyakaa

Duende; astral / Tracy K. Smith

Naming the light; reign / Tina Chang

Leaving the eccentric; the recluse / Larissa Szporluk

University Hospital Pathology Lab; feast / Heidi Johannesen Poon

Driving with Dominic in the southern province we hints of the circus; step / Michael Ondaatje

Untitled; my frieze

from Debbie: an epic / Lisa Robertson

Gong 11 July 2003

48 lines; 1. grot: the limit of a yawn / Caroline Bergvall

Simple present; axionometric manhattenings / Rodrigo Toscano

Prologue; the president probably talks / Kaia Sand

Picture; the bell / Atsuro Riley

Ideal audience; dogleg / Kay Ryan

Cheese penguin; Valhalla burn unit on the moon Callisto / Sarah Lindsay

A common sight; in addition to faith, hope and charity / Pattiann Rogers

Each moment a white bull steps shining into the world; theology / Jane Hirshfield

This couple; floating trees / C. D. Wright

Clouds near San Leandro; wind treaties / Brenda Hillman

Sleeping with the dictionary; land of the discount price, home of the brand name / Harryette Mullen

Little slave narrative #1: master; the dream that I told my mother-in-law / Elizabeth Alexander

Twelve; a poem also about whiteness / Forrest Hamer

Rabbit, I love you; how I get my ideas / Dean Young

Talking to strangers; faster love is all there is / Mary Ruefle

The heart of things; Nobody's dead there / Ralph Angel

On nights like these; beauty / Angel Garcia

Poem with the morning sun reflected in freshly shined shoes; the silence that follows / Gerry LaFemina

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