Introduction / Richard Powers
Beverly home / Denis Johnson
Edison, New Jersey / Junot Diaz
Circle of prayer / Alice Munro
On the nature of human romantic interaction / Karl Iagnemma
revisionist / Helen Schulman
Why don't you dance? / Raymond Carver
Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle
lily-white boys / William Maxwell
Lifeline / Vijay Seshadri
Break it down / Lydia Davis
Killer Miller / V. P'Yetsukh
Seven romances / Ira Sadoff
Nairobi / Joyce Carol Oates
My aunt gold teeth / V. S. Naipaul
Piccola commedia / Richard Wilbur
Nighthawks / Stuart Dybek
Immortal longings / Robert Pinsky
From "strip" / A. R. Ammons
Still life / Patricia Storace
This is the life / Heather McHugh
12 years old / Sharon Olds
Lithium sonnet / Albert Goldbarth
First bodies / James Lasdun
cat inside / William S. Burroughs
Airplane / Deborah Warren
In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day / X. J. Kennedy
Referred back / Philip Larkin
Korean Community Garden in Queens / Suji Kwock Kim
Of that city, the heart / Carl Phillips
purse-seiner Atlantis / Agha Shahid Ali
Why it often rains in the movies / Lawrence Raab
From my window / C. K. Williams
What I have been doing lately / Jamaica Kincaid
On turning ten / Billy Collins
Open house / Charles D'Ambrosio
mansion on the hill / Rick Moody
palace thief / Ethan Canin.
