Introduction / Bill Henderson
Refresh refresh / Benjamin Percy
Laundry / Maureen Stanton
The innocent / Jean Nordhaus
Cocktail hour / Kate Braverman
Double abecedarian: 1963 / Julie Larios
Facing altars: poetry and prayer / Mary Karr
If a stranger approaches you about carrying a foreign object with you onto a plane / Laura Kasichke
Hard rain / Tony Hoagland
Extraordinary rendition / Maxine Kumin
The Frank Orison / Scott Geiger
A short history of my breath / Kristin Kovacic
Moonsnail / Cleopatra Mathis
The lion's mouth / Ben Fountain
A history of the American west / Kevin Prufer
Elegy (with advertisement) struggling to find its hero / Mark Irwin
Dogged / Risteard O'Keitinn
A day in May: Los Angeles, 1960 / Philip Levine
A thought, for example, is a form / Mary Ann Samyn
Persephone the wanderer / Louise Glück
The odds it would be you / Alice Mattison
Dead boys club / Reginald Shepherd
Vexing praxis/Hocus nexus / Mark Halliday
Radio crackling, radio gone / Lisa Olstein
Bye-bye Larry / Katherine Karlin
Mastering the art of French cooking / E.J. Levy
Self portrait in ink / Bruce Beasley
The role of a lifetime / Floyd Skloot
What fundamentalists need for their salvation / David James Duncan
The land of pain / Stacey Richter
Restoration / Sally Keith
Home on the rain / Jonathan Carroll
The 167th Psalm of Elvis / Tony Barnstone
Taj Mahal / Linsey Abrams
Nude descending / Dzvinia Orlowsky
Halley's Comet / Laura Krughoff
The medicine man / Kevin Moffett
Cool things / Brian Doyle
The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry
Hearing news from the Temple Mount in Salt Lake City / Jacqueline Osherow
Vacation / Richard Burgin
The eternal immigrant / Sharmila Voorakkara
Some terpsichore / Elizabeth McCracken
Lament for a stone / W.S. Merwin
Escape from hog heaven / Dina Ben-Lev
Fight / Michael Czyzniejewski
Sparrow trapped in the airport / Averill Curdy
Goldfish: a diptych / Susan Terris
Why Bugsy Siegel was a friend of mine / James Lee Burke
Portrait of her mother as the 19th Century / Keith Ratzlaff.
