The drum / Chinua Achebe -- In Harpy Land / Helen Adam -- Success : an admonitory fable for young girls -- The four apples / Max Apple -- Who will go to heaven / Isaac Asimov -- The story of Beowulf / Gordon Ball -- Two Poems : Thirst song, song of dusk / Paule Barton -- The elephants' graveyard / Peter Beard -- A biting dog / Ann Beattie -- Dangerous enemies / Bill Berkson -- Kitty / Paul Bowles -- Night / Joe Brainard -- The ancient sadness of Robins / Harold Brodkey -- In our town / Michael Brownstein -- Miss Minnie and her new harido / Ed Bullins -- Nicanor / Reed Bye -- The young blasphemer / Hortense Calisher -- When / Andrei Codrescu -- Eating crow / John N. Cole -- An Eskimo child's cautionary tale / Robert coles and Robert Emmet Coles -- The donation / Betty Comden -- How I lost Tuesday / Evan S. Connell -- Blue football / Peter Cook -- Harry, Ike, and Jack at the county fair / Robert Coover -- Two poems : As a boy, As a man I saw my boy / Gregory Corso -- A Linden tree on a sunny canal / Jonathan Cott -- Haikat / Myrna Davis -- Monsters : A one-act play for children to perform for adults / George Dennison -- Lester / Rosalyn Drexler -- Her secret molecule / Ann Druyan -- The honey moon bees and busy man's garden / Robert Duncan -- First wine / Jack Dunphy -- To alph Dryden Eberhart : On being seventy-five / Richard Eberhart -- A coupla scalped indians / Ralph Ellison -- Ronald asks a favor / Gloria Emerson -- Landscape / Larry Fagin -- ABCDEF / Jules Feiffer -- Boogers / David Felton.

Momotaro, or the peachboy : a Japanese fairytale / Leslie Fiedler -- Wayne's adventure / Dick Gallup -- In a world of just desserts / Willard Gaylin -- Magic spell / Allen Ginsberg -- Prickled pickles don't smile / Nikki Giovanni -- Teddy the spy / Herbert Gold -- Likely and the dragon : a play for marionettes / Paul Goodman -- In the city of Paris / Hannah Green -- Just a little closer to the Lord / Winston Groom -- The cat that thought / Donald Hall -- The kid meets big Mac / Oakley Hall -- Two shoes for one foot / John Hawkes -- The valley dark and drear / Bobbie Louise Hawkins -- Walter, the red-bellied brown snake / Edward Hoagland -- What wonders in that circle lie or the toad story / Anselm Hollo -- Childhood / David Ignatow -- The old friends / John Irving -- A story by Jack with interpolations by Jill / Jill Johnston -- There was a naughty boy / John Keats -- A child's book of ritual magic / Robert Kelly -- Little tricker the squirrel meets big double the bear! / Ken Kesey -- Children / Jamaica Kincaid -- Small kid time / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Chuck Chuck / Galway Kinnell -- "Once upon a time" / Christopher Knowles -- The first best friends / John Knowles -- Lullabye / Ruth Krauss -- Place of high mountains / Julius Lester -- Winterpig / Denise Levertov -- Coyote shows how he can lie / Barry Lopez -- Be polite to the grass / Walter Lowenfels -- Molly Whuppie / Alison Lurie -- Willis Lee and the dream of the dragon / Lewis MacAdams -- Cousins / Norman Mailer -- The giant spiderweb / Harry Mathews -- Turkum the swineherd / Peter Matthiessen -- Stanzas from Fleas / Michael McClure -- Not dreaming / David Meltzer -- Moe / Leonard Michaels -- I want to hold your scalpel / Marilyn Suzanne Miller -- Share the chair, chew the shoe / Frank Modell -- The meadows of Uelen / N. Scott Momaday -- The Chinese honey-seller's journey / Jan Morris -- The day I followed the mayor around town / Willie Morris -- M'hend and the monsters / Mohammed Mrabet -- Rabbit / Shiga Naoya -- Rhubarb at home / Howard Nemerov -- Two poems : I have ants in my pants, the giraffe -- The sad story about the six boys about to be drafted in Brooklyn / Grace Paley -- Dear Parrot / John Phillips -- Abracadabra : on the important question of wanting to be a goat / George Plimpton.

Sleep tight / James Purdy -- The Cider river / Margaret Randall -- Two poems : If Frankenstein grwos tomatoes, The abominable snowman -- A bedtime story for evolutionists / Michael Rogers -- Rat of 86th / Anne Poiphe -- B.R.M. TZ. V.H. / Jerome Rothenberg -- Strawberry talking / Strawberry Saroyan -- Abiyoyo / Pete Seeger -- Carrie / Ntozake Shange -- Saul's progress / Harvey Shapiro -- The night the bears ate the sleeping trout / Adam Shaw -- The wizard who invented silence / Irwin Shaw -- The fastest man in the world / Sam Shepard -- Story for dead of winter / Alix Kates Shulman -- Bedtime stories / Charles Simic -- Ole and Trufa / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Pantoum for dead animals -- Lorna Smedman -- Bumblebee / Patti Smith -- Hector leaves home / Isaac, Jason, and Ted Solotaroff -- Baby Gray and the blue fairy / Terry Southern -- Before you were born / Scott Spencer -- Verses for the wall by your bed / William Stafford -- Drawing / Saul Steinberg -- How turtles tap dance / James Stevenson -- How much is that froggy in the window? or, beauty is only wart-deep / Peter Stone -- Pauls' story / Barbara Szerlip -- Queen Mab / Paul Theroux -- The interesting story / Rachel and Tony Towle -- Report from outside the closet / Chogyam Trungpa -- Child poem / Anne Waldman -- Adelie Penguin / Tony Walton -- The genius and the spoiled brat / Claire Nicolas White -- The story of a story / Elie Wiesel -- A short story / Robert Wilson -- The cold in North Dakota / Larry Woiwode.