Catch / Langston Hughes -- Toe the line with me / Matthea Harvey -- Kore / Robert Creeley -- Poem XVII of Twenty One love poems / Adrienne Rich -- A map of love / Donald Justice -- The more loving one / W.H. Auden -- Summer in a small town / Linda Gregg -- Comment / Dorothy Parker -- Juventius, honey-pot, I snatched from you while you were playing / Catullus -- Runaways Cafe II / Marilyn Hacker -- The guests / James Tate -- The dream / Louise Bogan -- The fist / Derek Walcott -- Time ; A good time / Yehuda Amichai -- Paradise motel / Charles Simic -- The reef / Elizabeth Arnold -- Since feeling is complete / E.E. Cummings -- To Marina / Kenneth Koch -- You're / Sylvia Plath -- Meditation on failling / Catherine Barnett -- Father's bedroom / Robert Lowell -- The god of windowscreens and honeysuckle / H.L. Hix -- Bell pepper / James McMichael -- The cabbage / Ruth Stone -- Loft / A.R. Ammons -- Tent / Ann Lauterbach -- The cell / Lyn Hejinian -- Leave-taking / Jennifter Clarvoe -- Home is so sad / Philip Larkin -- Sleeping on the ceiling / Elizabeth Bishop -- The window / Robert Creeley -- Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke -- Entrance / Saskia Hamilton -- On being a householder / Alan Dugan -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Of mere being / Wallace Stevens -- Another April / James Merrill -- The house / Adam Zagajewski -- What the dog perhaps hears / Lisel Mueller -- Nest / Marianne Boruch.

Animals / Frank O'Hara -- Letter / Mark Strand -- Sadie and Maud / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Margaret and Dusty / Alice Notley -- The reassurance ; My sad captains / Thom Gunn -- Consider a move / Michael Ryan -- Bees / Jean Valentine -- The wound / Ruth Stone -- That sure is my little dog / Eleanor Lerman -- White dog / Carl Phillips -- Definition of stranger / Idra Novey -- People getting divorced / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Song / Cynthia Zarin -- Poem / Matthew Rohrer -- The shampoo / Elizabeth Bishop -- Man of war / Carol Frost -- Winter / Marie Ponsot -- The underworld / Amy Gerstler -- Olympia / Henri Cole -- Tenderness and rot / Kay Ryan -- Warning / Taha Muhammad Ali -- The bearhug / Nick Laird -- Samurai song / Robert Pinsky -- An old cracked tune / Stanley Kunitz -- Remora / James Merrill -- Hula / ROn Padgett -- Mr. T / Terrance Hayes -- Fame: my version / Courtney Queeney -- What Bee did / Julie Larios -- Wiring home / Rita Dove -- The wind stopped for a moment / Killarney Clary -- Dusk / Rae Armantrout -- Wind in a box / Terrance Hayes -- We are only human / Mary Jo Bang -- One is one / Marie Ponsot.

The trees / Philip Larkin -- When ecstasy is inconvenient / Lorine Niedecker -- At the end of summer / Elaine Equi -- So I will till the ground / Gregory Djanikian -- The seasons / Susan Stewart -- September, Inverness / Robert Haas -- We have the right to love autumn / Mahmoud Darwish -- How lonely it is / Richard Wright -- Bloom / Lisa Olstein -- Wintry mix / Peter Gizzi -- December / Ron Padgett -- The day of cold food / Li Ch'ing Chao -- Aubade / Joanna Klink -- The invention of streetlights / Cole Swensen -- Side 19 ; Side 32 / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- The city in which I love you / Li-Young Lee -- Henry hates the world / John Berryman -- 100 Riverside: waking up at Mari's / Anne Winters -- O woolly city / Priscilla Sneff -- Broken sonnet / John Yau -- In Antigua / Kerri Webster -- The Hungarian pastry shop & cafe / Anne Pierson Wiese -- Catwalk / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Fear / Grace Paley -- Coyotes in Greenwich / Julie Sheehan -- DSS dream / Martin Espada -- Harm / C.K. Williams -- Meat / August Kleinzahler -- Shark's teeth / Kay Ryan -- Transcontinent / Donald Hall.

Cutting greens / Lucille Clifton -- All the soups / Martha Rhodes -- Honey / Arielle Greenberg -- Self-portrait as a bear / Donald Hall -- Lost in the forest / Amy Gerstler -- Kitchen song / Laura Kasischke -- Freezer / Lola Haskins -- Red beans / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Avocado / Gary Snyder -- Watermelons / Charles Simic -- Spaghetti / Gerald Stern -- Leap / Jon Woodward -- The thirties / Adam Zagajewski -- Tomato / Elizabeth Alexander -- Styrofoam cup / Brenda HiIlman -- A glass of water / May Sarton -- Going off the deep end into confectionery / Matthea Harvey -- Ciao Bella Chocolate Sorbet / Elaine Equi -- Into the land of youth / Killarney Clary -- Games with children / Susan Stewart -- By daylight / Elizabeth Macklin -- The old man and the motorcycle / Liam Rector -- Muzak / Kevin Young -- Weather / Eileen Myles -- Flood plain / Dean Young -- The lighthouse keeper / Meghan O'Rourke -- I go back to May, 1937 / Sharon Olds -- Winter field / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Lament for the makers / Frank Bidart -- From my father's side of the bed / Marie Howe -- The man splitting wood in the daybreak / Galway Kinnell -- There is never enough time / Jerome Rothenberg -- After reading Tu Fu, I go outside to the dwarf orchard / Charles Wright -- Six apologies, Lord / Olena Kalytiak Davis -- Erotic energy / Chase Twichell -- The red poppy / Louise Gluck.