Table of Contents
Tim Suermondt, When I Get There, If I Get There   (Pushcart Prize Nominee)   9
John Hart, To St. Francis in the Garden   10
Clark Holtzman, The Bird Bath   12
Meri Culp, Side Porch Conjure   13
Diane G. Scholl, Earth, Air, Fire, Water   14
Hedy Habra, Sounds in the Attic   15
Doug Ramspeck, Black Tar River   (Pushcart Prize Nominee)   16
Scott Gallaway, Calendar: Art and Science   17
Joseph Zaccardi, Isolate   18
Matthew J. Spireng, White Night Sky   19
Sharon Olson, Heavenly Bodies Along the Rail   (Pushcart Prize Nominee)   20
Joseph Gross, January Song   22
         Please Burn This Tonight   23
Maya Sarishvili, translated by Timothy Kercher and
Nene Giorgadze,   [This winter, how will things work out for me?]    24
Roger Desy, the fate of saplings   25
Marilyn McCabe, Ashes Ashes   26
         Summer Solstice   27
Laura Madeline Wiseman, Cleaning House   28
Jennifer Beebe, Now, In the Almost After   29
Rachael Lyon, When I Die   30
Jessica Bane Robert, And What of the Dead?   32
Gregory Lawless, The Griefs   33
Claire Wahmanholm, Dover in November   34
Charles Wyatt, Mirknight   (Pushcart Prize Nominee)   36
Anthony Seidman, A Sleepless Man Sits Up In Bed   37
Suzanne Allen, Postcard to Grace from a Fifth Floor Morning         38
Christopher Munde, Memory   39
James Cox, Driving to Grandma’s   42
Heather Angier, Salt   44
         Pea   45
Robert Spiegel, Wookie   46
Becky Kennedy, Dreaming of You   47
Carol V. Davis, Each Time the Doors Open   48
Mary Elizabeth Parker, Farewell, Norbert Rillieux, I Was Bound to Leave You   49
John Davis, Final Seconds: Saturday Night Basketball   52
Michael Poage, Core Work   53
Amy Piller, Music Man   54
Michael Bazzett, Boy   56
Thomas Patterson, Among the Living   57
Diana Festa, Fog   58
         San Paolo Fuori Mura   59
Michael Lauchlan, Predawn   60
Dwayne Thorpe, Getting Up Early   61
Geri Rosenzweig, The White Birch   62
         Petition   63
David McAleavey, Not yet the ending, with a line from Oppen   64
Sandra Kohler, Unknowing   66
John M. Anderson, Towhee Brood   67
Wendy Drexler, American Detritus   (Pushcart Prize Nominee)   68
Marc Harshman, Leavened By Coincidence   70
Keith Wilson, I Know the Sea   71
Lisken Van Pelt Dus, The Uses of Appetite   (Pushcart Prize Nominee)   72
Bridget Gage-Dixon, If only   73
         Her Own Life   74
John Grey, Fridge Magnets   75
Richard Holinger, Abandoned, Gone   76
Frank Matagrano, Take One Tablet by Mouth As Needed   77
Judith H. Montgomery, The Coat   78
Kari LeeAnn Moss, Cliché    79
Lawrence Wray, As Far as That   80
Lee Passarella, Cloudscape with Heron   82
Susan Azar Porterfield, Elegy/Aubade   83
Damien Shuck, One Summer   84
Christopher Goodrich, Pickers   86
Pamela Ahlen, Red Kazoo   87
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Works with Red   88
Devon Miller-Duggan, Steichen’s Pepper   90
H. K. Rainey, Old Woman, Weaving   91
Kristin LaTour, Where I’m Calling From   92
Jeanine Stevens, A Ritual—to begin   94
BOOK REVIEWS
Gray Jacobik, Little Boy Blue, reviewed by Ruth Foley   95
Becky Sakellariou, Earth Listening, reviewed by Adrianne Kalfopoulou   96
Julie R. Enszer, Handmade Love, reviewed by Moira Richards   98
Ed. Alexander Neubauer, Poetry in Person, reviewed by Ruth Foley   100
