Susan Harper Martin: Giant Things

Kathleen Flenniken: My father invented the calendar; The State of the World; The Maiden Ladies

Stephen Dunn: No Wonder; Where He Found Himself; Process

Ellen Wilbur: Storms and Wars

Leslie Chang: Watermelons

Wesley McNair: That Nothing

Juan Ramón Jiménez: [Death, why should I fear you?]; The Little Green Girl; Heat, Escapes; [Like a stone in a well]; Song; Naked; Punished

Jerald Walker: Dragon Slayers

Marjan Strojan: A Sudden Death Delayed

Ameena Hussein: An Ordinary Death

Mani Rao: [Back from the markets of lust]; [Eyes are emissaries, soft knocks, nibs]

Uriel Quesada: Spoken Portrait

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo: The Dream

Ashley Capps: Poem on the Occasion of My MRI; Hymn for Two Choirs

Lawrence Revard: The Problem with Pornography; For a Stripper

Philipp Meyer: The Wolf

Eric Pankey: Spiritual Exercise; Between Wars

Julie Sophia Paegle: Fire Fly; Sonnet

Ann Copeland: Six Bagatelles for Dancers

T. Clayton Wood: from "The Lace Liar"

Timothy Liu: Athens, 2004; No War

Eric Trethewey: Courts Martial

Melanie Drane: Brotsuppe

J.V. Brummels: Yellow Hair Blues; Western

Sherry Ellis: Memories That Reach Back into Consciousness: An Interview with Lan Samantha Chang

Hugh Ferrer: Notes on the Connecticut Yankee

Human Rights Index: HIV/AIDS in Africa

cover artwork by John Dilg