Mary Ruefle: Woman with a Yellow Scarf; My Search Among the Birds; All My Roe

Amy Leach: Stairs; Alter Ego

Maggie McKnight: The First Time I Met H.

Paul Zimmer: Very Decent of You

Sara London: Pilgrim

Susan B.A. Somers-Willett: The Golden Lesson

Malachi Black: Dandelion

Wilson Diehl: Ivory Tower Boy; Pearl

Karen An-Hwei Lee: Prayer for the Underground Supplicant

Jim Barnes: Five Villanelles

William Ford: Distance Learning Circuit Rider

Amelia Colwell: The Award

April Newman: The Bedroom

Salma Salama: Rain on a Dead Child

Claudia Nagy: February 15th

Abigail Peterson: Paper Sky

Justin Hyde: harold jackson brings my grandmother daffodils

Jamey Genna: Dry and Yellow

Margaret Gibson: In the Poet's House; Christos and the Tomato

Warren Slesinger: Margin; Lifeboat

Nicole Cooley: Dear City

Chard DeNiord: Absence

J.D. Robinson: Relentless; Eddie's Sin

Mike Smith: Byron in Baghdad

Patricia Hampl: The Dark Art of Description

Eula Biss: Time and Distance Overcome

Lance Larsen: A Feeling in Your Head

Barbara and Victor Camillo: Riding the Cassville Ferry

William H. Gass: The Literary Miracle

Eric Pankey: Inordinate Points

Nick Courtright: Elegy for the Builder's Wife

Deborah Bogen: Cantilevered Bedtime Story

Lolita Stewart-White: prequel; the souls of black folk

Ron de Maris: A Tear for Gauguin

Robley Wilson: On the Water

Patrick Madden: Finity

Andrew Kozma: Prayers to Those Who Wait

H.L. Hix: I see now where your features come from.

Robert Dana: Indigo; Elegy for a Hometown

Nance Van Winckel: Almost Impervious

Jennifer Pilch: Camden Refractory

Sharon Chmielarz: Milton on the Plains: The Coal Furnace; Burning

Jim Daniels: Detroit, 1972

Zach Savich: Some Lovely Scrubbing

Elinor Benedict: Carolyne Wright as "Scholar Gypsy"

Kass Fleisher: Murder, My Sweet

David Hamilton: Light on the Body

cover artwork by Maggie McKnight