December 31, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Mary Ann Samyn   "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
December 30, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus" by Dean Young   "I knew it was on the other side of the door..."
December 29, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Bicycling from Todtnauberg" by Suzanne Zweizig   "Minnows : silverfish : other gray skimming...."
December 28, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Psalm of Snow" by Tony Barnstone   "I had forgotten how to say yes. That's the trick of heartbreak...."
December 27, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech   "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
December 26, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Goat" by C.J. Sage   "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
December 25, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley   "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
December 24, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Lifting whither" by Karen Volkman   "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift..."
December 23, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle   "My literary inclinations..."
December 22, 2008 (A 2008 Favorite):   "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray   "A horde of apples lying in the cleft between the trees..."
December 21, 2008:   "Maximillian Sunflowers" by Brett DeFries   "As for us, we bend and know the pull of sun..."
December 20, 2008:   "Hear" by Joseph Massey   "The field / throb. Early..."
December 19, 2008:   "The Dead" by Fleda Brown   "The dead are disorderly. If they rot, worms..."
December 18, 2008:   "Barter" by Michael Chitwood   "We invented money..."
December 17, 2008:   "First Defense" by Megan Gannon   "Suddenly everything..."
December 16, 2008:   "Portrait of Hooper as a Drama Minor Pulling an All-nighter for the Finance Exam" by Charles Sweetman   "Return on Investment (ROI) tests management’s efficiency...."
December 15, 2008:   "Tell it Slant" by Sally Bliumis-Dunn   "Have to sail at an angle..."
December 14, 2008:   "Return" by Rachel Moritz   "Made of all the structures in my life..."
December 13, 2008:   "Nothing is Haunted" by Sandy Longhorn   "in quite the way small Midwestern farms..."
December 12, 2008:   "When Worlds Collide (1951)" by Maggie Smith   "If Dr. Bronson's calculations prove to be correct..."
December 11, 2008:   "Attack Attack" by Marc McKee   "The imperfect products of the nation-state..."
December 10, 2008:   "Metronome" by Sally Van Doren   "I hit normal, but it turns out..."
December 9, 2008:   "How We Didn't Tell Her" by Sandra M. Gilbert   "that the housekeeper said that..."
December 8, 2008:   ": Shadow : Dwelling : " by Jessica Goodfellow   "Dwelling in a foreign land. Time is the only familiar..."
December 7, 2008:   "Elegy for Robert Creeley and Pope John Paul II, Dead Three Days Apart" by Tom C. Hunley   "Something dramatic is going to happen to me soon...."
December 6, 2008:   "An Animal" by Katy Lederer   "Black, derogatory...."
December 5, 2008:   "The Tulip Thief, Mi Amor" by Suzanne Frischkorn   "At first it was an ember; its glow I nursed..."
December 4, 2008:   "Spoke" by Erin Malone   "For every language, a landscape: Park..."
December 3, 2008:   "A World of Rights and Wrongs" by Jason Tandon   "Afraid of white lies..."
December 2, 2008:   "Bathing in the Burned House" by Karen Rigby   "The house shimmers..."
December 1, 2008:   "To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago" by Sharon Dolin   "We are sorry, but when your kinsman, the reverend..."
November 30, 2008:   "Winter Sea" by Jacqueline Marcus   "You wake up to the deepening light through the window..."
November 29, 2008:   "Earth" by Wendy Drexler   "Forgive me if I feel a little shaky...."
November 28, 2008:   "For All Anyone Knows" by Susan Meyers   "The wasps congregating on the wind chimes, late August..."
November 27, 2008:   "August" by William Kloefkorn   "I am not old but old enough to believe..."
November 26, 2008:   "Lucifer's Beginning Poetry Workshop" by Philip Memmer   "Lucifer loves the beginners...."
November 25, 2008:   "Black Crosses" by T. Zachary Cotler   "What about him, who stayed..."
November 24, 2008:   "July" by C.J. Sage   "I was wondering dollars half-hearted..."
November 23, 2008:   "The Blackmailer's Wife Reads History and Considers the Nature of Guilt" by Judy Brown   "After the Bourbons returned, people claimed they saw..."
November 22, 2008:   "Daphne" by Emma Jones   "And if I was changed, what was the difference?..."
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson   "Let's assume about the body..."
November 20, 2008:   "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt   "Just now where the scar nearly touches your hair a red siren..."
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley   "A poet is as old as what he sees..."
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels   "When the painter said, OK, you guys..."
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira   "The dog barked that year..."
November 16, 2008:   "What Kind of an Animal Would Do That" by Laurie Blauner   "There's blood everywhere and a throat full of rabbits. Intent is what happens..."
November 15, 2008:   "The Voice of The Insomniac" by Blanca Castellón, translated by J. P. Dancing Bear   "is a fragment of hell that sometimes occurs during nights of insomnia. In..."
November 14, 2008:   "Franklin. Swimming." by Mike Smith   "Out back the grapes are overripe and falling...."
November 13, 2008:   from "All the Purple Deer" by Christopher Shipman   "I have loved you for a thousand years..."
November 12, 2008:   "Andalusia" by Matthew Rohrer   "Andalusia—the wavy..."
November 11, 2008:   "Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite" by Chris Tonelli   "It's hard for Gravitron to remember exactly when it all stopped being so..."
November 10, 2008:   "Curtains" by Sarah J. Sloat   "For weeks I have been waking up..."
November 9, 2008:   "Free Bible in Your Own Language" by Heather Kirn   "Call me doubting Tom, but have you heard..."
November 8, 2008:   "Flares" by Simmons B. Buntin   "South of Arizona 86, we slow at a sudden..."
November 7, 2008:   "Governing Bodies" by Tim Lockridge   "There's a rash of harlequin romance written..."
November 6, 2008:   "Dear Jealousy" by Ellen Andolsek   "I know I said I hated you..."
November 5, 2008:   "World Hypothesis" by Jennifer Militello   "The geese again...."
November 4, 2008:   "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson   "Grab that large picnic cloth. Gingham unfurled..."
November 3, 2008:   "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda   "I'm always boarding..."
November 2, 2008:   "Common Loon" by Daniel Wolff   "Mindless, the tide insists that the body..."
November 1, 2008:   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle   "My literary inclinations..."
October 31, 2008:   "The Sunset District" by Sarah V. Schweig   "Meet me in the Sunset District, out by the shoreline..."
October 30, 2008:   "Red" by Allan Petterson   "Such a red is extreme in these precincts..."
October 29, 2008:   "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh   "It's an illness in her, they think, seeing me kneel..."
October 28, 2008:   "The Return" by Kate Lim   "Ghostly lemurs..."
October 27, 2008:   "A Last Poem" by Camasin Middour   "Dear, there's not much more I can do..."
October 26, 2008:   "Inchadoney" by Dave Lordan   "I have run my heart down..."
October 25, 2008:   "Chinese Box" by Carmen Germain   "All night I climb in dream rubble..."
October 24, 2008:   "The Laughing Thrush" by W.S. Merwin   "O nameless joy of the morning..."
October 23, 2008:   "Bad Blood" by Diann Blakely   "A woman stares, wild-eyed from the terror known only when death..."
October 21, 2008:   "Invocation" by Erin Malone   "O potato, freckled-in-rows-of-four-where-pierced..."
October 20, 2008:   "My Sister Is A Flight Of Birds" by Michael Daley   "I’m standing on ice, a flight of geese..."
October 19, 2008:   "Jacket" by Caryl Pagel   "He bites a tape-measure between his teeth..."
October 18, 2008:   "Baseball" by Deborah Burnham   "I love your hands when we talk baseball, how..."
October 17, 2008:   "The Sparrow And The Moth" by Damon McLaughlin   "Perhaps a small wind..."
October 16, 2008:   "The Possibilities for Wings" by Gary Fincke   "How often have the customs of strangers..."
October 15, 2008:   "Octopus" by Nancy Pagh   "Some men are beautifully..."
October 14, 2008:   "Nothing to It" by Chris Forhan   "My mind a lake of milk: a lack..."
October 13, 2008:   "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson   "They are afraid they said..."
October 12, 2008:   "No" by Joumana Haddad   "I see you in daylight, an impossible moon..."
October 11, 2008:   "The Pause in the Plummet for Prayer" by Gary Fincke   "They'd plunged thousands of feet, crash-certain, and now..."
October 10, 2008:   "The Feeding" by Michelle Bitting   "It was about love. It was about survival...."
October 9, 2008:   "The Emperor's Wife" by Laurie Blauner   "Belief is everything. Yet I can't describe..."
October 8, 2008:   "Letter to Beowulf" by Paul J. Willis   "Sleeping under that pine tree the other night..."
October 7, 2008:   "Before it Was a Business" by Justin Courter   "Hey you disastrous sasquatch—watch where the hell you're..."
October 6, 2008:   "Blue Car" by Natt Pritts   "That blue car you drive just passed by..."
October 5, 2008:   "Progress" by Carrie Fountain   "Before they paved the streets of Mesilla..."
October 4, 2008:   "Woven and Sewn" by Nancy White   "You are no virgin, listen. You must stop here...."
October 3, 2008:   Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang   "Stopped mid-motion in the middle..."
October 2, 2008:   "Goat" by C. J. Sage   "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
October 1, 2008:   "Oriole" by Paula Bohince   "Consider three orioles..."
September 30, 2008:   "The Sand Speaks" by Sandra Beasley   "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
September 29, 2008:   "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth   "I wanted to say..."
September 28, 2008:   "Morning Edition" by Andrzej Sosnowski, translated by Benjamin Paloff   "Garrulous mornings, dynamic..."
September 27, 2008:   "Afterlife" by Paul Hunter   "Sown in their jostling millions..."
September 26, 2008:   "Sunday" by Lawrence Raab   "Once there was music that could tear..."
September 25, 2008:   "Memory of Soil" by Eleanor Paynter   "The new tenants change a few things...."
September 24, 2008:   "My Lives" by Al Maginnes   "In one I was a dog, reason enough..."
September 23, 2008:   "The Huntsman's Resumé" by Angela Vogel   "Oh, I'm ready for the chase. The green pelts, the headless acorns...."
September 22, 2008:   "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport   "Whatever construction we put on..."
September 21, 2008:   "Ever After" by Dennis O'Driscoll   "Whatever construction we put on..."
September 20, 2008:   from "The Dance of Atoms" by Lucretius, translated by A. E. Stallings   "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
September 19, 2008:   "Undoing" by James Cihlar   "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."
September 18, 2008:   "Love Song" by Kimberly Johnson   "Stay, adder, startled from the spikenard..."
September 17, 2008:   "Birthday's Profile" by Daneen Wardrop   "Sometimes my shadow is attached a little crooked..."
September 16, 2008:   "On the Abduction of Calvin Klein's Daughter Marci: A Captor's Narrative" by Robyn Schiff   "Eternity, Escape, and Obsession fly the same neutral flag..."
September 15, 2008:   "For Want of a Wife" by Barbara Schweitzer   "He’ll become no geography, float free..."
September 14, 2008:   "Big Moon Over the Neighborhood" by David Bruzina   "The herd is strong in me. It steers me when I think...."
September 13, 2008:   "Difficult Speech: Welcome" by Molly Tenenbaum   "Come all you periwinkles and brilliantines..."
September 12, 2008:   "For the Night People" by Muriel Nelson   "A little celebration..."
September 11, 2008:   "Young John Clare" by Michael Waters   "Not often do I find a nest fallen..."
September 10, 2008:   "At the Jumps" by Laura McCullough   "Boys bury the junk of the town..."
September 9, 2008:   "Ventouse Sous Verre" by Nicky Beer   "Those empty, aubergine-edged saucers, her best..."
September 8, 2008:   "The Guidance Counselor to the Girl" by Catherine Pierce   "The test suggests an aptitude for solitary work..."
September 7, 2008:   "Narcissus" by Brian Brodeur   "Each day his body, tangled in ferns and larkspur..."
September 6, 2008:   "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray   "A horde of apples lying in the cleft between the trees..."
September 5, 2008:   "Special Ed Girl" by Deborah Bogen   "Remembering was hoisting into sight..."
September 4, 2008:   "The Poem You Hang on Your Wall Like a Painting Because It Does Something Different Each Time the Light" by Timothy Kelly   "I thought that once, near the end..."
September 3, 2008:   "Word for Word" by Nance Van Winckel   "Halfway into the book..."
September 2, 2008:   "Formation" by Eavan Boland   "The boredom of the spring afternoon...."
September 1, 2008:   "Airplanes" by Katharine Whitcomb   "especially circling a city before landing at night..."
August 31, 2008:   "Bones" by John Godfrey   "Listen to voices in my fingertips..."
August 30, 2008:   "How to Do It" by Paul Gibbons   "Know what a mule..."
August 29, 2008:   "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl   "They will say my husband was..."
August 28, 2008:   "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman   "A woman walks the trails at night..."
August 27, 2008:   "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown   "They're out there rattling their trailers..."
August 26, 2008:   "Settle" by Chanda Feldman   "We were in a place we rarely go..."
August 25, 2008:   "rosette" by Carina Gia Farrero   "surely we are..."
August 24, 2008:   "Prelude" by Mark Granier   "I wake to find a grey day waiting...."
August 23, 2008:   "Descartes, Nightmare" by Susan McCabe   "Robed in pink, snapping his picture-machine..."
August 22, 2008:   "Poem" by Nico Alvarado-Greenwood   "So many people I love having become..."
August 21, 2008:   "Natural Enemies" by J. P. Dancing Bear   "all day the owl is dreaming of a crow, dreaming..."
August 20, 2008:   "If They Don't Have Ritalin in Heaven," by Roy Jacobstein   "I guess I'll be up there with all of them..."
August 19, 2008:   "Speedy Inexpensive Chaos Theory Poem About Short Term Memory Loss" by Peggy Munson   "This is the intellectual property of an iconoclast...."
August 18, 2008:   "The Ghost Town" by John Poch   "It need not be a desiccated wreck..."
August 17, 2008:   "Virtual Death" by Joseph Harrison   "Let's not pretend we don't know how he felt..."
August 16, 2008:   "For Her Waking" by Tom Holmes   "Down the canal they arrive..."
August 15, 2008:   "'Night, the Astonishing...'" by Jeff Gundy   "One star only, and all the trees looming, not my enemies..."
August 14, 2008:   "Onstage" by David Wagoner   "I took a director to a waterfall..."
August 13, 2008:   "The Injured Thumb" by Alberto Ríos   "He hurt his thumb as he was cleaning..."
August 12, 2008:   "Late Valentines" by Derick Burleson   "My darling I have imagined you dead..."
August 11, 2008:   "An Old Story" by Richard Hoffman   "A few days after my mother died..."
August 10, 2008:   "What Miss Plath Doesn't Tell the Doctor" by C. E. Perry   "My wounds are turning..."
August 9, 2008:   "The Lawnmower People" by Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz   "Make whirring sounds..."
August 8, 2008:   "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt   "The treetop, at 9.86 meters per second squared..."
August 7, 2008:   "India Rubber Man's Credo" by Tony Barnstone   "The softest creature in the world is hard..."
August 6, 2008:   "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles   "Child hunkered down in grass..."
August 5, 2008:   "The Eroticised World" by Timothy Kelly   "We passed, on the wetlands boardwalk..."
August 4, 2008:   "Elegy for the Builder's Wife" by Nick Courtright   "Slow build, houses where thousands live..."
August 3, 2008:   "For a Senior Killed on Prom Night" by Gail White   "It's useless to pretend you would have been..."
August 2, 2008:   "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere   "When the smoking hot barrista..."
August 1, 2008:   "1992 (Nachtlied)" by Lizzie Hutton   "And then sex sometimes felt like a clenched horse refusing...."
July 31, 2008:   "A Cure for Dead Dogs" by Craig Morgan Teicher   "As if time were a cure. As if all things..."
July 30, 2008:   "Trajectory" by Laurie Blauner   "I waited to leave the leg..."
July 29, 2008:   "Jacob's Ladder" by Dan Bellm   "The young man and woman waiting for the trolley..."
July 28, 2008:   "Captain America" by Matt Hart   "Your makeover begins..."
July 27, 2008:   "Mermaid" by Moniza Alvi   "About human love..."
July 26, 2008:   "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast   "If you go outside, watch out! Don't encounter flowers...."
July 25, 2008:   "Man in a Fox Suit" and "Fox in a Man Suit" by Michael Symmons Roberts   "Thin red hide, flea-ridden, caked..."
July 24, 2008:   "Tuning Fork" by Bruce Bond   "Lynchpin of the singing wheel..."
July 23, 2008:   "Jubilee" by Kimberly Johnson   "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."
July 22, 2008:   "Bicycling from Todtnauberg" by Suzanne Zweizig   "Minnows : silverfish : other gray skimming..."
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" by Billy Collins   "It was getting late in the year..."
July 20, 2008:   "The Möbius Strip of Grief" by Ruth Stone   "When I went into the room where you waited..."
July 19, 2008:   "Star in Daylight" by William O'Daly   "O sun full of fingernails..."
July 18, 2008:   "The Heart That Lies Outside the Body" by Stephanie Lenox   "I know people want to touch it..."
July 17, 2008:   "Almost Impervious" by Nance Van Winckel   "From across the river a last dream..."
July 16, 2008:   "Psalm of Snow" by Tony Barnstone   "I had forgotten how to say yes. That's the trick of heartbreak...."
July 15, 2008:   "Skin On Skin Off Skin On Skin Off" by Alex Lemon   "It was a snake-eyed night and we were doomed..."
July 14, 2008:   "The Cow" by Knute Skinner   "There’s a white cow standing upon the hill..."
July 13, 2008:   "On the Water" by Robley Wilson   "How remote everything is..."
July 12, 2008:   "Turnstile" by Elaine Sexton   "I carry the prints of a hundred thousand..."
July 11, 2008:   "Cicatrice" by Patrick Chapman   "You did not see mine, on the first night we met...."
July 10, 2008:   "A Certain Swirl" by Mary Ruefle   "The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty..."
July 9, 2008:   "Chagall Takes a Prisoner" by Mark Yakich   "Morning breaches a flying horse...."
July 8, 2008:   "Hope, As The World Is A Scorpion Fish" by Liz Robbins   "On the near-island of Rovinj..."
July 7, 2008:   "Beneath the Bridge" by Adam Clay   "The dead shepherd. The little river. The fields...."
July 6, 2008:   "At The Gym" by Mark Doty   "This salt-stain spot..."
July 5, 2008:   "Jerusalem" by Austin Hummell   "Was a time when just west of there..."
July 4, 2008:   "Cantilevered Bedtime Story" by Deborah Bogen   "Wallpaper farm, the girl..."
July 3, 2008:   "Vortex: The Super-Sized Supermarket" by Matthew Guenette   "...I've been elbowed in the ribs, made to ask..."
July 2, 2008:   "In a time of biblical references" by Bob Hicok   "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
July 1, 2008:   "Snow" by Mary Ruefle   "Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have..."
June 30, 2008:   "Starlit" by G. E. Patterson   "Oh my people how quickly tears fill bowls..."
June 29, 2008:   "Between Us" by Juleta Severson-Baker   "Bees in our bed..."
June 28, 2008:   "Cortes Island B.C." by Sandra Savage   "The sun lounges on the mountain crest, today..."
June 27, 2008:   "A Poem About Monkeys" by Corey Mesler   "How they're noisy, how..."
June 26, 2008:   "Scar" by Bruce Bond   "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
June 25, 2008:   "Apeman" by Nate Pritts   "All the normally tectonic hunks of cloud, white..."
June 24, 2008:   "'This is Funny'" by Catherine Pierce   "Not the whiskey, though that, too..."
June 23, 2008:   "Blue" by Ed Madden   "A coy moon glows beyond..."
June 22, 2008:   "The Pomegranate" by Martha Serpas   "On the tray is a pomegranate and..."
June 21, 2008:   "Licorice" by Daniel Hales   "If it's been over ten years since you last tried..."
June 20, 2008:   "Fresh Rose" by W.S. Merwin   "Fresh rose, fresh rose..."
June 19, 2008:   "Some Coin" by C.J. Sage   "Inside, she was hendecagonic...."
June 18, 2008:   "from Lights Strung Lights" by Alex Lemon   "What bangs against the body while neon I sleep..."
June 17, 2008:   "The Geese" by Lisa Russ Spaar   "Just as God is not my sorrow..."
June 16, 2008:   "Civic" by Anthony Lacavaro   "A funny-looking man, so much smarter..."
June 15, 2008:   "The End" by Victoria Chang   "The end of ambition..."
June 14, 2008:   "Morality" by Susie Meserve   "Gently, now, for we begin in earnest...."
June 13, 2008:   "If You Step Off Now" by Dana Roeser   "Waking from her nest..."
June 12, 2008:   "The Rescue" by Wayne Miller   "All our debris above the sunken ship..."
June 11, 2008:   "Solution" by Rae Armantrout   "A solution is found..."
June 10, 2008:   "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "A pleasant, leather poison..."
June 9, 2008:   "Cine S-a Fript Cu Ciorba, Suflã şi-n Iaurt" by John W. Evans   "We reverse the spell in inches..."
June 8, 2008:   "Even the Dead Do It" by Sue Owen   "Feel regret about the one..."
June 7, 2008:   "Oh Grow Up" by Dora Malech   "First thing's first aid and off-track..."
June 6, 2008:   "What She Thought" by Jennifer Clarvoe   "But if this is an idea of truth as inclusive..."
June 5, 2008:   "I Wanted More Than I Could Steal" by Michael Robins   "Instead the opening, the end, the tunnel..."
June 4, 2008:   "Over The Hedge" by Dorianne Laux   "We labor in the backyard, weeding..."
June 3, 2008:   "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Mary Ann Samyn   "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
June 2, 2008:   "Pterodactyls at Work" by Adam O. Davis   "It was an era of strange hope. Back-broken, blistered..."
May 31, 2008:   "Apprehension in the Blurry Trees" by Cameron Thomas   "Fallen, what can a leaf care about being plucked from its..."
May 30, 2008:   "Songs to Learn & Sing" by Chris McCreary   "He was wandering amid obscene..."
May 29, 2008:   "A Song in There" by Betsy Sholl   "To stave off trouble, the old bluesmen are singing..."
May 28, 2008:   "I Wanted More Than I Could Steal" by Michael Robins   "Instead the opening, the end, the tunnel..."
May 27, 2008:   "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall   "Three brilliant pinpricks..."
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern   "As for those who face their death by wind..."
May 25, 2008:   "The Party by the Lake" by Kevin Prufer   "Such a time we had at the lake those days..."
May 24, 2008:   "Dusk at St. Marks, As Seen From Dunkin Donuts" by Dylan Willoughby   "The spire silhouettes a fire..."
May 23, 2008:   "Sky Harbor" by Norman Dubie   "The flock of pigeons rises over the roof..."
May 22, 2008:   "[I Saw My Face on the Dull Head]" by Adam Clay   "I saw my face on the dull head..."
May 21, 2008:   "What is Coming" by Sandra Kohler   "What is is coming. Light behind light, presence..."
May 20, 2008:   "Open Field" by Phillis Levin   "Forget the comma, the crow said, darting..."
May 19, 2008:   "Saint of Perpetual Sorrow" by James Meetze   "Call me a spent orange in the dirt, a primer-gray birdhouse in the tree..."
May 18, 2008:   "Bee Purple" by Floyd Skloot   "Deep in a montane forest two bees flit..."
May 17, 2008:   "Late Husband" by Doug Ramspeck   "In her dreams, then, she imagined him as feverish...."
May 16, 2008:   "Theories of Falling" by Sandra Beasley   "After years of research, I can only guarantee..."
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" by Bob Hicok   "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
May 14, 2008:   "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers   "I thread through the assembly..."
May 13, 2008:   "Anniversary" by Cecilia Woloch   "Didn’t I stand there once..."
May 12, 2008:   "My Sea Legs" by Danielle Pafunda   "From then on, Zorba called me 'Princess of Quite-a-Lot'...."
May 11, 2008:   "Midden" by Brendan Galvin   "My shovel rang against this pile..."
May 10, 2008:   "Tremble" by Marc McKee   "I am mystified by the fingerprints I have left..."
May 9, 2008:   "Folk Art" by Sarah J. Sloat   "Naïve, you called me, posh..."
May 8, 2008:   "Will" by Bruce Bond   "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
May 7, 2008:   "Turning Back" by Dan Albergotti   "We turn back, always bowing to that urge..."
May 6, 2008:   "Lifting whither" by Karen Volkman   "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift..."
May 5, 2008:   "Obey Gravity" by Cynthia Arrieu-King & Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis   "A turnip puts a leg down in the earth..."
May 4, 2008:   "Deathsong" by Stephen Berg   "Punch your fist mind of a fist through this black wall al-..."
May 3, 2008:   "Things That Bend" by Leslie St. John   "The inch worm in the window sill, curling...."
May 2, 2008:   "Nostalgeurysm" by John Thomas   "Sick of gilding these childhood vignettes...."
May 1, 2008:   "In Support of Corporate Farms" by Cody Lumpkin   "Stalin scythed wheat in Russian Georgia, Mao waddled knee..."
April 30, 2008:   "Elegy" by Jett McAlister   "To begin with, the house by the water. Which would be..."
April 28, 2008:   "Preemptive Elegy" by Paul Guest   "Another future I don't want to believe in..."
April 27, 2008:   "The Cetacean Society" by Noelle Kocot   "The cetacean society was lucky..."
April 26, 2008:   "Kingdom Come At Once" by Travis Brown   "Once it's in..."
April 25, 2008:   "Baby Epic" by Tanya Larkin   "Gird your mysterious loins, I am trying to think..."
April 24, 2008:   "An Ode to Drunkenness and Other Criminal Activities" by Rebecca Loudon   "How much easier it would have been if you had simply..."
April 23, 2008:   "Knowing No Better" by Nance Van Winckel   "In the course of one night..."
April 22, 2008:   "The Welcoming" by Beth Ann Fennelly   "Distance was the house from which I welcomed you...."
April 21, 2008:   "The First Chakra" by Eric Schwerer   "What is this tumbling, tumbling: the first chakra...."
April 20, 2008:   "Coal Seam Fire" by Steven D. Schroeder   "The kobolds in the coal..."
April 19, 2008:   "From a Dead Fox In a Suburban Backyard" by Robert Pesich   "Do not forget..."
April 18, 2008:   "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky   "I'm always wrong, in fact..."
April 17, 2008:   "The Music in Her" by Richard Jordan   "Mother says her femurs dream inside..."
April 16, 2008:   "Elegy for Tim Buckley" by Bruce Bond   "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
April 15, 2008:   "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis   "The dumpster child grows up, becomes..."
April 14, 2008:   "Dancing In My Room Alone" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "I could be an eel in whirled stillwaters..."
April 13, 2008:   "The Hierophant Of Hartford" by Kurt Brown   "Never has a noble vocabulary been loved so much..."
April 12, 2008:   "Scheherazade" by Susan Elbe   "Another night washes up at my feet..."
April 11, 2008:   "First Counter-clockwise Canto of the Möbius Strip" by John Kinsella   "Some days the attraction of outdoors is so overwhelming..."
April 10, 2008:   "Orchid Anatomy" by Claudia Emerson   "This evening's study the anatomy of the orchid..."
April 9, 2008:   "Quail" by Paul Muldoon   "Forty years in the wilderness..."
April 8, 2008:   "Sestina Aguilera" by Matthew Guenette   "Christina Aguilera has a blue..."
April 7, 2008:   "Twilight Box" by Jason Bredle   "From one lemur to a city of many other lemurs..."
April 6, 2008:   "Please Advise Stop" by Rusty Morrison   "with practice a memory like a voice can be thrown into any unsuspecting object stop..."
April 5, 2008:   "Water Study" by Myronn Hardy   "Boats mean we exist...."
April 4, 2008:   "The Hunter and the Figs" by Gaylord Brewer   "Victimizing a final slice of fig tart..."
April 3, 2008:   "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things" by Joseph Lease   "It's a pretty light, you know. The way anyone leans..."
April 2, 2008:   "The Book of Sleep" by Eleanor Stanford   "In the kitchen, you lay down your crowbar..."
April 1, 2008:   "Self-Portrait as Future Third Person" by D. Antwan Stewart   "His face becomes mammal-skin..."
March 31, 2008:   "Ostriches" by C.J. Sage   "When my father held his head from the sand for a time..."
March 30, 2008:   "Eternia" by Clay Matthews   "Jimmy, I'm lonesome sometimes again. In the mirror..."
March 29, 2008:   "Family Portrait" by James Allen Hall   "If I could turn the photograph, bring my mother's face..."
March 28, 2008:   "Magic Turns to Math and Back" by Brenda Shaughnessy   "If time were tellable, we wouldn't keep asking...."
March 27, 2008:   "The Weight of Paper" by Dan Kaplan   "Preoccupation with bureaucracy..."
March 26, 2008:   "Agnostic Radio" by Karl Elder   "Agnostic Radio. Maybe there could..."
March 25, 2008:   "Dress Pattern with an Interior" by Caroline Knox   "I will be assembled out of..."
March 24, 2008:   "Daphne" by Barbara Helfgott Hyett   "What then this milking, what then..."
March 23, 2008:   "Ars Poetica" by Bryan D. Dietrich   "Start with the darkest corner of what was..."
March 22, 2008:   "Island Remnant" by Endi Bogue Hartigan   "I carved a miniature horse out of wax. The wax was meant to coat a surfboard..."
March 21, 2008:   "Penelope" by Michele Newcomb   "When October rain and the hissing..."
March 20, 2008:   "Grafton" by D. Nurkse   "Hardly had I died..."
March 19, 2008:   "Dahlias" by Robert McNamara   "They arrive on my desk, a clear demonstrative bunch..."
March 18, 2008:   "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass   "This seascape's now more cataract..."
March 17, 2008:   "The Rhinoceros Graveyard" by James Doyle   "On the way to the graveyard, the great white..."
March 16, 2008:   "The Farewell" by Guy Goffette, translated by Marilyn Hacker   "You might be able to grab the sea by the hair..."
March 15, 2008:   "Sadness Therapy" by J. W. Marshall   "On the second floor..."
March 14, 2008:   "We End, Like Galileo" by B. T. Shaw   "With years came diminishing ability to focus..."
March 13, 2008:   "Coligny" by D. Nurkse   "There was a passerby on that road..."
March 12, 2008:   "The Weight of Light" by Sidney Wade   "We sit on a bench in the park..."
March 11, 2008:   "Canto of the Workshop" by John Kinsella   "As when they discover that the collective..."
March 10, 2008:   "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok   "Then one day we were putting silver back..."
March 9, 2008:   "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves   "Where the fire enters..."
March 8, 2008:   "Near Christmas Once" by Sarah Busse   "Near Christmas once we drove away from lights..."
March 7, 2008:   "Your Way of Thinking" by Christopher Kang   "I was busy thinking cosmologically, and it made me appreciate life..."
March 6, 2008:   "Instinct" by Changxin Fang   "Little baby, you lay your head..."
March 5, 2008:   "Gerhard Richter" by Chad Bennett   "Dresden was still in ruins, so we were..."
March 4, 2008:   "Two Crooks" by Peter Waldor   "As in two underarms..."
March 3, 2008:   "Garbage Walk" by Moira Magneson   "My husband and I are wheeling out..."
March 2, 2008:   "Courtship" by Susan Lewis   "I have more selves than I can listen to, he told me, his..."
March 1, 2008:   "Apostasy" by Carol Quinn   "On Sundays, they appeared..."
February 29, 2008:   "Hymn" by Anne Shaw   "The pink troll of our decade snickers from under its bridge..."
February 28, 2008:   "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow   "Fold, fold away the silk-sack clouds...."
February 27, 2008:   "Benediction" by Martha Collins   "Not a story, they said, not even a line...."
February 26, 2008:   "Dogma Mask in Favor of Alice" by Elena Karina Byrne   "How many windows can a house bear?..."
February 25, 2008:   "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro   "There suddenly / where the streetlight..."
February 24, 2008:   "Post-war deployment" by Lee Sharkey   "It is thought that cows' unhurried lowing..."
February 23, 2008:   "Proposal" by Sandra Beasley   "Show me a tent of well-dressed witnesses..."
February 22, 2008:   "Notes From a Journey" by David Krump   "We died during a train wreck..."
February 21, 2008:   "Scientific Method" by Adam Clay   "Twenty-three percent when placed under..."
February 20, 2008:   "Driving Out to Innisfree" by Matthew Thorburn   "Naturally we zipped right by...."
February 19, 2008:   "Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus" by Dean Young   "I knew it was on the other side of the door..."
February 18, 2008:   "Street Fight" by Wayne Miller   "What it was that filled me..."
February 17, 2008:   "College Town" by John Hoppenthaler   "Dinner tonight is chili dogs with onion, pepperoni rolls..."
February 16, 2008:   "Before Anything Happened the House Had No Skeleton" by Karyna McGlynn   "the termites had deboned the thing..."
February 15, 2008:   "Shaggy's Soul Food Open Soon, Said the Sign outside of Tallulah" by Alison Pelegrin   "I once had faith in this message hand-lettered..."
February 14, 2008:   "Hooked and Crooked" by Nicole Walker   "Over the buildings a thinning mist, dawn takes a match to...."
February 13, 2008:   "One Body" by Yerra Sugarman   "Over the buildings a thinning mist, dawn takes a match to...."
February 12, 2008:   "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto   "I saw tonight four men in wheelchairs eating..."
February 11, 2008:   "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Debora Greger   "Look into the sunlight..."
February 10, 2008:   "Narcissists Anonymous" by Teresa Leo   "A jackal among hedgehogs. At the meeting..."
February 9, 2008:   "A Holiday" by Sarah Kennedy   "White feathers snowing the highway, thank God..."
February 8, 2008:   "One Last Thought" by Benjamin S. Grossberg   "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
February 7, 2008:   "Small Ode to My Ignorance" by Steven Reese   "To wake, at this age, and realize how..."
February 6, 2008:   "In Search of the Owl's Mirror" by Jen Currin   "So it happens I am mortal: my heart..."
February 5, 2008:   "Love's Short Grammar" by Robert Bense   "Whether we should take out..."
February 4, 2008:   "There's Just No Telling" by Jennifer L. Knox   "Gobi (not your real name), where were you..."
February 3, 2008:   "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel   "Hours after my decision to defect, the elders of the West..."
February 2, 2008:   " Stargazer" by Tara Gorvine   "He arrives at my door with Stargazer lilies..."
February 1, 2008:   " Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia)" by Sarah Hannah   " You can scorch it, strip it, tear it down..."
January 31, 2008:   "The History of Bluegrass" by Jeffrey Bahr   "The bees form a living mitt about the aspen's narrow branch...."
January 30, 2008:   "War Story" by Sarah Murphy   "One day (but not today) I will play the lady..."
January 29, 2008:   "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay   "Before the leaves fell they waved like flags..."
January 28, 2008:   "The Blue Sylvia" by Terrance Hayes   "A daily dose of repentance. Eyeballs rattling..."
January 27, 2008:   "Last Look" by Todd Hearon   "The ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica are melting..."
January 26, 2008:   "Tattooed" by Ronald Wallace   "My sister gets a tattoo..."
January 25, 2008:   "Root Beer" by James Haug   "We found new combinations of interiors...."
January 24, 2008:   "Being a Model" by David Wagoner   "An old friend said if I didn't have anything..."
January 23, 2008:   "On Betrayal" by Phillis Levin   "The Woman Who Is And a voice came to me and said..."
January 22, 2008:   "The Woman Who Is Early" by Nin Andrews   "The Woman Who Is Early is always at least one step ahead of..."
January 21, 2008:   "Eclipse" by Sarah Hannah   "Every so often I am dilated; the pupils..."
January 20, 2008:   "A Shiver" by Seamus Heaney   "The way you had to stand to swing the sledge..."
January 19, 2008:   "So a Ballerina Walks into a Biker Bar" by Suzanne Parker   "Her tutu is luminescent..."
January 18, 2008:   "I-beam" by Gerard Malanga   "Will someone please explain what happened here?..."
January 17, 2008:   "The Idea is the Fleeting Ghostly Fish" by Kate Light   "that's lit up in the world of fathoms-deep..."
January 16, 2008:   "Like Kafka" by Dan Stryk   "To wake in the late evening..."
January 15, 2008:   "An Ancient Dog Grave, Unearthed During Construction of the Athens Metro" by A. E. Stallings   "It is not the curled-up bones, nor even the grave..."
January 14, 2008:   "New Girl" by John Whalen   "If you meet a beautiful woman for the first time..."
January 13, 2008:   "Area 25" by Catherine Wing   "Hello, seat of my soul..."
January 12, 2008:   "Like Us" by Maria Costantini   "pigs form close bonds. Studies of pigs..."
January 11, 2008:   "Elephant" by Kate Evans   "To feel the smooth skin of water on your back..."
January 10, 2008:   "The World Wakes Up" by Andrew Michael Roberts   "So we stop at the side of the road, and there is..."
January 9, 2008:   "Canto of the Examination (24: Eighth Sphere)" by John Kinsella   "The huntsman lies low..."
January 8, 2008:   "Adam And Steve" by Catherine Carter   "But what if God did? What if I showed you..."
January 7, 2008:   "The Traffic" by Philip Schultz   "At first it objected..."
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen   "There are twelve trees on my block...."
January 5, 2008:   "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto   "The bird didn't speak..."
January 4, 2008:   "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina   "See the punk-haired bush as a stout little argument between..."
January 3, 2008:   "'King,' 'Queen,' etc." by Alison Powell   "I love airports as they are: stinking, octagonal, full..."
January 2, 2008:   "Furlough" by Leslie Williams   "On the nightstand the corpse of a pear..."
January 1, 2008:   "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" by K. A. Hays   "sludge, is mere action. It strips the sleet from the walk..."

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